Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 17, 2023

cranks its air conditioners to get through historic high temperatures , the need for energy that slows, not hastens, climate change is more apparent than ever. Yet, in 2022, almost 40% of electricity in the US was generated by power plants fueled by natural gas. And now, as the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2022

To help avoid the worst possible consequences of climate change, however, the alliance states need to reach that 100-percent objective much more quickly. Emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides from power plants in alliance states drop 88 percent and 77 percent respectively by 2040.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

For Canada’s major oil and gas producers, Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is a get-out-of-jail-free card, which allows them to keep on polluting while appearing as though they are taking the threat of climate change seriously. billion carbon capture facility at its Genesse power plant west of Edmonton. Want proof?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In our series on the increasing unreliability of fossil gas , my colleagues at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) have laid out why growing concerns about grid reliability should not be met simply by increasing the number of gas plants on the grid. In fact, too many gas plants are the problem, not the solution.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

When it comes to climate action, it can be difficult to understand what makes a strong climate plan that puts us on a pathway to zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions – and what new policies and tools are actually dangerous distractions from real solutions. But the truth is carbon capture is a false solution to the climate crisis.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 25, 2023

This includes loopholes related to biomethane, whereby heavily polluting fossil fuel-fired hydrogen production facilities—the very facilities the tax credit is trying to incentivize a shift away from—can cloak themselves as “clean” and reap full tax credit rewards, without having done anything but pushed around paper.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Just how bad is fossil “natural” gas? 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.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

These higher costs are being driven by a major overreliance on natural gas, which has sharply spiked in price and is currently the dominant fuel source in the US for both home heating and electricity generation. Likewise, pipeline giant Williams Companies now refers to its gas projects as “clean energy” projects.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

In recent years, The Netherlands has become the leading site of climate change litigation. its district, appellate , and supreme courts decided in favor of Urgenda, an upstart environmental organization, ordering the government to more aggressively reduce greenhouse gas emissions. These lawsuits face three key barriers.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

While the epicenter of the war and its horrors has remained trained on and in Ukraine, Russia has also leveraged its position as a major fossil fuel exporter to fund its war efforts and to manipulate and threaten others, including countries across Europe that have long relied on Russian supplies of gas.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

That requires bringing global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions to net zero by 2050. To meet that goal, the International Energy Agency’s Net Zero Roadmap released in 2021 says no new oil and gas supply projects can come online. DO: Pay your fair share of the costs of climate change.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 30, 2021

This is especially critical given all the noise coming from the oil and gas sector – and the institutions propping them up – suggesting that the only way to tackle climate change is by paying the very companies fueling the climate crisis to lower their emissions! of annual emissions from fossil fuels.

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 5, 2022

compressed natural gas, solar, hydroelectric, wind). volume mixing ratio), together with a number of trace gases, such as argon (0.93% volume mixing ratio), helium, radiatively active greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (0.035% volume mixing ratio), and ozone. volume mixing ratio) and oxygen (20.9% See, Weather.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The type and size of projects promoted by a statewide economic plan directly impact the quality of our air, water, land, and climate. The letter requests revisions to the plan that will prioritize sustainable industries and an equitable strategy to protect communities, workers, and the environment from climate change and pollution impacts.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Production of nitrogen fertilizers requires ammonia, which is produced through a highly energy-intensive process called Haber-Bosch and fueled by natural gas. Russia is a major supplier of the gas used in the production of nitrogen fertilizers, and also produces about 21 percent of the world’s potash.

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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.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Burning fossil fuels is a main contributor to climate change. Fossil gas (misleadingly marketed as natural gas) is one of the main contributors to global warming. It is mostly made up of methane which is even worse than carbon dioxide.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Major fossil fuel companies routinely make billion-dollar profits, extracting and distributing oil, gas, and coal. Unfortunately, fossil fuels produce carbon dioxide (CO2) when burnt—and CO2 is the main driver of climate change.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The war in Ukraine and potential fuel shortages in countries like Germany this winter have brought the issue of gas into the spotlight. The industry is saying the world needs more fossil gas (also known as “natural gas”), exported overseas in the form of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG).

