DeSmogBlog

MARCH 12, 2024

Robert Noyes, a campaigner at Fossil Free Parliament warned against “cosy dinners and the easy access they buy”. He told DeSmog: “What the fossil fuel lobby wants, the fossil fuel lobby gets.” The company says that 70 per cent of its investments are in natural gas operations. degree-warmed world.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

“If you were a fossil fuel project, you would have been shut down long ago.” ” That apparent conservation activist was, in fact, an infamous climate change disinformation artist : Marc Morano, who’s done more than perhaps any other person to manufacture doubt about global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2023

While the window for avoiding the most catastrophic consequences of climate change narrows, the global banking sector continues to funnel huge sums each year into fossil fuels, finds a new report. Last year alone, the 60 largest banks financed fossil fuels to the tune of $673 billion. Still, U.S. Fellow U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

gigawatt natural gas power plant in the U.K. have been shelved by the developer Drax, highlighting the challenging economics of converting coal-fired power to a cleaner, but still fossil-fuel-fired, alternative. ’s climate change laws. Plans for a new 3.6-gigawatt

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The findings underscore concerns over the role of the fossil fuel industry at the negotiations, known as COP27, which have become a focal point for deals to exploit African natural gas. These talks are supposed to be about moving us away from fossil fuels, phasing them out,” Sabido told DeSmog.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2023

Tory MP for The Wrekin, Mark Pritchard, stands to earn £153,600 in the next 12 months from three jobs with companies that have an interest in fossil fuels. The company is run by a former energy adviser to Donald Trump’s administration, and is advised by a former Republican senator who has questioned climate science.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

billion into fossil fuel projects around the world since the Paris Climate Agreement was signed in 2015, undercutting global efforts to combat the worsening climate crisis. The Bank is trying to reposition itself as a climate champion investor. The World Bank Group has funneled $14.8

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

While Eni is among the world’s largest oil companies, the company’s role in climate change has so far undergone scant scrutiny. The cover of a 1970 study by Eni’s Isvet research centre that warns of “catastrophic” climate impacts from burning fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 22, 2024

and other fossil fuel companies are urging the European Union to relax targets to boost climate-friendly “green” hydrogen, hoping to win greater support for projects to manufacture the fuel using natural gas. But the oil and gas industry is pushing hard for increased use of “blue” hydrogen.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

In roughly two weeks, leaders from around the world will converge on Glasgow for COP26, the 26th United Nations Climate Change summit and U.S. foreign policy and national security. This effort is being led by Biden appointees with major influence over the administration’s energy policies: U.S. foreign policy.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

New research asserts most have undermined those goals by keeping coal plants running and building new natural gas plants meant to operate for decades to come. utilities that still rely on coal and natural gas for most of their generation capacity. All but one call for new natural gas plants.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 6, 2019

So the EIB's confirmation last month that it would effectively end support for fossil fuels garnered widespread attention — as much for the signal it sends as for the additional impact the bank can make with the freed-up funds. The EIB's role, in effect, is to bankroll the EU's policy goals. billion ($14.9

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Global advertising and public relations company WPP has more contracts with fossil fuel clients than any of its rivals, despite the group’s pledge to reach net zero emissions by 2030, according to a report by campaign group Clean Creatives. climate talks due to open in Dubai in November.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Hosted by Adnoc, the UAE’s state-owned oil and gas firm, ADIPEC is reportedly the world’s largest energy exhibition. Adnoc intends to increase its oil production by more than any other fossil fuel firm in the world, according to data from the Global Oil and Gas Exit List (Gogel). Al Jaber has denies these claims.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2023

A national industry group representing gas producers is quietly paying for digital advertisements urging Canadians to “speak up” to their elected officials against laws addressing climate change and public health, DeSmog can reveal. Natural gas is one of them. which would ban natural gas hookups in new buildings.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

From the world’s biggest soccer championship to soccer training for kids , from major universities to music festivals and art galleries to — if you can name it, fossil fuel companies have probably sponsored it. Aramco has partnered with Spain’s Laguna de El Hito Nature Reserve to conserve bird species.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 5, 2022

Talk to fossil fuel execs, government ministers, and industry reps these days and they’ll all tell a similar story: Blue hydrogen is the clean fuel of the future that will help Canada and the world get to net-zero emissions. It’ll power everything from airplanes to long-haul trucks and will even heat our homes.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) was high on the agenda at New York Climate Week last week, where critics of the technology raised concerns it would be used to extend the life of the fossil fuel industry. Terrell Natural Gas Processing Plant (“Val Verde”) Operator: Occidental Petroleum, 1972-present Location: Southeast of Ft.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2021

