Atmosphere Carbon Dioxide Fossil Fuels Nitrogen Oxides 
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Union of Concerned Scientists’ (UCS) research shows that top fossil fuel producers’ emissions are responsible for as much as half of global surface temperature increase. Updated analysis from 2020 shows that emissions traced to the 88 largest carbon producers contributed approximately 60 percent?of
Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 17, 2023
We need more electricity to transition our homes and cars off fossil fuels, but we can’t afford to let that electricity come from more gas power plants. Over the year, those plants emitted 661 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, more than 13% of the US’s energy-related carbon dioxide emissions.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
Responsible for 12 percent of all US global warming emissions from human activities, methane traps significantly more heat per molecule than carbon dioxide, making it 86 times more harmful for the first 20 years after it is released into the atmosphere. First, there’s air pollution.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 10, 2024
In New England, the percent of people of color living near fossil fuel power plants is up to 23.5 Even as some parts of the country transition away from fossil fuel infrastructure, the retirement of gas plants has become another driver of inequity. Most notable of these polluting emissions are nitrogen oxides (NOx).
Enviromental Defense
OCTOBER 12, 2023
One is a subsidy to Enbridge—a fossil fuel giant—to build a fossil fuel power plant. Instead, it will lock in polluting fossil fuel infrastructure for decades. Given its tiny size, it is very hard to keep hydrogen from leaking into the atmosphere.
Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
Because methane has 28 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide and a shorter atmospheric life of only 12 years, immediate action to reduce methane emissions —including from agriculture—is critical to slow our warming climate, especially in light of expanding global populations and food demand. Rice Emissions.
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 12, 2023
Your program recently published a fact sheet on fertilizer, which most people do not know is manufactured using fossil gas—what the industry euphemistically calls “natural” gas because it sounds like a good thing when it is decidedly not. But nitrous oxide is even more insidiously efficient at disrupting the climate.
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