DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Its chair, Marie Donnelly, last night expressed concern at the “problematic” sectoral targets, which she described as “not consistent” with the objectives of Ireland’s climate laws. After the painful financial crash of 2008/9, the political atmosphere in Ireland ahead of the lifting of quotas was febrile. Irish Agriculture.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Sinclair campaigned against green taxes in senior roles at the TaxPayers’ Alliance pressure group from 2008 to 2013. In 2016, he blamed high energy prices on solar and wind power, saying on Twitter: “This is how UK climate policy works. Huge investment in renewables etc -> higher profits -> higher prices.”.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 5, 2021

If polluters are allowed to continue releasing polluting greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere without consequence, it risks continuing to warm the planet at a time when experts warn countries must rapidly transition away from fossil fuels. Three years later, Bulgaria passed new laws restricting offshore ownership.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This strategy aims for net zero emissions by around 2050 and includes shorter-term goals of cutting emissions by at least 20% and aiming for a 30% reduction by 2030, relative to 2008 levels. Early Phase-Out of Coal-Fired Power Plants (CFPP) The Taxonomy also provides a hybrid framework to phase out CFPPs at both a facility and entity level.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Seven states, as well as Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, have passed 100 percent clean energy transition laws. All 100 percent state laws, and some city and county policies, also include interim targets to keep clean energy deployment on track. The binding nature of these targets is also noteworthy. Washington D.C.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 26, 2022

The case was originally filed in 2008 and two of the plaintiffs died in the 13 years it took for the verdict to be issues. At the time, Stone’s law firm, Cullinan & Associates, represented local fishing and ski boat organizations as part of public consultations over whether license should be granted.

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Business Green

JANUARY 12, 2022

Seperate law suits filed by ClientEarth and Friends of the Earth allege the government's flagship Net Zero Strategy focuses too heavily on unproven future technologies and could breach carbon budgets.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

None of this equates with actual action to reduce emissions or tackle inequality, but it’s clearly not fringe anymore (which fossil fuel giant ExxonMobil found out when activist investors forced it to take on sustainability-friendly board members). To me, we’ve reached the end of the beginning. But what’s happened since is unclear.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

Ruling on a case brought by Friends of the Earth, ClientEarth, and the Good Law Project, Mr Justice Holgate agreed the strategy lacked sufficient explanation or quantification as to how the decarbonisation plans set out in the Net Zero Strategy published last autumn would achieve emissions targets for the 2030s and beyond.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 18, 2019

To elaborate, in the Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals , he articulates Categorical Imperative as “ So act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a universal law of nature ” (Gregor and Korsgaard,31). 4, 2008, pp. 4, 2008, pp. xxii-xxiii; Rentmeester, 81-82). Davidson, Marc D. Dees, John P.

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Business Green

AUGUST 10, 2022

On 18 July 2022, the English High Court handed down its landmark decision in an action brought against the UK Government by Friends of the Earth, ClientEarth and the Good Law Project. The new Prime Minister should be prepared to answer questions about the xourt's decision on a global stage at COP27 Climate Summit this autumn.

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Jigar Shah

JUNE 11, 2019

Expectations around success long-held by prior generations — like car ownership, reliance on fossil fuels, or skepticism of scientific discoveries — have ceded to an inclination to form conscious habits. We can be grateful here that younger generations have a tendency to break away from their parents’ viewpoints.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 23, 2020

Back to normal is not an option To rebuild the economy, the United States government so far seems to choose to deploy the same playbook it did in 2008: funding legacy companies in industries such as oil and gas. Even without those policies — they soon expire — renewables are more than competitive against fossil fuels.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 23, 2020

Back to normal is not an option To rebuild the economy, the United States government so far seems to choose to deploy the same playbook it did in 2008: funding legacy companies in industries such as oil and gas. Even without those policies — they soon expire — renewables are more than competitive against fossil fuels.

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Jigar Shah

JUNE 11, 2019

like car ownership, reliance on fossil fuels, or skepticism of scientific discoveries?—?have However, building infrastructure and decarbonizing our energy system has been the largest job growth area since the 2008 financial crisis. Expectations around success long-held by prior generations?—?like This might sound overwhelming.

