DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

In a joint letter , the scientists say that they are “consistently faced with a major and needless challenge” of having to correct false information and rebut the fossil fuel industry’s efforts to downplay the severity of climate change. Front Groups, False Solutions, and Promotional PR.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2022

Her top team looks likely to include MPs with an extensive record of downplaying the need for urgent climate action, according to reports. It comes as the latest polling by Ipsos showed that 84 percent of the British public were greatly concerned about climate change, with more than half “very concerned”.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 5, 2020

The data indicates that declines in coal use was the main factor that led to last year’s carbon emissions decrease, as both oil and natural gas usage levels remained unchanged. carbon emissions from coal dropped by as much as 80%, while natural gas was by 20% and oil by only 6%. The Act provides the U.K.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

But with the fate of the Senate still up in the air, what can President-elect Biden do to advance his climate mandate if an obstructionist Senate stands in his way? That could play a major role in redirecting climate-unfriendly investments such as the estimated $100 billion in new natural gas plants being planned by utilities across the U.S.,

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

By the late 1970s, the petroleum industry had spent about two decades collecting information from their own scientists and outside experts and knew that burning fossil fuels would create catastrophic climate change. He leaves Exxon and joins the George Marshall Institute , one of the more notorious climate denial groups.

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Sustainability Consulting

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

With the election largely overshadowed by COVID-19 and the faltering economy, it’s no wonder discussions on environmental protections and climate change have taken a back seat. Climate Change President Trump has repeatedly questioned whether climate change caused by human actions is real.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 2, 2021

In one glaring instance, a firm named Mobile Gas did not report a 2008 Alabama spill of tert-butyl mercaptan, a chemical that is mixed with natural gas to give it an odor that can help with detecting leaks. There is also a long history of white supremacy within the oil and gas industry. “We

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2024

Credit: Nick Cunningham/Gas Outlook But the coastline is under threat from more than just climate change. Entire sections of wetlands are being filled in and paved over to build LNG export terminals, which will ship fracked gas to Europe and Asia. is exporting natural gas, and importing price volatility.”

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Burning that oil emits far more carbon dioxide (CO2) than what is captured, and therefore CCS doesn’t represent a viable solution to tackle climate change, critics argue. Terrell Natural Gas Processing Plant (“Val Verde”) Operator: Occidental Petroleum, 1972-present Location: Southeast of Ft. What CCS Projects Promise.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In their eyes, it doesn’t do enough to address climate change and allows emitters to continue polluting the air in the meantime. But seven years on, researchers, regulators and activists are still arguing about how California’s most famous climate policy has affected its most vulnerable residents — and how to do better.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 22, 2021

They include groups such as “Texans for Natural Gas”, which presents itself as a grassroots, non-corporate organisation while being designed and staffed by FTI employees, in a practice known as “astroturfing”.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

.” “I believe that when you have the power of making the world a better place by your action, let’s do it”, Yannick Bolloré told Thomas Kolster, an activist advocating for ethical advertising, in a June 2023 video interview about the advertising industry’s role in solving climate change.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2020

The UK's domestic greenhouse gas emissions fell 3.6 per cent last year as renewable power sources once again sent records tumbling, provisional data released today shows, prompting the government to hail the country's "extraordinary progress in tackling climate change". In 2019 total UK greenhouse gas emissions were 45.2

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Their climate “advertorials” appeared in the op-ed page of the New York Times and were part of what scholars have called “the longest, regular (weekly) use of media to influence public and elite opinion in contemporary America.”. Controlling Climate Science. Big Oil also saw climate change coming.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 13, 2020

In 2008, Exxon made a record $40.6 The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis reported that “the world’s largest publicly traded oil and gas companies shelled out a total of $71.2 ” Meanwhile, the coal and natural gas industries are also collapsing around us — a swift decline from the shale fracking boom.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2022

But it has been instrumental in an array of oil industry campaigns meant to sow doubt about climate change , attack climate scientists, and play up the benefits of fossil fuels. . Last year, a House committee held hearings in which members of Congress questioned oil executives on their role in peddling climate disinformation.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The paper, published in the journal Climatic Change , delivers the stark conclusion that the PR firms with the strongest links with the fossil fuel sectors should be considered alongside oil and gas giants, fossil fuel lobby groups and certain conservative think tanks as major proponents of inaction on climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

” That apparent conservation activist was, in fact, an infamous climate change disinformation artist : Marc Morano, who’s done more than perhaps any other person to manufacture doubt about global warming. In other words, climate change. ” called out a man in a black polo shirt.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. If we lose that battle, the world will give up a lot of the gains that we’ve had and perhaps many we could have in areas like environment and climate change.".

