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Progress Possible at COP 28 Despite Fossil Fuel Industry Deception

Union of Concerned Scientists

These companies talk out of both sides of their mouths when it comes to climate polic y—many claiming to support the Paris agreement, while simultaneously funding business groups to lobby against policies to implement and enforce national commitments. Fossil fuel production and products harm public health.

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Good News—and Bad—about Fossil Fuel Power Plants in 2023 

Union of Concerned Scientists

NO x also contributes to the formation of ozone (or “smog”), another toxic pollutant. Modeling has shown that if the United States is going to live up to its Paris Agreement targets aimed at limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, coal power should be entirely phased out by 2030. micrometers or less.

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Disinformation Alert: Fossil Fuel Interests Preparing to Deploy False Claims about New EPA Rules

Union of Concerned Scientists

After the EPA proposed the Clean Power Plan in 2014, for example, fossil fuel interests and their backers tried to argue that the proposal’s 2030 emission-reduction targets were completely unrealistic, and that the country would see astronomically high costs and blackouts due to the rule. degrees Celsius.

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Policy News: April 11, 2022

ESA

Despite that scrap, the takeaway remains constant — there is no hope of stopping global warming at the Paris Agreement limits of 1.5 degree limit of the Paris Agreement is a pipe dream unless emissions peak in the coming three years and fall by almost half from 2019 levels by 2030, the scientists said. and the U.K.

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May 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Columbia Climate Law

EPA of a 2015 rule barring replacement of ozone-depleting substances with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are powerful greenhouse gases. Circuit vacated the 2015 rule to the extent that it prohibited continued use of HFCs by companies that previously switched to HFCs from an ozone-depleting substance. In Mexichem , the D.C.

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