Law Columbia

MAY 8, 2024

However, unlike the energy sector, where renewable energy sources, reduced consumption and increased energy efficiency offer clear alternatives to today’s heavy reliance on fossil fuels, decarbonizing the industrial sector presents a more complex challenge.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 22, 2022

We all know that to successfully address climate change we need to phase out fossil fuels and switch to electric power. Unfortunately, the current Ontario government’s plan is to burn more fossil gas to generate power. . Between 2009 and 2016, Ontario built over 2000 MW of solar power and about 3000 MW of wind power.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 22, 2022

Improvements in technology also mean it is now cheaper and more reliable. According to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), the price of solar panels has dropped by almost 90% since 2009. The fuel can be used in the transportation sector to reduce fossil fuel dependency.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Last week, I joined my colleagues at COP28 in Dubai , as negotiators and civil society push for a fossil fuel phaseout to meet climate goals. The industry is pushing a narrative that misleadingly calls out emissions , not fossil fuels as the problem. Source: IPCC Sixth Assessment Report.

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Environment Blog

MARCH 25, 2020

Bill Gates hailed Bitcoin as a “technological tour de force” while Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal, said that it “has the potential to do something like change the world.”. This is down to the governments and local authorities that choose coal-powered plants and other fossil fuel powered electricity production.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

As part of its ongoing investigation of fossil fuel industry climate disinformation, the US House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Reform released more than 200 pages of internal corporate documents last month that provide new evidence of industry deception. Companies Plot “Greenwashing” Campaigns.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

As Russia seeks new clients for its construction technology and fossil fuels, and with Pakistan desperate for a secure and cheap supply of natural gas, the visit could lay the foundations for Russia to build a pipeline to transport natural gas from Karachi to Lahore. Increasing demand, decreasing supply.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The legislation committed nearly $400 billion to support, among other things, wind and solar power, battery storage, electric vehicles, and other clean energy technologies that will make a significant dent in US heat-trapping emissions. It also will save US consumers money because they will spend less on fossil fuels.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 22, 2022

By 2009, a study by Chinese scientists found that cadmium was going into China’s topsoil at around 0.004mg/kg per year. It contains three times as much as the 830 billion tonnes found in the atmosphere, and 240 times as much as the 10 billion tonnes emitted by fossil fuel burning every year.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 18, 2023

A proposed offshore wind procurement bill in Maine would go a long way to enable the state to meet its climate and clean energy targets and become a national leader in floating offshore wind technology. Land-based wind similarly experienced temporary cost increases during the 2008 economic recession.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 13, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen Whether or not to include the language stating ‘fossil fuels must be phased out’ rather than ‘phased down’ became the key contentious issue at this year’s UN climate talks. A draft text released Friday, with just under a week for the summit to conclude included the key fossil fuel language as an option.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 18, 2024

We’re in a race for lithium, copper, cobalt, nickel, and other critical minerals needed to move away from fossil fuels. Reaching the Paris agreement goals would require a quadrupling of mineral requirements for clean energy technologies by 2040,” he said. “To In a way, you do have to choose. What will be left there?

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 21, 2023

Environmental Defence is calling on the Minister to fulfill the government’s promise and use this budget to finally eliminate fossil fuel subsidies. These technologies are not climate solutions: they are dangerous distractions that will prolong our dependence on fossil fuels. billion and $18 billion respectively.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 22, 2022

billion for a competitive grant and rebate program for the purpose of “purchas[ing] or install[ing] zero-emissions port equipment or technology” at ports. Funds from this appropriation may also be awarded for planning and permitting relating to such zero-emission equipment and technology, and for a port’s climate action planning.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In 2009, the U.S. Technology for controlling phosphorus is available. Billions were spent on new technology and equipment to ensure water got much cleaner. . The fossil fuel sector and its industrial allies block curbs to greenhouse gas emissions. There are many others.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 19, 2023

Uber founded in 2009; Lyft in 2012), public micromobility systems such as scooters and bikeshares, electrification, shared automated vehicles : all came with the promise of “ faster, smarter, greener ” cities that would be “ connected, heterogenous, intelligent and personalized.” New ride hailing services (e.g.,

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2025

In January 2009, DEP ordered then Cabot Oil & Gas, the company that drilled in the shale gas wells, to cease all fracking operations in Susquehanna County to conduct an evaluation of its fracking operations.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JULY 11, 2021

And this change comes in part from increasing diffusion of fossil fuels. If economic growth accelerates, then GHG emissions will accelerate (given current technologies). My 2009 piece; " Urban Growth and Climate Change" fleshes this out. No plausible estimate of climate damage comes close to this kind of change.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

