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Reporting from Bulgaria on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2024

My colleague Dr. Kristy Dahl and I arrived in Sofia, Bulgaria, last week for the 61st session of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). These documents offer an internationally accepted summary of the state of climate science, and form the backbone of many legal briefs I prepare.

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Delays and Disagreements: The IPCC’s Struggle to Stay on Course

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

This past week, I attended the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) meeting in Hangzhou, China. In previous posts, Ive explained what the IPCC is, why this assessment cycle is crucial , and highlighted its role in climate action. Ultimately, delegates decided to postpone setting any hard deadlines.

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Delays and Disagreements: The IPCC’s Struggle to Stay on Course

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

This past week, I attended the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) meeting in Hangzhou, China. In previous posts, Ive explained what the IPCC is, why this assessment cycle is crucial , and highlighted its role in climate action. Ultimately, delegates decided to postpone setting any hard deadlines.

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A Hot Summer for Clean Energy in Michigan

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AUGUST 30, 2023

It’s Danger Season right now for climate impacts around the United States and the world. While we confront extreme heat, wildfires, and intense storms, crucial work to reduce global warming pollution and mitigate the worst effects of climate change continues. million customers for the next 20 years.

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Major League Soccer’s LAFC Has a Big Oil Problem Too

Legal Planet

JUNE 21, 2024

In fact, the California attorney general’s lawsuit states that “Chevron’s minimal efforts in the area of renewable and lower-carbon energy, coupled with its expansion of its fossil fuel business, belie its statements suggesting that it is part of the climate change solution.” Why does all this matter? “I

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Proposed Electrolyzer Requirements for the Hydrogen Tax Credit: Strengths and Risks

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 18, 2024

Today, hydrogen is overwhelmingly produced through a heavily polluting fossil fuel-based process. It is a climate problem, not a climate solution. The tax credit, passed as part of 2022’s Inflation Reduction Act, provides a generous incentive for the production of clean hydrogen. Geographic deliverability.

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Emergency? Part 4

Legal Planet

JULY 25, 2023

We give lots of lip service describing climate change as an emergency or existential threat. According to the Climate Emergency Declaration Organization, 2336 jurisdictions around the world have declared it to be an emergency, but we are not really acting like it. There are many possible emergency actions.

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Statement in Response to Parliamentary Budget Office’s Costing of the Carbon Capture and Hydrogen Investment Tax Credits

Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Statement by Julia Levin, Associate Director, National Climate Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – New analysis released today from the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) demonstrates that the Government of Canada is still intent on providing massive subsidies to fossil fuel companies.

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China’s oil demand could peak in 2025

A Greener Life

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The forecast also predicts that Chinas overall fossil fuel demand will peak in 2028, coinciding with the peak in energy-related carbon emissions. In 2023, Chinas demand for gasoline and diesel in road transportation began to decline for this reason, with aviation fuel emerging as the sole growth segment.

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A Cap on Vegetable Oil-Based Fuels Will Stabilize and Strengthen California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

CARB projects total diesel consumption at 3 billion gallons or more until 2035, so actual consumption could be more than 50 percent higher than CARB’s projection if bio-based diesel fully replaces fossil diesel, as a recent study from UC Davis found was 50 percent likely by 2028. billion gallons by 2028 and then hover between 1.5

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Opinion: France adds green travel advice to car adverts

A Greener Life

JANUARY 12, 2022

It seems like a long way off to me, but adverts for the most polluting SUVs will be banned entirely from 2028. Perhaps after a change of government, though they may surprise me.) Individual media outlets can rule out certain adverts as a matter of policy, as the Guardian did with fossil fuels.

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Abandoned Well Citizen Expert Laurie Barr, University Of Pennsylvania Prof. Jennifer Wilcox Recognized On The Grist 50 List

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

"They’re teachers, scientists, doctors, farmers, artists, entrepreneurs, and activists who are putting climate front and center in their work and driving real progress. While no individual can solve climate change, progress depends on individuals figuring out how to bring their skills and passions to the table."

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JANUARY 10, 2024

17 [PaEN] -- NRCS-PA: Pennsylvania State Technical Advisory Committee Meeting Jan. 18 [PaEN] -- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: PUC Commissioners Ask For Permanent Federal Low-Income Water, Wastewater Bill Assistance -- Foundation For Sustainable Forests Woods & Water Film Series Jan. 19 & Feb.

