Legal Planet

MARCH 3, 2025

In this case, the bills would allow states to secure funds from fossil fuel companies for the costs of adaptation, mitigation, and cleanup of damages caused by their emissions. This legislation would require the largest fossil fuel companies to pay into a $1 trillion Polluters Pay Climate Fund.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 17, 2024

According to his research, homeowners in the US saw their annual insurance premiums increase by an average of 33% or $500 between 2020 and 2023. According to their report: In 2023, insurers covered $80billion of the $114billion of losses attributable to natural disasters, meaning that 30percent of those losses were not insured.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The fossil fuel lobby meets with public servants and elected officials more than 3.5 The fossil fuel lobbyists had 149 meetings: 63 meetings in July, 43 meetings in August, and another 43 in September. It’s no wonder that climate policies in Canada are moving forward at a snail’s pace. times per working day!

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 14, 2023

If 2022 was the year that corporate climate-related financial disclosure jumped out of the boardroom into the headlines, then 2023 may be the year when the global tide quietly turned in its favor. To a Less-Risky New Year Though the US government failed to lead the pack on risk disclosure in 2023, it’s not too late for it to catch up.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 22, 2023

For years, fossil fuel companies have socialized the costs of their pollution while privatizing the benefits. Since local and state governments are on the frontlines of paying for worsening wildfires, they should also be on the leading edge of holding fossil fuel companies accountable. Source: Statista 2023.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 14, 2025

Released earlier this year, the data reflects actual powerplant emissions for 2023. Even where the grid still has significant fossil fuel-powered generation, EVs are a cleaner choice. These results are based on the most recent electricity emissions data available from the US EPA.

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New Scientist

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Despite urgent calls to slash fossil fuel use to meet climate targets, the Global Carbon Budget report shows that 2023 emissions will be about 1.1 per cent higher than last year

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2023

Previous IPCC reports have concluded that human activities such as burning fossil fuels are the primary cause of climate change: about 70 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions come from burning fossil fuels for electricity, transportation, and industry. The result is a world that is rapidly warming.

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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

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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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

In 2023 at COP28 , countries agreed to “transition away from fossil fuels” and scale up renewable energy and energy efficiency. It took place in Baku, Azerbaijan, from November 11 to 22, in a context of mounting climate-disasters and a fossil fuel driven affordability crisis.

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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 8, 2025

The fossil fuel industry has known that its products are fueling the climate crisis for decades. Since their launch in 2012, the organisation has dedicated itself to encouraging Canadians to pledge support for the fossil fuel industry. billion pounds across 205 active sponsorship deals.

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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. 2023 in Review US cases heard on merits: A mixed bag. In an unforeseen turn of events, a pivotal climate litigation case unfolded in Montana , where 16 young environmental advocates challenged the state’s fossil fuel policies.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 5, 2023

California takes a world-leading stance on corporate accountability Just before Governor Newsom and Attorney General Bonta announced California’s historic lawsuit against major fossil fuel producers in September, the California legislature passed two bills that will further help the state hold large corporations accountable.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 12, 2024

Questioning fossil fuel companies is part of our mission, but each year the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) gets a chance to aim some choice words directly at corporate leaders during their annual shareholders’ meetings. million in 2023 and $1.2 million last year to pump out disinformation about California’s energy policies.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

That includes 25 sponsorship deals with Big Oil companies as well as 36 deals with lesser-known utility companies that generate electricity predominantly from fossil fuel-burning power plants and sell fossil gas directly to consumers. He didn’t single out sports teams, but he could have. billion industry.

