DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The decision has outraged residents who’ve lived with the pollution tied to Coterra Energy’s previous fracking activity and endured over a decade in which they’ve lacked access to clean water for their homes. in 2021 — to household water pollution, banning the company from drilling new natural gas wells in the area entirely.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

That means midstream and downstream infrastructure like pipelines, liquefied natural gas terminals and a wave of ethane crackers driving a global plastic pollution crisis. It also means industries like utilities and auto manufacturers that make up the bulk of demand for oil and gas. Indeed, it’s why U.S.

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Business Green

MAY 4, 2021

Cost of pollution on Europe's emissions trading scheme continues to surge with analysts bullish of further rapid rise this year. Some told the newswire the price could even double by the end of the decade, which could serve to rapidly accelerate the closure of fossil fuel plants and investment in low carbon infrastructure.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Major fossil fuel firms have committed tens of millions in finance to UK universities since 2022, DeSmog can reveal. Previous reporting from openDemocracy and the Guardian found that, between 2017 and December 2021, £89 million had been given to UK universities from some of the world’s biggest fossil fuel companies.

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Grist

AUGUST 12, 2021

While that might seem like a no-brainer to some, it’s a finding that could have big implications for lawsuits seeking to hold polluters accountable for disaster damages. Take, for example, the 2008 case of Native Village of Kivalina v. In other words, “How much has an individual fossil fuel company contributed to climate change?”

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Nor is it the only link between the fossil fuel industry and the Bolloré family’s global business interests, which encompass multi-billion-dollar logistics operations servicing major oil companies, including Shell. Further, these are far from being the Bolloré Group’s only connections to the fossil fuel sector.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

On Wednesday, a group of more than 450 scientists called on advertising agencies to cut off their fossil fuel clients and to end their ties with an ongoing misinformation campaign that has time and again killed progress on addressing the climate crisis. And as this letter makes clear, they have had enough. ” Arena said.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 2, 2023

Lord David Frost – a Conservative peer and former Cabinet Office minister who was appointed in November – is also a GWPF director , along with Terence Mordaunt , who has donated £342,500 to the Conservative Party and its MPs since 2008 via First Corporate Consultants and First Corporate Shipping.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 21, 2020

The shipping industry is charting a new route toward cutting fossil fuel use in ocean-going vessels: ammonia. To date, no ammonia-fueled ships have been built, but that’s not stopping companies including Equinor, MAN Energy Solutions and Wärtsilä from rushing to help bring ammonia-fueled ships to market.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 16, 2021

The London museum is already under intense pressure from campaigners over its existing relationships with oil companies BP and Equinor, with a number of key speakers pulling out of the ongoing series of ‘Climate Talks’ in protest at the institute’s continuing polluting ties. “It

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 16, 2021

The London museum is already under intense pressure from campaigners over its existing relationships with oil companies BP and Equinor, with a number of key speakers pulling out of the ongoing series of ‘Climate Talks’ in protest at the institute’s continuing polluting ties. “It

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 27, 2020

Coal is often called the dirtiest fossil fuel. Fossil fuels are composed of carbon and hydrogen. Regulations eventually reined in that problem, but coal-fired power plants still emit pollutants like mercury. peaked in 2005, but remained at a pretty constant level until the financial crisis of 2008.

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Grist

MARCH 8, 2021

When shipping giant Maersk announced last month it would operate a “carbon-neutral” vessel by 2023, the Danish company committed to using a fuel that’s made from renewable sources, is free of soot-forming pollutants — and is currently in scarce supply. OH, is primarily used to make chemicals for plastics, paints, and cosmetics.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Net Zero Watch said it hoped the new steps would be a “significant first move towards a complete reassessment of the unilateral net zero targets embedded in the Climate Change Act”, referring to the legally binding 2008 act that was passed with an overwhelming majority across political parties.

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AutoGrid

OCTOBER 27, 2022

In Europe, and markets all over the world, the variability of solar and wind is often mitigated by fossil fuel generation, usually peaker plants , which remain the most expensive and polluting on the system. Europe’s first VPP dates back to 2008 with an aggregation of nine hydroelectric plants totaling 8.6 MW of capacity.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The initiative, also known as the “Protect Washington Act”, imposes a steadily increasing carbon pollution fee on most fossil fuel uses and directs revenue toward projects to reduce carbon emissions, as well as investments in forests, water, community preparedness, and support to displaced workers and people with lower incomes.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 23, 2019

Carbon pricing is a regular feature of Canadian headlines, as parties and governments clash over the right to impose a price on pollution across Canada. In fact, in a 2015 survey completed by 365 economists, 81% said that pricing carbon is the most efficient way to cut pollution. Cutting diesel consumption by 3.3% by 2012.

