Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 21, 2025

For companies in the oil and gas sector, 80 to 90 percent of carbon emissions result from the use of their fossil fuel products. The fossil fuel industry has employed aggressive tactics to rebuff these advances for accountability and cash in on political favors.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

MAY 9, 2025

May 13-- Senate Local Government Committee meets to consider Senate Bill 311 (Yaw-R-Lycoming) prohibiting local governments from banning any source of energy [like natural gas]. Room 8E-B East Wing. Click Here to watch live. Read more here on agenda. Room 8E-A East Wing. Click Here to watch live. And Saved $44.2

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 27, 2025

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- -- Gov. Shapiro Yet Another Troubling Escalation Of Political Violence -- TribLive Editorial: Political Violence Must Be Decried Every Day -- Budget 2025 -- Gov. Ohio- $2.99 PA- $3.34 -- PUC Announces May 6, 7 Hearings On Proposed 15.7%

Politics

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Key targets include regulations substantially limiting carbon emissions from coal-fired powerplants, cars, and trucks. government no lomger cares whether its actions impose disproportionate health burdens on poor or minority communities. This is an area where state-level action and grassroots politics could help push back.

Paris Agreement

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 28, 2025

Shell, like competitors ExxonMobil and Chevron, uses an intensity metric for measuring the global warming emissions it produces, which allows them to project reductions in their relative carbon emissions via increases in renewable power and technologies like carbon capture and storage.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

APRIL 28, 2025

Apparently, EPA means to challenge the massive scientific evidence that human carbon emissions are causing dangerous climate change. The government also froze funding that was already due for clean energy projects and scientific research relating to climate change. Such impacts are apparently not a concern. Download as PDF

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2025

summit for a proposed energy siting board that includes unaccountable private sector board members and that would take away approval powers from local governments. Data Center At Panther Creek Waste Coal-Fired Power Plant In Carbon County [PaEN] -- FracTracker Alliance Releases National A.I. There was also a lot of hype at the A.I.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2025

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- -- Gov. Shapiro -- TribLive: As President Cuts Research Money, Gov. Shapiro Pitches $50 Million For Science, Innovation -- Gov. Shapiro Highlights Proposed $50 Million Investment In Science To Speed Up PAs Innovation Economy, Connect Researchers With The Private Sector -- Gov.

Politics

Legal Planet

JANUARY 15, 2025

In terms of the IRAs strengths, I personally really like the expenditure on nascent technologies like carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), direct air capture, and CCS pipelines. These seem like the kind of things that government should be spending money on early-stage technologies.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

APRIL 23, 2025

One such survey involved 130,000 people in 125 countries, which account for 96% of the worlds carbon emissions, and was published in the journal Nature Climate Change. HEATEDs Emily Atkin had the best take on this new front in climate denial used as a justification for scrubbing the federal government of climate science.

Earth Day

Yale E360

JUNE 26, 2025

“This is a chance for the Prabowo government to show that it has learned from those failures.” ” ALSO ON YALE E360 Will UN Carbon Market Work? . “Communities are repressed, forests are cleared, and pollution goes unaddressed with impunity,” Adams said.

Carbon Emissions

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 3, 2025

. -- March 3 - Weekly PA Environment Digest Now Available [PaEN] -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Feb.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

AUGUST 13, 2025

That catch phrase from Season 1, Episode 1 where Trump officials lied about the size of his inauguration crowd has now metastasized into a governing philosophy for how federal agencies plan to ignore, and ultimately exacerbate, the climate crisis. government position. Remember alternative facts? is pushing alternative science.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

Emissions trading systems are often launched with relatively lenient design features, typically justified as giving the system a chance to “learn-by-doing” and to gain political buy-in for approval of a program. Yet it can be difficult to make emission trading systems more environmentally ambitious after program launch.

Government

Legal Planet

MAY 23, 2022

Australia has had a change of government. The Liberal Party — conservative in everything but name — lost control of the federal government to Labor. So the change in government is more than welcome. Climate change wasn’t a central issue in the campaign, but resistance to climate action no longer provided a political advantage.

Carbon Emissions

Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2022

If carbon emissions continue to rise until the middle of the century, this figure climbs to $2.2 One in 20 tests performed by the city’s water department detected the toxic metal at concentrations exceeding government limits for drinking water. billion every year for maintaining roads, bridges, culverts, and rail tracks.

Carbon Dioxide

Legal Planet

JULY 15, 2021

The system will involve over 2000 firms, accounting for one-seventh of global carbon emissions. The delays were apparently due to gaps in emissions data along with political maneuvering. The system is designed to reduce carbon intensity, the amount of emissions per unit of energy.

2030

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 19, 2021

As governments in California and across the United States wrestle with how to address soaring housing costs, a significant flashpoint has been the issue of local control. Most land-use regulation in the United States is done by local governments: cities, counties, towns, villages.

