DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Bank bosses due to attend a green investment summit tomorrow head institutions which have provided over £700 billion of financing for the fossil fuel industry since the 2015 Paris Agreement, including £129 billion in 2020 alone. . JPMorgan financed £230 billion in fossil fuels between 2016 and 2020. billion in 2020.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 30, 2024

They claimed that the climate emergency is simply “scaremongering”, that “net zero is doing enormous damage to the economy”, and that “the lights will go out” if we divest from fossil fuels. GB News has been a leading source of climate science denial since its launch in June 2021. GB News co-owner Paul Marshall had £1.8

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Nearly two thirds of social media posts put out by six major European fossil fuel and energy companies since the end of 2019 present a “green” image of the company, despite the majority of their business activity remaining in fossil fuels, reveals new analysis by Desmog.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

I live in South Louisiana on the front lines of the climate crisis and cover the fossil fuel industry and impacts related to the warming planet, so facing gaslighting is a regular occurrence for me. So it resonated with me that Merriam-Webster dictionary chose “gaslighting” as the word of the year.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2024

Fossil fuel giants BP and Shell were given “ample opportunity” to privately influence proposals for taxing oil and gas companies that were later backed by the government, new documents reveal. The emails were among hundreds of documents released by a powerful committee of U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 23, 2022

New large-scale fossil fuel projects have become mostly unworkable in the Pacific Northwest, with dozens canceled over the past decade due to fierce opposition from local communities. A few high-profile defeats for the fossil fuel industry stand out. September, 2021. But the industry’s blitz is not yet over.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Fossil fuels are everywhere at this COP except in the decisions being negotiated by governments,” Nikki Reisch, the director of climate and energy at the Center for International Environmental Law, wrote to DeSmog from Glasgow. in reach — Alok Sharma (@AlokSharma_RDG) October 23, 2021.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 17, 2022

It was the third time the international body reproached the Canadian federal and provincial governments for their treatment of Indigenous communities in relation to the construction of the two fossil fuel projects. In short, the clans that oppose Coastal GasLink say that both Indigenous and Canadian law are on their side.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 26, 2021

Inadequate bonding requirements means there is a serious gap in available funding to properly clean up after the fossil fuel industry. link] via @ABC — NM State Land Office (@NMLandOffice) May 20, 2021. nmpol #nmleg — New Mexico Oil & Gas (@NMOilAndGas) May 12, 2021. Well pad near Roswell, NM. CC BY 2.0).

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JULY 27, 2020

The trend of municipalities enacting fossil fuel bans, driven by a desire to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat climate change, has spread across California and a few other states and has now reached the east coast. If we were permitted to base our determination on policy considerations, we would approve the by-law.

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Charged

JULY 9, 2023

Barnard finds the latest version (June 2023) of the Hydrogen Strategy to be an improvement over the first draft, but writes that it still seems to be aimed more at supporting the fossil fuel industry than optimizing the use of hydrogen technology to reduce emissions. Barnard isn’t having any.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 9, 2021

Exxon is now putting Guyana at the heart of its plans to press on hunting for new fossil fuel supplies despite the climate crisis. " [link] pic.twitter.com/ZInlFbwAzB — cecaribbean (@cecaribbean) June 8, 2021. The drilling takes aim at a 9 billion-barrel oilfield recently discovered in the waters off Guyana.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

According to an analysis released today by InfluenceMap, over 80 percent of corporate policy engagement on CCS between 2021 and 2023 does not meet the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s science-based policy guidance, which includes recommended methods for limiting warming to 1.5°Celsius

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Several California municipalities are merging their climate deception litigation with the state’s climate case, to jointly pursue a super-sized lawsuit against the fossil fuel industry, according to recent court filings. municipalities suing the fossil fuel industry. Stephen Conn , CC BY-NC 2.0 Credit: Staff Sgt.

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Grist

MARCH 8, 2024

It’s been six years since cities in California started the trend of taking Big Oil to court for deceiving the public about the consequences of burning fossil fuels. The long delays might have strengthened the legal arguments against fossil fuel companies. Emissions that originated in Delaware, however, were fair game.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

None of this equates with actual action to reduce emissions or tackle inequality, but it’s clearly not fringe anymore (which fossil fuel giant ExxonMobil found out when activist investors forced it to take on sustainability-friendly board members). The Big Stories of 2021. To me, we’ve reached the end of the beginning.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

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. Jolyon Maugham, executive director of the Good Law Project told DeSmog that: “The Electoral Commission records these contributions as donations to the Conservative Party.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

European law-makers are due to vote on a revised renewable energy directive next week, part of the EU’s Green New Deal to slash carbon emissions by 55 percent by 2030. The post Biomass Lobby Makes ‘False’ Claims to Sway EU Law-makers appeared first on DeSmog.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2024

