DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Robert Taylor in a trailer provided by FEMA, in front of his storm-damaged home on February 12, 2022. Every stage of natural gas production and distribution releases methane pollution, a powerful greenhouse gas. Credit: Julie Dermansky. Credit: Julie Dermansky. John and the Sierra Club. John the Baptist.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

In the minds of the fossil fuel executives, this point must have been hammered home when federal scientists published a report on carbon dioxide and climate change in 1979. Document 7: 1981. And the company was monitoring all scientific research and policy activities, through a single collection point. Catch up on part one.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, or TCEQ, has not told residents about the health risks they face. TCEQ documents obtained by Public Health Watch show that some of those early readings were double the level Texas considered safe at the time. Children return home from school in Channelview, Texas.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2022

or SABIC, a chemical manufacturing giant tied to one of the world’s richest royal families, and Exxon Mobil, America’s biggest energy company. Indeed, the International Energy Agency predicts that by 2030 petrochemicals will account for more than a third of the growth in world oil demand, and for almost 50% of demand by 2050.

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Grist

AUGUST 26, 2020

For instance, just a few years prior, he had argued that increasing smog levels might have health benefits — a view at odds with decades of research. In Willowbrook, Illinois, state officials linked higher rates of lymphatic cancer among girls and women to their homes’ proximity to a facility that emitted ethylene oxide.

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