R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 23, 2020

Increased fossil fuel consumption made up most of this growth, with every category of fossil fuels showing increased consumption over the decade.”. This was the largest annual increase since 2004. In recent years this has translated into a large expansion of fossil fuel consumption in these regions.

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Nuclear Power Fossil fuels Asia Demand 78

Clean Energy Canada

JULY 2, 2020

The clean-burning fuel does not produce carbon emissions upon consumption and so can replace fossil fuels in many sectors including heavy industry, transportation and heating. Currently, the majority of hydrogen around the world is produced from fossil fuels (76% from natural gas, 23% from coal).

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The findings raise concerns over a potential pervasive conflict of interest on the boards at a time when the international insurance sector is under pressure to halt its support for the fossil fuel industry. “When insurers underwrite fossil fuels, they actually are underwriting climate change.”

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Pollution Fossil fuels Climate change Aviation 98

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

For decades, the think tank has disputed whether climate change is a crisis along with questioning whether human activities like fossil fuel production are to blame. The Fraser Institute featured Koonin — who after working for BP from 2004 to 2009 briefly served in the U.S.

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Climate change Fossil fuels Organic Energy 62

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in her Pennsylvania hometown, she will be facing off against some of the most powerful fossil fuel interests in the United States. While that blast was contained, a vapor cloud explosion at an LNG terminal in Algeria in 2004 killed 27 people.

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Natural gas Fossil fuels Energy Energy 97

Grist

AUGUST 20, 2021

That’s a sharp change from the last comparable study in 2004, when researchers discovered that more than half of articles treated dissenting opinions as equally valid. And although the rhetoric around global warming has changed a lot over the last 20 years, fossil fuel companies aren’t necessarily having a hard time getting their case heard.

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Climate change Global warming Fossil fuels 129

Green Market Oracle

APRIL 20, 2020

Fossil fuels are a leading cause of climate change and research shows that ubiquitous spills and leaks are often far worse than reported. Taylor Spill A 2019 report states that a spill that began in 2004 may rival the Deepwater Horizon.

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Methane Energy Monitor Fossil fuels Building Energy Monitoring 52

Renewable Energy World

MARCH 29, 2021

For the past decade and a half, China became the dominant player in the PV manufacturing field, after the sector received critical help from government subsidies back in 2004. As prices declined, solar power became competitive with fossil fuels, even reaching grid parity in some places including China, Italy and California.

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Climate change Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 70

Christopher Kemper

JUNE 20, 2020

2004 Tsunami This changed my life. utilizing fossil fuels for automobiles and electricity) which are difficult for the earth to adequately absorb through its natural cycles. utilizing fossil fuels for automobiles and electricity) which are difficult for the earth to adequately absorb through its natural cycles.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

While California already has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 13 percent since their peak in 2004, many residents still suffer from high levels of air pollution — much of it produced by fossil fuels. And they have suffered collateral damage from the harmful pollutants produced by using fossil fuels. As the U.S.

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Pollution Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Policy 431

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 the early 2000s, the challenges faced by the community came to the attention of an environmental justice lawyer named Luke Cole. The suit, Kivalina v.

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Law Climate change Fossil fuels Global warming 99

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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Climate change Fossil fuels Global warming Carbon 142

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

It has called for new oil and gas projects to be accelerated, labelled the windfall tax on energy companies a “terrible idea”, and argued for a more generous fiscal environment for the UK’s fossil fuel producers. They provide further evidence that Number 10’s fossil fuel agenda is far from accidental.

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Fossil fuels Policy Government Investment 130

Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Choosing reclaimed wood reduces the fossil fuel use and pollution that comes from clearing and processing trees into lumber. All Forbo products are made from safe and 100% traceable raw materials and from 2004-2021, Forbo reduced the average carbon emission per square meter of product by 70%.

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Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Sustainability Recycling 148

DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The hearing comes alongside a new report by Greenpeace Italy and ReCommon, which describes how Eni’s technical consultants in the case have deep ties to the fossil fuel industry and climate deniers. Campaigners in Italy and across Africa have criticized the plan, saying it will promote fossil fuel exploitation and “false solutions.”

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Fossil fuels Climate change Global warming Africa 120

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

A collection of over 100 organizations cited the reports’ findings in calling for a revamped approach to chemical industry regulation following the recommendations of the Louisville Charter for Safer Chemicals , released in 2004 and updated this year. 8, 2021, during the ethylene oxide town hall meeting about local air quality concerns.

Pollution 98

Pollution Demand Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 98

Unsustainable

MARCH 10, 2020

Scientists have warned us that the world needs to work towards completely reducing our dependence on fossil fuels and produce zero emissions by 2050. This group of stunning islands was at the forefront of the Tsunami destruction in 2004. That is a lot of CO 2. People lost their homes, jobs and loved ones.

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Climate change Government Education Investment 52

DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

A member of the Canadian parliament has proposed a ban on misleading fossil fuel advertising. Taking inspiration from Canadian government bans on tobacco advertising that went into effect in the 1990s, New Democratic Party (NDP) MP Charlie Angus has proposed private members bill C-372, An Act respecting fossil fuel advertising.

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Fossil fuels Health Pollution Government 93

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 15, 2021

In 2004, Margie Richard of Norco, Louisiana, co-founder of the environmental watchdog Louisiana Bucket Brigade, was the first Black American to be awarded the Goldman Prize for her efforts to force Shell to pay to relocate residents living nearest the company’s heavily polluting Norco chemical plant.

