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Fossil Fuel Companies Make Billions in Profit as We Suffer Billions in Losses: 2024 Edition

Union of Concerned Scientists

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. Above: Lahaina, Hawai’i after the devastating August 2023 wildfire that killed more than 100 people and destroyed 2,700 homes.

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Gregory L. Ebel: The Pipeline Pusher

Enviromental Defense

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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The EIA Just Released a 30 Year Energy Outlook. It’s… Not Great

Union of Concerned Scientists

According to the forecast, while economy-wide CO 2 emissions decrease from 2022 to 2037 due primarily to the growth in renewable energy replacing retiring coal plants, emissions do increase after 2037 from increased usage of natural gas. EIA is projecting that natural gas prices will remain low.

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US 2024 Elections: US climate actvists celebrate after major climate announcements by President Biden

A Greener Life

By Anders Lorenzen An announcement by US President Joe Biden to pause the approvals for pending and future applications to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) from new projects has been warmly welcomed by climate activists and could delay decisions on new plants until after the US Elections taking place on the 5th of November 2024.

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Saturday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 12.16.23

PA Environment Daily

Billion In Federal Funding Up For Grabs, PA Environmental Officials Collect Climate Action Plan Suggestions -- Herald-Star: Tenaska Outlines Carbon Capture, Storage Project In Shale Gas Formations In SW PA, Southern Ohio -- PA GreenGov Council, Penn State Sustainability Host 4-Part Sustainability Webinar Series Starting Jan.

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RePlanet Nederland’s review of the draft Delegated Regulation on nuclear energy and gaseous fossil fuels in the sustainable finance taxonomy

Environmental Progress

Notably, in the same proposal, the Commission has also included screening criteria for gaseous fossil fuels. Their inclusion appears to be the result of a political compromise with Member States rather than of scientific appraisal as in the case of nuclear energy.

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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Feb. 10 to 16 - 31 More Conventional Abandoned Well NOVs - 103 For Year; Pipeline Land Slips; Water Supply, Stray Gas Complaints

PA Environment Daily

31 More Abandoned Conventional Well NOVs On February 6 & 7, 2024 , DEP did routine inspections of 27 more conventional wells operated by Rock Oil Resources, Inc. On February 12, 2024 , DEP conducted a complaint investigation in Waterford Township, Erie County related to conventional gas wells operated by Medina Res Dev Co.