Enviromental Defense

MARCH 6, 2024

The City of Ottawa allows fossil fuel companies to advertise their products and messages on billboards and facilities throughout the city. Yesterday, I joined other delegates and presented to the city’s Finance and Corporate Services Committee to urge city councilors to ban advertising by fossil fuel companies.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Earlier this month at COP28 countries committed to transitioning off of fossil fuels and massively scaling up renewable energy instead. So you’re excused if, like me, you’re baffled by Minister Freeland’s first move in the wake of COP28: a giant new fossil fuel subsidy, via the new Canada Growth Fund.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

It is being presented as a key climate change solution. You can create hydrogen either using renewable energy or using fossil fuels. The vast majority of hydrogen being produced today comes from fossil fuels – with huge levels of polluting GHG emissions – and is used in petroleum refining and fertilizer production.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

This wasn’t the first of these summits – but it was the first one that focused on the concrete actions governments are taking to phase out fossil fuels. We heard world leader after world leader say what has been only an elephant in the room until now – that we must phase out fossil fuels. It’s not complicated.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 22, 2023

The onslaught has led to another round of media headlines and press releases from environmental and public health groups asking whether the nation is at a tipping point of urgency to fight climate change. A Vox headline on the orange skies from Canadian wildfires said, “Wildfire smoke reminded people about climate change.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 25, 2023

The lobby bot data from February 2023 is in – and it was a busy month for fossil fuel lobbyists determined to weaken climate change policy. We know that departments have set up standing meetings with many of the fossil fuel lobbyists – those don’t show up in the registry. Most don’t.)

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

A Montana state district court has issued its long-awaited decision in a major climate change case brought by Montana children against state officials. Judge Seeley did so after presiding over a two-week, non-jury trial in June 2023–the first such climate change trial in U.S. In Held v. legal history.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 4, 2024

In part one of this series we introduced you to the huge role that the Canadian financial sector plays in exacerbating the climate crisis. Climate change could have some very significant negative impacts on the Canadian economy, and therefore your money. In this blog, we’ll discuss how climate change poses a risk to finance.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Earlier this month the Government of Canada delivered on a key climate promise and released new rules which end public funding for fossil fuels abroad, starting January 1, 2023. If all signatories follow through on their pledge with integrity, it will directly shift $38 billion a year from fossil fuels to clean energy. .

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 19, 2024

At COP28, countries agreed to transition away from fossil fuels and accelerate action within the decade to achieve our global climate goals. This welcome progress on climate change is an important signal for Canada to take note of; the world is transitioning away from one of our main exports.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2023

In a few days, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will release its latest synthesis report that provides a comprehensive assessment of the current state of scientific knowledge on climate change, including its causes, impacts, and potential solutions.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

We just got the last of the federal lobby registry reports for 2023, and one thing is clear: Big Oil had an astounding presence on Parliament Hill throughout all of last year. Our Lobby Bot recorded 98 meetings in November and 58 meetings in December between the federal government and fossil fuel lobbyists.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Last year, I made three predictions for what would happen in climate litigation in 2023. Two of my predictions hit the mark, while the other one revealed the complexity of the legal battles waged against climate injustice. 2023 in Review US cases heard on merits: A mixed bag.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 11, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen It was long expected that 2023 was going to be the warmest year ever recorded since records began. Every month since June 2023 has on a global level been the warmest compared with corresponding months in previous years. The data demonstrated that on average 2023 was a whole 1.48

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The fossil fuel industry has lobbied the federal government over 1017 times so far this year! In October, the 30 oil and gas companies and industry associations we monitor set a new 2023 record with over 154 monthly lobby meetings , surpassing their previous high. That’s over seven meetings per working day !

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 22, 2023

Both extreme heat and wildfires are directly linked to climate change. For years, fossil fuel companies have socialized the costs of their pollution while privatizing the benefits. Perhaps less obvious is the importance of state and local governments in holding the fossil fuel industry accountable.

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In 2023, the U.S. In the background , the question always looms, “Are these extreme weather events caused by climate change ? ”. Julia Aylen wades through waist deep water carrying her pet dog as she is rescued from her flooded home during Hurricane Dorian in Freeport, Bahamas, Tuesday, Sept.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Statement from Julia Levin, Associate Director, National Climate Dubai, UAE – Today at COP28 Canada joined eight other countries in signing a Joint Ministerial Statement on Fossil Fuel Subsidies , to address inaction on a 14 year old commitment to eliminate fossil fuel subsidies.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In 27 years of previous climate conferences, there was no central discussion of health and the impacts of climate change. To me, environmental law and climate policy are about people, protecting people, and advocating alongside those disproportionately affected by climate change. More than ever before.

