Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

In 2022 I visited Glacier National Park for the first time with two close friends. Some estimates suggest they could disappear by 2030 due to the climate change triggered by human fossil fuel use, which began less than 200 years ago. By contrast, the glaciers in Glacier National Park are retreating at a disturbingly rapid pace.

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Clean Energy Law

MARCH 11, 2021

In December 2018, after having successfully reduced greenhouse gas emissions from the power sector by 53.3%, a majority of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) jurisdictions announced plans to design a program to address carbon emissions from the combustion of transportation fuels.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 29, 2024

New California legislation will require corporations to disclose their carbon emissions. The Department of Energy estimates the cost of an electric vehicle lithium-ion battery pack declined 89% between 2008 and 2022. Cheaper renewable energy attracts private investment and makes limits on fossil fuels more feasible.

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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. The Supreme Court clipped the agency’s wings in its 2022 West Virginia v. EPA decision, but it did not ground EPA.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2022

As a result, when today’s fossil fuel end uses can be directly electrified via renewables instead, such as for heating in buildings , it is overwhelmingly a better decarbonization path. Background on the hydrogen hubs program.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

That requires bringing global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions to net zero by 2050. But a March 2022 analysis from the investor consortium Climate Action 100+ determined that no major oil company was on track to meet the Paris goals. DO: Pay your fair share of the costs of climate change. Chevron alone is facing a $9.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 18, 2024

The tax credit, passed as part of 2022’s Inflation Reduction Act, provides a generous incentive for the production of clean hydrogen. Today, hydrogen is overwhelmingly produced through a heavily polluting fossil fuel-based process. It is a climate problem, not a climate solution. Geographic deliverability. Time matching.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

They just released their 2022 “Annual Energy Outlook” (AEO), which is a big deal: it tells us where electricity is headed over the next 30 years. CO 2 emissions remain mostly level through 2050—nowhere close to meeting US climate goals. Carbon emissions remain high.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2023

The Pittsburgh 2030 District , a project of the Green Building Alliance , has released its 2022 Progress Report , revealing District property partners have reduced carbon emissions by 44.8% The District will continue to pursue zero carbon emissions by 2040. below baseline.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 21, 2025

Reduce the dependency on fossil fuels It urges governments, companies, and individuals to reduce fossil fuel dependency and scale up sustainable alternatives. Earth Day takes place on 22 April and marks its 55th anniversary in 2025.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Batteries can also be used to assist with peak electricity demand; currently instead of batteries, fossil fuel-powered “peaker plants” are often used to supply energy during high-demand periods. Despite being used infrequently, these plants are inefficient and highly polluting, and contribute to US carbon emissions.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 12, 2024

It highlights the most active fossil fuel companies and industry associations, as well as the Members of Parliament, ministries and ministers targeted for lobbying. Big Oil has a long history of denying climate change and promoting disinformation to greenwash the fossil fuel industry.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 8, 2023

EVs powered by today’s electricity grid produce significantly less carbon emissions than gasoline cars and can be powered by renewable energy. If those were all EVs with a similar efficiency, battery size, and chemistry to the 2022 Tesla Model 3, they would require 107,000 metric tons of lithium.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 2, 2025

Process Moves Forward The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in 2022 approved PJMs reforms that moved the interconnection process from a first-come, first-served system of managing new generation projects to a first-ready, first-served method with milestones and progress payments designed to weed out speculative projects.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

One important new commitment that Canada made is joining over 20 countries in agreeing to eliminate public financing for international fossil fuel development by 2022. No country should be subsidizing or financing the fossil fuel companies that are fueling the climate crisis. Finally F-words: fossil fuels.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

This is drawing bio-based diesel fuel out of other states and putting California and federal fuel policies into a vicious cycle that is contributing to ever more unsustainable and expensive fuel policies. Capping vegetable oil fuels and investing in alternatives to combustion The oil industry is in transition.

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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. On 2 January 2022, massive protests erupted throughout Kazakhstan , initially over the price of liquefied petroleum gas. Photo credit: Matjaz Corel / Alamy.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The solar projects, which will be developed by Pine Gate Renewables, are expected to achieve commercial operation between June 2022 and January 2024. This project is a significant step in further reducing our Scope 2 carbon emissions and achieving our overall sustainability goals. EPA estimates.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Second, none of the scenarios include estimates of Canada’s carbon emissions. Canada’s electricity sector is already 82% free of carbon emissions. Canada’s oil and gas sector is by definition 0% decarbonized – fossil fuels are hydro carbons. No assessment of carbon emissions.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 30, 2022