Government

Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2023

On a per capita basis, Australia’s carbon emissions are even higher than the United States. In the past two years, however, the things have started trending upward after years of inaction by conservative governments. As in the United States, state governments made some effort to pick up the slack. As in the U.S.,

2030

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Officials at the state and federal level have launched a full-court press against what the financial industry calls “environmental, social and governance” (ESG) investing. A closer look at the facts shows that big banks and investment firms are still financing the fossil fuel industry to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars a year.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

APRIL 8, 2024

Probably the more serious barrier to adaptation is that Nigeria has what is politely referred to as a governance problem. US AID is pretty blunt about this: “There are roadblocks to a strong democracy in Nigeria at all levels of government. This is yet one more reason why curbing global carbon emissions is of the utmost urgency.

Climate Change

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2021

Bernal was politically-minded from a young age. But what galvanized her political consciousness were the Standing Rock protests, a sustained resistance movement of Native American communities against the Dakota Access oil pipeline, beginning in 2016. “It This nexus motivates Bernal to emphasize water rights in her activism.

2016

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Over the last 15 years, Penn State University has cut its carbon emissions by more than 35 percent, putting the University ahead of schedule to meet its goal of reducing greenhouse gas outputs to 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. The group began meeting this summer and aims to share its recommendations by the end of this year.

Carbon Emissions

Legal Planet

JULY 28, 2022

Climate adaptation is moving into the limelight, with major funding on adaptation from Congress and state governments. At other end of the country and the political spectrum, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill providing $640 billion to fund coastal resilience efforts. Notably, this funding is coming with bipartisan support.

Sea Level

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

As more local governments in California and around the country develop robust climate action plans–and as federal action to reduce emissions remains unpredictable as ever–it is increasingly clear that local strategies will be a key driver of decarbonization and resilience. . 30), which voters statewide rejected.

Government

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The Federal Cabinet adopts its first climate target, a 25-30% cut in carbon emissions by 2005 under 1987 levels. Note: the estimates of 1990 emissions that I found are not entirely consistent, with one estimate closer to 1.2 Government adopts a sector-by-sector plan to reach 2050 climate goals. trillion tons.]

Nuclear Power

Circle of Blue

MARCH 20, 2023

Part pep rally, part trade show, part performance review, the UN Water Conference is pitched by its co-hosts, the governments of the Netherlands and Tajikistan, as an opportunity for the world to recommit to ambitious goals of safely managed water and sanitation for all people and ecosystems.

2030

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 18, 2022

One important win came when the Dutch court ruled that Shell must cut carbon emissions from both its operations and the oil and gas products the company sells. Perhaps most importantly, the new IPCC assessment draws attention to research on disinformation and political polarization over climate science in the United States.

Climate Change

Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 7, 2021

If the government of Ontario hoped that abolishing the Environment Commissioner, and transferring the position’s responsibilities to the Auditor General would free it from accountability on climate change, wilderness conservation, pollution and species at risk protection, it must surely be disappointed. . ENDANGERED SPECIES.

Government

Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Highlights Two out of three voters want to see the broken public transit funding model fixed, with all levels of government helping transit systems stabilize their finances, even if it means increasing taxes. These results are consistent across voters for all political parties.

Carbon Emissions

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In contrast to civil, political, and economic rights, cultural rights have been side-lined and neglected in dialogues about climate policy and human rights. It called for compensation from the government, and for Australia to take more aggressive measures to prevent climate change at the national and international levels.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

AUGUST 26, 2021

The Supreme Court interpreted the statute to place an absolute priority on preserving endangered species, regardless of the impact on the economy or other government goals. In an opinion by Justice Stevens, the Court held that the threat of sea level rise gave a state government standing to bring the suit. Illinois Central Railroad v.

Clean Air Act

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

President-elect Gabriel Boric’s new government must address issues of decarbonisation, water crisis and lithium nationalisation, all while rewriting the country’s constitution. In our government, it will be a priority to avoid this destruction and to have development that is compatible with the environment.”. By Francisco Parra Galaz

Government

Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

Is this as opposed to a political purpose on the part of the managers? because the company engages in the exploration, production, utilization, transportation, sale, or manufacturing of fossil fuel based energy. ” Suppose instead that the company refuses to do business with firms with high carbon emissions. “.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

There are multiple realistic, tangible solutions that would rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, yet policy addressing anthropogenic climate change remains slow and insufficient. This dangerous delay in action is largely due to the fossil fuel industry continuing to increase carbon emissions and standing in the way of change. .

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2021

As a government delegate, I have been involved in the UN climate negotiation process since 2017 to uphold Bangladesh’s and the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group’s position. The Rulebook sets out the functioning of international carbon markets to support global cooperation on ambitious emission reductions.

Paris Agreement

Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

A federal court in Australia ruled that the government had a “duty of care” toward its young people to protect them from climate change. On the opposite side of the world, a Dutch court mandated a 40% cut over the next ten years in carbon emissions by Shell Oil, including the emissions resulting from the ultimate use of its oil and gas.

Fossil Fuels