Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Federal government releases new policy aimed at ending international public financing for fossil fuels, next step is ending domestic financing . This new policy will end a significant portion of EDC’s support for fossil fuels and redirect those funds to support the clean energy transition.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Vehicles powered by biomethane consume about one percent of California’s transportation fuel, but in the first three quarters of 2023, biomethane used to fuel these vehicles accounted for 17 percent of LCFS credit generation. But what about the rapidly increasing credits generated by biomethane?

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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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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

But this announcement was seemingly at odds with another made just three days earlier, when coal minister Pralhad Joshi confirmed that India intends to increase production for the fossil fuel. From 2013 to 2014, Indian coal production was 565 million tonnes; from 2022 to 2023, that had increased by 58% to 893 million.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 24, 2023

Canada’s current plans are promising, but insufficient In 2019, the current federal government was elected on a promise of passing a Just Transition law that would prepare workers and communities for the transition. After four years of inaction on this topic, it released in late February 2023 its Sustainable Jobs Action Plan.

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In 2023, the U.S. Scientists will probably never be able to say for certain whether or not anthropogenic climate change caused a specific hurricane to form because we don’t have an “alternate Earth” where humans never started burning large amounts of fossil fuels. 2023, November 15). 2023, November 17).

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A Greener Life

JUNE 2, 2021

Judge Larisa Alwin ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45% by 2030 from 2019 levels. “The court orders Royal Dutch Shell, by means of its corporate policy, to reduce its CO2 emissions by 45% by 2030 with respect to the level of 2019 for the Shell group, and the suppliers and customers of the group.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

And Eversource Energy’s New Hampshire utility won approval from the state Public Utilities Commission over the summer to increase electric rates by a whopping 53 percent through the end of January 2023 to account for high gas prices in New England. It provides essential services that can be a matter of life or death for millions of people.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

But the distribution system will be even more important when making a rapid clean energy transition, particularly considering the role distributed energy resources, such as rooftop solar, battery storage and electric vehicles, can play in helping Illinoisans dump fossil fuels. Illinois utilities contributed to that trend.

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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. She is the recipient of the 2021 American Climate Leadership Award and the 2019 Rachel’s Network Catalyst Award. Posted: April 26, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

The net-zero strategy unveiled under the leadership of Looney was largely applauded by energy transition experts and advocates and those in the clean energy investment space as one of the most ambitious in the world among any of the fossil fuel giants. degrees C.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

The 2021 climate audit by the Auditor General is the follow-up to one produced in 2019, which provided 22 recommendations for the province to improve its climate outcomes. And this anemic plan won’t even be implemented until 2023. It turns out that, two years later, the government has only implemented six of those recommendations.

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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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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 27, 2024

New analysis from Environmental Defence reveals that despite federal government promises, funding to the fossil fuel and petrochemical industries remains high Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – New analysis released today by Environmental Defence reveals Canada’s federal government provided at least $18.6

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Clean Energy Law

DECEMBER 6, 2021

But since 2019, the number of participating states has dwindled, and only four signed on to the MOU. The TCI-P was intended to be a multijurisdictional cap-and-invest program, under which certain fuel suppliers would have been required to acquire compliance instruments called “allowances” to cover carbon emissions from specified fuels (i.e.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 31, 2022

With only eight years left to attain 80 percent of emission reductions in the electricity sector by 2030 and lay the foundation to meet economy-wide climate goals, they need to get back to work to finish the job before 2023. Time is Running Out to Secure Federal Infrastructure Funding. Last winter, Congress passed the $1.2-trillion

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

Guest Post by Vedanshi Nevatia , 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph. As per the World Investment Report 2023, much of the growth in international investment in renewable energy, which has nearly tripled since the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015, was concentrated in developed countries. Zerbib, Olivier David.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

On September 14, 2023, DEP inspected the Coretsky shale gas well pad operated by XTO Energy Inc., Records indicated it was drilled in April 2019. The inspector noted this well did not appear to be part of the consent order and agreement signed with Diversified Prod LLC in 2019 on plugging conventional wells. Read more here.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 22, 2024

Bill C-50 is a necessary tool to set Canadian workers up for success in a low-carbon economy Countries around the world are choosing to ditch fossil fuels, like oil, gas and coal, to use renewable energy and increase the energy efficiency of homes, cars and factories. Fossil fuel workers are also far from the only ones impacted.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

In the first half of 2023, the combined share of renewable diesel and biodiesel rose to 59 percent of total diesel fuel use in California. The share of renewable diesel and biodiesel blending into diesel fuel sold in California has grown rapidly and in the first half of 2023 it reached 59 percent. percent in 2022.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 18, 2023

O n Monday, April 17, 2023, the U.S. Since 2019, more than seventy local and state jurisdictions have followed Berkeley’s lead in requiring or strongly incentivizing all-electric or fossil-fuel-free new buildings, with more considering similar approaches. City of Berkeley. Berkeley : Berkeley’s Ordinance Preempted by U.S.

