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Analysis: New coal mines add question mark to India’s climate commitments

A Greener Life

But this announcement was seemingly at odds with another made just three days earlier, when coal minister Pralhad Joshi confirmed that India intends to increase production for the fossil fuel. From 2013 to 2014, Indian coal production was 565 million tonnes; from 2022 to 2023, that had increased by 58% to 893 million.

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French company to coordinate carbon capture project in Brazil

Corp Watch

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. million in 2013. In the U.S. Total settles U.S.

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Solar Panels Are More Carbon-Intensive Than Experts Admit

Environmental Progress

Worse than that, it might end up misdirecting the world’s clean energy efforts into dirtier than appreciated energy technologies because of the country’s ongoing dependence on coal-fired energy. The disruption happened in under a decade, with China’s global share of PV production surging from 14 percent in 2006 to 60 percent by 2013.

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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

Law Columbia

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. Opponents of EPA Carbon Standards for New Coal-Fired Power Plants Filed Initial Briefs. Circuit Court of Appeals.

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Calling Out Climate Lies for a Living

Union of Concerned Scientists

I first wrote about ExxonMobil in March 2013 after I saw the company’s then-CEO, Rex Tillerson, on the Charlie Rose talk show, who provided me with fodder for perhaps my favorite of two dozen ExxonMobil-related columns. I’m not aware of anything the fossil fuel industry gets that I would characterize as a subsidy.” His reply ?

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Why Ceding Nuclear to China and Russia Threatens National Security: Michael Shellenberger's Congressional Testimony July 28, 2020

Environmental Progress

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.

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EPA’s Power Plant Rule is Not Bold. It’s What’s Required.

Legal Planet

still does not limit carbon emissions from existing power plants, which generate 25 percent of our greenhouse gases. The EPA is proposing a new standard for fossil fuel-fired power plants to avoid 617 million metric tons of carbon dioxide through 2042. In the year 2023, the U.S.