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The links revealed by DeSmog’s analysis may show a “revolving door” between insurers and high-polluting industries that may explain why, despite the risks, the sector has been slow to act on climate change, said Lucie Pinson, executive director at the environmental campaign group Reclaim Finance, reacting to the findings.

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Jigar Shah

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Apple should invest in the battle against climate change. Furthermore, the skills required to to ramp new technologies at scale and economies which further the fight against climate change align directly with those Apple already possesses, such as manufacturing excellence, bold creative thinking, and supreme supply-chain efficiency.

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

It contains natural gas, helium, and carbon dioxide. Oil companies could develop a tool considered crucial by no less than the scientists with the United Nations-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Born out of necessity Carbon capture wasn’t created to tackle climate change.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

In just ten years, Jacobson has harnessed passion, determination and science to re-frame the way renewable energy is seen and, ultimately, accepted as a viable solution to climate change and air pollution. Climate Change Conference in Paris. This was the first time we “met,” albeit via a cross-country phone call.

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Jigar Shah

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Apple should invest in the battle against climate change. Furthermore, the skills required to to ramp new technologies at scale and economies which further the fight against climate change align directly with those Apple already possesses, such as manufacturing excellence, bold creative thinking, and supreme supply-chain efficiency.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The facility, called Clearwater, was built by the Denver, Colorado-based oil and gas extraction company, Antero Resources, and an affiliate of Veolia, the multinational French waste, water and energy management company. Analyses of the water produced with the gas commonly show elevated levels of salinity and radium,” a 2011 U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2021

The fossil fuel industry and its investors have financially benefited from tax policies and subsidies designed to reduce the emissions from oil, gas, and coal — sometimes without taking the action required to tackle climate change. We need to keep fossils fuels in the ground. The Questionable Benefits of 45Q.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2022

The UK has set a goal to eliminate avoidable plastic waste by the end of 2042, for example, and earlier this month hundreds of countries agreed to get the ball rolling on drawing up a landmark, legally-binding global plastics treaty, akin to the Paris Agreement on climate change.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Insisting there were no politicians she could currently vote for, Thunberg argued that world leaders must begin to treat climate change as a genuine emergency and highlighted the contrast with the urgent response to the coronavirus crisis. "As The 2020s are a key decade for action on climate change," he said.

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Mr. Sustainability

JUNE 27, 2020

I feel like the 2008 financial crisis was just a dry run for this.” subsidies to the fossil fuel industry at roughly $20 billion per year; with 20 percent currently allocated to coal and 80 percent to natural gas and crude oil. So was the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in 2008. Conservative estimates put direct U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2021

As such, the plan options reflect those administrations’ hopes and not the very different direction set so far by President Joe Biden, who within days of taking office issued an executive order on climate change and an executive memorandum on tribal consultation and strengthening nation-to-nation relationships.

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Greentown Labs

APRIL 22, 2021

Five years ago, climate change wasn’t a topic among many conversations in Houston. Things have changed. These include natural gas, industrial materials, petroleum & chemicals, mineral resources, industrial infrastructure, automotive & mobility, food industry, consumer industry, power solution, and urban development.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In their eyes, it doesn’t do enough to address climate change and allows emitters to continue polluting the air in the meantime. But seven years on, researchers, regulators and activists are still arguing about how California’s most famous climate policy has affected its most vulnerable residents — and how to do better.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

Climate change is the most significant global threat we face today. This session will look at how California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard is shaping this market nationally, and what that means for electricity generation, natural gas companies and industrial thermal loads. What can we learn from these early implementations?

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Mosaic

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The great majority of them are heated with natural gas or oil, and parked in their garages and driveways or on nearby streets are some two hundred and ninety million vehicles, an estimated ninety-nine per cent of which, as of August, run on gasoline. billion, adjusting for inflation, in profits a day for the past fifty years.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

In Texas, property rights are split into two categories: the land on the surface and everything underground, including oil and natural gas. In October, she invited a university researcher onto the property and discovered that several wells were leaking methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

In Texas, property rights are split into two categories: the land on the surface and everything underground, including oil and natural gas. In October, she invited a university researcher onto the property and discovered that several wells were leaking methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

This ‘active ingredient’ in natural gas, is up to 28 to 84 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas. In 2008, scientists found that a giant amount of methane (about 50 gigatons) is trapped in the form of permafrost in Arctic regions. Lot’s of Methane.

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