Legal Planet

AUGUST 6, 2023

However, it’s a disappointment to the initiative’s proponents and to a larger group of environmental advocates who seek to promote California’s quick transition from reliance on heavily-polluting and climate-damaging fossil fuels to renewable energy resources.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2023

In 2016 Monterey County voters passed Measure Z, a citizen initiative intended to bar the drilling of new oil and gas wells in the county and ban the use of fracking technology for existing wells in Monterey County. Later this month the justices will hear arguments in Chevron U.S.A.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Under the LCFS each fuel pathway gets a unique carbon intensity (CI) based on a lifecycle analysis of the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production and use of the fuel. This approach holds fuel producers accountable for reducing fossil fuel use and other global warming pollution in their supply chains.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 11, 2024

degrees Celsius warmer than in the 1850-1900 pre-industrial period, when humans began burning fossil fuels on an industrial scale, pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. During the year as a whole the record was not just broken, but broken by a great amount as 2023 was 0.17C hotter than 2016 – the previous hottest year.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 26, 2024

This is despite the expense of CCS , its record of failures and underperformance , and recognition from climate and energy experts that we need to phase out fossil fuels to avoid climate disasters. He credits his competitive nature for fueling his dedication to maximizing profits in the oil patch, where he’s worked for 34 years.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 25, 2023

This was shown by Halldór Björnsson of the Icelandic weather service and presented at the Arctic Circle conference 2016. I discussed this here in 2016 and also in my 2018 RealClimate article “ If you doubt that the AMOC has weakened, read this ”, together with possible other alternative explanations of the ‘cold blob’.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

Back in 2016 I wrote a long post about biodiesel , explaining what it is made from (mostly vegetable oil) and arguing that EPA should show restraint in setting targets for biodiesel because of the limited availability oils and fats and the harmful consequences of drawing too heavily from these limited sources. percent in 2022.

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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

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

While the epicenter of the war and its horrors has remained trained on and in Ukraine, Russia has also leveraged its position as a major fossil fuel exporter to fund its war efforts and to manipulate and threaten others, including countries across Europe that have long relied on Russian supplies of gas. Credit: U.S. Credit: U.S.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 15, 2024

Smoke from wildfires near Fort McMurray in 2016. And while it is a scientific fact that climate change is the result of burning fossil fuels, the government of Alberta and the fossil fuel industry certainly don’t want to talk about that. But talk we must. After the 2017 Kenow Fire.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 7, 2024

C hotter than the second-hottest year to date, 2016. The science guy has been doing interviews about how the eclipse is a moment of reflection on the importance of science and its warning about burning fossil fuels. The annual-average temperature was 1.48 C above the pre-industrial average, just shy of the 1.5

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 2, 2023

The closure in January 2016 of one of Pittsburgh’s biggest coal-processing plants led to immediate and lasting declines in emissions of fossil fuel–related air pollutants. The impact of the closure persisted through at least December 2018, the last month for which data were analyzed. Thurston, ScD.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 17, 2022

Caption: The Salar de Atacama salt works in Chile in 2016. Amid a growing global appetite for electrical power as an alternative to planet-warming fossil fuels, the value of this natural endowment is soaring. . A battle is brewing over the future of lithium, an essential component of the world’s transition to renewable energy.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

There are many possible emergency actions. These are legitimate concerns that cannot simply be pushed aside. But, in an emergency, we need to change our approach, find compromise, consider risk differently, and move much more rapidly.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 15, 2022

My caption was “NEPA Is Still Going to Pose an Obstacle to Leasing Public Lands for Fossil Fuel Extraction.” Once more, Judge Morris found DOI’s NEPA analysis inadequate.

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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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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

OCTOBER 12, 2021

And the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson , when Mayor of London (2008-2016) used his Telegraph column to air doubts about whether climate change was real. Fossil fuel support. Furthermore, the UK is struggling with two fossil fuel-related crises at the moment. The role of diplomacy.

