Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2023

A study of a 2018 South African drought found that climate change made it three times more likely. Scientists have long known that burning fossil fuels is the primary cause of the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations, but now they can identify the specific sources. Tropical cyclones or hurricanes.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 4, 2023

It gained traction in California in 2018, although that particular effort fell short. When all is said and done, lower resource adequacy requirements could theoretically reduce utilities’ reliance on fossil fuels and reduce the cost of resource adequacy requirements for ratepayers. Governance would expand beyond state borders.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 14, 2022

But Canada’s largest financial institutions still fund fossil fuel expansion projects and are too slow to invest in climate solutions. The federal government launched an Expert Panel on Sustainable Finance in 2018 and recently appointed a Sustainable Finance Action Council. Why is this? .

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

California’s LCFS is causing problems for other states and the federal government. The LCFS is designed to hold fuel producers accountable for their supply chain emissions The LCFS and related Clean Fuel Standard policies are performance standards for transportation fuel based on lifecycle analysis.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 23, 2024

The governing bodies that regulate California’s energy system are almost as complicated and arcane as the sprawling network of wires, poles, and power plants they oversee. This is not only important for the climate, but for frontline communities that have been historically burdened by fossil fuel energy generation.

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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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Real Climate

AUGUST 25, 2023

2018 ( PDF ; I’m a coauthor on that paper). 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’. In 2022, the G20 governments alone subsidised fossil fuel use with 1.4

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2024

For more than a century, the United States has recognized this, and maintaining roads and bridges has been a core function of federal, state, and local governments. The federal government embraced a role in supporting transit in the 1970s, but this was cut back for the past 40 years and didn’t rebound until the pandemic.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

, its district, appellate , and supreme courts decided in favor of Urgenda, an upstart environmental organization, ordering the government to more aggressively reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, Shell has the most ambitious emissions abatement plan of all fossil fuel companies , for whatever that is worth.)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

By expanding renewable power, phasing out fossil fuels, electrifying as much of the economy as possible, and deploying other technologies, the U.S. The average Seattle resident drove just 6,150 miles a year in 2018, 17% fewer than in 2005. can achieve its climate goals by 2050—and a new report from UCS shows how.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Public interest groups protest outside of Export Development Canada headquarters in Ottawa, tell federal government to keep promise to end the agency’s $15 billion in oil and gas support. Despite promises to end public financing for fossil fuels, so far this year the Government of Canada has already committed up to $15.4

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Coal mine reclamation has become a flashpoint in the partisan divide over fossil fuel use. The issue boils down to the fact that the government is not collecting enough money to pay for cleanup. . With a fossil fuel-friendly Republican party, that is proving to be a harder political sell.

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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. Is that you?

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A Greener Life

JUNE 19, 2024

By Adam Barnett DeSmog catalogues how oil and gas firms have forged ties with the highest levels of government, the media, and influential think tanks. This retreat from climate action did not happen in a vacuum but was fuelled by a steady campaign by a network of climate science deniers and fossil fuel interests.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

With most energy investments still in fossil fuels, significant reform is needed to modernise the sector and meet Kazakhstan’s pledge to become net-zero by 2060. The government had abruptly stopped subsidies, dramatically increasing the price for consumers. The direction of Chinese investment will be key.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 15, 2022

Even if the world were able to shut off all fossil fuels today, we cannot avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis unless we simultaneously, and without delay , reduce emissions from tropical deforestation and other land use changes. Find more information on the 12 th Annual Meeting of the GCF Task Force here.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 13, 2021

On November 24, Queen’s Park Today reported that in response to the Ontario Liberal Party’s campaign proposal to offer electric vehicle incentives, Minister Piccini claimed the Progressive Conservative government policies have already led to “a 210 per cent increase in EV (electric vehicle) sales year over year from Q2 2020 to Q2 2021.”.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Nearly two years after filing an outrageous lawsuit against the federal government, Big Plastic is getting its day in court. ExxonMobil knew about – and denied – the links between fossil fuels and climate change for decades and continues to gaslight people who challenge climate denial. Majority owner is U.S.-based

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 2, 2023

By Fermín Koop New government plan says US$86 billion of spending needed to boost energy transition – while backing natural gas too. The transition away from fossil fuels has, however, been an elusive goal for Argentina to date. Last October, the government relaunched a plan to invest US$1.4 Are its goals realistic?

