Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

Corporation Shell Plc (Royal Dutch Shell) Image Image Products Liquefied Natural Gas, Lubricants, Natural gas, Petrochemicals, Petroleum The Corrib gas project of Royal Dutch Shell - Photo Credit William Murphy Summary Royal Dutch Shell is a fossil fuel exploration company. Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

Corporation Shell Plc (Royal Dutch Shell) Image Image Products Liquefied Natural Gas, Lubricants, Natural gas, Petrochemicals, Petroleum The Corrib gas project of Royal Dutch Shell - Photo Credit William Murphy Summary Royal Dutch Shell is a fossil fuel exploration company. Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land. Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land. Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Corporation Shell Plc (Royal Dutch Shell) Image Image Products Liquefied Natural Gas, Lubricants, Natural gas, Petrochemicals, Petroleum The Corrib gas project of Royal Dutch Shell - Photo Credit William Murphy Summary Royal Dutch Shell is a fossil fuel exploration company. Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 15, 2022

Ships emit over 1 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases every year, or just under 3% of global emissions, according to the International Maritime Organization , the UN body responsible for shipping. Without further action, shipping emissions are projected to rise by at worst 30% by 2050, compared to 2008 levels. Currently less than 0.2

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Greenbuilding Law

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Public Health : Based on a law first introduced in 2008 and then the success of a pilot program initially implemented in the heart of London dating to 2019, the first year of this program alone will reduce GHG emissions by 45% from those vehicles that are no longer there. really, why?)

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

We knew that global greenhouse gases emission from energy had been peaking for the past three years – largely thanks to China – but now, here is another series of nails in the coffins of coal and oil. Yes, you read that right. Solar has already become almost too cheap to meter and it won’t be stopped.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

For decades the fossil fuel lobby has masterfully weakened, derailed, and outright blocked government climate policy. The fossil fuel lobby meddles with Canadian politics and inserts itself into international climate change politics and diplomacy. We need governments to regulate industry.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 16, 2018

That could be changing, though, as modern-day climate activists like the Valve Turners vigorously protest industry and government inaction in the face of increasingly dire climate change threats. 10, 2008), [link]. Although no U.S. and one in Minnesota (a Valve Turners’ case). reasonable. legal alternatives—not any alternative at all.

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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

which will implement national standards to govern carbon pollution from power plants. to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. would be to charge individuals based on their consumption (usually of fossil fuel) as a proxy for their total carbon emissions. federal government. jointly committed. Clean Power Plan.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

In a separate but similar Ninth Circuit appeal, the federal government filed a brief on October 18 urging the court to overturn a district court decision vacating the listing of a ringed seal subspecies as threatened based on climate change threats through the end of the century. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP , No. 451962/2016 (N.Y.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

As the world ran almost entirely on coal power at that time (and later on petroleum fossil fuels), it was quite clear that coal was not an infinite resource, and some scientists pleaded in the countries of most heavy use to take steps to limit mining and burning. Conservation Genetics. Energy Conservation.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Steingraber noted similar conclusions were reached in 2014 when New York State banned fracking, saying “At the time, and again, this is nine years ago in 2014, there were 400 studies and investigations in the peer-reviewed scientific literature in government reports and by journalists that showed evidence for harm. They are also born smaller.

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Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 11, 2022

On December 8, 2021, President Biden issued an Executive Order on Catalyzing Clean Energy Industries and Jobs Through Federal Sustainability (EO), which aims to set the federal government — the largest purchaser in the country with an annual purchasing power of $650 billion — on a path to net zero emissions by 2050.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Fourth Circuit Declined to Stay Remand Order in Baltimore’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies; Companies Sought Stay from Supreme Court. Colorado Federal Court Remanded Local Governments’ Climate Case to State Court. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 126. FEATURED CASE. Rhode Island v.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Pennsylvania Climate Change Act of 2008 requires the state Department of Environmental Protection to provide the Legislature and governor every three years a report on current and projected climate change impacts, and a plan of actions to reduce carbon emissions. Wolf: 2021 Climate Impacts Report Projects Pennsylvania Will Be 5.9°

