Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 9, 2024

An assessment would have given decision-makers and the public a chance to better understand how this project would impact the climate, environment, and Indigenous rights before the government had to make a final decision on whether or not it could go ahead. Thermal coal is devastating to human health, the environment and the climate.

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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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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Statement from Aly Hyder Ali, Oil and Gas Program Manager, Environmental Defence Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – We welcome the Government of Canada’s Oil and Gas Greenhouse Gas Pollution Cap draft regulation, which aims to curb pollution from the oil and gas industry.

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Law Columbia

MAY 23, 2025

State of Norway (EFTA Court Advisory Opinion) could have sweeping consequences for fossil fuel development across Europe, especially in Norway, a major oil producer outside the European Union but deeply integrated into its legal framework through the EEA. The opinion in Freningen Greenpeace Norden and Natur og Ungdom v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2025

A visual representation of the conventional grid, moving from left to right: Large, centralized plants (dominated by fossil fuels and nuclear) generate electricity; high voltage transmission lines carry electricity to cities and communities; distribution systems deliver electricity to homes and businesses. Data source: U.S.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 23, 2025

Treaty 6 Territory | Edmonton – After two years of tireless work by Indigenous communities, environmental organizations, and the public demanding governments hold Imperial Oil accountable for its egregious behaviour, the AER has finally laid charges against the company. Background: The Imperial Oil tailings disaster allowed 5.3

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 20, 2025

To deliver on this goal, the federal government made important investments in renewable energy projects. 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. GW in 2023.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The Premier and her government are so focused on picking fights with Ottawa that they are missing the fact that there are now more people employed in the development of renewable energy around the world than people working in oil and gas.

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A Greener Life

JULY 27, 2025

United Nations: The fossil fuel industry is engaging in disinformation campaigns to slow the transition to clean energy What does the Paris Agreement say? Even fossil-fuel subsidies can be illegal. And it singled out the failure of governments to curb fossil fuel production and consumption as a wrongful act”, she said.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

For decades, countries like Canada—and especially private oil and gas companies operating here—have reaped substantial financial benefits from fossil fuel extraction. One way Canada can free up the money to pay its fair share is to end fossil fuel subsidies. billion dollars from the Canadian government in 2024.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 10, 2025

Graph showing the rapid increase in forest loss between 2023 and 2024. Wildfires leave their mark on the Spanish wine industry The GLAD data shows that tropical primary forests were lost at a rate of 18 football fields per minute, a doubling compared to 2023 data. In 2024, fires burned five times the amount of forest they did in 2023.

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A Greener Life

JULY 6, 2025

However, recent efforts have focused on reversing this trend, with the government implementing stricter enforcement of environmental regulations and bolstering sustainable initiatives, such as promoting conservation efforts and enforcing land-use restrictions. This decline marks a notable shift after years of rising deforestation rates.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2025

Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision in 2023 finding that the EIS was deficient because it did not include estimates of GHG emissions and other impacts from induced oil production or oil refining. The fact that fossil fuels will be combusted, generating GHG emissions, is a direct and foreseeable consequence of fossil fuel production.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 27, 2025

City of New York , plumbing and building trade groups challenged New York Citys Local Law 154 of 2021 , a piece of legislation that prohibits fossil fuel combustion in most new buildings. It just limits the types of fuel a covered product may consume in new buildings. California Restaurant Association v.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

OTTAWA/TRADITIONAL, UNCEDED TERRITORY OF THE ALGONQUIN ANISHNAABEG PEOPLE — Ecojustice and Environmental Defence have uncovered that greenhouse gas emissions from Canada’s exported oil, gas, and coal ballooned to record levels in 2023. Since 2012, Canada’s annual exported emissions have increased a whopping 378 million tonnes.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 15, 2025

For example, in 2023, a major spill occurred at Imperial Oils Kearl mine , releasing 5.3 The Alberta Energy Regulator is failing its mandate to protect communities and the environment and must be reformed or replaced by an effective regulator that is truly independent from fossil fuel interests.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Here are 107 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 8, 2025

By Anders Lorenzen There will still be some fossil-fuel-driven cars on the roads in Norway in the years and decades. Experts argue that one of the reasons why the policy has been successful is that it has been consistent over time across successive governments from left to right. Image generated by AI. are fully electric.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 2, 2025

The German example Germany, the economic and industrial powerhouse in Europe in 2023, decided, for ideological and emotional reasons, to wean itself off nuclear power , even though the low-carbon baseload energy source was key to stability and economic output. This, as there, of course, as with all fossil fuels, is a finite amount.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 16, 2024

