Enviromental Defense

JUNE 9, 2021

. – Ontario has launched the second phase of a program to expand fossil fuel gas pipelines to new communities. This is a big subsidy for fossil fuels and a step in the wrong direction, when the government could have chosen to support clean technologies, help customers save money long term, lower capital costs, and cut carbon emissions.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

We’ve been hearing a lot lately about geoengineering – the various scientific theories and governance ideas that could eventually lead to technological interventions to help cool the planet. Take this recent CNN story titled “Supporters of a controversial climate solution say it could be key. Anyone can float a balloon.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 9, 2025

The way we get around, where and what kind of places we live in, and how we heat and cool our homes are going to be key to our quality of life and the health of our environment this year. Speaking of homes, heating and cooling a home in Canada where we see 50 degree temperature swings over the course of the year requires lots of energy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2023

Fuel transport – Spring floods can hinder the transportation of fuels like coal. While it is a heavily polluting fossil fuel that is set to continue declining as a fuel source for US electricity generation over the next decade, coal still accounted for roughly 20 percent of the country’s generation in 2022.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged on September 21 that his country would no longer finance coal-fired power plants abroad, making a high-profile commitment to move away from some forms of fossil fuel infrastructure less than six weeks before a pivotal global climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 30, 2023

Between heating and cooling seasons Headlines about renewable energy records also highlight how much of electricity demand renewables are meeting at a given time. Those numbers look better in spring not just because of stronger generation, but also because of changes to the “denominator”—the overall demand for electricity.

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Inside Climate News

DECEMBER 21, 2024

Underground pipes and wells tap geothermal energy to heat and cool a neighborhood. By Phil McKenna BOSTONThree climate activists and three gas utility executives walk into a room. Next stop, the world.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2023

One factor is the dirtiness of fossil fuels. Many power plants that make steam to generate electricity, including nuclear and coal plants, most gas plants, and a small number of renewable energy plants, also take a hit when their cooling water temperatures climb. That’s the supply part.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 17, 2025

It was a stark reminder that fossil fuels remain the fallback when extreme weather strikes. From Texas to Tamil Nadu, power grids have been buckling under unprecedented demand for cooling, exposing a paradox of the energy transition. An estimated 31% of the increase stemmed from higher cooling needs. c in August and 23.1

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

But in fact, gas power plants are unreliable in extreme temperatures, which—thanks to climate change—have been occurring more frequently. And, perhaps most important, adding more clean energy sources will dramatically reduce the impacts from developing, transporting, and burning fossil fuels.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 25, 2023

If the AMOC weakens, this region will cool. And in fact it is cooling – it’s the only region on Earth which has cooled since preindustrial times. that the sea surface temperature there in winter is a good index of AMOC strength, based on a high-resolution climate model. They aren’t trying to end fossil fuels.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

My bank keeps going behind my back with the fossil fuel sector The financial sector has somewhat of an sordid affair with the fossil fuel industry. For every dollar that you put in your bank account, or toward insurance, or into saving for the future, the financial industry gives some of that to the fossil fuel industry.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2022

Danger season in the United States is the time of year between roughly May and October when a number of climate-related hazards, including heatwaves, floods, wildfires, and hurricanes, tend to occur—at times simultaneously or back-to-back. How to address Danger Season.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Ensuring the most historically disadvantaged groups aren’t bearing an unequal burden for the cost of cooling themselves during climate change-caused heat waves is a clear example of energy equity that our electric and gas utilities could address. How are energy equity and energy justice connected?

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Mitigation – deep rapid cuts to worldwide emissions – is the first, essential element of effective climate response. I don’t think there’s anyone thinking seriously about climate change who disagrees with this. Isn’t it obvious that the world needs to get rid of fossil fuels, and haven’t a bunch of people called for it?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I’ll say it again because the fossil fuel disinformation machine wants you to believe otherwise: there is enough power generation and transmission on our current electric grid to charge all the electric vehicles being purchased over the next few years.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This pollution, mostly from burning fossil fuels that contain sulfur, has severe current environmental and health effects, estimated to kill more than 5 million people per year due to respiratory illness. But cleaning this up will remove its cooling effect, which the IPCC recently estimated as 0.7°C.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 3, 2022

If people everywhere stopped burning fossil fuels tomorrow, stored heat would still continue to warm the atmosphere. The radiators are, in fact, cooling down, but their stored heat is still warming the air in the room. Countries aren’t close to ending fossil fuel use. By Richard B. Ricky) Rood.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 9, 2024

While excluding new fossil fuel expansion from the sustainability label is obvious, including existing ‘natural’ methane gas projects in the taxonomy in any way would be problematic, given that studies show that gas – when accounting for its extraction, cooling, and transport – is more polluting for the climate than coal.

