Yale E360

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Multiple recent analyses find that global fossil fuel demand is nearing its peak, with energy emissions at last headed for decline. Read more on E360 →

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 24, 2023

In an important win for climate accountability in the United States, the US Supreme Court decided that lawsuits filed in Colorado, Maryland, California, Hawai’i, and Rhode Island against fossil fuel companies including ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, Suncor, and others will remain in state courts.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Statement from Julia Levin, Associate Director, National Climate Dubai, UAE – Fossil fuel lobbyists are swarming COP28 this year, including Canada’s official delegation. According to the UN’s Provisional List of Registered Participants at COP28, 35 people with ties to the fossil fuel sector were given Party badges by Canada.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The world’s biggest fossil fuel companies recently released their 2022 earnings reports, revealing record-breaking profits last year; just five companies–ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, Chevron, and TotalEnergies–reported a total of nearly $200 billion in profits.

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Yale E360

AUGUST 31, 2023

Global subsidies for fossil fuels reached $7 trillion in 2022, an all-time high, according to the International Monetary Fund. Read more on E360 →

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Environment + Energy Leader

JUNE 26, 2023

A report by global safety charity Lloyd's Register Foundation shows individuals in countries heavily reliant on fossil fuel production are less likely to perceive climate change as a significant threat.

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Yale E360

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This allows wealthy nations to report progress on emissions reduction goals, while shipping their fossil fuels — and the pollution they produce — overseas. Oil, gas, and coal exports are not counted when countries tally their greenhouse gas emissions under the Paris Agreement. Read more on E360 →

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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. Fossil fuels are a case in point. Consider coal.

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Environment + Energy Leader

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The post UN Net-Zero Guidance Calls for End of Fossil Fuels Financial Support appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. Other topics include fighting greenwashing and supporting climate regulations.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 18, 2022

Production and combustion of fossil fuels imposes enormous costs on society, which the industry doesn’t pay for. A more promising alternative might be a clean-up tax on the fossil fuel industry. The post Making Fossil Fuels Pay for Their Damage appeared first on Legal Planet. Download as PDF.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Earlier this year, The Guardian ran a powerful article exposing the ties of Elsevier, one of the world’s largest academic publishing companies, to the fossil fuel industry. The article caught my attention because I’d never considered the ways in which an academic publisher might be perpetuating and enabling a fossil fuel economy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The destruction caused by climate change is directly linked to human activity, primarily burning fossil fuels. 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. . Tuvalu endorsed the fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 16, 2023

But this new study from my colleagues working on climate change and fossil fuel accountability couldn’t be ignored. In short, the study concludes that fossil fuel companies are in part to blame for the extraordinary damages resulting from western wildfires (including those sparked by utilities). That equates to 19.8

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New Scientist

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Despite urgent calls to slash fossil fuel use to meet climate targets, the Global Carbon Budget report shows that 2023 emissions will be about 1.1 per cent higher than last year

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 24, 2023

Alarmingly, this proposed legislation would abandon recent investments in renewable energy while boosting fossil fuel production, alongside other potentially harmful provisions. Existing legal, tax, and regulatory systems already give an unfair advantage to fossil fuel production. Late last month, the House passed H.R.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 12, 2023

The same scenario has played out with the power plants that use fossil fuels, predominantly methane (“natural”) gas, delivered by pipelines. At the same time, extreme weather events are becoming more common as more fossil fuel is burned and carbon is released into the air. It’s a vicious feedback loop.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

For decades, the fossil fuel industry downplayed the reality of climate change while deliberately spreading disinformation about the damage its products cause to people and the planet. As losses and damages from climate change-related extreme weather mount, there is growing urgency to demand accountability from fossil fuel polluters.

