Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 1, 2022

The best way to benefit the bank accounts of Canadian families is to switch to technologies that reduce or avoid fossil fuels altogether. Insured losses due to extreme weather events totalled over $18 billion between 2010 and 2019, according to the Canadian Climate Institute. The less we do, the bigger it gets. “In KEY FACTS.

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Fossil fuels Carbon Policy Electric vehicle 56

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Just over half of all directors at 30 of the world’s largest insurance companies have affiliations to polluting companies and organisations, reveals an investigation by DeSmog, including several individuals holding senior roles at some of the world’s largest energy companies.

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Pollution Fossil fuels Climate change Aviation 98

DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The billionaire financier is a former party treasurer and raised an estimated £70 million for the Tories between 2006 and 2010. New licences were also awarded this week to fossil fuel giants Shell and Equinor. Spencer has publicly advocated for the fossil fuel industry. The Conservatives received £3.5

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Fossil fuels Policy Africa Law 139

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 2, 2024

The county argues oil companies’ “campaigns to deceive and mislead the public about the damaging nature of their fossil fuel products” delayed climate action for decades, robbing communities of precious time to mitigate the climate-driven disasters they now face.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2024

One of the major backers of broadcaster GB News is now employing a leading right-wing lobbying company that has ties to polluting interests. In the past, CT Group has lobbied for fossil fuel interests across the globe, working for the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association, and the mining giant BHP.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2024

The complaint was made against advertisements paid for by Canada Action , a federally-registered non-profit organization that promotes resource development in Canada, particularly the fossil fuel sector. Canada Action further argued that, at its end use, gas emitted 50 percent less carbon than coal.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 20, 2021

French oil giant Total knew that its fossil fuel extraction could contribute to global warming as early as 1971 but stayed silent about it until 1988, according to a new study. The company publicly accepted climate science in the 1990s but promoted “policy delay or policies peripheral to fossil fuel control”, the authors found.

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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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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2024

Stephen Davies, an academic who has worked in educational outreach roles at the IEA since 2010, appeared several times in Climate The Movie: The Cold Truth – a new film directed by climate science denier Martin Durkin. The IEA is a prominent supporter of the continued and extended use of fossil fuels.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Education Law 129

Business Green

JUNE 23, 2021

Latest IRENA report reveals how majority of new wind and solar power projects are now cheaper than new fossil fuel alternatives and, in an increasing number of cases, operational coal plants. warming pathway mapped out by the agency. We must make sure everybody benefits from the energy transition.".

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Business Green

MAY 14, 2020

Cutting fossil fuel subsidies and putting efficient price on CO2 would raise crucial revenue for Treasury, LSE research paper argues. It also cautions against imposing "any kind of 2010's style austerity".

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Fossil fuels Carbon Climate change Pollution 91

Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Update from BloombergNEF reveals battery pack prices have plummeted from $1,100 per kWh in 2010 to $137 per kWh in 2020, powered by soaring EV sales, cheaper materials, and manufacturing and tech innovation.

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Batteries Fossil fuels Lithium Electric vehicle 95

Renewable Energy World

MARCH 1, 2021

has made the case for why utilities, not customers, should be responsible for the cost of retiring fossil fuel assets. Securitization: One Tool for Early Fossil Fuel Retirement. Securitization is a cheaper way to retire fossil fuel plants early. Originally published at ILSR.org.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Policy Energy 131

Green Market Oracle

MAY 18, 2020

The energy sector has not been spared and fossil fuels have been hit particularly hard. While 20 percent of the clean energy and efficiency jobs could be lost up to 33 percent of the fossil fuel exploration and production workforce could lose their jobs. percent increase in job creation since 2010. million workers.

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Fossil fuels Energy Energy Climate change 75

Low Impact

AUGUST 29, 2021

3) It’s funding big polluters. Neither do the EU’s ‘cohesion’ and ‘just transition’ funds exclude fossil fuel investments. Instead, the money could go to community-driven solutions to move the region away from fossil fuels. of hydrogen is made in this way; 90% of it is ‘grey’, made using fossil fuels like gas.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

After generations of wildly elevated rates of childhood asthma and cancer in the community that many believe were a result of the toxic pollution overhead, a group of Diamond residents living within a few blocks campaigned for Shell to buy their contaminated properties. Town sign for Norco, Louisiana. Shell Norco.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 28, 2023

The pad is owned by a fossil fuel operator that’s come under fire in recent years for purchasing tens of thousands of low-producing oil and gas wells without a clear business motive and for making unrealistic budget projections that minimize the true cost of plugging , critics say. “The

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Fossil fuels Natural gas Law Pollution 83

Smart Energy International

APRIL 5, 2022

This will involve a substantial reduction in fossil fuel use, widespread electrification, improved energy efficiency and use of alternative fuels, such as hydrogen. From 2010-2019, average annual global greenhouse gas emissions were at their highest levels in human history, although the rate of growth has slowed.

