DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

A member of the Canadian parliament has proposed a ban on misleading fossil fuel advertising. Taking inspiration from Canadian government bans on tobacco advertising that went into effect in the 1990s, New Democratic Party (NDP) MP Charlie Angus has proposed private members bill C-372, An Act respecting fossil fuel advertising.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

“The world needs to cut global emissions by 50% in 7 years’ time,” observed Professor Johan Rockström, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, “yet in Sharm, we still battled over whether we are phasing down or out coal and weren’t willing to talk about fossil fuels.”.

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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The beginning of the end for fossil fuels? This text is a step forward on our path towards phasing out fossil fuels, but is not the historic decision we hoped for.” More than 100 countries came to the table pushing for an official agreement to “phase out fossil fuels.”

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer has echoed these concerns, warning that the deal could undermine “free expression of opinion” and prevent the “accurate presentation of the news”. DeSmog revealed in October that Marshall’s hedge fund has $2 billion in fossil fuel investments. All of these companies are based in the U.S.,

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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. trillion on fossil fuels.

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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. Social license.

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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. TotalEnergies will sponsor the 2023 Rugby World Cup in France.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

It’s time for journalists, and everyone else, to consider some additional words and subordinate clauses that evoke the violence of the changes in the present, and identify those accountable for the upending of the status quo now underway in full throttle. Climate change” describes only the result of fossil fuel-based greenhouse gases.

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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

JUNE 14, 2023

“We have been warning about the dangers posed by climate change for decades,” climate scientist Cathy Whitlock testified to a Montana court on Monday, “and yet Montana continues to aggressively pursue an expansion of fossil fuel utilization and production.” Their case, Held vs. Montana, is the first U.S. court – the first was in 2007.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

The influencers have included a popular former BBC presenter, a polar explorer, and an exasperated father of five who needs a break and finds it in the form of BP’s rewards app. While there’s more knowledge in general around climate change and the harms of fossil fuels, I think that people have a lot of trust in creators.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

“If you were a fossil fuel project, you would have been shut down long ago.” For fossil fuel ideologues, sowing misinformation about wind and solar power is proving to be an effective stall tactic. “Hear this message: We’re here to save the whales!”

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

The event aims to bring together policymakers and liquified natural gas (LNG), natural gas, and hydrogen players to explore new avenues for fossil fuel expansion. The post ‘They’re Destroying Our Coastline’: Activists at the Americas Energy Summit Protest Fossil Fuel Expansion appeared first on DeSmog.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Who has never snorted at an unwelcome present? Yet, the most unpleasant present was given to the Earth in 1907 by Leo Baekeland, who invented Bakelite, the first fossil fuels-made plastic. Sadly, useful presents can still generate a pile of junk, plastic being the major component of it most of the time.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2023

Campaign group One for One warn fossil fuels should be viewed as the highest risk class of assets and urges government to tighten financial regulations to avert risk of a financial crash. The One for One rule will ensure that banks making high-risk fossil fuel investments shoulder that risk themselves," she added. "It

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 28, 2023

They are just some of the countries in which Europe-headquartered fossil fuel companies stand convicted or credibly accused of criminal, civil, or administrative offences. The history of fossil fuels is a litany of criminal accusations, from corruption and bribery to human rights violations and even complicity in war crimes.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Coyote, but without the madcap comic charm, the global fossil fuel industry finds itself out beyond the cliff edge - it just hasn't realised yet. Now they publicly accept the need for a transition away from all fossil fuels. Clean energy generation is close to outstripping increases in energy demand.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

By September this year, Guterres said all businesses, cities, regions, and financial institutions that have pledged to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 should present their transition plans "with credible and ambitious targets for 2025 and 2030", as recommended by the UN net zero expert group appointed by the secretary-general last year.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

This month, they presented their incredible climate technologies at an ACCEL Showcase at Greentown Houston. FRAKKTAL Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) is a synthetic plastic polymer made from fossil fuels, and it forms one of the most common types of plastics. Read more about florrent and check out a video featuring its CEO.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The revelations come as the Church faces renewed pressure to fully divest from fossil fuels after its biannual meeting earlier this month, where climate campaigners expressed frustration at the Church’s ongoing stakes in oil and gas. . Fossil Fuel Ties. Officials also have ties to banks that finance fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 7, 2023

