DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 4, 2024

Three-quarters of prizes at the UK’s top sustainable advertising awards went to agencies who work for the fossil fuel industry, a DeSmog analysis has revealed. Both agencies are owned by the London-based global media group WPP. Credit: Sam Whitham.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 30, 2022

Sustainable Law Firms. Law firm sustainability is a strategic business shift that aims to prevent socially and environmentally damaging operations in the legal industry. There’s heightened market demand for sustainable practices with robust and transparent disclosure. 13 Tips to Creating a More Sustainable Law Firm.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Nearly 25 years ago, oil major Shell predicted in an internal 1998 report that a class-action lawsuit would be brought against fossil fuel companies following “a series of violent storms.”

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 7, 2023

Austin Wall was attending an environmental law conference at the University of Tennessee not long ago when, during a discussion of natural gas pipeline projects, a map appeared on the screen and gave him a surprise. I’m like, hold up, that Google Maps looks really familiar to me,” the 25-year-old law student said. “I

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The commissioners cited multiple complementary benefits as justification for the decision: greenhouse gas emissions reductions, the ability to soak up surplus renewable electricity, and grid demand flexibility. Three co-equal goals guide (PDF) the SGIP program: environmental benefits, grid support, and market transformation.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) was high on the agenda at New York Climate Week last week, where critics of the technology raised concerns it would be used to extend the life of the fossil fuel industry. The data showed us that their carbon capture plans are not working at scale.” Based upon Val Verde, since the 1970s, U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 11, 2021

On October 11, Indigenous People’s Day, 136 people, including many Indigenous leaders opposing fossil fuel projects, were arrested in front of the White House in Washington, D.C., while calling on President Biden to declare a climate emergency and to stop approving fossil fuel projects. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 8, 2023

Austin Wall was attending an environmental law conference at the University of Tennessee not long ago when, during a discussion of natural gas pipeline projects, a map appeared on the screen and gave him a surprise. I’m like, hold up, that Google Maps looks really familiar to me,” the 25-year-old law student said. “I

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2024

Fossil fuel giants BP and Shell were given “ample opportunity” to privately influence proposals for taxing oil and gas companies that were later backed by the government, new documents reveal. The emails were among hundreds of documents released by a powerful committee of U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 23, 2022

New large-scale fossil fuel projects have become mostly unworkable in the Pacific Northwest, with dozens canceled over the past decade due to fierce opposition from local communities. First, developers proposed a series of coal train projects in the early 2010s, as domestic coal demand went into decline but was soaring overseas.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Nearly two thirds of social media posts put out by six major European fossil fuel and energy companies since the end of 2019 present a “green” image of the company, despite the majority of their business activity remaining in fossil fuels, reveals new analysis by Desmog.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 16, 2020

The fossil fuel industry has faced serious headwinds for several years, but the rise of renewables combined with the fall in consumption as a consequence of the global corona crisis is pushing it over the edge and into “terminal decline”. The fossil fuel industry has faced an oversupply problem, as well as a public relations problem.

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The Verge: Energy

MAY 7, 2024

. | Photo by Maja Hitij / Getty Images The amount of electricity and greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants likely peaked in 2023, according to the annual global electricity review by energy think tank Ember. The US is switching one fossil fuel for another,” Jones said.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2022

A prominent pro-fossil fuel author, who has argued for the “moral case” for fossil fuels, has a track record of disparaging writings about what he views as “inferior” cultures. He has testified before Congress on invitation from Republican lawmakers, who praise and parrot his arguments in favor of more fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Fossil fuels are everywhere at this COP except in the decisions being negotiated by governments,” Nikki Reisch, the director of climate and energy at the Center for International Environmental Law, wrote to DeSmog from Glasgow. Oil Majors Show up in Disguise.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

A lawsuit filed by the city and county of Honolulu against nearly a dozen fossil fuel companies is moving towards trial in Hawaii after the Hawaii Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the companies’ arguments for dismissing the case on appeal. He called the ruling a “breakthrough.” “Not

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Charged

JULY 9, 2023

Barnard finds the latest version (June 2023) of the Hydrogen Strategy to be an improvement over the first draft, but writes that it still seems to be aimed more at supporting the fossil fuel industry than optimizing the use of hydrogen technology to reduce emissions. Barnard isn’t having any.

