Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

CCS does nothing about methane leakage or the emissions that result from burning fossil fuels; therefore ignoring 90 per cent of the problem. Carbon capture prolongs our dependence on oil and gas at a time when preventing catastrophic climate change requires winding down fossil fuel production and use.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Let’s look at three tools that are being sold as climate saviours, when their real objective is to prolong the life of the polluting fossil fuels which are driving climate change: carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS), hydrogen and offsets. But the truth is carbon capture is a false solution to the climate crisis.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The 2020 Maine Fishermen’s Forum was the last conference I and many others attended before the pandemic shutdown. GOM communities, not fossil fuel interests, should determine policies that affect GOM people. It was the first weekend in March, and I recall people even then were unsure of offering a handshake or a fist bump.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 1, 2023

We know that fossil fuels are causing the climate crisis. And we know that to avoid more climate destruction, the world must stop digging up and burning fossil fuels. Wind and solar power, paired with energy storage and energy savings, can almost entirely replace fossil fuels – and leave our communities better off.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The pledge is a voluntary agreement to reduce global methane emissions by 30 percent below 2020 levels by 2030. It is 80 times stronger than carbon dioxide (CO2) at trapping heat on short timescales. Methane emissions come from two main sources : fossil fuels and agriculture—primarily animal-based agriculture.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

In New England, the percent of people of color living near fossil fuel power plants is up to 23.5 Even as some parts of the country transition away from fossil fuel infrastructure, the retirement of gas plants has become another driver of inequity.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 4, 2024

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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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The bankruptcies were set in motion even before 2020. A 2020 study found that Native American households’ median energy burden was 45 percent higher than non-Hispanic White households, while Black households’ median energy burden was 43 percent higher and Hispanic households’ burden was 20 percent higher.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

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.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

, but it inevitably brings forth a mish-mash of half-remembered, inappropriate or out-of-date comparisons between the impacts of carbon dioxide and methane. In 2020, CO 2 was at ~410 parts per million, while CH 4 was around 1870 parts per <it>billion</it> (or 1.87 Historical comparisons. Stocks and flows.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2022

Fossil fuels are the root cause of climate change, of long-standing environmental injustices, and are also frequently connected to geopolitical strife and violent conflicts. Other countries are dependent upon these fossil fuels, they don’t make themselves free of them. This is a fossil fuel war.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

Now the same district court has gone further, again in favor of environmental groups but now against Royal Dutch Shell (“Shell”) , the world’s largest non-state-owned fossil fuel company. gigatons CO 2 equivalent in 2020, about that of Japan. That final “Scope 3” source is by far the greatest: 1.4

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Last week world leaders gathered in New York for the UN Climate Ambition Summit where countries shared concrete action they’ve taken to phase out fossil fuels. There, the conversation was grounded in science, with leaders such as California’s Governor Newsom saying “The climate crisis is a fossil fuel crisis.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

While the epicenter of the war and its horrors has remained trained on and in Ukraine, Russia has also leveraged its position as a major fossil fuel exporter to fund its war efforts and to manipulate and threaten others, including countries across Europe that have long relied on Russian supplies of gas.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 26, 2022

While there is enormous potential for UN climate negotiations to transform climate action, meaningful progress has been delayed in part by the fossil fuel industry’s deceptive tactics. Last year’s COP was notable as the first to explicitly mention “fossil fuels” in the final decision document.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

There is still much we can do to bend that emissions curve sharply within this decade—but only if world leaders, especially leaders of richer countries and major emitting nations, take responsibility to act together quickly and fossil fuel companies are held accountable for their decades of obstruction and deception.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 30, 2021

In this blog, we’ll take a look at the technologies that are being sold as climate saviours when their real objective is to prolong the life of the polluting fossil fuels which are driving climate change: carbon capture, offsets and ‘blue’ hydrogen. Carbon capture and release: a license to pollute .

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Greenbuilding Law

MAY 1, 2022

EPA tells us succinctly, Carbon dioxide is the primary greenhouse gas emitted through human activities. In 2020, carbon dioxide accounted for about 79% of all U.S. In 2020, methane accounted for about 11% of all U.S. In 2020, nitrous oxide accounted for about 7% of all U.S. emission trends.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

One strategy is to counterbalance carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions that contribute to climate change by drawing an equal amount of carbon out of the atmosphere, such as through planting trees. By Department of Conservation & Natural Resources Efforts to slow or stop global warming involve many strategies working together.

