Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 19, 2023

That timing makes it a hugely important potential resource when winter hits hard and fossil fuels fail. People A strong consideration for many in advocating for offshore wind is its potential to address the harmful effects of fossil fuels in the power sector, which disproportionately impact Black and Brown communities.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Every year, 11 million metric tons of plastics enter our ocean. Nearly all of these plastics are made from fossil fuels including crude oil, natural gas liquids and coal. This spill is a pervasive threat to ocean life and coastal communities.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2023

Heightened flood risk The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said in a recent outlook that about 44 percent of the United States is at risk of floods this spring, equating to about 146 million people. Fuel transport – Spring floods can hinder the transportation of fuels like coal.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 26, 2022

While there is enormous potential for UN climate negotiations to transform climate action, meaningful progress has been delayed in part by the fossil fuel industry’s deceptive tactics. Last year’s COP was notable as the first to explicitly mention “fossil fuels” in the final decision document.

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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 31, 2022

Ocean Conservancy applauds this decision. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Calling a halt to proposed new offshore oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and Cook Inlet was a vital step in ongoing efforts to meet our climate goals, protect coastal communities and economies and safeguard our ocean and coasts.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Batteries are key to enabling the renewable energy transition. When the sun isn’t shining or the wind isn’t blowing, batteries help store clean energy to continue supplying electricity to the grid and to customers consistently and reliably. A fossil fuel energy grid extracts and expends finite resources.

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Legal Planet

JULY 5, 2023

Wildfire in Canada , smoke in NYC , heat domes in Texas , massive heat in the Atlantic ocean are just some of this month’s news. A 2022 Rainforest Action Network repor t found that “fossil fuel financing from the world’s 60 largest banks has reached USD $4.6 The leading edge of that disruption is already here.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 8, 2021

For decades we have witnessed plastic pollution flowing into our ocean. It has wreaked havoc on marine life by polluting the ocean and coastal habitats that are their home. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. To keep our ocean plastic-free, we need to incentivize reuse and recycling rather than waste.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The focus was clear: climate action, transitioning to cleaner energy, advancing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and preparing for COP28 (the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference). Our team from Ocean Conservancy was right in the mix, meeting with governments and engaging in more than 30 events in just five days.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 18, 2024

This council suggested labeling fossil fuel activities like CCUS (carbon capture, utilization, and storage) as sustainable, as well as some types of oil and gas expansion. Labeling fossil fuel activities as sustainable is like including a harpooned whale under Ocean Wise, or describing a peanut butter and jelly sandwich as nut-free.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

What makes me most optimistic are the recent technological innovations and falling costs for renewable energy generation, battery storage and alternative fuel vehicles. There are options from blue carbon in the ocean to soil carbon and more. Instead, nations need to prioritize making major cuts in the next 10 years.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

To avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis, it’s crucial that we shift energy production away from the unsustainable fossil fuels that cause climate change and towards those that release little to no greenhouse gases (GHG), such as solar and wind power. Key Announcements.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 5, 2022

New Solid Carbon technology might be able to lock climate-warming carbon dioxide below ocean bedrock. A new process could lock carbon dioxide below the ocean floor, allowing valuable time to reduce the atmospheric greenhouse gases driving climate change. Negative-emissions technology is not an excuse to prolong the use of fossil fuels.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 19, 2024

Since then, the Conservative government has made a series of U-turns on its own net zero policies, attacked Labour’s green spending plans, and doubled down on its support for new fossil fuel projects, approving more than 100 new North Sea oil and gas licences. This comes as DeSmog and Democracy for Sale reveal that £6.8 percent (£1.8

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 2, 2022

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. As the CEO of Ocean Conservancy, I naturally look to our ocean. We can decrease production of virgin plastic that comes from fossil fuels and pollutes our ocean as well. If we continue on our current path, we will see our ocean deteriorate before our eyes.

