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Italy’s Eni Faces Lawsuit Alleging Early Knowledge Of Climate Change

DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

Greenpeace Italy and Italian advocacy group ReCommon aim to build on a similar case targeting Anglo-Dutch oil major Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands to force Eni to slash its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Methane is the clean energy of the future,” ran a 1986 promotion in Eni’s company magazine Ecos.

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Leveraging the ocean's carbon removal potential

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NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Leveraging the ocean's carbon removal potential. Achieving this not only will require reducing existing emissions, but also removing carbon dioxide already in the air. Achieving this not only will require reducing existing emissions, but also removing carbon dioxide already in the air. Katie Lebling. Wed, 11/11/2020 - 00:30.

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Mapped: The Network of Powerful Agribusiness Groups Lobbying to Water Down the EU’s Sustainable Farming Targets

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The use of these chemicals also damages the environment in other ways; much of the fertilizer used in the world today is the product of methane gas, a fossil fuel, while the wide-scale use of pesticides has been linked to the damage of ecosystems and vital populations of pollinators. Corporate Lobbying and Lawsuits.

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? Charting a course to curb maritime emissions

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AUGUST 17, 2023

1, 2020 rules adopted by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) came into effect that substantially decreased the amount of sulfur allowed in maritime fuels with the goal of cutting sulfur oxide emissions from ships by 77%. Source: Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping Liquid fuels are critical and sticky.

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More details about California’s proposal requiring bidirectional charging capabilities for all EVs

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MAY 8, 2023

That means we can bring the meter negative. When we had that peak last year, we brought down the load to 52 gigawatts, but everything was turned on—methane gas generators, gasoline generators, everything. FERC [the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission] is the federal organization that regulates the independent system operators.

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Burned Out: Documents Reveal The Gas Industry’s Use Of Tobacco Tactics Over Gas Stove Emissions

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

A few months later, the New York Times reported on the study, bringing national attention to the issue, and an op-ed in the Yale Law Journal described indoor air pollution, as a “menace” that required “comprehensive federal legislation.” American Gas Association Monthly in 1982 provided insight into growing industry concern about gas stoves.

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The Meat Industry Is Advertising Like Big Oil

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

Instead, they are required to contract with “ industry-governed organizations ” — private trade associations — to promote products. R-CALF USA doesn’t only blame the private trade associations for overturning the law that allowed “Made in the USA” labels. “It’s Although they are run by the U.S.

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Fossil Fuel Companies Are Promoting ‘Lower Carbon,’ ‘Responsibly Sourced’ Oil and Gas

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2021

Both EQT and Chesapeake will seek certification from outside providers, including a business called Project Canary, which touts its ability to collect data on methane emissions and pollutants from oil and gas wells and offers a certification it calls TrustWell. But meanwhile, the industry’s methane emissions have continued to rapidly rise.

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Investigation: How the Meat Industry is Climate-Washing its Polluting Business Model

DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

It’s a recurring theme that somehow the livestock sector and eating meat is detrimental to the environment, that it is a serious negative in terms of the climate change discussions,” Hsin Huang, Secretary General of the International Meat Secretariat (IMS) , told his audience.

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On the Future of our Food

Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

These technologies include the use of insects, ‘fake meat’ made from plants, lab-grown meat, vertical farming, genetic modification (GMO), micro-organisms (such as algae) and 3D printing of food in general. According to Livestock’s Long Shadow , a United Nations report, world meat consumption has the highest negative impact on the climate.

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After Ida, Toxic Smoke From Shell’s Norco Plant in Louisiana Creates Apocalyptic Landscape

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 31, 2021

Black carbon released by flares can be a powerful — if short-lived — greenhouse gas in its own right. Environmental Protection Agency reached a settlement with Shell over allegations that flaring at the site violated the Clean Air Act and state law. Norco’s flares light up the sky a day after Hurricane Ida hit. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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Leveraging the ocean’s carbon removal potential

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NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Leveraging the ocean’s carbon removal potential Katie Lebling Wed, 11/11/2020 – 00:30 To meet the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting temperature rise to 1.5 Achieving this not only will require reducing existing emissions, but also removing carbon dioxide already in the air. degrees Celsius 2.7 billion tons of CO 2 in 2018.

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Leveraging the ocean’s carbon removal potential

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NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Leveraging the ocean’s carbon removal potential Katie Lebling Wed, 11/11/2020 – 00:30 To meet the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting temperature rise to 1.5 Achieving this not only will require reducing existing emissions, but also removing carbon dioxide already in the air. degrees Celsius 2.7 billion tons of CO 2 in 2018.

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DOE Quietly Backs Plan for Carbon Capture Network Larger Than Entire Oil Pipeline System

DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

An organization run by former Obama-era Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, with the backing of the AFL-CIO, a federation of 56 labor unions, has created a policy “blueprint” to build a nationwide pipeline network capable of carrying a gigaton of captured carbon dioxide (CO2).

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NYC Pensions Are Sued for Shedding Fossil Fuels

DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Subsequently, two independent reports suggested that the funds would “face high potential risk for economic disruption from the transition to a low carbon global economy” if they continued to invest in fossil fuel. It’s unclear how much of that total is invested in coal, oil, or methane gas. trillion in cash and investments.

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Lost Decade: How Shell Downplayed Early Warnings Over Climate Change

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Harmful Wastes” Shell’s knowledge of the risks posed by the build-up of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) from burning fossil fuels can be traced to at least the early 1960s. based Center for International Environmental Law has reported. Both should be evaluated by the same yardstick,” the report found. Shell had other plans.

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Polluters Rely on Old Rhetoric to Block Clean Energy Future

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 1, 2023

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is considering proposals aimed at reducing climate-warming carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from existing coal and gas-fueled power plants. Screenshot of a 2023 press release from National Association of Manufacturers that relies on arguments similar to those the organization used in 1963.

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More details about California’s proposal requiring bidirectional charging capabilities for all EVs

Burned Out: Documents Reveal The Gas Industry’s Use Of Tobacco Tactics Over Gas Stove Emissions

The Meat Industry Is Advertising Like Big Oil

Fossil Fuel Companies Are Promoting ‘Lower Carbon,’ ‘Responsibly Sourced’ Oil and Gas

Investigation: How the Meat Industry is Climate-Washing its Polluting Business Model

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After Ida, Toxic Smoke From Shell’s Norco Plant in Louisiana Creates Apocalyptic Landscape

Leveraging the ocean’s carbon removal potential

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DOE Quietly Backs Plan for Carbon Capture Network Larger Than Entire Oil Pipeline System

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Lost Decade: How Shell Downplayed Early Warnings Over Climate Change

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