Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 2, 2024

As the Earth’s air and oceans warm, the ice sheet is starting to melt at an ever-faster rate. The Antarctic Ice Sheet has grounded ice, which is ice that sits on the solid Earth below it and ice shelves, which extend out from the grounded portion and float on the ocean surface. These are called marine basins.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 19, 2023

That timing makes it a hugely important potential resource when winter hits hard and fossil fuels fail. People A strong consideration for many in advocating for offshore wind is its potential to address the harmful effects of fossil fuels in the power sector, which disproportionately impact Black and Brown communities.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

The report, initially scoped in 2024 and planned for completion by 2027, aims to provide technical guidance on measuring, reporting, and verifying emissions removals from CDR technologies. Fossil fuels, which are central to mitigation discussions but were largely avoided, reflecting ongoing political tensions.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 8, 2021

For decades we have witnessed plastic pollution flowing into our ocean. It has wreaked havoc on marine life by polluting the ocean and coastal habitats that are their home. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. To keep our ocean plastic-free, we need to incentivize reuse and recycling rather than waste.

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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

MARCH 18, 2024

This council suggested labeling fossil fuel activities like CCUS (carbon capture, utilization, and storage) as sustainable, as well as some types of oil and gas expansion. Labeling fossil fuel activities as sustainable is like including a harpooned whale under Ocean Wise, or describing a peanut butter and jelly sandwich as nut-free.

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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

AUGUST 5, 2022

New Solid Carbon technology might be able to lock climate-warming carbon dioxide below ocean bedrock. A new process could lock carbon dioxide below the ocean floor, allowing valuable time to reduce the atmospheric greenhouse gases driving climate change. Negative-emissions technology is not an excuse to prolong the use of fossil fuels.

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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. This warms the surface waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean and contributes to higher global temperatures. What’s in store for 2024?

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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. Significantly warmer than usual surface temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean, which come largely as a result of human-caused climate change. One of the main reasons for this forecast?

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

For those following offshore wind development in California, January 19, 2024, marked an important moment—the release of the long-awaited Draft Assembly Bill 525 Offshore Wind Strategic Plan from the California Energy Commission (CEC). Public comment on the draft Plan is due March 22, 2024.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Through this resolution, the executive director of the UN Environmental Program (UNEP) was tasked with convening a committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution that addresses the full lifecycle of plastic, with the ambition of completing the draft of this agreement by the end of 2024.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Electricity from waves and tides is generated when devices in the water harness the kinetic energy of the ocean. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. All these projects could provide platforms for environmental monitoring and study.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 24, 2024

This week, the UN body, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said that every major global climate record was broken last year and warned that 2024 could be even worse with the highest concern being ocean heat and shrinking sea ice. The trend of ocean warming continues to head in one direction.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Pursue Your Constitutional Right To A Clean Environment In Pennsylvania House next voting day January 2, February 6 -- Committee Schedule -- House Agency Budget Hearing Schedule Senate next voting day January 2, 16, 17 -- Committee Schedule -- Senate Agency Budget Hearing Schedule. Haddock -- EPA/DOE Award DEP $44.4

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2024

Most of the trash that pollutes rivers, lakes, estuaries, and oceans comes from sources on land. “Whether it’s Earth Day or any other day, we all have a role to play in keeping our environment cleaner, greener, and safer.” Plastic trash, in particular, threatens human health, aquatic ecosystems, and the economy.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) for a proposed floating offshore wind research array. Before diving into roadmap details, several additional state-led efforts relating to offshore wind deserve mention. In 2021, the State of Maine submitted a research lease application to the U.S. Formally establish state procurement commitments.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 14, 2024

Exhibition: FAB Gallery, 1-1 Fine Arts Building, University of Alberta WHEN: Launch Event, Thursday, May 16, 2024, Doors open 6:00 MT, panel 6:15, reception 7:15-9:00. WHAT: The True Cost Of Oil photography exhibit and launch event WHERE: Launch Event: Fine Arts Building, University of Alberta, room 2-20.

