Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

A multi-decade legal history, including four Supreme Court decisions, has led to unimpeachable clarity on this one point: EPA has a statutory obligation to regulate carbon emissions from power plants under Section 111 of the Clean Air Act. EPA ruling, EPA can still establish rigorous carbon emissions standards.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

In 2015, when he took office as AG after stints in the Texas Legislature, he sued the Environmental Protection Agency for strengthening a standard for ground-level ozone, better known as smog. EPA decision , upheld the EPA’s authority to regulate such emissions under the Clean Air Act but significantly constrained its ability to do so.

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Frontiers

MARCH 20, 2023

In the first in-person Frontiers Forum event since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019, Frontiers has announced an exceptional line up of speakers, renowned researchers, and influencers. The Frontiers Forum has been an annual event held in Switzerland for leading researchers in their fields since 2015.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 31, 2022

The committee followed up that hearing —during which the executives disingenuously denied funding such a campaign—with another hearing on February 8 focusing on the oil companies’ inadequate plans to cut their carbon emissions. By contrast, the second-largest funder of climate disinformation, ExxonMobil, spent $39.2

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

More than 20,000 Americans died prematurely in 2015 from tailpipe emissions, according to a 2019 study. Writ large, transportation is responsible for 29 percent of US carbon emissions—more than any other sector—and car and truck emissions today represent 81 percent of the US transportation sector’s global warming pollution.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2023

In a 2015 report based on 1,200 peer-reviewed publications, the EPA cited “ample evidence” that many wetlands that lacked surface water connections still “provide physical, chemical, and biological functions that could affect the integrity of downstream waters.” In this latest case, the high court didn’t even bother with narrow buffer zones.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In its Nationally Determined Contributions ( NDCs ), updated in 2022, India has made three major promises: a 45% reduction in its carbon emissions intensity (CO2 emissions per unit of electricity) based on 2005 levels, by 2030; 50% of installed electricity coming from non-fossil-fuel sources by 2030; and national carbon neutrality by 2070.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Five years ago, the World Bank said it would end investments in oil and gas extraction by 2019. World Bank President David Malpass , appointed in 2019 by climate-denying President Trump, damaged that organization’s credibility even further this fall by refusing, in a public forum, to acknowledge that human activities cause climate change.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

So after returning home, he launched Dat Bike in 2019. The US also works with electric vehicle manufacturers VinBus and VinFast, as well as Vietnam’s largest electric utility, to support the country’s goal of achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Above, a VinFast vehicle charges in Quang Ninh, Vietnam, in 2021.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. The Oil Spills of Ogoniland Amelia Collins | The Ecologist | May 17, 2019 Oil still contaminates the Niger Delta, over two decades after Shell was first called out for its destruction of the land.

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Countries signed up to the 2015 Paris Agreement have committed themselves to keep the rise in average global temperature ‘well below’ 2 °C. Every five years, they are to issue so-called ‘nationally determined contributions’ (NDCs), describing their actions to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and adapt to climate change impacts.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 5, 2023

In 2015, then again in 2020, the number of burned acres from wildfires crossed the 10 million-acre mark. Without major reductions in the carbon emissions fueling global warming, the impacts on the parks would be endless. On this morning, the view was obscured by a golden dust bowl as smoke settled in the valley.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. The Oil Spills of Ogoniland Amelia Collins | The Ecologist | May 17, 2019 Oil still contaminates the Niger Delta, over two decades after Shell was first called out for its destruction of the land.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. The Oil Spills of Ogoniland Amelia Collins | The Ecologist | May 17, 2019 Oil still contaminates the Niger Delta, over two decades after Shell was first called out for its destruction of the land.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. The Oil Spills of Ogoniland Amelia Collins | The Ecologist | May 17, 2019 Oil still contaminates the Niger Delta, over two decades after Shell was first called out for its destruction of the land.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. The Oil Spills of Ogoniland Amelia Collins | The Ecologist | May 17, 2019 Oil still contaminates the Niger Delta, over two decades after Shell was first called out for its destruction of the land.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. The Oil Spills of Ogoniland Amelia Collins | The Ecologist | May 17, 2019 Oil still contaminates the Niger Delta, over two decades after Shell was first called out for its destruction of the land.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. The Oil Spills of Ogoniland Amelia Collins | The Ecologist | May 17, 2019 Oil still contaminates the Niger Delta, over two decades after Shell was first called out for its destruction of the land.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

The Supreme Court sharply limited the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to slash carbon pollution from power plants. The justices told EPA that it can set carbon emissions standards based only on interventions at individual power plants.

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HumanNature

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Denver Colorado (2015). Carbon emissions from land use and land-cover change. The economics of soil C sequestration and agricultural emissions abatement. SOIL 1 , 331–339 (2015). Science of The Total Environment 685 , 1181–1192 (2019). Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C 110 , 195–202 (2019).