But after 2009, the trends began to diverge. There's no kind of technology that you can roll out for the bedrock that would prevent these problems. 2022 Natural Gas House Explosion In Dauphin County [PaEN] -- Guest Essay: My Hometown Shows The Benefits Of The Fossil Fuel Industry Come At A Tremendous Cost - Gov.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 21, 2022

will need to rapidly decarbonize its electricity generating system, replacing fossil fuel power plants with renewable energy systems. It will also need to electrify various end-use sectors that currently rely on fossil fuels (e.g., 689 was struck down in 2009 in Piedmont Environmental Council v.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

It is only in the penultimate chapter, on Unilever’s transformation under the leadership of its CEO Paul Polman between 2009 and 2019, that the business case for climate change is really made. Every one of Rathi’s examples is similar. This critical aspect, representing both the future and its associated challenges, is insufficiently explored.

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

To BNEF the onshore wind levelized costs decreased by 50 percent since 2009 and the price of solar PV modules have been slashed by a massive 80 percent since 2008. Demand response technologies. Ending fossil fuels subsidies and divesting away from coal will put the final nails in the coffin. while GDP grew too.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. French Oil Giant Total S.A.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 29, 2020

Rather, they resulted in low-wage service sector jobs, greater dependence on imported Chinese technologies, and higher energy costs. And over the last decade, the technology used in the vast majority of installed solar panels has only become 2-3 percent more efficient. The problem with renewables is physical. Today, the US uses just 0.5

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

Health First Pennsylvania is a dedicated bunch of health professionals, health advocates, parents, faith leaders, all dedicated to trying to make the use and extraction of fossil fuels, especially methane, in Pennsylvania, as safe as possible, and to limit the damage. And over the last 15 years, I've spent regular time in Danville.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

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. However, make no mistake: Technological advancement did not create the production boom by itself.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Casey, Colleagues: Introduce Bill To Empower Fossil Fuel Workers To Train, Find Jobs In Changing Energy Industry [PaEN] -- Patch.com: Chester County Commissioners Adopt New Climate Action Plan -- ReadingE: Muhlenberg Twp. Labor Secretary Talk About Future Of $600 Billion Clean Energy ‘Marshall Plan’ -- Sen.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 6, 2024

Lowenstein, DeSmog The fossil fuel industry’s efforts to delay inquiries highlight its sense of impunity – and echo tactics used to obstruct climate action and deceive the public. In a 2019 video , the company claimed these biofuels “would one-day power planes, propel ships, and fuel trucks – and cut their emissions in half.”

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Cop stands for conference of the parties under the UNFCCC, and the annual meetings have swung between fractious and soporific, interspersed with moments of high drama and the occasional triumph ( the Paris agreement in 2015 ) and disaster (Copenhagen in 2009). Fossil fuel use must also end. What about net-zero?

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

emissions in the RGGI region would have been approximately 24 percent higher in 2015 but for the program, which took effect in 2009. [5]. The report estimates that “[t]he lifetime effects of these investments are projected to save 28 million MMBtu of fossil fuel energy and 9 million MWh of electricity, avoiding the release of 5.3

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2023

Those currently operating fossil fuel plants generate 25 percent of U.S. Looking ahead, while the Supreme Court has upheld the EPA’s authority to regulate heat-trapping emissions from power plants, fossil fuel interests will no doubt continue to mount legal challenges to stall agency progress. And as the West Virginia v.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

In 2022, Texas, along with several other states and industry groups representing fuel manufacturers (together, Petitioners), challenged EPA’s new emissions standards in court. In fact, cities across the country are already planning their infrastructure around a future dominated by electric vehicles.

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ESA

OCTOBER 8, 2021

President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology meets for the first time in the Biden administration. White House: President Biden’s President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) met for the first time during the current administration Sept. Executive Branch. International. Executive Branch.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Conference of Mayors , and a second on behalf of experts in carbon capture and storage (CCS) science and technology —in support of the U.S. Several states and industry groups are challenging EPA’s 2024 rules which set greenhouse gas emissions limits for certain fossil fuel power plants nationwide (referred to here as the Power Plant Rules).

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 24, 2025

The Endangerment Finding was EPAs 2009 determination that greenhouse gases endanger public health and endanger public welfare and that new motor vehicles contribute to this pollution. Pursuant to the text of Clean Air Act Section 202 , along with a 2007 case entitled Massachusetts v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 31, 2022

The US House Oversight and Reform Committee kicked off its investigation of the fossil fuel industry’s decades-long climate change disinformation campaign last fall by inviting top executives from BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell to testify about their role and subpoenaing their companies for internal documents.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 29, 2025

Information sought in these lawsuits relates to the reconsideration of EPAs 2009 endangerment finding for greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act (see here , here , and here ) and agency action plans to identify regulations that are unduly burdensome to development and use of domestic energy resources (see here ).

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