GreenBiz

MARCH 4, 2021

Speirs, a 2007 Yale University graduate who grew up in Hawaii, told a career-focused audience that she had never wanted to start a company because she'd grown up watching the damage that failing startups wrought on her father and on her parents' marriage.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

As the climate crisis accelerates, so, too, do efforts by the fossil fuel industry to derail steep reductions in carbon pollution by mid-century, in part by promoting false solutions. An Industry Push for CCS The fossil fuel industry will paint carbon capture and storage (CCS) as a climate solution during this year’s conference.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Department of Justice (DOJ) recently reviewed by DeSmog show that from 2007 to 2009, Edelman carried out a $6.4 Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), any group working for a foreign country to conduct political activity or public relations in the U.S. million campaign to boost the United Arab Emirates’ green reputation.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 28, 2023

From the Global Team American PR Firm Edelman Enabled Oil Baron Al Jaber’s Ascension to Lead COP28 Climate Conference By Cartie Werthman In 2023 we returned to our roots and investigated the ongoing relationship between the fossil fuel industry and advertising and public relations firms. Rewind time to 2007 to learn how it went down.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Set up by the owners of GB News and involving “senior leaders from politics, media, culture, business, and academia”, ARC claims that it will address the six “fundamental issues of our time”, including “energy and resources” and “environmental stewardship”. And ARC’s anti-green credentials are further exposed by the makeup of its key members.

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Grist

DECEMBER 18, 2023

percent of scientists would come to agree that burning fossil fuels had disrupted the Earth’s climate. Spreading lies about global warming like these can further social divisions and undermine public and political support for action to reduce emissions, according to the Climate Action Against Disinformation’s report.

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

despite the disinformation coming from President Trump, the GOP and the fossil fuel industry. A poll from the Yale Program for Climate Communication showed that 70 percent of voters favor federal COVID-19 stimulus funding going to clean energy rather than fossil fuels. This includes support for the Green New Deal.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2024

Guided by Fontaine, Mann set the record straight, testifying that he had received a certificate from the IPCC acknowledging his contributions towards the group’s receipt of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, which it shared with Al Gore. Many other scientists on the IPCC panel have also said they won the 2007 award, Mann testified.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

business and political history. Today, its successor EEI and its member companies continue to wage deceptive PR campaigns to fight renewable energy and bolster the continued consumption of fossil fuels. and global politics. politics for the past 100-plus years.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

In 2007, Lily Ledbetter sued her employer, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, for years-long gender-based pay discrimination. Given the state of Congress today, and our more general state of political polarization, it may be hard to resist the eye-roll — but resisting it is more important than ever. Massachusetts v.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

Montana has hired a climate scientist turned climate contrarian to be an expert witness in an upcoming trial challenging the state’s promotion of fossil fuels. In a 2007 op-ed for The Washington Post , Curry stated that “the current debate is whether warming matters, and whether we can afford to do anything about it.”

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2022

She also called on highly profitable fossil fuel companies to offer a crisis contribution, because, as she says, ‘profits must be shared and channelled to those who need it the most.’. Making up for the loss of Russian fossil fuel supply is a mammoth task. Electricity generated by fuel, Denmark, 1971-2007.

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

The administration believes expanding LNG infrastructure could lock in fossil fuel dependence and hinder progress toward climate goals. The pause has ignited a political debate, with supporters of the decision praising its focus on climate and domestic energy security. I have a different opinion on this, which I address below.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 2, 2021

As states and the federal government take steps to transition away from fossil fuel generation, it is important to pay attention to recent clean energy developments in states where energy legislation has historically been less proactive, and the traditional integrated utility monopoly model has held influence over the policymaking process.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

Rishi Sunak has confirmed that a fossil fuel-funded think tank helped to draft his government’s laws targeting climate protests. Grant Shapps, Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, has repeatedly attacked Labour over the connection, writing in the Daily Mail that Labour has become “the political wing of Just Stop Oil”.

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Business Green

JUNE 17, 2020

In 2007, a paper in the journal Clinical Microbiology Reviews warned: " The presence of a large reservoir of SARS-CoV-like viruses in horseshoe bats, together with the culture of eating exotic animals in southern China, is a time bomb". Over 60 per cent of the energy we get from burning fossil fuels typically ends up as waste heat.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 6, 2021

The findings raise concerns over a systemic conflict of interest at a time when the international financial sector is under increasing pressure to stop funding fossil fuels. Banks are increasingly saying they will decarbonise by 2050, yet a large number continue to finance fossil fuels, the primary source of carbon emissions.

