They want to phase out fossil fuels and we're going to phase out fossil fuels.
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Stop burning fossil fuels Burning fossil fuels and chopping down rainforests is heating up the atmosphere.
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Here's their graph: Trump is devoted to fossil fuels, leading a party devoted to fossil fuels.
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So in many ways it increases energy costs related to fossil fuels, which makes us use less fossil fuels.
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Those are heavy and will require lots of energy if the cars themselves require fossil fuels or no fossil fuels.
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They do not take on fossil fuels; on the contrary, they are explicitly designed to support and protect fossil fuels.
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If you take the problem of eliminating carbon intensive fossil fuels seriously, we have to think holistically about replacing fossil fuels.
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We've seen over and over again that renewables are not better or worse than fossil fuels, they're different than fossil fuels.
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Third, we have to acknowledge that solving the climate crisis involves transitioning off fossil fuels over time, not immediately eliminating fossil fuels.
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It comes directly from fossil fuels, and fossil fuels are a very finite resource and we're using them to make completely disposable things.
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To make things worse, the energy sources offered up as replacements for fossil fuels — typically wind and solar — couldn't even exist without fossil fuels.
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Only reining in the extraction of fossil fuels at their source — keeping fossil fuels in the ground — will limit greenhouse gas emissions and looming climate catastrophe.
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Because we have to find a cheaper alternative to fossil fuels because we can't keep burning fossil fuels because the climate is not going to support that.
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How can voters trust a party that promises to solve a problem caused by fossil fuels, but without doing anything to slow the use of fossil fuels?
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What is deceptive is pretending that fossil fuels, much less specific fossil fuels, are necessary for reliability, and thus that 100 percent clean power will always be impossible.
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There is a difference between saying that burning fossil fuels contributes to the warming of the Earth, and saying that the U.S. ought to immediately stop burning fossil fuels.
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" : "I've been very disappointed in all fossil fuels.
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Modeled after a similar initiative in British Columbia, just to the north, the measure would tax the sale or use of certain fossil fuels and electricity generated from fossil fuels.
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The movement away from fossil fuels got a significant boost from the 2015 Paris climate accord, which set a goal of eliminating the use of fossil fuels in this century.
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If you'd like to accelerate the demise of the Earth, there's an app for that: Why not use extra fossil fuels to deliver fossil fuels to your fossil fuel-guzzling vehicle?
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The fossil fuels proposal from the Nebraska Peace Foundation would have required Berkshire to sell investments in oil refiner Phillips 66 and other companies involved in fossil fuels over 12 years.
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Along with reducing landfill, proponents say using trash as an energy supply also reduces burning fossil fuels extracted from the earth and shipped around the world using even more fossil fuels.
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The choice is not between fossil fuels and renewable energy, but rather, how do we accelerate the growth of renewables while reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the use of fossil fuels.
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" Moving away from fossil fuels "as quickly as possible.
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" BP: "I've been very disappointed in all fossil fuels.
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America was - and still is built on fossil fuels.
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In other words, this drilling frenzy will produce enough fossil fuels to drastically undercut efforts we take to consume less fossil fuels in the U.S. and lock us into catastrophic climate damage.
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If the world doesn't take ambitious steps to phase out fossil fuels, and if technological competitors to fossil fuels don't develop faster than expected, then no, unburnable carbon poses no financial risk.
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The problem is that most GOP funders and elected officials remain devoted to the cause of protecting fossil fuels, and protecting fossil fuels is, by definition, incommensurate with serious action on climate change.
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That renewable energy powers the datacenter — no fossil fuels required.
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But other divisions are closely tied to fossil fuels, too.
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Basically, that means purging fossil fuels from the global economy.
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Pressure you public pension fund to divest from fossil fuels.
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Many towns are facing public health consequences of fossil fuels.
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Obama's climate agenda and support coal and other fossil fuels.
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For years, Neste's diversification away from fossil fuels terrified investors.
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We're the ones burning fossil fuels to create global warming.
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Particulate pollution chiefly comes from burning fossil fuels for energy.
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Billions of people still crave the development fossil fuels bring.
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About 403% of today's industrial hydrogen comes from fossil fuels.
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Transporting fossil fuels is often a controversial and risky process.
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Investing in fossil fuels infrastructure is madness at this point.
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We need to ditch fossil fuels to blunt climate change.
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Because they didn't have any more fossil fuels to burn.
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Musk wants to nix fossil fuels entirely from the equation.
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These auctions, meanwhile, show we're still addicted to fossil fuels.
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Today, fossil fuels are often spoken about in derogatory terms.
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Fossil fuels, combined with human ingenuity, saved a billion lives.
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Shifting away from fossil fuels is humanity's No. 20.5 challenge.
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" Enbridge Energy Partners: "I'm not recommending fossil fuels right now.
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Every major industry, save maybe fossil fuels, was behind her.
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Photosynthesis captured the energy that is burned in fossil fuels.
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Perry has been an advocate for the fossil fuels industries.
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What fossil fuels does a man tap with his drill?
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Climate activists and progressives condemned last year's fossil fuels event.
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Industries tied to fossil fuels spent nearly $2 billion in
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Fossil fuels are the foundation of economic growth and prosperity.
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Much of the world's energy is sourced from fossil fuels.
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Most climate policy focuses on reducing demand for fossil fuels.
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The technology could eventually replace fossil fuels in those processes.
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An immediate ban on all fossil fuels is indeed unrealistic.
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We are not going to fool around with fossil fuels.
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We must move off dangerous, destructive fossil fuels now. Rep.
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We have to have off of fossil fuels in 15.
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We have to be off of fossil fuels in 15.
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In short, fossil fuels aren't going away any time soon.
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Go deeper: Fossil fuels play crude game of musical chairs
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It's also a huge financier of fossil fuels, per BankTrack.
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Companies that extract and refine fossil fuels are gone, too.
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Fossil fuels cannot compete without large government subsidies and assistance.
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Local credit unions rarely have major investments in fossil fuels.
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Turns out it has something to do with fossil fuels.
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Trump has routinely promoted fossil fuels on the campaign trail.
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The crisis: Climate change and weaning humanity off fossil fuels
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When we burn fossil fuels, we emit several harmful gases.
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The economy is as dependent as ever on fossil fuels.
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But while environmentalists and other opponents of fossil fuels can celebrate the strong growth of renewables, fossil fuels will still play the largest role in the world energy market for decades, the EIA said.
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By including both the production and the use of fossil fuels, the bill deploys one of the more overlooked tactics to fight climate change: restricting the supply of fossil fuels and pressuring the producers.
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The moral case for fossil fuels, as promulgated on the right, states that fossil fuels have improved humans' lives for more than a century—mainly through economic growth—and thus will continue to do so.
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"The science says very clearly we have to stop extracting fossil fuels and we have to stop burning fossil fuels and that includes not only coal, but also oil and fracked natural gas," he added.
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Fossil fuels provided 25 percent of total energy used in 22018.
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In America, fossil fuels provide 78 percent of the nation's energy.
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So this energy can be fossil fuels or can be renewables.
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So McConnell is correct that today's grids rely on fossil fuels.
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And much of that capacity is getting replaced by fossil fuels.
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Relying on fossil fuels to grow food was never exactly sustainable.
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On Monday, the fourth piece, "Freedom From Fossil Fuels," is out.
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Extracting fossil fuels damages and degrades the land and the oceans.
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This is the beginning of the end of dirty fossil fuels.
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Clifton says he'll say he supports drilling of fossil fuels too.
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It's inconvenient for politicians to stop taking money from fossil fuels.
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Most greenhouse gas emissions stem from the burning of fossil fuels.
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These countries have a clear self-interest in preserving fossil fuels.
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Fossil fuels provide 81% of the energy consumed in the world.
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Carbon-dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels appear to be stabilising.
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Fossil fuels are enormously powerful energy sources, dense with packed energy.
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I do not really care that much for the fossil fuels.
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Coal emits the most carbon dioxide compared to other fossil fuels.
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Eventually, fusion power could replace fossil fuels and conventional nuclear reactors.
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And, in some cases, they reduce the need for fossil fuels.
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But, unfortunately, fossil fuels keep getting extracted from the ground. 4.
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Leonardo DiCaprio wants the world to say goodbye to fossil fuels.
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Renewable energy has considerable potential in South Africa over fossil fuels.
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But fossil fuels will not go gentle into that good night.
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Fossil fuels are "causing global warming, that's a negative," Alsup acknowledged.
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Portland doesn't aim to phase out fossil fuels entirely just yet.
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These commercial greenhouses are still dependent, he stresses, on fossil fuels.
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The museum said it is "reducing its exposure" to fossil fuels.
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"The world's demand for these fossil fuels is growing," noted Konschnik.
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You want to stop subsidies going to companies producing fossil fuels.
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Many industries oppose the rule, including agriculture, homebuilding and fossil fuels.
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That can't be done unless we stop extracting new fossil fuels.
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But China's relationship with the dirtiest of fossil fuels remains ambivalent.
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It's personal, and thus much harder to demonize than fossil fuels.
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We must move off fossil fuels, before our world becomes unlivable.
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Do Americans prefer newer energy technologies over more traditional fossil fuels?
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Most of the US' electricity is created by burning fossil fuels.
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The second is that we can't simply stop using fossil fuels.
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The future of fossil fuels is starting to look increasingly grim.
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I mean should we be looking at developing fossil fuels further?
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Zero contracts to enable or accelerate the extraction of fossil fuels.
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It's indisputable that the business case for fossil fuels is shrinking.
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The rate would rise over time, reducing demand for fossil fuels.
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Fossil fuels are hydrocarbons, and hydrocarbons are just hydrogen and carbon.
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RWE produces about 73 percent of its electricity from fossil fuels.
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Yet renewables are still a long way from replacing fossil fuels.
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An answer on Biden's confusing statement on fossil fuels last night.
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We're going to free ourselves from a dependence on fossil fuels.
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"The use of fossil fuels would then start declining," he said.
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So you be the judge: can renewables compete with fossil fuels?
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The ads portray fossil fuels as the driver of human progress.
