DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2024

Weatherford, a lawyer from the corporate law firm Baker Hostetler, stated in opening arguments that Mann was so disliked that “even his own family won’t come to court to defend him.” Separate investigations by Penn State and the National Science Foundation cleared Mann of any wrongdoing.

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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. He developed a form of environmental justice law focused on community empowerment and mobilization.

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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.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

But in the intervening decades, the region’s rivers were dammed or channeled and the fossil fuel era dawned across Appalachia. The paper suggests that all of this might have happened in violation of federal law. Mountaintop Mining. The new research highlights how, even as the U.S. The diamond darter.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

It’s an apt welcome to a place where the realities of everyday life seem to be in stark contrast to the green illusion marketed by the fossil fuel and petrochemical industries. James Parish, a region that has become a build-out hub for the petrochemical and fossil fuel industry. Town sign for Norco, Louisiana.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Ruth Porter, who will be Truss’s senior special advisor and ran her election campaign, was communications director from 2010 to 2013 at the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), an influential anti-regulation think tank with a record of opposing climate policies. BP-Funded Think Tank.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

In the summer of 2022, faced with a very real opportunity to confront the fossil fuel industry, potentially forcing the facility to halt oil train shipments entirely, the city instead chose to strike a compromise that allows the oil facility to continue to operate. You’re in the driver’s seat.

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2021

Strong political will is needed to make affordable, clean, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all a reality by 2030," said UNECE executive secretary Olga Algayerova. "As Overall, the group gave the government's draft climate law a score of 3.7 Overall, the group gave the government's draft climate law a score of 3.7

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Jigar Shah

JUNE 11, 2019

Prominent among these shifts is an increase in ride-sharing and public transit over car ownership, and an elevated political awareness of climate change. Over time, we joined political initiatives, raised money, passed legislation — we got stuff done. Bush banned them (which was phased in around 2010).

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Jigar Shah

JUNE 11, 2019

Prominent among these shifts is an increase in ride-sharing and public transit over car ownership, and an elevated political awareness of climate change. like car ownership, reliance on fossil fuels, or skepticism of scientific discoveries?—?have Over time, we joined political initiatives, raised money, passed legislation?—?we

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

Rishi Sunak has confirmed that a fossil fuel-funded think tank helped to draft his government’s laws targeting climate protests. Sunak’s statement yesterday appears to confirm openDemocracy’s allegation that sections of the 2022 law were ‘directly inspired’ by Policy Exchange’s report. million to the party since 2014.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 12, 2020

Partnering with investor-owned utilities Cities and counties often are required by state law to buy electricity from a regulated investor-owned utility (IOU) and lack the ability to choose their electricity supplier or generation source. While some IOUs offer renewable energy programs, these options don’t always meet city needs.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 12, 2020

Partnering with investor-owned utilities Cities and counties often are required by state law to buy electricity from a regulated investor-owned utility (IOU) and lack the ability to choose their electricity supplier or generation source. While some IOUs offer renewable energy programs, these options don’t always meet city needs.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

Wood energy succored Homo sapiens and its ancestors for millions of years, the argument goes, and only during the last couple of centuries was it replaced with fossil fuels like coal. After they are cut they can be replanted, absorbing carbon once again as they mature. communities and destroyed U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 5, 2024

For years , the fossil fuel industry has maintained that the First Amendment protects its right to mislead the public about the climate crisis, but that criticism and protest of its operations violates the law. You may also recognize Gibson Dunn as the firm that accused U.S.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

But when north Texas freezes over, it not only dominates the news agenda, but tries to hang that agenda on the renewable vs fossil fuel energy debate. per cent of the S&P 500 in 2010 to just 2.33 It will be interesting to watch what the UK allows, as it takes a more interventionist approach politically.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Hayek told Fisher to forget about getting into politics and to engage instead in a “war of ideas.” Suddenly Fisher had a lot of time on his hands and a lot of people wanted to know how the IEA had managed to push UK politics so far to the right and so quickly. conservative politics — are all members).

