DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Read time: 5 mins A French court this week issued what climate campaigners are calling a “historic decision” in the fight to hold national governments accountable for insufficient action to address the climate crisis. Tags: France climate lawsuit Paris Agreement Greenpeace France climate action

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 14, 2021

Read time: 15 mins It seems like nearly every day another hopeful article touts the potential of using hydrogen as a fuel to tackle climate change. Tags: Green hydrogen blue hydrogen hydrogen council hydrogen fuel cells

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Energy Central

APRIL 19, 2023

The cost of achieving our climate goals is staggering - and still increasing. Watch this video to see just how much the price tag is estimated to be.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Read time: 6 mins Three young British citizens and the climate litigation charity Plan B today announced they are taking legal action against the UK government for failing to sufficiently address the climate crisis. The announcement comes on the five year anniversary of the landmark Paris Agreement.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Read time: 12 mins Parler is fast becoming a conservative echo-chamber but big name climate deniers don't seem to be abandoning mainstream social media for the fringe platform — at least not yet. Tags: Social Media climate denial database climate denial twitter

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Read time: 4 mins The French state has been found guilty of climate action in what campaigners have dubbed “the case of the century”. . Today the Paris administrative court concluded France has failed to do enough to meet its own commitments on the climate crisis and is legally responsible for the ensuing ecological damage.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2020

Read time: 3 mins Statements from large business associations and opponents of climate action are twice as likely to be included in climate change coverage by national newspapers than pro-climate action messaging, according to a new study.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Read time: 5 mins The Supreme Court of Norway is set to rule in a high-profile climate change lawsuit challenging the Norwegian government’s licensing of new offshore oil drilling in the fragile and rapidly warming Arctic region.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Read time: 9 mins A recent German news report has shed light on the inner workings of the Heartland Institute’ s international efforts to sow doubts about climate science using the dark money group Donors Trust. Tags: Heartland Institute james taylor Greta Thunberg Naomi Seibt Germany Donors Trust

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Read time: 11 mins This year — with its converging crises, from the coronavirus pandemic to longstanding racial injustice to climate-related disasters — was also a remarkably active time for climate litigation. Supreme Court fossil fuel companies

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2021

The White House is billing it as a “generational investment” that will lead to “transformational progress in our ability to tackle climate change.”. Tags: Enbridge Line 3 pipeline Dakota Access Pipeline Indigenous Environmental Network Biden administration

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Read time: 9 mins More Americans than ever before — 54 percent, recent polling data shows — are alarmed or concerned about climate change, which scientists warn is a planetary emergency unfolding in the form of searing heat, prolonged drought, massive wildfires, monstrous storms, and other extremes.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Scientists say warmer ocean waters due to human-caused climate change is making hurricanes like Laura stronger and causing them to intensify more rapidly ; Hurricane Laura spun up to a Category 4 storm in just 24 hours. Tags: Louisiana Department of Natural Resources Hurricane Laura oil spills National Response Center

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Read time: 5 mins The Federal Court of Canada has decided to dismiss a climate lawsuit based on constitutional rights and brought by 15 young Canadians against the federal government. The decision , issued October 27, effectively denies the youths the chance to present their case and the supporting climate science at trial.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Read time: 4 mins An unprecedented climate lawsuit brought by six Portuguese youths is to be fast-tracked at Europe’s highest court, it was announced today. Tags: youth climate lawsuits European Court of Human Rights Portugal european union climate crisis Paris Agreement

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 28, 2021

oil industry — while also increasing the industry’s huge contribution to climate change. Tags: crude oil export ban fracking However, looking back at the impact of lifting the 40-year-old ban, it appears the move has helped hasten the financial demise of the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Read time: 15 mins This article was published as part of the launch of DeSmog’s Agribusiness Database , where you can find a record of companies and organisations’ current messaging on climate change, lobbying around climate action, and histories of climate science denial. The speaker?