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Ocean Conservancy

JULY 21, 2023

The United Nations Environmental Assembly (UNEA) meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, agreed to begin developing an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution (ILBI), more commonly referred to as the global plastics treaty, with the ambition of completing the draft of this agreement by the end of 2024.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 17, 2024

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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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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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 29, 2024

We have all seen that throw-away plastics clog and poison our oceans, rivers and cities. This blog is based on the speech given by Tim Gray, Executive Director at Environmental Defence’s 40 th Anniversary Gala on April 4, 2024. That is hope made tangible through fewer toxic chemicals in our world.

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Greenbuilding Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

25 might strike some as a drop in the Pacific Ocean toward repairing the planet, or even just Hawaii, but the 8 main islands, of the 137 island archipelago, had more than 9.5 million tourists last year, so maybe $68 Million (. tourists share hotel rooms) is a start. .” $25 million tourists last year, so maybe $68 Million (.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 22, 2023

Instead, the Utilities Commission authorized Duke Energy to take a number of near-term actions in 2023-2024 and created a process for reviewing the electric generation portfolio every two years. Duke Energy’s first carbon reduction IRP will be due in September 2023 and the NCUC will take action on that IRP in 2024.

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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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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 17, 2024

I’m no clownfish, but I think Marlin may have told this joke if Finding Nemo came out in 2024. Well, if you have been reading the news or following our blogs, you know the ocean is getting hotter due to humans burning fossil fuels. In fact, 90% of all global warming is occurring in our ocean. Love ocean content?

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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

APRIL 12, 2024

For far too long, fossil fuel companies have viewed plastics as a Plan B for their dying industry. When people think of plastic pollution, they tend to think of litter and landfills or the ocean garbage patches. Meet on Parliament Hill between 10:30 and 11 am and look for the Environmental Defence banner.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 31, 2023

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), provide policymakers, industry participants, and the public with tools to chart a pathway to prepare the offshore oil and gas industry for a Paris Agreement–compatible phase-out of fossil fuel extraction. must remain unextracted to keep within a 1.5 °C C carbon budget.”

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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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Law Columbia

AUGUST 6, 2024

Recently, a federal court denied two back-to-back motions by a group called Green Oceans to preliminarily enjoin construction of the 704-megawatt Revolution Wind project off the coast of Rhode Island. For background, in January 2024, Green Oceans filed a complaint in the U.S.

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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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ESA

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The agreement calls for a phase-down of coal but does not call for reductions in fossil fuels. Dozens of nations sought text calling for a phase-out of all fossil fuels, but they were met with stiff resistance from oil-producing countries, including Russia and Saudi Arabia. ESC – FY 2024 Funding Request (Aug.

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Acoel

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The willingness of the two potential rivals for the 2024 White House to cooperate in meeting the immediate threat of Ian is admirable. New data from NASA, the New York Times reports , revealed that warm ocean waters fueled Hurricane Ian to become one of the most powerful storms to strike the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 16, 2024

cases challenging fossil fuel companies for decades of climate disinformation remain stalled, tied up by the defendants in procedural wrangling that prevents them from being heard on their merits, delaying justice for affected communities. Yet, progress often feels frustratingly slow. In the U.S., in the absence of federal leadership.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and House progressives, led by House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) are opposing the permitting deal, citing concerns that the reforms would help fossil fuel projects and undermine the National Environmental Policy Act and the Clean Water Act. ESC – FY 2024 Funding Request (Aug.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Vietnamese blogger who filmed chemical spill protests released from prison Radio Free Asia PaulaR Wed, 01/17/2024 - 14:44 Thursday, January 11, 2024 Read more Nguyen Van Hoa was arrested in 2017 following massive demonstrations against a Taiwan-owned steel plant. By RFA Vietnamese 2024.01.11

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