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Charged

OCTOBER 5, 2020

At Charged , we have always believed that EVs are for everyone, regardless of political orientation. The Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program , which supported the production of more than 4 million low-emission vehicles, passed Congress in 2007 with bipartisan support, and was signed into law by President George W Bush.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Natura, which issues a regular environmental profit-and-loss statement , went carbon-neutral in 2007 and became the first public B Corporation in 2014. Logan Green has cited growing up with Southern California traffic and carpooling as a student in Zimbabwe for inspiring the launch of Zimride in 2007. million acres the 4.4

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 8, 2021

Water pollution – Garbage, wood waste, fuels and other non-biodegradable products are being dumped into waterways for convenience polluting our water systems and oceans. Since 2007, over 900 tons of shrink-wrap have been recycled, which shows that there has been a movement towards sustainability amongst marinas and boat owners.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

All the way back in 2007 I wrote The Future is Solar. You still have a huge political/resiliency hole that #nuclear has to fill. In recent years this has translated into a large expansion of fossil fuel consumption in these regions. It is true that solar is ramping up rapidly. In fact, I have written about it many times.

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38 North Solutions

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

. “His vast experience in public policy and political strategy complements our team’s expertise in clean energy and technology innovation,” 38 North Solutions chair Katherine Hamilton told Axios in an email. He arrives amid unified Republican control of Washington and strong White House support for fossil fuels.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 17, 2020

While PJM’s proposed minimum prices for nuclear power aren’t nearly as restrictive as those set for renewables, they could still prevent them from beating fossil fuels in PJM’s annual capacity auctions. This dynamic is actually what started the FERC-PJM situation in the first place.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 24, 2021

The policy has been billed as a “transformative” partnership designed to put the industry on a net zero pathway, including a 50 percent cut in operational emissions by 2030, but has been criticised by campaigners for leaving the door open to further fossil fuel exploration.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The NZSG, formed by Mackinlay and fellow Tory MP Steve Baker last year to oppose the UK’s net zero measures, finally revealed its 19 supporters last month in a letter to the Sunday Telegraph, which called for cuts to green taxes and increased fossil fuel production. Gesture Politics’.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

Whether it’s politically possible for the U.S. These results come from a linear optimization model that uses hourly weather data from 2007 to 2013, encompassing heat waves, winter storms and other weather events that can disrupt renewable power supply, Brown noted. transmission grid.

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Mosaic

DECEMBER 27, 2022

But this year Congress finally passed serious legislation—the Inflation Reduction Act—that allocates hundreds of billions of dollars to the task of transforming the nation so that it burns far less fossil fuel. Or is it simply too big a task, especially in the face of ongoing opposition from the fossil-fuel industry? “So

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Jigar Shah

JUNE 11, 2019

Prominent among these shifts is an increase in ride-sharing and public transit over car ownership, and an elevated political awareness of climate change. Over time, we joined political initiatives, raised money, passed legislation — we got stuff done. People switched because in 2007 George W. But that’s not why people switched.

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

A Few Relevant Data Points With the advent of the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th century, humans began their dependence on the burning of fossil fuels?coal This economic catch-up game using fossil fuels is, of course, highly controversial. coal first and then later oil and natural gas?to

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

These changes will only worsen for as long as society continues to burn fossil fuels, and for some time after. Akielly Hu Northwest How one town put politics aside to save itself from fire Timber Wars tore this town apart. But the report also offers reason for hope. Some go even further.

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Jigar Shah

JUNE 11, 2019

Prominent among these shifts is an increase in ride-sharing and public transit over car ownership, and an elevated political awareness of climate change. like car ownership, reliance on fossil fuels, or skepticism of scientific discoveries?—?have Over time, we joined political initiatives, raised money, passed legislation?—?we

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 4, 2021

In a discussion that tacked to the personal and political, Baker and Klee reviewed principles for renewable energy economics. For both these leaders, the business of creating and selling more clean energy fails to clear the threshold for durable and honorable business.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

First launched in 2007, the EPC regime for homes and buildings was designed to ensure UK compliance with an EU directive to reduce the amount of energy used by both commercial and domestic properties. Meanwhile, inconsistent assessment practices means there can be significant inconsistency within scoring bands up and down the country.

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Grist

AUGUST 9, 2022

They also confirmed that rising temperatures — driven by human consumption of fossil fuels — were partly to blame. Dramatically low water levels, the result of six years of drought, give the appearance of bathtub rings on Lake Powell in March 2007 near Page, Arizona. In one sense, the climate change link seems obvious.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 7, 2023

Environmental groups and scientists protested the deal and Andrew Forrest, billionaire mining entrepreneur, threatened to pull investments from the country over its backing of fossil fuels. Leading up to the 2024 election, political leanings set up an economy vs climate divide that could affect climate funding.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

From Rio to Glasgow: The political recognition of our climate crisis increases On the 9th of May, 1992, the United Nations Framework Convention on Change (UNFCCC) was adopted. The ongoing commitment towards UNFCCC – via COP – symbolizes how the political recognition of climate change has increased globally. C) within reach.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2021

And businesses felt little pressure to respond to early COPs, shackled for years by US-led doubts that human greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels were the main driver of climate change, and by the reluctance of many nations to make a wrenching economic shift away from fossil fuels.

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