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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 The fossil fuel industry’s impacts on surrounding communities also cut along racial and gender lines, watchdog organizations report.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2023

McDonald’s is at the forefront of a campaign against new laws to reduce packaging waste in the EU, in what has been described by some insiders as the largest-scale lobbying effort they have ever witnessed in the European Parliament. The European Parliament is expected to vote on the law in the next 12 months.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 18, 2022

xxonMobil is attempting to use an unusual Texas law to target and intimidate its critics, claiming that lawsuits against the company over its long history of downplaying and denying the climate crisis violate the US constitution’s guarantees of free speech. Exxon is facing a barrage of other lawsuits across the US.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2021

Investment in clean energy from fossil fuel majors saw a marked uptick during the pandemic in 2020, research suggests. The fall in prices further compounded and accelerated wider trends that are serving to dampen long term demand projections for oil and gas industry. This rapid growth needs to be placed in context.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

It also represented the “systemic ostrich-like refusal” by federal regulators to assess whether there is market demand for gas before approving pipeline projects in the first place, Megan Gibson, an attorney at the Niskanen Center, a nonpartisan think tank based in Washington, D.C., told DeSmog. Hopefully this is an end of an era.”.

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Grist

MARCH 8, 2024

It’s been six years since cities in California started the trend of taking Big Oil to court for deceiving the public about the consequences of burning fossil fuels. The long delays might have strengthened the legal arguments against fossil fuel companies. Emissions that originated in Delaware, however, were fair game.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

This ruling followed a 2021 decision in the same case, in which the court ruled that the governments had violated their legal obligations, under Belgian civil law and European human rights law, in failing to protect citizens from dangerous climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Environmentalists have long warned that demand for the pellets is endangering irreplaceable primary forests in areas including parts of Estonia, British Columbia in Canada and the southeastern United States. . The post Biomass Lobby Makes ‘False’ Claims to Sway EU Law-makers appeared first on DeSmog.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The pair of California leaders were there to discuss the lawsuit the state had recently filed against Big Oil on behalf of the people of California to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for the effects of climate change. But California is the first fossil-fuel-producing state to do so. History in the making….

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

District Court for the District of Oregon on Monday, attorneys with Our Children’s Trust – the Oregon-based nonprofit law firm spearheading youth-led constitutional climate litigation in the U.S. government accountable for perpetuating a fossil fuel-based energy system and worsening the climate crisis. In a filing with the U.S.

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2022

Fossil fuels got us into this mess, and yet more fossil fuels aren't going to get us out of it. When we have the leakiest homes in Europe, we must slash our nation's energy demand to ensure we're using every last drop as efficiently as we can. So what can be done right now? In a crisis, we need leadership.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, want grid operator New England ISO to give renewable energy a bigger role and fossil-fuel-fired generators a smaller one. The program was approved by FERC in March 2018, and ISO-NE held its first auction under the CASPR rules in February.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Follow This and Arjuna Capital’s now-withdrawn resolution encouraged Exxon to put a plan in place to reduce the “Scope 3” emissions that arise from the use of its fossil fuel products. The groups had filed the same resolution in 2022 and 2023, and both times, Exxon advised its shareholders to vote against it.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2024

Now, the Dutch NGO that successfully sued Shell over its climate plans is taking those financial backers to court in a case that could help reverse the global banking sector’s support of fossil fuel firms and their activities. billion Euros in bonds to the fossil fuel industry, Milieudefensie says.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

Department of Justice to investigate carbon majors for potential violations of federal law. The letter requests that the DOJ now open an investigation into ExxonMobil, Shell, and other oil majors to “determine whether they violated RICO, consumer protection, truth in advertising, public health, or other laws.” Ted Lieu (D-Calif.),

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

However, a DeSmog investigation has found that these scores take little or no account of multiple risks associated with the advertising and PR industry’s role in the climate crisis — from reputational damage caused by greenwashing fossil fuel clients, to threats to staff retention, and the danger of being sued for climate damages.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

EU 2035 car ban clears final hurdle Plans to ban the sale of new internal combustion engine cars across the EU from 2035 cleared their final major hurdle this week, as MEPs approved a new law that formalises long-standing plans to phase out petrol and diesel vehicles. Yes, this means [we need an] international refugee law."

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Clean Energy Canada

MAY 29, 2019

government passing a new law that will require automakers to sell a growing percentage of electric vehicles in the province: “British Columbians are excited about electric cars and the chance to cut both their fuel costs and pollution. going electric cuts your fuel bill by three-quarters. It’s no mystery why.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 19, 2024

Smith, a well-known climate change denier and fossil fuel sector advocater , nonetheless announced a series of new regulations critics say would ban wind turbines from much of the southern half of the province. Renewable energy is far less damaging to the environment and wildlife than fossil fuels,” said Luo.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 23, 2020

The price of oil plunged below zero on some days, and customer demand remains at an all-time low. Bailouts paper over the fossil fuel industry's weaknesses and "will create a zombie industry forever dependent on state aid for survival," according to Jason Quay, director of the Global Climate Strategy Sunrise Project. .

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