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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.” ” That apparent conservation activist was, in fact, an infamous climate change disinformation artist : Marc Morano, who’s done more than perhaps any other person to manufacture doubt about global warming.

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

DeSmogBlog

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. Platinum Gas.

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The GOP Climate Push That Mostly Leaves Out Climate

DeSmogBlog

“Democrats often dismiss Republicans as being disinterested in addressing global climate change. Democrats say Republicans aren’t serious about climate change. But upon closer inspection, the opening salvo of the new House Republican agenda is a doubling-down on fossil fuels. That is simply not true.

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Inflation Reduction Act: 10 ways it will turbocharge US climate action (and one way it won't)

Business Green

The landmark legislation's climate provisions could unlock billions of dollars of low carbon investment and millions of green jobs - but it also paves the way for new fossil fuel infrastructure. After decades of gridlock, the US looks set to pass sweeping climate legislation for the first time. of global warming by 2050.

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

DeSmogBlog

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. The Climate Impact of Meat.

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'This is a BFD': Senate passes landmark climate bill that promises to slash emissions by 2030

Business Green

This bill… makes the largest investment ever in combatting the existential crisis of climate change," he added. "It It addresses the climate crisis and strengthens our energy security, creating jobs manufacturing solar panels, wind turbines, and electric vehicles in America with American workers.

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Feds Move Forward with New Mexico Drilling Plan Despite Community Outcry

DeSmogBlog

The update was sparked by decades old changes in drilling technology already used in an area that gained notoriety for having one of the largest methane hot spots on the planet — because of leaking oil and gas wells. Whichever update the BLM and BIA choose will have to take account of an array of competing goals.

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