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Industry Knew About Gas Stoves’ Air Pollution Problems in Early 1970s

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It has been building for several years alongside revelations that AGA has used paid influencer campaigns to defend gas stoves and waged state-by-state, city-by-city lobbying offensives against initiatives to replace gas furnaces, water heaters, and stoves with electric-powered devices aimed at reducing pollution linked to climate change.

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

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DeSmog conducted a five-month investigation into the meat industry’s PR and lobbying, reviewing hundreds of documents and statements by companies and trade associations. Huang’s speech points to an industry nervous about its role in a carbon-constrained future. Meat Industry Playbook.

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Mapped: Big Ag’s Routes to Influence at COP28

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In our interactive Routes to Influence Map below, DeSmog has plotted the extent of the opportunities open to the world’s most powerful and polluting food and farming companies and lobby groups to influence debates at COP28. Major pesticide and fertiliser producers such as Bayer and Nutrien, who attended last year, will be back.

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Where Does All The Radioactive Fracking Waste Go?

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And since 1997 about one million barrels worth of oilfield waste has been brought to Lotus’s disposal site, situated off a dusty desert road located 19 miles west of Andrews, Texas (and just several miles from a massive solar array financed by Facebook and which provides energy to Shell’s fracking operations).

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The Uncertain Future of Gas Exports on Louisiana’s Vanishing Coastline

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Still, the cheniers and the surrounding wetlands provide critical habitat for fish, shrimp, ducks, and an array of migratory birds travelling across the Gulf of Mexico. As Gas Outlook reported last year, the LNG terminals themselves are leaking methane that is going unrecorded. They also provide a buffer against floods and storms.