Doing so all but commits its customers to fossil fuels for the next 25 to 30 years, obliterating the utility’s chance of reaching any national or international, or even its own, climate goals. That lack of accountability and flexibility appears to be keeping the TVA on the fossil fuel train, Garcia said. “I

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

Despite this, the state has never denied a permit for any fossil fuel-related project, she said. The state adopted a new constitution in 1972 that prioritized environmental protection for present and future generations and guaranteed a clean and healthful environment as an inalienable right.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

Policy Exchange, one of Westminster’s most prominent think tanks, engaged in a high-level influencing campaign over the UK’s North Sea oil and gas policies while being funded by fossil fuel interests, DeSmog can reveal. Fossil fuel firms tout CCUS and hydrogen as green energy solutions, yet the reality is more complicated.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

COP27 has just ended and while the agreement to develop a loss and damage fund is a real victory for vulnerable nations already devastated by climate change impacts, UN climate talks once again failed to address the root cause of these impacts: fossil fuel production. For women, fossil fuel impacts are even more devastating.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 24, 2022

HSBC has been accused of double standards after suspending an executive who said investors “need not worry” about climate change, while continuing to plough billions of pounds into fossil fuels. HSBC has financed £103 billion in fossil fuels since the Paris Agreement was ratified in 2016, including £43.8

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Nearly two thirds of social media posts put out by six major European fossil fuel and energy companies since the end of 2019 present a “green” image of the company, despite the majority of their business activity remaining in fossil fuels, reveals new analysis by Desmog. Credit: Sam Whitham.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

For so many of those allies to have links to fossil fuels, climate denial and delay shows that Johnson always has been and always will be willing to take a wrecking ball to our planet if his own career depends on it.” Last month DeSmog revealed one in three GB News presenters cast doubt on climate science in 2022.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2022

Over the past few years, fossil fuel combustion has been responsible for approximately 73 percent of the United States’s greenhouse gas emissions and 89 percent of the world’s emissions. While taxpayers have been forced to pick up the tab for the climate crisis, fossil fuel companies have continued to prosper.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Yet 636 lobbyists for the fossil fuel industry are conspicuously present at this year’s crucial COP27 climate talks, according to an analysis of the delegates to COP27, compiled jointly by the NGOs Global Witness, Corporate Accountability, and Corporate Europe Observatory.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2021

Fossil fuel companies could face legal challenges over their misleading advertising, after a DeSmog investigation uncovered the extent of their “greenwashing” Environmental lawyers ClientEarth have put companies on notice with the publication of the Greenwashing Files. ExxonMobil – “Powering Progress”.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Photos I shot in 2022 for DeSmog capture damage from extreme weather events and the continued expansion of the fossil fuel industry — the dominant industry causing global warming. Travis and Nicole Dardar in front of their home in Cameron, Louisiana, near the Venture Global Calcasieu Pass LNG export facility. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Two Bulls is just one of many victims of the fossil fuel industry’s use of SLAPPs — strategic lawsuits against public participation — to silence and intimidate its critics. At present, 32 states and the District of Columbia have anti-SLAPP laws, yet they have varying degrees of efficacy.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The UK organisers of the upcoming COP26 climate summit have come under fire for approving just two events that refer to fossil fuels, the primary driver of climate change, in a programme of public events happening alongside the main conference. In 2018, 89 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions came from fossil fuels and industry.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 8, 2023

Doing so all but commits its customers to fossil fuels for the next 25 to 30 years, obliterating the utility’s chance of reaching any national or international, or even its own, climate goals. That lack of accountability and flexibility appears to be keeping the TVA on the fossil fuel train, Garcia said. “I

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

Policymakers must step up efforts to deliver major 'structural shift' away from fossil fuels across all societal and economic activities, report warns. Policymakers must significantly ramp up their efforts to tackle climate change by working together to deliver a "structural shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy", REN21 warned.

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Jim Conca

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The cost of nuclear fuel has never been a big deal. Because of its high energy density, thousands of times less uranium is needed than fossil fuel to produce the same amount of energy. And it’s easy to enrich, even to higher levels than present reactors. New fuel is not a bottleneck to new reactors.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 25, 2023

This pipeline is a symbol of the ongoing controversies that already divide the Navajo Nation — and New Mexico — over fossil fuel development. On the Navajo Nation, climate change and fossil fuel development aren’t mental exercises. I walk out of those meetings and I have to check my tires,” she says. New Mexico Gov.

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