DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

“If you were a fossil fuel project, you would have been shut down long ago.” But figures like Morano may be gaining ground in a larger mission: twisting public opinion against renewable energy in other would-be host communities. “Hear this message: We’re here to save the whales!”

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

billion) in fossil fuel firms. This includes companies that specialise in extracting, refining, transporting and distributing fossil fuels. million) shareholding in the oil and gas supermajor Chevron, as well as stakes in Shell, Equinor, and 109 other fossil fuel companies. billion (£1.8

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The Guardian: Energy

MARCH 6, 2024

New report warns of deadly health risks from fossil fuel pollution, including alarming rise in neurodevelopmental issues Chemical pollution tied to fossil fuel operations poses serious risks to human health, warns a new analysis published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 30, 2024

Keeling’s findings would lead him to conduct a separate series of experiments from the top of the Hawaiian volcano Mauna Loa resulting in the famous Keeling Curve — a visual depiction of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) caused by the burning of fossil fuels. His work underpins our understanding of manmade climate change.

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Green Living Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The externalities from plastic pollution result in severe health and environmental harm globally. Yet, the fossil fuel industry aims to increase the demand for plastic over the next decade. This is as the transition to green energy could decrease the demand for oil and gas.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 11, 2024

After NDP member of Parliament Charlie Angus introduced a bill in February proposing to ban misleading fossil fuel advertising in Canada, the oil and gas advocate Stephen Buffalo wrote an incendiary National Post column attacking the legislation.

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The Guardian: Energy

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Of more than 8 million deaths worldwide from outdoor air pollution, 61% linked to fossil fuels, finds study Air pollution from fossil fuel use is killing 5 million people worldwide every year, a death toll much higher than previously estimated, according to the largest study of its kind. Continue reading.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

Major hospital systems and medical institutions in the United States are betraying their oath to “first do no harm” through their investments in the fossil fuel sector, warns a new report from a campaign advocating for fossil fuel divestment in healthcare. private hospital systems.

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Planet Pulse

JANUARY 11, 2024

In this week’s issue : We kick off our energy series with the top dog: fossil fuels Orange rivers in Alaska A river mystery in Colombia Feature Story: Energy: Fossil Fuels If you’re reading this then you owe gratitude to fossil fuels. The energy hierarchy is shifting.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2022

A fossil fuel executive recently told Fortune , “Appalachia is the elephant in the room,” referring to the claim that demand for natural gas is rising, while supply in Appalachia and the United States is falling. We need to talk more about the role of Appalachia in the country’s energy system. By Emily Satterwhite.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 14, 2020

Which brings up the history of investing in energy. There has been a long-raging dispute in private investing circles over whether investing in fossil fuel energy is either wise from a societal viewpoint or profitable from a private one. And that’s what fossil fuel investing has become over the last 10 years.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 8, 2024

Photos I shot last year in South Louisiana illustrate the Gulf Coast’s rapidly expanding fossil fuel industry, and the groundswell of frontline community members, environmental advocates, and activists fighting to stop it. While “green” hydrogen fuel can be produced with renewable energy, that process is cost prohibitive for now.

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Energy Central

MARCH 6, 2024

In 2022, fossil fuel subsidies in the United States totaled $757 billion, according to the International Monetary Fund. negative externalities).

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

Despite this, the state has never denied a permit for any fossil fuel-related project, she said. This conduct runs afoul of Montana’s constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment, plaintiffs say. Montana’s constitution enshrines the right to a clean and healthful environment.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

From the world’s biggest soccer championship to soccer training for kids , from major universities to music festivals and art galleries to — if you can name it, fossil fuel companies have probably sponsored it. TotalEnergies will sponsor the 2023 Rugby World Cup in France.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 18, 2023

Environmental groups, faculty associations and others seeking to slow climate change are pushing California to cut its investments in fossil fuels. billion invested in fossil fuel companies that are driving the climate crisis. They’ve had little success. State pension funds have an estimated $14.8

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2023

As a backdrop to the United Nations climate conference in Dubai, it’s a fitting venue for a planet-wide shift that scientists say needs to happen: The region has extensive deposits of oil and gas, but also immense, untapped potential for renewable energy. Our conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Two-thirds of the directors who run the Conservative Party’s multi-million-pound endowment fund have interests in fossil fuel firms or polluting industries, DeSmog can reveal. Financial interests of its directors include Shell, BP, consultancies that work for fossil fuel giants and petrostates, and the construction multinational JCB.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

“We have been warning about the dangers posed by climate change for decades,” climate scientist Cathy Whitlock testified to a Montana court on Monday, “and yet Montana continues to aggressively pursue an expansion of fossil fuel utilization and production.” Their case, Held vs. Montana, is the first U.S.

