DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2024

A new campaign is calling on MPs to break the fossil fuel sector’s “chokehold” on politics in a critical election year. The message forms the name of the campaign by Climate Resistance, a new collective that aims “to push the fossil fuel lobby out of Westminster and stop polluters from bankrolling political parties”.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The European Union has clearly laid out its position: Climate neutrality, the Council of the EU stated last month, will require “a global phase-out of unabated fossil fuels and a peak in their consumption in this decade.” But more stands between COP28 and concrete steps forward for our climate.

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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. million worth of stock in fossil fuel companies and mutual funds.

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Business Green

MAY 19, 2020

Campaigners hope precedent set by high profile Heathrow ruling could force government into a rethink over continued support for new fossil fuel projects. The NPS was originally established in 2011 and set out guidelines that require planning officials to favour new fossil fuel power plants to help guard against supply risks.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2024

Cox is running to be London Mayor in May for Nigel Farage’s right-wing party Reform UK, which calls for the UK’s net zero policies to be “scrapped”, and is funded by climate science deniers and fossil fuel interests. He runs the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Fair Fuel with anti-net zero Tory MP Craig Mackinlay.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2024

Of the 64 total board members at Omnicom Group , WPP , Interpublic Group (IPG), Publicis Groupe , Dentsu and Havas , 32 have significant experience in carbon-heavy sectors such as fossil fuels, fossil fuel financing, plastics, utilities, and aviation. Twenty-two are still serving in roles at such companies.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The articles have all been critical of current policies to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions and ensure the transition to renewable energy. The idea of “an energy transition that will dramatically reduce the use of fossil fuels and achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 is a fantasy”, wrote Blackmon on 16 August.

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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. The firm is not historically known for arguing against free speech rights.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2020

BEIS released a suite of documents regarding 'clean heating' policy last Tuesday including most importantly details of what will follow on from the RHI. This policy consultation comes in advance of a long awaited energy White Paper and in advance of a heat and buildings framework expected to be released later this year. Background.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Truss’s position on climate policy has deep roots in the libertarian movement. Her election was welcomed by Mark Littlewood, director of the influential anti-regulation think-tank the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), which has a record of opposing climate policies and received funding from oil giant BP for decades.

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 19, 2024

The International Energy Agency states that “Colombia has emerged as a leader in clean-energy-transition policy making and is an inspiring example of a fossil-fuel-producing country committed to climate action, based on a long-term decarbonization pathway and a policy of energy and economic diversification and a just transition.”

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Others have attacked climate policies and blamed high energy bills on renewable power. These climate-wrecking policies won’t help our efforts to tackle the cost of living scandal and the energy crisis, they’ll totally undermine them. BP did not respond to multiple requests for comment on whether the company still donates to the group.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 3, 2021

Annual figures show that renewable supply outpaced fossil fuels for the first time. Conversely, energy produced by fossil fuels fell to just 39.6%, marking the first time that clean energy has consistently outperformed legacy sources. The greatest successes.

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Grist

MARCH 8, 2021

It can’t be about one law or policy, it has to be put at the heart of all policy,” she said. Glen Peters of the Cicero center for climate research in Norway, who coauthored the paper, said structural changes were needed for economies around the world to move away from fossil fuels and other high-carbon activities.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

This net zero scepticism has quickly entered the upper echelons of Westminster politics, with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak saying that policies to achieve the UK’s legally binding climate targets shouldn’t “hassle” households and should be “proportionate and pragmatic”. The NZSG has extensive ties to the GWPF.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2022

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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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Global investment needs to rapidly shift away from fossil fuels to green energy throughout the 2020s, but bets against that happening look increasingly risky. From 2011 to 2015, for example, the low carbon to fossil fuel supply investment ratio was 0.5:1. In order to cap global warming at 1.5C BNEF compared 1.5C

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2022

Samuele Furfari , a former EU energy advisor, this month joined the “academic advisory council” of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) – the UK’s main climate science denial group, which has ties to several of the politicians who ran to replace Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Fred Singer.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The findings raise concerns over a potential pervasive conflict of interest on the boards at a time when the international insurance sector is under pressure to halt its support for the fossil fuel industry. “When insurers underwrite fossil fuels, they actually are underwriting climate change.”

