Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

It was a bogus argument that fossil fuel proponents would repeat ad nauseum over the next 10 years, so when Rose failed to provide some needed context, I jumped in. billion (in 2010 dollars) in federal tax breaks and subsidies for nearly 100 years. “I mean, wind has received subsidies for more than 20 years now,” he said.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 15, 2022

And US wind jobs, currently totaling more than 100,000, should grow right along with the technology and the market. From 2010 through 2020, the cost of electricity from wind fell more than 60 percent, according to the Department of Energy. Flickr/Lance Cheung. Wind power is a bargain. J Rogers/UCS. We can do wind power right.

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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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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. While the costs of floating offshore wind projects are currently higher than fixed-bottom projects, they are projected to be similar by 2035.

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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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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. Technological Innovation Offers Hope. Technological Innovation Offers Hope. C by the end of the century.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

In order to reduce emissions, we must phase out fossil fuels—oil, coal and gas—and move towards renewable energy and less plastic and petrochemical production since these products, so dangerous as ocean pollutants, are made from oil. By 2050 they could represent 20% of oil demand by 2050.

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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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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%. However, in an effort to offer some positives, the IPCC , which represents the world’s best climate scientists, said we have seen evidence of accelerating action against climate change.

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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. While ethanol remains the largest US source of biofuel, biodiesel and more recently renewable diesel have accounted for most of the growth since 2010.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

of the world’s total carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion, many airlines are considering carbon-capture-and-storage technologies and electric-powered planes. Sustainable aviation fuels (or SAFs), however, are an immediate tool that could help airlines kick-start their green transition. “The

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

That’s a far cry from just six years ago, when EVs were considered a niche technology (and the fossil fuel baron Charles Koch and his minions wanted to keep it that way). Since 2010, the state’s clean vehicle rebate program has issued half a million rebates totaling $1.2 California is also a leader in EV tax incentives.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

In its early years, between 2005 and 2010, the RFS helped launch the massive scaleup of corn ethanol that established 10 percent ethanol as the de facto standard for US gasoline. After 2010, bio-based diesel fuels (biodiesel and renewable diesel) have been the main beneficiary of the RFS.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 29, 2021

But the United Nations has just said that the latest commitments of the 192 parties of the 2015 Paris agreement will equate to a 16% rise in global greenhouse-gas emissions in 2030 compared to 2010. So we need to deliver on all of the wonderful words written down and deploy the technologies that we have. C by the end of the century.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Taking advantage of new technologies will be essential if the world is to achieve its net-zero goals. While solar and wind energy might be the first clean-energy technologies that spring to mind, they are not the only low-carbon options. All technologies have advantages and disadvantages.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Scientists estimate that emissions must be reduced by 45% by 2030, compared with 2010 levels, and from there to net zero emissions by 2050, if the world is to have a good chance of remaining within the 1.5C Fossil fuel use must also end. Since the industrial revolution, the modern world has run on fossil fuels.

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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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Legal Planet

MAY 29, 2024

Indeed, one can trace direct line from the ongoing diversification strategies of oil and gas companies looking for new ways to make money from their massive reserves of fossil hydrocarbons to the exponential increase of production of plastics and other chemicals. The numbers here are staggering.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

By Karen Ellas, Climate Reality Project, Susquehanna Valley PA Chapter This guest essay first appeared in the Lock Haven Express September 13, 2021 -- The technology known as Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is currently being discussed in Congress as part of President Biden’s infrastructure bill.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JULY 11, 2021

And this change comes in part from increasing diffusion of fossil fuels. Take a look at David Sattherthwaite's 2010 tough review of my 2010 Climatopolis book. If economic growth accelerates, then GHG emissions will accelerate (given current technologies). People who used to hoe by hand now use tractors."

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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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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 24, 2023

York HACC Campus, 2010 Pennsylvania Ave. Offers Free Solar Sprint Student Competition Teacher Training Jan. 13 -- PA Farm Link: Jan. 23 Farm Succession Workshop. to 2:30 p.m. -- Save The Date! North Branch Land Trust To Hold Annual Dinner May 1 Programs/Information -- PAcast: Santa’s Reindeer Cleared For Christmas Travel By PA Dept.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Last year, the Environmental Working Group, a Washington-based research organization, counted 476 harmful blooms in 41 states, five times higher than in 2010. . In Michigan the number of reports about blooms received by the state Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy has increased six-fold since 2010. Saginaw Bay, Lake St.

