PA Environment Daily

JUNE 8, 2025

Of Agriculture Now Accepting Agricultural Research Grant Applications, July 25 Deadline -- Gov. Million Water Main, Lead Service Line Replacement Projects -- Pittsburgh Business Times: Pittsburgh Water Authority Launches $75.4

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 27, 2025

Shapiro -- Inquirer: Shapiros Office Responds After USDA Accuses Governor Of Playing Games With Federal Food Bank Funding Cuts That Hurt Farmers -- Inquirer: PA Wants To Hire Federal Workers; But Now Has A Partial Hiring Freeze -- Gov. Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- -- Gov.

Politics

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 31, 2025

This newest massive loan will only benefit CEOs from the oil and banking industry, while Canadians – already struggling with an affordability crisis will be left on the hook to cover the costs. More fossil fuel infrastructure is not a winning strategy for Canadians or the planet.

Government

A Greener Life

MARCH 10, 2025

By Anders Lorenzen Mark Carney, the former Governor of the Bank of England and the United Nations (UN) Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance, has become the next Prime Minister of Canada. While at the Bank of England, he supercharged climate change as a key concern and focus area. Photo credit: World Economic Forum via Flickr.

2025

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

When Donald Trump returns to the Oval Office in January 2025, his second presidency will have widespread implications for the energy industry, especially new investments, but not necessarily in the ways his supporters might expect. Renewable Energy Vs. Fossil Fuels Renewables or fossil fuels?

2025

Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 1, 2025

Subscribe Top Posts & Pages Using the pollution load index to evaluate rooftop harvested rainwater metal(loid) contamination in environmental justice communities If Energy Star goes away, finding energy efficient appliances will be harder.

Recycling

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 20, 2024

Last week, I participated in the Scientists Speakout Day during the Summer of Heat on Wall Street , to protest and disrupt the financial institutions that are enabling the fossil fuel industry (and, as a result, our current climate crisis).

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

APRIL 26, 2021

In order to achieve the greenhouse gas reductions needed to sustain a livable climate, we must scale up renewable energy capacity at a rapid pace. The resource bank contains peer-reviewed scientific articles and reports published by governmental agencies and trade organizations, and was compiled by Sabin Center intern Naomi Zimmermann.

Renewable Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Since the summer of 2021, five Republican-controlled state legislatures have passed bills banning their state governments from doing business with financial institutions that they allege have divested from fossil fuel companies as a result of ESG investment policies. Another six statehouses are considering similar bills.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

In 2022, UCS, COPAL , and our other project partners published the report On the Road to 100 Percent Renewables , along with a state-specific fact sheet outlining how Minnesota could meet its electricity needs completely and equitably with renewable energy by 2035, while dramatically reducing fossil fuel use in vehicles and buildings.

Electricity

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Glasgow — Today at COP26, Canada, US, Mali, UK, and 20 other countries and institutions from both developed and developing countries launched a joint statement committing to end direct international public finance for unabated coal, oil and gas by the end of 2022 and prioritize clean energy finance. This was 2.5

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

What we really care about is making people better off, not growing their bank accounts. Another is that the costs of renewable energy and electric vehicles have declined so greatly in the past ten years, making them more or less competitive with their fossil-fuel alternatives.

Carbon Emissions

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 3, 2023

It is overwhelmingly produced by a process known as steam methane reforming (SMR), which is heavily carbon-polluting, and the resulting hydrogen is primarily consumed as a feedstock for industrial purposes, such as oil refining and fertilizer production, not as a way to displace fossil fuels. And this isn’t just hypothetical.

Clean Energy

Legal Planet

JULY 5, 2023

A 2022 Rainforest Action Network repor t found that “fossil fuel financing from the world’s 60 largest banks has reached USD $4.6 trillion in the six years since the adoption of the Paris Agreement, with $742 billion in fossil fuel financing in 2021 alone.” The biggest US bank investors in fossil fuels? “At

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Barclays and HSBC are two of the major banks which continue to fund fossil fuel investments. A report by ShareAction has delivered a damning verdict on European banks connection to fossil fuel investments. Major European banks at the heart of continued fossil fuel support.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

MAY 3, 2022

And despite the mounting warnings from experts, India’s big banks appear to be turning a blind eye to climate risk. . Climate scorecard for India’s banks . A recent analysis offers a rare glimpse into how India’s largest commercial banks think about climate change. You’re talking about extremely large banks,” Fernandes says.

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

JULY 5, 2024

There’s a direct line of culpability between fossil fuel corporations and climate change – it’s why so many oil and gas CEOs have topped our list of Climate Villains. But they aren’t the only powerful players who shoulder responsibility for keeping us hooked on fossil fuels, the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions.

