DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2021

“There is a generation of Millennials around the globe who have written off fossil fuels,” Chris Romer, co-founder of Project Canary, told the oil and gas industry trade publication Rigzone this month. “We We need to address the brand problem.”. Platinum Gas. and parts of Canada.”.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 23, 2021

Colorado Governor Jared Polis has signed a HB21-1052, Define Hydroelectricity as Renewable Energy , concerning the inclusion of pumped hydroelectric energy generation in the definition of “eligible energy resources” for purposes of meeting Colorado’s renewable energy standard (RES).

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

European law-makers are due to vote on a revised renewable energy directive next week, part of the EU’s Green New Deal to slash carbon emissions by 55 percent by 2030. The post Biomass Lobby Makes ‘False’ Claims to Sway EU Law-makers appeared first on DeSmog.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 2, 2021

It’s time to update that definition to include sudden, dramatic swings among judges and juries. At minimum, it serves as a five-alarm warning to companies both inside and outside the fossil-fuel industry that their net-zero-by-mid-century decarbonization commitments simply may not be enough. degrees Celsius. Flashing red lights.

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Front And Centered

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Washington passed 100% clean electricity into law earlier this year, and with public input government agencies are currently drafting rules to guide utilities on how to comply with the law by phasing out fossil fuel emissions and integrating equity in their service models. Directs Dept.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 31, 2023

There is no legal definition of chemical recycling. The term generally describes industrial technologies that chemically process plastic waste, melting or boiling it down into gasses, chemicals, or fuels. Such a conversion is not recycling, according to internationally accepted definitions, the report notes.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

To top it all off, the claim in the tagline promotes the perception that ExxonMobil, and fossil fuel companies more generally, are “part of the solution.” This is what experts refer to as a prime example of corporate greenwashing. This is what experts refer to as a prime example of corporate greenwashing.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 28, 2024

Scientists have been warning for decades that burning fossil fuels puts greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. This has made it much harder to redistribute wealth in fair ways through minimum wage laws or taxation structures. It’s hard to imagine a world without fossil fuels, especially when it comes to military operations.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 13, 2021

While there’s no official definition of NIMBYism, a traditional definition frames it as someone saying that something is fine in the abstract, but not near me or my home. Laws such as the National Environmental Policy Act and state equivalents provide for public involvement in decisions about many major projects.

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Grist

AUGUST 13, 2021

But a new study has found surprisingly large emissions from the production of so-called “blue” hydrogen, a variant being enthusiastically pushed by the fossil fuel industry and probably falling under the definition of clean hydrogen in the Senate bill. Dozens of gas companies in the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2023

So, “we still have parts of HB 6 on the books that have been shown by a court of law to not only have been moved forward illegally — but that remain in place because of the party in power — which are harming human health,” Leppla said. Ohio also remains embroiled in a corruption scandal relating to House Bill 6.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2024

Cox is running to be London Mayor in May for Nigel Farage’s right-wing party Reform UK, which calls for the UK’s net zero policies to be “scrapped”, and is funded by climate science deniers and fossil fuel interests. The party is polling around ten percent. Cox has publicly denied climate science. Cox continues to spread such views.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 29, 2022

From challenges to fossil fuel and petrochemical expansion to climate lawsuits against Big Oil and national governments, there were notable victories for climate action and accountability in 2022. Climate Liability Lawsuits Against Fossil Fuel Companies Make Key Advances. Supreme Court’s limitation of the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 22, 2021

Our current fossil fuel economy has reached its limit,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said at a press conference. “We In a statement to DeSmog, Francesco Tanzi, a spokesperson for ECSA, said the group disagrees with the “hurried definition of our lobbying strategy” by InfluenceMap.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 31, 2020

Yet, as the original purposes of these laws has been largely achieved, states can now accelerate deeper progress towards want we really what: a 100 percent clean electricity grid that is also affordable and reliable. RPS targets or goals, adopted by 37 states as well Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

After the Biden administration’s bipartisan infrastructure law was passed , the administration hailed the bill’s $4.7 The law’s current implementation also offers no assurances that the new jobs promised for oil and gas industry workers will materialize, although it is a stated goal of the law.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

AUGUST 11, 2022

5060 ), titled An Act Driving Clean Energy and Offshore Wind, into law on Thursday August 11, 2022. The law keeps the required procurement total at 5.6 Reduction of Fossil Fuels. Governor Baker signed the climate bill ( H.5060 The act combines and modifies provisions from the House’s proposed offshore wind bill (H.4524)

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The change will be introduced as an amendment to the EU's climate law. Fossil fuels could lose out once lawmakers thrash out the details. Simson also noted the EU’s fossil fuel subsidies of €50 billion matches its renewable investments. ” Natural gas didn’t make the cut.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Lynne Baber, Sustainability Leader, PwC UK, said: “Our economy, and our ambitions for net zero, rely on a greener workforce that can adapt to the changing demands of a changing planet – from the transition away from fossil fuels to the technology that will accelerate the pace at which we move towards net zero. ”

