DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 13, 2020

oil majors like Exxon and Chevron are failing to grapple with the energy sector’s transition away from polluting fossil fuels and refusing to disclose potential risks to their portfolios from assets that may become “stranded,” or uneconomical to develop, in a low-carbon world, new research from the London-based think tank Carbon Tracker shows.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

This wild, protected place is also, according to newly published research from Oxford University, littered with over 500 tons of plastic waste. Tags: fracking plastic Fracking Plastics

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 22, 2021

A unique marine research project led by sustainability group Loughs Agency is underway to study the seas around Ireland and Western Scotland with the deployment of ‘Europe’s largest fish counter’. A pair of basking sharks (image credit: Emmett Johnston, IBSG). Funding for the €4.6m

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Public concern regarding environmental problems is being translated into legislation rapidly,” Imperial Oil warned in an annual research planning document dated January of that year. Tags: Imperial Oil ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) climate science denial oil industry public relations Gasoline

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2019

However, they began increasing again in the last 10 years, spurring researchers to explore why. Robert Howarth, a biogeochemist at Cornell University , recently presented his latest research linking the increase in methane to fossil fuel production, with fracking for natural gas, which is mostly methane, likely a major source. .

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

In this webinar, which explored the declining production rates of oil wells in the Permian region , research director Ben Shattuck noted how it was impossible to accurately forecast how much oil a shale play held based on estimates from existing wells. You cannot take anything for granted.”.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Read time: 7 mins New research from Stanford University professor Mark Z. Tags: carbon capture ccs clean coal renewable energy Mark Jacobson Jacobson questions the climate and health benefits of carbon capture technology against simply switching to renewable energy sources like wind and solar.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

Koch money funds individual courses, professorships, fellowships, and even energy research and policy programs, like the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and the Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University. These centers represent significant investments in the “intellectual raw materials” of free-market advocacy.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 14, 2020

In a research report last month titled “The Second Wave of Clean Energy,” analysts at Morgan Stanley explained how “the surprisingly low cost of renewables” will drive utilities to close most of the remaining U.S. coal plants over the next decade. coal plants over the next decade.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Those journalistic efforts exposed the facts that Exxon’s own climate science research had confirmed the role of fossil fuels in driving global warming, and that the company pivoted away from that advanced knowledge, choosing instead to spend tens of millions of dollars funding climate science denial campaigns.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Tags: climate change Ford general motors automakers E&E News Center for International Environmental Law SUVs climate liability The investigation , published Monday, October 26, also describes how the auto giants largely dismissed those risks and actively lobbied to block action and fund climate science denial campaigns.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 8, 2020

But the researchers found similar trends across other reactor designs and timeframes, right up to 2017. The research is sober reading for those who contend that the more times a reactor model is built, the less it will cost. According to the MIT research, however, in three out of four U.S. “In the U.K.,

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 19, 2019

Tags: kochdocs kochvsclean Charles Koch Richard Fink institute for energy research koch industries americans for prosperity (AFP)

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

However, if they’d divested from fossil companies in 2009 while keeping their other investments at the same proportions, they could have amassed a combined additional $19 billion in ten years, the report published by Corporate Knights, a Canadian media, research and financial firm, concludes.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 11, 2019

Although most people with basic education, common sense, and a lack of financial interest in the fossil fuel industry accept what scientists worldwide have proven through decades of research, some media outlets continue to publish inconsistent, incoherent opinions of people who reject climate science.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 4, 2021

Recent research by Leaders Arena ESG Advisory Services finds that institutional investors managing more than $7 trillion in equity assets consider biodiversity issues to some extent, including Allianz Global Investors, BNP Paribas Asset Management and California Public Employees’ Retirement System, better known as CalPERS.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

New research by the Climate Action Against Disinformation ( CAAD ) group, shared with DeSmog, suggests the host nation was behind a significant social media push to improve their online image to a younger generation. The posts shared the same hashtags and tagged the same official COP28 Instagram account. Credit: Instagram.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

power forecast , the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ( FERC ) has predicted major declines for fossil fuels and nuclear power alongside strong growth in renewables by 2022, according to a review of the data by the SUN DAY Campaign, a pro-renewables research and education nonprofit. Read time: 5 mins After revising its three-year U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Read time: 2 mins On November 19, 2009, an unknown hacker published a cache of emails from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit. But it made the research — and researchers — stronger than ever. It was meant to be the hack that brought down climate science.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 24, 2020

