Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Our national overreliance on gas is evidently undermining energy access, not strengthening it, as some fossil fuel industry players would want you to believe. These claims just add to the deluge of greenwashing and disinformation from the fossil fuel industry. Don’t believe the industry spin.

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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. In April, Air Canada committed to investing $50 million in SAFs and other carbon-reducing technologies.

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A Greener Life

JULY 23, 2021

Hydrogen may have lost the race to fuel electric cars but it looks a likely contender to replace fossil fuels in trucks, ships, planes and heavy industry. The Tokyo Olympics will be powered by a fuel with ambition – hydrogen. It is planning to replace fossil fuels with hydrogen in heavy industries such as steel-making.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

24, 2016); Alaska Oil & Gas Association v. 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. Alaska Oil & Gas Association v. Pritzker , Nos. 14-35806, 14-35811 (9th Cir. opinion Oct.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 13, 2023

Read on to learn why and how more than a thousand scientists issued an open letter urging JPMorgan Chase shareholders to vote in favor of a time-bound phaseout of financing for new fossil fuel development and exploration at the bank’s annual meeting on May 16. Those three alone borrowed more than $200 billion between 2016 and 2021.

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A Greener Life

MAY 9, 2022

Lance/2016/Flickr , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. In the most sustainable future scenario they modelled, carbon dioxide emissions reach net zero around 2050 and then begin to decline by 2099. In the most fossil fuel-intensive scenario, carbon dioxide emissions more than double by 2099. Photo credit: ©EU/ECHO/J.

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Real Climate

JULY 10, 2022

The sources of these increases are dominated by the burning of fossil fuels, landfills, mining, oil and gas operations, agriculture (especially livestock for methane), and industry. New greenhouse gas compounds such as halocarbons (CFCs, HFCs) did not exist in the pre-industrial atmosphere. ln(CO 2 /CO 2 _orig) (seen in Table 6.2

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 11, 2023

million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year. That is equivalent to what half a million fossil-fueled cars emit annually. Yet, Teviston needed drought relief because of the 2012-2016 drought and their wells failed again in 2021. Yet, Teviston needed drought relief due to the 2012-2016 drought.

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Cresforum

JANUARY 16, 2024

has only seen two new nuclear plants enter commercial operation since the 1990s with Watts Bar Unit 2 in 2016 and Vogtle Unit 3 in 2023. civilian nuclear energy industry and industry supply chains, industry potential to reduce criteria pollutants and carbon dioxide, and how the U.S. Title II of H.R.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 9, 2024

In addition, environmental justice advocates and frontline communities routinely point to the danger of concentrated carbon dioxide , embedded siting inequities , and the use of CCS to distract from the real work of phasing out fossil fuels.) Who needs units anyway? Why do Exxon’s greenwashed graphs matter?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

As part of its ongoing investigation of fossil fuel industry climate disinformation, the US House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Reform released more than 200 pages of internal corporate documents last month that provide new evidence of industry deception. Companies Plot “Greenwashing” Campaigns.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2022

increase in carbon dioxide pollution from the Commonwealth’s power plants between 2020 and 2021. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Pennsylvania’s power plants are now releasing more CO2 than they have since 2016. By Josh Raulerson, PA Environmental Council Data published in February by the U.S.

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Global Green

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The thought-provoking film also highlights the renewables’ dependence on fossil fuels. Following Moore’s movie broadcasting, various climate experts signed a letter where they claim scientific and technological advancements made renewable energy alternatives more viable and cheaper to run than fossil fuels.

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Earthava

JUNE 1, 2021

Carbon dioxide, a common pollutant from burning fossil fuels such as gas and oil, is used by plants during photosynthesis. In 2016, scientists discovered a grove of Yellow Meranti trees with a minimum height of 90 meters (295 feet). Increasing its concentration in the atmosphere could result in better growth.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) estimates that it will produce 576 million barrels of oil over its 30-year lifetime, resulting in more than 239 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO 2 )-equivalent. Specifically, Notz & Stroeve (2016) found that each metric ton of CO 2 results in a sustained loss of 3 ± 0.3

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Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

Like Greta Thunberg, Mariutti comes to the tale as an environmental obsessive passionate about facilitating the world’s transition from fossil fuels to cleaner forms of energy. It wasn’t until 2016, long after much PV production had already moved east, that the transition appeared on data collectors’ radars.