A group of Republican members of Congress are traveling to Glasgow, Scotland, in order to attend COP26, the United Nations’ international climate negotiations meant to galvanize global action to cut greenhouse gas emissions. million from the oil, gas, and mining industries throughout their elected careers. In 2009, Sen.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The annual conference, hosted by Energy Dialogues, brings together natural gas interests to discuss where the industry is headed, with perspectives from policymakers and civil society. Speakers talked about natural gas as the solution to a trinity of critical energy challenges: emissions mitigation, energy poverty, and energy security.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

above the pre-industrial average in 2020, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned in its recent report that Earth could hit 1.5C could help avoid the most serious effects of climate change. Fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas are the source of just over 80% of the world’s energy.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2021

As 2021 comes to a close, we look back on a year that was full of climate chaos, relentless oil industry propaganda, and frustrating progress on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. But 2021 also saw a significant number of victories against the expansion of the fossil fuel industry in the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 22, 2021

Former UK Energy Minister and original COP26 President Claire O’Neill has been cleared to take up a role at a business consultancy known for running “astroturf” campaigns for fossil fuel companies, despite warnings from the body that approves such appointments. Oil and Gas Industry Groups.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 29, 2021

Combined, the six CEOs lead organizations that have poured over $1 trillion in financing into the fossil fuel industry since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015, based on the numbers tallied in a 2021 report from Rainforest Action Network and other environmental advocates.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

I live in South Louisiana on the front lines of the climate crisis and cover the fossil fuel industry and impacts related to the warming planet, so facing gaslighting is a regular occurrence for me. At best the permits minimize coastal erosion and gloss over storm surge and flood risks in relation to climate change,” he said.

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Green Market Oracle

MAY 12, 2020

The importance of replacing fossil fuels with renewables is significant. A report commissioned by the Guardian found that replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy could curb the rise in global temperatures by reducing CO2 emissions by 70 percent by 2050. oil demand is expected to experience a 9 percent decline.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 19, 2021

government’s recently released hydrogen strategy—a thoughtful plan to create and use clean hydrogen—contains an implicit acknowledgement: the world is moving away from fossil fuels and toward low-carbon alternatives. isn’t the only jurisdiction to see clean hydrogen as the new natural gas. s natural gas industry?

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Ohio’s adoption of gerrymandered voting district maps last week is the latest in a series of anti-democratic measures that thwart action to address climate change, critics say. Data from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication show a majority of Ohioans believe climate change is happening and worry about it.

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Grist

JULY 15, 2021

We talk so much about the supreme challenge of reducing emissions — something that already requires transitioning our entire economy away from the burning of fossil fuels, adapting to existing climate threats, and doing all that in a way that at the very least doesn’t add to the burdens of already marginalized communities.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2021

As global efforts to ramp up the hydrogen industry gain support with big government subsidies, new research casts increasing doubt on the climate credentials of the main recipient of that support, so-called “blue” hydrogen, which is extracted from natural gas and paired with carbon capture technology. billion in funding.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2024

energy policy, according to internal company documents. They were subpoenaed as part of a Congressional investigation into the fossil fuel industry’s decades of deceptive advertising, “Sponsored content advertising is a powerful way to reach a specific audience focused on specific issues,” BP states in the document. “We

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2022

President Biden signed an executive order banning the import of Russian oil and gas on March 8, but activists around the world are calling for a more comprehensive break with fossil fuels, warning against replacing Russian fuels with a new drilling frenzy elsewhere. — President Biden (@POTUS) March 9, 2022.

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Clean Energy Canada

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Feb 2, 2023 OTTAWA — In Alberta and Ontario, wind can now produce electricity at lower costs than natural-gas-fired power—with even more reductions on the horizon, according to a new report from Clean Energy Canada, which was informed by research commissioned from Dunsky Energy + Climate Advisors.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 24, 2023

That’s the picture the International Energy Agency (IEA) paints in the World Energy Outlook it published today, which is based on governments’ current energy policies. Demand for coal, oil, and gas is expected to peak this decade, according to the IEA’s new Outlook. degrees Celsius above the preindustrial era.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 6, 2021

If you live in Oregon, it’s likely you’ve been bombarded with misleading PR from the local utility company, Northwest Natural, about the potential for what the industry is calling renewable natural gas (RNG) — methane captured from places like landfills and repurposed into energy for homes.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The time is therefore now to plan an orderly wind-down of fossil fuel assets and manage the impact on the global economy rather than try to sustain the unsustainable. The worst year for oil ever Oil fueled the 20th century. Many of us now believe it is not a matter of if, but when we will transition away from fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 19, 2021

House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a hearing scrutinizing wasteful fossil fuel subsidies. That should have been reason enough for Devon to be here today, answering questions with significant implications for our public lands and natural resources,” Rep. On May 19, the U.S.

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