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Seven Years after Hurricane María, in Puerto Rico You Can’t Even Count on Keeping the Lights On

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2024

One year after taking over, Genera says that fuel management and operations optimizations will produce savings of $875 million between now and 2028 and that half of the savings would go to PREPA to reduce consumer bills. Fossil fuels account for 94% of electricity generation in Puerto Rico.

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As the Climate Crisis Worsens, the Federal Government in Canada Continues to Give Billions in Funding for Fossil Fuels.

Enviromental Defense

MARCH 27, 2024

New analysis from Environmental Defence reveals that despite federal government promises, funding to the fossil fuel and petrochemical industries remains high Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – New analysis released today by Environmental Defence reveals Canada’s federal government provided at least $18.6

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New Energy Permitting Legislation: One Step Forward, Too Many Steps Back

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The United States is already the world leader in LNG exports, despite the significant lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions from LNG, and harms to communities and the environment from the expansion of polluting fossil fuel infrastructure. LNG exports from the US are already on track to more than double by 2028, under current law.

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The Gas Utility Industry is Gaslighting Us

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

Fifty Years of Disinformation It’s no longer a secret that the US oil industry was well aware as early as 1957 that its products threaten the climate. As we now know, fossil fuel companies lied about it for decades to protect their profits. What accounts for that? The standards will have a bigger impact on electric stoves.

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Here Comes the Fossil Fuel Agenda

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 23, 2025

As part of his wide-ranging first-week activities, President Trump issued a barrage of executive orders specifically intended to boost the fortunes of the fossil fuel industry. A whole-of-government approach to selling the nation out The fossil fuel industrys wish-list is sprawling.

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Deal or No Deal?

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 13, 2024

As an overview to these questions, I recommend this article in Heatmap (a great resource for climate news, by the way). From a climate perspective, the question is whether this tradeoff is worth it. Many of the constraints on reducing fossil fuel projects in EPRA are much less relevant in a second Trump Administration.

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ESA Policy News: March 6, 2023

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MARCH 6, 2023

In recent years, coastal states have used their authority under Section 401 of the Clean Water Act to veto fossil fuel export facilities, angering politicians in landlocked fossil fuel-producing states. At the same hearing, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee voted to advance a bill ( H.R.

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The Good, the Bad and the Utter Contempt

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MAY 7, 2025

Two important scientific societies, the American Meteorological Society and the American Geophysical Union, announced they will fill the gaping hole left by the Trump Administration abandoning the National Climate Assessment and dismissing the scientific experts who put it together. Electricity!

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Oil and Gas Industry’s Mating Call Strikes a Sour Note

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The second policy proposal is to reinstate permitting of liquified natural gas (LNG), also known as methane, a fossil fuel that is a potent source of global warming emissions. API fumed (pun intended) over the announcement, even though the United States is already the world leader in LNG exports and is on track to double them by 2028.

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Reporting from Bulgaria on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Delays and Disagreements: The IPCC’s Struggle to Stay on Course

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A Hot Summer for Clean Energy in Michigan

Major League Soccer’s LAFC Has a Big Oil Problem Too

Proposed Electrolyzer Requirements for the Hydrogen Tax Credit: Strengths and Risks

Emergency? Part 4

Statement in Response to Parliamentary Budget Office’s Costing of the Carbon Capture and Hydrogen Investment Tax Credits

China’s oil demand could peak in 2025

A Cap on Vegetable Oil-Based Fuels Will Stabilize and Strengthen California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard

Opinion: France adds green travel advice to car adverts

Abandoned Well Citizen Expert Laurie Barr, University Of Pennsylvania Prof. Jennifer Wilcox Recognized On The Grist 50 List

Wednesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 1.10.24

Seven Years after Hurricane María, in Puerto Rico You Can’t Even Count on Keeping the Lights On

As the Climate Crisis Worsens, the Federal Government in Canada Continues to Give Billions in Funding for Fossil Fuels.

New Energy Permitting Legislation: One Step Forward, Too Many Steps Back

The Gas Utility Industry is Gaslighting Us

Here Comes the Fossil Fuel Agenda

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