DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

This technique of using statements that are technically true but omit crucial information and therefore are misleading, is called paltering — and it’s an old favorite of the fossil fuel industry. R-CALF USA doesn’t only blame the private trade associations for overturning the law that allowed “Made in the USA” labels. “It’s

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Given the challenges of energy transition, Europe is optimally positioned to lead this movement by implementing political and economic policies that will incentivize oil and gas companies to leave fossil fuels behind and make the transition to deep geothermal. He founded his law firm in Berlin in 1992.

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Europe Fossil fuels Climate change Politics 105

DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

Department of Justice to investigate carbon majors for potential violations of federal law. In 2006, major tobacco firms were convicted of violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act in litigation brought by the DOJ. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) Ted Lieu (D-Calif.), degrees C (2.7 degrees F).

Fossil fuels 88

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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. During this period, president Jimmy Carter supported the drive for new and improved environmental law which continued throughout his term up until 1981. 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. During this period, president Jimmy Carter supported the drive for new and improved environmental law which continued throughout his term up until 1981. kg/person in 1970 to 43.22

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Earth Day Politics Global warming Climate change 78

Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 30, 2020

She launched her own chapter of Fridays for Future after she realized that the strong rains and long droughts that hurt her family’s crops could be attributed to global warming. We need to completely divest from fossil fuels to transform our economy to all clean energy to have a rapid cultural shift.

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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. The AEI has received over £2.9 million ($3,615,000) from ExxonMobil since 1998, and over £1.6

Climate change 98

Climate change Fossil fuels Policy Global warming 98

Business Green

APRIL 8, 2022

If approved by the EU's 27 member states, the coal ban would mark the first coordinated embargo from the bloc to tackle Russia's fossil fuel exports. It warned that emissions of the short-lived greenhouse gas were roughly 15 per cent higher in 2021 than in the period between 1984 and 2006.

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Plastics Carbon-neutral Climate change Fossil fuels 39

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.

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Electricity Climate change Fossil fuels Politics 98