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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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Physics World

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Then in 1896, preliminary calculations by Arrhenius hinted that humanity’s burning of fossil fuels could raise CO 2 levels and warm our planet. Callendar analysed historical global measurements of temperature, of atmospheric CO 2 , and the use of fossil fuels. Callendar was born in 1898.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 1, 2022

Temperatures on this day in July 2016 exceeded 110 degrees Fahrenheit. Burning fossil fuels, cutting down forests, raising livestock, making cement, and using synthetic fertilizers are among the actions that have increased the amount of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere to the point that the planet’s basic functions are coming undone.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 25, 2023

That’s why we’re revealing the people behind Canada’s oil and gas industry, who are fueling the climate crisis with their dedication to fossil fuels. Irving Institute for Energy and Society in 2016 at Dartmouth College. 4th richest person in Canada with an estimated net worth of $7.8 Funding the Arthur L.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2023

Houska, who actively resisted the Line 3 oil pipeline and the Dakota Access pipeline, is heavily involved in the movement to defund fossil fuels. During Senator Bernie Sanders 2016 presidential run, she stepped up as an advisor on Native affairs and was the lead author of his Native policy platform. After earning a B.A.,

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A Greener Life

JUNE 2, 2021

However, they fell far below what competitor BP had set out in their strategy, where Shell aimed to cut the carbon intensity of its products by at least 6% by 2023, by 20% by 2030, by 45% by 2035, and by 100% by 2050 from 2016 levels.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

As one of the world’s top funders of fossil fuels, taking over HSBC’s Canadian operations, at a time when its parent company was already taking concrete action to lower its financed emissions, is a significant step backwards on climate.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

The radiative forcing from these changes in concentrations can be easily calculated using standard formulas (from Etminan et al, 2016 which supersede the slightly simpler ones from IPCC TAR), as about 2 W/m 2 for the CO 2 change and 0.65 W/m 2 for CH 4. W/m² (to about 60% of the CO 2 effect since 1750).

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A Greener Life

MARCH 7, 2024

A new study by Good Energy and the USC Norman Lear Center , which analyzed 37,453 TV and film scripts produced in the US between 2016 and 2020, found that only 2.8% On the other hand, only 10% of the audiovisual materials showed “extreme environmental changes” linked to some form of pollution, while 12% linked it to the use of fossil fuels.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Houska, a citizen of Couchiching First Nation , is a prominent opponent of the Line 3 and Dakota Access pipelines and plays an active role in the movement to defund fossil fuels. Bernie Sanders on Native affairs during his 2016 presidential campaign. She worked as a tribal attorney in Washington, D.C.,

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A Greener Life

JULY 5, 2023

degrees C, the average global temperature set a new record surpassing the previous record set in August 2016 of 16.92 They report that this is just one of the unwelcome records to be broken this year, as we continue to emit an increasing amount of CO2 through the burning of fossil fuels and other human activities. Measuring 17.01

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 31, 2021

The district court in Oregon in 2016 seemed to favor such a right, but a divided Ninth Circuit concluded in 2020 that the plaintiffs lacked standing. The plaintiffs had asked the court to issue a “remedial plan” that would require Montana to take many steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fossil fuel production in the state.

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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 2021, United Airlines used jet fuel made from agricultural waste such as corncobs and corn stalks in a normal passenger flight.

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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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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2023

CARB’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) seeks to incentivize the production and sale of alternative, lower emissions transportation fuels in order to displace conventional fossil fuels. To identify which fuels should be promoted, CARB calculates the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions from transportation fuels.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 11, 2023

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. million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year. miles away from a canal.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

California Sues Fossil Fuel Polluters California’s climate accountability lawsuit is groundbreaking in several ways: California is the first major fossil fuel-producing state to file a climate accountability lawsuit. California Gov.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

It is a bill forged in the backrooms of Washington by the fossil fuel industry and their congressional allies. 2016, at 211. I am well acquainted with NEPA and its tremendous benefits for decision-making regarding the uses of the marine environment. 1] Ocean and Coastal Law and Policy (2nd Edition) by Donald C.

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