DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2024

Now, the Dutch NGO that successfully sued Shell over its climate plans is taking those financial backers to court in a case that could help reverse the global banking sector’s support of fossil fuel firms and their activities. Since that agreement’s adoption in December 2015, ING has issued 83.2 liquefied natural gas (LNG).

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

In Australia, a student filed a consumer complaint with Ad Standards against the financial services organization HSBC for claiming to support the protection of the Great Barrier Reef despite its links to fossil fuel operations. Globally, the number of climate-change-related lawsuits has more than doubled since 2015.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Secretary General António Guterres asked nations to arrive at the session with concrete commitments for phasing out fossil fuels, observing in his opening remarks that “humanity has opened the gates of hell.” Despite its name, ambition was largely lacking at mid-September’s Climate Ambition Summit at the United Nations in New York.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Greenpeace Italy and Re:Common have alleged in their climate lawsuit — Italy’s first — that despite knowing at least as early as 1970 that burning fossil fuels posed a serious climate risk, Eni went on to promote “natural” –- or methane – gas as a safe energy source for decades. the spokesperson stated. the spokesperson stated.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

But in the intervening decades, the region’s rivers were dammed or channeled and the fossil fuel era dawned across Appalachia. Satellite data crunched by SkyTruth reveal how much of the land in Appalachia has been directly affected by surface mining from 1985 to 2015 (in yellow). Mountaintop Mining. Image Credit: SkyTruth.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2021

The UK boasts one of the world's best records on decarbonisation since the Paris Agreement was adopted in 2015, yet progress still remains far below the scale of emissions cuts required by countries every year if the world is to reach its climate goals and avoid the most catastrophic impacts of a warming planet. Average annual cuts of just 0.16

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in her Pennsylvania hometown, she will be facing off against some of the most powerful fossil fuel interests in the United States. The task force’s members include the Pennsylvania director of the American Petroleum Institute, the most powerful fossil fuel lobby group in the U.S.,

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The lawsuit, filed Thursday by UK-based environmental law organization ClientEarth, contends that Shell’s strategy to address climate change and manage the energy transition fails to align with the objectives of the Paris Agreement and leaves the company in a vulnerable position as society shifts away from fossil fuels.

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Grist

MARCH 2, 2021

Companies are legally required to “plug” wells that they’re no longer using to extract oil and gas by pouring concrete into all their openings and cracks; this prevents them from leaking fossil fuels or harmful pollutants into the air and water sources nearby. The RRC did not respond to a request for comment in time for publication.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Its chair, Marie Donnelly, last night expressed concern at the “problematic” sectoral targets, which she described as “not consistent” with the objectives of Ireland’s climate laws. Since the EU-wide lifting of milk quotas in 2015, Ireland’s dairy sector has expanded rapidly , adding around half a million cows. Irish Agriculture.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Lawyers from environmental law NGO ClientEarth have this morning accused 17 major global banks of "hypocrisy" as they wrote to the financial institutions to ask them how they squared their climate commitments with support for the firms gearing up to extract tens of millions of barrels of oil from the North Sea. "We

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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Earlier this month, France’s constitutional court upheld a law cutting palm oil from the country’s list of approved biofuels and eliminating associated tax exemptions. Driven by demand thanks to the U.S. These conflicting priorities, as well as demand in countries like China and India, ensure that the industry will continue to develop.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Clearly, the firm faces an enormous challenge over the coming decades to cater to growing public demand for action against plastic waste, climate change and other environmental concerns. It is an output that would make Coca-Cola responsible for roughly a fifth of the world's annual PET bottle production.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2022

But since Russia - one of the world's biggest oil and gas producers - became a global pariah in February, fossil fuel prices have inevitably surged even higher as markets scramble for alternative supplies, the threat of nuclear conflict has intensified, and alliances have been redrawn.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2020

The Act enables a Green New Deal, a Clean Revolution, and crucially it recodes the laws that cause climate damage. Wind and solar are now cheaper than all fossil fuels. The total cost of ownership for electric vehicles has been lower than fossil fuel vehicles since 2015. It's morally wrong and must stop.

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Better Ventures

JANUARY 15, 2020

One investment theme we’re increasingly excited about is synthetic biology, due to its potential to replace carbon emitting production methods for a number of products reliant on fossil fuels, from food and materials to therapeutics and petrochemicals. in 2003 (cumulatively) to under $1,000 today, a reduction far outpacing Moore’s Law.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 6, 2020

Remarkably, the birthplace of coal-based industrialization met power demands for more than two months without firing up a single coal plant. Stranded fossil fuel assets can escalate decarbonization costs across the entire economy, and fear of them can galvanize climate policy opposition. Source: Muttitt and Kartha 2020.