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They can push government pension funds to divest from fossil fuels.
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The problem is that most of it comes from fossil fuels.
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Yes, but probably because it isn't hard enough on fossil fuels.
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And pipelines facilitate the generation of fossil fuels, fossil fuel energy.
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We have eliminated fossil fuels from our homes, vehicles and industries.
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It favors electric vehicles instead of those run by fossil fuels.
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For the climate change alarmists, fossil fuels are an easy target.
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GE doubled down on fossil fuels at precisely the wrong time.
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We need to leave our remaining fossil fuels in the ground.
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Covers electricity generators, manufacturers liquid fossil fuels including petrol and diesel.
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India currently seeks to reduce dependency on fossil fuels by 2030.
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Fossil fuels are a thing of the past, not the future.
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We've got to stop using fossil fuels as rapidly as possible.
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"It's not only that they have a lot of fossil fuels, it's that their entire system has operated off of fossil fuels, and they've figured out how to make money off of that process," Bozuwa said.
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Yet where Exxon Mobil and its allies see a tangled conspiracy, members of the Rockefeller family see an effort to use the vast wealth generated by fossil fuels to combat the damage done by fossil fuels.
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Although climate science is calling for the reduction in fossil fuels, I believe the imminent demise of fossil fuels is overstated and the rapid transition to renewable sources of fuels will not solve this existential question.
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"The science says very clearly we have to stop extracting fossil fuels and we have to stop burning fossil fuels and that includes not only coal, but also oil and fracked and natural gas," he added.
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But the world is still deeply dependent upon fossil fuels (81% to be exact), and tradeoffs exist with wind and solar (they need heck of a lot of land, for example, to match fossil fuels and nuclear).
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UMass, which announced its plan to divest its endowment from "direct holdings" in fossil fuels in May, is also only giving up its direct holdings in fossil fuels, about $5 million of its roughly $770 million endowment.
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It can fly silently and without direct emissions from burning fossil fuels.
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In short: By burning fossil fuels, people were helping destroy this village.
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Fossil fuels release both toxins and heat-trapping carbon dioxide when burnt.
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After all, what kind of future traveler would rely upon fossil fuels?
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You can't have a functioning planet if you keep burning fossil fuels.
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Renewable energy sources—solar, wind and hydroelectricity—are different from fossil fuels.
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And some investors are hesitant to plow more money into fossil fuels.
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His Conservative predecessor, Stephen Harper, was a big fan of fossil fuels.
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There was this whole fabric of connection between tobacco and fossil fuels.
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The big picture: The world is still heavily dependent upon fossil fuels.
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That is because China relies more on fossil fuels for generating power.
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Concerns about future demand for fossil fuels have weighed on the sector.
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This practice, known as enhanced oil recovery, would produce more fossil fuels.
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In 1987, fossil fuels accounted for 81% of the world's energy consumption.
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When we burn fossil fuels, we release CO2 emissions into the atmosphere.
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Go deeper: 2020 Democrats pushing to end public financing of fossil fuels
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We love the idea of alternative energies to get off fossil fuels.
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That bleak picture clashes with the Trump administration's pro-fossil-fuels agenda.
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Once fossil fuels are extracted they need to get transported to refineries.
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The burning of fossil fuels is a major contributor to those emissions.
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That is, at least while cars running on fossil fuels still exist.
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But his boldest plan is for boosting the output of fossil fuels.
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There will be a place for fossil fuels for the foreseeable future.
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Without them, renewables would have taken longer to compete with fossil fuels.
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Fossil fuels accounted for 81% of the world's energy consumption in 1987.
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Fossil fuels are just too easy, and for the time being, cheap.
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Fossil fuels need to stay in the ground, as much as possible.
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The bulk of the support on the right is for fossil fuels.
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ExxonMobil misled the public about the effect of fossil fuels on global
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Obama has prioritized reducing carbon emissions and the use of fossil fuels.
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Some US cities and states are abandoning their dependence on fossil fuels.
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"That would favor the use and demand of fossil fuels," Chanes said.
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Fossil fuels have a distinct fingerprint in the isotopes of their carbon.
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Problem is, almost none of that new capacity came from fossil fuels.
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Fossil fuels accounted for just 22 percent of jobs in the sector.
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He seems firmly committed to continuing the American addiction to fossil fuels.
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Transitioning off of fossil fuels can indeed create tens of thousands of
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Balance our use of fossil fuels knowing that the future is renewables.
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But the U.S. is becoming an increasingly important exporter of fossil fuels.
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But it still won't divest from fossil fuels, The Washington Post reports.
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Another possibility is to burn fossil fuels, but to capture the emissions.
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And third, we must shift transportation from fossil fuels to clean alternatives.
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Mitchell was convinced that the world was running out of fossil fuels.
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Long-term, it is looking to phase out fossil fuels by 2050.
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Ireland on Thursday became the first country to divest from fossil fuels.
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Fossil fuels are still being extracted and burned at a furious rate.
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Fossil fuels met over two-thirds of that additional worldwide energy need.
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Yet most of his energy concerns focused on fossil fuels, particularly coal.
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Fossil fuels possess energy density capabilities far beyond what batteries can achieve.
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But the money and intensity on the GOP side support fossil fuels.
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The action is significant as it targets the supply of fossil fuels.
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Another product of science is the technology that can replace fossil fuels.
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Better yet, the fossil fuels should simply be left in the ground.
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Seemingly overnight, the fossil fuels executive became a champion of renewable energy.
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Renewable energy prices have dropped, and are nearly competitive with fossil fuels.
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Critics, though, continue to say Shell is overly wedded to fossil fuels.
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As we continue to burn fossil fuels, its effects will only grow.
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But China is taking serious steps to shift off of fossil fuels.
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A ban on fossil fuels prompts parts of the South to secede.
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While transportation is still dominated by fossil fuels, a shift is underway.
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Combustion is only one part of the damage done by fossil fuels.
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Protesters chant keep fossil fuels in the ground at Trump #COP20453 event.
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To do that, we need to stop burning fossil fuels for energy.
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"I don't believe that you create mandates for fossil fuels," he said.
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"Both are necessary byproducts of our addiction to fossil fuels," he said.
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Shifting away from fossil fuels is, by far, humanity's number one challenge.
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"We need to drastically reduce our use of fossil fuels," she wrote.
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It was about drilling for hope and dignity, rather than fossil fuels.
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" He continued, "The solutions are now cheaper than burning dirty fossil fuels.
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Still, carbon pollution from fossil fuels remains the greatest regulatory challenge ever.
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But the reality is that fossil fuels are not cheap at all.
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Many Democrats want to transition the US away from fossil fuels altogether.
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What's more, it would be cheaper than running it on fossil fuels.
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Financial management firm BlackRock recently announced it would divest from fossil fuels.
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Renewables won't achieve cost parity with fossil fuels until 2051, he predicted.
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Still, there are winners and losers within fossil fuels, Dr. Birol said.
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What he did not call for was the elimination of fossil fuels.
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The same goes for getting your college to divest from fossil fuels.
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Curbing carbon emissions from fossil fuels could help prevent these negative effects.
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Already it has pledged to phase out financing fossil fuels by 2021.
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Bezos said Amazon should aid them in their transition from fossil fuels.
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Go deeper: U.S. insurance industry under growing pressure to exit fossil fuels
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Mainstream environmental activists hate nuclear even more than they hate fossil fuels.
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Not just food, but single-use plastics, and fossil fuels and energy.
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This world was completely reliant on the private car and fossil fuels.
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Meanwhile, the company goes about its business: maximizing production of fossil fuels.
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Burning fossil fuels, for instance, has been a massive boon to humanity.
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Fossil fuels currently provide just over 80 percent of the world's energy.
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"No one's proposing that we stop using fossil fuels overnight," he said.
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Fossil fuels rest on a foundation of colonialist exploitation and rent-seeking.
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Basically, every new kWh from VRE displaces a kWh from fossil fuels.
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The OFF Fossil Fuels campaign provides a support structure for individuals anywhere to organize with each other and engage with local elected officials and community leaders in campaigns to fight fossil fuels or to support pro-renewable policies.
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"Without question, fossil fuels will continue to be used, and we would argue that it's in the global interest to make sure when fossil fuels are used that they be as clean and efficient as possible," Mr. Banks said.
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" Tillerson pushed back against activists who have called for keeping fossil fuels in the ground, arguing that approach isn't realistic and saying the "world is going to have to continue using fossil fuels, whether they like it or not.
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Charging an electric car isn't like refueling one that runs on fossil fuels.
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Not while our energy continues to be supplied almost entirely by fossil fuels.
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Ukraine's energy sector remains heavily dependent on traditional fossil fuels and nuclear power.
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Other GE businesses are tied to fossil fuels in one way or another.
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Fossil fuels appear to be starting to power down for the long term.
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Runaway climate change because humanity has taken too long to ditch fossil fuels?
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These kinds of support mechanisms for fossil fuels are hard to suss out.
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"There isn't a viable alternative to fossil fuels on the horizon," he said.
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This typically means using more expensive fossil fuels like diesel and fuel oil.
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And even though fossil fuels can be moved, doing so is not desirable.
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Wyoming is one of the top producers of fossil fuels in the nation.
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Banning fossil fuels is impractical, so economists recommend taxing carbon-dioxide emissions instead.
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The price hike was intended to help wean French drivers off fossil fuels.
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Fossil fuels have long kept our cars moving and our light bulbs lit.
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Energy experts say storage is essential for making renewables competitive with fossil fuels.
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Remember, scientists say we need to be off fossil fuels entirely this century.
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And if it's fossil fuels, they want the university to withdraw those investments.
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The pro-fossil fuels agenda of the Vote Leave campaign was no secret.
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Global emissions from fossil fuels rose in 2018 -- to an estimated 9753 gigatons.
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I do think the fossil fuels will have a rally under President Trump.
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Wholesale power generated from fossil fuels in Germany currently fetches 26 euros/MWh.
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Plus, consider the toll fossil fuels already are taking on the Louisiana coast.
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Trump's emphasis on fossil fuels is particularly notable in light of Thursday's report.
