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Revealed: Fossil Fuel Giants Are Using British Influencers to go Viral

DeSmogBlog

The campaigns have been deployed across a number of social media platforms and are part of a global effort to give “millennials a reason to connect emotionally” with oil and gas firms, and to tackle their perception as “the bad guys”. percent of their annual capital expenditures in low carbon technologies between 2010 and 2018.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year. billion U.S.

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After Ida, Toxic Smoke From Shell’s Norco Plant in Louisiana Creates Apocalyptic Landscape

DeSmogBlog

“Some of the area’s refineries started shutting down operations leading up to Harvey, including ExxonMobil, Petrobras, Shell, and Chevron Phillips Chemical,” DeSmog reported in 2017. Black carbon released by flares can be a powerful — if short-lived — greenhouse gas in its own right. Credit: Julie Dermansky. In 2018, the U.S.

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Air District Targets Southern California Logistics Industry

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

For example, the majority of natural gas-powered trucks operating in California today are running on renewable natural gas that can have a negative carbon intensity. Endnotes. [1] 3] Institute for Applied Economics — Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation, Goods on the Move! 20, 2019). [6]

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Air District Targets Southern California Logistics Industry

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

For example, the majority of natural gas-powered trucks operating in California today are running on renewable natural gas that can have a negative carbon intensity. Endnotes. [1] 3] Institute for Applied Economics — Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation, Goods on the Move! 20, 2019). [6]

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

AGreenLiving

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year. billion U.S.

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DOE Quietly Backs Plan for Carbon Capture Network Larger Than Entire Oil Pipeline System

DeSmogBlog

An organization run by former Obama-era Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, with the backing of the AFL-CIO, a federation of 56 labor unions, has created a policy “blueprint” to build a nationwide pipeline network capable of carrying a gigaton of captured carbon dioxide (CO2). Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data from 2019.