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 9, 2023

Montana’s Republican-led state government has failed to stop a groundbreaking youth climate lawsuit against the state from going to trial, despite last-minute legislative moves that have altered Montana’s energy and environmental policies. Greg Gianforte signed it into law on May 10. On May 17, seven days after Gov.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2019

But storage's trajectory differs from the early growth dynamics of solar power in a crucial respect: It transcends the geographic boundaries, dictated by sunshine and policy, that constrained solar's rise. said Daniel Finn-Foley, energy storage director at Wood Mackenzie, speaking Tuesday at GTM's Energy Storage Summit in Denver.

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Business Green

JUNE 12, 2020

When some UK government institutions are acting decisively to prevent climate change, yet at the same time, UKEF are helping finance projects that rely on continued fossil fuel growth, it may create the perception that the right hand doesn't know what the left is doing," said Carbon Tracker's Head of Oil and Gas Andrew Grant. "At

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 28, 2023

The lonely well pad houses four natural gas wells that records show were initially drilled in 2011 but sat inactive for years after that. With a population of around 30,000, this county sits squarely in the center of the path the Marcellus Shale formation takes as it curves through the commonwealth.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2022

The report highlights how countries which opt to maintain or increase nuclear capacity can reduce reliance on imported fossil fuels while also helping to enable electricity systems to integrate higher shares of wind and solar power, which the IEA views as providing the backbone of the world's future energy system.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

Research by Greener Journey's argues an additional five million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions having been generated since the fuel duty freeze first took place in 2011.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

The gathering comes as Rishi Sunak’s government – which is already off track to meet the UK’s climate commitments – pursues new fossil fuel extraction, and prominent figures in the right-wing media continue to cast doubt over net zero policy. The group received more than £6.3 million ($7.9 Fred Singer , and received over £4.9

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Business Green

JANUARY 9, 2023

Hydrogen from low-emissions sources can play an important role in clean energy transitions with potential to replace fossil fuels in industries where few clean alternatives exist, like long-haul transport and fertilizer production," he said. These were closely followed by universities and public research institutes which generated 13.5

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

Previous reports indicate that Tufton Street groups have received substantial funds from organisations that support climate science denial in the past decade, with some donations provided directly by fossil fuel firms. The UK’s net zero policies have already faced criticism for failing to keep pace with the required speed of change.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Instead, they arose from well-funded industry campaigns creating what Oreskes and Conway have called a manufactured consensus “quasi-religious belief” in deregulated markets and an accompanying diehard opposition to governmental solutions to public policy problems. politics for the past 100-plus years. It has mostly remained there since.

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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. He believes that Checkoff dollars are empowering groups like NCBA and NPPC to take policy positions that hurt small producers.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Richard Glick, the sole Democrat on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, has some thoughts about what the agency in charge of key federal energy policies might be asked to accomplish under the incoming Biden administration. FERC’s orders on PJM and NYISO capacity markets need to be revisited. ” But U.S.

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Alternative jet fuels or so-called “Sustainable Aviation Fuels” (SAF) are liquid hydrocarbon fuels that can be used with existing aircraft in place of kerosene produced from fossil fuels. The argument is that blending these fuels with fossil fuels would thereby reduce emissions.

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2020

Every important policy decision should now have the future of our environment at the forefront of its considerations," Packham said. The Heathrow judgment hung on the government's national policy statement on airports. These have not been updated since they were published in 2011.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 29, 2020

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011. However, given the trends in recent years away from fossil fuels, it may be just a matter of time before NextEra, buoyed by its strong push into renewable energy, surpasses ExxonMobil permanently. Bush, has a spotty history as the “fuel of the future.” Presidential election.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 3, 2022

Since the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, the nuclear power generation fleet has had its output been effectively mothballed with output below 20% of earlier levels. Japan’s electricity sector is facing the triple challenges in the energy transition of energy security, cost and decarbonisation , writes James Tedd from GridBeyond.

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Business Green

MAY 24, 2022

The government has for weeks insisted it is against a windfall tax on the record profits accrued by oil and gas companies as a result of the soaring energy prices triggered by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, contending the policy is inherently "unconservative" and could disenctivise infrastructure investment in the UK.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 23, 2019

This brief summarizes some of the key facts pertaining to the policy and the effect it has had on emissions, consumer choice, jobs and the economy. Carbon pricing is just one part of a whole suite of policies that are helping us reach our emissions targets, but as is evidenced in B.C., it is an extremely effective one.

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