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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. Things have never been clearer: Canada needs to catch up in the shift away from fossil fuels, or it risks being left behind.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 13, 2024

Paul Arbaje is an energy analyst in the Climate & Energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists and an expert on electricity policies and reforms that reduce fossil fuel use and reliance. The energy enthusiast who owns their own homes can take further steps toward making their homes completely free of direct fossil fuel use.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2023

ExxonMobil’s early submission, though probably timed to get a head start on defusing climate-related shareholder resolutions, does give us a helpful roadmap of the climate accountability landscape in 2023. For 2023, that figure constitutes a measly 13% of the company’s projected capital expenditures. billion per year.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Recent research shows that 97% of tailings spills between 2014-2023 went uninspected, despite AER claims of routine inspections. The regulator can only be effective if it is independent from the industries it oversees. The AER has consistently failed to fulfill its mandate to ensure safe, environmentally responsible energy development.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 9, 2024

This move represents massive backtracking on Canada’s efforts to move beyond thermal coal the dirtiest fossil fuel. Canada prides itself on having launched the global Powering Past Coal initiative, introduced rules to stop burning thermal coal and committed to banning the export of thermal coal by 2023.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 26, 2025

Half of the worlds climate-heating carbon emissions come from the fossil fuels produced by just 36 companies, analysis has revealed. The researchers said the 2023 data strengthened the case for holding fossil fuel companies to account for their contribution to global heating.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2024

With fossil-fuel pollution trapping heat and driving up global average temperatures, those warmer months are warmer than ever. Any sense that climate change would unfold gradually was laid to rest in 2023 when so many significant climate records were shattered by previously unthinkable margins. What happened to summer?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 20, 2023

2023 ) 2) ExxonMobil produced quality science internally, but cast doubt on it publicly ExxonMobil was producing quality science. 3) ExxonMobil predicted the possibility of linking rising temperatures to fossil fuels ExxonMobil researchers accurately predicted when it would become possible to attribute changes in climate to human activity.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 20, 2025

Yet, reaching net zero also means phasing out polluting fossil fuel energy, so the government developed rules to impose a pollution limit on electricity producers. The regulations work by placing an annual limit on the pollution from electricity produced using fossil fuels. GW in 2023.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 30, 2024

Even where the grid still has significant fossil fuel-powered generation, EVs are a cleaner choice. In the grid region that serves most of Texas, driving the average EV produces emissions equal to an 82 MPG gasoline car, despite over 60% of electricity generation coming from fossil fuels.

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

What are the physical limitations of this fossil fuel resource that make it vulnerable during, say, summer droughts , or the types of extreme heat waves the world has been experiencing for months now? Gas plants were the main resource at risk of drought-related outages in ERCOT’s last drought risk report for August 2023.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

While companies post record profits, Canadians are paying more for essentials like groceries, insurance, and health care as a result of both the climate crisis as well as the affordability crisis driven in part by fossil fuel profits. In the framework released in December 2023, the regulation is called an emissions cap.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 24, 2023

Some of those, such as the public health and climate benefits, depend on the clean energy displacing the dirty stuff—avoiding increases in fossil fuel generation or, even better, displacing existing generation. Renewables up, coal down More renewable energy is desirable for a lot of reasons.

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Real Climate

APRIL 6, 2023

There is a recording of the IPCC Press Conference – Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report for those who are interested in watching an awkward release of the report. The term “fossil fuels”, however, is mentioned 16 times. Coal, on the other hand, is only mentioned once in connection with methane emissions.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The Substitution Effect: Could Reducing Fossil Fuel Sales Truly Have No Impact? The Court overturned a landmark ruling that had required Shell, whose energy sales in 2023 were 91% derived from major GHG sources, to reduce its carbon emissions by 45% by 2030. Nonetheless, the Court ruled that Milieudefensie et al.

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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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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2024

In October 2023, Sen. Yaw announced the introduction of legislation prohibiting the distribution of Act 13 impact fees to any county “that is actively suing over fossil fuel use.” In 2023, Cecil Township received $317,453.25 Read more here. Read more here. Although not yet introduced, Sen. Read more here.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Yet in 2023, China accounted for about 60% of the world’s new renewables and electric vehicles. Investment in infrastructure and manufacturing capacity grew by 6-7% in 2023. The amount of new solar capacity in 2023 was double 2022’s, and new wind capacity was up 66%. million exports in 2023. auto sector.”

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 23, 2025

The report also found that contrary to the AERs assertion that there has been no environmental impact from tailings spills between 2014 and 2023, 50 per cent of reported spills with images show visible environmental degradation. Background: The Imperial Oil tailings disaster allowed 5.3 No public updates have been issued since.

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