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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. One super-emitting event, detected by satellites, was a well blowout in Kazakhstan that lasted more than 200 days.

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Corp Watch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Fossil fuel company wants to expand gas pipeline in Northeast Connecticut Public PaulaR Tue, 09/26/2023 - 17:34 Monday, September 25, 2023 Read more Miriam Wasser At a time when many states in the Northeast are actively trying to reduce their dependence on fossil fuels to help fight climate change, the company that owns a major natural gas pipeline (..)

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 13, 2023

March was a tight competition between fossil fuel pipeline, extraction, and oil and gas production companies for who could get the most face time with the federal government. That’s over 25 meetings a week in which government officials sat down with an industry trying to delay climate action and get more subsidies.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

This week, summer 2023 comes to a close on our calendars but will be remembered for its record-shattering extremes, notably, heat—until, that is, the next record-shattering summer supplants it, quite possibly in 2024. Climate change is only accelerating, and so the threat to vulnerable people is mounting.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 17, 2024

Above: Lahaina, Hawai’i after the devastating August 2023 wildfire that killed more than 100 people and destroyed 2,700 homes. Last year, I wrote that fossil fuel companies made billions of dollars in profit during 2022 as people around the world suffered billions of dollars in damage from climate and weather related disasters.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In 2023, the court issued two major decisions relating to climate change. The PUC rejected the project even though it would produce fewer emissions than fossil fuels. In upholding the PUC, the court said that the commission was “charged with protecting the right to a life-sustaining climate system.”

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A Greener Life

MARCH 24, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen The United Nations (UN) has released a dire warning about the scale of climate impacts reported in 2023. The world’s oceans reached the warmest temperatures in the 65 years data is available, with more than 90% of the seas having experienced heatwave conditions during 2023 harming food systems.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 1, 2024

Beyond this year’s measurements, it’s critical to consider what our snow levels mean for water management in a warming climate, and what needs to change so we can better prepare for the future. Last year, in April 2023, the manual survey recorded 10.5 feet of snow depth and a snow water equivalent of 4.5

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 8, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed standards on carbon pollution from fossil-fuel-fired power plants ( Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2023-0072-0001 ).

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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. With El Niño beginning, natural climate variability will push the already extreme temperatures occurring due to climate change even higher in the coming months.

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Corp Watch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The Board of Lockheed Martin Has Spoken: Climate Change May Proceed Jacobin PaulaR Mon, 09/18/2023 - 19:45 Thursday, April 20, 2023 Read more Danaka Katovich & David Gibson Lockheed Martin is the largest military contractor with the Department of Defense, the world’s largest institutional consumer of fossil fuels.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Fossil hydrogen: $300 million. Fossil (or “blue”) hydrogen helps oil and gas companies greenwash themselves, but it’s just another fossil fuel. Tackling the climate crisis will require significant investments into renewable energy, electrification and energy efficiency. What should the government do?

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 4, 2023

This means that, with few exceptions, new buildings will need to exclusively use electric appliances, and will not be allowed to contain any fossil-fuel infrastructure, like natural-gas lines. It’s made an excellent start, let’s hope that it keeps it up in 2023. All-electric as the new normal. Download as PDF.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 13, 2024

That means it includes the extreme wildfires exacerbated by the fossil fuel industry that burned more than 4% of California in 2021 and 2022. You can find this year’s SOTA report, released last month, on the American Lung Association ’s website, and you can compare it with 2023 ’s report, 2022 ’s, and all of the reports.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

However, as we replace fossil fuels with clean electricity for heating and transportation to meet our climate goals, these peak demands will increasingly shift to the winter in many parts of the country. And this problem will only get worse as the impacts of climate change become more frequent and severe.

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 18, 2023

A first ever trial on constitutional protections from climate change is underway in Montana. 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. Supreme decisions?), Will it be effective?

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

“In September 2015, journalists at Inside Climate News reported that, as far back as the 1970s, Exxon had had sophisticated knowledge of the causes and consequences of climate change and of the role its products played in contributing to climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 26, 2023

It’s proxy season, that time of year when investors have a chance to influence corporate policies and make direct asks to corporate decisionmakers, and in 2023 an unwelcome guest is making its presence felt in the boardroom. However, fossil fuel companies are frequent donors to these networks.

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