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It relied, then as now, on a handful of increasingly unnecessary fossil fuels.
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Fossil fuels are by far the most-shipped commodity within the United States.
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In many ways, refined carbohydrates—bread, pasta, white rice—are like fossil fuels.
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It's one that favors fossil fuels (with a nod to nuclear power too).
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Such a fracking ban would amount to no small amount of fossil fuels.
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The last thing the planet and the atmosphere needs is more fossil fuels.
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Even the fealty to fossil fuels is incoherent, untethered to any consistent worldview.
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It will mean dramatically lowering global societies' reliance on carbon-emitting fossil fuels.
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He said that more is invested globally in renewable energy than fossil fuels.
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Errant expectations of renewables costs may lead companies to overinvest in fossil fuels.
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That they break any business ties with companies that extract fossil fuels 3.
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Meanwhile, the electricity produced by burning fossil fuels has been cut in half.
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That could go a long way toward lowering our reliance on fossil fuels.
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In Russia, extensive mining and drilling for fossil fuels are damaging the forest.
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The clothing industry, like most industries, is also stubbornly reliant on fossil fuels.
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There is no mention of fossil fuels at all in the Democrats' plan.
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Many countries in the region still rely heavily on fossil fuels for energy.
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So fossil fuels are diminishing, but they're still going to be pretty important.
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"You get rid of fossil fuels, and you'll stop the world," Pickens said.
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He said it requires fossil fuels to keep the lights on in Africa.
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This accountability would shatter the illusion that energy from fossil fuels is cheap.
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Fossil fuels must be reduced and eventually abandoned for cleaner and safer power.
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A complete transition away from fossil fuels rather than relying on carbon offsets.
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Also known as brown coal, it is one of the dirtiest fossil fuels.
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The obvious counterargument is that humanity has also benefited immensely from fossil fuels.
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The bad news is, eliminating fossil fuels is a really, really big job.
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Steyer has since left the fund is now actively campaigning against fossil fuels.
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We have to have substantial reduction in fossil fuels in the next decade.
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Neighborhood mini-grids that do not rely on fossil fuels will supply electricity.
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It was quick to acknowledge the link between fossil fuels and global warming.
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Do you really think she insisted that the light come from fossil fuels?
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Bill Walker also made the case that the state needs more fossil fuels.
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It is a clean alternative to fossil fuels, which contribute to climate change.
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Many of the affected areas are powered by obsolete grids using fossil fuels.
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But concerns about greenhouse-gas emissions have clouded the future of fossil fuels.
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For instance, the aviation industry is strongly dependent on fossil fuels, she said.
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That compares to all-electric vehicles that do not use any fossil fuels.
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Hypothetically, Australia could decouple its own economy from fossil fuels without impacting exports.
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America's federal government has 16 types of subsidy for digging up fossil fuels.
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Banks have also shied away in a global pullback from financing fossil fuels.
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We need to manage the transition off of our dependence on fossil fuels.
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President Trump has called for expanding domestic production of fossil fuels for export.
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So how do their financial commitments to fossil fuels and sustainability stack up?
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NEW ZEALAND Covers electricity generators, manufacturers liquid fossil fuels including petrol and diesel.
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Critics say the measures aren't enough to change their support of fossil fuels.
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Large state-owned companies with vested interests in fossil fuels sense an opportunity.
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At the same time, renewable energy is reaching cost parity with fossil fuels.
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"Mining fossil fuels are taking from the Earth, extracting from it," Oldanie said.
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Checks also came from companies that support drilling, mining and transporting fossil fuels.
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Under any assumption, the world will continue to demand fossil fuels for decades.
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He also pledged to slash the use of fossil fuels, including natural gas.
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"Please divest from fossil fuels," I said, hoping to catch her off guard.
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But that's not the only way to challenge fossil fuels in the courtroom.
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"I wish I'd made the move away from fossil fuels sooner," he said.
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Similarly when your appliances do nothing, they are often still burning fossil fuels.
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The miracles will come from investing in everything: renewables, nuclear and fossil fuels.
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There is no doubt that the burning of fossil fuels has caused pollution.
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Protesters obstructed traffic around the World Bank, demanding it divest from fossil fuels.
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And past jobs in fossil fuels are proving to make for good training.
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They may also value the reliability of fossil fuels over wind and solar.
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In those scenarios, how much of the world's fossil fuels can we burn?
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Climate activists are always yelling at them for burning so many fossil fuels.
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All of which is to say: OCI has produced about the most conservative possible estimate of the subsidies received by fossil fuels in the US. These are solely production subsidies — taxpayer money that goes directly to producing more fossil fuels.
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For every job in fossil fuels, the state boasts 22050 jobs in renewable energy.
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The dinosaur represents fossil fuels as well as extinction, including perhaps our own extinction.
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Hence, the true costs of fossil fuels are far higher than their market prices.
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To cover the loss, it had to massively increase imports of expensive fossil fuels.
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Every grid still relies on fossil fuels (most for a majority of their power).
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In the United States, renewables are cost-competitive with fossil fuels in some markets.
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The host nation Poland is committed to coal, the most polluting of fossil fuels.
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" But, he adds: "Let's get off fossil fuels and create new jobs, new industries.
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Here's the thinking: Unlike fossil fuels, trees are already part of Earth's carbon cycle.
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The burning of fossil fuels will seem as remote and unsavory as human sacrifice.
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Solar power is just now becoming cheaper than electricity production based on fossil fuels.
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"We have to tackle fossil fuels and global climate change much faster," Marshall says.
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Trump rejects climate science that links rising temperatures to human consumption of fossil fuels.
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Over 20163% of the world's energy still comes from fossil fuels (see chart 22016).
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He has also called for a progressive reduction in the use of fossil fuels.
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Greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels are expected to grow by 6.3% in 2018.
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Without fossil fuels today, the lights would go out in much of the country.
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The Semi is Tesla's next step to move the economy away from fossil fuels.
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The hard truth is that we must keep more fossil fuels in the ground.
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But even on the price of fossil fuels, there could be progress this week.
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Now we're using more and more energy to extract smaller quantities of fossil fuels.
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Hartarto asserted that green diesel generated 90 percent fewer emissions than conventional fossil fuels.
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Overall, less than 10 percent of electricity in France is generated using fossil fuels.
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ExxonMobil, backed by 23 years of expertise, is working to supply more fossil fuels.
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By burning fossil fuels and chopping down rainforests, we humans are destabilizing the climate.
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Encouraging CCS for fossil fuels as a stepping stone to NETs appeals to some.
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Mr Smith thinks renewable energy is too costly and unreliable to replace fossil fuels.
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Several Western governments have called time on internal-combustion engines which burn fossil fuels.
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That resource is then sold for transportation uses, offsetting the utilization of fossil fuels.
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The largest user of fossil fuels in our city is the central heat plant.
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At the same time, fossil fuels are superheating the planet and transforming Canada forever.
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Trump also continues to push fossil fuels as a key part of his agenda.
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We have to flip the automotive industry on its head… independent of fossil fuels.
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There's no better place to start than coal, particularly carbon-intensive among fossil fuels.
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Do we want to get off fossil fuels as quickly and cheaply as possible?
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In addition, it would cut the use of fossil fuels and boost energy security.
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Falling costs for solar panels has made the renewable resource competitive against fossil fuels.
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With the unprecedented burning of fossil fuels, carbon accumulations will simply keep going up.
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GE's performance reflects the broader trend of utilities shifting to renewables from fossil fuels.
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College students across the country are pushing their institutions to divest from fossil fuels.
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The EPA attributed the decline to lower carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels.
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Chuck Kennedy Secretary Perry makes headlines saying fossil fuels can help prevent sexual assault.
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A particular emphasis has been placed on developing fossil fuels, rather than renewable energy.
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America is the leader in the energy sector, not just fossil fuels, he said.
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Mainstream scientists say fossil fuels contribute to heat waves, floods, droughts and rising seas.
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Governments around the world are pushing policies cutting greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels.
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They are challenging the status quo of established industries—from fossil fuels to fashion.
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That's about four times more public financing for fossil fuels than clean energy sources.
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The truth is that neither will contribute much to weaning us from fossil fuels.
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The only real long-term solution is to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels.
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Overall, fossil fuels companies outspend environmental groups by a margin of 10 to one.
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The result: fossil fuels use, particularly natural gas, keeps growing to supply the rest.
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The economy minister has recognized hydrogen as offering a green alternative to fossil fuels.
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Moreover, carbon-based fossil fuels have supported unmatched economic prosperity since the Industrial Revolution.
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Transport and heating, the other big users of energy, remain dominated by fossil fuels.
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That pollution comes from vehicle emissions, heavy use of fossil fuels and other factors.
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Our assumption that natural gas would be substituted for other fossil fuels seemed reasonable.
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After all, fossil fuels have provided over 80 percent of U.S. energy since 1900.
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America's industrial economy, like a century ago, is powered almost entirely by fossil fuels.
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There are no social benefits ascribable to fossil fuels, according to entrenched climate alarmists.
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"We have to keep most of the fossil fuels in the ground," he said.
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Plunging costs of renewable energy make it more competitive than ever with fossil fuels.
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In fact, we already have the tools necessary to wean ourselves off fossil fuels.
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The United States and the world will be using fossil fuels for some time.
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Of this, $28500 billion (6900%) can be attributed to tax incentives supporting fossil fuels.
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People there can't breathe, owing to the pollution from burning crops and fossil fuels.
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And we know that change is caused primarily by the burning of fossil fuels.
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Moving away from fossil fuels can help with stabilizing the climate and its ecosystems.
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Data, for instance, could help experts use fossil fuels "efficiently" and "smartly," he said.
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The scheme aimed to encourage businesses to burn wood pellets rather than fossil fuels.
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Fossil fuels are how they get around, where they work, what funds their governments.
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The year 1865 is taken as the start of wide use of fossil fuels.
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Germany arguably does more to transition away from fossil fuels than any other nation.
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Perhaps addressing our ongoing dependence on fossil fuels and the apocalyptic consequences to come?
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In office, Pruitt immediately set about providing fossil fuels the "relief" he promised them.
