DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

While there, Jones edited a 1997 Fraser Institute book entitled Global Warming: The Science and the Politics , which contained essays by people like Willie Soon and Patrick Michaels , prominent spreaders of doubt about the foundations of climate science whose work has been funded by fossil fuel companies. government.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2021

In 2019, the company was caught spying on reporters and helping orchestrate an operation to denigrate Carey Gillam , a book author and contributing writer for The Guardian. . Screenshot of court document published by law firm Baum Hedlund. FTI Consulting has a history of targeting reporters.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 24, 2024

And, eventually, it all became this book, Petroleum 238: Big Oil’s Dangerous Secret and the Grassroots Fight to Stop It — available here on Amazon , here on Bookshop , or it can be ordered at any local bookstore. law, it is still considered nonhazardous. It is out of this unknowing, and deception, that this book can exist.

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GreenBiz

JULY 2, 2020

For Shalanda Baker, a professor of law and public policy at Northeastern University, thinking about a clean energy future means thinking about the daily, weekly and sometimes invisible ways that people in deprived communities can control their power supply.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Working closely with the community, Cole represented the residents in lawsuits fighting against major mining and fossil fuel companies, including the groundbreaking case Kivalina v. He developed a form of environmental justice law focused on community empowerment and mobilization.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

These revelations quickly spurred calls for Congress to investigate Exxon’s and other fossil fuel companies’ efforts to obstruct climate action. For years, academics, journalists, and activists have been unearthing documents proving that the fossil fuel industry knew about the dangers of climate change since the late 1950s.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

These seven members of the public serve on the Virginia State Water Control Board, an independent regulatory body tasked with administering the state’s water laws. However, it is no less dangerous to the planet than other fossil fuel pipelines. The harm from the MVP will mirror its massive scale. . The MVP has received over $2.5

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2024

Weatherford, a lawyer from the corporate law firm Baker Hostetler, stated in opening arguments that Mann was so disliked that “even his own family won’t come to court to defend him.” Oreskes, author of the books “Why Trust Science?” Science is not about individuals, it’s about process,” Oreskes testified.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2021

The report also calls for the UK to require supervised financial firms and premium listed firms to develop Paris-aligned transition plans that set out how they intend to eliminate environmental risks and negative externalities from their portfolios and loan books over time.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 18, 2022

This low-carbon image is out of step with the reality of fleet production figures – both current and projected – which reveal a business model out of step wedded to sales of fossil-fuel powered vehicles. Pressure grows on fossil-fuel advertising. SAS will decarbonize our business, that is our long term promise.”.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Matthew Sinclair, who will be Truss’s chief economic advisor, wrote a book in 2011 called “Let Them Eat Carbon”, which criticised efforts to cut emissions, claiming they were unlikely to work and gave money to “special interests”. In the book he said climate policies would “push up electricity bills”, according to the Guardian.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 15, 2022

The environmental law non-governmental organization, which has bought shares in Shell, claims the company’s 13 executive and non-executive directors failed to adopt and implement a climate strategy that truly aligns with the Paris Agreement and says this is a breach of their legal duties under the UK Companies Act.

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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. It also walked back restrictive rules on its books related to marches. The law is on our side,” Lavigne told me. A few days later, RISE St. Now citizens and groups like RISE St. John and the Sierra Club.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2021

The taxonomy rule book, which has long been in development as a core pillar of the EU's aim to build a net zero economy by 2050, is designed as a labelling system for investment which the Commission hopes can divert hundreds of billions of euros towards the green economy.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

He wrote the Passive Solar Energy Book in 1979, and now leads Architecture 2030 , a non-profit that aims to remake the built environment into a climate solution. Increasingly, this may be the law. Other new laws may go by names, like “Buy Clean,” but they are embodied carbon laws. In the U.S.,

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Revelations about high-level and systemic failures of oversight — both private and public — come at a time when historic federal investments in renewable energy are threatening a constellation of fossil fuel interests and political coalitions vying to preserve profits as the U.S. economy is increasingly rocked by climate chaos.

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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). To me, we’ve reached the end of the beginning. But what’s happened since is unclear.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Examples include deforestation and burning fossil fuels. His book Social Responsibilities of the Businessman advocates the ethics and responsiveness of business to societal stakeholders. These include the initiatives already mentioned, and others such as: Alternative fuel sources to reduce community reliance on fossil fuels.

