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A Year After the Shell Ruling: Big Victories and Next Steps for Climate Litigation

Union of Concerned Scientists

Today marks one year since the precedent-setting court ruling in the Netherlands, which ordered Shell to cut its activities’ carbon emissions by 45 percent compared to 2019 levels to align with the Paris climate agreement. The industry’s actions, the CHR report said, were driven “not by ignorance, but greed.”

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New Program Brings Together Residents, Businesses To Help Make Lancaster County Carbon Neutral

PA Environment Daily

After a decade of global warming trends, the world experienced the second warmest year on record in 2019. Yet, governments aren’t addressing the threat fast enough. Individuals, businesses, and municipalities can offset their carbon emissions by contributing to the CCF.

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Analysis: Is hydrogen the new oil?

A Greener Life

In 2019, Kawasaki Heavy Industries launched the Suiso Frontier, the world’s first ship designed to carry liquefied hydrogen. There is talk that a global “hydrogen economy” can emerge to save the climate from carbon emissions. They have government backing too, with heavy spending on recharging networks.

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Solar Panels Are More Carbon-Intensive Than Experts Admit

Environmental Progress

Information unearthed by Environmental Progress points to a gaping oversight in how the figures influencing government net zero policy and investments in solar worldwide are compiled and collated due to the difficulty of collecting accurate information out of China, especially for the purification processes used to create silicon wafers.

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From Research to Action: The Growing Impact of Attribution Science

Union of Concerned Scientists

They can also look at known carbon emission sources and model the world with and without those added emissions. One study found that human-caused climate change made the 2019 European heatwave as much as 100 times more likely to occur. Climate source attribution studies can inform strategies to reduce carbon emissions.

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Big Oil Investors Put to the Test at Annual Shareholder Meetings

Union of Concerned Scientists

My first in-person attendance at a shareholders’ meeting since 2019 promises some drama, with #DefundClimateChaos organizing a rally outside and conflicting climate resolutions before shareholders. Shell (Tuesday, May 24, at 10 a.m. I’ll be in London on Tuesday for Shell’s annual meeting. Shell is appealing the ruling.

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Disinformation Alert: Fossil Fuel Interests Preparing to Deploy False Claims about New EPA Rules

Union of Concerned Scientists

These new protections will include updates to power plant standards on carbon emissions , mercury pollution , and toxic coal ash pollution , just to name a few. But in reality the proposed emission targets were achieved 11 years early in 2019—without the plan ever even taking effect.