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 30, 2022

The flagship wind farm made headlines as the operator, Swedens’s Vattenfall in 2018 won the concession to build it without government subsidy. Using existing fossil fuel infrastructure, the green hydrogen project ‘PosHYdon’ will convert electricity to hydrogen and send it to shore via natural gas pipelines.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 30, 2021

COA was established 50 years ago so that the federal and provincial governments could work together to ensure that these awe inspiring bodies of water are protected for generations to come. . Indigenous governance. Without guaranteed yearly funding from each level of government, COA is left vulnerable.

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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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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2023

Room 8E-A East Wing Capitol Building.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 15, 2024

This week, we’ll be at the Court of Appeals for Ontario i n support of seven youth who are suing the Ontario government over its weak climate target and plan. And their court case has the potential to push the Ontario government, but also governments across Canada, to do more for their future. What’s the case about?

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Legal Planet

APRIL 20, 2023

These practices are highly relevant for insurance companies, which are financial institutions with significant investment portfolios (including in fossil fuel-related industries) as well as providers of insurance policies that play a key role in the financial health and resilience of communities and industries.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 13, 2021

And if that’s not gross enough, Big Plastic is also suing the federal government to try to prevent regulations to reduce plastic pollution that is harming the environment and threatening human health. It was fined another $125,000 in 2018 for a spill of brine into a Sarnia-area waterway. Majority owner is U.S.-based

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Legal Planet

MARCH 16, 2023

Attendees included federal, state, local, and tribal government representatives as well as wind developers, environmental justice organizations, environmental advocacy groups, transmission experts, and representatives from the fishing industry, labor unions, and ports. 2018): 729–743, available at [link].

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 22, 2022

We all know that to successfully address climate change we need to phase out fossil fuels and switch to electric power. Unfortunately, the current Ontario government’s plan is to burn more fossil gas to generate power. . In Ontario, fossil gas power is often used during peak demand periods. The Path Forward .

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Law Columbia

MARCH 14, 2024

In the first months of 2024, legislators in four states— Maryland , Massachusetts , New York , and Vermont —have pushed for legislation that would collectively require large fossil fuel producers and refiners to pay for hundreds of billions of dollars of state-level climate adaptation infrastructure.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The CPP doesn’t fully disclose our holdings, it’s still investing billions of dollars in fossil fuels, and it doesn’t seem to have a credible climate plan. Yet the manager of my Municipal Pension Plan won’t even disclose how much it has invested in the primary cause of the crisis– fossil fuels. Andrea Reimer.

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 15, 2020

Since the initiation of climate change litigation several years ago, various state governments and interest groups have filed lawsuits against fossil fuel companies and governing authorities. Below we take a closer look at each category of lawsuits and provide an update on where they stand today.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 27, 2024

Fully half of Montgomery County's population lives in communities committed to a fossil-fuel-free future. The next step will be the drafting of an Energy Transition Plan that all of us—residents, businesses and local government alike—can live with,” White said. This is a collaborative, iterative process.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Although coal represents less than 5% of Brazil’s energy mix, the federal government plans to invest 20 billion reais (US$3.7 The Bolsonaro government’s new coal plans face barriers to funding and worsen the country’s already worn-out image at COP26. billion) in the world’s most polluting energy source.

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Frontiers

AUGUST 7, 2023

By Prof Martin Siegert, University of Exeter (Cornwall) Image: Shutterstock.com 42 governments around the world have agreed to protect Antarctica’s environment. In the ocean, 19 marine heatwaves have been recorded between 2002 and 2018.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

In July 2022, Indonesians at the frontline of climate change filed a claim before the National Human Rights Commission seeking recognition that climate change is a matter of human rights and calling on the Indonesian government to take stronger action. Gigatonnes of CO 2 equivalent emissions from 1990 to 2018.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 27, 2022

As the Kenyan government pushes EVs in the country, Swedish–Kenyan company Roam Motors (formerly Opibus) is also expanding its presence and sales. Since 2020, the Kenyan government has rolled out a series of policies aimed at encouraging the use and production of EVs. Kenya has an estimated 350 EVs, out of 2.2 Policy direction.

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

Student in the Department of Economics at Colorado State University As the urgent need to take tough action towards climate mitigation and sustainability gathers pressure, for most major power-holders today, including the markets, institutions, government agencies, media and countries, environmentalism has perhaps become the biggest fashion fad.

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