DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2022

Once completed, the Trans Mountain Expansion will allow more responsibly-produced Canadian oil to reach key markets in Asia and beyond,” claimed one ad from the Canadian Energy Centre, which according to Facebook analytics reached an estimated audience size of over one million people. 350 million (C $463 million) for energy research.”.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 30, 2021

oil refineries released the potent carcinogen benzene in 2020 at levels high enough to require action under federal law, the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) reported this week. These are exactly the places where people are already struggling with pre-existing health conditions that make them more vulnerable to pollutants like benzene.”.

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Front And Centered

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

That includes building a just and regenerative energy system that puts the health and well-being of current and future generations first at every stage of the energy process, from generating power to lighting and heating our homes. It is indisputable that taking action now is far less costly than putting it off.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2024

The Carbon Majors research shows us exactly who is responsible for the lethal heat, extreme weather, and air pollution that is threatening lives and wreaking havoc on our oceans and forests,” said Tzeporah Berman, international program director at the grassroots environmental organization Stand.earth, in a press release.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

A key area where businesses can focus their carbon reduction efforts is manufacturing processes, both in terms of energy usage and the carbon footprint of raw materials. Beyond the issue of pollution, the production of virgin hydrocarbon-based polymers is carbon-intensive due to the extraction and refining of crude oil.

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Front And Centered

MAY 17, 2019

It allowed the state to “remedy discrimination against, or under-representations of, disadvantaged groups as documented in a valid disparity study or proven court of law.” This affects not only issues like education, but the states policies and resource allocations related to issues like climate, energy and the environment.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 5, 2022

One of its core findings is that major transitions in the energy industry will be key to mitigating the climate crisis. One of the report’s key findings is that limiting global warming will require major transitions in the energy sector. There are also options for established, rapidly growing and new cities. “We Emissions growth rates.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 21, 2023

James Parish Council steered polluting facilities into Black neighborhoods along the Mississippi River. As a result, Black residents there are forced to breathe in more pollution and face a higher risk of related health problems, according to the suit filed by Inclusive Louisiana, Mount Triumph Baptist Church, and RISE St.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

It was announced on Wednesday (31 January) that Deltic Energy had been awarded the new licences in the latest North Sea oil and gas licensing round. The Guardian and the Good Law Project also revealed today that EnQuest Heather, a subsidiary of EnQuest, had been awarded a new oil and gas licence. percent (£4.5

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 24, 2024

The GWPF’s director Benny Peiser has claimed that it would be “extraordinary anyone should think there is a climate crisis”, while the group has also expressed the view that carbon dioxide has been mis-characterised as pollution, when in fact it is a “benefit to the planet”. In total, the group has earned £2.8 million since September 2015.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Karine Kleinhaus and Andrew Howell, CFA Oil and gas companies, federal agencies, and ambitious start-ups are coming together around innovation in geothermal energy that could give it a foundational role in the emerging clean power grid. Department of Energy estimates that EGS could help propel geothermal from its 0.4% Recent U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

As co-founder of the community group Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living, Mayfield has spent years fighting to protect her majority Black and low-income city from the pollution spewed by the nearby Covanta waste-to-energy facility — the country’s largest waste incinerator. eastern seaboard, which could reverse the decline.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

And if these funders refuse to stop their polluting investments, the movement aims to hold them accountable through strategies such as direct action and litigation. The new lawsuit against BNP Paribas, filed February 23 in the Paris Judicial Court, claims that the French bank is in breach of France’s “duty of vigilance” law.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2024

One of the major backers of broadcaster GB News is now employing a leading right-wing lobbying company that has ties to polluting interests. Crosby ran four Conservative Party election campaigns between 2005 and 2017, and was involved in the 2019 campaign. This raises a number of interesting political questions.”

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Green Living Guy

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

February 19, 2019 at 6AM ET, Washington, DC – A new report from the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) examines the health impacts associated with plastic pollution crisis. Press Statement, For Immediate Release. That’s at every stage of their supply chain and lifecycle.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 26, 2020

Despite its long-time leadership in wind and solar energy, Germany still had 44 gigawatts of coal plants running at the end of 2019, and parts of the country remain economically reliant on coal. The process will compensate shuttering lignite, or "brown coal," plants, which are the most heavily polluting, via a flat rate.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2024

During the year ending March 2023, the IEA appeared in the media on 5,265 occasions, a figure 43 percent higher than its previous peak in 2019. Those suffering during the cost of living crisis have seen their energy bills increase by nearly £2.5 Claire Fox and the GWPF were approached for comment.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 5, 2021

Based in a major coal-mining district an hour’s drive southwest of Sofia, this facility is one of more than a dozen mines, power plants, and heating companies believed to be controlled by energy tycoon Hristo Kovachki. in 2019, and 76.2 In Brikel, which was burning lignite, the emissions factor was given as 90.5 for 2018, 79.5

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Charged

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

We expect to begin accepting bitcoin as a form of payment for our products in the near future, subject to applicable laws and initially on a limited basis, which we may or may not liquidate upon receipt,” the company said in its recent annual report. TWh as of 2019, equal to that of Belgium. Now Tesla has purchased $1.5

