DeSmogBlog

MAY 12, 2023

The oil and gas industry searched for a market for the fossil fuel, using it as a main ingredient in synthetic fertilizers , amping up plastic production , and, beginning in 2016 , exporting it overseas. Between 2003 to 2017, the company avoided paying $3.1 Farnum, according to campaign contribution reports.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 7, 2020

Thus, ironically a fossil fuel has already helped drive the transition to a low-carbon future. This begs the question whether there are other fossil fuels that can help drive this transition. Bush touted the potential for a “hydrogen economy” in his 2003 State of the Union address. Indeed, there are.

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R-Squared Energy

MAY 4, 2021

Bush in his 2003 State of the Union address. Grey hydrogen denotes hydrogen produced from fossil fuels, such as via the SMR process. Depending on the process, blue hydrogen can be produced from fossil fuels, but it can also be produced from nuclear power. 50 Shades of Hydrogen.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The group shares this stance with fellow members of the Atlas Network – a global free-market umbrella organisation whose supporters have played a key role in promoting climate science denial, aided financially by the fossil fuel industry, with a particular presence in the United States. Pedro Allemand, a Ph.D.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Working closely with the community, Cole represented the residents in lawsuits fighting against major mining and fossil fuel companies, including the groundbreaking case Kivalina v. In 2003, intruders broke into the office of CRPE, the small nonprofit Cole had founded. Credit: Suzanne Tennant. Landmark Climate Change Lawsuit.

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 19, 2021

Warning signs were dismissed, as they have been elsewhere: consider the Northeast’s heat-triggered cascading grid outages in 2003, grid failures resulting from hurricanes Katrina (2005), Sandy (2012), and Maria (2017), California’s rolling summer blackouts, and countless related incidents.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 5, 2021

If polluters are allowed to continue releasing polluting greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere without consequence, it risks continuing to warm the planet at a time when experts warn countries must rapidly transition away from fossil fuels.

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Grist

JANUARY 12, 2023

Rising emissions posed a threat to Exxon’s business — selling fossil fuels — so the oil giant took the lead on understanding what was called the “CO2 problem.”. At the time, Exxon was pouring $900,000 a year into researching the effects of burning fossil fuels.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 14, 2020

Bush touted the potential for a “hydrogen economy” in his 2003 State of the Union address. Hydrogen’s “dirty secret” is that it is produced primarily from fossil fuels. Since hydrogen produces minimal pollutants when combusted, it is envisioned by many as a core component of a cleaner energy future. President George W.

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Green Technology

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

In their view, China’s high recycling rates – up to 70 percent for scrap paper – avert deforestation, mineral extraction and fossil fuel use. Some observers, such as journalist Adam Minter , think the scrap restrictions could backfire. Will source nations step up?

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Living Green Technology

APRIL 1, 2016

Philadelphia Eagles Philadelphia Eagles have been committed to their Go Green program to reduce their environmental impact since 2003. NASCAR NASCAR is a huge consumer of fossil fuels - it is just gas guzzlers driving in high speed for hours. The stadium is also a zero waste facility as they recycle 99.8% of their waste.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

DECEMBER 17, 2014

I wanted one that could continue to hold both my enthusiasm and the very strong commitment I had made after graduating from the country’s first Green MBA program in 2003. I was on the search for a new career – but not just any career. And this is how The LED Lady was born.

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Better Ventures

JANUARY 15, 2020

One investment theme we’re increasingly excited about is synthetic biology, due to its potential to replace carbon emitting production methods for a number of products reliant on fossil fuels, from food and materials to therapeutics and petrochemicals. in 2003 (cumulatively) to under $1,000 today, a reduction far outpacing Moore’s Law.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 1, 2021

” The financial impact is also likely to put a crimp in public utilities’ investment plans, including efforts to replace polluting fossil fuel power plants with renewable energy. Gray Davis losing a recall election to Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2003.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2020

In his capacity as trustee for the charity he founded in 2003, the Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), Hohn has co-written letters to each of the banks calling on them to both disclose their exposure to coal risk and to "significantly increase the applied risk-weighting of these coal loans".

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Green Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2022

We have to move off the destructive path of using fossil fuels and natural resources that damage landscapes irreparably, toward a future that can flourish using environmental resources judiciously. As a society, as a nation, as a world, we need to teach students the critical thinking skills needed to alter humanity’s course.

