Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

For instance, research by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has quantified the effects of air pollution associated with respiratory diseases, leading to regulations that improve air quality and public health.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 15, 2025

Without specifying the context, the statement The risks of addressing climate change are too large could justify almost any decision from reinforcing a bridge to withstand extreme heat to ignoring greenhouse gas emissions because of the financial losses that the fossil fuel industry would incur.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2025

If you’ve wondered what is in the US Environmental Protection Agency Employees’ Declaration of Dissent urging Administrator Lee Zeldin to “change course by re-committing to his oath to protect the health of the American people and our environment” -- this is the text. These communications are partisan and scientifically unsound.

Environmental Protection

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 24, 2025

The ICJ makes clear that climate inaction is a violation of international law For the first time, the world’s highest court has affirmed that states have concrete legal obligations under international law to protect the climate. It must remind decision makers everywhere that climate delay is not neutral, it is unlawful.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

JANUARY 24, 2025

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) developed the Solar for All and Clean Communities Investment Accelerator programs to direct GGRF funding as required by statute. The phrase EV mandate also jibes with a political antagonism to some electric vehicle tax credits.

Paris Agreement

Enviromental Defense

APRIL 1, 2025

So it should be no surprise to Canadians that recently, some of the wealthiest oil and gas companies operating in Canada urged political parties to jump on the same anti-environment bandwagon. Now, theyre emboldened by the success they are having in gutting environmental protections in the United States and want to do the same here in Canada.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Supreme Court issued important orders in two closely-related environmental lawsuits previously decided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, agreeing to decide whether fossil fuel manufacturers have legal standing to challenge an EPA decision under the federal Clean Air Act. EPA is good news indeed.

Clean Air Act

Inside Climate News

JULY 5, 2025

Analysis shows EPA rollbacks of the HON rule would put overburdened communities at risk and benefit chemical plants that frequently violate their permits. By Shelby Jouppi This story was published in partnership with Public Health Watch.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Its no surprise that this anti-science, pro-fossil fuel administration wants to go after the Endangerment Finding. Those harms will worsen rapidly as global warming emissions, primarily from burning fossil fuels, increase. Environmental Protection Agency et al. What is the Endangerment Finding?

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2025

The fossil fuel age is flailing and failing,” UN Chief António Guterres said in a speech last week, accusing coal, oil and gas of being “the greatest threat to energy security today.” The order ignores wind and solar while promoting fossil fuel, advanced nuclear, and geothermal as power options.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2025

The latest auction resulted in this generation mix —with 67% of the generation in PJM being from fossil fuels, with gas being the largest source. Lack Of Clean Energy Transition The fundamental reason behind the price spike is the lack of a clean energy transition in PJM. I will end here. Lenox Township is just a few miles from Dimock.

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 26, 2025

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Staff have been threatened and fired , with targeted cuts to the agencys environmental justice office, federal spending was frozen , and EPA Administrator Zeldin announced a massive deregulatory plan to undertake 31 actions to weaken key environmental protections. 1415 and S.

Toxic Substances Control Act

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

This editorial first appeared in the Republican Herald (Schuylkill County), Citizens Voice (Luzerne County) and Scranton Times (Lackawanna County) on March 11, 2025-- Theres really no fine line between what constitutes a political rally and an open, honest discussion about issues on which reasonable people can disagree. The Who cares?

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

However, the “actions”—given euphemistic titles like “protect consumer choice”—actually aim to roll back science-based environmental protections in order to maximize already massive profits. Muzzle environmental reviews. Pump up gas. API markets these proposals as bolstering the country’s geopolitical strength.

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

APRIL 9, 2025

Last year, Environmental Defence released a report on the fossil fuel industrys relentless lobbying efforts throughout 2023and wowza , the response was incredible. Top 5 Ministries Lobbied by the Fossil Fuel Industry Environmental Defence just released a report on all the lobbying by Big Oil we tracked in 2024.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 15, 2025

In our current fossil-fueled freight system, the cost for convenience spans far beyond membership fees for expedited deliveries. Unlike state regulations that set clean air standards for vehicles and engines more stringent than federal standards, ISRs do not require approval from the Environmental Protection Agency.

Ground-Level Ozone

Legal Planet

APRIL 30, 2025

Personally, I find this definition more fluid in climate journalism specifically because it is accepted by most newsrooms that beat reporters believe fiercely in environmental protections and the need for solutions without crossing over into being a policy advocate. Chevron gets particular focus by the study and the NYT coverage.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JULY 2, 2025

DEP Hearing On State Plan To Implement Federal Rule Requiring Methane Emissions Reductions From Conventional Oil & Gas, Shale Gas Facilities. Williamsport. Of Justice Agreement -- Interfaith Partners For The Chesapeake Bay: Sept.