Now, the Dutch NGO that successfully sued Shell over its climate plans is taking those financial backers to court in a case that could help reverse the global banking sector’s support of fossil fuel firms and their activities. billion Euros in bonds to the fossil fuel industry, Milieudefensie says. “As

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Charged

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

A new report from clean transport consultancy CALSTART found that there are some 5,480 full-size zero-emission buses in operation in the US—an increase of 66 percent since 2021—and another 859 in Canada. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which became law in November of 2021, has made historic levels of funding available.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The data also showed that only in Texas were there sites with chronic leaks – suggesting New Mexico’s landmark methane-reducing regulations, introduced in 2021, were having the intended effect. Kayrros added that rapid cuts in methane emissions from fossil fuels could lead to a reduction of 0.1°C

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Tue, 02/09/2021 - 02:00. Slow-to-change investors and greenwashers in the business community will lose their cover to continue propping up the fossil fuel economy. If successfully on stream by summer 2021 as its designers hope, the service should drive not only increased transparency but also increased accountability.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The EIA released the International Energy Outlook 2021 on Wednesday , which makes assumptions based on U.S. laws and regulations as of May 2021, and incorporates existing international laws. Energy Information Administration modeling forecasts increasing global energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions through 2050.

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Front And Centered

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The people of Washington state, and Black, Indigenous, and people of color in particular, are facing tremendous challenges as we enter the 2021 legislative session to survive, let alone to thrive. We can make permanent, temporary measures to keep people’s homes connected to electricity, even as we transition off fossil fuels.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2021

Investment in clean energy from fossil fuel majors saw a marked uptick during the pandemic in 2020, research suggests. Well, there are a growing signs that some may be at least starting to quietly plot their future beyond fossil fuels. per cent of their total capital expenditure in 2020.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 2, 2024

The county argues oil companies’ “campaigns to deceive and mislead the public about the damaging nature of their fossil fuel products” delayed climate action for decades, robbing communities of precious time to mitigate the climate-driven disasters they now face.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2024

In the past, CT Group has lobbied for fossil fuel interests across the globe, working for the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association, and the mining giant BHP. Legatum has sunk tens of millions into GB News since its launch in June 2021, having invested at least £50 million in two funding rounds.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 29, 2022

The dialogues were launched in 2021 and continue today in Czechia and in France on the 5 th of April. In 2021 ten dialogues took place in ten different European countries. This reflects the theme from 2021 and means that the European Green Deal and the REPowerEU plan will be the discussions’ main focus.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 19, 2024

Smith, a well-known climate change denier and fossil fuel sector advocater , nonetheless announced a series of new regulations critics say would ban wind turbines from much of the southern half of the province. Renewable energy is far less damaging to the environment and wildlife than fossil fuels,” said Luo.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 25, 2023

Hoboken is making this claim against fossil fuel companies under the state-level equivalent of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, a federal law used successfully to prosecute organized crime groups such as the Mafia starting in the 1970s and later the tobacco industry. Credit: U.S.

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Front And Centered

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Washington passed 100% clean electricity into law earlier this year, and with public input government agencies are currently drafting rules to guide utilities on how to comply with the law by phasing out fossil fuel emissions and integrating equity in their service models. Directs Dept.

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2023

The regulation, which will come into force in 20 days' time, strengthens the interim 2030 emissions reduction target automakers in the EU have to meet, as well as enshrines the 2035 phase-out date into law.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

From repeated calls for a fossil fuel “phase out” to campaigns to regulate the oil and gas industry, pressure against Big Oil is stronger than ever and isn’t only coming from outside. Oil and Gas Playbook vs. Shareholder Activism In the face of increasing shareholder activism, fossil fuel companies are resistant.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

To top it all off, the claim in the tagline promotes the perception that ExxonMobil, and fossil fuel companies more generally, are “part of the solution.” The TV ad, which aired in 2021, was shown to the participants of a recent study , published in May 2023. Corporate greenwashing is not only effective, it’s also increasing.

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Charged

JULY 26, 2023

Oddly, these public-spirited citizen journalists never mention the far greater environmental impacts of fossil fuel extraction, nor do they seem to consider the fact that e-mobility supporters are in the business of reducing environmental damage, whereas the oil and gas industry has amply demonstrated its indifference to the issue.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2021

A Swiss law that would have taxed polluters for their emissions and used the revenue to offer public healthcare rebates and fund climate solutions was narrowly defeated in a national referendum over the weekend in what has been dubbed a cautionary tale for policymakers around the world looking to implement carbon pricing policies.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

In Australia, a student filed a consumer complaint with Ad Standards against the financial services organization HSBC for claiming to support the protection of the Great Barrier Reef despite its links to fossil fuel operations. A young protester shows support for Juliana v. United States.

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