Envirotec Magazine

MAY 4, 2021

However, their use has increased in recent years as climate change has led to greater rainfall and water infrastructure has not kept pace with population growth. This ambition has now been turned into action, with the government confirming that a number of key policies will be made law.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2024

The GWPF’s director Benny Peiser has suggested 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”.

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Charged

MAY 23, 2022

This 500 big ones represents the first round of funding from the $5-billion investment authorized by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The EPA will accept funding applications from May 20 through August 19, 2022. With these funds from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, we are paving the way for cleaner air and healthier communities.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2024

Across 2023, 12 major oil companies and industry lobby groups attended meetings 102 times with ministers in the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), which leads the government’s climate change and energy policy. Ministers met with BP executives on 26 occasions, almost once a fortnight. The tax raised £2.6

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2024

It was a sign of how much has changed since 2021, when the UK hosted the flagship COP26 UN climate summit with a promise to “irrefutably to turn the tide and to begin the fightback against climate change”. million from fossil fuel interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since the 2019 election.

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Front And Centered

JANUARY 14, 2022

As frontline communities we are increasing the self-determination and solutions of our communities — those disproportionately impacted by pollution, damage to the climate, and an inequitable economy — to accelerate systemic change together. We must plan for reducing vehicle miles traveled as essential to reducing climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2024

politicians last week as part of its three year-long investigation into how the oil industry has worked to undermine efforts to tackle climate change. The think tank was commissioned to produce a report on carbon pricing by the Climate Leadership Council (CLC), a controversial U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2024

In Colorado, fossil fuel interests are vigorously opposing legislative bills meant to clean up the state’s heavily polluted air. When lobbying firms represent both the polluter and the people experiencing pollution, it represents a pretty clear conflict of interest,” he said.

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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”. trillion, acknowledging “factual errors”.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 28, 2023

But for many, the industry’s law-breaking is a cold and hard lived reality, especially for people in climate-vulnerable communities and in the Global South. But these 26 cases are just a drop in the ocean when it comes to fossil fuel pollution. A desperate attempt by big polluters to delay the transition to renewable energy.

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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. Even critics have acknowledged this as progress.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2024

Equinor has a majority stake in the Rosebank North Sea oil field, which has been dubbed a “carbon bomb” by environmental law charity ClientEarth. This may have implications for how climate change is covered in the UK. GB News in Turmoil GB News hosts regularly attack climate policies and the science behind them.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Investors in foreign development projects have “weaponized” a system of secretive tribunals, delaying progress on climate change and other environmental crises and having “enormous impacts on human rights,” according to a new report by a United Nations expert. Boyd is calling on states to reform or leave these treaties.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 11, 2024

He compared it to the Indian Act of 1876, a notorious federal law that attempted to erase the culture of First Nations peoples. DeSmog previously reported that Buffalo’s group received $200,000 from CNRL between 2020 and 2022. The IRC received $250,000 from CNRL in 2022 alone.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The money, which comes from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, will go to 58 different projects across 44 states. Weather disasters supercharged by climate change have already led to more power outages in the US. Stressed power grids need the money badly, both to prevent blackouts and bring more clean energy online.

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E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

AUGUST 17, 2023

Why we need strong vehicle and power standards for our economy to thrive in the face of climate change The first two weeks of July saw the hottest temperatures on Earth in recorded history. The scale of these costs of climate change are significant and only rising. climate goals. climate goals.

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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. The GWPF has in the past expressed the view that carbon dioxide has been mis-characterised as pollution, when in fact it is a “benefit to the planet”. “If

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2024

The bill has prompted Conservative MP and former environment minister Chris Skidmore to resign and has been criticised by the government’s climate advisors, the Climate Change Committee, which called the plans for new drilling licences “inconsistent with climate goals”. Cox continues to spread such views.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2024

When Royal Dutch Shell lost a landmark climate lawsuit in The Netherlands, climate advocates said the Dutch court’s ruling put polluters and their financiers on notice. ING’s climate policy is miles away from what is necessary to achieve the 1.5°C We will of course respond in court if necessary.”