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Fossil fuels Organic Pollution Plastics 98

Eco-Business

APRIL 14, 2020

This year during the Budget 2020, Singapore also announced plans to halve 2030 peak greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, and phase out all fossil fuel vehicles within the next two decades. Ricoh Asia Pacific's office has been Eco-Office Certified since 2004 in recognition of its environmentally-friendly practices.

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Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor 19

AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

While California already has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 13 percent since their peak in 2004, many residents still suffer from high levels of air pollution — much of it produced by fossil fuels. And they have suffered collateral damage from the harmful pollutants produced by using fossil fuels. As the U.S.

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Pollution Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 28

GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company has since whipsawed between its wholesale-energy legacy of fossil fuels and greener horizons. Gutierrez joined NRG from Dynegy in 2004 as an energy portfolio director. As for the slower-moving climate crisis, Poppe grabbed the opportunity of a generation to replace fossil fuels and phase in "modular" renewables.

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Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 520

Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

When Jones Tract, a delta island, flooded in 2004, the damage cost $90 million to fix. Fossil fuels, you might say, are an aged form of blue carbon. The event would likely incur tens of billions of dollars’ worth of damage and could take a year and a half to repair. Nor is the flooding of delta islands unprecedented.

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Soil Methane Carbon Organic 85

Business Green

JUNE 17, 2020

As Harry Benham, chair of carbon market think tank Ember, observed on Twitter this afternoon, the various charts contained in BP's report are all seeing clean energy move along rapidly rising curves, while fossil fuels flat-line or fall. We are all busy, so will compress the new BP review of world energy into three key charts.

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Fossil fuels Demand Carbon Energy 50

Grist

JUNE 21, 2021

The 9-year-old girl’s fatal asthma attack might have passed without public notice except for the fact that, after a long legal fight, it became the first British death officially attributed to fossil fuel-caused air pollution. When she died in 2013, no doctors mentioned environmental causes. In the U.S.,

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Climate change Medicine Health Fossil fuels 134

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 2, 2021

In 2004, the UN and International Corporate Finance worked together to develop a system that would integrate environmental, social, and governance concerns into capital markets. As such, there’s a heightened pressure for these institutions to act responsibly, that is, to stop financing fossil fuels, pollution, and exploitation.

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Organic Sustainability Government Investment 148

Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Believe it or not, that basically represents the first electricity link between the island country of Cyprus (full member of the EU since 2004) and the EU grid. No wonder the President of Cyprus, Nicos Anastasiades, celebrated the development as an important milestone that will put an end to the country’s “energy isolation”.

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Europe Ethics Fossil fuels Construction 45

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The institute received $77,000 in 2018 from the Charles Koch Foundation , funded by the proceeds of Koch Industries , one of the largest privately owned companies in the United States, which trades heavily in fossil fuels. Two Conservative MPs – Danny Kruger and Miriam Cates – are also ARC advisers.

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Global warming Climate change Fossil fuels Policy 128

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company has since whipsawed between its wholesale-energy legacy of fossil fuels and greener horizons. Gutierrez joined NRG from Dynegy in 2004 as an energy portfolio director. To mollify shareholders, NRG shed its renewables business and EVGo vehicle-charging infrastructure.

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Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 28

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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Waste Waste Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 98

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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Fossil fuels Government Policy Politics 98

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

More carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel use is released into the environment, increasing from ~25 GtCO2 in 1999 to ~37 GtCO2 in 2019. The Trump administration rolled back 98 environmental rules and regulations and sought to gain energy independence based on finite fossil fuels. kg/person in 1970 to 43.22

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Earth Day Politics Global warming Climate change 120

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

More carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel use is released into the environment, increasing from ~25 GtCO2 in 1999 to ~37 GtCO2 in 2019. The Trump administration rolled back 98 environmental rules and regulations and sought to gain energy independence based on finite fossil fuels. kg/person in 1970 to 43.22

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Earth Day Politics Global warming Climate change 78

DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

The gathering comes as Rishi Sunak’s government – which is already off track to meet the UK’s climate commitments – pursues new fossil fuel extraction, and prominent figures in the right-wing media continue to cast doubt over net zero policy. It’s time to kick toxic fossil fuel interests out of politics once and for all.”

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Climate change Fossil fuels Policy Global warming 97

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2021

By keeping Chaco from being destroyed by the fossil fuel industry, future generations will have access to this special place,” she said at the time. * * *. As a Congressperson, she supported the Green New Deal, a position that drew fire from right-wing Western politicians at her confirmation hearings earlier this month.

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Methane Health Government Technology 52

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 18, 2022

In recent years, while fracking’s supporters were shouting “drill baby drill” the oil industry began lobbying behind the scenes to undercut programs designed to make vehicles more fuel efficient or less reliant on fossil fuels. Average fuel economy rose again, by 29 percent between 2005 and 2020, the Energy Department added.

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Fossil fuels Transportation Energy Energy 98

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 8, 2023

Modern Braking Systems: Deny the Science Even After Supporting It We now know that the oil industry was well aware of the impacts of fossil fuels on the climate and then actively worked to sow doubt surrounding the validity of that science. Excerpt from Bomb Trains: How Industry Greed and Regulatory Failure Put the Public at Risk.

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Building Energy Monitoring Transportation Technology Africa 94