In 2022, environmental progress ran hot and very cold in Canada. It is even harder if these investments mean much less money is available to invest in the new fossil-free businesses that are ready to take off. Putting a cap on oil and gas carbon emissions. Conflict in Europe will accelerate a green transition.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Global carbon dioxide emissions from all human activities remain at record highs in 2022, and fossil fuel emissions have risen above pre-pandemic levels, according to a new analysis by an international body of scientists.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 5, 2022

Recent reports have highlighted that Canadian banks significantly invest in oil, gas, and coal despite the clear science that fossil fuels worsen climate change. Senator Galvez tabled this ambitious piece of legislation on March 24th, 2022. Redirecting the financial sector is key for Canada to succeed on climate action.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 28, 2022

This editorial first appeared in the Scranton Times and Citizens Voice on October 28, 2022-- Pennsylvania has failed to get a piece of the new domestic wave of high-tech, next-generation microchip production, as major producers have broken ground on nearly $100 billion worth of new plants in Arizona, Ohio and upstate New York.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 2, 2024

GHG emissions in 2022 were the lowest they have been in 25 years, with the exception of the pandemic years. Critically, Canada must quickly reduce its dependence on fossil fuels, given that producing and burning oil and gas accounts for over 80 per cent of Canada’s total emissions.

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E2 Law Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

16, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) released its updated 2 022 Scoping Plan to outline policies and actions California proposes to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels and to achieve carbon neutrality by 2045 or earlier.

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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 27, 2022

I was lucky to visit the Grain de Sail on May 18, 2022, midway through its stay in New York, coinciding with yet another virtual meeting of the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) sharpening discussions on shipping emissions. Sorry, but we failed to add you to the list. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2022

With zero tailpipe emissions, EVs present the potential to reduce air pollution and adverse health impacts and burdens on Pennsylvanians and their communities. -- Greenhouse gas reductions – climate change caused by greenhouse gas (including carbon) emissions is one of the most significant challenges we face today. Docket No. ??P-2022-3030743.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 7, 2023

To back up his argument, Al Gore unveiled data showing that the UAE’s greenhouse gas emissions rose by 7.5% in 2022 from the previous year, compared to a 1.5% Those data came from a coalition he co-founded called Climate TRACE, which uses artificial intelligence and satellite data to track carbon emissions of specific companies.

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Frontiers

APRIL 24, 2023

In March 2022, Jayati was appointed to the United Nations Secretary General’s High-level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism , mandated to provide a vision for international cooperation to deal with current and future challenges. However, people might say, ‘Wait a minute, in the 1850s, nobody knew about carbon.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 3, 2022

The announcement by FIFA , the world’s governing football body, that the 2022 World Cup held in Qatar will be the greenest ever should be taken with a pinch of salt experts have said. Still, the reality is that how green events are, very much depends on how emissions are calculated. . The Al Thumama Stadium. By Anders Lorenzen.

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Capaccio

OCTOBER 27, 2022

As you are planning your Thanksgiving feast this year, join us in giving thanks to our planet and making Thanksgiving 2022 a little more environmentally friendly. When you buy local, you are helping to lower carbon emissions by minimizing the distance that your food has to travel.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

But this announcement was seemingly at odds with another made just three days earlier, when coal minister Pralhad Joshi confirmed that India intends to increase production for the fossil fuel. From 2013 to 2014, Indian coal production was 565 million tonnes; from 2022 to 2023, that had increased by 58% to 893 million.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2022

Germany’s response to Putin is to end reliance on Russian fossil fuels by moving to 100% renewable energy by 2035. “PA Let’s get back to reducing our carbon emissions by joining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) and by reducing our energy dependence on foreign nations. This is partisan politics!

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The Inflation Reduction Act, President Joe Biden’s signature piece of legislation passed into law in 2022, allocated $19.5 2022); Open access at [link] As previous SOGES fellows have pointed out , rarely if ever do silver bullets exist in agriculture. Figure from Deines et al.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 31, 2022

million square feet, released its 2021 Progress Report detailing efforts by partners who have committed to a dramatic reduction in energy use and carbon emissions in their buildings by the year 2030. The District also announced a new focus on carbon emissions. Posted: August 31, 2022] PA Environment Digest

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A Greener Life

JULY 21, 2022

C), recorded there on July 12 2022, was only half a degree Celsius below the all-time record: 18.9°C, Also, on July 12, 2022, Sheffield’s night-time minimum temperature reached 20.5°C, We must cut carbon emissions – or future summers will be long, hot and sleepless. C, also set in July 2016.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

2022 Natural Gas House Explosion In Dauphin County [PaEN] -- WPXI: Mayor Of Economy Boro, Beaver County, Expresses Frustration At Ongoing Natural Gas Outage -- US DOE Awards $3.5

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