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A Greener Life

JULY 9, 2021

It also missed energy consumption and intensity targets in the 13th Five Year Plan (2015-2020). between 2016 and 2019, and total energy consumption also rose far more than permitted by the 13th FYP targets. If it benefits, it has to help cut carbon. Inner Mongolia generated more wind energy than any other province in 2019.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Workers at the Tengiz oil field in western Kazakhstan have brawled and gone on strike numerous times, most recently in the summer of 2019. Most emissions come from the energy sector (82%), followed by agriculture (9.6%) and industrial processes (6.4%). Chinese investments fuel Kazakhstan’s energy economy. Kazakhstan can change course.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

19] France spends just over half as much per kilowatt-hour for electricity that produces one-tenth of the carbon emissions of German electricity. [20] 21] In 2019, German electricity prices were 45 percent higher than the European average. [22] gigawatts of highly-reliable, low-cost, and low-carbon power. [49] trillion.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

At issue in this case is whether and how the EPA can set standards for carbon emissions at power plants. A 2019 Pew survey found that two thirds of respondents said the federal government is doing too little to protect water quality, too little to protect air quality, and too little to fight climate change.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 25, 2022

C carbon budget set forth in the 2015 Paris Agreement, countries must reduce CO2 emissions in the entire [existing] built environment by 50-65% by 2030 and reach zero carbon by 2040. The built environment accounts for approximately 28% of global CO2 emissions and 40% of all U.

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Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

3] From 1981 to 2015, the population of humans living in extreme poverty plummeted from 44 percent to 10 percent. [4] In 2019 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change warned that warming of 1.5 In 2019, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published a special report on food and agriculture.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 7, 2021

March for Climate Justice in Kolkata, India, in September 2019. The 26th Conference of Parties, known as COP26 , which will run from 31 October to 12 November in Glasgow, the UK, is considered the most important meeting in global climate diplomacy since 2015, when the Paris Agreement was thrashed out by the 197 members of the UNFCCC.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 12, 2021

While the CRC rejected the youth petitioners’ claim as inadmissible, it found that each State has duties to address climate harm outside its own territory, and therefore can be held responsible for the negative impact of its carbon emissions on the rights of children within and outside its territory. Argentina et al.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JULY 11, 2021

Another quote from JC; "But reducing carbon is thus, logically, just one item on the list of answers to "What can we do to raise GDP in 2100?," Asked that way, you can see that "lower carbon emissions" is about #100 on the list, even admitting the 5-10% of GDP thumb-on-the-scale estimates.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2022

Public Health -- Berkeley Lab: Halfway to Zero: Progress towards a Carbon-Free Power Sector ( April 2021 ) “Switching from coal to natural gas for power generation played a big role in lowering carbon emissions. Natural gas generation grew rapidly, driven by the shale gas revolution and low fuel prices.”

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Manning Law

APRIL 4, 2021

Countries around the world committed to drastically reduce their greenhouse gas emissions under the 2015 Paris Agreement. Specifically, the law required provinces and territories to implement carbon gas pricing systems by January 1, 2019 or adopt one imposed by the federal government.

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Physics World

JANUARY 7, 2022

Those critical challenges will require inventive and practical solutions, which is why automotive manufacturer Toyota has teamed up with The Electrochemical Society (ECS) to award a series of research fellowships focused on the development of green-energy technologies that reduce both pollution and carbon emissions.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Royal Dutch Shell plc to reduce its emissions by 45% by 2030, relative to 2019, across all activities, including its subsidiaries and both its own emissions and end-use emissions (Scope 1, 2 and 3). Perhaps the most significant decision in climate litigation in 2021 came from the Netherlands.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

In the last decade alone, the cost of producing electricity from solar energy has fallen 89 percent , and the cost of utility-scale battery storage dropped 70 percent in just a three-year period (2015-2018).

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

In 2019, the Trump administration rolled back standards put in place under the Obama administration following the 2010 BP oil catastrophe that killed 11 people and spewed oil for five months. Steve Daines (R-MT). Next, the Biden Administration will craft ist own version of the Clean Water Rule, which will likely face challenges in the courts.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 8, 2021

1 Comment / March 2, 2021 Navajo Generating Station shut down in 2019 and is now being dismantled. A study based on satellite data revealed that the number of people living in floodplains grew by 58 million to 86 million between 2000 and 2015. “We What Happens with the Colorado River Water It Used? Brett Walton. Laura Gersony.

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

The total number of negative price hours, whereby power plants had to pay people to take unneeded electricity, grew dramatically between 2019 and 2020, just as they did in California during the same period, and have grown since. 49 (2015): 15060-15065; DOI:10.1073/pnas.1510028112 Cameron, Bethany A. GW from its 4.9

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