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Ocean Conservancy

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Clean ocean energy solutions are critical to reducing emissions and averting the climate crisis. Climate change is the single greatest threat our ocean faces. It puts the wildlife and communities that depend on the ocean at risk through impacts like ocean acidification, sea level rise and temperature changes.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The focus was clear: climate action, transitioning to cleaner energy, advancing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and preparing for COP28 (the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference). Our team from Ocean Conservancy was right in the mix, meeting with governments and engaging in more than 30 events in just five days.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Among those contradictions is the need to wean society off fossil fuels versus the desire for short-term economic gain. That draft called on “Parties to accelerate the phasing-out of coal and subsidies for fossil fuels.” It is significant, however, that “fossil fuels” and “coal” finally survived in a COP text.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Many renewable energy solutions like solar and wind, both onshore and offshore, have reached commercial scale and are being deployed widely across the globe. Now other new marine renewable energy technologies, such as wave and tidal energy, are picking up momentum and can play a critical role to complement large utility-scale energy.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 16, 2023

The California Energy Commission (CEC) (the lead state agency on offshore wind), hosted 18 webinars and workshops and agency staff stated at several events that they were planning, or had already started, staff outreach tours to key stakeholder groups.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In 2023, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), held the state’s first offshore wind auction, auctioning off five leases in Central and Northern California. [1] Lastly, the report recommends that state and federal agencies examine opportunities for greater tribal access to and stewardship of the ocean (see Vol.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 18, 2022

The equivalent of at least one dump truck full of plastic waste is already dumped into the world’s oceans every minute. It’s a dirty and unproven approach that’s just locking us into our dependence on plastic and fossil fuels (since oil and gas are the feedstock for virtually all plastic). Burning plastic is *not* recycling.

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Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

The changes to the world's oceans include warming, more frequent marine heatwaves, ocean acidification, and reduced oxygen levels. Based on the lifetime of currently operating fossil fuel power plants and planned plants, it is highly likely global warming will exceed 1.5°C C according to projections. Figure SPM.7

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. It is within this context that Ocean Conservancy releases Zero-Carbon for Shipping: Sailing Carbon-free along North America’s West Coast. Bustling maritime ports are at the heart of domestic and international shipping, but they also are often fossil-fueled pollution hotspots.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) for a proposed floating offshore wind research array. Before diving into roadmap details, several additional state-led efforts relating to offshore wind deserve mention. In 2021, the State of Maine submitted a research lease application to the U.S.

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 9, 2023

A rapid transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy is critical to addressing the climate crisis and minimizing further impacts on marine ecosystems and coastal communities. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 18, 2021

“Maybe only when Texas freezes over, or the ocean is on fire, or heat waves cook marine life, or wildfires and floods around the world occur will they listen”- and still, nothing.We continue to rely on an outdated fossil fuel energy source, and prolong the opportunity to become world leaders in renewable energy sources.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 8, 2024

Some years ago, I began to feel the most important thing I could do was learn how to replace fossil fuel with renewable energy. For 30 years I have been an advocate for offshore wind development off New England’s coast and for the creation of institutions to support a transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy.

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 14, 2023

Climate change is the single biggest challenge the ocean faces. We can’t have a healthy future for our ocean—and for our planet—unless we reduce greenhouse gases and combat this ever-growing threat. It’s important to transition away from the production and use of fossil fuels. Decommissioning is expensive.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2022

A transition to renewable energy is not just one of the most consequential tools at our fingertips to act on climate, but also represents a great opportunity to increase control over our energy choices, improve the health of our communities and the planet, create jobs and wealth, and much more.

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Law Columbia

MAY 8, 2024

Decarbonizing the industrial sector is key to achieving these targets, as it is responsible for around 20% of the EU’s total emissions (not including emissions associated with energy consumption by industry). For one, during the legislative process of the NZIA, the source of CO2 eligible for storage was debated.

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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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A Greener Life

APRIL 15, 2022

million tonnes of renewable methanol is produced annually and ammonia production relies heavily on fossil fuels. million 20-foot unit containers – 21% of the world’s total – across the Pacific Ocean. First published in China Dialogue Ocean. Currently less than 0.2 In 2020, ships moved 31.2

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Experts say that expanding offshore wind energy could help to reduce the use of fossil fuels and even boost jobs and local economies since this will require both the construction of offshore wind farms and the modernisation of land-based infrastructure such as ports. Finally, there are political impasses.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 22, 2023

For example, the NCUC has asked for information on the impact of federal subsidies and tax incentives (such as those in the Inflation Reduction Act) that may reduce some renewable energy costs. The order also directs Duke Energy to further evaluate both onshore and offshore wind projects.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2024

The legislation, which takes effect on July 1st, is not just symbolic: it also prohibits construction of offshore wind turbines in Florida’s offshore waters and repeals state grant programs that encourage energy conservation and the deployment of renewable energy sources in the Sunshine State.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

That 2013 headline resulted from the first effort to quantify emissions from the ‘carbon majors’ —fossil fuel companies and cement manufacturers whose businesses have contributed an outsized amount of heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere. Nearly two-thirds of industrial heat-trapping emissions can be traced to just 90 entities.

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