Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 16, 2023

That’s a really good thing given the central role we expect and need solar to play in a just transition away from fossil fuels. This graph depicts actual growth in solar installations since 2014 and projections for further growth in the next five years. (GW With solar, there are no smokestacks, no fuel extraction.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

For decades the fossil fuel lobby has masterfully weakened, derailed, and outright blocked government climate policy. The fossil fuel lobby meddles with Canadian politics and inserts itself into international climate change politics and diplomacy. We need governments to regulate industry.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Reducing the harm of eviction post-disaster In the days and weeks after a disaster, the priority for all levels of government should be meeting people’s immediate needs and stabilizing communities. Every state hit by disaster has the ability to request assistance from the federal government and enact its own emergency plan.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 5, 2024

There’s a direct line of culpability between fossil fuel corporations and climate change – it’s why so many oil and gas CEOs have topped our list of Climate Villains. But they aren’t the only powerful players who shoulder responsibility for keeping us hooked on fossil fuels, the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In August, the oil and gas industry had 64 lobby meetings with the federal government, with the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) being the most active fossil fuel lobbyist once again. It lobbied the government 10 times in August and 65 times throughout 2023 so far. and Imperial Oil Ltd.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

If Capital Power can’t square the economics of a CCS project that would have received massive subsidies, why would the federal government fork over $16 billion for such a risky project with a low possibility of success? The Carbon Capture Facility at the Boundary Dam Power Plant in Saskatchewan went into service in 2014.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

Ebel, the CEO of Enbridge, to our list of infamous Climate Villains – powerful people with fossil fuel interests holding Canada back from effective climate action. The executives behind the fossil fuel industry often avoid public scrutiny, which is why we’re shining the spotlight on their activities.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

As Senior Fellow Amy Turner documented last year , a number of local governments around the country have moved to prohibit natural gas hookups in buildings. These prohibitions are part of cities’ broader effort to participate in the transition away from fossil fuels.

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A Greener Life

MAY 20, 2022

With more than 300,000 panels deployed over an area of 214 hectares, it is the largest of its kind in the country, with a production capacity of 100 megawatts (MW) – a sizeable output, but not enough on its own to turn Bolivia’s energy mix away from fossil fuels and towards renewables. Advantageous and encouraging.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 27, 2023

And if you want to challenge the power that Brad Corson has you can help us hold Imperial Oil accountable for its recent toxic tailings disaster by clicking here to send a letter to the federal government and government of Alberta. Leaks and Spills 2022 / 2023 (ongoing) — Kearl Lake, AB 5.3

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

In the early days of the current price shocks, fossil fuel boosters blamed clean energy and climate policy. In fact, it is abundantly clear that this is a fossil fuel energy crisis and, primarily, a natural gas crisis that is mainly affecting Europe. The Capacity Story. No Ordinary Markets.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

Throughout his career, Minott and the Clean Air Council earned a reputation for holding government agencies and fossil fuel companies accountable. Nelson has been supportive of municipal efforts to transition local government facilities to 100% clean and renewable energy. from Villanova University School of Law.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 24, 2021

For example, the world’s largest pool of retirement savings, the Japanese Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), has investments of $635 million in China’s GCEL companies, making it their fifth biggest investor. Following closely is the largest state pension fund in Europe, the Norwegian Government Pension Fund (GPFG).

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 3, 2024

He will also discuss the NETL’s Direct Air Capture Center on its Pittsburgh campus, a recent initiative by the federal government to support the development of carbon capture. CO2 is the primary greenhouse gas emitted through human activities by burning fossil fuels and contributes to global warming by trapping heat in the atmosphere.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Less than a month after the UK handed over the presidency of COP26 to the Egyptian hosts of COP27 , the country had not only proudly claimed how quickly they had reduced their reliance on coal but also actively pushed other countries to move away from the most polluting fossil fuel, announced they granted permission to build a new coal mine. .

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A Greener Life

JULY 9, 2021

The region will need to change its industrial structure and energy mix to meet national carbon targets, requiring policy and financial support from central government. The other is to improve the energy structure, replacing fossil fuel sources with alternatives. billion) over the three years 2014–16. By Gao Baiyu.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

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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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Website Summary Repsol is a fossil fuel exploration company that evolved from a Spanish state venture that was set up in the 1920s. The company sued the government of Argentina in 2012 for $10 billion after the country nationalized YPF with the backing of 80 percent of legislators of parliament. Federal Government (via SAM).