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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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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 24, 2021

After all, if you make a product that is the cause of climate change in the first place–fossil fuels like coal, oil, and gas–your approach to tackling climate change better be to fundamentally change your business model, and stop producing this dangerous product. I don’t think so.

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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. After all, wasn’t a great deal of money recently invested through the [federal] Inflation Reduction Act [IRA]to combat climate change? And it’s still rising.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2023

Jacobson's presentation will be on the findings in his new book, No Miracles Needed: How Today’s Technology Can Save Our Climate and Clean Our Air, published by Cambridge University Press. "We We still have time to save the planet without resorting to 'miracle' technologies.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

Fossil fuel power plant owners are facing increased accountability for their air and water pollution, including from a new round of environmental and public health protections that are being rolled out by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). We’ve heard these lazily disingenuous narratives before.

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Greenbuilding Law

MAY 1, 2022

EPA tells us succinctly, Carbon dioxide is the primary greenhouse gas emitted through human activities. In 2020, carbon dioxide accounted for about 79% of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions from human activities. greenhouse gas emissions from human activities. emission trends. emission trends.

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Edouard Stenger

AUGUST 21, 2017

While it is undeniable that we are ramping up our actions against climate change, it is hard to deny that global warming is getting scarier every week. This could increase the speed of climate change even more as this greenhouse gas is 24 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2021

It is a highly professional and analytically competent organization, rather conservative, and quite sympathetic to the perspectives and business needs of the energy sector, including fossil-fuel producers. It’s worth reading through their roadmap in detail, but it’s a few of the most immediate requirements that jump out at you.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This funding builds on Governor Shapiro’s agenda to create a bold, comprehensive climate and energy plan that will grow Pennsylvania’s economy, protect and create jobs, and address climate change. It also helps lower the level of carbon dioxide, one of the greenhouse gases heating up the climate, in the air.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Opportunities to learn more about environmental and energy issues affecting Pennsylvania for students and adults-- -- Welcome The Inaugural Class Of 35 High School Keep PA Beautiful Young Ambassadors [PaEN] -- Think Outside Presents Oct. 23 -- Parenting PA: Outdoor Recreation And Children - A Perfect Match! 22-23 -- Penn State Oct.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The decision at the Glasgow climate conference to phase down fossil fuels is an important step forward — and not just because of climate change. We think of fossil fuels as a source of climate change, but that’s only a one part of the problem. Consider coal. Download as PDF.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Team Pennsylvania is committed to doing our part as conveners to accelerate the needed policy approaches to create and preserve jobs while reducing our carbon footprint.” DOE Opens $7 Billion Hydrogen Hub Funding Opportunity, Concept Papers Due Nov.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Instead of ramping up fossil gas (aka natural gas) consumption, we need to bring it down. Ontario needs to do our part in reducing global emissions and phasing out fossil gas is a smart way to do it. The gas subsidy alone amounts to $26,000 per home! Instead, electrify for about half the cost!

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2022

“Every time a company or organization installs an energy-efficient heating, cooling, or lighting system, it’s another step for Pennsylvania and the nation toward independence from fossil fuels. It creates good-paying jobs in energy efficiency system manufacturing and installation. It makes air quality healthier in the community.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2022

increase in carbon dioxide pollution from the Commonwealth’s power plants between 2020 and 2021. Pennsylvania’s power generation sector is one of the nation’s largest — and thus, also, one of the biggest emitters of climate-changing greenhouse gases. Environmental Protection Agency show a startling 9.6%

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 1, 2023

Far more energy efficient than a gas furnace, using a heat pump can provide significant energy bill savings , while offering protection from volatile gas prices , which can fluctuate wildly depending on global markets. And, kicking gas out of your home is good for your health and the climate.

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Burning coal in these two regions account for a little under two gigatonnes of carbon dioxide emissions per year, with 1.29 Yet, coal account for two-thirds of the carbon emissions of electricity generation in both regions. Cleaning” it by compressing and sending the carbon dioxide underground would make it much more expensive.

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