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Sep 18 2023
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Protesters For an End to Fossil Fuels As World Leaders Gather in New York
(NEW YORK) — Yelling that the future and their lives depend on ending fossil fuels, tens of thousands of protesters on Sunday kicked off a week where leaders will try once again to curb climate change primarily caused by coal, oil and natural gas. But protesters say it's not going to be enough. And they aimed their wrath directly at U.S. President Joe Biden, urging him to stop approving new
Time MagazineMar 23 2024
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A chance to make clay fossils at the Digging for Fossils event
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Next month, you and your little ones can go on an adventure to the prehistoric age. Digging for Fossils is an event put on by the Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation Department. Lead Park Program Coordinator Deanna Harris and Class Instructor Angela Esselburn stopped by WANE 15 to demonstrate how children will be able to make their own clay fossils. You can see that in
WANE 15Dec 31 2020
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The batteries that could make fossil fuels obsolete
The twin smokestacks of the Moss Landing Power Plant tower over Monterey Bay. Visible for miles along this picturesque stretch of the north Californian coast, the 500-foot-tall (150m) pillars crown what was once California's largest electric power station – a behemoth natural gas-fired generator. Today, as California steadily moves to decarbonise its economy, those stacks are idle and the
BBC NewsNov 08 2023
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Fossil Fuel Plans By Producing Nations Threaten Global Climate Goals: UN
Plans to expand oil, gas and coal production by major fossil fuel countries would push the world far beyond agreed global warming limits and are "throwing humanity's future into question", the UN warned Wednesday.
The future of fossil fuels will be a key flashpoint when world leaders meet at the COP28 climate conference later this month, tasked with salvaging the world's agreed
International Business TimesSep 07 2023
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Biden cancels remaining Alaska fossil fuel leases amid criticism
In an aggressive move that angered Republicans, the Biden administration canceled the seven remaining oil and gas leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on Wednesday, overturning sales held in the Trump administration’s waning days, and proposed stronger protections against development on vast swaths of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. The Department of Interior’s scrapping
Christian Science MonitorMay 12 2023
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Biden admin inadvertently praises fossil fuel drilling benefits
The Biden administration touted conservation programs funded by bipartisan legislation passed in 2020, but it failed to mention that they are largely fueled by federal fossil fuel drilling revenues.
In a joint announcement Thursday, the Department of the Interior and Agriculture Department praised the Legacy Restoration Fund (LRF) and Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF), both of
Fox News DigitalJul 02 2020
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Should nuclear energy replace fossil fuels?
he burning of fossil fuels, such as petroleum, coal and natural gas, is a major contributor to climate change and pollution. Furthermore, fossil fuels are a finite resource and now available everywhere, thereby making some of their users dependent on a steady supply. Against this backdrop, a prominent argument is that the age of fossil fuels is…
KialoJan 17 2024
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Montana Supreme Court upholds ruling that emissions must considered in issuing fossil-fuel permits
HELENA, Mont. — Montana’s Supreme Court has rejected an attempt by the state’s Republican governor to block a landmark climate ruling that said regulators must consider the effects of greenhouse gas emissions when issuing permits for fossil fuel development. Justices, in a 5-2 Tuesday decision, declined the request from Gov. Greg Gianforte and three state agencies to block the August ruling
Washington TimesDec 13 2023
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CEOs react to COP28 climate deal to transition away from fossil fuels
Good morning from Geneva. The world will be “transitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems” by 2050. That, combined with ambitions of tripling of renewable energy capacity globally by 2030, is the main outcome of COP28, the UN climate meeting in Dubai. Is that a good outcome for business? I asked some executives who were present in Dubai, and this is what they told me: “The decision
FortuneDec 13 2023
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COP28 Nations Agree for First Time to Transition Away From Fossil Fuels
More than 190 governments at the United Nations climate conference approved an agreement Wednesday calling for the world to transition away from fossil fuels, sending an unprecedented signal to the global economy that governments are intent on cutting back on coal, oil and natural gas in the fight against global warming.
The deal, the result of all-night talks, calls for “transitioning
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