Legal Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Alongside a rapid phase-out of fossil fuels, substantial deployment of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) techniques might avert – or at least limit – overshoot of 1.5°C. However, it seems much of the carbon will come not from CDR, but from carbon capture on existing or new fossil fuel use. But some optimism remains.

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Law Columbia

MAY 9, 2023

On Tuesday, May 9, the Sabin Center and the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment launched Transferred Emissions are Still Emissions: Why Fossil Fuel Asset Sales Need Enhanced Transparency and Carbon Accounting. Corporate asset sales have long presented an environmental governance challenge.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Although methane doesn’t linger very long in the atmosphere, increasing methane levels are particularly bad news because it packs a big punch. But its short lifetime in the atmosphere is also a reason for hope. But governments must put policy measures into place immediately to be effective. We need to phase out fossil fuels.

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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. of the observed rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide and 52 percent of the rise in global average temperatures between 1880 and 2015.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 20, 2023

This new research found that ExxonMobil’s climate projections from its internally developed models accurately projected the temperature rise that has happened since then and that its calculations were in line with independent research produced at the time by academic and government scientists. Let’s dig into what Supran et al.’s

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Any day now, Minister Freeland is expected to introduce a giant new fossil fuel subsidy called the carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) investment tax credit. The government is breaking their own rules The government introduced new rules to end fossil fuel subsidies this summer.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

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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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

However, you might be surprised to discover that carbon dioxide makes up just 0.04% of the earth’s atmosphere. CCUS involves capturing carbon dioxide from fossil fuel power plants or directly from the air and either using it or sequestering it deep underground to prevent it from being released back into the atmosphere.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

California’s LCFS is causing problems for other states and the federal government. The LCFS is designed to hold fuel producers accountable for their supply chain emissions The LCFS and related Clean Fuel Standard policies are performance standards for transportation fuel based on lifecycle analysis.

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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. VY: They do.

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 18, 2023

State of Montana , against their state government. Of note, there are state constitution based climate change lawsuits against state governments pending in early stages of pleading in Hawaii , Utah , and Virginia. What would the impact be when the conservative Montana legislative branch sides with the executive branch?

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Let’s look at three tools that are being sold as climate saviours, when their real objective is to prolong the life of the polluting fossil fuels which are driving climate change: carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS), hydrogen and offsets. Producing and using fossil fuels creates a lot of damage beyond climate disasters.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Last week world leaders gathered in New York for the UN Climate Ambition Summit where countries shared concrete action they’ve taken to phase out fossil fuels. There, the conversation was grounded in science, with leaders such as California’s Governor Newsom saying “The climate crisis is a fossil fuel crisis. Is that you?

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 2, 2021

Management approved her shift in emphasis, hoping that she would prove that aerosols in the atmosphere (including those from auto exhaust) would completely offset the greenhouse gas effect. She and another GM scientist published their work and presented their findings to GM’s VP for government relations (a/k/a “head lobbyist”).

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 21, 2022

Photo credit: Karwai Tang / UK Government via Flickr. For the first time ever in the 27-year history of UN climate talks, at COP26 fossil fuels were mentioned in the final agreement. This shows that we are getting nearer to consigning the fossil fuel industry to history, even though there’s still a long way to go.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Fossil fuels such as coal , oil and natural gas are the source of just over 80% of the world’s energy. To avert catastrophic warming, the global community must rapidly reduce how much of these fuels it extracts and burns. Fossil fuels still provide most of the world’s energy. Fossil fuel rationing.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 15, 2024

Researchers working in the field of attribution science have been able to state with clarity that last year’s fires and droughts, the Alberta floods of 2013, BC’s atmospheric rivers, and the heat waves that have killed hundreds of people in the BC’s Lower Mainland, have all been intensified and magnified by human-caused climate change.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 4, 2023

The federal government recently released its proposed Sustainable Jobs Act , following up on its promise to pass just transition legislation. This means that the government has finally recognized its role in helping workers and communities impacted by the energy transition.

