DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

There, he met with OPUC staff in person and exchanged emails with Lori Koho, then OPUC’s senior official overseeing natural gas utilities. He hoped that his list of complaints would show “how the unethical culture [at NW Natural] goes all the way to the top,” as one of his emails to Koho explains.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

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. The fossil fuel industry was first warned about climate change back in 1959 by famed physicist Edward Teller, known as “the father of the hydrogen bomb.”

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

A little over a decade ago, Gary Dye, then a gas measurement engineer at NW Natural, Oregon’s largest gas utility, lost faith in his employer to responsibly deal with what he believed to be systematic inaccuracies among the company’s hundreds of thousands of gas meters.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

House Natural Resources Committee, Subcommittee Oversight & Investigations, invited several firms, including Singer Associates, Story Partners, and Pac/West Communications. Instead, the hearing heard from several witnesses, including experts in the PR industry. None of them showed up.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

BASF’s wine tasting is just one example of many such pandemic-style lobbying efforts by the European agriculture industry since the EU has attempted to pass sweeping new policies to combat climate change through measures included in its “Green Deal,” first presented in December 2019. Meet the Industry Trade Groups.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

By the late 1970s, the petroleum industry had spent about two decades collecting information from their own scientists and outside experts and knew that burning fossil fuels would create catastrophic climate change. Document 7: 1981. THACKER: What I love about this document is that you can see they’re kind of getting concerned.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Thinking about this definition, we ask: Is it possible for the retail industry to be sustainable ? The retail industry is built from supply and demand, meaning traditionally, financial success is thought to hinge on economies of scale. Can the retail industry be sustainable ? Retail business sustainability.

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