Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 8, 2023

Electric transportation is essential for a cleaner and healthier world. In many cases the problems associated with EV materials are posed as attention-grabbing headlines and the focal point of the issue, rather than focusing on the solutions to more sustainable electrified transportation. Well, let me try to provide a full picture.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 7, 2022

To many in the climate movement, the fossil fuel industry is the enemy. But what to do with the fossil fuel industry? After all, fossil fuel companies have unrivalled experience in delivering enormous projects. It is the carbon emissions from coal, oil and gas that are driving the breakdown of the climate.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

So add this to the growing list of decisions allowing local regulation of fossil fuel facilities. The post Local Regulation of Fossil Fuel Pipelines (or The Little City That Could) first appeared on Law and the Environment.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Replacing petroleum with renewable electricity as the primary source of transportation energy will leave us all much better off. Our transportation system is highly inequitable, reflecting decades of misguided and biased decisions at all levels of government. How do we make this transformation happen?

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Energy and Climate Law

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The aim of the EU is to try to stop fossil fuel companies suing states over climate action. On fossil fuel investments, however, the document was rather unspecific, merely stating that the modernized ECT shall reflect climate change and clean energy transition goals.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 23, 2024

Transportation is the largest sector for climate changing emissions, so it’s important that we transition our cars and trucks from gasoline to electricity as quickly as possible. The transition to clean transportation and clean energy is underway and we have to get it right. We’re at a critical moment in California.

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A Greener Life

JULY 7, 2021

New research from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) confirms renewables are continuing to outpace fossil fuels on cost. They found that the share of renewable energy that achieved lower costs than the most competitive fossil fuel option doubled in 2020. C climate pathway.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The PA Interfaith Power & Light and Jewish Earth Alliance host a November 15 online discussion on Rethinking Our Connection To Fossil Fuels starting at 7:00 p.m. Many of our traditional ideas and practices need to be reconsidered to facilitate the swift transition away from fossil fuels to clean energy.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 24, 2023

As countries around the world grapple with eliminating their own fossil fuel subsidies, Canada has set a strong global precedent. This is alarming given that Canada is one of the largest providers of fossil fuel financing in the G20. Canada ranks among the worst in the G20 for providing fossil fuels public financing.

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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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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 7, 2022

A two-bill package has been introduced in the House and Senate to establish new incentives for the use of fossil-fueled vehicles-- rebranded as “low emission transportation fuels”-- and eliminating rebates and grants for hybrid and electric vehicles. But obviously, that’s not all they do.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 21, 2022

A key member of the European Union (EU) has voiced concerns about the EU’’s dependency on Russian fossil fuels and the consequences thereof. . Virginijus Sinkevicius, the EU’s environment commissioner, said that EU member states’ reliance on Russian fossil fuels in financing Russia’s “war chest”.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 13, 2024

That means it includes the extreme wildfires exacerbated by the fossil fuel industry that burned more than 4% of California in 2021 and 2022. come from burning fossil fuels and pesticide use, and ultrafine particles (PM0.1) come from burning fossil fuels and pesticide use, and ultrafine particles (PM0.1)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

California’s transportation fuel policy is knee deep in cow poop, and it’s not a good look. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is considering amendments to its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) regulation, but indicated they have no plans to address the problems caused by counter-productive subsidies for manure biomethane.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 6, 2021

So does electrified public transportation and energy efficiency for our homes. Instead, it turns out that the Government of Canada and the Government of Alberta have spent a minimum of $23 billion on fossil fuel pipelines since 2018. Take Action: Tell Canada to end subsides for fossil fuel projects.

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Clean Energy Law

DECEMBER 6, 2021

A multistate cap-and-invest program to reduce carbon emissions from the transportation sector is dead after several participating states pulled out. See TCI Proposes to Reduce Carbon Emissions From Transportation in the Northeast and TCI Releases Framework for Draft Policy to Reduce GHG Emissions From Transportation.)

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Climate change could hike the cost of maintaining Ontario ’s transportation infrastructure by over $1.5 A new study from Ontario’s financial office found that climate change will increase the cost of maintaining transportation infrastructure, CBC reports. Laura Gersony, Fresh Editor. This Week’s Watersheds. billion annually.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Transportation. Also significant is the attention to the transportation sector. Subsection (g) calls for accelerating use of zero emission vehicles (basically, electric cars and trucks), as well as public transportation. Fossil fuel subsidies. Non-CO2 greenhouse gases.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Instead, we would have understood that the root problem was the burning of fossil fuels in the first place. Similarly, we would have understood that the problem wasn’t just cars producing smog but urban designs and transportation systems that produced a car-based society.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 31, 2022

A new report released today by Environmental Defence – Buyer Beware: Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Carbon Capture Fairy Tales in Canada – reveals that despite promises to phase out fossil fuel subsidies, the federal government provided the fossil fuel sector with at least $8.6 billion in 2021. .

