Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 17, 2023

Right in the middle of Danger Season , we are going through a period of unprecedented global extreme temperatures driven by fossil-fueled climate change. It is very likely that 2023 will be among the hottest years ever, if not the hottest year ever recorded. Unprecedented changes This June was the hottest June on record.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 1, 2024

Three comparative maps of snow water equivalent (SWE) across California on April 1 in 2015, 2023, and 2024, based on data from the National Snow Analysis by the Office of Water Prediction. Last year, in April 2023, the manual survey recorded 10.5 However, in dry years, they rely more on the use of fossil fuels and nuclear energy.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 14, 2024

New record In December 2023 crude oil production in the country hit a new monthly record high of over 13.3 During the UN annual climate talks COP28 countries last year agreed that fossil fuels should be phased down, with the writing on the wall making it clearer than ever before that the fossil fuel industry is on borrowed time.

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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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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

State of Montana, a Montana trial court ruled that the state Constitution’s guarantee of a healthy and clean environment prevails over Montana’s longstanding fossil-fuel-based state energy system. The court’s 103-page decision in Held v. legal history. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

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E2 Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

CDV-2020-307 (Mont. The case has received some serious attention in the weeks since because Judge Kathey Seely found that the plaintiffs—16 young residents of Montana—had suffered and would suffer injury on account of climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions in Montana and combustion of fossil fuels extracted from Montana.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

We can look first at the scope of coverage: Last year, mentions of “climate change” and “global warming” in global media were up 38% over 2020, making it the year with the second-highest climate coverage overall. The state’s complaint borrows the same frame, as “the road not taken.”

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 11, 2023

While 2023 was by no means the blockbuster year 2022 was, in many respects it came out better for climate progress than some expected. Although the Governor proposed slashing $6 billion from the climate package, in the end, the cuts totaled less than half that. Newsom vetoed an end-of-session gut-and-amend by Sen.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 6, 2024

Despite having made commitments to reduce the emissions from their investments and reach net-zero by 2050, Canada’s banks have instead increased their funding in risky oil and gas assets every year since 2020. The banks are also lobbying against climate-related policies. To learn more about NZBA commitments see here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The bankruptcies were set in motion even before 2020. 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. Don’t believe the industry spin.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 22, 2021

Their new commitments include a pledge to reach net zero emissions by 2050 and a target to reduce its financing support to the six most carbon intensive sectors – including oil and gas extraction – by 40% below 2018 levels by 2023. billion a year in oil and gas support from 2018-2020. billion a year to $13.5

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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). Avery, D.R.

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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. Egli, Florian.

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Law Columbia

JULY 27, 2023

Today, the United Nations Environment Programme (“UNEP”), with support from the Sabin Center, has published a survey of global climate change litigation that provides an overview of existing cases and a discussion of their key legal issues: Global Climate Litigation Report: 2023 Status Review (“Report”).

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A Greener Life

JULY 23, 2021

The 2020 Tokyo Olympics will be powered by hydrogen. 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. photo credit: Kim Kyung-Hoon / Alamy.

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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. Over the same period, ComEd grid investments went from $1.3

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 9, 2024

The incident, which occurred on April 29, 2020, damaged both customer and utility-owned equipment. M-2023-3024990. The settlement, approved by the Commissioners by a vote of 5-0, includes a $250,000 civil penalty and addresses shortcomings identified by the PUC's independent Bureau of Investigation & Enforcement.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen When Bernard Looney took over the helm of oil and gas giant BP (British Petroleum) in 2020 it was with the objective to, once and for all, change its image to one without hydrocarbons. After the u-turn by Looney, it is now estimated that this cut would instead be just 25%. degrees C.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 10, 2024

While it is too early to say how much of this freak weather event is due to climate change, scientists are saying there’s no doubt that the increase and severity of extreme weather events around the world is due to the burning of fossil fuels. In 2023 Ukraine harvested more than 22 million tons of wheat. Source: Carboncloud.com.

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Law and Environment

MARCH 14, 2023

The states’ approach aligns thematically with their 2020 Vision for a Clean, Affordable, and Reliable 21 st Century Regional Electric Grid which, in part, recognizes the need to integrate significant levels of new offshore wind resources at the lowest cost possible in order to achieve a decarbonized system in New England.

