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Australia ends finance for fossil fuel expansion overseas – now focus turns to local subsidies

The Guardian: Energy

Albanese government announces at Cop28 it will phase out offshore support for coal, oil and gas within a year Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast The Australian government has been praised for joining a global partnership committed to stopping billions of (..)

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Fossil Fuel Lobby Kicks off Disinformation Campaign Against EPA Auto Emissions Rule

DeSmogBlog

Fossil fuel interest groups have mobilized quickly to oppose a new rule issued by the Biden administration designed to speed up America’s transition to hybrid and electric vehicles. Prepared to challenge it in court’ In a blog post, AFPM claims that the EPA “does not have authority to overhaul the U.S. The rule , which the U.S.

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Climate-Science Deniers, Right-Wing Think Tanks, and Fossil Fuel Shills Are Plotting Against the Clean Energy Transition

DeSmogBlog

. “If you were a fossil fuel project, you would have been shut down long ago.” From his perch at Climate Depot , the blog he’s run since 2009, Morano has elevated fake climate experts, encouraged the harassment of real climate scientists , and promoted the myth of “global cooling.”

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Greens could sink Labor’s gas industry scheme over concerns it supports fossil fuel expansion

The Guardian: Energy

Uncontracted supplies of the fossil fuel had also been diverted to the domestic market. The Greens will move a disallowance vote in the Senate next Monday, saying the code with its $12 a gigajoule price cap had benefited big gas users.

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Leading Think Tank Met With Minister Over North Sea Energy While Funded by Fossil Fuel Interests

DeSmogBlog

Policy Exchange, one of Westminster’s most prominent think tanks, engaged in a high-level influencing campaign over the UK’s North Sea oil and gas policies while being funded by fossil fuel interests, DeSmog can reveal. Fossil fuel firms tout CCUS and hydrogen as green energy solutions, yet the reality is more complicated.

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£3.3 trillion fossil fuels subsidies by G20 countries since Paris Climate Agreement

Low Impact

We have to stop burning fossil fuels and leave them in the ground. It looks as though, in a corporate-dominated, growth economy, no fossil fuels are going to be left unburnt. Recently, Bloomberg NEF and Bloomberg Philanthropies produced a report on the scale and impact of global fossil fuel subsidies.

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The Future(s) of Fossil Fuels - 2020

Mr. Sustainability

The time is therefore now to plan an orderly wind-down of fossil fuel assets and manage the impact on the global economy rather than try to sustain the unsustainable. The worst year for oil ever Oil fueled the 20th century. Many of us now believe it is not a matter of if, but when we will transition away from fossil fuels.