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. Grist / Jessie Blaeser.
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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DeSmogBlog
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
Conway, authors of the classic 2010 book Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming , have released a new book placing that doubt machine into a longer arc of U.S. Science historians Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. business and political history.
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?
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".
Business Green
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Reports this week also suggested at least three of Brazil's most forest-covered states are working on plans to sell what would amount to hundreds of millions of CO2 credits on global voluntary carbon markets, in order to help finance the preservation of their carbon-rich forests. global warming goal out of reach.
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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