Grist

APRIL 29, 2022

That’s according to the latest edition of The World Resources Institute’s Global Forest Review , which found that millions of trees were removed in 2021, potentially putting global climate goals at risk. “We’re But raw numbers are only part of the story: When it comes to tree loss, the type of forest matters too.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Mon, 02/01/2021 - 00:30. This article originally appeared in the State of Green Business 2021. Over the past few years, as companies have come under steadily increasing pressure to tackle climate change, nature-based solutions have emerged as a particularly exciting method for shrinking corporate carbon footprints.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Mon, 02/01/2021 - 00:30. This article originally appeared in the State of Green Business 2021. Over the past few years, as companies have come under steadily increasing pressure to tackle climate change, nature-based solutions have emerged as a particularly exciting method for shrinking corporate carbon footprints.

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Planet Pulse

JANUARY 11, 2024

Our weekly newsletter, Planet Snapshots, makes understanding satellite images and the stories they reveal easy. We’re kicking-off 2024 by sharing a select number of issues here on Pulse, so keep an eye out for these eye-opening stories that explore our changing world. All of yesterday’s growth and fun came with a steep price tag.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Reuters goes a step further, with marketing staff creating custom industry conferences explicitly designed to remove the “pain points” holding back faster production of oil and gas. Darren Woods, the CEO of Exxon, celebrates the potential of carbon capture to dramatically reduce global emissions. and Europe.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 13, 2022

Last week the BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2022 was released, covering energy data through 2021. Oil still accounts for nearly a third of the world’s energy consumption. In 2021, the world consumed 94.1 million barrels per day (BPD) of oil. Global oil production grew by 1.4 In 2021, the U.S.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 24, 2023

oil production will again rise and set a new annual production record. This is probably the biggest story of the year in the oil and gas sector. Based on weekly and monthly numbers from the EIA, in mid-December a new oil production record was set. Producers Break Annual Oil Production Record ”).

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Grist

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Palm oil is a dirty word for many environmentalists. Thousands of acres of forest, and the carbon-dense peat soils beneath, have gone up in flames, clearing the way for rows of oil palm trees. That was the depressing story since the 1990s, but things have recently changed for the better. And this isn’t just a statistical blip.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

In the summer of 2022, it seemed that the days of an oil-by-rail facility in Portland, Oregon, were numbered. The previous year, the city had rejected a land use permit for a company called Zenith Energy, which receives crude oil shipped by rail from as far away as North Dakota. You’re in the driver’s seat.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

Oil and gas supermajors including Shell and BP are using UK influencers to push false solutions to the climate crisis and manufacture a more family friendly image, DeSmog can reveal. We Needed Them to Think Differently About Shell’ Shell appears to have been the most prominent employer of influencer advertising over the last seven years.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2024

Over the past two years, they have collectively held at least 163 contracts with fossil fuel clients, according to research by DeSmog and campaign group Clean Creatives. oil and gas companies. Twenty-two are still serving in roles at such companies. WPP declined to comment. Coleman Jr.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

These banks have supplied billions in financing to Shell and BP , which this year scaled back their climate targets, as well as to other oil and gas firms such as ExxonMobil and TotalEnergies. The British bank propped up the oil and industry with $190.5 Over 50 are yet to make any public commitments.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

A nonprofit advocacy group focused on improving oil and gas pipeline safety is raising concerns about public accountability and transparency in the wake of a major diesel spill in coastal Louisiana after it went unreported to the public for weeks, despite contaminating or killing thousands of fish and dozens of alligators, birds, and other wildlife.

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Charged

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Over in Japan, Toyota is just beginning to think about considering possible plans to try to come up with some sort of electrification strategy (maybe). Another oil slick on the Big Three’s road to electrification: disagreements with labor over the transition to EVs—a problem that, for better or for worse, union-busting Tesla doesn’t have.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15. The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. Elsa Wenzel. and globally by 2040. Christophe Beck, CEO, Ecolab; St. Paul, Minnesota.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The alarm is a test of the community’s emergency warning system, which has alerted residents to numerous incidents over the years at the nearby Chevron oil refinery. One accident there — a 2012 fire — sent a cloud of black smoke billowing over San Francisco Bay and left thousands of local residents struggling to breathe.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Chief Kelsey Jacko told an Edmonton crowd that the Pathways Alliance, a lobbying and marketing effort by Canada’s top oil sands producers, has neglected to consult his community on a massive carbon capture storage network project Pathways claims will be able to store 1,100 megatonnes of carbon dioxide. The geology is different everywhere.

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Elemental Excelerator

JULY 23, 2021

Just six months in, 2021 has already been the most active year for portfolio company success in the history of Elemental. But here we are over a year later. It has been difficult for everyone but miraculously, climate tech has come out stronger, in stark contrast to a merciless year for the oil & gas industry.