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Read time: 7 mins The recent deluge of pro-hydrogen stories in the media that tout hydrogen as a climate solution and clean form of energy can now be linked in part to FTI Consulting — one of the most notorious oil and gas industry public relations firms. Tags: Hydrogen FTI Consulting Bridge Fuel Green hydrogen

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The ruling – a culmination of four years of high-profile litigation in a case challenging continued fossil fuel production on climate change grounds — came as a big disappointment, and even outrage , for environmental and climate activists in Norway and internationally.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Read time: 10 mins The electric utility sector is largely lagging when it comes to responding to the climate emergency, both in terms of rapidly slashing globe-warming emissions and planning for climate impacts like increasingly extreme weather.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 10, 2020

Read time: 5 mins At a time when fossil fuel companies are using a public health crisis to demand financial and regulatory support , the governments of Baltimore and Rhode Island are calling out a “decades-long campaign of deception” by these companies in urging courts to advance lawsuits trying to hold polluters responsible for climate damages.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2021

Read time: 12 mins The fossil fuel industry and its investors have financially benefited from tax policies and subsidies designed to reduce the emissions from oil, gas, and coal — sometimes without taking the action required to tackle climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Read time: 6 mins As Pennsylvania took a significant step this week towards joining a regional climate initiative to curb carbon pollution from power plants, newly revealed email records show how fossil fuel interests campaigned to oppose this initiative in a state that has the fifth most polluting electric power sector in the nation.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Read time: 5 mins New Jersey has now joined the wave of lawsuits seeking to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable for climate impacts. The lawsuit seeks to recover costs associated with climate impacts like extreme flooding and sea level rise.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Read time: 9 mins By Karen Savage, The Climate Docket. Originally published on The Climate Docket. Amid a summer rife with climate-related disasters, the liability lawsuits came like an advancing flood, first Minnesota and Washington D.C. Tags: American Petroleum Institute climate lawsuits ExxonKnew

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Read time: 5 mins As rampant wildfires worsened by climate change continued to batter the western U.S. this week, a Washington state appeals court examined the question of whether young people should be allowed to sue their state government over the climate crisis.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Read time: 5 mins With growing evidence that the climate impacts of natural gas are comparable to coal, the European Commission is planning to study ways to reduce methane emissions across the life cycle of natural gas production and consumption, with potential implications for fracked gas producers in the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Read time: 7 mins Six young people from Portugal have filed an unprecedented climate change lawsuit against almost all of Europe, targeting 33 European nations for failing to take adequate action on the climate crisis that they say threatens their human rights. United States

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Unfortunately, they are outnumbered by people who have often cast doubt on mainstream climate, environmental, and health sciences. For starters, who thinks that long-time fossil fuel–funded Patrick Michaels , a senior fellow with the climate science–denying Competitive Enterprise Institute , will “fix science”?

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

Read time: 5 mins A New England-based environmental law group is taking major oil companies to court, claiming the firms have failed to adapt some of their petroleum storage terminals to withstand increasingly severe storm and flooding events worsened by the climate crisis. .

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 8, 2020

Read time: 3 mins As unusually intense and widespread bushfires have ravaged a drought-ridden Australia, bots and trolls have begun pushing climate science denial across the internet in the form of conspiracy theories about the fires. Tags: climate science denial conspiracy theories alex jones

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 12, 2020

Read time: 11 mins Climate science deniers at think tanks with fossil fuel ties are doubling down on attempts to undermine the bases for regulating climate pollution, from attacking estimated carbon pollution costs used in regulatory analyses to urging the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Read time: 4 mins With lawsuits against major fossil fuel producers over climate damages on the rise , a new report and initiative examines how prestigious law firms are enabling climate breakdown. Tags: climate accountability law firms #DropExxon Paul Weiss climate crisis fossil fuel industry Sen. Whitehouse

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 7, 2020

Read time: 6 mins Climate litigation is not going away any time soon. Tags: climate litigaton climate lawsuits climate crisis Human Rights Urgenda carbon majors COVID-19 Tags: climate litigaton climate lawsuits climate crisis Human Rights Urgenda carbon majors COVID-19

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Read time: 6 mins This week, a group of eight Australian teens has brought a groundbreaking new climate change lawsuit against Australia’s Federal Minister for the Environment in an effort to stop a proposed coal mine expansion in the state of New South Wales, roughly 267 miles north of Sydney.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 25, 2021

Read time: 4 mins Campaigners are calling for polluters to be denied access to this year’s pivotal COP26 summit and locked out of all future UN climate talks. . Tags: COP26 fossil fuels

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 31, 2020

Read time: 6 mins A future climate disaster, or “green swan” event, could bring down the global financial system, according to a new report from the Bank for International Settlements ( BIS ), an international financial organization that serves as a bank for central banks around the world.

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