DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

Between 1998 and 2014, ExxonMobil and its foundation gave more than half a million dollars to the committee, which did not respond to a request for comment. He is a retired real-estate investor who has been involved in an impressive array of local energy fights over the past 15 years. But at the local level, challenges are mounting.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2021

Project Canary offers to place devices it calls “ canaries ” — sensors that can monitor for methane and other pollutants like volatile organic compounds (VOC) — at the corners of a well site, so that buyers aren’t reliant on self-reported data from oil and gas drillers. ESG’s influence isn’t just limited to investors or Wall Street.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

“Even if these projects were having the carbon benefits that they claim to, which is questionable, they’re still having negative impacts on the local community,” said Kimberly Terrell, a research scientist at Tulane University’s Environmental Law Clinic. Credit: Beyond Plastics One such community is Convent, a majority Black town in St.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2021

All four have been roundly panned by government agencies, environmental groups, tribal governments, Native American organizations and the public at large. Whichever update the BLM and BIA choose will have to take account of an array of competing goals. Bureau of Indian Affairs together released a set of four update possibilities.

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