GreenBiz

JUNE 2, 2021

That's one takeaway from the landmark ruling last week by a three-judge panel in the Netherlands ordering Royal Dutch Shell to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 45 percent compared to 2019 levels by the end of 2030. It’s a goal that moves the oil company further, faster than it previously had deemed prudent or possible.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The case, brought by Attorney General (now Governor-elect) Maura Healey in October 2019 , targets ExxonMobil with claims of misleading consumers and investors about the climate risks of its products and the climate risks facing the company’s business. Discovery in the case is currently underway.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2021

That's one takeaway from the landmark ruling last week by a three-judge panel in the Netherlands ordering Royal Dutch Shell to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 45 per cent compared to 2019 levels by the end of 2030. It's a goal that moves the oil company further, faster than it previously had deemed prudent or possible.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

based Center for International Environmental Law has reported. Some scientists believed the build-up of atmospheric CO2 could trigger enough heating to result in a “complete melting of Arctic sea ice,” “widespread disruption of agriculture,” and sea level rise of “more than twenty feet.”

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Exxon, for example, designed oil platforms to accommodate more rapid sea level rise, even as the company publicly denied that climate change was occurring. Almost no one outside of a few law firms, trade groups, and congressional staff in Washington, DC, knows what the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is or does.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 2, 2021

That’s one takeaway from the landmark ruling last week by a three-judge panel in the Netherlands ordering Royal Dutch Shell to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 45 percent compared to 2019 levels by the end of 2030. It’s a goal that moves the oil company further, faster than it previously had deemed prudent or possible.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

And she has a more direct tie to the GWPF, too: her leadership bid was partly funded by a £10,000 donation from a company owned by Terence Mordaunt, who chaired the charity between 2019 and 2021. Ahead of the 2019 election, she received a £3,000 donation from GWPF donor Michael Hintze. Michael Ellis – Attorney General.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 11, 2019

Other studies tell us that sea level rise is going to be worse than we thought, Antarctica is melting three times faster than a decade ago, and Greenland is losing ice quickly as well. Brown also signed aggressive new laws committing to carbon-free electricity statewide by 2045 and requiring solar on all new homes.

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