Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 6, 2024

We are officially within the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season here in the United States, and just a couple weeks ago, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released its forecast for this year’s season. As these recent events and NOAA’s 2024 forecast confirm, our storms are getting worse.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Under the LCFS each fuel pathway gets a unique carbon intensity (CI) based on a lifecycle analysis of the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production and use of the fuel. This approach holds fuel producers accountable for reducing fossil fuel use and other global warming pollution in their supply chains.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

Dr. Susan Avery, a physicist and atmospheric scientist, is the former director of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Massachusetts. The fossil fuel giant now claims to be “aligned” with the Paris climate agreement, all while it continues to massively expand oil and gas exploration and production and lobby against climate action.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Switching from fossil fuels like gasoline to increasingly clean electricity sources is vital for hitting climate and air pollution goals. Gasoline use per person has also fallen, from 445 gallons per year per person in 2005, to under 350 gallons per year per person in 2024. billion gallons were sold in the state.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 7, 2024

I hope we can collectively reckon with another terrifyingly awesome atmospheric event: the hottest year. And yet there’s no mention of the obvious source of fear, terror, and dread in 2024 when it comes to planet earth. Read out of context, that description fits climate change too, of course.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 19, 2024

Since then, the Conservative government has made a series of U-turns on its own net zero policies, attacked Labour’s green spending plans, and doubled down on its support for new fossil fuel projects, approving more than 100 new North Sea oil and gas licences. This comes as DeSmog and Democracy for Sale reveal that £6.8 percent (£1.8

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 11, 2024

degrees Celsius warmer than in the 1850-1900 pre-industrial period, when humans began burning fossil fuels on an industrial scale, pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The Copernicus Climate Change Service added, that in 2023 the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere rose to the highest level ever recorded at 419 PPM.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 18, 2025

The burning of fossil fuels and other human activities are continuing to cause rapid temperature rise. 2024 was the hottest year on record , and the planets 10 warmest years since 1850 have occurred in the past decade. Scientists have identified a number of land- and ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR) approaches.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 15, 2024

Researchers working in the field of attribution science have been able to state with clarity that last year’s fires and droughts, the Alberta floods of 2013, BC’s atmospheric rivers, and the heat waves that have killed hundreds of people in the BC’s Lower Mainland, have all been intensified and magnified by human-caused climate change.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 26, 2024

Carbon dioxide is the primary greenhouse gas emitted through burning fossil fuels and traps heat in the atmosphere. NewsClip: -- The Daily Item Guest Essay: Carbon Capture - The Great Illusion - Karen Feridun, Better Path Coalition [Posted: August 26, 2024] PA Environment Digest

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

Ebel, the CEO of Enbridge, to our list of infamous Climate Villains – powerful people with fossil fuel interests holding Canada back from effective climate action. The executives behind the fossil fuel industry often avoid public scrutiny, which is why we’re shining the spotlight on their activities.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 5, 2022

Human activity adds more than 50 gigatons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere each year. A new process could lock carbon dioxide below the ocean floor, allowing valuable time to reduce the atmospheric greenhouse gases driving climate change. Human activity adds more than 50 gigatons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere each year.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 16, 2024

In August, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued its updated forecast for the 2024 hurricane season. Despite a quiet peak hurricane season in August and early September, 2024 will be a year to remember. Why are the oceans so warm and fueling this rapid intensification? How is this possible?

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Guest Post by Sam Leuthold , 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Department of Soil and Crop Sciences and the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology at Colorado State University Over the course of the last two decades, there has been a shift in the general popularity of agricultural soils. So why the hype around agricultural soils?

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 3, 2025

In 2024, DEP issued 860 new or continued violations to conventional oil and gas well owners for abandoning and not plugging their wells. In 2024, 47 violations were issued or continued to 12 shale gas well owners for abandoning and not plugging their wells. The last inspection on September 16, 2024 also found it was not restored.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 3, 2024

reduce its carbon dioxide (CO2) atmospheric levels. CO2 is the primary greenhouse gas emitted through human activities by burning fossil fuels and contributes to global warming by trapping heat in the atmosphere. The captured CO2 is then stored deep underground in geologic formations or used to make other products.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 4, 2024

In 2023 the combined activities of fossil fuel production and usage emitted more than 120 million metric tons (mmt) of methane into the atmosphere, which is a slight rise compared with 2022 the report from IEA explained.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2024

DEP’s inspection reports [Gray 2 - Example] requested the owner of the wells to submit a written plan by April 17, 2024 on how the wells will be brought into compliance. The well owner said the wells would be plugged in 2024. On March 28, 2024 , DEP inspected two conventional wells owned by Rejiss Assoc.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 10, 2023

The technology was tested in a jet aircraft and will later be deployed aboard a satellite launching in early 2024. Methane from fossil fuel operations, agriculture, and other industries causes roughly 30% of today’s global warming, according to the Environmental Defense Fund. Read more here. Read more here.]