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Vermont Law

MARCH 22, 2016

Whether the Paris agreement can avoid being another Kyoto Protocol depends on the technology and lifestyles that developing nations choose to adopt as they eventually earn more income and whether the American government steps up to be a leader in environmental protection. By Mark Latham. Without U.S.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

2] [3] [4] The desperation of climate activism parallels the rate of loss (and likelihood of climate injustice) predicted by the IPCC and climate scientists, if governments fail to curtail greenhouse gas emissions. Desperate times call for desperate activism, and the greater the loss the bolder the action. Pun intended). [17]

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Transportation A Cap-and-Invest Approach . In recent years, states in New England and the mid-Atlantic region have made significant progress in reducing climate change-inducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the electricity generation sector. [1].

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Just as with climate change, local, state, provincial, and national governments in Canada and the United States have collaborated with science agencies, universities, and non-profit groups to develop effective responses, especially for Lake Erie. The fossil fuel sector and its industrial allies block curbs to greenhouse gas emissions.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 6, 2023

The project is controversial due to its contribution to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and its location on the North Slope of Alaska, which happens to be the largest undisturbed track of public land in the U.S. and an area that is highly sensitive to climate change.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

EPA of a 2015 rule barring replacement of ozone-depleting substances with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are powerful greenhouse gases. In particular, the court found that conclusion that greenhouse gas emissions constituted a significant impact was not clearly erroneous. Circuit’s partial vacatur in Mexichem Fluor, Inc. State , No.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2022

On March 25, the United States and the European Commission came to an agreement on how to address Europe’s need for natural gas through the next two winters by diversifying liquefied natural gas supplies “in alignment with climate objectives” to end Europe’s dependence on Russian fossil fuels. Read more here. Read more here.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Royce Hall at UCLA following a rain event, Los Angeles, CA (Charlie Nguyen, 2008, Flickr). In the absence of a global political consensus on phasing out coal and other industrial activities with high greenhouse gas emissions, the private sector has an increasingly important role in climate change mitigation.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2022

short-sighted climate policies – like forcing Pennsylvania into the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) and canceling natural gas and oil infrastructure, the Keystone XL pipeline [Canadian oil, not in Pennsylvania] chief among them – are so very dangerous. Read more here. It’s not going to be easy.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

Supreme Court denied fossil fuel companies’ petition for writ of certiorari seeking review of the Ninth Circuit’s decision reversing the district court’s 2018 denial of Oakland’s and San Francisco’s motions to remand their climate change nuisance cases to California state court. DECISIONS & SETTLEMENTS. On June 14, 2021, the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Shapiro’s Work Group Concludes A Cap-And-Invest Carbon Pollution Regulation Program Would Be Optimal Approach To Reducing Greenhouse Emissions From Power Plants; Scale Up Solar Energy [PaEN] -- AP: Gov. Shapiro Noncommittal On Greenhouse Gas Strategy As Climate Task Force Finishes Work -- Inside Climate News - Kiley Bense: Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Here are 119 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us. 18 -- PA Forestry Assn. 1-7; PA Climate Convergence Oct.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 13, 2022

Scientists have had reasons for concern about climate change for over a century, and the first government report on the problem was fifty years ago. At least by 1992, then, it is clear that there was widespread recognition at the highest levels of government that climate change was a serious problem.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Perhaps less excitingly, but more consequentially, Brazil also has a long tradition of progressive environmental policies and climate governance, playing a key role in several international conferences. Under President Bolsonaro, Amazon deforestation soared to its highest rate since 2008. Hope may come with the World Cup in Qatar.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Here are 1,198 articles published in local news media and in the PA Environment Digest during 2021 that tell the stories of thousands of individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us.

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