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Law Columbia

MAY 8, 2024

Law Students for Climate Accountability publishes an annual scorecard that assigns a letter grade to each of the Vault 100 law firms based on “how much fossil fuels work they have engaged in over a five-year period.” In late 2023, LSEW committed “to being net zero by 2030” in its operations. In the U.S.,

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

In its recent 2023 Energy Outlook, the company predicts that the war in Ukraine is accelerating the shift to renewables and low-carbon power. Graph credit: BP 2023 Energy Outlook. lower than in its previous calculations, will peak in the 2020s and will in 2050 be around 30% below 2019 levels.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Shell faces lawsuit from climate change activists over fossil fuels Reuters | April 5, 2019 Environmentalist and human rights groups said on Friday they had started a lawsuit against Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands to force the energy firm to cut its reliance on fossil fuels.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Corporation Shell Plc (Royal Dutch Shell) Image Image Products Liquefied Natural Gas, Lubricants, Natural gas, Petrochemicals, Petroleum The Corrib gas project of Royal Dutch Shell - Photo Credit William Murphy Summary Royal Dutch Shell is a fossil fuel exploration company.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 23, 2024

Two years after Prime Minister Trudeau first promised to limit and reduce Canada’s oil and gas emissions, the federal government finally released a regulatory framework at COP 28, in December 2023. As proposed, the oil and gas industry must reduce its emissions by 35-38 per cent from 2019 levels by 2030.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 9, 2023

Researchers attribute 70 percent of the greening to CO2 fertilization from of fossil fuel emissions. Another nine percent is attributed to fertilizers derived from fossil fuels.) Indur Goklany, and published by the CO2 Coalition, indicates that up to 50 percent of Earth’s vegetated areas became greener between 1982-2011.

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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. Leaders expect funds to be disbursed starting in early 2023. Steel invests $150 million in a fuel production plant in Minnesota’s Iron Range. Lawrence River basin. Other News.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2023

below the baseline, a slight decrease from the 2021 reduction of 37.1% (accountable due to workers returning to the office), but still greater than the pre-pandemic 2019 reduction of 19.8%. Posted: June 7, 2023] PA Environment Digest million and reduced water consumption by 32.8% million square feet.

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Law Columbia

JULY 21, 2023

On July 21, 2023, the Sabin Center launched its latest report, Modelling Climate Litigation Risk for (Re)Insurers. Fossil fuel companies, sometimes invoking coverage under decades-old General Liability policies , have already asked insurers to defend and indemnify them against expensive emissions-related lawsuits.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 30, 2021

Back in 2019 during the renegotiation process, Environmental Defence along with the Canadian Environmental Law Association made recommendations on ways to improve the draft Agreement. . The Canada-Ontario Lake Erie Action Plan (COLEAP) was published in 2018 and only now are we seeing an interim timeline of 2023 given for a progress report.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 1, 2023

Gas is made mostly of methane – a climate-damaging fossil fuel that is over 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Between 2005–2019, heat pump use increased by just one per cent, from four to five per cent of Canadian homes. The science is clear that we need to stop building new fossil fuel projects.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 28, 2023

In addition, the US Energy Information Administration reported increasing electricity generation from renewable sources contributed to lower power prices so far in 2023. The result of uncertainties in the generation market have resulted in virtually zero, that is zero, investment in new thermal generation capacity in the state since 2019.” “The

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Most Recent Annual Revenue $282.616 billion (2019) Most Recent Annual Revenue Link Source Most Recent Net Income $4.025 billion (2019) Most Recent Net Income Link Source Stock Exchange Tickers LSE: BP, FWB: BPE, NSYE: BP Major Shareholders Click here for the latest list. They don’t produce any of the fuels at all.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Communities and ecosystems continue to suffer the consequences of human-caused climate change , primarily from the burning of fossil fuels across our economy. The case for phasing out of fossil fuels and making a just and equitable transition to clean energy has never been more clear. comes from burning fossil fuels.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Issued on: 02/10/2023 - 14:20Modified: 02/10/2023 - 14:19 Corporation TotalEnergies S.E. Founded in 1924 as the Compagnie Française des Pétroles (French Petroleum Company) with the support of the French government and banks, it was renamed Total in 1985.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Fossil Fuel Failures, Natural Gas Shortages, Wind & Solar Performed As Forecasts Projected] -- PennFuture Blog: Lessons From December Deep Freeze - Don’t Put All Our Energy Generation Eggs In One Basket - By Rob Altenburg -- PA Solar Center Webinar: Feb. Posted: February 5, 2023] PA Environment Digest 28 to Feb. 28 to Feb.

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