DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The connections with oil and gas lobbyists, the researchers say, undercut the highly public positions the companies have taken on addressing climate change. There is no ‘separate’ when the climate crisis will affect almost every issue before a state legislature — health care, infrastructure, taxes, and the whole economy,” he said.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 13, 2021

New York City’s Climate Mobilization Act has been lauded as one of the most ambitious and innovative legislative initiatives by a major city to combat climate change. Three New York measures have really impacted energy efficiency: Local Laws 84, 87, and 97. percent from the 2009 baseline of 50.8

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South. South, which is already bearing the brunt of climate change effects. . “As Wed, 10/21/2020 - 00:45.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Revelations about high-level and systemic failures of oversight — both private and public — come at a time when historic federal investments in renewable energy are threatening a constellation of fossil fuel interests and political coalitions vying to preserve profits as the U.S. economy is increasingly rocked by climate chaos.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 16, 2021

Carbon offsets have been enabled under international law in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and were first used internationally in 2001. World leaders attending the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference later this year are expected to discuss how to operationalize Article 6 going forward. based solutions to climate change.

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Rinexii

JANUARY 22, 2021

This would become the first official pandemic plan, only to be reshaped again in 2009. Climate change awareness also began decades ago. This was widespread knowledge within Exxon, Shell, and other fossil fuel based companies long before it gained media attention. A similar problem.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Climate change is already negatively impacting the health of Canadians, impacts that will become more severe in relation to the extent of warming that occurs. The link between airborne pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels and respiratory health is well-known. including: Pollen from changing growing seasons.

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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. In their eyes, it doesn’t do enough to address climate change and allows emitters to continue polluting the air in the meantime.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

This technique of using statements that are technically true but omit crucial information and therefore are misleading, is called paltering — and it’s an old favorite of the fossil fuel industry. R-CALF USA doesn’t only blame the private trade associations for overturning the law that allowed “Made in the USA” labels. “It’s

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

The compronmise agreement sees the Greens back Labour's proposals for a 'Safeguard Mechanism', which promises to regulate emissions from Australia's 215 biggest polluting coal and gas facilities without outright banning new fossil fuel projects.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

But then California’s legislature passed a law to subsidize small biomass plants in 2012. The idea behind the legislation was that plants would spring up to provide power to small towns, providing an economic incentive to clear fuels out of the path of future wildfires. That jibes with what the many scientists I talked to told me.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South Danielle Purifoy Wed, 10/21/2020 – 00:45 This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Nor does it refer to a topic that was of unequivocal scientific concern at the time: The “greenhouse effect,” or what is now known as climate change. This impressive history shows for just how long climate issues were known by Shell personnel,” said Ben Franta, senior research fellow in climate litigation at the University of Oxford.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 18, 2020

but also the majority of fossil fuel jobs which paid an average of $24.37 Moreover, unlike fossil fuels, clean energy occupations are found in every state, regardless of geology or geography. The fact that clean energy directly addresses our growing climate crisis makes these jobs all the more attractive.

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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. The electronic engineer and MBA spent 19 years as a supply chain vice president at Unilever before joining Natura in 2009. Elsa Wenzel. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

Black Elk purchased Freshwater City an oil company called W&T Offshore in late 2009, as part of a larger deal. Fueled by a New York-based hedge fund, Black Elk had embarked on a buying spree in the Gulf — and not just for oil assets. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law signed this past November set aside $4.7

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2021

With this in mind, this article presents the 20 best climate change and sustainability documentaries. These documentaries exhibit how video storytelling can be used to promote sustainability and climate action. Summarized below are 20 of the best climate change and sustainability documentaries. Length: 2 hours.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Climate action honors that legacy — because climate change is as stark an inequality issue as it gets and requires every bit as much doggedness to address. Climate action honors that legacy — because climate change is as stark an inequality issue as it gets and requires every bit as much doggedness to address.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

A nascent but growing body of research suggests that these sorts of leaks make oil and gas wells significant contributors to climate change — especially if they’re not plugged. One 2015 law required a special bond to be posted for wells that have been inactive for longer than two years.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

A nascent but growing body of research suggests that these sorts of leaks make oil and gas wells significant contributors to climate change — especially if they’re not plugged. One 2015 law required a special bond to be posted for wells that have been inactive for longer than two years.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

billion people and set to double in population by 2050, Africa is already experiencing some of the most extreme effects of climate change, despite accounting for ~4% of global annual GHG emissions and contributing a minuscule fraction of historic emissions. Disproportionate impacts: Home to 1.3

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Over two weeks in November, world leaders and national negotiators will meet in Scotland to discuss what to do about climate change. It’s a complex process that can be hard to make sense of from the outside, but it’s how international law and institutions help solve problems that no single country can fix on its own.

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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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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021 Elsa Wenzel Mon, 01/11/2021 – 02:15 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. In September, the company issued healthcare’s first sustainability bond, priced at $2.26

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Climate action honors that legacy — because climate change is as stark an inequality issue as it gets and requires every bit as much doggedness to address. Climate action honors that legacy — because climate change is as stark an inequality issue as it gets and requires every bit as much doggedness to address.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Climate action honors that legacy — because climate change is as stark an inequality issue as it gets and requires every bit as much doggedness to address. Climate action honors that legacy — because climate change is as stark an inequality issue as it gets and requires every bit as much doggedness to address.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Add to that a huge round of new licences for North Sea oil and gas extraction – and no further windfall taxes on energy companies making bumper profits – and it’s clear the former Shell manager has few qualms about going all-out for fossil fuels. Kemi Badenoch – Trade Secretary. Zahawi earned £1.3

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

based Atlas member think tank Policy Exchange put out a report in 2019 called “Extremist Rebellion,” describing Extinction Rebellion, an organization famous for shutting down parts of London to call for aggressive climate action, as “an extremist organization seeking the breakdown of liberal democracy and the rule of law.”

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 23, 2022

Editor’s Note: This is part of a new column, Gaslit , which will navigate society’s dysfunctional relationship with fossil fuel disinformation. Europe still imports more than 40 percent of its gas from Russia, and the American fossil fuel industry is still pushing the U.S. Have a tip or idea? Get in touch. Here we go!

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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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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Yet American taxpayers have been subsidizing the oil company’s purported climate endeavors through a federal tax credit for CCS, to the tune of perhaps $240 million claimed already. ” But the vast majority of that captured CO2 is used to pump out more fossil fuel from oilfields or released back into the atmosphere.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

“If you were a fossil fuel project, you would have been shut down long ago.” ” 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. .”

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern wasted little time raising the stakes in her nation’s fight against climate change after handily winning re-election in October. Drawing on that mandate, Ardern declared a "climate emergency" and set the wheels in motion for New Zealand’s public sector to become carbon neutral by 2025.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

A slow transition away from fossil fuels would be “more expensive” than a rapid shift to renewable energy, according to a new study, a conclusion that stands in sharp contrast to fossil fuel industry talking points aimed at heading off aggressive climate policy currently being shaped in Congress.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Fighting Public Utilities, Child Labor Laws One of the first campaigns in that spirit occurred within the electricity utility industry via an organization which eventually became known as the Edison Electric Institute. Like EEI, fast-forwarding to the present-day, NAM has served as a key node of climate denialism. and global politics.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

If you listen to Joe Biden on climate change, you might feel the urge to junk your car and invest in wind power. Meanwhile, the incumbent’s message seems to be that fossil fuels are A-OK. You might find yourself wondering, does Trump believe in climate change? As the U.S. Now, the U.S. Now, the U.S.

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