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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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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

of the world’s total carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion, many airlines are considering carbon-capture-and-storage technologies and electric-powered planes. In April, Air Canada committed to investing $50 million in SAFs and other carbon-reducing technologies.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Gavin Newsom’s 2020 executive order , which set a goal for the state’s heavy-duty vehicles to transition to zero-emissions vehicles by 2045, although the rule alone will not meet this goal. This is roughly the equivalent of taking 66 million fossil-fueled cars off the road for an entire year.

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Clean Energy Law

MAY 16, 2022

Originally, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated every five years, that describes the approach California will take to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

And it’s been one month since the Montana First District Court determined that the state of Montana had indeed violated Montana youth’s right to a “clean and healthful environment” by collaborating with the fossil fuel industry. But the historic decision is still reverberating around the country, and I am still reflecting on it.

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Real Climate

JULY 10, 2022

The sources of these increases are dominated by the burning of fossil fuels, landfills, mining, oil and gas operations, agriculture (especially livestock for methane), and industry. Constrained pdfs for ECS from Sherwood et al (2020). All of these increases contribute to an enhanced greenhouse effect. ºC/(W/m 2 ). Etminan, G.

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Physics World

JANUARY 19, 2022

In fact, the market is expected to grow from $886m in 2020 to $2.5bn in 2027, according to the firm Marketwatch. By 2020, SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy vehicle had broken the $1/ kg barrier. Indeed, the global satellite internet market, which was worth $2.93bn in 2020, is projected to rise to $18.59bn by 2030.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

However, methane reduction efforts have not received the same financial support as CO 2 actions; in 2019 and 2020, only 2% of climate finance was devoted to methane mitigation. Oil and Gas Decarbonization Charter Fossil fuels are the main reason for CO2 emissions and, therefore, the main driver of climate change.

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 7, 2022

Direct emissions are produced from residential and commercial activities in a variety of ways: Combustion of natural gas and petroleum products for heating including water heating and cooking needs emits carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O). Coal consumption is today a minor component of direct energy use.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The implication of these two strategies is a drastic reduction in the use of liquid fuels. We can achieve a 60% reduction in 2040, and by 85% in 2050, relative to 2020 levels. A declining share of the fleet will still be powered by gasoline and diesel through 2040 and beyond, as vehicles stay on the road for around 15 years.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 24, 2021

Its State Council introduced a plan for responding to climate change in 2007 and in 2020, President Xi announced that China will be carbon neutral by 2060. In 2020, the country commissioned another 38.4 and protecting the planet’s diversity, the expansion of the fossil fuel industry must cease. A further 246.8

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2022

increase in carbon dioxide pollution from the Commonwealth’s power plants between 2020 and 2021. Meanwhile, as the coal industry itself continues its precipitous decline, Pennsylvania’s three biggest emitters in 2020-2021 were conventional coal-fired facilities. Environmental Protection Agency show a startling 9.6%

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Based on 2020 data the average across Pennsylvania was 0.08%, so Pennsylvania is already in this space. Still I remain concerned that in greening the fossil fuel industry, we are missing out on opportunities to invest in renewables. And the standard that people are gathering around is that a methane intensity of 0.2%

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 16, 2023

Since that 2014 study, which laid the foundation of what is called climate source attribution science , UCS scientists have collaborated with Heede on two other studies that pinpointed the major carbon producers’ culpability for specific climate change-related trends. percent of total emissions. Licker et al.

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Global Green

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The thought-provoking film also highlights the renewables’ dependence on fossil fuels. Following Moore’s movie broadcasting, various climate experts signed a letter where they claim scientific and technological advancements made renewable energy alternatives more viable and cheaper to run than fossil fuels.

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Burning coal in these two regions account for a little under two gigatonnes of carbon dioxide emissions per year, with 1.29 Burning coal emits twice as much carbon dioxide as natural gas and up to 50 times more than solar and wind in their entire lifecycles (manufacturing and recycling included). A moral imperative.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

As part of its ongoing investigation of fossil fuel industry climate disinformation, the US House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Reform released more than 200 pages of internal corporate documents last month that provide new evidence of industry deception. Companies Plot “Greenwashing” Campaigns.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

A recent National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) study shows that it would take less than 1 percent of the land in the Lower 48—that’s an area comparable to or even smaller than the fossil fuel industry’s current footprint.

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