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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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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

on August 28, 2023 , DEP received an emergency notification of an uncontrolled venting of natural gas from shale gas well 9H at the Repsol Oil and Gas USA LLC Cummings Lumber well pad in Troy Township, Bradford County. Truck Rollover Spills 4,600 Gallons Of Wastewater On August 30, 2023 , DEP received an emergency notification at 7:33 a.m.

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Frontiers

AUGUST 7, 2023

While the main focus has been on operational activities in Antarctica, global warming caused by fossil-fuel burning by these (and other) countries has left Antarctica on the brink of irreversible change. July 2023 is measured as the hottest month ever recorded, preceded by the hottest June on record.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

For almost a decade, these disincentives effectively kept crop-based diesel fuels out of the California market. However, for reasons explained below, this incentive-based safeguard has become ineffective, and since 2020 California’s bio-based diesel has increasingly been made from soybean oil, some of it sourced directly from South America.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2023

Click Here for latest PA Environmental News Like PA Environment Digest on Facebook Follow PA Environment Digest on Twitter Read Weekly PA Environment Digest [Posted: April 17, 2023] PA Environment Digest Million Pounds Of Industrial Air Pollutants Discharged In Pittsburgh Area In 2021 Came From U.S.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Shell campaign IndustriALL Global Union | May 22, 2020 IndustriALL is calling on Shell to engage with unions on a global level in a campaign to limit precarious work, improve health and safety, and ensure that Shell applies the same high-level standards at its operations everywhere, including suppliers.

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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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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

2022 Natural Gas House Explosion In Dauphin County [PaEN] -- Guest Essay: My Hometown Shows The Benefits Of The Fossil Fuel Industry Come At A Tremendous Cost - Gov. 2022 Natural Gas House Explosion In Dauphin County [PaEN] -- Guest Essay: My Hometown Shows The Benefits Of The Fossil Fuel Industry Come At A Tremendous Cost - Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

DEP requested the operator to submit a written report by November 21, 2023 on how the wells will be brought into compliance. [ DEP inspection report - Coventry 11] On November 6, 2023 , DEP did an inspection of the Aloysiuss J. The original notices of violation for venting gas and well abandonment were issued on July 5, 2023.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2023

Growing by over 30 percent-- to 92,773 jobs since the height of the COVID-19 economic crisis in 2020–clean energy jobs in Pennsylvania have proved their resilience. Nessmuk Shale Gas Drill Pad In Tioga State Forest [Posted: March 13, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 18, 2023

In this instance, 16 young people from across Montana, who were between 2 and 18 years old when the case was filed in 2020, brought their constitutional climate lawsuit, Held v. State of Montana , against their state government. New York, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania have similar constitutional protections for environmental human rights.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 12, 2022

Leaders expect funds to be disbursed starting in early 2023. In 2020 for the Great Lakes News Collaborative, Great Lakes Now investigated how large-scale dairy and animal operations threaten the waters. Steel invests $150 million in a fuel production plant in Minnesota’s Iron Range. Looking Ahead. SHIPPING: The U.S. Other News.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Recent & Ongoing Campaigns Greenpeace stage ‘socially distanced protest’ at BP AGM Allister Thomas | Energy Voice | May 27, 2020 Greenpeace is staging a “socially distanced protest” outside BP’s London headquarters as the energy giant is due to begin its annual general meeting. They don’t produce any of the fuels at all.

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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.” The IBA issued a “Climate Crisis Statement” in 2020 that builds on the ABA resolution. In the U.S.,

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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. Total operates the world’s largest* polystyrene factory in Carville, Louisiana, which released 28,114 lbs of toxic chemicals in 2020 including 21,776 lbs of styrene and 5,507 lbs of ethylbenzene, less than a mile away from the town of St.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Issued on: 17/11/2023 - 12:13 Corporation TotalEnergies S.E. Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 16, 2023

There have been high-profile rotating power outages caused by a heatwave in California (August 2020), a winter storm in Texas (February 2021), and another winter storm in Tennessee and North Carolina (December 2022). For reference, as of the end of March 2023, utility-scale battery storage capacity across the entire US totaled only 10.8

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