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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Law Columbia

APRIL 17, 2024

Cuba’s power system is currently heavily reliant on fossil fuels. In 2022, fossil fuels accounted for about 95% of electricity generation, and about 48% of the fossil fuels used were imported, putting the country at high risk of price shocks and supply shortages.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2022

Since its founding in 2017, the US Climate Alliance —a coalition of states committed to meeting the goals of the Paris climate accord—has grown to 24 states and one US territory. Reducing fossil fuel use under the 100-percent RES policy cuts alliance state power plant carbon dioxide emissions by 58 percent below 2020 levels by 2040.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Last week world leaders gathered in New York for the UN Climate Ambition Summit where countries shared concrete action they’ve taken to phase out fossil fuels. There, the conversation was grounded in science, with leaders such as California’s Governor Newsom saying “The climate crisis is a fossil fuel crisis.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 22, 2023

Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Superstorm Sandy in 2012, Hurricanes Harvey and Irma in 2017, and Hurricane Irma in 2021 were all accompanied by the same question. This has got nothing to do with climate.This is not because of fossil fuels.” Will this smoke alarm wake us up?” This doesn’t make anybody cough. percent consensus.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 14, 2023

The largest contributors to this deadly type of pollution come from human-made emission sources that burn fossil fuels, such as coal-fired power plants and vehicular emissions of diesel and gasoline. pollution, half of the deaths are attributable to the burning of fossil fuels. EPA’s PM 2.5 pollution.

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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. Most CCS is used for “enhanced oil recovery” meaning the carbon captured is pumped back into the ground to push out more oil.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Meanwhile, on the West Coast, a 2017 PSE Healthy Energy study found that nearly half of California’s gas power plants are in communities that are among the state’s 25 percent most disadvantaged neighborhoods. In New England, for example, the percentage of people of color that live within 6 miles of a power plant is as much as 23.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

There is still much we can do to bend that emissions curve sharply within this decade—but only if world leaders, especially leaders of richer countries and major emitting nations, take responsibility to act together quickly and fossil fuel companies are held accountable for their decades of obstruction and deception.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

The bench trial took place last month in the state capitol, Helena, where 16 youth plaintiffs ages 5 to 22 made the case that Montana’s unwavering promotion of fossil fuels violates the state constitution’s guarantee to a “clean and healthful environment.” Whether Montana’s GHG emissions can be measured incrementally.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

On October 18, the FracTracker Alliance announced the winners of the 2023 Community Sentinel Awards to honor the leadership of individuals working to protect communities from the harms of the fossil fuel industry. The other winners are Maury Johnson, Greenville, West Virginia and Debra Ramirez, Lake Charles, Louisiana.

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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. The fossil fuel sector directly accounts for less than 1 per cent of all jobs in Canada.

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Energy & the Law

JULY 31, 2022

And so it is with the plethora of lawsuits by states, cities and counties against oil and gas producers claiming catastrophic damages from fossil fuels. Baltimore alleges oil company defendants violated state-laws and concealed dangers associated with their fossil fuel products. There are others. Suncor Energy .

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Local actors seek climate change damages from the biggest fossil fuel companies through state law litigation. It also leaves untouched the litigation that has been bubbling up in state courts against the fossil fuel industry. In the wake of West Virginia v. Personal jurisdiction.

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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.” When Secretary Zinke terminated the moratorium in 2017, litigation ensued and, in 2019, the Court ruled that the Zinke Order was subject to NEPA. Once more, Judge Morris found DOI’s NEPA analysis inadequate.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

For decades, the fossil fuel industry downplayed the reality of climate change while deliberately spreading disinformation about the damage its products cause to people and the planet. As losses and damages from climate change-related extreme weather mount, there is growing urgency to demand accountability from fossil fuel polluters.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Six environmental groups launched the proceeding challenging the stay after EPA published notice of the stay in the June 5, 2017 issue of the Federal Register. filed June 5, 2017; emergency motion for stay granted July 3, 2017). June 29, 2017). June 28, 2017). June 28, 2017). filed June 9, 2017).

