DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

During the leadership contest, Truss defended her tax plans by citing economist Patrick Minford, an IEA trustee who has institutional connections to the climate science-denying Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). In 2016, he blamed high energy prices on solar and wind power, saying on Twitter: “This is how UK climate policy works.

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Rinexii

JUNE 13, 2020

They enacted laws aligning themselves with the Paris Agreement in 2016 on an individual basis. We can also work as individuals, cities, states, and provinces to work on small scale progress. While the USA is set to formally withdraw from the Paris Agreement, Honolulu went in the opposite direction.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

But the incident pointed to a serious problem: Ruminant livestock, mostly cattle, account for 30 percent of all global methane emissions, pumping out 3 gigatons of the gas every year in their burps, farts, and manure. The need to rein in methane emissions is especially urgent in Cali­fornia, home to 1.8 million dairy cows.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The plaintiffs’ goal is to ask the Civil Court of Rome to declare that Italy is responsible for failing to tackle the climate emergency, and that its efforts to date are insufficient to meet the long-term temperature goal set by the Paris Agreement, which Italy ratified in 2016.

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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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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 25, 2023

Telles was joined on the stage by Joaquim Alvaro Pereira Leite, who served as an environment minister under Bolsonaro, and Antônio Cabrera, a former agriculture minister, known as a critic of laws protecting Indigenous territories from conversion into livestock ranches.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MARCH 4, 2019

SF6 is the most potent GHG, with a global warming potential (GWP) tens of thousands of times higher than carbon dioxide. Senate Bill 32 (2016) (SB 32) requires the State to reduce GHG emissions further to 40% below the 1990 level by 2030. CARB is accepting public comments through March 11, 2019.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MARCH 4, 2019

SF6 is the most potent GHG, with a global warming potential (GWP) tens of thousands of times higher than carbon dioxide. Senate Bill 32 (2016) (SB 32) requires the State to reduce GHG emissions further to 40% below the 1990 level by 2030. CARB is accepting public comments through March 11, 2019.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

It’s more about politics and policy that drives organizations and individuals to “attack the science and confuse the public,” as Michael Mann wrote in his 2016 book, “The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy,” co-written with cartoonist Tom Toles.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

However, Coca-Cola's 2019 sustainability report notes that globally, the firm's packaging refill and recovery rates have remained more or less stagnant since 2016, at around the 60 per cent mark. Noorlander says they are a good example of how the company will go "further and faster" where possible.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 11, 2015

Key California solar policies that helped drive the adoption of the technology are expected to sunset in the next few years, and uncertainty looms over whether the federal government will renew the 30 percent solar Investment Tax Credit for residential consumers, which is slated to expire at the end of 2016.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

After the Biden administration’s bipartisan infrastructure law was passed , the administration hailed the bill’s $4.7 The law’s current implementation also offers no assurances that the new jobs promised for oil and gas industry workers will materialize, although it is a stated goal of the law.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

He founded his law firm in Berlin in 1992. In 1995 he established the first German linked law firm in Poznan. His law firm focuses on business law, German and Polish geothermal law and has clients from Asia and Europe who invest in Germany or Poland. degrees Celsius of global warming. degrees Celsius.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

During this period, president Jimmy Carter supported the drive for new and improved environmental law which continued throughout his term up until 1981. A binding treaty on climate change was signed by 197 countries on April 22nd, 2016. This shows the political influence Earth Day was starting to gain globally.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

During this period, president Jimmy Carter supported the drive for new and improved environmental law which continued throughout his term up until 1981. A binding treaty on climate change was signed by 197 countries on April 22nd, 2016. This shows the political influence Earth Day was starting to gain globally.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Rees-Mogg was also the first cabinet minister to endorse the campaign to reverse the UK’s ban on fracking, spearheaded by the backbench Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG), the parliamentary wing of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). Penny Mordaunt – Leader of the Commons.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

As revealed by DeSmog this week, a firm owned by a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) – one of the UK’s principal climate science denial groups – also donated £20,000 in March to House of Commons Leader Penny Mordaunt and Conservative MP Liam Fox.

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

Photo Credit: REUTERS While some politicians and citizens continue to deny the existence of man-made global warming, the evidence supporting it continues to grow. Note: This graph illustrates the change in global surface temperature relative to 1951-1980 average temperatures. The year 2016 ranks as the warmest on record.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 30, 2020

On May 4, 2016 he visited Flint to see first-hand the devastation to the lives of Flint's citizens as a result of their lead-poisoned water supply. That visit resulted in the declaration of a federal state of emergency in January 2016 and contributed to a nationwide awareness of the city's critical situation.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

In October 2019, ahead of the general election, Truss received a £3,000 donation from Michael Hintze , an Australian hedge fund manager who has helped fund the Global Warming Policy Foundation. One said: “Clear evidence that the ice caps aren’t melting after all, to counter those doom-mongers and global warming fanatics”.

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Charged

APRIL 1, 2020

Upon Trump’s election in 2016, automakers were eager to see the standards watered down , but there’s a sense in the industry that the radical rollback the administration has delivered is more than they bargained for (or perhaps they were simply surprised at the strength of the support for the previous standards). The oil industry.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

They will be joined by David Frost, a Conservative peer and a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , the UK’s most prominent climate science denial group. In 2021, Prins argued that “net zero agenda hands geopolitical control to China,” because green policies “attempt to defy the laws of thermodynamics.”

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2020

It is that last goal - the promise of renewed and effective institutions - that is suddenly in sharp focus, as many of the world's leading economies endure a crash course in how vulnerable many of their institutions have become to global shocks. "One In Smith's view, many of the fundamental aims of SDG16 are being seriously challenged.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2020

Utilities will be front and center in America's efforts to combat global warming, from drastically cutting their own carbon emissions to assisting other sectors, like transportation, in cutting theirs. Today, no U.S. NV Energy also faced a revolt from its largest commercial client, MGM Resorts International.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

.” That apparent conservation activist was, in fact, an infamous climate change disinformation artist : Marc Morano, who’s done more than perhaps any other person to manufacture doubt about global warming. In 2016, it was picked up by Paul Driessen, head of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2021

The 17-month investigation closed in December 2016 due to lack of evidence, despite finding “reasonable grounds” to suspect wrongdoing. The infrastructure is not yet ready: the natural resources law has not yet been passed by the parliament, the Somali Petroleum Law is not operational, the National Resources Council isn’t established.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

But over the next few weeks or months, a methane fee has a real chance of being signed into law by the President. Scientists say urgent and deep cuts to greenhouse gas emissions are needed to slow the rate of global warming, and slashing methane offers one of the most immediate and impactful ways of achieving this.

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Grist

DECEMBER 10, 2020

We surely would be in a different place if COVID-19 and global warming slammed Americans of all races, regions, and classes at the same time, allowing no room for denial of their impact. Women listen to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump as he holds a campaign rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, on November 7, 2016.

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