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Progress Possible at COP 28 Despite Fossil Fuel Industry Deception

Union of Concerned Scientists

Last week, I joined my colleagues at COP28 in Dubai , as negotiators and civil society push for a fossil fuel phaseout to meet climate goals. The industry is pushing a narrative that misleadingly calls out emissions , not fossil fuels as the problem. Global net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions 1990–2019.

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Guest Essay: PA Conventional Oil/Gas Operators Blog: More Carbon Dioxide Is Good, Less Is Bad

PA Environment Daily

People should be celebrating, not demonizing, modern increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). 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.) Read more here.]

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Methane emissions rose in 2023 despite reduction initiatives

A Greener Life

By Anders Lorenzen The emissions from methane , a powerful greenhouse gas (GHG) with 80 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide (CO2) rose in 2023 despite several pledges and initiatives to reduce emissions. Graph credit: IEA.

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The Willow Project Heads to Court: Sabin Center Files Amicus Brief in Support of Plaintiffs Challenging BLM’s Approval of the Project

Law Columbia

BLM projects that it will produce 576 million barrels of oil over its 30-year lifetime, resulting in indirect emissions totaling 239 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) equivalent. The project is controversial due to both its location and its climate impacts. C and approximately equal to the remaining budget for 2.0°C.

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Another Historic Climate Court Ruling in the Netherlands

Legal Planet

, 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. Environmental Protection Agency (2007) forced the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Everyone produces greenhouse gases.

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Why Energy Bills Will Be Even Higher This Winter

Union of Concerned Scientists

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. There’s a better way forward.

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Something Stinks: California Must End Manure Biomethane Accounting Gimmicks in its Low Carbon Fuel Standard

Union of Concerned Scientists

Each credit one metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalent pollution below the standard. I’ve written recently about why a Cap on Vegetable Oil-Based Fuels Will Stabilize and Strengthen California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard , which addresses the bio-based diesel credits. Source California Air Resources Board.