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. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 28, 2023

In the news this week, $7T for fossil fuel subsidies, the summer brings more tropical storms, and Equinor opens the world’s largest floating wind farm… to power oil drilling. You double-book and spend just as much time picking what to prioritize as you do once you’re actually there.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

This makes it ripe for disaster capitalism, a phrase Naomi Klein coined in her book “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.” He fears that his constituency, which relies heavily on the seafood industry, will be forced to move since they will no longer be able to make a living.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2024

John Allaire, a former environmental engineer in the oil industry, photographed with fossil fuel infrastructure behind. We’ve got a pretty sweeping statutory consumer protection on the books,” Slocum said. A few decades ago, it was the largest producer of seafood in the country. Stricter Climate Scrutiny The U.S.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Like many other banks, HSBC has pledged to step away from its funding of fossil-fuels interests and other high-carbon industrial activities with a pledge to achieving net-zero financed emissions across its customer portfolio by 2050. (It All We Can Save , the book they birthed in September, features 41 powerful voices.

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