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The pair of California leaders were there to discuss the lawsuit the state had recently filed against Big Oil on behalf of the people of California to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for the effects of climate change. But California is the first fossil-fuel-producing state to do so.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The court’s ruling, which upholds the trial court’s March 2022 decisions denying defendants’ motions to dismiss the case, means that Honolulu’s lawsuit will advance to the evidence-gathering phase known as discovery and, ultimately, to a jury trial. He called the ruling a “breakthrough.” “Not

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Over the past month and a half month, California lawmakers have enacted a pair of climate disclosure bills and endorsed a global call to end the fossil fuel era. In September, the state sued five oil majors and the chief industry lobby group to hold them accountable for climate change.

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Defend Our Future

MARCH 20, 2024

Many young people are already asking themselves these questions, and the answers are only getting more important with climate change. Climate change and food systems Extreme weather threatens food production cycles, and by extension, what food we each have access to. What food options do I even have access to?

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 20, 2020

On 16 March, the Cabinet Secretary for the Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform laid regulations in the Scottish Parliament that will create the legal framework for the Scottish Government’s Deposit Return Scheme (DRS). There will then be a vote in the Scottish Parliament, after which the scheme will become law.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 2, 2023

The GWPF is a member of the Tufton Street network – an interconnected hub of think tanks and pressure groups that lobby against state action, including in the realm of climate change. The GWPF has criticised both the policies adopted by governments to address climate change, and the science underpinning these policies.

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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

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

These are just a handful of the hundreds of cases of climate litigation that have arisen worldwide over the past few years. Globally, the number of climate-change-related lawsuits has more than doubled since 2015. Between 1986, when the first climate lawsuit was filed, and 2014, approximately 800 cases were brought.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

A Connecticut judge last week rejected Shell’s latest attempt to quash a climate lawsuit accusing the company of disregarding the severe climate change-driven risks to its fuel and chemical depot on the east bank of New Haven Harbor. In its 2022 annual report to the U.S. Credit: formulanone/flickr CC BY-SA 2.0

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 5, 2022

The UN IPCC has released its latest climate change mitigation report, which provides an updated global assessment of mitigation progress and pledges. One of its core findings is that major transitions in the energy industry will be key to mitigating the climate crisis. Climate change policy. Achieving net zero.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2023

The Plan for Water , released by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) this morning, outlines the government's intention to change the law to increase penalties on water companies that break environmental law, and make it easier for regulators to impose fines on firms without lengthy court processes.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 25, 2022

In this article, we discuss the tie between climate change and affordable housing, the role that legislation and government funding plays, along with a list of top U.S. Climate Change and Affordable Housing. organizations working to build greener, more affordable communities for all. This is a double-edged sword scenario.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Brausch for The Verge Homeowners who want to reduce their carbon footprint by getting rid of polluting appliances have the US government’s full support. The pollution from using a gas heater was also a major concern. Illustration by Nico H. Not so with apartment dwellers. It was a great work-from-home spot,” Spears said.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Bob Ward, policy and communications director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, said the editors of The Telegraph had “lost their minds when it comes to climate change”. Both newspapers [The Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] are campaigning against climate policies,” Ward told DeSmog.

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Business Green

JULY 4, 2022

Banking giant takes a stab at caclulating biodiversity impacts of its financing activities for first time, as it looks to meet requirements of new French nature reporting law. From there, it calculated its own headline biodiversity footprint. Register now for your ticket.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Last month, ExxonMobil sued two of its “activist investors” — groups that try to use shareholder resolutions to pressure companies into taking action on social and environmental problems — in an attempt to block a proposal for the oil giant to limit its climate pollution from coming to a vote at an upcoming shareholder meeting.

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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. James Black History event on February 2, 2022. Robert Taylor in a trailer provided by FEMA, in front of his storm-damaged home on February 12, 2022.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 13, 2022

billion respectively in fossil fuel investments that would need to be divested if the law went into effect. Click here to call, write, or schedule a meeting with your representative: [link] pic.twitter.com/3ogICu0oad — Climate Safe Pensions Network (@ClimatePensions) May 13, 2022. billion and $4.1

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