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Lund also warned that attempts to curb fossil fuels too fast could harm societies.
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Tesla's mission is supposed to be to accelerate the world's freedom from fossil fuels.
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As a product of generating energy from fossil fuels, it is merely a waste.
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Norway's government just told its $1 trillion oil fund to divest from fossil fuels.
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Burning fossil fuels, for electricity, heat, or transportation, inherently involves enormous levels of waste.
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Market forces can only achieve so much without policies that stop privileging fossil fuels.
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In fact, fossil fuels supply more than 75 percent of the US energy system.
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"People out here aren't against drilling and fossil fuels by and large," she said.
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Carbon capture technologies can capture 90 percent of carbon dioxide produced by fossil fuels.
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It also collides with the president's policy objectives of promoting fossil fuels, particularly coal.
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What impact divestment campaigns have on the share prices of fossil fuels is unclear.
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His ethical transgressions, unlike the fossil fuels that he champions, are a renewable resource.
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As a consequence, unlike some wood mills, the Äänekoski plant uses no fossil fuels.
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The fossil fuels division has been hurt by the rapid rise of renewable energy.
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Most of that gain (~8003%) has been due to the use of fossil fuels.
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Fossil fuels were responsible for 63.6% of this generation, while renewables accounted for 16.9%.
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"Until we replace fossil fuels in every country, we're just treading water," Jackson said.
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Power not generated by fossil fuels should reach 60% of the total by 2030.
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Even leftists have rarely taken a consistent stance on fossil fuels and environmental justice.
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But an oversupply of fossil fuels, especially gas, is keeping a lid on prices.
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And now researchers are leaning on that leaf-based process to recycle fossil fuels.
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Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has publicly criticized financial actors' role in funding fossil fuels.
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But unlike curbing fossil fuels, trees can appeal to "different folks" in Davos's community.
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Let's divest from fossil fuels and phase out those toxic systems to build anew.
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And 77% called on the federal government to prioritize alternative energy over fossil fuels.
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Secondly, businesses must move faster to transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources.
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The big problem: Today, pretty much all of that hydrogen comes from fossil fuels.
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You made money from fossil fuels, and you haven't fully wound down those investments.
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Also, the cost of renewable energy has plummeted, sometimes beating fossil fuels on price.
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Production of fossil fuels was down about 130,000 barrels a day during the period.
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"I'm going to pledge to stop fossil fuels, that's a lot better," she responded.
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After that, green energy is expected to whittle away at demand for fossil fuels.
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Just like burning fossil fuels, it transfers CO2 from the geosphere to the atmosphere.
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It's coming from electricity generation, coal, fossil fuels and even fertilizer and animal waste.
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It is projected to be cheaper than fossil fuels in most places by 22019.
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More than 70 percent of the global energy demand was met by fossil fuels.
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We have been told that fossil fuels are wrecking the environment and our health.
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And if it's fossil fuels, they want the fund managers to withdraw those investments.
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The building will be totally free of fossil fuels and incorporate energy-saving tech.
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In both cases, there are no ready-to-hand substitutes for liquid fossil fuels.
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Trump's unstinting support for fossil fuels is federal Republicanism for now, with shrinking exceptions.
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His latest effort is on reducing and eventually eliminating the use of fossil fuels.
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Today, almost every Western economy is transitioning away from the most polluting fossil fuels.
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But what's the case for continuing to subsidize fossil fuels after all these years?
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Tillerson, meanwhile, has made the selling and extraction of fossil fuels his life's work.
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Policy experts say the solution to climate change is still to put a price — ideally, a tax — on carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels, essentially creating an energy tax that would raise the price of gasoline and electricity generated from fossil fuels.
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The main reason is its reliance on fossil fuels and finance, which are doing badly.
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Last year, De Blasio committed to fully divesting the city from fossil fuels by 20.93.
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We can't use fossil fuels anymore to heat our homes and use for our energy.
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He said there was widening evidence that a shift from fossil fuels made economic sense.
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DALLAS (Reuters Breakingviews) - The ebbing of fossil fuels is sapping energy from GE - and beyond.
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The company also said inhaled anesthetics have a climate impact of 0.01% of fossil fuels.
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Now they didn't start burning fossil fuels, but by the 1990s the science was undeniable.
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Not one of them is interested in the Trumpian recipe of xenophobia and fossil fuels.
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Africa is rich with fossil fuels and renewable resources, but they are not evenly distributed.
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At home there are limits to what Mr Trump's embrace of fossil fuels can achieve.
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Although cheaper fossil fuels make it easier for governments to remove subsidies, political complications abound.
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However, via Bloomberg, the company is not pledging to end its use of fossil fuels.
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That more or less requires the entire world to get off fossil fuels this century.
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To curb carbon emissions, demand for fossil fuels will have to drop in coming decades.
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He wants to eliminate fossil fuels, turn humans into AI-powered cyborgs, and colonize Mars.
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It seems impossible to eliminate fossil fuels from the energy mix in the foreseeable future.
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But they do not deal with Alberta's underlying need to diversify away from fossil fuels.
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The share of fossil fuels in energy investment increased for the first time since 2014.
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Defense contractors, fossil fuels, pipeline companies and railroads all got the green light from Cramer.
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Greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels are seen as the main cause.
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That is, unless we burn all of our fossil fuels and melt away the evidence.
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Since most plastics come from fossil fuels, our plastics dependency is also exacerbating climate change.
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It also touches on the renewable and "clean" energy sources that might replace fossil fuels.
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In some places, like the United States and Australia, these resources are replacing fossil fuels.
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In a world searching hard for alternatives to fossil fuels, it seems a promising option.
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Fossil fuels will supply 80 percent of the world's energy needs through at least 2040.
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The California-based Energy and Policy Institute, which opposes fossil fuels, cited documents it obtained.
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Tech workers may yet insist they not be in the business of fossil fuels either.
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There are now about 1bn cars on the road, almost all powered by fossil fuels.
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Oceans are absorbing more carbon dioxide because of the burning of fossil fuels for energy.
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The foundation is now divesting from fossil fuels and has funded activist group 350.org.
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Many renewable-energy advocates say it's preemptively biased to favor fossil fuels and nuclear power.
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These powerful, relatively cheap, and easily accessible batteries are predicted to make fossil fuels obsolete.
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"Development finance staff have expertise in fossil fuels and lack skills in renewable," she said.
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On Earth, they're considered a carcinogen, and are produced when things burn — like fossil fuels.
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This is due, in part, to reliance on fossil fuels and rising rates of deforestation.
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Political leaders such as Trump portray our shift off fossil fuels as costly and unreliable.
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Now, there's a huge, huge caveat here: Costa Rica hasn't eschewed all fossil fuels entirely.
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To beat this thing, we need to get off of fossil fuels sometime around 2050.
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" He told VICE Impact, adding, "Wind's going to compete with fossil fuels in ten years.
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"It is not as hard to transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy," she said.
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And, as the chart shows, wind+storage is still more expensive than fossil fuels everywhere.
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The first bottles of Fossil Fuels Saison will be available in December with limited availability.
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Burning fossil fuels, raising cattle and chopping down rainforests all create heat-trapping gases. 3.
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Fossil fuels are dead plants, which prefer light carbon, which spiked with CO2 went up.
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Under Obama, the EPA frequently clashed with major industries like fossil fuels companies and farmers.
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Under his administration, Trump said, the country would see the full potential of fossil fuels.
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Fossil fuels do substantially more harm to air and water—not to mention the climate.
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But smaller developing countries may choose to continue investing in fossil fuels without U.S. leadership.
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The question, therefore, must be, how do we decarbonize fossil fuels, while simultaneously increasing renewables?
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The smoke, like the smoke that comes from burning fossil fuels, has negative health effects.
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Ozone is a byproduct of pollutants from burning fossil fuels and a component of smog.
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And anything that gets fossil fuels out of the ground is a crime against them.
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But the rule attracted significant controversy from Republicans and industries that rely on fossil fuels.
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Even if we gave up fossil fuels tomorrow, it's projected that the catastrophes are inevitable.
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It would increase the costs of fossil fuels and products and services that use them.
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It's clear that imposing a price on fossil fuels would encourage investment in cleaner fuels.
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The Swedish state-owned utility generates about 49 percent of its electricity from fossil fuels.
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To prevent catastrophic climate change, we need a fundamental shift away from burning fossil fuels.
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But seemingly overnight, the relationship between ethanol and fossil fuels went from collaborative to combative.
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This makes sense given Trump's focus on "beautiful" coal and other climate-damaging fossil fuels.
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The second is that they are trying to decrease carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels.
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Considerable effort will be needed to entirely cut out relationship and dependence on fossil fuels.
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Ozone is a byproduct of pollutants from burning fossil fuels and a component in smog.
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Transitioning away from unsustainable fossil fuels to a clean green economy is an urgent imperative.
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Congressional Democrats generally favor moving away from fossil fuels like coal, which cause climate change.
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Carbon taxes impose levies based on the amount of carbon dioxide emitted from fossil fuels.
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Generating nuclear energy creates less air pollution and fewer carbon emissions than using fossil fuels.
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But not every environmental group is satisfied with the slower transition away from fossil fuels.
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But coal and other fossil fuels, unlike forests, will never recapture the carbon dioxide released.
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It's a plastic made from fossil fuels and found in 85033 percent of all clothing.
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The president-elect espouses an "all of the above" strategy, with emphasis on fossil fuels.
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"Keeping it in the ground" does not mean stopping all production of fossil fuels instantly.
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The Department of Defense is innovating its way away from its overreliance on fossil fuels.
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Greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels increase the temperature of our planet; that's fundamental physics.
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There's already, actually, a lot of aerosol pollution from just the burning of fossil fuels.
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As long as we narrowly benefit from burning fossil fuels, screw the rest of you.
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Energy policy might be friendlier toward natural gas and other fossil fuels than toward renewables.
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The discussion isn't simply about fossil fuels versus renewables, as often dominates mainstream energy discourse.
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Until recently, it was just another power producer, burning fossil fuels to electrify the grid.