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Business Green

JUNE 17, 2022

University of Oxford academics argue investments in fossil fuels in response to energy crunch will have a smaller economic and energy security impact than those in energy efficiency and clean energy infrastructure. Energy efficiency and green energy measures are much faster.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

Policymakers must step up efforts to deliver major 'structural shift' away from fossil fuels across all societal and economic activities, report warns. Policymakers must significantly ramp up their efforts to tackle climate change by working together to deliver a "structural shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy", REN21 warned.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2022

The California legislature was close to passing a bill that would require the state’s two massive pension funds to divest from fossil fuels, but on June 21 the legislation was killed by one Democratic assemblyman who has accepted tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from the energy industry.

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Green Market Oracle

MAY 12, 2020

Covid-19 is helping to drive a seismic shift in energy that will accelerate the rise of renewable energy and expedite the demise of dirty energy. The importance of replacing fossil fuels with renewables is significant. The IEA predicts the reduction in fossil fuel demand is expected to lead to a 2.6

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 7, 2023

Its fleet of 29 dams, 14 small “solar energy sites,” and 25 power plants generates the electricity that it sells to 153 regional utilities. Doing so all but commits its customers to fossil fuels for the next 25 to 30 years, obliterating the utility’s chance of reaching any national or international, or even its own, climate goals.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 14, 2022

A coalition of healthcare professionals and climate finance organizations are calling on hospitals to divest their pension and retirement funds from fossil fuels, citing the severe public health hazards from climate change. Climate policy is health policy. org and Stand.earth. org and Stand.earth. CaClimateHealth ?

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 1, 2020

California’s energy past is on a collision course with its future. Clean energy is the state’s future. So how can the state reconcile its divergent energy path? They could push the state's oil and gas regulator, the California Geologic Energy Management Division, to prioritize environmental and climate concerns.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

And while a mental health crisis might not sound like good news, this one has the potential to do what 28 Conferences of the Parties, or COPs, (including Paris or, frankly, COP28 in the United Arab Emirates ) have not: spark real mobilisation in response to the climate threat.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 11, 2021

We have to stop burning fossil fuels and leave them in the ground. It looks as though, in a corporate-dominated, growth economy, no fossil fuels are going to be left unburnt. Recently, Bloomberg NEF and Bloomberg Philanthropies produced a report on the scale and impact of global fossil fuel subsidies.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Fortunately, there is a common solution: clean energy. A Toronto family living in a house in the suburbs that adopts a few common clean energy solutions could knock $800 off their monthly energy bills, compared to one that is largely reliant on fossil fuels, according to a new report from Clean Energy Canada, A Clean Bill.

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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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The Guardian: Energy

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The world’s leading GP and health bodies, representing more than three million health professionals worldwide, will deliver an open letter on Saturday calling for urgent action against climate change to protect the health of communities.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2023

Individuals and entities linked to climate denial, fossil fuels and high pollution industries donated more than £3.5 This revelation comes on the government’s supposed ‘green day’, when it has announced a long list of policies on energy and the transition to net zero. million to the party, which had an income of £31.7

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 2, 2022

Today, it’s easy to find political leaders – on both the political right and left – working on behalf of corporations in energy, finance, agribusiness, technology, military and pharmaceutical sectors, and not always in the public interest. But this attitude quickly diverged. Brazil, Australia and the U.S. Trump withdrew the U.S.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 12, 2020

Here are few examples of oil spills that illustrate the dangers of fossil fuels. The fossil fuel industry is driving feedback loops that include both melting permafrost and sea level rise. Melting permafrost is but one of the Arctic fedback loops caused by emissions from the fossil fuel industry.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Ahead of the COP27 UN climate summit, hundreds of scientists are calling on the PR firm in charge of the event’s communications, Hill+Knowlton, to cut ties with its fossil fuel industry clients, which include major oil companies Aramco, ExxonMobil, and Shell as well as an industry coalition called the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 16, 2020

A vote for clean energy. I recently joined the most impressive group of clean energy leaders I’ve known, and it happens to have come together in support of Joe Biden for president. The network: Clean Energy for Biden (CE4B). . It includes more than 9,500 clean energy professionals in the public, private and nonprofit sectors.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Melissa Lem was shocked when she saw an advertisement from a major Canadian fossil fuel lobby group showing young parents and their two children happily cooking a meal over a brand new gas stove. The companies changed an online version of the ad to read “the least polluting fossil fuel.”. And all fossil fuels are bad.”.

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