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 14, 2025

The rhetoric from this administration that mischaracterizes core public health and environmental programs as wasteful or ideologically driven is a dangerous distortion of reality. The American publicacross the political spectrumsupport clean air, water and land.

Clean Air Act

Law Columbia

APRIL 29, 2025

With some exceptions, federal agencies formerly defending Biden administration climate actions requested that the cases be held in abeyance to allow new political leadership time to be briefed on the litigation and to determine how to proceed. Courts have generally granted these requests. Department of the Interior on April 23, 2025.

Climate Change

Inside Climate News

AUGUST 7, 2025

With the Trump administration raising doubts on climate science, the country’s premier science advisory group will fast-track a consensus document. By Marianne Lavelle The nation’s premier group of scientific advisers announced Thursday that it will conduct an independent, fast-track review of the latest climate science.

2009

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 10, 2025

Trumps political appointeesmany with a record of science denial or close ties to the industries theyre supposed to be regulatingare threatening to stop enforcement and roll back rules on chemical safety, clean transportation, emissions standards, pollution control, and other important issues.

Politics

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The discussion around cumulative impacts is critical at this moment in time and history because it provides an overall framework for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to offer better public health protection. All those steps can release pollutants into a community.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

JULY 10, 2025

Illustration with Canva AI While many of us prepared to celebrate Independence Day last week, a group of employees from the Environmental Protection Agency were bravely speaking out about what they see as their boss “recklessly undermining the EPA mission” of protecting human health and the environment.

Climate Change

A Greener Life

APRIL 8, 2025

Additionally, his staffers have gained access to the Treasury Department, and they have set their sights on the Departments of Defence, Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and others. Many of these cutbacks will have profound implications for tackling the climate crisis, which the Trump Administration has wholly ignored.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 11, 2025

For over 15 years the Delaware River community joined together to defend our River, watershed and communities from the ravages of fracking for fossil fuels. The political landscape has changed considerably since the Commissioners’ vote in 2021. We commend their leadership and courage in putting science, health, and safety first.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 16, 2025

On June 11, less than five months into the Trump administration, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin used a rulemaking about regulating power plant carbon pollution to officially establish climate denial as EPA policy. Plus, a rundown on how to fight back. What is EPA proposing to do? This is not a joke.

Carbon Emissions

PA Environment Daily

JULY 29, 2025

“Our industry’s relentless focus on innovation, emissions reduction, and regulatory compliance continues to drive positive environmental and public health improvements, particularly in Pennsylvania, where greenhouse gas emissions in the power sector have dropped 46% in the last two decades. Click Here for the MSC announcement.

Greenhouse

Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The move represents a lifeline for fossil fuel use in a decarbonizing energy grid. Environmental Protection Agency. The post FRESH, October 4, 2022: Carbon Dioxide Storage and Transport Emerges as Political Flashpoint appeared first on Circle of Blue. Looking Ahead.

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Methane emissions come from two main sources : fossil fuels and agriculture—primarily animal-based agriculture. Despite the obvious dangers of fossil fuel production and the multi-decade climate disinformation campaigns fossil fuel producers have perpetrated, the industry still holds political sway.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency et al. The petitioners who brought this case include state-level political officials and coal companies who are single-mindedly determined to block climate action and perpetuate fossil fuel dependence to serve their narrow political or business interests.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

A simple statement that masks just how complicated the issues are: mixing politics, economics, livelihoods, fisheries and endangered species in the ocean body that is the Gulf of Maine. GOM communities, not fossil fuel interests, should determine policies that affect GOM people. They should be held accountable for their actions.”

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 14, 2024

How could we realistically achieve permitting reform that will advance climate and environmental goals? Answering that question requires recognizing the political realities of a sharply divided Congress and country. The second post is here. Any significant change to permitting reform requires a deal that is acceptable to both sides.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In order to enforce those standards, the state must be granted a waiver by the Environmental Protection Agency, something which Congress makes very clear should be given under virtually all conditions. Over 10,000 UCS supporters chimed in with EPA in support of granting California’s ability to enforce its truck regulations.

Nitrogen Oxides

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

One critical tool for forcing that reckoning comes from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Through the Clean Air Act , and as affirmed—and reaffirmed—through multiple legal sagas, EPA is statutorily obligated to address carbon pollution from fossil fuel-fired power plants.

Clean Air Act

Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

State of Montana, a Montana trial court ruled that the state Constitution’s guarantee of a healthy and clean environment prevails over Montana’s longstanding fossil-fuel-based state energy system. The court’s 103-page decision in Held v.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

“Pursue Your Happiness In Pennsylvania” Senate next voting day September 18, 19, 20; Oct.

Natural Gas