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As these children grow up, they will encounter air pollution exacerbated by burning fossil fuels.
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Now it will embark on another transition, from fossil fuels to clean, carbon-free electricity.
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The struggle to get universities and pension funds to divest from fossil fuels is another.
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Let's talk about "certain regulations and subsidies" — namely, the ones propping up US fossil fuels.
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There is no coffin, no chemicals and none of the fossil fuels necessary for cremation.
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But a lot more is driving fossil fuels' dominance than just corporate influence on government.
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Scientists issued a new alarm on the devastating impacts of continued burning of fossil fuels.
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There's still no easy substitute for shifting away from fossil fuels and lowering our emissions.
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Last year, humanity emitted roughly 40 billion tons of CO₂ from fossil fuels and industry.
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They indicated they were unsatisfied, listing off various remaining ties between Amazon and fossil fuels.
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Tillerson nonetheless disagrees with environmentalists' views that fighting climate change means using less fossil fuels.
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It is time to turn off the money pipeline to dirty fossil fuels for good.
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These grids tend to run on fossil fuels, which still emit carbon into the atmosphere.
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The global temperature has increased overall 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit since we started burning fossil fuels.
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What to watch: Meaningful progress on climate change will mean less burning of fossil fuels.
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Today, Russia's economy, rich in fossil fuels, languishes under the tug of low energy prices.
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Thomas J. Pyle, president of the Institute for Energy Research, which promotes fossil fuels, agreed.
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Globally, fossil fuels provide about 80 percent of the energy powering the global economy today.
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When I lived in Calgary, the words "social license" dominated conversations about fossil fuels development.
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Nationwide, the sale of cars that burn fossil fuels is to be banned by 2040.
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Synthetic fibers are made from fossil fuels and don't break down in landfills or oceans.
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Field says geoengineering is not a replacement for cutting back on carbon-emitting fossil fuels.
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"Fossil fuels are the dominant portion of global energy supply," said Molchanov of Raymond James.
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Gross says such efficiency can deliver heat 20 percent more cheaply than fossil fuels can.
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LARRY FINK: We believe, in most cases, fossil fuels will not be a good investment.
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President Donald Trump has nominated Bernhardt, a former fossil fuels lobbyist, to permanently lead Interior.
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Prevailing climate policies presume we will simply abandon fossil fuels and the existing energy system.
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We could eliminate all fossil fuels in so little time if we had political will.
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NuEnergy says that fossil fuels and coal are the source of 67% of generated electricity.
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In September, the University of California system announced that it would divest from fossil fuels.
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What they found: There is bipartisan support for renewables but steep divides over fossil fuels.
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I'm terrified of climate change and believe we should end the use of fossil fuels.
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Competition from heavily invested older sources has to be overcome, as with fossil fuels today.
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Without growth in nuclear power, replacing fossil fuels with renewables simply decarbonizes the existing supply.
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He would try to ban offshore oil drilling and eliminate all subsidies for fossil fuels.
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One way to heat the water to create the steam is to burn fossil fuels.
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Third, the larger particles emitted by burning fossil fuels cause obvious damage to the lungs.
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China is joining the UK, France, and Norway in banning vehicles powered by fossil fuels.
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On college campuses, students are pushing schools and other institutions to divest from fossil fuels.
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Domestic supply of primary energy climbed 1.2 percent in the 2017 financial year, with the supply from fossil fuels decreasing for four straight years and that from non-fossil fuels such as renewable and nuclear energy increasing for five consecutive years, the industry ministry said.
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Domestic supply of primary energy climbed 1.2 percent in the 2017 financial year, with the supply from fossil fuels decreasing for four straight years and that from non-fossil fuels such as renewable and nuclear energy increasing for five consecutive years, the industry ministry said.
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Co-authored by former Republican Secretaries of State James Baker and George Shultz, the plan provides for carbon pricing to use the market to account for the externality costs in fossil fuels, encourage investment in energy efficiency, and replace fossil fuels with clean energy.
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It also has this huge impact on the big climate discussion because the assumption has always been, well, rich countries should stop using fossil fuels and reduce their carbon emissions and poor countries should get to use fossil fuels in order to power their development.
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"We invested in every part of the economy, and over 10 years ago I realized that there was something going on that had to do with fossil fuels that we had to change, so I divested from fossil fuels," he said during the debate.
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"We invested in every part of the economy, and over 6900 years ago I realized that there was something going on that had to do with fossil fuels that we had to change, so I divested from fossil fuels," he said during the debate.
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Global warming is mainly caused by the burning fossil fuels like coal and oil for energy.
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Sanders's own climate plan is, rightly, centered around the goal of transitioning away from fossil fuels.
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Last year more money was invested in clean energy than fossil fuels for the first time.
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Basically it urges all of us to get off fossil fuels almost entirely in coming decades.
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It is calling for a "just transition" to provide help for communities dependent on fossil fuels.
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So propping up fossil fuels with subsidies often ends up being a counterproductive social welfare program.
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Debate the best policies to get us off of fossil fuels and onto cleaner energy, sure.
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He did not cite the two planes that crashed or Boeing's enormous consumption of fossil fuels.
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The volatile price of fossil fuels also makes them less attractive when planning new generating capacity.
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WIRED: The burning of fossil fuels has gotten us into this mess that threatens the planet.
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The more fossil fuels a country consumes, the harder it is to wean itself off them.
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I'm not taking any, but particularly from certain industries— real estate, fossil fuels, and hedge funds.
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Ditch carbon subsidies The problem: 1.53 countries have agreed we must ditch fossil fuels this century.
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They're the simplest way to put a monetary value on the environmental impact of fossil fuels.
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As more fossil fuels are burned, sea water mixes with carbon dioxide and becomes carbonic acid.
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The pollution comes largely from the combustion of fossil fuels, mostly for transport and electricity generation.
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The biggest driver of global warming is the burning of fossil fuels like oil and gas.
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They fail us every time you fill up your gas tank: Fossil fuels are severely underpriced.
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Production of oil, natural gas and other fossil fuels ticked down slightly from a year ago.
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Electricity generated by non-fossil fuels is expected to increase substantially over the next two decades.
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That all of them say they're moving away from fossil fuels is a very big deal.
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The Danish government has set itself the target of being independent from fossil fuels by 2050.
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This has increased pressure to hasten a transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources of power.
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"IPCC doesn't say that the extraction or production of fossil fuels leads to emissions," Boutrous said.
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That means, effectively, blocking any efficacious climate policy (which, almost by definition, will diminish fossil fuels).
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There is an overwhelming scientific consensus that cigarettes kill and burning fossil fuels warms the planet.
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Energy Secretary Rick Perry on Thursday suggested that developing fossil fuels could help prevent sexual assault.
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He wants this to lower usage by 3.5GW—meaning less need for fossil fuels as backup.
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Oil prices don't reflect the massive burden we're placing on the planet by torching fossil fuels.
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The science calls for a near-abandonment of fossil fuels this century to avert runaway warming.
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So what does that mean, and how soon do we kick our addiction to fossil fuels?
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A majority of the energy was produced by fossil fuels like coal, petroleum and natural gas.
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But on Tuesday, only voters in Nevada decided to ditch fossil fuels faster than currently planned.
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It doesn't require a massive shifting of infrastructure away from what they've used for fossil fuels.
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But in the long run, cheap fossil fuels reduce the incentive to act on climate change.
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And she told me that everyone who burns fossil fuels -- beyond what they absolutely need -- contributes.
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He arrives amid unified Republican control of Washington and strong White House support for fossil fuels.
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Desalination requires vast amounts of energy, which in some places is currently provided by fossil fuels.
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A carbon tax would hit emissions of greenhouse gases related to the burning of fossil fuels.
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Still, much as fossil fuels are plentiful there is another liquid in short supply: fresh water.
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They'll talk about how more efficient fossil fuels and nuclear power can help fight climate change.
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Investments in renewable capacity were roughly double those in fossil fuels in 2016, BNEF data show.
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Factories, power plants and vehicles using fossil fuels, dust and burning of waste were among sources.
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She believes that getting away from fossil fuels is an important step towards improving public health.
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Wheeler's comments, however, are in line with the Trump administration's flagrant ambitions to boost fossil fuels.
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"No more need to import fossil fuels for electricity, which is a strategic vulnerability," he tweeted.
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Climate change from burning fossil fuels "really has the power to shake things up", he said.
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Actor Leonardo DiCaprio warns of the dangers of fossil fuels while flying around on private jets.
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While many don't like to admit it, fossil fuels produce 28500 percent of the world's energy.
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Many of these deaths are caused by sulfur dioxide pollution from the burning of fossil fuels.
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Greenhouse gases generally are not released from fossil fuels until the fuels are burned or otherwise
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Demand from these huge and growing economies will help to counter the trend against fossil fuels.
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Under Immelt, GE also doubled down on fossil fuels in 2015 by acquiring Alstom's power business.
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Step up and send the message that true climate leaders keep fossil fuels in the ground.
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Renewable energy businesses, which benefit from the shift away from fossil fuels, employ far more workers.
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In 22045, he found that greenhouse gases were rising due to the burning of fossil fuels.
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There is little objective reason for Republicans to oppose adoption of clean alternatives to fossil fuels.
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But it is not enough to simply cut emissions and end our reliance on fossil fuels.
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Yet, Stanford now acknowledges the social benefits of at least two of the three fossil fuels!
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The US delegation drew protests here this week at an event promoting fossil fuels and technology.
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Simple: Invest in technology and deploy it globally to enable fossil fuels to be environmentally responsible.
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To call the growing movement to keep fossil fuels in the ground "naïve" is cynical denial.
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Space solar power would supplant fossil fuels without hobbling modern, technological civilization at the same time.
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As energy prices have swooned, inventories of all fossil fuels have grown to unusually high levels.
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Other countries have pledged to reduce the use of fossil fuels, which contribute to global warming.
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On climate change:Gabbard wants to see the US move away from the use of fossil fuels.
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Instead he seeks to turn the clock back to an imagined golden age of fossil fuels.
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In such cases generators have to fall back of fossil fuels to keep the power on.