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 5, 2021

In 2016, the Illinois Legislature passed the groundbreaking Future Energy Jobs Act (FEJA) with bipartisan support. The legislation includes strategies to make solar energy more accessible to low and moderate income communities through community solar projects, rooftop solar, and brownfield solar. Originally published on ILSR.org.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 7, 2021

Kowalski, Energy News Network. The May 5 analysis comes from Energy Innovation: Policy & Technology, based in San Francisco. The work highlights the accelerating pace of the clean energy transition, even aside from the social costs of coal plant pollution. by Kathiann M. Roughly four-fifths of U.S. share of total U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 2, 2024

While farmers have protested against an anticipated surge in bureaucracy from proposed green laws, complaints also focused on low prices at the farm gate and lack of protection against increasingly extreme weather. In 2019, van Keimpema warned of a “civil war” between farmers and the Dutch government over environmental measures.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 29, 2021

Launched in 2019, the deal embraces virtually every policy area. It proposes to make Europe the first continent to reach carbon neutrality by 2050 and the first to deliver a climate law with binding emissions targets. 3) It’s funding big polluters. The fossil fuel industry spent nearly €60m in 2019 lobbying for hydrogen.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 7, 2021

Kowalski, Energy News Network. The May 5 analysis comes from Energy Innovation: Policy & Technology, based in San Francisco. The work highlights the accelerating pace of the clean energy transition, even aside from the social costs of coal plant pollution. by Kathiann M. Roughly four-fifths of U.S. share of total U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Greenpeace Italy and Re:Common have alleged in their climate lawsuit — Italy’s first — that despite knowing at least as early as 1970 that burning fossil fuels posed a serious climate risk, Eni went on to promote “natural” –- or methane – gas as a safe energy source for decades. An Eni spokesperson rejected this characterization. “We

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

This comes as major polluters are increasingly deploying digital tactics to detract from negative headlines about their record profits and decades-long contribution to climate change. percent of total energy consumption in 2050. The former BBC presenter has also promoted the series on his personal social media channels.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

But a public auction for offshore blocks off the coast of Buenos Aires, held in 2019, is viewed by the government and the handful of oil companies as a potential turning point. The 2019 auction was the first offshore offering in more than 20 years, and yielded $720 million in bids from 13 companies. “The The move was highly unpopular.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

James, with the help of Tulane’s law clinic, fought to protect their constitutional right to protest in Gramercy. The law is on our side,” Lavigne told me. Robert Taylor and Sharon Lavigne with Pat Bryant protesting in front of the Louisiana State Capitol on June 3, 2019. A few days later, RISE St. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Initially filed in 2019 by 15 young Canadians, La Rose v. Canada is one of the world’s largest emitters of climate pollution, and ranks as the fourth biggest producer of oil and sixth biggest fossil gas extractor. She said the legal team plans to file the amended complaint early next year.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 1, 2024

We call for robust legislation, an end to greenwashing, and strict accountability for these major polluters.” In 2019, the institute coordinated efforts to discredit the Eat-Lancet report – a landmark study from 37 nutrition, environmental and farming experts, which recommended halving meat and dairy production.

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Americans weighed-in on clean energy, fossil fuels and wildlife. Issue 1 referendum in Columbus, Ohio asked the electorate in that state to vote on whether they want to the city to run on 100% renewable energy by 2022. State law requires that constitutional amendments be passed in two consecutive even-numbered election years.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 3, 2023

This is despite the government’s 2021 Decarbonising Transport Plan , which lauded the Labour mayor’s efforts on air pollution for its “significant impact on air quality” and on “reducing the number of older, more polluting vehicles that enter London’s central zone.” Under the scheme, a daily charge of £12.50 million in April.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 15, 2022

Today, March 15, ClientEarth announced it was taking legal action against energy giant Shell’s board of directors, arguing that their failure to properly prepare the company for net zero carbon emissions breaches their legal duties. Find out how this ground-breaking case works: [link] — ClientEarth (@ClientEarth) March 15, 2022.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

But gas grid executives gathered in Berlin this week to lay out a survival strategy: Retool their infrastructure to turn clean-burning hydrogen into the engine of Germany’s energy transition. It’s quite simple,” said Andreae, who served as a Green Party member of parliament from 2002-2019.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 12, 2021

According to campaigners, BP received a net payment of £675 million between 2015-2019 from the UK government after tax, while the UK reportedly paid Shell £70 million during that time. You have already taken the bold step of ending taxpayer support for fossil fuel projects overseas,” it reads. Now, you must do the same at home.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JULY 27, 2020

Yesterday, the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Municipal Law Unit struck down the first such municipal fossil fuel ban to come across its desk as inconsistent with the general laws of the Commonwealth. The Attorney General took care to distinguish the legal validity of the by-law from the laudable policy goals it sought to further.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The report refers to this gap between PR and real climate commitments as “climate-washing,” and gives the example of fossil fuel companies and major polluters that adopt communication strategies to create the perception that their activities are part of the solution to climate change, rather than the primary cause. Pushing for Prevention.

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