Tags: Dentons EJM Associates AFL-CIO IBEW International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers U.S. Unlike those calling for a Green New Deal, though, this alliance supports increased fracking for oil and gas, as well as other controversial technologies that critics say prop up fossil fuels.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

Climate change is already hurting us much more than we realize,” said Benjamin Strauss, chief scientist at the research and communications nonprofit Climate Central and one of the study’s authors. To do so, researchers simulated two different universes: One with the higher sea levels brought on by human carbon emissions and one without.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2023

Those impacts come with a surprisingly steep price tag, according to the study, which was published in Science on Thursday. The researchers analyzed two previous El Niño cycles in 1982 and 1997. By the end of the century, El Niño cycles may spur a whopping $84 trillion in economic losses. “El It hits and lasts for a while.”

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 11, 2024

The Stream open data platform has been launched in beta format for data sharing for research, decision making and public awareness among other purposes. Most innovations involve data in some shape or form, so having this sector approach should help to enable future innovations.”

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2022

The research, which was carried out by consultancy Element Energy and drew on a survey of 14,000 new car buyers across Europe, identified upfront cost as the most important factor influencing consumer purchase decisions for road vehicles. By 2035, almost all car sales will be electric, according to the study.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

It placed the price tag at up to 10.5 Last month, scientists at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research said that while previous research suggested that a 1°C hotter year reduces economic output by about 1 percent, “the new analysis points to output losses of up to three times that much in warm regions.”’.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

Researchers at the HIFI have formed the REDEEM project in collaboration with the Environment Agency , the industry group ADA and various IDBs to REsearch and Develop fish and Eel Entrainment Mitigation at pumping stations. Of the acoustic tagged eels, 80.8% You can download our full report from the ADA website.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 7, 2019

Tags: Koch Network Database Charles Koch David Koch koch industries Kochtopus

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Let me put this in perspective, if one of these trucks blew up in the right conditions, it could destroy a neighborhood,” said Bill Huston, director of a research and advocacy program called Terra Vigilate, and one of a small group of advocates raising awareness about the extreme risks of fire and explosion of Virtual Pipeline trucks.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Brulle is a professor of sociology and environmental science at Drexel University in Pennsylvania, who has researched the environmentalism movement for more than two decades, and has focused in recent years on the funding of climate denial. Tags: Climategate Bob Brulle robert brulle climate science climate science denial

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2022

UK and US researchers have run the numbers on the huge costs of runaway climate change – and the myriad benefits of achieving net zero emissions. per cent of national GDP, the researchers calculated. Moreover, the researchers estimate a further 2.8 Today's research adds to that growing body of evidence.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The key price point for battery packs to become cheap enough for manufacturers to produce mass market EVs for around the same price tag as typical petrol and diesel vehicles is thought to be around $100/kWh, and BNEF yesterday estimated prices could hit that tipping point as soon as 2024.

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Business Green

MAY 26, 2022

Research by Inside Housing has put a price tag of £104bn on decarbonising all the UK's homes, with an upper estimate of £250bn - equivalent to just under a quarter of the government's total projected spending for 2022-23. For comparison, UK average disposable household income in 2021 was £31,400.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Exclusive: Research from Nesta points to major savings heat pump deployment can deliver for the UK economy, the government, and consumers as gas prices continue to soar.

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The Environmental Blog

JANUARY 21, 2022

Instead, it is often blended with diesel and tagged based on the amount of diesel it’s mixed with. According to the research conducted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) , biodiesel emits 11 percent less carbon monoxide and 10 percent less particulate matter than diesel. billion gallons in 2013.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Credits for forestry or land use and renewable energy were the most popular, measured in metric tons of CO2 removed, the research found. According to the research, this method has a medium-long time horizon for the technology to be implemented, with a medium impact on carbon emissions. This article first appeared at GreenBiz.com.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Dedicating time to research eco-friendly tips and strategies can illuminate the vast possibilities available for an environmentally conscious relocation. Alt-tag: A person sorting trash for recycling as one of the examples of ways to minimize your carbon footprint during a move.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

I thought this one image captured a great deal of salient points I’ve learned after several years of researching medium- and heavy-duty alternatives such as battery electric, fuel cell electric and a variety of hybrid systems for the North American Council for Freight Efficiency (NACFE). You are what you are. Free delivery."

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