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Labor unions and Native American tribes dependent on fossil fuels must be brought on board urgently.
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Reaching 100 percent renewable energy is incredibly important to wean off our addiction to fossil fuels.
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The rest of the country is regressing back to fossil fuels and old centralized communication routes.
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That means China has plenty of room to continue burning fossil fuels to power its economy.
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Across the industry, a majority of power plants being built today use renewables, not fossil fuels.
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We can avoid some of this waste of dollars simply by moving away from fossil fuels.
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Hydropower dams, seen in some quarters as a green alternative to fossil fuels, inundate their villages.
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But the Microsoft co-founder has also profited from some of the world's dirtiest fossil fuels.
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The administration has rejected the scientific consensus that climate change is driven by fossil fuels consumption.
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The two great culprits are the burning of fossil fuels and the chopping down of forests.
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European leaders will decide if the Continent collectively will wean itself from fossil fuels by 2050.
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From his perspective, the US has tons of fossil fuels, and that gives the US power.
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This argues that it was because heavy rainfall meant more hydroelectric power, and less fossil fuels.
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He argued the pipeline would undercut United States leadership in curbing global reliance on fossil fuels.
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The supports offered to fossil fuels are so old and familiar, they fade into the background.
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"Ground-level ozone is produced when UV light reacts with pollutants from fossil fuels," added Barr.
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He's also been outspoken about climate change, calling fossil fuels "the dumbest experiment in human history."
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"We have to transform our energy system away from fossil fuels to clean energy," he said.
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Channel it and we could probably end global dependence on fossil fuels in about three weeks.
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So let's devise strategies that are based on emissions strategies, not based on eliminating fossil fuels.
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Most large oil companies no longer deny the connection between burning fossil fuels and climate change.
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Sanders vowed to "end the greed" of various industries, including Wall Street, insurance and fossil fuels.
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They can weaken climate policies and encourage the extraction of more fossil fuels — exacerbating climate change.
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It must replace incentives to produce fossil fuels with incentives to expand local clean energy jobs.
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Fossil fuels were cheap as you came of age and you burned too much of them.
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Giant stashes of data are valuable assets to corporations in industries from fossil fuels to finance.
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Mr. Weaver, a former climate scientist, entered politics largely to stop further investment in fossil fuels.
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Since 230, Mr. Steyer has vowed to free his vast holdings from investments in fossil fuels.
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So the campaign to erode the legal bulwark around fossil fuels may only continue gathering strength.
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We need to put a national price on fossil fuels and return the proceeds to households.
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Overall, fossil fuels would still have a 74% share of the global energy mix in 2040.
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According to these projections, global carbon emissions from fossil fuels will reach 41 gigatonnes by 2040.
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But such policies are still too rare to offset developing countries' growing demand for fossil fuels.
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They were protesting on behalf of the movement for universities to divest investments in fossil fuels.
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They are demanding their universities divest from fossil fuels & cancel their Puerto Rican debt holdings pic.twitter.
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The public wants renewable energy, but Washington delivers EPA Chief Scott Pruitt and fossil fuels instead.
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Incorporating the climate costs imposed by fossil fuels would sharply increase the cost of gas generation.
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Another move would be introducing legislation to enable a much faster transition away from fossil fuels.
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We need to focus on consistently choosing clean energy over the fossil fuels of the past.
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After all, the system grew up through the use of fossil fuels in ever-greater quantities.
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So, let's devise strategies that are based on emissions strategies, not based on eliminating fossil fuels.
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The idea behind this technology is to capture the carbon dioxide produced when burning fossil fuels.
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The Dallas Fed economists also expect energy consumers to increasingly reduce their reliance on fossil fuels.
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Without these subsidies, it's hard to imagine that anyone would still be investing in fossil fuels.
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To date, 532 faculty members have signed a petition in favor of divestment from fossil fuels.
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Year after year, we took more fossil fuels from the earth to power our growing economies.
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But as a presidential candidate, Trump campaigned on bolstering American fossil fuels, particularly the coal industry.
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According to these documents, global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels will reach 41 gigatonnes by 2040.
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" Steyer responded that "everybody in this room has lived in an economy based on fossil fuels.
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In some places, like Chile, Google said, renewables have at times become cheaper than fossil fuels.
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A wave of major pension funds, endowment funds and other intuitions have divested from fossil fuels.
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The IRA posts and tweets specifically targeted pipelines, fossil fuels and climate change, the report found.
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Three-quarters of that is for renewable technologies, and less than 15 percent for fossil fuels.
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As oceans absorb carbon dioxide released by burning fossil fuels, seawater is rapidly becoming more acidic.
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The majority of energy is still sourced by burning fossil fuels, releasing CO363 into the atmosphere.
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Increased use of renewable energy has also negatively affected power plants that run on fossil fuels.
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Some have decided to start a "war" against fossil fuels, which include natural gas and coal.
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The biggest import categories from Mexico are cars and trucks, machinery, medical instruments and fossil fuels.
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Although Microsoft's data centers have been 100 percent renewable since 2014, they still use fossil fuels.
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By contrast, the Paris Agreement seeks to limit greenhouse gas emissions, mostly from burning fossil fuels.
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The return of Japan's nuclear capacity should lead to lower imports of fossil fuels, especially LNG.
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They could transform big emerging markets that still plan to expand their use of fossil fuels.
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As it stands, the accord is likely a major threat to coal and other fossil fuels.
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Why forgo the convenience of fossil fuels or exhort governments to rethink their nuclear weapons policies?
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President Donald Trump championed fossil fuels throughout his candidacy and into his first year in office.
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The building, which is set to be finished in 2022, will not use any fossil fuels.
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Emissions are currently rising and 75 percent of energy use in France originates from fossil fuels.
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Like all fossil fuels, condensate contains toxicants which are harmful to the environment, animals and humans.
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For every unit of fossil fuels it consumes, Copenhagen intends to sell units of renewable energy.
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Rich countries have plundered and burned huge amounts of fossil fuels and gotten rich from them.
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That in turn might limit how hard Biden is willing to push back against fossil fuels.
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Rich countries have plundered and burned huge amounts of fossil fuels, and gotten rich from them.
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If there were such a coalition, fossil fuels would be its first and most obvious target.
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By 22016, most wind and solar power technology now being commercially used will be priced in the same range as fossil fuels, "with most at the lower end or even undercutting fossil fuels", said Adnan Amin, the director general of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).
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The government said that under its plan fossil fuels would make up between 64 and 72 percent of power generation by 2030, while the opposition Labor Party is committed to a renewable energy target that would see the use of fossil fuels drop to 39 percent.
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The powerful oil, gas and coal industries are committed to keeping the world dependent on fossil fuels.
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Trump is also excited about burning fossil fuels like coal and pumping greenhouse gas into the atmosphere.
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We know, beyond any reasonable doubt, that burning fossil fuels increases levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases.
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The idea is to use a zero-emissions fuel rather than carbon-spewing, money-burning fossil fuels.
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But yes, the massive political influence of fossil fuels means this will continue to be extremely hard.
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The judge even went so far as to say that there have been benefits from fossil fuels.
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While some of the CO213 stays underground, the process frees ever more fossil fuels to be burned.
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His focus on a balanced portfolio of energy resources, including fossil fuels, that's also AEP's service territory.
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Most of the pollution comes from the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and natural gas.
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Leaving out the environmental harms from the price tags for fossil fuels keeps energy affordable as well.
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And Tillerson hedges on the consequences of the warming he acknowledges fossil fuels are helping to cause.
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One reason for that: As we burn fossil fuels, we trap more heat on the Earth's surface.
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At the current state of technology, these produce energy several times as expensive as fossil fuels: e.g.
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In a surprise speech, he called out Trump for his stance on fossil fuels and sustainable energy.
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Hillary Clinton has made it clear she will continue Obama's war on fossil fuels — and American jobs.
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"Blowout" is a brilliant description of many of the problems caused by our reliance on fossil fuels.
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Greater efforts to connect grids between countries might reduce the need for fossil fuels as a backup.
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One activity asks you to color a map of the US showing carbon emissions from fossil fuels.
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And they put the cost of renewable energy into a range where it's competitive with fossil fuels.
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All nations heavily dependent upon fossil fuels are on the losing end, but some more than others.
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That's more than double our current energy investment, most of which is still focused on fossil fuels.
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And US officials are reportedly planning to tout the benefits of fossil fuels at an upcoming conference.
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Environmentalists have made it into a symbol of their broader fight against fossil fuels and global warming.
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At first glance, $60 billion Tesla fits the crown prince's mandate to reduce reliance on fossil fuels.
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"Specifically getting us away from fossil fuels, getting us away from the addiction to oil," she says.
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Bafflingly, the US wanted to state that it will help other nations with access to fossil fuels.
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Last December, world leaders made an unprecedented pact to wean their countries off fossil fuels this century.
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The discussion now must be about how to shift off of fossil fuels as quickly as possible.
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The 24.39 Paris deal will guide a radical shift of the world economy away from fossil fuels.
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Running a country of about 10 million people without any fossil fuels is certainly an impressive feat.
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Kilo-for-kilo, fossil fuels contain roughly 22 times as much energy as a lithium-ion battery.
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Trump is pro-fossil fuels and also wants all fossil fuel companies, even coal miners, to prosper.
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It was life as I knew it but powered almost exclusively by renewable energy without fossil fuels.
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Until the late 1980s, the reports that they published freely acknowledged the risks of burning fossil fuels.
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Iceland has already eliminated fossil fuels from its grid, which runs entirely off hydropower and geothermal energy.
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Fossil fuels will remain cheap for the foreseeable future, and better renewable technologies take time to develop.
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Currently, the world relies on the hydrocarbon molecules found in fossil fuels to create materials like plastics.
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This is a region where the economy is almost entirely supported by the extraction of fossil fuels.
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I tried to go emission-free for 24 hours, avoiding any activity directly connected to fossil fuels.
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For Padmanathan, the difference between renewables and traditional fossil fuels is based not only on environmental factors.
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Notably, all three scenarios heavily involve electrification of sectors and applications that currently run on fossil fuels.
