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Progress Possible at COP 28 Despite Fossil Fuel Industry Deception

Union of Concerned Scientists

Global net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions 1990–2019. Global net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions include carbon dioxide from fossil fuel combustion and industrial processes, net carbon dioxide from land use, land use change and forestry, methane, nitrous oxide, and fluorinated gases.

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Why Energy Bills Will Be Even Higher This Winter

Union of Concerned Scientists

These higher costs are being driven by a major overreliance on natural gas, which has sharply spiked in price and is currently the dominant fuel source in the US for both home heating and electricity generation. Likewise, pipeline giant Williams Companies now refers to its gas projects as “clean energy” projects.

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Susannah Pierce: A Climate Villain Painting Big Oil Green

Enviromental Defense

2009 – 2010 TC Energy Corporation: 2002 – 2008 Villain Career Profile Climate Villain Susannah Pierce works hard to raise global temperatures on behalf of the oil and gas industry, with two decades of experience marketing, developing, and lobbying the government for further expansion of fossil fuels. 2010 – 2013 Shell Oil Company Inc.:

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California Air Resources Board Releases Draft Scoping Plan Update (Part 3)

Clean Energy Law

The California LCFS Program was adopted in 2009 as one of the key measures to reduce GHG emissions in California under AB 32. The program’s original target was to reduce the carbon intensity (CI) of transportation fuel used in California by 2020 at least 10% from a 2010 baseline.

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DEP Celebrates $30 Million In Low-Interest Loans For High-Impact Commercial Energy Efficiency Projects

PA Environment Daily

Background DEP and Reinvestment Fund launched the Green Energy Loan Fund in 2009 with $12 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. With 15 projects completed so far, the fund has supported carbon dioxide emissions reduction of 110,000 tons over the life of these projects, equal to taking 22,000 cars off the road for a year.

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Killing King Coal is the First Step Towards Halving Our Emissions

Edouard Stenger

Burning coal in these two regions account for a little under two gigatonnes of carbon dioxide emissions per year, with 1.29 Yet, coal account for two-thirds of the carbon emissions of electricity generation in both regions. Cleaning” it by compressing and sending the carbon dioxide underground would make it much more expensive.

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Proposed EPA Rules Would Subject Oil and Gas Sources to Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

The Energy Law Blog

By Stepehen Wiegand In October 2009, EPA promulgated the Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse Gases Rule. The proposed rules would require the reporting of fugitive and vented methane and carbon dioxide emissions, including carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide combustion emissions from flares.