DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2022

The organization that paid for the ad, and dozens of similar Facebook ads so far in 2022, was set up to spread pro-oil propaganda on behalf of the Alberta government. To top it all off, funding for the Canadian Energy Centre comes directly from the province’s tax on industrial polluters.

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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.” By respecting communities’ ability to thrive in place, and relationships to place, we can reduce pollution and build resilience. A Regenerative Economy.

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Grist

MARCH 8, 2024

“Last year was a really pivotal year in terms of getting past the industry’s big push and their delay tactics,” said Alyssa Johl, vice president for the legal program at the Center for Climate Integrity, an environmental advocacy organization that provides support for these cases. So far, this approach has seen some modest success.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 5, 2021

Under the Emissions Trading System (ETS) all major polluters must submit an annual report declaring how much carbon dioxide they emitted that year. in 2019, and 76.2 Three years later, Bulgaria passed new laws restricting offshore ownership. In Brikel, which was burning lignite, the emissions factor was given as 90.5

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

James’ march was set to take place, Lavigne learned that the town required her organization to post a $10,000 bond to obtain a permit for the march, money the group didn’t have access to on short notice. James, with the help of Tulane’s law clinic, fought to protect their constitutional right to protest in Gramercy.

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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

AUGUST 23, 2023

Under Italian law, a request for mediation is a mandatory prerequisite for filing a defamation lawsuit. Total is seeking a judicial ruling that would force the organizations to withdraw their report and all references to it, with a penalty of 2,000 euros (around $2,200) per day for every day the materials remain publicly available.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

In France, three non-governmental organizations sued the oil company Total over alleged “inadequate” environmental and human rights assessments of its oil project in Uganda and Tanzania. Climate-washing frames climate litigation in a new way, and it may be useful to keep polluters in check in relation to climate goals.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 1, 2024

We call for robust legislation, an end to greenwashing, and strict accountability for these major polluters.” The advert was produced by CleanFoodFacts.com, a site run by the Center for Organization Research and Education (CORE) – a network established by veteran industry lobbyist Richard Berman.

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Front And Centered

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Many of the policy recommendations were sculpted from the stories gathered at the ‘community conversations’ we hosted – in person and then virtually – with ten different Front & Centered member organizations across the state. These are just snippets of the recommendations. Read the full report to go deeper!

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 5, 2021

As of 2019, FEJA generated 200 megawatts of community solar , further advancing the state’s success in renewable energy implementation. To direct funds toward communities with historical pollution and energy burdens, Illinois Solar for All has developed an EJScreen tool to evaluate local conditions. Increasing Access for All.

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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. It also appears that major polluters have been using influential environmentalists to bolster their social media campaigns.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 17, 2020

While many companies have stepped up in some fashion to address the urgency of the moment, few have done so in ways that could help advance the kinds of long-term structural changes needed to ensure that the organization's lofty statement has enduring impact. Companies that pollute their local communities risk poisoning their customers.

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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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Grist

MARCH 2, 2021

When Weatherly Oil and Gas filed for bankruptcy in February 2019, the company was walking away from several hundred Texas wells. The volatility of the oil market hasn’t helped: Price fluctuations and a long-term market slump caused a spike in bankruptcies in 2019, and sagging demand due to the pandemic accelerated the pace.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 18, 2021

If built, the Formosa plant would pump out up to 800 tons of toxic air pollutants each year into communities that have long-experienced the impacts of living near plastic manufacturing, oil refining, and other petrochemical projects. Wanhua ultimately pulled out from that project in September 2019. It would also generate 13.6

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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.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The complexity of tracking and tracing all these ingredients can obscure detrimental environmental and social impacts, from pollution to bribery to slavery. First and foremost, that's our primary platform," Renfrew told me during an on-stage interview in 2019. Calder returned to Jharkhand in November 2019 to see how things were going.

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Econaur

APRIL 22, 2020

o C, according to the United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP)Emission Gap Report 2019. Outraged by oil spills, smog and polluted rivers, 20 million people took to the streets, protesting what they recognized as an environmental crisis. By the end of 2020, global CO 2 emissions need to have dropped by 7.6%

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Bespectacled, tall, and barrel-chested, with blonde hair and a beard punctuated by gray, Cole stood confidently before a classroom of conference attendees at a University of Oregon environmental law symposium in 2008, less than a year before his death. Abascal gave Cole a desk and a phone, and Cole got to work. Early Influences.

