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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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 13, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen Whether or not to include the language stating ‘fossil fuels must be phased out’ rather than ‘phased down’ became the key contentious issue at this year’s UN climate talks. A draft text released Friday, with just under a week for the summit to conclude included the key fossil fuel language as an option.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 31, 2023

That will require a huge increase in the amount of electric generation, at the same time that we’re also replacing existing fossil fuel capacity with renewables and storage. And we need people who can address the electricity pricing issues that come along with basically revamping our power system.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Two-thirds of the G20’s public finance for energy went to fossil fuels in 2019–2020. The G20 group of nations provided nearly US$200 billion in support of fossil fuels in 2021, despite the worsening impacts of the climate crisis and their pledge in 2009 to phase out “inefficient” subsidies. By Catherine Early.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 12, 2022

Earlier this month, Chief Judge Brian Morris made clear that NEPA remains a powerful weapon against the leasing of public lands for fossil fuel extraction. It’s déjà vu all over again for the projects at issue. The multiple use mandate does not bar BLM from considering a no leasing alternative for public lands.

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Environmental Law Reporter

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Fossil Fuel Production Projections Rachel Jean-Baptiste Mon, 12/04/2023 - 16:28 Volume 53 Issue 12

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 2, 2024

by Ned Randolph, Tulane University Billions of federal tax dollars will soon be pouring into Louisiana to fight climate change, yet the projects they’re supporting may actually boost fossil fuels – the very products warming the planet.

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Law and Environment

MAY 27, 2022

On April 28, 2022, the California Attorney General launched an investigation into the “fossil fuel and petrochemical industries for their role in causing and exacerbating the global plastics pollution crisis.” See our previous coverage on the NY and MA AG’s investigations.

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Nanotech

APRIL 25, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on April 19, 2024, that it issued an emergency fuel waiver for E15 sales. EPA states that the waiver will help consumers protect themselves against fuel supply shocks by reducing reliance on imported fossil fuels while also supporting American agriculture and manufacturing.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Although PPLC appealed to the First Circuit, after the United States filed an amicus brief supporting the city’s position (and after a brief trip to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court on a state law issue), PPLC dismissed that appeal , leaving the judgment in place. onto ships in South Portland Harbor.

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

If the effects of burning fossil fuels have been very well documented on both global (climate change) and local (air pollution and its 8 million deaths annually) scales, up until now healthcare professionals and organizations had not been represented at the United Nations’ annual climate conference.

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Environmental Law Reporter

APRIL 3, 2023

Global Fossil Fuel Consumption Subsidies Rachel Jean-Baptiste Mon, 04/03/2023 - 03:26 Volume 53 Issue 4

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2023

They continue to cater to the best interests of the fossil fuel industry,” she says. The air quality surrounding gas plants poses environmental justice issues for those who cannot afford to move away and must continue to endure health issues due to the known carcinogens near gas plants,” Muse says.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 14, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen In recent years, a series of large and small fossil fuel companies have publicly signalled net-zero commitments while continuing business-as-usual investments in fossil fuels. Around 75 out of 112 of the largest fossil fuel companies have committed themselves to reach net-zero.

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Law Columbia

MAY 12, 2023

Over the last five years, cities, counties, and states across the country have sued fossil fuel companies alleging that the companies violated state law in marketing their products as safe. Second are cases that allege the fossil fuel company activities violate state consumer protection laws. On April 24, the U.S.

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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. Approaching 1.5 The result is a world that is rapidly warming.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Over the past five years, there has been significant growth in litigation aimed at holding fossil fuel companies accountable for their contributions to climate change. In the U.S., Claims about climate disinformation are at the heart of these cases.

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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. Environmental law is not all about climate change, but climate change is the central issue today. We thought that the key to reducing air pollution was to require better pollution control devices. Download as PDF

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Starting in 2017, cities, counties, and states across the United States have filed claims (see here and here ) in state courts against fossil fuel companies seeking redress for the climate harms their products have caused. By Korey Silverman-Roati. Background. Many of these cases asserted nuisance and other tort law claims.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 17, 2024

Last year, I wrote that fossil fuel companies made billions of dollars in profit during 2022 as people around the world suffered billions of dollars in damage from climate and weather related disasters. Above: Lahaina, Hawai’i after the devastating August 2023 wildfire that killed more than 100 people and destroyed 2,700 homes.

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Environmental Law Reporter

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Global Fossil Fuel Production Gap. Rachel Jean-Baptiste. Wed, 12/01/2021 - 05:30.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

I’m attending along with a delegation of UCLA Law students and colleagues here to follow a range of issues, from methane regulation to China’s global role to regenerative agricultural practices. Will this COP manage to call for the phase out of fossil fuels in a meaningful way? Here are four mid-COP takeaways.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 8, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed standards on carbon pollution from fossil-fuel-fired power plants ( Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2023-0072-0001 ).

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Inside Climate News

APRIL 3, 2024

By Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune This article was first published by The Texas Tribune , a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans—and engages with them—about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Exxon , the cities and towns allege that the fossil fuel companies were liable because they knowingly produced and marketed products that have caused climate change harms, while concealing and misrepresenting the associated dangers. have filed more than twenty cases seeking damages from fossil fuel companies for climate harms.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 28, 2023

Where do the world’s wealthiest nations stand when it comes to the most important environmental issues of our time: climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution? Canada continues to focus on reducing domestic burning of fossil fuels, rather than phasing out their production. What about Canada? degree temperature limit.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 25, 2024

The issue is that our banks, pension funds and insurance companies take our hard-earned money and heavily invest in fossil fuels. We know that banks or insurers can’t go cold turkey on fossil fuels overnight, as this would damage communities who rely on fossil fuels for jobs and energy.

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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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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

by Lisa Sheppard, Prairie Research Institute As renewable energy is poised to replace fossil fuels long term in Illinois, the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center (ISTC) is delving into a looming issue: what to do with solar modules, wind turbines, and electric vehicle batteries that are no longer used.

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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. Europeans are seeing right now how dangerous it can be to depend on fossil fuels from abroad.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

First and foremost, despite some fossil fuel interests swinging for the fossil fuel-favored fences, the Supreme Court’s decision in West Virginia v. This June, the Supreme Court issued a raft of decisions that fundamentally reconstituted core foundational tenets of our society. ” Justice Kagan, dissenting.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Air pollution is harmful to human health as it exacerbates and causes an increase in health issues, like respiratory illnesses. By contrast, this year there was an unprecedented number of fossil fuel lobbyists in attendance. Fossil fuel emissions cause respiratory conditions, lung cancer, stroke, and heart disease.

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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.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Union of Concerned Scientists’ (UCS) research shows that top fossil fuel producers’ emissions are responsible for as much as half of global surface temperature increase. The best solution: Replace fossil fuels with renewable energy. A small number of big corporations are responsible for the climate crisis.

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Inhabitant

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The poll, commissioned by The Guardian, Vice News and Covering Climate Now, sought Americans' views on the climate issue. The poll asked Americans from different social, political and ethnic groups their opinion on specific climate issues.

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Acoel

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Although PPLC appealed to the First Circuit, after the United States filed an amicus brief supporting the city’s position (and after a brief trip to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court on a state law issue), PPLC dismissed that appeal , leaving the judgment in place. onto ships in South Portland Harbor.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2022

Now the reports driven by these resolutions are beginning to roll in, and while they certainly provide some insight into the fossil fuel industry’s investment in political influence, a sleight of hand is preventing investors from seeing the companies’ full strategy.

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