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Another Historic Climate Court Ruling in the Netherlands

Legal Planet

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. This reports that a net 45% reduction in 2030, relative to 2010, would be consistent with a 50% chance of keeping warming within 1.5°C

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The Gas Utility Industry is Gaslighting Us

Union of Concerned Scientists

That would of course include fossil gas, which consists of 85 to 90 percent methane, a significantly more potent heat-trapping gas than carbon dioxide. Meanwhile, a 2023 study in Environmental Research Letters concluded that as little as 0.2 Nearly a quarter of them currently on the market would not be in compliance.

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