DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

But the groups have unearthed a 1970 report by Eni’s Isvet research centre that warned of the “catastrophic” risk the build-up of carbon dioxide (CO2) caused by burning fossil fuels could pose to the climate. In 2022, Eni reported a profit of $14.12 billion (13.3 billion euros), up $9.9

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 25, 2024

families pay more for electricity and natural gas as the LNG industry drives up the price of both. When accounting for the full life-cycle emissions of LNG, numerous studies show that it is far from clear whether LNG exports can lead to a reduction in global emissions, with estimates varying widely. As for whether B.C.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Porter’s blog repeatedly cites the work of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s main climate science denial group. Porter’s Energy Blogs Climate models accurately predict global temperature rises, with observed warming tracking the forecasts.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

New analysis warns national climate targets for 2030 point to dangerous warming of 2.4C, as rush for LNG capacity risks further undermining chances of meeting goals of Paris Agreement. Projected global warming in 2100 based on national climate targets announced to date remains at a worryingly high 2.4C of warming this century.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

On Wednesday, a group of more than 450 scientists called on advertising agencies to cut off their fossil fuel clients and to end their ties with an ongoing misinformation campaign that has time and again killed progress on addressing the climate crisis. LeakForPlanet — Christine Arena (@ChristineArena) January 20, 2022.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

MANCHESTER – The Conservative chair of a parliamentary group on hydrogen has defended the body’s receipt of £70,000 in funding from fossil fuel giants including Shell and Equinor. He added: “[Firms] like Shell, BP, fossil fuel companies, they’ve got money. There’s no influence over what we look at, what we do,” he said.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MAY 16, 2022

The Draft 2022 Scoping Plan Update takes an all-of-the-above approach to decarbonize California. On May 10, 2022, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) released its Draft 2022 Scoping Plan Update for public review and comment. By Joshua T. Bledsoe and Brian McCall.

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2022

But hidden on page 25 of the “Summary for Policymakers” was an even grimmer note: That even in the IPCC’s most optimistic models, the chances of holding global warming to less than 1.5 ‘We are at a crossroads’: New IPCC report says it’s fossil fuels or our future. degrees Celsius (2.7

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Today the influential International Energy Agency (IEA) waded into the debate with a wide-ranging new report that warned global methane emissions from the energy sector are around 70 per cent higher than the amount officially reported by national governments. The report - titled Global Methane Tracker 2022 - makes for sobering reading.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Meat emits around a third of global emissions of methane, and action to cut this greenhouse gas has been identified by the UN and world leaders as the quickest route to slowing global heating. Farming also relies on synthetic fertilisers that are both fossil-fuel-based and emit greenhouse gases, and drives deforestation.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 29, 2022

The push to sell “blue hydrogen” as a clean energy fuel — which experts have called a misleading rebrand of fossil fuels — hit another setback this month. Climate provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 are bringing new economic headwinds to the gas-derived hydrogen fuel’s prospects.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

At the same time, the increasingly dire effects of global warming are bringing more Americans in line with much of the rest of the world in making carbon-emissions reduction a top policy priority. Utilities in many states now face mandates to move to 100 percent renewable energy or cut carbon to zero by 2050. Dominion Energy.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2022

Travis Dardar, an indigenous fisherman in Cameron, Louisiana, has a front-row view of the expansion of the liquified natural gas (LNG) industry’s export capacity on the Gulf Coast — and it isn’t pretty. “It If approved, the permit would allow a massive natural gas liquefaction and export facility to emit 3.5

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

IEA warns that methane emissions from the global energy sector fell only fractionally last year, despite projects to cut methane leaks providing hugely attractive returns on investment By rights methane emissions from the fossil fuel industry should be one of the easiest climate problems to fix. This is a significant problem.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

State regulators controlled by the oil and gas industry helped create this crisis,” said Biven when I met her in January 2022. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management employee who founded and runs True Transitions , an organization committed to making sure oil and gas workers have a seat at the table during the energy transition.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 23, 2022

Editor’s Note: This is part of a new column, Gaslit , which will navigate society’s dysfunctional relationship with fossil fuel disinformation. liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports for Europe. It was 2014 and “American gas” would save Europe from being dependent on Russian gas imports. Have a tip or idea?

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Given the challenges of energy transition, Europe is optimally positioned to lead this movement by implementing political and economic policies that will incentivize oil and gas companies to leave fossil fuels behind and make the transition to deep geothermal. billion metric tons of CO2 each year from fossil fuels.

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

It contains natural gas, helium, and carbon dioxide. It is the biggest LaBarge, as the gas operation is known, would have become one of the world’s foremost examples of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), a technology most climate-modeling experts view as essential to slowing down global warming and, eventually, reversing it.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Meanwhile, demand for coal, oil and natural gas fall by 80 per cent, 60 per cent and 45 per cent, respectively, by 2060 compared with last year. Our aim is to transition away from fossil fuels, promote decarbonisation, and make Sri Lanka a carbon neutral country by 2050," Rajapaksa said.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

As the impacts of fossil fuels and air pollution on the world’s climate became ever more apparent in 2021, it was easy to miss some of the slower-brewing stories of the past year. Fossil Fuels Drove Inflation, Volatility. That’s easy to miss too, in part because of the fossil fuel industry’s response to weather disasters.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Imagine you woke up in 2030 to find that Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia had done little to slow the global warming that cooked the Cascadia region this year. We have not kept pace with the scope of the crisis,” Oregon Global Warming Commission Chair Catherine Macdonald wrote to legislators that month.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Peterson is now planting doubt via his podcast and social media posts about the severity and urgency of global warming in the minds of younger generations. Conservative author and fossil fuel activist Alex Epstein had a modest YouTube following of 15.2 She didn’t respond to questions from DeSmog. It’s out!”

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

“If you were a fossil fuel project, you would have been shut down long ago.” ” That apparent conservation activist was, in fact, an infamous climate change disinformation artist : Marc Morano, who’s done more than perhaps any other person to manufacture doubt about global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The about-face is consistent with longstanding efforts by the fossil fuel industry to oppose environmental regulations and derail any action on climate change. “[T]he The oil and gas industry is one of the largest emitters of methane, which leaks at every stage of the production and distribution process.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2021

In March, the UK government ignored campaigners’ calls to end the issuance of offshore oil and gas licences and reverse its policy of maximising economic recovery of fossil fuels in the North Sea, leaving the door open for more privately-owned and less-transparent companies to purchase and profit from North Sea assets.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2022

President Biden signed an executive order banning the import of Russian oil and gas on March 8, but activists around the world are calling for a more comprehensive break with fossil fuels, warning against replacing Russian fuels with a new drilling frenzy elsewhere. — President Biden (@POTUS) March 9, 2022.

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CleanTechnica

OCTOBER 4, 2022

One was that NextEra Energy issued its Investor Conference Report 2022 to its stockholders. Another was a paper from Stanford University, “Low-cost solutions to global warming, air pollution, and energy insecurity for 145 countries,” (LCS study) by Mark Z. Jacobson, et al. […].

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