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Earth Gratitude

APRIL 23, 2016

The Earth Day Gratitude celebration is all about powering up on gratitude and powering down electricity and fossil fuels for one hour, between 7:30–8:30pm in your time zone. About Cayala, Guatemala: The town of Cayala was master planned in 2003 by Leon Krier, with the Guatemala-based firm of Estudio Urbano. Count your blessings.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. The company has since whipsawed between its wholesale-energy legacy of fossil fuels and greener horizons. As electric vehicles drive toward the mainstream, General Motors has come full circle as well.

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Business Green

APRIL 18, 2022

Yet many governments in the US and Europe continue to heavily subsidise driving through a combination of incentives such as subsidies for fossil fuel production , tax allowances for commuting by car, and incentives for company cars that promote driving over other means of transport.

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Business Green

JANUARY 15, 2023

However, a big opportunity exists among many regulated countries, many of which still rely heavily on fossil fuels, to have cleaner grids. When I started in 2003, just getting anyone to pick up the phone and talk to you about sustainability or renewable energy was a real challenge. Absolutely.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The hydrogen fuel cell produces electricity through electrochemical reactions when the hydrogen combines with air. Pros and cons of hydrogen fuel cells Inventors and engineers have experimented with hydrogen as a clean energy source for decades. Back in 2003, the Bush administration dedicated $1.2 billion for hydrogen research.

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Earth Gratitude

AUGUST 27, 2017

has been embroiled in since 2003. I will vote in leaders who will place sustainability and preserving the planet above the insatiable greed of those with ties to the fossil fuel industry. Support a strong military, but not the nonstop aggression and war that the U.S. Support a ban on nuclear weapons.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

A growing group of environmentalists, politicians, communities, and even the industry’s own workers have become increasingly critical of the fossil fuel industry, and see room for action under the Biden administration, though most attention has been placed on hot-button topics like climate change and methane emissions.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. The company has since whipsawed between its wholesale-energy legacy of fossil fuels and greener horizons. As electric vehicles drive toward the mainstream, General Motors has come full circle as well.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Lula's return as Brazil's leader will prove a remarkable comeback for the politician, who previously served two terms as President from 2003 to 2011 before spending two years in prison under corruption charges that were later quashed.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

Previous reports indicate that Tufton Street groups have received substantial funds from organisations that support climate science denial in the past decade, with some donations provided directly by fossil fuel firms. Every single one of its members was given the lowest transparency rating – E – by openDemocracy’s ‘ Who Funds You?

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Republican lawmakers with a presence at the international climate summit in Dubai — known as COP28 — have received over $11 million in fossil fuel donations, DeSmog can reveal. Lisa Murkowski, Alaska’s senior senator, leads the group with over $2 million in campaign contributions from the oil and gas industry between 2003-2023.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 1, 2021

The FERC decision was split, with two of the five commissioners dissenting, writing that the Commission had failed to adequately examine the climate-changing pollution linked to the fossil fuel pipeline. ” The judicial branch of government has also just upended how FERC has traditionally approached fossil fuel pipelines.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Today, its successor EEI and its member companies continue to wage deceptive PR campaigns to fight renewable energy and bolster the continued consumption of fossil fuels. Then consumers could decide for themselves whether or not to buy more expensive fossil fuels, and producers of alternatives could compete on a level playing field.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Like many other banks, HSBC has pledged to step away from its funding of fossil-fuels interests and other high-carbon industrial activities with a pledge to achieving net-zero financed emissions across its customer portfolio by 2050. (It It aims to reach net-zero for its own operations and supply chain by 2030.)

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Simon Danczuk, who is standing for Reform UK , and George Galloway, the candidate for the Workers Party of Britain, have both repeatedly attacked the UK’s legally binding net zero targets, while Galloway has spread climate misinformation and backed new fossil fuel extraction. Galloway has also called for more fossil fuel extraction.

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 20, 2020

She refers to research which shows that climate denial has increased since 2003. Much of this disinformation is generated by the fossil fuel industry. The reach of the fossil fuel industry is pervasive. The fossil fuel industry buys politicians and political outcomes.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 4, 2019

fossil fuel industry was seen by some as a poor choice to lead an agency tasked with maintaining the U.S. energy policy on behalf of the fossil fuel industry was a failure, however. But compared to predecessors such as physicists Steven Chu and Ernest Moniz, the Texas Republican with ties to the U.S. Billy Tauzin (R-LA).

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 18, 2021

The Leadership Institute is an official partner of TPUSA, and has received at least $246,389 from Koch-related foundations between 2003 and 2015,” according to previous reporting by DeSmog. “In addition to its ties with the Koch-funded Leadership Institute, Turning Point USA has received support from a range of Koch-tied groups.

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