Grist

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

A report released Wednesday gives that distinction to fossil fuel runoff from highways, parking lots, and other land-based infrastructure, mostly transportation related. The report was co-sponsored by the American Petroleum Institute, a fossil fuel industry trade group, in addition to federal agencies from the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Isle de Jean Charles sits about 80 miles southwest of New Orleans, where sea-level rise and coastal erosion are intensified by oil and gas canals and climate change, and it took a major hit from Hurricane Ida. Isle de Jean Charles on Aug. 22, 2021, before Ida arrived.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The WRI warned that we need to stop burning coal (Yang & Cui, 2012) and the IPCC synthesis report (2014) said that we must stop using fossil fuels. A report from the Global Carbon Project, (GCP, 2019) expects that emissions from industrial activities and the burning of fossil fuels will add an estimated 36.8

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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

But as sea levels rise and the islands continue to subside, the costs of fortifying and maintaining the structures may exceed the value of the land and agricultural production behind them, says Alf Brandt, counsel to the State Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon. Fossil fuels, you might say, are an aged form of blue carbon.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

That’s the nature of human-caused climate change: The consequences of a century and a half of burning fossil fuels are arriving now. Hotter temperatures have already limited harvests of traditional foods and medicine used by many indigenous nations. Rising temperatures have also dried the soil, raising wildfire risks.

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