Tag: Fuels

Gen Z eco warriors who claim fossil fuels are UNCONSTITUTIONAL sue the Biden administration – along with lawmakers in three states over green ‘failings’: Hawaii, Utah and Virginia to hold trials

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Dozens of young Americans are challenging the Biden administration and state officials over their alleged climate policy failings through a series of explosive lawsuits. 

Civil cases launched by Gen Z plaintiffs are spreading like wildfire following a historic win by 16 kids and teens against Montana lawmakers last summer.  

Two federal complaints against the US government and the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) have been launched in Oregon and California respectively, along with three state-level cases in Hawaii, Utah and Virginia. 

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Taiwan at election crossroads as war threat looms – POLITICO

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This story was originally published in German by WELT, a sister publication of POLITICO in the Axel Springer Group.

Nate Lin wants to be prepared for war. 

On a Saturday morning in November, Lin, a 35-year-old Taiwanese man, practices how to apply a tourniquet to his right arm. In this fictive scenario, he’s been shot and is in danger of bleeding to death.

“It has to be pulled tighter to stop the bleeding,” warns the instructor.

It’s not the kind

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What London’s mayor learned when he took on the cars – POLITICO

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It looked like group therapy. One late summer day, Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, sat with a group of faith leaders and clean-air campaigners in a small circle in the near-empty hall of a suburban church.

The moment was meant to be one of celebration, for Khan and for London. He was marking the creation of the largest clean air zone in the Western world through the expansion of restrictions on polluting cars to cover the entire British capital,

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Oil industry rides into climate summit bigger than ever – POLITICO

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This article is part of the Road to COP special report, presented by SQM.

WASHINGTON — Eight years after Paris, the oil business is bigger than ever.

Profits are soaring. Production is climbing — and marking a record year in the United States. The industry is even poised to gain from the crusade to rein in climate pollution, including the billions of dollars in incentives that U.S. President Joe Biden is offering for wind farms, battery minerals and carbon-carrying pipelines.

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Anti-green backlash hovers over COP climate talks – POLITICO

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This article is part of the Road to COP special report, presented by SQM.

LONDON — World leaders will touch down in Dubai next week for a climate change conference they’re billing yet again as the final off-ramp before catastrophe. But war, money squabbles and political headaches back home are already crowding the fate of the planet from the agenda.

The breakdown of the Earth’s climate has for decades been the most important yet somehow least urgent of global crises,

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A global call for policy action – POLITICO

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*Speak Up for COPD is supported by a coalition of partners across industry and the non-profit sector to raise awareness and understanding of COPD amongst policymakers and healthcare decision makers by amplifying the voices of patients, the COPD community and the public. All partners contribute time and expertise to the coalition actitivies. Our one critical goal is to establish COPD as a public health priority.

Coalition partners: Global Allergy & Airways Patient Platform (GAAPP), International Federation of Ageing (IFA),

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Putin rakes in extra €1B for his war chest via Bulgaria sanctions loophole – POLITICO

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BRUSSELS — The Kremlin raked in an extra €1 billion for its war effort this year after Russia’s largest private oil firm exploited loopholes in EU sanctions rules — with help from Bulgaria.

Taking advantage of a unique exemption to the EU’s Russian oil ban, Bulgaria allowed millions of barrels of Russian oil to reach a local Russian-owned refinery, which then exported various refined fuels abroad including to EU countries, according to an investigation by the NGO Global Witness, the

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How the far right turned heat pumps into electoral rocket fuel – POLITICO

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When they write the book on the downfall of liberal democracy, will it begin with the heat pumps?

Immediately outside the main train station in the German city of Wiesbaden, an election poster has been tied high up on a lamppost, out of reach of those who would tear it down in the belief that it’s a harbinger of fascism once again spreading across the country. The subject? Not scary depictions of migrants. Nor the overreach of the European Union.

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Inside the fall of Nagorno-Karabakh – POLITICO

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KORNIDZOR, Armenia — Many of the men waiting at the Armenian border have been there for days.

When news broke on Tuesday that Azerbaijan had launched a major attack into the ethnic-Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, dozens of them pulled on warm jackets and wooly hats and drove towards the checkpoint. Now they can only watch the road, once the sole highway cutting through the mountains to the breakaway region where their families live, hoping their relatives are able to get

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Rishi Sunak weaponizes net zero as election looms – POLITICO

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LONDON — Rishi Sunak has rolled the dice on weaponizing net zero for electoral advantage. No one knows if it will pay off — and some say it’s already costing him dearly.

In a Downing Street speech on Wednesday — coincidentally on the very afternoon the UN hosted talks in New York on increasing climate ambition — the British prime minister took a red pen to some of his

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