Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 25, 2024

such as renewable energy) Sustainable finance is not about making an environmental investment here or there, it’s about creating an entire financial system that helps achieve sustainability goals rather than being at odds with them. Banks are not the only culprits funding the fossil fuel industry.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2022

They pointed to the fact that since 2010 the cost of solar, wind and battery technology has decreased by up to 85%. They added that due to the increase in climate-friendly policies and laws we have seen enhanced energy efficiency, reduced deforestation rates and accelerated the deployment of renewable energy.

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Fossil Fuels Climate Change 2030 Renewable Energy 98

Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 4, 2021

In 2010, Line 6B ruptured into the Kalamazoo River resulting in over $1 billion in clean up costs. Despite the urgent need to eliminate our dependence on fossil fuels, crude oil production in the United States and Canada has actually grown substantially over the past several years. It took Enbridge 17 hours to shut down Line 6B.

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Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

According to the report , average net annual human-caused GHG emissions were at their highest levels in human history between 2010 and 2019, with urban areas responsible for an increasing proportion of the emissions. The rate of emissions growth year on year slowed between 2010-2019 in comparison to the previous decade. Figure SPM.7

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Physics World

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Renewable energy sources are perhaps the most obvious of these, and the transition to them is already under way. “I To move away from fossil fuels, we will need a mixture of different energy sources, but we can’t do it without nuclear. All technologies have advantages and disadvantages.

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

Advocates of renewable energy have argued since the 1970s that the variable, weather-dependent nature of sunlight and wind is a modest obstacle at best to relying on 100 percent renewables. Some have argued that weather-dependent energies would, paradoxically, make electricity even more reliable.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 24, 2023

Question: Some people claim EVs are worse for the environment than gasoline cars Answer: Battery-Electric vehicles (BEVs) have on average two thirds lower lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions than gasoline cars today, and this will improve as electricity grids get cleaner by cutting out fossil fuels.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Both Republicans and Democrats are touting natural gas with CCS as the next clean energy solution, and significant funding has been earmarked for its research and development — at the expense of renewable energy projects that have proven to be cheaper and to produce fewer carbon emissions.

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Fossil Fuels Carbon Dioxide Carbon Emissions Natural Gas 69

Law Columbia

JULY 31, 2015

Voters in Los Angeles County recognized the critical need to address climate change when they overwhelmingly rejected Proposition 23 — the 2010 ballot measure that would have suspended California’s landmark global warming law. And let’s not forget the many local benefits associated with wind energy development.

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Renewable Energy Fossil Fuels Climate Change 2010 52

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2022

So when this industry and its drilling took off in the late otss, you know, 2009, 2010, we were sort of in the right place at the right time. Work toward a quick and just transition away from fossil fuels and toward renewable energies. And over the last 15 years, I've spent regular time in Danville.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 4, 2023

. -- Electricity Exporter: Pennsylvania is the second-largest net supplier of total energy to other states, after Texas. Yaw did not mention renewable energy in this announcement.] Yaw noted the IEO would be modeled after Pennsylvania’s Independent Fiscal Office , which was created by Act 120 of 2010, and Act 100 of 2016.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 8, 2024

Some years ago, I began to feel the most important thing I could do was learn how to replace fossil fuel with renewable energy. For 30 years I have been an advocate for offshore wind development off New England’s coast and for the creation of institutions to support a transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Fossil fuels alone – coal, oil and gas – account for over 75% of global greenhouse gas emissions. degrees, but data suggests emissions have instead increased instead by 16% since 2010. Anything short of that is rich countries exploiting the situation even further.

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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.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Lest one thinks this disconnect is a failure of the global climate architecture, the failure lies much closer to home—in the domestic politics in the US and many other countries that continue to favor the interests of the rich and powerful , and fossil fuel companies, at the expense of the health and safety of everyone else and the planet.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The IRA will stimulate most of the near-term private investment in clean energy and related infrastructure to decarbonize the US economy, spurring more than a trillion dollars in capital investments through 2035. It also will save US consumers money because they will spend less on fossil fuels. Your thoughts?

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Healey issued the CID in connection with an investigation into unfair or deceptive acts or practices in trade or commerce with respect to fossil fuel products and securities. The appellate court agreed with the Superior Court that the students had failed to demonstrate special standing to challenge management of charitable funds.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 14, 2023

Digesters are key nodes in a growing movement to use biogas derived from animal manure for energy, sometimes under the guise of “green” or “renewable” energy. This practice helps farmers replace or retrofit fossil-fuel burning combustion engines and systems with cleaner and/or more renewable options.

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Waste Climate Change Conservation 2023 52

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

By Anders Lorenzen The British oil and gas giant BP , which, until recently, has been one of the oil and gas giants with the most ambitious clean energy plans, has joined the chorus of fossil fuel giants moving away from net zero. Why are fossil fuel giants abandoning net-zero? Will BP stay the course?