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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2022

There is a risk that a series of disconnected initiatives announced by central government will not bring about the changes that are now set out in law.". On the one hand, observers fear the Russia-Ukraine war risks distracting from the need to accelerate climate action and bolstering calls to ramp up domestic fossil fuel production.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

This report demonstrates that if we only implement the 42 projects currently on the Coal Authority’s books, we will deliver almost 4,500 direct jobs and a further 9-11,000 in the supply chain, at the same time saving 90,500 tonnes of carbon.”.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 7, 2024

Most famously, the governor of Florida kept battling one of the world’s most beloved brands, Disney, over the company’s position on state laws targeting the LGBTQ+ community. Some in the investment community even pushed back on anti-ESG laws — partly because, as one analysis concluded, those state laws could cost taxpayers $708 million.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

In the well-publicized book The Uninhabitable Earth , author David Wallace-Wells made the case that panic may be warranted , showing what warming of 3, 4, or more degrees Celsius could look like (and it’s not pretty). The other big shift this year was a clear sprint for the exits from fossil fuel investment.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2022

But since Russia - one of the world's biggest oil and gas producers - became a global pariah in February, fossil fuel prices have inevitably surged even higher as markets scramble for alternative supplies, the threat of nuclear conflict has intensified, and alliances have been redrawn.

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2021

Critics say that research into dimming the sun could also distract from the hard work of slashing carbon emissions now — or, even worse, encourage corporations and governments to continue burning as many fossil fuels as they can find. This is why solar geoengineering has often been called a “moral hazard.”

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2020

The Act enables a Green New Deal, a Clean Revolution, and crucially it recodes the laws that cause climate damage. Wind and solar are now cheaper than all fossil fuels. The total cost of ownership for electric vehicles has been lower than fossil fuel vehicles since 2015. It's morally wrong and must stop.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

His new book Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World , which comes out June 6, tells the story of the 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire in horrific, page-turning detail. I know from researching this book that people really suffer and they’re deeply wounded by the experience of evacuating from a wildfire. and Canada.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 18, 2022

This story was originally published by the The Guardian and is part of “Climate Crimes,” a special series by The Guardian and Covering Climate Now focused on investigating how the fossil fuel industry contributed to the climate crisis and lied to the American public. They knew all along it wouldn’t work.”.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Martin told her law-to-lipstick story at a recent WCS event that had her audience persuaded we too can reinvent ourselves. Tools to help you learn to trust include meditation and affirmations – which can come from a holy book, a self-help book, or whatever works for you.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

It’s more about politics and policy that drives organizations and individuals to “attack the science and confuse the public,” as Michael Mann wrote in his 2016 book, “The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy,” co-written with cartoonist Tom Toles.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2022

The evidence is overwhelming that Earth’s climate is changing in dangerous ways because of human activities, particularly the burning of fossil fuels, and it has been overwhelming for many years. At the same time, they recognize overwhelming evidence and act on it. link] pic.twitter.com/ZHageFyGwl — U.S.

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Fairsnape

MAY 15, 2020

In particular, how the fossil fuel and big chem industry is grooming those countries with poor waste facilities and regulations, with the false promise of a better world of plastic. Alongside this viewing I am currently re-reading Underland, A Deeptime Journey by Robert Macfarlane as part of the Emergence Magazines book reading club.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

A member of the Canadian parliament has proposed a ban on misleading fossil fuel advertising. Taking inspiration from Canadian government bans on tobacco advertising that went into effect in the 1990s, New Democratic Party (NDP) MP Charlie Angus has proposed private members bill C-372, An Act respecting fossil fuel advertising.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

Wood energy succored Homo sapiens and its ancestors for millions of years, the argument goes, and only during the last couple of centuries was it replaced with fossil fuels like coal. If we’re stewards of the Earth,” he once told a reporter , referring to the Book of Genesis, “we’re supposed to be doing something about this.”.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 13, 2022

Chamber of Commerce , an ultra-powerful business lobby, does not disclose its members, but it represents the interests of America’s largest corporations — some of which have a long record of breaking state and federal laws. Chamber of Commerce and have been frequent violators of state and federal laws. Chamber of Commerce.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company has since whipsawed between its wholesale-energy legacy of fossil fuels and greener horizons. Raised in Pittsburgh and one of the youngest multinational leaders, Narasimhan is fond of sharing books that inspire him on Twitter. He serves on the National Academy of Medicine and on boards including African Parks.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Does your company have an open-book management process that allows employees to access all financial and operational data? Initiative: Does your company have an open-book management process that allows employees to access all financial and operational data? “[Open-book management] simply work. You can also check the U.S.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2021

It is a jaw-dropping achievement for a company that is yet to deliver any of the thousands of vehicles on its order books, and an important milestone in the electric vehicle (EV) sector's transition from fringe market into market-shaping mainstream concern. Arrival is arguably the biggest success story in modern UK automotive industry.

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