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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 will increase the impacts of climate change for everyone in the near future, especially people with respiratory illnesses.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 23, 2023

Extreme heat , winter storms , and flooding regularly remind us that the grid is struggling to keep up in the face of more climate change-fueled extreme weather. But what about fossil fuel resources, especially natural gas power plants ? Source: ESIG ; data from Astrapé.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

I’ve just arrived in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, for the 27 th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change—the UN’s annual global climate conference, aka COP27. Notably, this year, the Climate Justice Pavilion sits in the blue zone, staffed by U.S.-based

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Legal Planet

JULY 18, 2023

We give lots of lip service describing climate change as an emergency or existential threat. According to the Climate Emergency Declaration Organization, 2336 jurisdictions around the world have declared it to be an emergency, but we are not really acting like it. There are many possible emergency actions.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Upfront equipment costs can also be lower because heat pumps provide both heating and cooling in one unit and they qualify for a number of government rebate programs. What’s more, switching to heat pumps would reduce a home’s carbon emissions for space heating, cooling, and water heating significantly. What is “Natural” gas, really?

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 30, 2024

After the record breaking wildfire season that we had last year, it should be a wake up call for everyone that climate change is here and that it’s only going to get worse. We should do everything we can to reduce the effects of global warming and that means burning less fossil fuels, which includes burning less gas.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 19, 2024

If you’re ready to get more involved in fighting climate change and looking for ideas on how you can meaningfully contribute to climate solutions, then you’re in the right place! Have you checked out our guide to six easy ways to get involved in climate action? We know the solutions to fight climate change.

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

As the Arctic is 30 degrees Celsius (50 F) warmer than what it should be right now, finding local solutions to cool down the poles suddenly doesn’t seem this far-fetched anymore. . Years ago I read a short article on how bringing more ice to the poles could help slow down climate change.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

Notably, in the same proposal, the Commission has also included screening criteria for gaseous fossil fuels. The Regulation sets a time limit on the inclusion of nuclear energy but not on fossil fuels and grants the Commission special powers to rule on nuclear taxonomy compliance.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 5, 2022

A new process could lock carbon dioxide below the ocean floor, allowing valuable time to reduce the atmospheric greenhouse gases driving climate change. Photo credit: Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions. Basalt is a porous rock formed from cooling lava. But Solid Carbon is no get-out-of-jail-free card.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 22, 2022

We all know that to successfully address climate change we need to phase out fossil fuels and switch to electric power. Unfortunately, the current Ontario government’s plan is to burn more fossil gas to generate power. . creating ice in off peak periods to supply cooling in peak periods. As the U.S.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 10, 2024

Upfront equipment costs can also be lower because heat pumps provide both heating and cooling in one unit and they qualify for a number of government rebate programs. What’s more, switching to heat pumps would reduce a home’s carbon emissions for space heating, cooling, and water heating significantly. What is “Natural” gas, really?

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Natural gas”, also known as methane gas or fracked fossil gas, is a potent greenhouse gas that pollutes the environment and causes climate change when it is burned and when it escapes into the atmosphere during extraction, production, and transportation.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 22, 2023

DEP Climate Change Advisory Committee meeting. “Pursue Your Happiness In Pennsylvania” Senate next voting day September 18, 19, 20; Oct. 16ht Floor Delaware Room, Rachel Carson Building. Visit the Committee webpage for options to join the meeting remotely. Contact: Lindsay Byron lbyron@pa.gov.

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Frontiers

AUGUST 7, 2023

While the main focus has been on operational activities in Antarctica, global warming caused by fossil-fuel burning by these (and other) countries has left Antarctica on the brink of irreversible change. In the ocean, 19 marine heatwaves have been recorded between 2002 and 2018.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 10, 2024

Heat pumps are an amazing technology that allow people to get their homes off of fossil fuels and save money while doing so,” said Jack Gibbons, chair of Ontario Clean Air Alliance. People need to know that if they are about to install new heating and cooling equipment, they should go with a heat pump.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Forecasts of cool weather and expectations of lower wind power output had driven up demand for more fossil-fuel produced energy. The EU’s emissions trading system forces manufacturers, power companies and airlines, to pay for each tonne of CO2 they emit, in an effort to reduce emissions and to meet climate targets.

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A Greener Life

JULY 21, 2022

And with gruelling heatwaves becoming more common , the nights can be sweltering, with no cooling breeze to relieve the discomfort. UK summers are also seeing more frequent hot weather as a result of climate change. By Stephen Burt. Sleeping at the height of summer can sometimes feel impossible.

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