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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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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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Given the challenges of energy transition, Europe is optimally positioned to lead this movement by implementing political and economic policies that will incentivize oil and gas companies to leave fossil fuels behind and make the transition to deep geothermal. He founded his law firm in Berlin in 1992. degrees Celsius.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

Political Shifts: Earth Day Gains Momentum Despite Political Turbulence. During this period, president Jimmy Carter supported the drive for new and improved environmental law which continued throughout his term up until 1981. This was no doubt a political win for Earth Day. struggled under these political constraints.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

Political Shifts: Earth Day Gains Momentum Despite Political Turbulence. During this period, president Jimmy Carter supported the drive for new and improved environmental law which continued throughout his term up until 1981. This was no doubt a political win for Earth Day. struggled under these political constraints.

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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. ’ 2022 report into think tanks. Britain is now their laboratory.”

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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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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). “One The oil industry.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

The NatCon conference is being organised by the US-based think tank the Edmund Burke Foundation (EBF) and intends to catalyse a “revival” of a political philosophy based on “national identity and culture” alongside “god and country”. It’s time to kick toxic fossil fuel interests out of politics once and for all.”

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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 With bribery, there's widespread data gaps all around the world," says Jenkins.

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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. Berkshire Hathaway: No two regions the same. Credit: PacifiCorp). million customers.

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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

After decades of political unrest, a relative emerging peace had emboldened the government to put its oil up for sale. Any internal disputes over resource sharing could spell disaster in Somalia, a politically fractured country recovering from decades of war. The two companies vanished from Mogadishu. Credit: Twitter/Asair Firin.

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Grist

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The spectacle of waiting for so many white people to collectively see the cost of their political choices to themselves is an expedient way to go mad. 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.

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