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Fossil Fuels Clean Energy Renewable Energy 2020 56

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 18, 2023

With 2,800 MW installed and operating by 2040, offshore wind would provide more than half of Maine’s electricity demand, even if the state’s demand more than doubled as the state moves to replace fossil fuels with clean electricity for transportation and heating.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

As we now know, fossil fuel companies lied about it for decades to protect their profits. Now that there is a desperate need to slash global warming emissions worldwide to avoid the worst consequences of climate change, it is critical to rapidly phase out the use of all fossil fuels. What accounts for that?

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Circle of Blue

MAY 19, 2022

Financed by one of the world’s richest private equity firms, The Blackstone Group, the CHPE is championed by its supporters as essential to unwind New York’s reliance on carbon-spewing fossil fuel and meet a 2040 target of emissions-free electricity. Transmission constraints limit the flow of upstate renewable sources to the city.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

Ethanol consumption grew rapidly between 2000 and 2010 but after 2010 biodiesel took over as the major source of biofuel growth before being eclipsed by renewable diesel after 2016. Source US Energy Information Administration. US renewable diesel production was initially linked to animal fat.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

We are at a crossroads between a more affordable and climate safe future, and one that entrenches our reliance on dirty fossil fuels, increases the rift between the highest and lowest earners and puts profit over people. The cost of electricity generated from solar panels fell by 89 per cent between 2010-2022.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The pipeline has experienced nearly two dozen accidents since going into service in 2010. The Keystone Pipeline shutdown in January after spilling 600,000 gallons of oil which will cost an estimated $480 million to clean up. The bills and resolution now go to the full Senate for consideration.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2022

The natural gas industry has also not developed 65 percent of the State Forest land it leased from DCNR for drilling in 2008 and 2010. Oil/Natural Gas Companies Thrive On War-Driven Price Spikes] -- Bloomberg Green: Money Pouring Into Fossil Fuels Risks Climate Disaster, U.N. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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Natural Gas 2020 2021 Fossil Fuels 74

Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Since 2010, there have been 76 incidents involving carbon dioxide pipelines in the US. Emily Lowan, Fossil Fuel Supply Lead, Climate Action Network Canada: “This decision is a slap in the face to all the communities who will have to bear the costs and consequences of this risky project.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2024

On March 7, the Independent Fiscal Office issued its latest Pennsylvania Electricity update that reports the electricity grid is dependent on one fuel for 59% of the state’s electricity generation-- natural gas-- followed by nuclear power-- 31.9%, coal-- 5.4% In 2010, the mix was 48% coal, 34% nuclear, 15% gas and 2% renewables.

Electricity 114

Electricity Natural Gas Renewable Energy Nuclear Power 114

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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Natural Gas Clean Energy Fossil Fuels Greenhouse 90

Legal Planet

JULY 25, 2024

In 2010, a major climate change law passed by the House died in the Senate, but 12 years later, a major climate law passed both Houses. In the meantime, there had been a revolution in energy economics. In 2010, the cost of onshore wind was almost twice that of the cheapest fossil fuel generation.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 19, 2022

Thermal coal is the world’s dirtiest fossil fuel and increases global carbon pollution putting all countries at risk from the disastrous impacts of climate change. . Coal power generation must be reduced to 80 per cent below 2010 levels by 2030 and be phased out before 2040 in order to meet targets set out by the Paris Agreement. .

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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. Likewise, pipeline giant Williams Companies now refers to its gas projects as “clean energy” projects.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2022

Wolf to “unleash PA’s full potential to power the free world” and “end his job-killing, punitive crusade against the production and exportation of Pennsylvania natural gas and other abundant fossil fuels.” “You Does Europe Want Our Gas? And they meant all natural gas imports. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Scavello Introduces Bill Authorizing Community Solar Projects; $2 Billion Worth Of Projects Waiting For It To Pass -- Business, Environment, Energy Groups Praise Introduction Of Bipartisan Bills Increasing Solar Energy Mandate From 0.5% Labor Secretary Talk About Future Of $600 Billion Clean Energy ‘Marshall Plan’ -- Sen.

Conservation 48

Conservation 2021 Natural Gas Climate Change 48

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 15, 2025

In our current fossil-fueled freight system, the cost for convenience spans far beyond membership fees for expedited deliveries. Between 2010 and 2021, not only did the frequency of new warehouse construction rise, but the size of these new warehouses increased by nearly 150 percent compared to the norm.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

A federal bankruptcy court in Missouri enjoined San Mateo and Marin Counties and the City of Imperial Beach (the plaintiffs) from pursuing their climate change lawsuits against Peabody Energy Corporation (Peabody).

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Several factors¾including the effects of the economic recession, shifts in energy markets from coal to natural gas and renewable energy sources, and carbon pollution mitigation and clean energy programs like renewable portfolio standards¾have been identified as principal drivers of these reductions. [2].

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