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A Greener Life

MAY 12, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen Globally the heating of the world seems to have no end in sight as April 2024 becomes the warmest April ever recorded since records began. It sets an additional new unwelcome record and trend with the past 11 months being the warmest of those months ever recorded.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

On August 14, 2024, CNX Resources released a report titled “ Initial Results are in: Radical Public-Private Collaboration Demonstrating CNX Natural Gas Development Poses No Public Health Risks.” At the end of August 2024, there were 13,098 active shale gas wells in the state on 3,360 well pads, with an average of 50 wells added each month.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 14, 2024

“The report also did not attempt to address the science demonstrating that there is likely no safe level of cancer-causing pollutants such as benzene , which CNX’s data showed that its sites sent into the atmosphere. 27 Released 1.1

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

But what you probably haven’t heard is that our grid is getting dirtier again, with fossil fuels increasing in our electricity supply from burning natural gas. Ontario Energy Output by Fuel Type: 2020 . In fact, 2020 brought the largest single increase in methane in the atmosphere since we started measuring this in the 1980s.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 13, 2024

The 2024 State of the Air report I work every day on topics related to air in my role as a Senior Climate Scientist at UCS, through my volunteer grassroots work, and because I want to be a well-informed resident in the San Joaquin Valley. come from burning fossil fuels and pesticide use, and ultrafine particles (PM0.1)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The latest data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ) and the EU’s Copernicus climate service show that the 2024 January-August period is the hottest ever by far, putting this year well on track to be the warmest ever on record. For the next round of NDCs, the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Even now, with fall in the air, we are reminded of the harsh reality that fossil-fueled climate change is causing fall to be warmer across the contiguous US, particularly in the southwest. California too experienced a late-season October heatwave , made worse by climate change.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 24, 2023

As countries around the world grapple with eliminating their own fossil fuel subsidies, Canada has set a strong global precedent. This is alarming given that Canada is one of the largest providers of fossil fuel financing in the G20. Canada ranks among the worst in the G20 for providing fossil fuels public financing.

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HumanNature

JANUARY 30, 2025

Guest Post by Tucker Melles , 2024-2025 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Chemistry at Colorado State University Earths atmosphere is one of our greatest shared resources and provides many ingredients required for life. 4] There are multiple origins of these hazardous particles.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 1, 2024

Three comparative maps of snow water equivalent (SWE) across California on April 1 in 2015, 2023, and 2024, based on data from the National Snow Analysis by the Office of Water Prediction. The solid blue line depicts the current year (2023-2024), showing a very close to average snow water content. feet—over 200% above the average!

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2021

Concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere have risen approximately 47 percent since 1750, mostly from the burning of fossil fuels for energy. Strategies for capturing carbon from fossil fuel power plants, to prevent it from entering the atmosphere, have long lingered on the sidelines. from 1990–2019.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 22, 2024

DEP’s inspection report included a violation for well abandonment and improper plugging and requested the owner to submit a plan by July 2, 2024 to bring the well into compliance. On June 5, DEP found two other supposedly plugged shale gas wells leaking gas owned by Chesapeake Appalachia LLC in Susquehanna County. Read more here.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The request for an EIA was made by Ecojustice on behalf of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) and several environmental and community organizations in May 2024, to ensure the $16.5-billion The project also runs risks of underground leakage back into the atmosphere, groundwater contamination from stored carbon dioxide.

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The increasing greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere are warming the global temperature, shifting precipitation patterns, raising global sea levels, melting glaciers, and more [5]. As the global popu lation and price of assets continue to grow, the chances of extreme weather causing fatalities, injuries, and economic damage increase.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 23, 2023

DEP’s inspection report (Legion Swab 1) requested a written report by January 12, 2024 on how the operator would bring the wells into compliance. DEP’s inspection report requested the operator submit a written report by January 8, 2024 on how the well will be brought into compliance. and found it to be abandoned and not plugged.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Before the devastating Hurricanes Helene and Milton, NOAA estimated (as of September 10, 2024), that in 2024 there were 20 separate billion-dollar climate change-related disasters that collectively contributed to the deaths of 149 people with a total economic cost of $53 billion.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 11, 2024

Since carbon dioxide is collected and pumped under high pressure into porous formations, a failure of a formation could eventually erupt into the atmosphere, posing uncertain environmental and public health risks. That all of this can be economically competitive with clean energy is a pipe dream advanced by the fossil fuel industry.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Note: Emerging Contaminants Presentation.] -- Dickinson College To Host Atmospheric Scientist Katharine Hayhoe To Discuss Finding Hope In The Face Of Climate Change During Public Talk Dec. DEP Water Resources Advisory Committee meeting. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. Contact: Bob Haines at robhaines@pa.gov.

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