Climate and environment updates: Biden bans offshore oil and gas drilling

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

72% : According to the analysis, in 2024, renewable energy sources reached a record-high 45% in the country, while fossil fuels made up 29%.
61% : "The Council added, "This legislation ignores the near universal use and benefits associated with fossil fuel."
60% : The New York legislature said the "Climate Superfund" was now possible because scientific research enables them "to determine with great accuracy the share of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere by specific fossil fuel companies over the last 70 years or more, making it possible to assign liability to and require compensation from companies commensurate with their emissions during a given time period.
58% : Over the last decade, renewable energy sources have more than doubled.
52% : According to NASA, 97% of climate scientists believe human activity, specifically burning fossil fuels, is the primary driver of climate change and global warming.
48% : The new law calls climate change "an immediate, grave threat to the state's communities, environment, and economy."
45% : As a result, carbon emissions have plunged by two-thirds over that time.
45% : They argued that the new law would do nothing to address what they said is the primary cause of carbon emissions: "consumption.
39% : The world needs to stop burning fossil fuels.
36% : The combination of sunsetting coal power plants and increasing the amount of renewable energy is moving the country in the direction scientists say is crucial for stopping the worst impacts of human-amplified climate change.
23% : With that ruling, Trump may have difficulty ridding himself of the ban.
18% : Trump also tried to overturn the Obama decision in 2019, but a U.S. District Court judge ruled that it would require an act of Congress to undo the ban.

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