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Two, it would implement a green energy transition, or grøn omstilling, to get off fossil fuels entirely.
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But backing out of the deal will do little to increase demand for fossil fuels, he said.
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Repeating his insistence that the deal is inherently unfair, Trump referenced India's continued reliance on fossil fuels.
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The US now accounts for just 15% of the world's annual greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels.
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Pruitt has rolled back a slew of Obama-era regulations limiting carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels.
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The shift from fossil fuels stretches beyond states like California, which is aggressively switching to renewable power.
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These devices are also powered by electricity that's (more often than not) gained from burning fossil fuels.
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Temperatures will continue to rise in lockstep with increasing emissions of greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels.
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REUTERS: Do you think that the Obama administration was trying to disfavor fossil fuels and favor EVs?
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But real-world evidence doesn't support this claim, which is oft made by defenders of fossil fuels.
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Meanwhile, we keep burning fossil fuels unabated, climate change is getting worse and most people don't care.
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And burning fossil fuels to create electricity kills people, so displacing fossil fuel power directly saves lives.
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For the first time, towards the end of last year, renewable energy generation surpassed fossil fuels globally.
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For other companies, it means shifting their own energy needs away from fossil fuels to renewable energy.
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Ozone is a byproduct of pollutants produced by burning fossil fuels, and can cause various respiratory problems.
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Synthetic fibers such as nylon and polyester are polymers derived from fossil fuels and generallydo not biodegrade.
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We all use fossil fuels, but that's because up until very recently there were no alternatives. Literally.
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They suck in greenhouse gases equivalent to around 13% of what America emits by burning fossil fuels.
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"The problem is we built our economy on fossil fuels, there's no way around it," Bookbinder says.
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The mayor's opposition was not born of a general stance against fossil fuels, but rather a realization.
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If you are relying on fossil fuels to produce it, I think the issue is much bigger.
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In his speech, he doubled down on fossil fuels and rolling back regulations that industry doesn't like.
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Statoil even acknowledged that it may, in fact, end up leaving some fossil fuels in the ground.
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As the cost of renewables becomes more competitive with fossil fuels, interest in cleaner energy solutions grows.
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To show true climate leadership, the governor must commit to keeping dirty fossil fuels in the ground.
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We need to keep the fossil fuels in the ground, and we need to focus on equity.
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Environmentalists have made the project a symbol of their broader fight against fossil fuels and global warming.
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When has anyone heard the White House or the EPA recognize the "social benefits" of fossil fuels?
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"These coalitions produce politically correct bromides such as calls to ban everything from straws to fossil fuels."
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From 2013 to 2015, they provided $13.5 billion annually to activities in search of more fossil fuels.
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Develop a rapid response plan to retrain the 1.1 million workers in the fossil fuels extraction industry.
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We can only avert the worst results by reducing, rather than expanding, our consumption of fossil fuels.
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There is a growing movement across the country working hard to keep fossil fuels in the ground.
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Ditching fossil fuels will require research and development of cleaner and cheaper technologies to replace them. Sen.
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They were also concerned about possible conflicts of interest as she holds extensive investments in fossil fuels.
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His talk, "The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels," ran long, but the audience didn't seem to mind.
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For the U.S. to give up fossil fuels would be like asking Nebraska to stop growing corn.
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This all sounds fairly impressive, and moving away from reliance on fossil fuels should always be encouraged.
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Republicans argue it would increase energy costs and unnecessarily punish certain energy sources such as fossil fuels.
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One false assumption is that rejecting the DAPL would result in fossil fuels staying in the ground.
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" In 2018, for instance, Heartland published another climate change report, titled "Climate Change Reconsidered II: Fossil Fuels.
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If proven at scale, the technology could allow these industries to replace fossil fuels, the Guardian reports.
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This politics relied on an engine of economic growth fed by ever-accelerating use of fossil fuels.
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Fossil fuels like coal contain compounds like carbon dioxide and methane, which trap heat from the sun.
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Demand for lithium is growing rapidly as some consumers shift away from cars powered by fossil fuels.
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To avert catastrophic warming, the science is clear: we must keep fossil fuels in the ground [18,19].
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Since then, Francis has called for a reduction in the use of fossil fuels at every occasion.
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Fossil Free, which campaigns against fossil fuels, says the shift towards a low carbon economy is irreversible.
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These cooling technologies typically rely on climate-harming refrigerants and electricity produced primarily by burning fossil fuels.
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The cases signal mounting anger among citizens stuck with high infrastructure costs tied to burning fossil fuels.
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Nuclear catastrophes are spectacular and terrible, but not nearly as devastating as those created by fossil fuels.
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Shutting down coal mines and limiting the use of fossil fuels were key parts of that plan.
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Carbon-capture technology will make the burning of fossil fuels much less environmentally destructive, Mr. Gutierrez hopes.
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"Of course, people want to move toward less dependence on fossil fuels," said the senior Biden aide.
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It could sell its abundant oil and gas and profit from fossil fuels while they still dominate.
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"We are trying to learn more about ways to stop the burning of fossil fuels," they said.
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If it's not fossil fuels or pharmaceuticals, it's private prisons, or health insurers, or the defense industry.
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Programs for basic science, nuclear power, advanced manufacturing and fossil fuels also received double-digit percentage increases.
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The royalties from these generators would then be used to further wean the country off fossil fuels.
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But they also believe the best way to shore up the state's finances is more fossil fuels.
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Shortly after the 20113 midterms, students began advocating that their universities divest from investments in fossil fuels.
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But it doesn't come from the decay of ancient plant, algae or animal life, like fossil fuels.
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Renewables are increasingly cost-competitive with fossil fuels—thanks, in part, to efforts from the Obama administration.
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Under overcast skies, Mr. Sanders lamented big corporations, argued for "Medicare for all" and assailed fossil fuels.
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That means the company is essentially still reliant on fossil fuels to keep the broader grid running.
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These robust stimulus efforts will boost carbon emissions, as the industrialized world largely runs on fossil fuels.
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Other countries are expected to view the American push to promote fossil fuels with a wary eye.
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Fossil fuels power this industry, which relies on oil, gas and coal shipments to stay in business.
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Some similar shareholder resolutions have succeeded in getting banks to stop financing coal and other fossil fuels.
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Discussions about fossil fuels and their alternatives often degenerate into a battle to delegitimize the other side.
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When it does, Ireland will become the first country to formally pledge to divest from fossil fuels.
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But until effective energy storage is developed these intermittent sources will continue to rely on fossil fuels.
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The ever-increasing cost of fossil fuels means your plant's in danger no matter what we do.
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The central question is how Exxon values the fossil fuels it owns but has yet to extract.
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Fossil fuels and Mr. Biden's support for them are at the heart of the climate movement's concerns.
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The shift from fossil fuels has thus been much faster and more pronounced than most experts expected.
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Nearly 88 percent of China's energy now comes from fossil fuels, only 1 percent from nuclear power.
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The change was all the more jarring because Iran is endowed with vast quantities of fossil fuels.
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Public sentiment also is high to reduce dependence on fossil fuels, especially as climate change keeps accelerating.
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With no nuclear energy to speak of, the gap would have to be filled with fossil fuels.
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The move also signals how Big Oil is slowly diversifying, although fossil fuels remain their dominant products.
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Burning fossil fuels releases particles small enough to float in the air as well as carbon dioxide.
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Carbon pollution from fossil fuels is the overwhelming reason global climate change is such an urgent problem.
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The numbers offer a sobering reminder of how deeply the modern economy still depends on fossil fuels.
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And beyond that, a tax would necessarily increase the costs of fossil fuels, another strong GOP ally.
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Advocates such as Thunberg have called for a reduction in burning fossil fuels to combat climate change.
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" BP: "I think it's a very good situation, but I recognize how much fossil fuels are hated.
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It makes little sense to pursue a phase-out of fossil fuels without first curtailing these subsidies.
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We need to end the mammoth taxpayer-funded subsidies that encourage the continued burning of fossil fuels.
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We need to end the mammoth taxpayer-funded subsidies that encourage the continued burning of fossil fuels.
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On a more collective level, moving away from fossil fuels and reforesting the Earth are other actions.
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Mr. Morrison has declined to consider major changes to policies on renewable energy, fossil fuels and coal.
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The divestment push adds to the mounting financial, legal and political pressure on the fossil fuels industry.
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Despite the divestment campaign by New York and London, fossil fuels aren't going away any time soon.
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Fossil fuels -- including coal, oil and natural gas -- account for about 65% of domestic greenhouse gas emissions.
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Even some big oil companies are accepting the view that demand for fossil fuels may soon decline.
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Meanwhile, fossil fuels more broadly have enjoyed $29 billion in post-tax subsidies, according to the IMF.
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If approved, the proposal would pay nations that rely heavily on fossil fuels to change their ways.
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Worse, fossil fuels increase global warming by spewing ever greater amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
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Few would be surprised if an environmental group chose not to employ an advocate of fossil fuels.
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On a traditional service using fossil fuels, energy usage is around 70 Nigerian naira ($0.19) per kilowatt.
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"Reducing the burning of fossil fuels is therefore a win-win for both climate and air quality."
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This process uses fossil fuels to generate heat to evaporate and condense water to a purified form.
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This is a policy that places a steadily-rising fee on the carbon content of fossil fuels.
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Barkindo said climate discussions have been focused on fossil fuels but they should be about the emissions.
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Some highlights from the first day... -Sanders defends job losses from ending use of fossil fuels Sen.
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Now assume wind farm loans are weighted at, say, 80%, while fossil fuels receive a 120% weighting.
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Technology is key to reducing the cost of producing electricity and making wind competitive with fossil fuels.
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There is no mystery about the reason — it's global warming, caused by the fossil fuels we burn.
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Mike Carr of New Energy America argues that Trump's "energy dominance" agenda can't rely on fossil fuels.
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This solution is a carbon tax, a price that is added to the cost of fossil fuels.
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Fossil fuels like coal contain carbon dioxide, methane, and other compounds that trap heat from the sun.
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Materials such as concrete, plastic or aluminium, require a lot of energy from fossil fuels to produce.