Fossil Fuels

Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Nearly all of these plastics are made from fossil fuels including crude oil, natural gas liquids and coal. Ocean plastics, such as those collected by our International Coastal Cleanup partners last week on beaches and waterways around the world, are a product of the fossil fuel industry that is driving climate change.

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

MAY 11, 2023

What do the CEO of Imperial Oil, the head of RBC bank and the head of Big Oil’s biggest lobby association, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, all have in common? And they’re preventing efforts to build a healthy, equitable world beyond fossil fuels. That makes them three of Canada’s top ‘climate villains’.

Fossil Fuels

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.

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Federal government releases new policy aimed at ending international public financing for fossil fuels, next step is ending domestic financing . This new policy will end a significant portion of EDC’s support for fossil fuels and redirect those funds to support the clean energy transition.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Graph credit: Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM). trillion, and has targeted large investments in renewable energy. billion (€900 million) to the renewable energy investment firm, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP). The Fund was established in 1990 and built on Norway ’s oil and gas revenues.

Renewable Energy

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 25, 2024

Financial institutions such as banks, pension managers, asset managers and insurance companies are the primary players in the finance game. Climate change is driven by the release of greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels. Banks are not the only culprits funding the fossil fuel industry.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

MAY 17, 2022

The joint appeal, which can be viewed here , calls upon financial service providers to take urgent and effective action to transition out of fossil fuel financing and to invest in renewable energies and research for climate solutions. ” Stop all new fossil fuels projects.

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

JULY 22, 2021

– Today, Canada’s export bank, Export Development Canada (EDC), released new climate targets. The agency is the largest fossil fuel financier out of G20 country export credit agencies, with an average of CAD 12.9 Ending all support for fossil fuels, without any loopholes, is a critical step that EDC must take now.

Fossil Fuels

Energy and Climate Law

JUNE 11, 2020

Due to the vast amounts of hydrogen that will be needed in Germany in the coming years, the governmnet is not only banking on German domestic production. This step is quite controversial due to the impossibility to ensure that the hydrogen there is really produced from renewables and not from fossil fuels.

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 14, 2022

But Canada’s largest financial institutions still fund fossil fuel expansion projects and are too slow to invest in climate solutions. Although Canada’s big banks and pension funds are signing onto commitments to align with the net-zero transition, these voluntary measures set the bar very low. Why is this? .

Regulations

Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 8, 2024

trillion USD) in fossil fuel companies in 2022, making the sector the fifth largest climate polluter in the world, only after China, United States, India and Russia, Stand.earth and Environmental Defence are calling for urgent policy action. trillion CAD into fossil fuel companies, resulting in 1.44 trillion CAD ($1.1

Fossil Fuels

Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

For years, grid parity – the time when solar and wind would be cost-competitive with fossil fuels and nuclear – was the holy grail of renewables energy, a target to reach in a distant future. an increased interest in energy efficiency solutions and of course, 3. the renewable energy revolution.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This is a signal not only of the country’s unhealthy reliance on fossil fuels but also a failure to move away from gas in a way that other countries have done successfully. In addition, they should rapidly phase out gas for electricity, but of course only if the electricity is produced by nuclear or renewable energy.

Wind Power

Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Canadians will demand that financial institutions invest in a climate-safe future It is hard to create a zero-carbon economy if banks and pension funds are still investing in expanding oil and gas extraction. There are also financial risks to investments in fossil fuel projects that must be shut down soon in order to address climate change.

2024

A Greener Life

JUNE 22, 2022

Photo credit: Asian Development Bank / Flickr / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Bhutan plans to harness 300 MW of solar energy within the next two years as it seeks to diversify its grid. In the next two years, Bhutan plans to harness 300 megawatts of solar energy, Minister for Economic Affairs Lokhnath Sharma has told The Third Pole.

Renewable Energy

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

With most energy investments still in fossil fuels, significant reform is needed to modernise the sector and meet Kazakhstan’s pledge to become net-zero by 2060. Social unrest related to fossil fuels is not a new phenomenon in Kazakhstan. An oil pump in a dust storm on the road to Aktau, Kazakhstan.

Fossil Fuels

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.

Solar Power

A Greener Life

JUNE 10, 2021

It followed Musk’s announcement earlier this month that his company would no longer accept Bitcoin in payment for its electric cars, due to the fossil fuels needed to create the digital currency. These computers use a lot of electricity , which is often generated by fossil fuels. First published in The Conversation.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2024

The 2024 current environmental issue focused on-- Renewable Energy for a Sustainable Future. Throughout the week-long competition, students demonstrated their knowledge of soils and land use, aquatic ecology, forestry, wildlife management, and the current issue through written tests and prepared oral presentations.

2003

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The current global shift towards renewable energy is already set to cause demand for fossil fuels to peak and decline this decade; however, this is just the beginning. Of course, the oil and gas industry is banking on countries to miss their targets. degree climate-safe threshold. aligned world.

Fossil Fuels