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The Verge: Energy

APRIL 24, 2024

While most of the world still runs on dirty fossil fuels, Costa Rica has generated nearly all of its electricity from renewable sources of energy for nearly a decade. Costa Rica made global headlines in 2015 for generating 100 percent of its electricity from renewable energy for 75 days in a row.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Monica Weiss attended her first fossil-fuel divestment protest on a frigid February day in 2015. Subsequently, two independent reports suggested that the funds would “face high potential risk for economic disruption from the transition to a low carbon global economy” if they continued to invest in fossil fuel.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

That growth coincided with lower demand stemming from the coronavirus pandemic, which meant the denominator of the market-share fraction was smaller than normal. Hawaii kicked off that trend in 2015 with a law that set the deadline at 2045. percent renewable across Oahu, Hawaii Island and Maui.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2021

xi] Advanced recycling processes reduce the need for fossil fuel extraction for virgin plastics. Mura says it is in advanced discussions with global brands and investors to fund and deploy HydroPRS and use the raw ingredients it creates to eliminate the need for new virgin plastic, meeting consumer demand for action. Geyer, J.R.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

This is only the second time that a court has imposed a binding emissions reduction target on a country, — following the historic 2015 Urgenda ruling in the Netherlands. In 2021, Germany’s highest court ordered the German government to revise its national climate law, finding it to be insufficiently protective of youth and future generations.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

Wood energy succored Homo sapiens and its ancestors for millions of years, the argument goes, and only during the last couple of centuries was it replaced with fossil fuels like coal. After they are cut they can be replanted, absorbing carbon once again as they mature. I’m 55, and in my lifetime I’ve seen a landscape-level change.”.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Ridesharing demand crashed with COVID-19, and Lyft became part of the frontline delivery and medical access infrastructure. After the contentious exit of David Crane , who was leaning hard into the disruptive power of renewables, COO Gutierrez became CEO overnight in 2015. Chuck Robbins, Chairman and CEO, Cisco Systems.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2021

After Congress lifted a ban on crude exports in late 2015, oil and gas production in the Permian Basin soared while domestic consumption remained flat—leading to a massive build-out of pipelines and other infrastructure that culminated in the U.S. Between 2015 and 2020, U.S. oil consumption actually declined by 7 percent.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2021

This is despite providing more than $1.7tr since January 2015 to 40 companies with significant involvement in global plastics supply chains, the report finds. It warned that, as energy and transport firms pivot away from fossil fuels, the petrochemicals industry is set to become the biggest driver of global oil demand.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

Black Elk went belly-up in 2015 after a deadly explosion on one of its offshore platforms — leaving a bankruptcy judge in Texas to decide how the company’s remaining assets should be split between workers and the families of those killed and those to whom Black Elk owed money, including contractors hired to plug and abandon its wells.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Over the course of his three-decade career at Microsoft, the law school graduate has made a name for himself through a string of diplomatic successes as he helped settle disputes with some of the firm's biggest competitors and bring to a close long-running antitrust battles with US government and the European Commission.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 28, 2021

Both sectors offered various incentive programs without triggering claims of “destructive competition” that is prohibited by law. In 2007, when North Carolina passed a law requiring electric companies to help customers reduce their energy use, gas and electric utilities reached an agreement on the contours of those demand-side programs.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Once again, we will (and we must ) transition from fossil fuels to into a zero-emission world. That is because the fuel generally used by the marine industry is the most toxic substance imaginable: Heavy Fuel Oil, commonly referred to as HFO or IFO. All the technology that is required exists and is matured.

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

In December 2015, President Obama signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016. soared, rising from less than half a million barrels per day (BDP) in 2015 to more than 3 million BPD in 2019. A provision of this bill repealed a crude oil export ban that the U.S. had in place since 1975. exports would hurt the U.S.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

The link between airborne pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels and respiratory health is well-known. iv] Medical students in Canada are joining the climate strikes, demanding stronger climate action to address public health issues. [v]. Sea Grant Law & Policy Journal (2020, Forthcoming). xii] [xiii].

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

Though they force oil and gas producers to front substantial cash to cover plugging costs in case their wells are abandoned, these bonds only covered one-sixth of Texas’ cleanup costs in 2015. After a state Supreme Court ruling limiting the agency’s authority, it did not collect any fines for thousands of violations between 2011 and 2015.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

Though they force oil and gas producers to front substantial cash to cover plugging costs in case their wells are abandoned, these bonds only covered one-sixth of Texas’ cleanup costs in 2015. After a state Supreme Court ruling limiting the agency’s authority, it did not collect any fines for thousands of violations between 2011 and 2015.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

1] Looking ahead, SCAG estimates that total demand for warehouse space in its region in 2040 will be between 1.514 billion square feet and 1.809 billion square feet. [2]. In 2015, a total volume of 598.3 billion in 2015. [4]. In 2015, a total volume of 598.3 billion in 2015. [4]. million tons valued at US$4.7

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

1] Looking ahead, SCAG estimates that total demand for warehouse space in its region in 2040 will be between 1.514 billion square feet and 1.809 billion square feet. [2]. In 2015, a total volume of 598.3 billion in 2015. [4]. In 2015, a total volume of 598.3 billion in 2015. [4]. million tons valued at US$4.7

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 9, 2019

We need to support the rule of law and human rights around the world because we are world leaders. It needs to be said very clearly, and I’m so disappointed because I believed the Liberals in 2015 that they would go with science-based, evidence-based policies. We need a World Trade and Climate Organization. It’s not our plan.

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