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.” The admission says a lot about political will.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Despite being in the same political party that created it, the UK’s new prime minister, Liz Truss, is in the process of completely changing the country’s energy policy. Gone are the net-zero promises and focus on a rapid clean energy transition, and in its place is a new narrative that more fossil fuels will solve the country’s energy crisis.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

Through the Clean Air Act , and as affirmed—and reaffirmed—through multiple legal sagas, EPA is statutorily obligated to address carbon pollution from fossil fuel-fired power plants. One critical tool for forcing that reckoning comes from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). EPA decision, but it did not ground EPA.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

During the shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources, it is crucial not only to prevent certain groups from being excluded, but also to guarantee that disadvantaged communities can step into positions of leadership and ownership, and that past injustices are remedied.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 27, 2024

From the 2019 general election to the start of the 2024 election campaign, the Tories had accepted at least £8.4 million from fossil fuel interests, climate science deniers, and highly polluting industries. Locke has donated an additional £280,000 to the Conservatives since the 2019 general election. million since 2001.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 24, 2024

He even ran for president in 2019 to push climate up the agenda, because any you can do that in America if you have a spare billion or two. There’s also a clear enemy in Steyer’s mind, and the role of the fossil fuel industry in delaying and obstructing change is a recurring theme throughout the book.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 19, 2024

Since then, the Conservative government has made a series of U-turns on its own net zero policies, attacked Labour’s green spending plans, and doubled down on its support for new fossil fuel projects, approving more than 100 new North Sea oil and gas licences. This comes as DeSmog and Democracy for Sale reveal that £6.8 percent (£1.8

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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. Social unrest related to fossil fuels is not a new phenomenon in Kazakhstan. An oil pump in a dust storm on the road to Aktau, Kazakhstan. By Kate Watters.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 19, 2023

The magnitude of the climate threat, made clear by climate science, has cracked through a longstanding scientific culture that holds that science should exist outside of the political realm. Ricardo Salvador, UCS Food and Environment Program Director, arrested with Jane Fonda protesting climate change on Nov. But what of scientists?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2024

These corporations and politicians don’t want to see a transformational transportation system we need, one that prioritizes people before highways, health before harm, access before asphalt, climate before corporations, freedom over fossil fuels. How did we get here? Why aren’t there more ways to get around my community?

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Legal Planet

JULY 21, 2023

But to security experts, and students of political science, geoengineering appears as a hybrid, dual-use security technology. Its deployment might involve climate-related goals, but that could merely mean masking impacts enough to justify continued exploitation of fossil fuels for geopolitical reasons.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Scott Perry Told To Hand Over Hundreds Of Texts, Emails In 2020 Election Probe -- Politics PA: Is PA On Pace To Lose Another Congressional Seat In 2030? Gas Explosions -- WPXI: Major Natural Gas Leak At Ross Twp.,

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 31, 2021

The plaintiffs – 16 young people – alleged that they were harmed by the state’s energy and environmental policies that encouraged the use of fossil fuels, thereby increasing greenhouse gas emissions and worsening climate change. The court found that this would violate the political question doctrine.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 31, 2023

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 24, 2021

We organized and led a major scenario exercise on unauthorized deployment of solar geoengineering, at the 2019 International Summer School on Geoengineering Governance held in Banff, Alberta, Canada. Summer School Participants.

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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.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 24, 2025

Were spotlighting Micheal Binnion, the Mastermind of Petro Populism, who has worked for decades to embed support for fossil fuels in the highest levels of the Canadian government. This series of satirical CVs for climate villains has helped reveal the names and faces of the corporate elite championing the fossil fuel industry.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

We have examined the effect of the geographical distribution of measurements in a study that was cited by New Scientist in 2019 , and we found that the uneven distribution of thermometer measurements can give a misleading impression that the perceived warming rate has been slower than the actual global warming.

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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. All of the alternatives are available now and are cheaper than fossil gas.

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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

JULY 27, 2023

Imperial Oil Ltd: 2019-Present Exxon Mobil Corp: 1983-2009 & 2014-2019 Esso Petroleum Co Ltd: 2009-2014 Villain Career Profile Corson has spent his entire career extracting and marketing oil and gas, working mostly for Imperial Oil and its parent company ExxonMobil. Leaks and Spills 2022 / 2023 (ongoing) — Kearl Lake, AB 5.3

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 17, 2022

In 2019, we called on Governor Wolf to halt fracking activities and take the time to study the impacts of shale gas development on young people after the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette published an investigative series on a spike in rare cancers in four rural counties. This is a moral outrage. Click Here for a copy of the study.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

Japan’s dependency on fossil fuel s had been slightly declining until 2010. But the country changed course as a result of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, which led to the forced shutdown of nuclear power plants and greater reliance on fossil fuels. As a result, Japan’s CO 2 emissions increased, peaking in 2013.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2022

Note: Senate and House Republicans have opposed carbon pollution reduction from power plants since it was first proposed in 2019. Tom Wolf’s job-killing, punitive crusade against the profitable production and exportation of natural gas and other homegrown fossil fuels.” Read more here.]

