DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Experts argue this makes Peterson a key organizer at the global level for efforts to oppose and delay action on climate change. “I He claimed during his interview with Steven Koonin, author of a book on climate change science called Unsettled , that “since the year 2000 the world has greened by 15 percent … why the hell isn’t that good news?”

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2021

The lead on many of these action items was FTI Consulting, whose work against Gillam included briefing Monsanto’s third party “pro science” organizations about the book, creating background materials on the book, helping to release a website to counter the book, and responding to media requests after the book was released.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

“Climate litigation is a formidable tool to put pressure on the State and ask to strengthen its efforts in the climate fight,” said Marica Di Pierri, spokesperson for A Sud, the organization bringing the lawsuit. “As This is compared to around 380 in 2010 and approximately 40 in 2000. .

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

obtained the documents via Freedom of Information laws, while the New York Times later received the documents from the University of California. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the sector accounts for 14.5 Unearthed, the investigative arm of environmental charity Greenpeace U.K.,

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 27, 2022

Elite Campaigners and Law Firms Lobby for Drilling. million that the industry spent lobbying in total in the state between 2018 and 2021 — four times what environmental organizations spent and almost six times clean energy firms’ expenditures. Since 2008, Bouma had been president of Capitol Connection, a firm that she joined in 2000.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

In other words, a building that is organized instead of chaotic. And I just thought a building as an organism operated by children would be so much fun. Hannover had just won the World's Fair for 2000, and they wanted to do sustainability as the theme. But we were not required to by law. Purified water. It grew food.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

These technologies include the use of insects, ‘fake meat’ made from plants, lab-grown meat, vertical farming, genetic modification (GMO), micro-organisms (such as algae) and 3D printing of food in general. It is estimated that over 2000 species of insects are eaten by over 2 billion people worldwide. This is called photosynthesis.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2022

In an article from February 2000 in the Duke Review, a student newspaper at Duke University, Epstein argued that Martin Luther King, Jr. Nor are they forcibly held back by legal segregation or Jim Crow laws. and argued that an increase in “Black crime” can be connected to King’s campaign for economic justice.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

based Center for International Environmental Law has reported. Meanwhile, Shell would commission British scientist James Lovelock — later a renowned proponent of the “Gaia Theory” of earth as a self-regulating organism — to investigate the possible global consequences of pollution from fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 1, 2023

Screenshot of a 2023 press release from National Association of Manufacturers that relies on arguments similar to those the organization used in 1963. In December 1963 the Clean Air Act was signed into law, barely a month after President Kennedy’s assassination. Once more, however, the coal industry and its allies were prepared.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Climate and environmental justice organizations , some climate and energy experts, and some lawmakers, are speaking out against the false promise of CCS. Both of these policy supports have now become law with the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 1, 2022

For example, New York law requires a 60 percent reduction in emissions in just eight years. Figure 1 summarizes these insights as suggestions for wind planning processes, organized by theme. 1 (2000): 49–64. Many coastal states in the United States have set ambitious emissions reduction goals with high-stakes timelines.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Today K-Solv is legally allowed to release almost 20 times more volatile organic compounds — a class of chemicals that includes benzene — into the air each year than it did back then. In fact, the agency rarely fines companies that violate Texas air pollution laws. But the agency didn’t fine or otherwise penalize K-Solv.

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Better Ventures

JANUARY 15, 2020

Thanks to the precipitous drop in the cost of sequencing DNA, scientists now have access to the genomes of countless organisms, providing them with an extensive library of reaction pathways needed for desired molecular outcomes. in 2003 (cumulatively) to under $1,000 today, a reduction far outpacing Moore’s Law.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

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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Grist

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

As millions of Texans endured days without power and water, experts and news organizations pointed to unheeded warnings in a federal report that examined the 2011 winter storm and offered recommendations for preventing future problems. At the height of the crisis, more than 4.5 million customers across the state were without power.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

In other words, a building that is organized instead of chaotic. And I just thought a building as an organism operated by children would be so much fun. Hannover had just won the World’s Fair for 2000, and they wanted to do sustainability as the theme. But we were not required to by law. Purified water.

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Mearth

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

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