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Italy’s Eni Faces Lawsuit Alleging Early Knowledge Of Climate Change

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Further research by DeSmog has shown that Eni’s company magazine Ecos made repeated references to climate change during the late 1980s and 1990s — while running advertising campaigns promoting natural gas, which is mostly comprised of planet-warming methane, as a “clean” fuel. This prediction would prove to be broadly accurate.

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Ireland’s Agri Lobby Has Dodged Its Climate Commitments Through Special Pleading and Dubious Science

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Its chair, Marie Donnelly, last night expressed concern at the “problematic” sectoral targets, which she described as “not consistent” with the objectives of Ireland’s climate laws. According to the California Air Resources Board , livestock emissions in 2019 “are 18 per cent higher than 2000 levels”. Steep Cuts for Other Sectors.

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Animal Agriculture Industry Commits Millions to Prominent University Animal Science Research Center, Documents Show

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obtained the documents via Freedom of Information laws, while the New York Times later received the documents from the University of California. Unearthed, the investigative arm of environmental charity Greenpeace U.K., The Rise of the “Greenhouse Gas Guru”. percent of the world’s total greenhouse gas emissions.

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Proposed Pipeline Expansion Could Upend Three States’ Climate Plans

DeSmogBlog

California, Oregon, and Washington have all passed laws and enacted policies that require utilities to dramatically cut carbon pollution over the next decade. Out of 425 gas project proposals FERC considered between 2000 and 2021, the agency has rejected only two. percent a year on average through 2050. Credit: Rogue Climate.

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Defective Meters and Whistleblower Complaints Raise Questions About Gas Utility’s Profits

DeSmogBlog

Shortly after starting his job at NW Natural in 2000, Dye discovered that the company was losing less gas than it assumed, partly because of inaccuracies in how the utility accounted for variations in temperature and pressure across its service territory. Dye oversaw the accuracy of NW Natural’s more than 700,000 meters from 2000 until 2012.

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On the Future of our Food

Mr. Sustainability

It is estimated that over 2000 species of insects are eaten by over 2 billion people worldwide. Lab-grown meat dramatically cuts back on carbon emissions , methane emissions, water consumption and land use. The rules are so strict, that some cheeses that we have been eating for centuries would have been banned under these laws.

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Lost Decade: How Shell Downplayed Early Warnings Over Climate Change

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based Center for International Environmental Law has reported. A graph projecting that the concentration of CO2 would reach 380 parts per million (ppm) by 2000 proved to be broadly accurate — the actual value that would be recorded at the turn of the century was close to 370 ppm. In 1980, Wilson used it to lobby U.S.