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Grist

MARCH 2, 2021

When Weatherly Oil and Gas filed for bankruptcy in February 2019, the company was walking away from several hundred Texas wells. Many hadn’t produced a drop of oil in years. When Weatherly handed over 173 abandoned wells to the state, it officially became the company responsible for the most orphan wells in Texas.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Institutional investors with collective holdings of over 12 million shares in Shell are supporting the legal action, which comes on the heels of Shell reporting a record $40 billion in profits in 2022. The shift to a low-carbon economy is not just inevitable, it’s already happening.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 25, 2023

“These racketeering cases should be viewed as a new legal front against the oil and gas industry,” Richard Wiles, president of the Center for Climate Integrity, which advocates for climate accountability from polluters, said by email.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Agriculture, which is responsible for over one third of the world’s emissions, will be under the spotlight at the upcoming COP28 global climate summit in Dubai. Often valid concepts in and of themselves, the problem lies in how they are touted as enviro-friendly actions while companies fail to cut their contribution to global heating.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 19, 2021

Oil and gas companies have long delivered the fuels that form the bedrock of today’s energy system, but against a backdrop of persistently high global emissions, they are coming under increasing pressure to deliver solutions to climate change. strategic plan for 2021-24 targets 20% of average yearly capex of EUR 7 Bn to clean energy projects.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

So it was a surprise to many PR sector observers when news broke in September that Shell, the world’s fifth largest oil company , had selected Havas — a global PR, media and communications conglomerate with 2022 revenues of 2.3 billion) — to take over the company’s global strategic media buying in 2024. billion euros (around $2.49

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Grist

AUGUST 3, 2021

Over time, they suck the soil dry of metals like nickel, zinc, cobalt, and even gold. Over time, they suck the soil dry of metals like nickel, zinc, cobalt, and even gold. Take, for instance, palm oil – a crop as notorious for its profitability as its role in driving deforestation in Asia and Africa. rufuschaneyi.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 28, 2023

By Audrey Carleton This story originally appeared in Capital & Main , and is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. The lonely well pad houses four natural gas wells that records show were initially drilled in 2011 but sat inactive for years after that.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 19, 2023

This story is the start of The North Sea Investigations , a multi-year international reporting project on the battle for the future of the North Sea, led by Dutch investigative journalism platform Follow the Money in cooperation with Norwegian broadcaster NRK, Belgian newspaper De Tijd and DeSmog. Shell had never faced anything like it.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2022

Netflix is producing and providing a platform for documentaries, TV series, and feature films educating viewers about the climate crisis — about 160 million households globally watched one of these stories in 2020, according to the company. “The I’m thrilled at how Netflix is taking on this leadership role.” .

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Grist

MARCH 8, 2021

The colorless liquid can be used as a “drop-in” replacement for oil-based fuels with relatively minor modifications to a ship’s engine and fuel system. Green methanol” is drawing interest from the global shipping industry as companies work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and curb air pollution in ports. Methanol, or CH?OH,

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 4, 2022

I cited this as the Top Energy Story of 2021 in a previous column because of the impact on so many people. But it isn’t just oil and gasoline prices that have soared. This is where lithium differs from oil. Demand for oil is not growing exponentially. Demand for oil is not growing exponentially.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 23, 2022

New large-scale fossil fuel projects have become mostly unworkable in the Pacific Northwest, with dozens canceled over the past decade due to fierce opposition from local communities. But the industry’s blitz is not yet over. Crude oil trains. ” – Emily Moore. Portland, Oregon. Credit: Nick Cunningham.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 10, 2021

After the shale oil and gas industry lost a half trillion dollars in what the Wall Street Journal recently called the “ unprofitable American oil boom ” and investors started fleeing, the U.S. While there are approximately 9,000 oil and gas E&P companies in the U.S., In February, the Financial Times wrote about the U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 28, 2021

Subscribe to Renewable Energy World’s free, weekly newsletter for more stories like this. Per the IEA’s World Energy Investment 2021 report, energy storage was already losing momentum at the beginning of the COVID?19 For the first time in nearly a decade, annual installations of energy storage systems fell year-over-year in 2019.

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Grist

APRIL 10, 2020

That’s because they are the same suppliers the oil industry uses, but oil companies are idling drilling rigs and cutting contracts left and right. Energy Information Administration revised its short-term outlook for crude oil production, predicting a steep decline through 2021. Article continues below.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2022

In 2022 this has led us to stories that have unmasked all manner of trickery: from the minutiae of misleading stickers marketing “hydrogen-ready” boilers to the sinister presence of sanctioned coal barons at this year’s COP27 climate summit. And we were, in essence, all over it. And we were, in essence, all over it.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

By Emily Sanders, ExxonKnews This story was published in collaboration with ExxonKnews , a project of the Center for Climate Integrity. If you take Shell’s word for it, the oil giant’s growing petrochemical operations are indicative of its “commitment” to a cleaner energy future.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 19, 2022

This story originally appeared in The Revelator and is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. My son was born in 2010, which means his life is going to play out over the 21st century. By Tara Lohan , The Revelator. I did Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project.

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