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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. Zahawi earned £1.3

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2021

Oil on top of the Gulf of Mexico, where the Deepwater Horizon incident took place, seen on April 29, 2010, nine days after the rig caught fire and exploded, killing 11 crew members. Credit: © 2010 Julie Dermansky. “No The Deepwater Horizon Macondo well on June 3, 2010, roughly a month and a half after its initial blowout.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 30, 2020

She says if world leaders are serious about combating the climate crisis they can "help us stop the fossil fuel industry and protect indigenous people in the Amazon, because those are the people who have been protecting the world’s rainforest for a very long time now." Media is ever reporting politics and celebrity gossip.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Washington Governor Jay Inslee acknowledged a shortfall during a press conference last month: “Even with our best-in-the-nation laws, and even with federal action, we don’t have enough on the books today to actually reduce carbon at the pace we need to.”. Or rising prices could fuel a political backlash.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

These changes will only worsen for as long as society continues to burn fossil fuels, and for some time after. A Connecticut law empowers cities to create their own stormwater management plans. Akielly Hu Northwest How one town put politics aside to save itself from fire Timber Wars tore this town apart.

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Grist

MAY 22, 2021

But, as with so many things, the success of innovative ideas comes down to political will. Today, we have very, very poor laws or – one could say, no laws – to hold timber companies accountable,” he says about Canada. But the program wrapped up amidst political controversy over auditing five years later.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Another donation worth £5,127 to cover the Truss campaign’s transport costs was made by Andrew Law, a trustee at the centre-right Policy Exchange think tank, which he supports financially through a family charity. Both organisations have received donations from fossil fuel companies operating in the area. fundraising arm.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

“If you were a fossil fuel project, you would have been shut down long ago.” For fossil fuel ideologues, sowing misinformation about wind and solar power is proving to be an effective stall tactic. “Hear this message: We’re here to save the whales!”

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Andrew Winston

MARCH 17, 2021

Dozens of multinationals started by pausing all political donations. In other words, this is not the usual tiny list of progressive companies like Patagonia that put pressure on governments to pass more aggressive environmental laws. For Europeans, the move to take money out of politics doesn’t seem impressive. But the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Trevelyan got off to a bad start this week after the Guardian reported tweets she sent between 2010 and 2012 expressing climate science denial. In 2018 he gave a speech blaming fossil fuels for the climate crisis but earlier this year received a £5,000 donation from Peter Lumley, an oil and gas consultant. Replaces Liz Truss.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Over the past year, many professional services organizations that previously had little to say publicly about their climate change strategy — from law firms to management consultants to ad agencies — found themselves under closer scrutiny not just for their own footprint but for supporting some of the biggest climate deniers around.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Conway, authors of the classic 2010 book Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming , have released a new book placing that doubt machine into a longer arc of U.S. business and political history. Science historians Naomi Oreskes and Erik M.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

As it turns out, one of the most powerful pieces of climate change legislation a Biden administration needs has already been passed — the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. But the struggle to provide a Biden administration with the political space to wield this kind of power has only just begun.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 2, 2022

Corporate Capture of Environmental Politics. Today, it’s easy to find political leaders – on both the political right and left – working on behalf of corporations in energy, finance, agribusiness, technology, military and pharmaceutical sectors, and not always in the public interest. In the U.S.,

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 27, 2020

The main reason that lawmakers fail to advance policies that are in the national interest is because they are in the pocket of the fossil fuel industry. The fossil fuel industry controls academia , politicians and political outcomes. Although the tale of political corruption is as old as time, in the U.S.

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CleanTechnica

JANUARY 30, 2020

British Petroleum (BP), which is the same company that had the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico just off the coast of Louisiana in 2010 that devastated much of our wetlands, has won a victory against laws protecting the environment.

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