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Climate-Science Deniers, Right-Wing Think Tanks, and Fossil Fuel Shills Are Plotting Against the Clean Energy Transition

DeSmogBlog

“If you were a fossil fuel project, you would have been shut down long ago.” DonorsTrust gave the group nearly $8 million between 2008 and 2017, according to federal tax data. For fossil fuel ideologues, sowing misinformation about wind and solar power is proving to be an effective stall tactic.

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House Committee Poised for Potential Subpoena of PR Firm for Climate Disinformation

DeSmogBlog

consulting and PR firm, with a long history of waging influence campaigns for fossil fuel corporations, is under scrutiny by a congressional committee as part of a broader investigation into the decades-long efforts by the oil industry and its allies to block action on the climate crisis. A powerful Washington, D.C.,

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The Uncertain Future of Gas Exports on Louisiana’s Vanishing Coastline

DeSmogBlog

Still, the cheniers and the surrounding wetlands provide critical habitat for fish, shrimp, ducks, and an array of migratory birds travelling across the Gulf of Mexico. John Allaire, a former environmental engineer in the oil industry, photographed with fossil fuel infrastructure behind. Stricter Climate Scrutiny The U.S.

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Inflation Reduction Act: 10 ways it will turbocharge US climate action (and one way it won't)

Business Green

The landmark legislation's climate provisions could unlock billions of dollars of low carbon investment and millions of green jobs - but it also paves the way for new fossil fuel infrastructure. The US is set to get its first ever carbon equivalent tax - on methane. temperature goal is to be kept alive.

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Feds Move Forward with New Mexico Drilling Plan Despite Community Outcry

DeSmogBlog

The update was sparked by decades old changes in drilling technology already used in an area that gained notoriety for having one of the largest methane hot spots on the planet — because of leaking oil and gas wells. Whichever update the BLM and BIA choose will have to take account of an array of competing goals.

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Online Event - VERGE Energy Conference

Green Market Oracle

cities are drafting plans and testing out developing zero emission zones in downtown areas, banning fossil-fuel-burning vehicles and developing progressive pricing signals. Investing in a Clean & Equitable Future (Panel Discussion): Every two minutes, a new solar array is installed in the United States.