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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. This year there has been a lot of attention on the more than 2,400 oil and gas lobbyists at the climate meetings. Global net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions 1990–2019.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 29, 2023
Attorneys general (AGs) in the five states most vulnerable to climate change, however, are doing the exact opposite: Instead of defending their constituents, they are defending the fossil fuel industry. He routinely partners with other GOP AGs to shield the industry from federal action on climate change.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 27, 2023
Fossil fuel power plant owners are facing increased accountability for their air and water pollution, including from a new round of environmental and public health protections that are being rolled out by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). We’ve heard these lazily disingenuous narratives before.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 4, 2024
That 2013 headline resulted from the first effort to quantify emissions from the ‘carbon majors’ —fossil fuel companies and cement manufacturers whose businesses have contributed an outsized amount of heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere. Nearly two-thirds of industrial heat-trapping emissions can be traced to just 90 entities.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 16, 2023
But another major culprit is climate change, which has intensified the heat and drought that have always been factors in western North America. That climate change obviously didn’t just happen on its own. Encroaching development in fire-prone areas and widespread fire suppression are among them. Licker et al.
Law Columbia
OCTOBER 25, 2017
We know that burning fossil fuels is the main cause of anthropogenic climate change, and that climate change is the source of adverse impacts on communities and even regional and national economies. by Justin Gundlach. These points are largely undisputed. These points are largely undisputed.
Legal Planet
JUNE 4, 2021
In recent years, The Netherlands has become the leading site of climate change litigation. Now the same district court has gone further, again in favor of environmental groups but now against Royal Dutch Shell (“Shell”) , the world’s largest non-state-owned fossil fuel company. These lawsuits face three key barriers.
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