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Liz Truss Book Calls for Climate Laws to be Abolished and Boasts of Effort to Cancel UK COP Summit

DeSmogBlog

and EU to drop their landmark climate change laws, spreads falsehoods about green policies, and fondly recalls an attempt to cancel a major climate conference. government to spur green technology investment. The UK government has given £20 billion more in support to fossil fuel producers than renewables companies since 2015.

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Are lawyers and accountants doing enough on climate change?

GreenBiz

Exhibit A: law firms. According to a new report from Law Students for Climate Accountability, most of the top 100 law firms in the United States "provide far more support to clients driving the climate crisis than clients addressing it." The study analyzed litigation, transactional and lobbying work conducted from 2015 to 2019.

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California Pension Funds Have Billions Invested in Fossil Fuel Companies Named in State’s Lawsuit

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billion invested in Chevron, BP, ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, and Shell, a new analysis from Stand.earth and Climate Safe Pensions Network has found. CalPERS and CalSTRS defend their fossil fuel investments. degrees C, the goal established in the 2015 Paris Agreement. billion over the past decade on their fossil fuel investments.

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ComEd’s Favorable Regulatory Treatment for Grid Investments Comes Under Fire

GreenTechMedia

For the past nine years, Chicago-based utility ComEd has earned excessive profits from a regulatory structure set in place by a 2011 state law whose passage has been linked to a bribery scandal that’s embroiled key state lawmakers and ComEd’s former CEO. billion smart grid investment plan that included a 4.2-million

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Banks Due At UK’s ‘Green’ Investment Summit ‘Financed £700 Billion in Fossil Fuels Since Paris Agreement’

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Bank bosses due to attend a green investment summit tomorrow head institutions which have provided over £700 billion of financing for the fossil fuel industry since the 2015 Paris Agreement, including £129 billion in 2020 alone. . We are the first major economy to pass new laws for net zero emissions by 2050. billion to £3.5

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U.S. Crude Oil Export Surged to New Record in 2023

R-Squared Energy

refiners had a significant demand for crude oil, but they had spent decades investing billions of dollars into processing heavy, sour crude oil. In December 2015 they got their wish when President Obama signed into law a $1.15 As the shale oil boom rapidly expanded U.S. Annual U.S. Crude Oil Exports 1920-2023.

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BP and Shell ‘Shaped’ UK Carbon Tax Proposals, Private Emails Show

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Policy Exchange has been credited by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for helping to draft laws that have cracked down on climate protests, and has in the past received money from the oil and gas major ExxonMobil. The think tank would go on to author a report in 2019 that proposed tough new policing laws to crackdown on climate protestors.

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