In the past year, weve seen significant victories that inspire hope, like the Swiss KlimaSeniorinnen case, which called for an improved government climate action plan; Held v. This tensionbetween exciting breakthroughs and persistent delaysunderscores the complexity of litigation’s role in climate governance. In the U.S.,

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

The law authorized specifically two categories of response actions by the government: short-term removals to address a prompt release of a hazardous substance; and long-term response actions to permanently reduce releases of hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants. New York is also paving the way for these landmark bills.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 21, 2025

The report provides renewed evidence of the consequences for our health of using fossil fuels In 1970 the Clean Air Act and the newly formed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) were given authority by Congress to regulate pollution from passenger cars and other forms of transportation. These emissions, which in 2022 were 37.4

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2024

“As the impacts of climate change from drought, fire, flooding and heat waves become increasingly dire, there is growing urgency in accelerating a clean energy transition from fossil fuels to zero-carbon energy infrastructure,” Klass said. Yet the hurdles to accomplishing such a massive industrial-scale transition are daunting.

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Legal Planet

MAY 20, 2025

As chair of the California Air Resources Board for nearly 20 years, I attended the annual conferences from Bali in 2007 to Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, in 2023. While some national political leaders are backing off their climate commitments , these subnational governments know they have to live with increasing fires , floods and deadly heat waves.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 25, 2025

Touted as a miracle climate solution, CCS is being handed generous subsidies by provincial and federal governments. For context, the oil and gas industry’s GHG emissions in 2023 were 208 MT of CO2. Up to 90 per cent of emissions come from the burning of fossil fuels, i.e. driving vehicles, cooking and heating in buildings etc.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 20, 2025

Here are 161 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us. Energy Summit?

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 13, 2025

Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar delivered the federal governments official response in December. Shell on behalf of all the companies responded that the Solicitor General had effectively reversed the governments position that the Clean Air Act preempts claims in these climate cases. In September 2023, Gov. 7401 et seq.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 17, 2025

Our mission is to improve policy and regulations for the oversight of fossil fuel extraction and use; to educate, empower and organize coalfield citizens; and to protect public and environmental health. CCJ has over three thousand members and supporters and is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 22, 2024

At this moment, the last thing federal, state and local governments need is to divert precious resources to debunk baseless conspiracy theories and disinformation. FEMA’s Disaster Relief Fund (DRF) is the federal government’s primary source of funding for disaster response, recovery and preparedness. What is the Disaster Relief Fund?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2025

The Trump government wants to dismantle the climate and weather science conducted by NOAA because evidence of a warming world resulting from burning their products is a pesky reality for the fossil fuel industry that gave millions to his campaign. This is not speculation. This is very, very harmful. million times.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Scientists have found that climate change made the conditions that drove the devastating fires some 35 percent more likely than they would have been had the fires occurred before humans began burning fossil fuels on a large scale. Political stunts aren’t helping Levee breached in Pajaro River in 2023.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

The newly imposed tariffs mean that businesses importing goods from Canada, China, and Mexico will now pay a tax of 25 percent of the value to the US government. Mexico is our largest trading partner, with agricultural goods imported by the United States totaling about $45 billion in 2023. In 2023, Canada exported about $4.9

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Kerry reflected on the sentiment around the rising populism and the push-back on climate and clean energy focus because governments have not been delivered: A lot of average folks have been left back in the dust, he said. The facts are simple: we need to stop burning fossil fuels, and until then, we need to capture the emissions we do burn

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Law Columbia

MARCH 19, 2025

corporations and institutional investors owe a fiduciary duty to maximize profits through economic activities that continue to produce, sell, and use fossil fuels (i.e. He believed that economic externalities of this kind should be handled by government. [24] This means that the leaders of U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 21, 2025

President Trump and congressional Republicans have made clear their intention to boost fossil fuel company profits by expanding drilling and slashing environmental and public health protections. UCS has been a leader in peer-reviewed scientific research linking climate impacts to emissions that trace directly to fossil fuel companies.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

On one day in June 2023, 4,084 trucks and buses rolled through the intersection, according to data collected by the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization and the Center for Neighborhood Technologywith one passing through every 10 seconds during the busiest parts of the day. Heres what governments can do.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2025

After an experience dealing with air pollution issues in her own home, she has first-hand knowledge of the health impacts that pollution can have on a family and how government agencies often ignore residents in distress. She equips residents with the tools to feel empowered to fight against the fossil fuel industry.

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