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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Two steps forward, one step back: In February 2016, the Supreme Court issued a. Equally exciting, in August 2016, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld agencies’ ability under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to include the. social cost of carbon. social cost of carbon. carbon dioxide.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Because methane has 28 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide and a shorter atmospheric life of only 12 years, immediate action to reduce methane emissions —including from agriculture—is critical to slow our warming climate, especially in light of expanding global populations and food demand. 2016 , LaHue et al.,

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2022

The denial cites a Sabin Center white paper published in March 2022 that argues that the New York Executive Branch has the legal authority to implement a moratorium on the permitting of fossil fuel power plants that are providing behind-the-meter energy to proof-of-work cryptocurrency miners.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2023

Despite these claims, burning waste coal is still just burning fossil fuel and results in the emissions of significant amounts of air pollution including ozone precursors, fine particulates, acid gasses, heavy metals, and vast amounts of carbon pollution. It's unlikely Bitcoin will do anything to alleviate this issue.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2023

Despite these claims, burning waste coal is still just burning fossil fuel and results in the emissions of significant amounts of air pollution including ozone precursors, fine particulates, acid gasses, heavy metals, and vast amounts of carbon pollution. It's unlikely Bitcoin will do anything to alleviate this issue.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Climate change and pressure to throw a lifeline to communities that long survived on fossil fuel extraction provided a strong tailwind for bipartisan support. Methane is a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide in the short term — 86 times more effective at trapping heat in the atmosphere when measured over a 20-year period.

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Acoel

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Regrettably, in the absence of a threat that is immediate and palpable, like a hurricane, the concept in practice has often been an oxymoron, with states litigating to undermine or reject national programs to reduce carbon emissions.

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 31, 2017

On November 10, 2016, Judge Ann Aiken, a federal district judge in Oregon, issued a remarkable environmental law decision in which she found that a climate system “capable of sustaining human life” is a fundamental constitutional right. [1] 1] Juliana v.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 22, 2022

A farmer in Changsha, Hunan takes part in a 2016 “soil restoration project” to treat arable land contaminated with heavy metals. A technician at Yonker Environmental Protection Company in Hunan takes soil samples collected during the 2016 project to be analysed. The soil is the largest terrestrial store of organic carbon.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

not plants, animals, or bacteria), get their energy by breaking down organic molecules via a different chemical pathway than we air-breathers use to get our energy, which does not require oxygen and ends in methane instead of carbon dioxide and water. The clever microbes that do this, mostly Archaea (i.e., Atmospheric concentrations.

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Law Columbia

MAY 10, 2023

The Willow Project is expected to produce as much as 180,000 barrels of oil per day at its peak and result in around 130 million metric tons of carbon dioxide-equivalent over its lifetime. It will also worsen global climate change. The land covered by ConocoPhillips’ NPR-A leases falls into the second category.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 20, 2021

The Inventory had shown a steady decrease from 2005 through 2016 from 289.62 The biggest factor in the decrease in emissions was from the electricity generation sector and the switch from coal to natural gas as a fuel source which alone accounted for a decrease from that sector from 120.97 million tons in 2017 to 241.12 million tons.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 25, 2024

Image by Maxim Tolchinskiy (Unsplash) In November of 2022, when the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) proposed new rules to control venting, flaring, and leaks from oil and gas leases on federal land (the “Fossil Fuel Waste Rule”), they noted that these leasing rules would have an enormous ancillary climate benefit.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Fourth Circuit Declined to Stay Remand Order in Baltimore’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies; Companies Sought Stay from Supreme Court. States and Cities Challenged Rule Preempting State Regulation of Vehicle Carbon Dioxide Emissions. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 126.

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Columbia Climate Law

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The emissions make a significant contribution to climate change because methane is a highly potent greenhouse gas which, in the first 20 years after it is released, traps approximately 84 times more heat in the earth’s atmosphere than carbon dioxide (on a per ton basis).

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 5, 2022

Steele, Executive Director Blue hydrogen is produced through an energy-intensive process that mixes methane gas with water to create carbon dioxide and hydrogen. The hydrogen becomes an available fuel while the carbon dioxide emissions are captured and stored underground. None of them is commercially viable.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The federal district court for the Northern District of California denied Oakland’s and San Francisco’s motions to remand their climate change public nuisance lawsuits against five major fossil fuel producers to state court. Foster , 34-2016-CR-00187 (N.D. billion over a 30-year period. NEW CASES, MOTIONS, AND NOTICES.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 6, 2023

BLM estimates that the project will produce up to 576 million barrels of oil over its 30-year lifetime, resulting in indirect emissions totaling 239 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) equivalent. 2016) ; Derocher et al. square meters of September sea-ice. See, e.g., IPCC AR6 WGI Ch.3 3 ; Laidre et al.

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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]. emissions from the power sector. [3].

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that traps about 80 times as much heat as carbon dioxide, on average, over the first 20 years after it reaches the atmosphere and is responsible for approximately one third of the warming from greenhouse gases occurring today.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

Circuit in 2016 signaled that the legal framework for the Clean Power Plan “hinges on important issues of federal that EPA then—and the court below now—got so wrong this Court was likely to grant review.” Maryland County Filed Climate Change Lawsuit Against Fossil Fuel Companies and Trade Group. Exxon Mobil Corp. , BP p.l.c. ,

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