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Compiled by Dutch climate activist Vatan Hüzeir , and reviewed by DeSmog and Dutch investigative journalism platform Follow The Money , the documents show how Shell was actively supporting research that clearly underscored the dangers posed by burning its fossil fuel products from the mid-1970s — years earlier than previously thought.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 6, 2024

The ACC is fighting to weaken the bill , which it claims is “ overly restrictive ” in its definitions of toxic substances and recycling. Yet experts and advocates agree that chemical recycling doesn’t work, and when it does, is mostly used to create more fossil fuels to be burned.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 27, 2021

On Thursday the 19 th of August, the Climate Council in partnership with the law firm Shearman & Sterling, hosted an intriguing panel to discuss a major topic in the energy industry: Will low-carbon hydrogen be the silver bullet in APAC? By David Stent. But the question remained, “how low carbon is low-carbon hydrogen?”

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Front And Centered

MARCH 7, 2019

The Washington State Senate passed a bill on Friday that would require Washington utilities to reduce and ultimately eliminate the use of fossil fuels to power our electricity grid. Additionally, improvements need to be made before this bill becomes a law. Republished and modified according to Creative Commons 2.0

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Grist

JUNE 14, 2023

In March 2020, 16 youth plaintiffs filed suit against the state, alleging that by enacting policies that promote fossil fuel production, the state government violated their constitutional right to a healthy environment. “Montana is a big emitter of fossil fuels and is contributing to climate change.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

It will also explore how complex or jargon-heavy language can be used to mislead costumers and whether companies that fail to provide all relevant information about the sustainability of a product of service - for example, whether it's non-recyclable or highly polluting - have breached consumer law.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

But in the intervening decades, the region’s rivers were dammed or channeled and the fossil fuel era dawned across Appalachia. The paper suggests that all of this might have happened in violation of federal law. Mountaintop Mining. Image Credit: SkyTruth. The new research highlights how, even as the U.S.

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2022

It doesn’t contradict the laws of chemistry and physics to get to 1.5 ‘We are at a crossroads’: New IPCC report says it’s fossil fuels or our future. But the definitive loss of this target won’t mean that all is lost: It will just mean that, then as now, we need to cut emissions as quickly as possible.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2021

However, attempts to hold emitters to account for climate-related damages in court have largely failed because plaintiffs have not been able to link definitively the harms caused by climate change with greenhouse gas emissions. The power of climate litigation is increasingly clear”, said lead author Rupert Stuart-Smith. “If

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 13, 2021

At the same time, state legislatures are passing laws to impose harsh punishments on public protests. On May 11, Arizona became the latest example of this trend when Governor Doug Ducey signed into law legislation that will remove infrequent voters from the state’s ballot list. 1/6) — Stacey Abrams (@staceyabrams) May 11, 2021.

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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

President Biden signed historic climate legislation into law in August, but more action will be necessary to hit climate targets. Lyash has a track record of supporting fossil fuels. The potential is definitely there with the right board members in place who are committed to clean energy.”.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 7, 2023

But the directive is facing concerted opposition from a branch of the fossil fuel industry that receives relatively little scrutiny: Suppliers of liquefied petroleum gas, or LPG, who see the proposed boiler phase-out as an existential threat to their $40 billion business. It’s shameless.” This is a marketing tactic, it’s propaganda.”

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Front And Centered

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Rather than requiring California and Québec to meet Washington standards, Ecology this week announced it is prepared to offer up legislation this coming session that would weaken the Washington law.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

This technique of using statements that are technically true but omit crucial information and therefore are misleading, is called paltering — and it’s an old favorite of the fossil fuel industry. R-CALF USA doesn’t only blame the private trade associations for overturning the law that allowed “Made in the USA” labels. “It’s

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2021

It's time to update that definition to include sudden, dramatic swings among judges and juries. At minimum, it serves as a five-alarm warning to companies both inside and outside the fossil fuel industry that their net-zero-by-mid-century decarbonisation commitments simply may not be enough. Flashing red lights.

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Green Market Oracle

JUNE 25, 2020

Trump has drawn criticism for refusing to ban law enforcement's use of choke-holds like the one that killed George Floyd and he defends police immunity. Even though many pundits predict that renewables will grow while fossil fuels will decline Trump and Republican lawmakers continue to support oil, gas and coal over clean energy.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

In the summer of 2022, faced with a very real opportunity to confront the fossil fuel industry, potentially forcing the facility to halt oil train shipments entirely, the city instead chose to strike a compromise that allows the oil facility to continue to operate. You’re in the driver’s seat.

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