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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.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

And it’s been one month since the Montana First District Court determined that the state of Montana had indeed violated Montana youth’s right to a “clean and healthful environment” by collaborating with the fossil fuel industry. But the historic decision is still reverberating around the country, and I am still reflecting on it.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Focusing on emissions from oil and gas production but not production itself will allow oil and gas companies to keep putting forward false solutions, such as carbon capture and storage, fossil-based hydrogen, and far-off net zero plans, all while pumping out more and more atmosphere-destroying fossil fuels.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen The former Chief Scientist for the UK Government, Sir David King did not hold back the scientific reality of years of climate inaction when he addressed the audience at the Net Zero Festival in London, organised by Business Green, a clean energy publication.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 24, 2022

In the 1960s climate change was not really a significant concern, not even amongst environmentalists – this was despite the fact that the Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius in 1896 was the first to claim that emissions from fossil fuels might eventually result in enhanced global warming. Today that number is 420ppm and rising.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 3, 2024

reduce its carbon dioxide (CO2) atmospheric levels. He will also discuss the NETL’s Direct Air Capture Center on its Pittsburgh campus, a recent initiative by the federal government to support the development of carbon capture. The captured CO2 is then stored deep underground in geologic formations or used to make other products.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 30, 2021

In this blog, we’ll take a look at the technologies that are being sold as climate saviours when their real objective is to prolong the life of the polluting fossil fuels which are driving climate change: carbon capture, offsets and ‘blue’ hydrogen. Producing and using fossil fuels creates a lot of damage beyond climate disasters.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 26, 2022

In part, this is due to the huge amounts of methane that leak into the atmosphere while making and transporting LNG. The Alberta government has been doing an awful job tracking and controlling methane leaks , and shows little sign of improvement despite years of promises. Fossil gas is still a fossil fuel!

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Legal Planet

JULY 18, 2023

Here’s a statement from the Center for International Environmental Law: Despite occupying center stage in the “net-zero” climate plans trumpeted by the United States and Canada at the Leaders’ Summit on Climate, government spending programs, and bills pending before Congress and Parliament, carbon capture is not a climate solution.

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A Greener Life

MAY 20, 2022

With more than 300,000 panels deployed over an area of 214 hectares, it is the largest of its kind in the country, with a production capacity of 100 megawatts (MW) – a sizeable output, but not enough on its own to turn Bolivia’s energy mix away from fossil fuels and towards renewables. Advantageous and encouraging.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 19, 2022

For 2022, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicted a season with above normal activity on its August 4 updated forecast , calling for 14-20 named storms. As we said previously , “Fiona caught Puerto Rico’s government utterly unprepared, leaving the population unprotected.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

The bench trial took place last month in the state capitol, Helena, where 16 youth plaintiffs ages 5 to 22 made the case that Montana’s unwavering promotion of fossil fuels violates the state constitution’s guarantee to a “clean and healthful environment.” Whether Montana’s GHG emissions can be measured incrementally.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2023

As of June 20, 2023, the amount of CO2 [carbon dioxide] in the atmosphere has now risen to 421 parts per million, way past the level of 350 ppm considered safe. Busy with our own lives, we’ve simply given agency over to others, counting on the federal government, for example, to save the planet. And it’s still rising.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 1, 2022

Burning fossil fuels, cutting down forests, raising livestock, making cement, and using synthetic fertilizers are among the actions that have increased the amount of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere to the point that the planet’s basic functions are coming undone. Some People Are More Vulnerable Than Others.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This shift is good news because tackling methane is crucial to the fight against climate change due to its significantly higher global warming potential than CO2, the disposal of relatively cheap methods of controlling emissions, and its short atmospheric lifespan. This year, several jurisdictions announced new methane regulations.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The Climate Overshoot Commission is a senior independent international body, consisting of twelve distinguished individuals from around the world, including former heads of government, national ministers, and leaders of major environment, development, and civil society organizations.

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

As climate change has become a more pervasive and urgent political issue, governments around the world have started to look to soil as a potential part of the solution. They present a serious sink for atmospheric carbon to be stored. It was a topic for farmers or agronomists, outside the sphere of influence for most people.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The ocean has already absorbed 90% of the heat trapped by greenhouse gases and 26% of the carbon dioxide emitted by humans burning fossil fuels. Commercial shipping’s reliance on energy-dense but dirty fossil fuels generates approximately one billion metric tonnes of GHGs every year, as well as black carbon and soot.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Our national overreliance on gas is evidently undermining energy access, not strengthening it, as some fossil fuel industry players would want you to believe. These claims just add to the deluge of greenwashing and disinformation from the fossil fuel industry. Don’t believe the industry spin.

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