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‘Drop Fossil Fuels,’ Over 400 Scientists Tell PR Firm Handling UN Climate Talks?

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Ahead of the COP27 UN climate summit, hundreds of scientists are calling on the PR firm in charge of the event’s communications, Hill+Knowlton, to cut ties with its fossil fuel industry clients, which include major oil companies Aramco, ExxonMobil, and Shell as well as an industry coalition called the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative.

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US coal power plants killed at least 460,000 people in past 20 years – report

The Guardian: Energy

Pollution caused twice as many premature deaths as previously thought, with updated understanding of dangers of PM2.5 Cars, factories, fire smoke and electricity plants emit tiny toxic air pollutants known as fine particulate matter or PM2.5, Continue reading.

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Unveiling the Benefits of Community Solar: A Step Towards a Sustainable Future

The Environmental Blog

The community solar model typically involves an array in a nearby town or city connected to the local electric grid. A key benefit of community solar is that it helps preserve natural resources like land and water by reducing the need for fossil fuels.

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Over a Half-million Americans Live Near Oil Refineries With High Levels of a Cancer-causing Air Pollutant, Report Finds

DeSmogBlog

The report , which draws from government data, raises concerns about the potential health effects on those living near the refineries and the federal enforcement that the high levels of this cancer-causing air pollutant should trigger. More than a dozen U.S. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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Our Best of 2023 Has Your Holiday Reading Covered

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From the Global Team American PR Firm Edelman Enabled Oil Baron Al Jaber’s Ascension to Lead COP28 Climate Conference By Cartie Werthman In 2023 we returned to our roots and investigated the ongoing relationship between the fossil fuel industry and advertising and public relations firms. Department of Justice that shed light on a $6.4

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How Shell Is Selling the Petrochemical Buildout as ‘Sustainable’

DeSmogBlog

After generations of wildly elevated rates of childhood asthma and cancer in the community that many believe were a result of the toxic pollution overhead, a group of Diamond residents living within a few blocks campaigned for Shell to buy their contaminated properties. Town sign for Norco, Louisiana. Shell Norco.

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Scientists Find Appalachian Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Put Endangered Species at Risk Thousands of Times

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But in the intervening decades, the region’s rivers were dammed or channeled and the fossil fuel era dawned across Appalachia. Their goal was to find out more about the impact mountaintop removal mining has had on those water pollution levels. Mountaintop Mining. The new research highlights how, even as the U.S.