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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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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Spending the past year as Ecolab’s president and COO, he joined as an executive vice president in 2008 after capping off 15 years as Nestlé’s head of corporate sales in Europe. The company has since whipsawed between its wholesale-energy legacy of fossil fuels and greener horizons. Company profile. LinkedIn | Company profile.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2022

Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine is a massive violation of rights, and could signal the final phase of the fossil fuel industry, writes Clean Creatives director Duncan Meisel. There are signs that the spike in oil prices is already impacting consumer behaviour as well.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

That would mean that the project cost nearly ten times the roughly $71,000 it cost DNR to restore an average orphan well from 2008 to 2019, state records show. million barrels of wastewater piped to shore from a half-dozen Gulf oil and gas platforms into Freshwater City from 1982 to 2008 (records from earlier years were unavailable).

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

The link between airborne pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels and respiratory health is well-known. Air pollution: Fossil fuel combustion produces fine-particulate air pollution, which leads to the premature death of an estimated 14,400 people across Canada. 2008 May 22;7:24. xii] [xiii]. May 1, 2019.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

Spokespeople for the states’ oil and gas industry regulators — the Texas Railroad Commission and the New Mexico Oil Conservation Division — said that fossil fuel companies plug the majority of wells themselves and that state agencies only get involved in rare cases when operators disappear.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Compiled by Dutch climate activist Vatan Hüzeir , and reviewed by DeSmog and Dutch investigative journalism platform Follow The Money , the documents show how Shell was actively supporting research that clearly underscored the dangers posed by burning its fossil fuel products from the mid-1970s — years earlier than previously thought.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 18, 2024

GB News presenters have claimed that net zero will cause “death by poverty and starvation”, that the policy “poses an existential threat to the free world”, and have called for the UK to “drill, baby, drill” for more fossil fuels. The group is also hostile to climate action and has ties to fossil fuel interests.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

Spokespeople for the states’ oil and gas industry regulators — the Texas Railroad Commission and the New Mexico Oil Conservation Division — said that fossil fuel companies plug the majority of wells themselves and that state agencies only get involved in rare cases when operators disappear.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

ShareAction itself has already filed resolutions at Barclays and - just recently - HSBC where it has the backing of 117 other institutional investors in calling on the bank to phase out fossil fuel financing. In financial markets, too, confidence in low carbon assets has become more pronounced. But there is still a long way to go.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Spending the past year as Ecolab’s president and COO, he joined as an executive vice president in 2008 after capping off 15 years as Nestlé’s head of corporate sales in Europe. The company has since whipsawed between its wholesale-energy legacy of fossil fuels and greener horizons. “I view that as job No.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) was high on the agenda at New York Climate Week last week, where critics of the technology raised concerns it would be used to extend the life of the fossil fuel industry. The data showed us that their carbon capture plans are not working at scale.” Based upon Val Verde, since the 1970s, U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 23, 2020

“In order to combat the climate crisis and meet our clean energy goals, we must transition away from fossil fuels and change the way gas utilities do business in our state,” Healey said in a statement. Progress on emissions from heating lags power sector.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

As abundant investigative reporting and academic studies have documented, the companies’ own scientists were telling their executives in the 1970s that burning more oil and other fossil fuels would overheat the planet. The bottom line is that we can’t solve a problem caused by fossil fuels with more fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 27, 2022

Even before the Ukraine conflict provided the industry with a rationalization to push for more drilling, it was leaning on powerful political influencers to fight restrictions on fossil fuel production. Elite Campaigners and Law Firms Lobby for Drilling. Newsom’s New Hire Lobbied for Marathon Petroleum.

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Business Green

APRIL 24, 2020

The incentives are designed to support long-standing goals to ensure NEVs, which include electric vehicles, plug-in hybrids, and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, account for a fifth of auto sales by 2025, compared to around five per cent currently.Citi. Citi tightens fossil fuel lending policies. warming trajectory.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 24, 2019

An effort to overturn Ohio’s controversial nuclear bailout law via voter referendum suffered a setback this week, after a federal judge denied the group's request for more time to collect signatures to put it before state voters next year. percent by 2027, passed in 2008, which has been under attack from state Republicans for years.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 11, 2022

A 65% reduction in scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions from federal operations by 2030 from 2008 levels: To meet these targets, the EO requires agencies to, among other things, pursue building electrification strategies, procure carbon pollution-free energy, and use performance contracting to reduce emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

President Biden signed historic climate legislation into law in August, but more action will be necessary to hit climate targets. Next year, the TVA will begin a review of how to replace its Kingston coal plant in Tennessee, where an infamous 2008 coal ash spill occurred. Ongoing cleanup at Kingston plant, site of 2008 coal ash spill.

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

Most of these carbon-capture projects are run by fossil fuel companies. Big Oil likes to celebrate the technology: By putting carbon back in the ground, the industry can provide consumers with the benefits of fossil fuel without the full climate impact. “If Trump signed it into law. That number, about 0.1%

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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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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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