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Additionally, paper bags are heavier than plastic bags, and transporting them involves greater use of fossil fuels.
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Local energy providers like Ameren will be crucial in the work to transition away from fossil fuels.
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And industry uses lots of fossil fuels as feedstocks for chemical processes that make things like plastics.
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Ambiguous current economics and lack of familiarity make the task of replacing home fossil fuels particularly vexing.
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There's much to gain from being on the winning side of this clash — fossil fuels, in particular.
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It's one of the main states that prioritizes public infrastructure to drive long distances without fossil fuels.
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And prices for both have dropped to the point where they are increasingly competitive with fossil fuels.
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Nor is it true that Sky is notably easier on fossil fuels than other common decarbonization plans.
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They will fight the decline of fossil fuels in the transportation sector every step of the way.
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Zinke's Interior Department has dramatically overhauled its priorities—elevating fossil fuels to the top of its agenda.
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Agency work that threatens fossil fuels, like climate change research, has been intentionally sidelined from public view.
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For humans, which have mostly relied on fossil fuels for energy for the last 150 years, we call some of the detrimental feedback from our energy use climate change, yet the effects of our growing population can also be seen in the rapid depletion of the fossil fuels themselves.
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Fossil fuels have long (and correctly) been identified as the biggest culprits, with the majority of humanity's atmospheric carbon contribution coming from burning fossil fuels — oil, coal, and natural gas — and reversing hundreds of millions of years of natural carbon sequestration on the part of swamps and forests.
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In January 2015, President David Van Zandt officially stated The New School's plans to divest the endowment portfolio from fossil fuels, which essentially meant that it was getting rid of stocks, bonds, or investment funds that are unethical or morally ambiguous - in this case tied to fossil fuels.
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Outdoor particulate matter and ground-level ozone come mostly from burning fossil fuels in power plants and vehicles.
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Indeed, he and others are focused on the larger war against fossil fuels, more than any one battle.
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Increased carbon dioxide comes partly from burning fossil fuels, which is driving global warming, NASA has previously reported.
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The proposal aims to integrate autonomous cars and cut both reliance on fossil fuels and also carbon pollution.
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This is an actual step toward the "just transition" away from fossil fuels so many environmentalists talk about.
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For Clinton, fossil fuels remain her great challenge in convincing skeptical environmentalists Obama's moratorium is in good hands.
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Good money, he'd say, unaware that extracting and burning fossil fuels like oil is contributing to the problem.
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We can and must build an economy free from fossil fuels, and that is what I'm proposing today.
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To put it bluntly: Nobody, at least nobody in power, wants to restrict the supply of fossil fuels.
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And it won't stop climate change alone -- the planet will still need to drastically decrease burning fossil fuels.
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Regulators the world over are fed up with fossil fuels, and the auto industry has heard their grumbling.
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By 270, the US will be completely transitioned to clean energy, according to her OFF Fossil Fuels Act.
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But Daniel Tillotson's contributions to the car don't have anything to do with transitioning away from fossil fuels.
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And it's now clearer than ever that the political will to take on fossil fuels still hasn't materialized.
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The state utility, like Nest, wants to burn fewer fossil fuels while the state's solar energy production dips.
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EU member Cyprus and Turkey have argued for years over the ownership of fossil fuels in the Mediterranean.
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This echoes a longstanding Trump argument that plundering fossil fuels should be a goal of American foreign policy.
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"There were kids who asked about fracking, about the border wall, about fossil fuels," she told Colorado's 9News.
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It reinforces the president's signals that he will privilege fossil fuels like coal and oil over renewable resources.
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A guarantee of federal jobs for those working in the transition from fossil fuels to cleaner energy sources.
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Reality check: Deriding fossil fuels, at a climate conference or anywhere, is unlikely to change the status quo.
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If you're looking to actually make an impact, the best thing to do is not support fossil fuels.
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For the past three years, the world's CO2 emissions from fossil fuels have stayed flat, while economies grew.
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As one illustration: Environmentalists honor "Fossil of the Day" awards to countries deemed to be supporting fossil fuels.
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Thomas J. Pyle, president of the Institute for Energy Research, a think tank that supports fossil fuels, agreed.
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In their letter, employees said Amazon's Shipment Zero plan doesn't actually reduce the company's reliance on fossil fuels.
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"Fossil fuels have a P.R. issue," Ben Cook, a portfolio manager at BP Capital Fund Advisors, told CNN.
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Silicon is melted in electric furnaces and, at the moment, most electricity is produced by burning fossil fuels.
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Slowing demand for fossil fuels, and not just the growth in demand for them, is of utmost importance.
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However, fossil fuels will remain the dominant energy source, accounting for 77 percent of energy use in 2040.
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Thirty years later, that figure hasn't changed, reflecting fossil fuels' staying power even amid rapid renewable-energy growth.
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The consequences of our addiction to fossil fuels are so big, so everywhere, that they can seem unreal.
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Without an explicit commitment to keep fossil fuels in the ground, the resolution as currently written falls short.
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Republicans don't have a great track record on rape and sexual assault — unless they can promote fossil fuels.
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But natural gas—which emits lower amounts of carbon than other fossil fuels—can still be an option.
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That's because we're pumping heat-trapping greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels.
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If humans don't stop burning fossil fuels soon, we'll be paying for it for the next 27,212.6 years.
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However, the minister also said Mr Trump had made some "positive" comments about the importance of fossil fuels.
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The report attributed the pollution to vehicle emissions, heavy use of fossil fuels, dust and burning of waste.
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" He continued: "Our planet cannot be saved unless we leave fossil fuels in the ground where they belong.
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To date, biofuels like the corn-derived ethanol just haven't been able to compete with liquid fossil fuels.
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Burning fossil fuels such as natural gas and coal for energy emits greenhouse gases which cause global warming.
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And developing economies must either perform the unprecedented feat of growing without fossil fuels, or stop growing altogether.
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India is widening its use of solar and wind energy to help reduce its reliance on fossil fuels.
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One is an increased amount of carbon dioxide in the air, caused in part by burning fossil fuels.
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Even firms investing more in renewables are loth to give up fossil fuels, which are far more profitable.
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The Energiewende (energy transition) policy focused on subsidising renewables without paying enough attention to phasing out fossil fuels.
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Global investment in renewables, at $300bn a year, is dwarfed by what is being committed to fossil fuels.
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At the same time, the acidification of oceans from the burning of fossil fuels compounds the reef's challenges.
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The dream of this lifestyle is that you can have everything you already have but without fossil fuels.
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A carbon tax on fossil fuels would have the effect of rewarding nuclear, wind and solar, he said.
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Now similar technology could be used to ease the transition from fossil fuels to more sustainable energy sources.
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The world remains heavily dependent on fossil fuels, so making them cleaner is key to addressing climate change.
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Cuba currently produces 96 percent of its energy with fossil fuels, around 60 percent of which are imported.
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The losers will be those whose vested interests and lack of alternatives keep them wedded to fossil fuels.
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The fact that a huge chunk of China's electricity comes from fossil fuels makes the situation even worse.
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Berman also referenced oil companies' efforts to sow misinformation about the relationship between fossil fuels and global warming.
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China may still be the king of coal, but its appetite for fossil fuels might just be dwindling.
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To safeguard the future, we need to find new ways of making fossil fuels cleaner and more efficient.
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Alternative energy sources and green jobs are growing at exponentially higher rates than coal and fossil fuels combined.
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Such rapid electrification, often using fossil fuels, may look like the cheapest way to bring power to everyone.
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However, political obstacles mean a global tax on fossil fuels "probably won't be coming anytime soon", he added.
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One problem in cutting back on fossil fuels is that the country's budget depends on them, Lara said.
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Solar power and biogas will also be promoted over fossil fuels and imams will teach better environmental awareness.
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Hydropower in particular has huge regional environmental effects and sometimes has to be backed up by fossil fuels.
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Such pollutants are the result of burning fossil fuels, such as coal and natural gas, to generate energy.
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The big takeaway: Cutting out fossil fuels, which the United Nations panel has called for repeatedly, isn't enough.
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The president-elect has pledged to unleash an energy revolution, centered on fossil fuels like oil and coal.
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Another threat is alternative forms of energy, such as wind and solar, which may well challenge fossil fuels.
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US conservatives are engaged in a hopeless and purely dilatory effort to preserve the hegemony of fossil fuels.
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Greenpeace said Hulot had already shown weakness in fighting fossil fuels and was now jeopardizing France's energy transition.
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Financial incentives that promote the overuse of natural resources, such as fossil fuels, should be abolished, it said.
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Even fossil fuels' most fervent supporters realize that federal energy research plays an important role in economic development.
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Trump and his people say they want a "level playing field" while locking in subsidies for fossil fuels.
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On a website for kids to learn about energy, information about the environmental impacts of fossil fuels vanished.
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The alternative is to go back to a Second Industrial Revolution economy with fossil fuels and no jobs.
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He thinks a carbon tax, which internalizes the environmental impact of fossil fuels, is the best conservative approach.
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And we will have cooked the planet through global warming long before we run out of fossil fuels.
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If we're going to do it inside, it will require the burning of a lot of fossil fuels.
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" It also advocated population control, leaving "fossil fuels in the ground" and replacing them with "low-carbon renewables.
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WINBERG SAYS U.S. SHALE BOOM WILL CONTINUE, U.S. GOVERNMENT INTEREST IN DEVELOPING FOSSIL FUELS TRANSCENDS BI-PARTISAN DIVIDE
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It's really a war on one particular scientific fact: that fossil fuels are a threat to public health.
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And we're making the planet riskier because we continue to burn fossil fuels at such an astounding rate.
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He has also rolled back Obama-era environmental and climate protections to boost production of domestic fossil fuels.
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It hasn't worked, is unreliable, and the costs remain several times higher than fossil fuels, nuclear and hydro.
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He is hiking "green taxes" to accelerate the shift from carbon-emitting fossil fuels that cause global warming.
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At DOE, McNamee was responsible for pushing the importance of various energy industries, including strongly supporting fossil fuels.
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