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Yale E360

JUNE 12, 2023

Thanks to a growing buildout of renewable power, fossil fuels now account for less than half of China's total installed power capacity, state media said Monday. Read more on E360 →

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

Deputy Policy Director Julie McNamara urges policymakers to see calls from the fossil fuel industry to invest more in their operations--in response to market instability because of the war in Ukraine--as an opportunistic attempt to lower their costs and increase their profits, at great cost to us.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

This wasn’t the first of these summits – but it was the first one that focused on the concrete actions governments are taking to phase out fossil fuels. We heard world leader after world leader say what has been only an elephant in the room until now – that we must phase out fossil fuels. It’s not complicated.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

At the same time, those governments all want to maximise fossil fuel production. According to the recent Production Gap report, the total planned production of fossil fuels between now and 2050 is twice the limit set to keep warming to 1.5 A planned ending to fossil fuels is becoming more normal every day,” she writes.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 19, 2023

Quickly and sharply tapering down the use of fossil fuels, which are the main driver of human-caused climate change, is just as crucial if we are to have any chance of keeping climate extremes from spiraling further out of control. We must also demand that fossil fuel companies be held accountable for the harms they are causing.

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Yale E360

MAY 16, 2023

Emissions from the world's 88 largest fossil fuel firms and cement makers are responsible for 37 percent of the forest burned in the western U.S. and Canada since 1986, according to a new study. Read more on E360 →

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 15, 2023

New research led by the Union of Concerned Scientists and released today quantifies the contribution of heat-trapping emissions from the world’s largest fossil fuel producers and cement manufacturers to worsening wildfires across western North America. That’s an area roughly the size of the state of Maine.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 28, 2022

Science Network guest blogger Keeley Bombard lays out the economic and social concerns of those whose livelihoods have depended on a thriving fossil fuel industry, and makes the case for a transition to renewal energy that won't leave these communities behind.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The fossil fuel industry has lobbied the federal government over 1017 times so far this year! Reports from the United Nations , International Energy Agency , the Canadian Energy Regulator and Canadian researchers all agree that fossil fuel production cannot expand. That’s over seven meetings per working day !

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

This being Black History Month, I thought it would be worthwhile looking at the fossil fuel industry’s racial history. The post Jim Crow and the Fossil Fuel Industry appeared first on Legal Planet. Oil and gas. The oil industry has a long, deplorable history on race issues. Download as PDF.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 24, 2023

Utilities and grid operators prepared for the storm as it was coming down the pike, but they still underestimated the energy demand it would trigger, as well as the number of outages at fossil fuel power plants—mainly natural gas-fired, plus some coal-fired plants.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Fossil fuel industry influence has been front and center in the UN international climate negotiations—the 28 th conference of the parties (COP28)—in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. This is alarming but not surprising, given that the nations of the world are finally working toward an agreement to phase out fossil fuels.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Statement from Julia Levin, Associate Director, National Climate Dubai, UAE – Today at COP28 Canada joined eight other countries in signing a Joint Ministerial Statement on Fossil Fuel Subsidies , to address inaction on a 14 year old commitment to eliminate fossil fuel subsidies.

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Environment + Energy Leader

JUNE 16, 2023

The Treasury Department and IRS issued updated guidance regarding Inflation Reduction Act geared toward energy projects, especially for areas dependent on fossil fuels.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Director of Strategic Climate Analytics Erika Spanger-Siegfried pulls no punches as she imagines what she'd ask the fossil fuel executives who will be questioned about their role in climate change at a House Oversight and Reform Committee meeting.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2022

Replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy from wind and solar will depend on upgrading the electric power grid, which is currently plagued by planning delays and gridlock. The 2021 law allows, but does not require, PJM to plan ahead because various fossil fuel plants must reduce and then cease emissions by a specific date.

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Yale E360

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Seeking to offset rising energy costs, governments spent more than $1 trillion on subsidies for the consumption of fossil fuels last year, an all-time high. Read more on E360 →

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

And fossil fuel power plants may not stick to their retirement schedules for a variety of reasons. The bottom line: There’s still a long way to go, and the clean energy transition must move quicker than it has been—despite the fossil fuel industry’s self-serving claims to the contrary. A bit more on those reasons later.

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Yale E360

JANUARY 27, 2023

trillion in investment globally last year, matching investment in fossil fuels for the first time ever, according to a new report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Solar, wind, electric vehicles, and other clean energy technologies saw a record-high $1.1 Read more on E360 →

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