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Introducing Matthew Green, DeSmog’s Global Investigations Editor

DeSmogBlog

Prior to that, Green spent 14 years as an international correspondent for Reuters and the Financial Times, reporting from countries across Africa, Pakistan, and Afghanistan and covering the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Matthew will help us achieve this bold vision.

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US Republicans at Dubai Climate Summit Have Accepted $11 Million in Fossil Fuel Donations

DeSmogBlog

Each has accepted at least $500,000 from polluting companies over their careers, DeSmog found. 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. million from oil and gas interests since his political career began in 1995.

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In Rochdale By-Election, Climate Policy is Also on the Ballot

DeSmogBlog

Amid February’s record-breaking temperatures, climate is emerging as a battleground – and faultline – between the UK’s two biggest political parties in the run up to the next general election. Wrangling between the Tories and Labour has also opened the door for fringe political activists. In a 2017 tweet he criticised the then U.S.

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Secrets of a long partnership in gas detection (Sponsored content)

Envirotec Magazine

Frank’s career in gas detection stretches back to 1982, and when he was first visited by a sales person from Alphasense in 2003, he was immediately impressed with the representative’s technical knowledge. “It One of the keys to the company’s success has been the relationship that it has built with sensor supplier Alphasense.

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Tufton Street Linked Donors Have Given £630,000 to the Conservatives Since Sunak Became Prime Minister

DeSmogBlog

It’s time to kick toxic fossil fuel interests out of politics once and for all,” Caroline Lucas, Green Party MP for Brighton Pavilion, told DeSmog. Aside from the pollution caused by burning shale gas, fracking is environmentally controversial due to its triggering of earth tremors , and the vast amount of water that it uses.

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Will China’s crackdown on ‘foreign garbage’ force wealthy countries to recycle more of their own waste?

Green Technology

Domestically produced scrap is generally of far lower quality than the “foreign garbage” that China imports, and is likely to be more polluting. Kate O’Neill , Associate Professor, Global Environmental Politics, University of California, Berkeley. Will source nations step up? percent to 0.5 Read the original article.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. The ride-sharing brand positions this as a radical shift that will benefit communities, partly by reducing pollution. She is a chicken farmer, a zoo doctor, a firefighter, a polar marine biologist, a park ranger and a political candidate.