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Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Introduction On 11 December 2019, the new European Commission presided by Ursula Von der Leyen presented the European Green Deal. By Dr. Romain Mauger 1. The aim for the EU is to become climate-neutral by 2050 and this will require massive investments. refineries) or on highly carbon-intensive industries (such as cement plants or smelters).

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A Greener Life

MARCH 25, 2022

The devastating war in Ukraine has understandably distracted media and political attention from climate change and related issues. This has given a much-needed boost to the drive to wean the world off fossil fuels and transition to renewable energy. billion tonnes a year.

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

Sounding Green” has not only become politically correct, but also a possible finance-generating mechanism. Climate is a global issue and when complex political systems around the world are brought together, solutions cannot be straightforward. ” Journal of banking & finance 98 (2019): 39-60. Zerbib, Olivier David.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Candidate in the Department of Political Science at Colorado State University What do a crack on Glen Canyon Dam and a Van Gogh painting covered in tomato soup have in common? Extinction Rebellion pours fake blood on the steps of the Trocadero in Paris in 2019. They are both acts of pessimistic hope.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 18, 2023

Even my hometown Blair County Republican Representative Jim Gregory said, “What they’re trying to do, in my opinion, is use victims as pawns in a political game, and I’m not going to play that.” Of these impacts, fossil fuels are the most serious threat to children’s health worldwide. It’s simply the right and moral thing to do.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Bishops Have Been All But Silent PA Politics -- TribLive - Deb Erdley: Group Again Lobbies Lawmakers For ‘People’s Maps’ Over Traditional PA Politics -- PG: New Pittsburgh Mayor’s Victory Opens 2 State House Seats In City Districts -- PA Cap-Star: Race For Philly House Seat Is Getting Crowded -- ScrantonT: Cong. 15, 16, 17, Dec.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Million Settlement, Largest Of Its Kind, Over 2019 Philadelphia Refinery Explosion [Includes Copy Of Proposed Settlement] -- WHYY - Sophia Schmidt: EPA Reaches Historic $4.2 Million Settlement Over 2019 South Philly Refinery Explosion, Fire -- AP: EPA Reaches $4.2

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2023

7 [PaEN] -- PA-Based Evangelical Environmental Network: Over 51,000 Christians Call For Stronger Standards On Fossil Fuel Power Plants [PaEN] -- PA League Of Women Voters, Food & Water Watch Launch Letter-Writing Campaign Opposing Hydrogen Hubs In PA [PaEN] [Posted: August 10, 2023] PA Environment Digest Of Health Awards $2.5

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2025

Shapiro: What Labor, Industry, Environmental, Consumer Leaders Are Saying About The Lightning Energy Plan To Secure Pennsylvanias Energy Future -- Susquehanna River Basin Commission: Low Stream Flows Triggering Restrictions On 19 Shale Gas Water Withdrawals, 17 More Approaching Restrictions [PaEN] -- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Releases Natural (..)

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Edouard Stenger

JULY 11, 2023

Last month smashed through the previous temperature record for the month of June – which was in 2019 – by a substantial margin, Copernicus said. Countries have declared climate emergency for seven years now but keep on heavily subsidizing fossil fuels use. What lacks is the political leadership and courage.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2022

The arguments used for and against the resolution were the same familiar and often repeated comments on the economic and environmental impacts heard on the regulation since the concept was first suggested in 2019 by Gov. Read more here.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Website Summary Repsol is a fossil fuel exploration company that evolved from a Spanish state venture that was set up in the 1920s. Major Shareholders Click here for the latest list Political Influence OpenSecrets.org Profile of Repsol Image Similar Companies Related Gulliver Profiles Royal Dutch Shell BP Total S.A.

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

Few people realize that Germany has actually increased its fossil fuel combustion capacity over the 20 years of its landmark renewable energy program from 2001 to the present. We can see the same impact of variable energies in Germany. Part of the problem in Texas was that wind and solar farms set the price for the rest of the system.

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