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Ellen Ormesher and Kathryn Clare Join DeSmog to Investigate Advertising Industry

DeSmogBlog

She will focus on developing in-depth profiles of advertising and PR companies for use by journalists, campaigners, litigators, and employees seeking to understand more about the industry’s role in greenwashing the fossil fuel industry, and driving demand for heavily polluting products, such as SUVs.

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Big Oil’s Dangerous Radioactive Secret

DeSmogBlog

Or 1982, when a report of the American Petroleum Institute’s Committee for Environmental Biology and Community Health stated : “Almost all materials of interest and use to the petroleum industry contain measurable quantities of radionuclides that reside finally in process equipment, product streams, or waste.”

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When Extreme Weather Reigns, Disinformation Pours

DeSmogBlog

Editor’s Note: This is part of a regular column, Gaslit , which navigates society’s dysfunctional relationship with fossil fuel disinformation. Davies noted that fossil fuel interests were conducting operations of their own. At the same time, fossil fuel companies have worked to insulate themselves from extreme weather.

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Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice?

GreenBiz

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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California Air Resources Board Releases Draft Scoping Plan Update

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

Originally, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated every five years, that describes the approach California will take to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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Campaigners Sued an Oil Major For Climate Deception. Now the Company Is Preparing to Sue Them Back.

DeSmogBlog

Greenpeace Italy and Re:Common have alleged in their climate lawsuit — Italy’s first — that despite knowing at least as early as 1970 that burning fossil fuels posed a serious climate risk, Eni went on to promote “natural” –- or methane – gas as a safe energy source for decades. the spokesperson stated.

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The Life and Death of a Pioneering Environmental Justice Lawyer

DeSmogBlog

When fierce storms appear on the horizon, the children get especially anxious and the elderly worry, which has impacts on their health. 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.

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