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A Greener Life

APRIL 4, 2022

A recent report has shed light on how we can wean ourselves off Russian fossil fuels faster than the EU and other countries are aiming for in ways that would also accelerate climate action. . An immediate embargo on Russian fossil fuels. An unprecedented rollout of low-carbon energy sources.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

It also will save US consumers money because they will spend less on fossil fuels. First, decarbonizing the electricity sector mainly with wind and solar to replace coal and fossil gas. Second, replacing fossil fuels with clean electricity in the transportation, building, and industrial sectors.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2023

Previous IPCC reports have concluded that human activities such as burning fossil fuels are the primary cause of climate change: about 70 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions come from burning fossil fuels for electricity, transportation, and industry. The result is a world that is rapidly warming.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 6, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his government are intensifying their support for the fossil fuel industry, and they have thus distanced themselves further from climate action previously pursued by successive UK governments. The UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pictured at a gas plant in Aberdeen. via FLICKR.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 13, 2023

March was a tight competition between fossil fuel pipeline, extraction, and oil and gas production companies for who could get the most face time with the federal government. Fossil fuel transportation firm Pembina Pipeline Company had the most lobby meetings in March. and Enbridge Inc. with 10 meetings each.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 11, 2022

This bill includes a number of key advancements for increased adoption of zero emission vehicles and clean transportation throughout the Commonwealth. This law should go a long way in increasing the percentage of ZEVs and helping the Commonwealth achieve its clean transportation goals.

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Legal Planet

JULY 13, 2023

To begin with, there are the health benefits of the energy transition away from fossil fuels. It will limit the environmental harms caused by producing and transporting millions of tons of fossil fuels. They often live near roads and transportation hubs, not to mention refineries and power plants.

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Law and Environment

MARCH 10, 2022

It’s clear that we need to move aggressively to electrify transportation in order to have any chance of reaching a net-zero world by 2050. That would necessitate a fairly substantial amount of fossil fuel consumption occurring in our then net-zero world. My friend J.B. Time to get to work.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 10, 2023

We are at a critical moment in California where the clean energy and transportation transition is well underway, yet the stakes are high if we don’t get that transition right. Right now, UCS is working towards a fast and fair fossil fuel phase out. Here’s what we at UCS are doing to make that happen.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 30, 2022

Unceded Algonquin Anishinaabe Territories [Ottawa, ON] – A new report released today by Environmental Defence, Buyer Beware: Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Carbon Capture Fairy Tales in Canada , reveals Canada’s federal government provided at least $8.6 2021 was a horrific year for people in Canada and around the world.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Candidate at UCLA Law (2L) Last week, Assemblymember Dr. Joaquin Arambula introduced AB 2623 , a bill designed to guard California communities against the dangers of transporting carbon dioxide in pipelines. We see no reason why pipeline transportation of carbon dioxide should be any different. Guest contributor Jennifer Imm is a J.D.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 9, 2023

As the California Air Resources Board noted in the 2022 scoping plan appendix, even with a goal to have only zero-emission vehicles sold in the state by 2035, approximately 30 percent of light-duty vehicles on the road in 2045 will still burn fossil fuels. The less of that we burn through reduced driving, the better.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

methane released from fossil fuel systems) could entirely undermine the climate benefits of the hydrogen tax credit and, worse, drive vast amounts of public dollars to subsidize what are ultimately still heavily-polluting fossil fuel-based projects, now just greenwashed as “clean.”

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 16, 2024

Fossil fuel subsidies are hurting us Subsidies and public financing to oil and gas companies: Harm our health : Governments are propping up an industry that is killing us. A recent report found that one in five premature deaths is caused by air pollution from burning fossil fuels. In Canada, that’s 36,000 people a year.

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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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Environment + Energy Leader

MARCH 26, 2023

EU diplomats are voting Monday to formally approve a law aimed at phasing out fossil fuels by 2035. Energy managers are expected to sign off on the law during Tuesday's meeting in Brussels. The post Greenpeace Criticizes Germany and EU’s Agreement on Combustion Engines appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 11, 2021

This report exposes the untold environmental and public health impacts of retail companies’ reliance on fossil-fueled maritime shipping to bring products into the United States. Download the document. Read more →

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