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Ocean Conservancy

APRIL 29, 2022

Earlier this month, ocean leaders from governments, businesses and expert organizations around the world gathered for the seventh annual Our Ocean Conference in the island nation of Palau. billion were made, bringing the total to more than 1,800 total commitments worth approximately $108 billion since 2014.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

Information unearthed by Environmental Progress points to a gaping oversight in how the figures influencing government net zero policy and investments in solar worldwide are compiled and collated due to the difficulty of collecting accurate information out of China, especially for the purification processes used to create silicon wafers.

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

To put these figures in context, the recent 2014-15 oil price collapse was the result of a two mbd (2%) shift in the supply-demand balance. While this needs strong commitments from national governments, it doesn’t need that much as the economics are already on the side of renewables nowadays.

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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

While Japan once had one of the world’s most diverse energy portfolios, the loss of its nuclear program has caused a sudden shift towards a fossil-fuel heavy generation industry. With the loss of nuclear power, the electricity generation shifted towards a fossil-fuel dependent portfolio. record levels. record levels.

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

As climate change has become a more pervasive and urgent political issue, governments around the world have started to look to soil as a potential part of the solution. The amount of drawdown in agricultural lands can be quite dramatic— a 2014 study found that at peak growth, the US Corn Belt (i.e., Not so in the modern day, however.

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The IPCC’s 5 th Assessment Report noted that, “Globally, economic and population growth continue to be the most important drivers of increases in CO 2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion”. 3 from IPCC, Fifth Assessment Report, Mitigation Report, Summary for Policymakers (2014). Figure SPM.3

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 14, 2023

It’s important to transition away from the production and use of fossil fuels. Decommissioning, or closing down a previously operational oil or gas facility, is a must if we are going to successfully move away from fossil fuels. But all too often, they find ways to evade that responsibility. In November 2021, the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 4, 2023

The PA Coal Alliance said, “In February of 2014, during a cold snap, PJM found that 23% of total generator outages were due to interruptions of natural gas supply, and in January of 2018, during the polar vortex, half of the total PJM natural gas capacity was not available to supply peak demand.” Read more here. And this isn’t a new problem.

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A Greener Life

MAY 28, 2023

Currently, 84% of the energy consumed in Argentina is generated using natural gas and oil, fossil fuels whose production and use drive global warming, and which can bring other harmful impacts on ecosystems, societies and their health.

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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.

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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

In November 2014, the United States and China—two of the world’s most significant emitters—. which will implement national standards to govern carbon pollution from power plants. would be to charge individuals based on their consumption (usually of fossil fuel) as a proxy for their total carbon emissions.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 16, 2018

That could be changing, though, as modern-day climate activists like the Valve Turners vigorously protest industry and government inaction in the face of increasingly dire climate change threats. 8, 2014), [link]. Although no U.S. and one in Minnesota (a Valve Turners’ case). reasonable. legal alternatives—not any alternative at all.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

On October 26, 2021, Observatório do Clima (OC), a network of 71 civil society organizations, filed a class action at the federal court of Amazonas against the Environmental Ministry and Brazilian government ( Laboratório do Observatório do Clima v. Omissions from the Brazilian government on climate policy. o C global warming scenario.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 9, 2015

To make matters worse, extracting oil as a basis for these textiles adds fuel to the global warming fire by sustaining a demand for fossil fuels and toxic contamination. As researchers struggle to understand the scope of the situation, local governments, non-profits, and universities are working on a host of creative solutions.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2023

I think I saw that the federal government came out with a 65% standard by somewhere in the mid 2030s in terms of the number of electric vehicles on the road. Natural gas had the same problems during a cold weather event in 2014 and the polar vortex in 2018. Increasing Demand “Why is demand increasing?

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

The federal government argued that denial of the motion to dismiss was based on clear error and that mandamus was warranted to confine the district court to the lawful exercise of its jurisdiction. Federal Government Moved to Dismiss Keystone Pipeline Challenges. filed June 13, 2017).

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 27, 2023

The other was Kendall Dilling, CEO of the Pathways Alliance, a new group made up of oil sands producers like Cenovus, with the intention to push carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) to perpetuate fossil fuel production. Every government dollar spent on CCUS is a dollar that doesn’t go to reliable solutions.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

So too have the overpumped groundwater aquifers in California’s San Joaquin and Salinas Valleys that belatedly prompted state political leaders to enact California’s first-ever groundwater regulatory program in 2014.

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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. Emissions-Free Electricity by 2040.

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