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Acoel

JUNE 29, 2022

EPA’s latest proposed rule targeting NOx emissions from fossil-fueled electric generating units (EGUs) is a classic study of diminishing returns. The 2005 Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR) provided smaller but significant air quality improvements following its implementation in 2010. Posted on June 29, 2022 by Eugene M.

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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.

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Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

USA: ‘Huge’ Win for Code of Excellence: On-Clock Training at Raytheon Plant International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers | May 8, 2023 More than 2,400 Raytheon Technologies missile and defense workers are getting on-the-clock training on the IBEW’s Code of Excellence program , thanks to a years-long effort by the leaders of Waltham, Mass.,

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Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

USA: ‘Huge’ Win for Code of Excellence: On-Clock Training at Raytheon Plant International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers | May 8, 2023 More than 2,400 Raytheon Technologies missile and defense workers are getting on-the-clock training on the IBEW’s Code of Excellence program , thanks to a years-long effort by the leaders of Waltham, Mass.,

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

A 2010 US study showed that stopping burning coal could be done by 2030 with renewables and energy efficiency. Demand response technologies. Ending fossil fuels subsidies and divesting away from coal will put the final nails in the coffin.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

Raytheon Makes Nuclear War More Likely Massachusetts Peace Action PaulaR Mon, 06/12/2023 - 07:43 Monday, August 15, 2022 Read more Richard Krushnic & Kathleen Malley-Morrison Raytheon Technologies is even more horrifying than you thought. Local 1505 and representatives from the Second District office.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

USA: ‘Huge’ Win for Code of Excellence: On-Clock Training at Raytheon Plant International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers | May 8, 2023 More than 2,400 Raytheon Technologies missile and defense workers are getting on-the-clock training on the IBEW’s Code of Excellence program , thanks to a years-long effort by the leaders of Waltham, Mass.,

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Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

USA: ‘Huge’ Win for Code of Excellence: On-Clock Training at Raytheon Plant International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers | May 8, 2023 More than 2,400 Raytheon Technologies missile and defense workers are getting on-the-clock training on the IBEW’s Code of Excellence program , thanks to a years-long effort by the leaders of Waltham, Mass.,

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Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

USA: ‘Huge’ Win for Code of Excellence: On-Clock Training at Raytheon Plant International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers | May 8, 2023 More than 2,400 Raytheon Technologies missile and defense workers are getting on-the-clock training on the IBEW’s Code of Excellence program , thanks to a years-long effort by the leaders of Waltham, Mass.,

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Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

USA: ‘Huge’ Win for Code of Excellence: On-Clock Training at Raytheon Plant International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers | May 8, 2023 More than 2,400 Raytheon Technologies missile and defense workers are getting on-the-clock training on the IBEW’s Code of Excellence program , thanks to a years-long effort by the leaders of Waltham, Mass.,

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Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

USA: ‘Huge’ Win for Code of Excellence: On-Clock Training at Raytheon Plant International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers | May 8, 2023 More than 2,400 Raytheon Technologies missile and defense workers are getting on-the-clock training on the IBEW’s Code of Excellence program , thanks to a years-long effort by the leaders of Waltham, Mass.,

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Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

USA: ‘Huge’ Win for Code of Excellence: On-Clock Training at Raytheon Plant International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers | May 8, 2023 More than 2,400 Raytheon Technologies missile and defense workers are getting on-the-clock training on the IBEW’s Code of Excellence program , thanks to a years-long effort by the leaders of Waltham, Mass.,

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Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

government $265 million plus interest for over-billing on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and in 2010 it was ordered to repay the U.S. parts/technology in the Turkish drones used by Azerbaijan to kill Armenian civilians in Artsakh, Armenian National Committee of America report. million to a Dutch prince. Air Force and the U.S.

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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 is nearly at full capacity. Read more here.

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