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Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

By the second day, the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department and the county’s Air Pollution Control District had issued an air-quality warning, and local libraries and nonprofits urged residents to protect themselves from the harmful smoke and ash, offering free N95 respirator masks. According to Emily Williams, a Ph.D.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In 2019, a mere 16% of executives stated sustainability as a built-in business function. The majority (50%) of organizations thought sustainability was “ fairly well ” integrated, as opposed to an ideal “ extremely well ” target. There’s been a 38-fold increase in sustainability-related laws and regulations since 1972.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 15, 2022

The environmental law non-governmental organization, which has bought shares in Shell, claims the company’s 13 executive and non-executive directors failed to adopt and implement a climate strategy that truly aligns with the Paris Agreement and says this is a breach of their legal duties under the UK Companies Act.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

square kilometers in the manganese nodule field was physically disturbed, re-suspending an estimated 2 to 3 tonnes of sedimentary organic carbon into the water. But who benefits and how from this new rush to seabed mining remains unclear,” said Kristina Gjerde, high seas policy advisor for the IUCN Global Marine Program.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

India Gate, New Delhi: Residents of the city face pollution levels with a health impact estimated to be equivalent to smoking more than two packs of cigarettes a day (image credit: Amit kg / Shutterstock.com). Centuries on, sources of airborne pollution are only becoming more numerous and wide ranging.

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Front And Centered

AUGUST 19, 2019

Moreover, thanks to planned solar projects and new state laws encouraging clean energy development, the industry is poised to grow even further. That’s the thrust of the Oregon and Washington Solar Workforce Diversity Report 2019 , released earlier this summer by the Solar Foundation. Why is a diverse solar workforce important?

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Business Green

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Danny Kennedy, the charismatic Aussie behind some early efforts to popularize cleantech and CEO of New Energy Nexus , an organization that supports clean-energy entrepreneurs around the world, was more bullish. BP's recent energy outlook report said oil demand may never fully return, which would mean we passed peak oil in 2019.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

In 2019, the Dutch Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling siding with the Urgenda Foundation, an environmental group, and ordered the Dutch government to adopt more ambitious targets for reducing emissions. Burning methane, the main component of natural gas, emits considerably less air pollution and CO2 than coal or oil.

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E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

An expanded clean energy economy is necessary to achieve the goals outlined in the Colorado GHG Pollution Reduction Roadmap. in 2018 and 2019. Across community colleges, state universities, technical schools, and public organizations, there is an uneven distribution of training programs as well as other barriers to entry.

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Grist

JULY 19, 2019

The organization identified Mauna Kea as a potential location for its proposed Thirty Meter Telescope back in 2009. On Wednesday, law enforcement in riot gear came to the Mauna Kea protest site and arrested 33 elders who described themselves as the “first line of defense.”

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

The United States government has done little to curb this potent pollution, which makes up 36 percent of the country’s methane emissions. Food and Agriculture Organization notes, if aquaculturists remove rocks or native sea grasses to plant massive seaweed farms, they could disrupt ecosystems and even alter coastal currents.

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GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

The facts have emerged through decades of publications that document the disproportionate risk of Black, Latino, Asian and Native American populations from pollution sources (proximity to manufacturing, storage, processing and waste management facilities, highways, landfills, contaminated water bodies and other dispersed sources).

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

. “There’s a lot of beautiful things that happen out of [Richmond],” says Khamphanthong, a community organizer with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network whose family emigrated from Laos in the 1980s. In their eyes, it doesn’t do enough to address climate change and allows emitters to continue polluting the air in the meantime.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

At a heated April meeting of this program’s oversight commission , Commissioner David Levy demanded to know why the Freshwater City disposal well was plugged before actively polluting oil and gas wells. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law signed this past November set aside $4.7 Credit: Julie Dermansky. A Trip to Freshwater City.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

If successful, their lawsuit could spur Italy to make major cuts in climate pollution by 2030. Climate litigation is a formidable tool to put pressure on the State and ask to strengthen its efforts in the climate fight,” said Marica Di Pierri, spokesperson for A Sud, the organization bringing the lawsuit.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 26, 2021

The state has long suffered from the roller coaster cycles of extractive industry, according to James Jimenez, executive director of New Mexico Voices for Children, a health, education, and economic advocacy organization. “We’ve NMOGA did not respond to a request for comment. Well pad near Roswell, NM. Credit: BLM. (CC CC BY 2.0).

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 26, 2022

million in compensation for the killing of 9 Nigerian activists who fought against widespread oil pollution in the Niger Delta during the turbulent 1990s. At the time, Stone’s law firm, Cullinan & Associates, represented local fishing and ski boat organizations as part of public consultations over whether license should be granted.

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