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Law Columbia

JULY 27, 2023

The Report builds upon previous reports from 2017 and 2020 , providing a comprehensive update on the current state of, and trends in, climate change litigation worldwide. Keeping Fossil Fuels and Carbon Sinks in the Ground: A significant trend in climate litigation revolves around efforts to halt fossil fuel extraction and use.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Rooftop solar reduces dependence on fossil fuels, eases strain on the electricity grid during periods of high demand, and increases resilience to threats like extreme weather, all at a steadily falling cost. Residential solar in the state grew 207% from 2017 through 2022.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Replacing one fossil fuel with another is the wrong solution, but one seen in many countries where coal plants are being retired or new coal power projects dropped. Turning coal into another fossil fuel is not a climate-friendly alternative. Gas power should not be an option.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 16, 2023

Ramping up “natural” gas – a fossil fuel – to generate electricity across Southern Ontario will come at a high cost to both the public and the environment, especially when there are cheaper and cleaner alternatives available. It is clear that hydrogen is being used as an excuse to build new gas plants.

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Frontiers

AUGUST 7, 2023

While the main focus has been on operational activities in Antarctica, global warming caused by fossil-fuel burning by these (and other) countries has left Antarctica on the brink of irreversible change. In the Arctic this has led to regional warming four times faster than the global average.

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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. Saville considers the airline a leader in this sense, noting it has been the only airline that has consistently made other offtake agreements with fuel producers.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Hurricanes Fiona and Ian brought destruction and death: the former to Puerto Rico, which still has not recovered from Hurricane María in 2017, and the latter to Florida, destroying the Fort Myers area. And, as we know, it only takes one to bring extreme devastation—and both of these did.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 3, 2023

As a result, between 2005 and 2017 greenhouse gas pollution from Ontario’s electricity system dropped by 93 per cent. According to the Independent Electricity System Operator greenhouse gas emissions from Ontario’s gas plants are set to increase by over 400 per cent by 2030 and by almost 800 per cent by 2040 (compared to the 2017 level).

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The site was acquired by Fairmont Brine Processing in 2012 and has been inactive since 2017. The shale gas industry also shipped over 138,000 cubic feet of TENORM waste to secure low-level radioactive waste disposal facilities in 2022 and over 911,000 cubic feet since 2017. Read more here.] [In

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2023

Source: Government Accountability Office (GAO) 2017 Good RTOs must include a broad set of stakeholders Although the RTOs in the eastern United States vary in their governance structures, they generally have an independent board of governors that approve final decisions as well as stakeholder sectors that vote on issues.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In a report of theirs they stated that of that $360 billion, total insured losses were estimated at $140 billion, with private insurers covering $125 billion and public insurance entities covering $15 billion, making 2022 the fifth year since 2017 to cross the $100 billion threshold for insurers.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In 2017 (before the Ford government) emissions were 156 Megatonnes (MT). During this time, emissions rose overall in Canada – from 716 MT in 2017 to 730 MT in 2019. MT in 2017 to 12.4 In Saskatchewan emissions went down a little over 1 MT from 76 MT in 2017 to 74.8 Did emissions go up in other provinces? MT in 2019.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 19, 2022

Celebration when Emmanuel Macron was elected President of France in 2017. Photo credit: By Lorie Shaull CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia. By Anders Lorenzen. France could be at a crossroads, and it could be a worrying one if you care about the climate crisis.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 23, 2022

The use of fracking to extract fossil fuels is a very controversial process due to the overwhelming impacts it has in human and environmental. The negative impacts of fracking do not end with environmental damage, this method of fossil fuel extraction negatively impacts human health as. degradation. . malfunction.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 3, 2023

The current ownership group took over in April 2017. First opened in 1969, Homer City Generating Station is located 50 miles from Pittsburgh and is the largest coal plant currently operating in Pennsylvania.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 12, 2022

Unusually wet conditions lifted the lake to record levels in 2017 and 2019, damaging property and critical infrastructure across the St. Steel invests $150 million in a fuel production plant in Minnesota’s Iron Range. In Wisconsin, potential blackouts spark debate about the role of fossil fuels in the state’s energy grid.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 23, 2023

This is a good opportunity for the government of Ontario to select a more appropriate person to lead the agency, ideally one that supports the much needed transition away from fossil fuels.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

org Summary ExxonMobil is a fossil fuel company headquartered in Irving, Texas. Oil workers go on strike at Exxon Mobil in Nigeria: union Reuters | May 11, 2017 Nigerian workers at U.S. ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell paid no tax in Australia for 2016 Sonali Paul | Reuters | December 7, 2017 Exxon Mobil Corp XOM.N

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 1, 2023

As a result, between 2005 and 2017 greenhouse gas pollution from Ontario’s electricity system dropped by 93 per cent. According to the Independent Electricity System Operator greenhouse gas emissions from Ontario’s gas plants are set to increase by over 400 per cent by 2030 and by almost 800 per cent by 2040 (compared to the 2017 level).

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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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