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Global warming Energy Energy Climate change 98

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. Their goal was to find out more about the impact mountaintop removal mining has had on those water pollution levels. Mountaintop Mining. The new research highlights how, even as the U.S.

Energy Monitor 93

Energy Monitor Fossil fuels Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 93

Sunrun

AUGUST 23, 2019

Wide scale adoption of solar and other renewable energy must continue so we can address the negative societal and economic impacts of dirty fossil fuels.10 But ground-level ozone and other pollutants from cars, power plants, industrial boilers, refineries and chemical plants can kill. In 2010, the industry hired 93,000 people.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2021

The delayed roll out of Clean Air Zones in polluted city centres across parts of the North of England is likely to see these regions miss out on tens of millions of pounds in local environmental, economic, and health benefits, which risks further widening the north-south divide.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This shaped federal regulation of both indoor and outdoor air pollution. A few months later, the New York Times reported on the study, bringing national attention to the issue, and an op-ed in the Yale Law Journal described indoor air pollution, as a “menace” that required “comprehensive federal legislation.”

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Health Pollution Fossil fuels Medicine 97

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Prime Minister Liz Truss is facing criticism over her support for new fossil fuel projects , including fracking , and plans to block solar farms and scrap environmental protections. Lord Wei is scheduled to speak on a panel called “Are Fossil Fuels Regaining Their Grounds? with the crowd shouting “B t!”.

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Global warming Fossil fuels Climate change Government 88

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Air pollution has been estimated to shorten life expectancy by three years globally, and one and a half in the UK. A group that once spoke for motorists seems to have become a mouthpiece for climate sceptics, conspiracy theorists and the worst elements of the fossil fuel industry.

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Electric vehicle Electricity Global warming Fossil fuels 98

Energy Innovation

MARCH 9, 2022

Oregon EPS findings also show public health benefits due to reductions in air pollution from burning fossil fuels, with approximately 200 avoided asthma attacks annually by 2050. NDC of 50 to 52 percent below 2010 emissions by 2030. [3] billion in damages annually by 2050. [2]. NDC Scenario.

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Policy Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor 98

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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Business Green

MAY 30, 2022

Based on its assessment of 87 publicly traded plastics companies across the EU's 27 member states, which make up 75 per cent of plastic production across the trading bloc, the think tank said the industry's economic turnover was already flatlining with zero growth recorded between 2010 and 2019. It is struggling to compete globally.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Fossil fuel use is a major contributor of GHGs and coal powered power plants especially harmful. Efforts to manage emissions demands major reductions in our use of fossil fuels. A 2019 study by the International Energy Agency (IEA) showed that fossil fuels accounted for almost 70 percent of global energy demand.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Range of targets on deforestation, habitats, oceans, plastic pollution adopted a decade ago have all been missed or are heading in wrong direction, UN report warns. Goals around plastic pollution and excess nutrients are also far off track.

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Biodiversity Plastics Pollution Climate change 96

The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

It helps China in its efforts to combat air pollution and curb its carbon footprint, aligning with global climate goals. The reduction in the use of fossil fuels also decreases the need for coal-fired power plants, which have been a major source of pollution and carbon emissions in China.

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Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 195

Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2021

As such, the crop yield potential for maize has decreased by six per cent, for wheat by three per cent, and for rice by nearly two per cent, compared to 1981-2010 levels. At best the trends in emissions, renewable energy and tackling pollution have improved only very slightly.

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Health Climate change Fossil fuels Carbon-negative 63

Low Impact

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Airbus studied hydrogen aircraft in the 2000s but shelved their plans in 2010 due to technical issues that are yet to be resolved. Hydrogen aircraft are part of a new economy of hydrogen aiming at replacing fossil fuels where electricity is not a possible alternative. But this is still highly hypothetical.

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Aviation Hydrogen Fossil fuels Demand 74

Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Fossil fuel use is a major contributor of GHGs and coal powered power plants in particular are incompatible with emissions reductions. Efforts to manage emissions demand that we see major reductions in our use of fossil fuels. percent per year since 2010, but in 2019 they grew by 2.6

Energy Monitor 52

Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Fossil fuels 52

Grist

MARCH 2, 2021

Companies are legally required to “plug” wells that they’re no longer using to extract oil and gas by pouring concrete into all their openings and cracks; this prevents them from leaking fossil fuels or harmful pollutants into the air and water sources nearby. By 2020, they had doubled.

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Ethics Fossil fuels Policy Law 145

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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Government Fossil fuels Energy Energy 94

Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2021

The first 11 months of 2020 were the hottest on record in the Northern Hemisphere, Europe experienced its warmest autumn ever, and the Arctic sea ice coverage was 16% lower than the 1981-2010 average. Reduce emissions and divest from fossil fuels. Keep the global temperature rise below 1.5°C Climate Action in Practice.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

As a result of this rapid expansion, overall emissions from Ireland’s agricultural sector, which had been declining slowly up until around 2010, rose by a massive 19.3 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.

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