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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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Business Green

APRIL 23, 2020

Group led by Transport & Environment urges EU to prioritise green investment in coronavirus response, as new report slams scale of British banks' interest in fossil fuels. org, which lays bare private banks' continued heavy investment in fossil fuels in the five years since the historic 2015 Paris climate change agreement.

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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. If this soup of pollution was hurting me after only a few minutes, I imagined the damage it caused people who lived in it.”

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

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. Exxon , was filed in February 2008 in U.S. In 2003, intruders broke into the office of CRPE, the small nonprofit Cole had founded. District Court.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 5, 2021

Under the Emissions Trading System (ETS) all major polluters must submit an annual report declaring how much carbon dioxide they emitted that year. To do that, they use an “emissions factor,” which reflects how much of the greenhouse gas is released by the fuel they burn, then pay for a quota for those emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 2, 2021

The fossil fuel industry continues to use a long list of deceptive tactics to conceal environmental destruction that harms Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and low-income communities. That’s the top finding of a newly released NAACP report titled “Fossil Fuel Foolery.”

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Business Green

APRIL 2, 2020

Once we emerge from this crisis the question will be to make sure that we don't embed fossil fuel and carbon into the emerging economy. The UK, along with other nations, could enter a recession which is sharper and harder than the 2008 financial crisis.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

After the painful financial crash of 2008/9, the political atmosphere in Ireland ahead of the lifting of quotas was febrile. per cent in the decade to 2021, with a corresponding rise in water pollution and declines in air quality caused by an increase in nitrogen fertiliser use. Irish Agriculture.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 16, 2021

Since 2008, at least 23 applications to stop opencast coal in the UK have been stopped by grassroots campaigns, with many more going unrecorded. Residents of Dewley Hill won’t thankfully see their local wildlife destroyed by the mine or live with daily pollution from coal dust and noise. Battle Not Yet Over’.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

Because our economies are still coupled with the burning of fossil fuels, this markedly reduced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Figure 2 Mean survey results of recovery policy archetypes (2008-2020) aggregated using relativity-adjusted scores. From Hepburn et al.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

The report also highlights how in addition to the short term economic boost a green investment surge would deliver multiple health and well-being benefits, at a time when air pollution and unhealthy lifestyles have been identified as an exacerbating factor in the coronavirus pandemic.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

As massive fuel guzzlers compared to other transportation methods, ships exacerbate the emissions problem. To deal with the issue of carbon pollution by ships, several companies and organizations are exploring ammonia as a possible solution. To accomplish this, IMO intends to use ammonia as a fossil fuel alternative.

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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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Business Green

JUNE 28, 2020

SUVs, which are less fuel efficient than other cars due to heavy builds and large engines, accounted for 38 per cent of new cars sold in Europe in 2019, up from almost a third the year prior and from just seven per cent in 2008. That way carmakers will bring the zero-emissions cars they have developed to the forecourt quicker.".

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Political public relations arguably holds its origins in the oil, gas and coal industries, but amid growing criticism it is now facing increasing pressure to forge a future path beyond fossil fuel marketing. Campaigners have pointed out that fossil fuel firms spend more on marketing than on clean energy.

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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. million in compensation for the killing of 9 Nigerian activists who fought against widespread oil pollution in the Niger Delta during the turbulent 1990s. In 2009 the company paid out $15.5

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

We have seen countless reports during this time that make mention and provide facts around the decrease of pollution and harmful effects on the environment as a result of everyone being quarantined. I have joined RMI's Building Electrification program, which is focused on eliminating fossil fuels in buildings.

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

percent in 2010 (a record for that time) as developed economies (China, USA, India, the Russia, and the European Union) resumed their emissions growth after a brief respite during the 2008-2009 Global Financial Crisis (GFC). This growth was attributed to increased fossil fuels and cement use which accounted for 52 percent of the total growth.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

At a heated April meeting of this program’s oversight commission , Commissioner David Levy demanded to know why the Freshwater City disposal well was plugged before actively polluting oil and gas wells. If those funds are misspent, they warn, they could even wind up promoting more fossil fuel production and undermining climate goals.

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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. Trillions is serious, mainstream money.

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