DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2023

Their harmful impacts on human and ecosystem health are generally well understood. The fossil fuel industry, pesticides, and industrial agriculture are inextricably linked,” explained Asha Sharma, PANNA organizing co-director and co-author of the report.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2021

per cent of voters strike down federal government’s plans to hike taxes on petrol diesel, heating oil and natural gas. While initial opinion polls suggested the fossil fuel levy had strong public support, the repeal campaign gained significant ground in the final weeks ahead of the vote.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

And, in the United States, political gridlock chopped the heart out of Congress’ most ambitious clean energy plan. . Renewable solar and wind power now typically costs less than fossil-fuel alternatives. That’s looking more doable as renewable-energy prices drop, providing an alternative to fossil fuels.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

Since it was first set up in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has been a hugely influential player in world energy politics. The death knell is being sounded for fossil fuels. By far the most startling aspect of today's report is the outlook for fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Its Director General Tim Davie has said that while the BBC will cover debate on climate policy, human-caused climate change is not “politically controversial” and “the overwhelming consensus is that we, as humanity, are causing global warming”.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

These revelations quickly spurred calls for Congress to investigate Exxon’s and other fossil fuel companies’ efforts to obstruct climate action. For years, academics, journalists, and activists have been unearthing documents proving that the fossil fuel industry knew about the dangers of climate change since the late 1950s.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

For instance, the company’s just-published “ Energy Transition Progress report ” references chemicals right alongside “low carbon energy” and “renewable natural gas” as examples of the company’s stated commitment to lowering emissions. Town sign for Norco, Louisiana. Shell US did not respond to a request for comment from DeSmog.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2022

NW Natural, a gas utility based in Oregon, is seeking to raise gas bills on its customers in order to pay for millions in executive bonuses, higher returns to shareholders, and a larger advertising budget. NW Natural ads promote low-cost natural gas, but do not disclose that the utility is seeking rate increases.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The European Union’s scientific and political communities are locked in a battle over whether gas and nuclear can be considered green investments. This science-based threshold — considered necessary to achieve emissions targets by 2050 — excluded all fossil fuels from being in the taxonomy.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

While California already has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 13 percent since their peak in 2004, many residents still suffer from high levels of air pollution — much of it produced by fossil fuels. And they have suffered collateral damage from the harmful pollutants produced by using fossil fuels. As the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

There, he met with OPUC staff in person and exchanged emails with Lori Koho, then OPUC’s senior official overseeing natural gas utilities. He hoped that his list of complaints would show “how the unethical culture [at NW Natural] goes all the way to the top,” as one of his emails to Koho explains.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Like many corporations, the global COVID-19 pandemic and lack of usual in-person events meant they had to get creative about how to shape the political debate and find new allies to support their agendas. The MEPs invited were spoiled for choice, as BASF generously delivered six small bottles of fine wines for their enjoyment.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 5, 2020

Most buildings run on multiple fuels. And they consume fossil fuels such as natural gas or propane to power furnaces, boilers, and water heaters. That persistent reliance on fossil fuels makes buildings one of the largest sources of planet-warming pollution. Yes, including public health and safety.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 2, 2021

The fossil fuel industry continues to use a long list of deceptive tactics to conceal environmental destruction that harms Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and low-income communities. That’s the top finding of a newly released NAACP report titled “Fossil Fuel Foolery.”

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

I’ve long viewed Jacobson’s life — and his collaboration with researchers, cultural icons, business leaders and political leaders — as a well-written movie script. Jacobson’s Greenhouse-Gas-Free (GHGFREE) Teslas run on solar power, as does his home, built by BoneStructure. Jacobson’s Early Story.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Oxbow’s founder and CEO is billionaire William “Bill” Koch, a member of the Koch family who has historically maintained a lower profile than his politically active brothers Charles and David , who passed away in 2019. ” The ‘Other’ Koch Brother. Meanwhile, various legal battles between the brothers continued for years.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 20, 2023

On my lastest flight surveying fossil fuel industry sites in southwest Louisiana at the end of September, I photographed liquified natural gas (LNG) export facilities, signs of drought, fire-scarred stretches of marsh, and a salt dome site at risk of collapsing. He pointed out that the U.S.’s

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

A proposed new facility in the town of McFarland in Kern County plans to convert agricultural waste biomass into “renewable natural gas,” according to San Joaquin Renewables, the project developer, through a gasification process, using carbon capture technology to mitigate the carbon pollution.

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2020

Elsewhere, however, weaker electricity demand means power generation capacity is abundant, which presents significant challenges for how to operate baseload power - in the form of both fossil fuels and nuclear - while managing fluctuating renewables generation on the grid.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

By the late 1970s, the petroleum industry had spent about two decades collecting information from their own scientists and outside experts and knew that burning fossil fuels would create catastrophic climate change. Man’s use of fossil fuels and exploitation of the land,” federal scientists concluded. Document 7: 1981.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 20, 2021

But that will require deploying renewables at an even faster pace than the current trajectory and increasing the utilization or load factor for those renewable energy projects, as well as converting coal-fired power plants to natural gas and growing hydro and nuclear power generation. ” All-of-the-above approach.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

2023 is on track to be the hottest in the books , and unless we want to shatter that record year after year, every country on Earth will have to work together to wean themselves off fossil fuels. The US, the world’s biggest producer of oil and gas , has more work to do than others. Some of the hubs will run on renewable energy.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The initiative, also known as the “Protect Washington Act”, imposes a steadily increasing carbon pollution fee on most fossil fuel uses and directs revenue toward projects to reduce carbon emissions, as well as investments in forests, water, community preparedness, and support to displaced workers and people with lower incomes.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 28, 2024

Community organizations, environmental groups, and transit advocates are demanding the city of Ottawa ban fossil fuel advertising from public spaces. Community groups such as Ecology Ottawa are looking forward to the review as a rare opportunity to stop fossil fuel companies from advertising in the city.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company has since whipsawed between its wholesale-energy legacy of fossil fuels and greener horizons. She is a chicken farmer, a zoo doctor, a firefighter, a polar marine biologist, a park ranger and a political candidate. No wonder he keeps an ammonite fossil in his bag. One in five is Black.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

While California already has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 13 percent since their peak in 2004, many residents still suffer from high levels of air pollution — much of it produced by fossil fuels. And they have suffered collateral damage from the harmful pollutants produced by using fossil fuels. As the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

A member of the Canadian parliament has proposed a ban on misleading fossil fuel advertising. Taking inspiration from Canadian government bans on tobacco advertising that went into effect in the 1990s, New Democratic Party (NDP) MP Charlie Angus has proposed private members bill C-372, An Act respecting fossil fuel advertising.

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Green Market Oracle

MAY 12, 2020

The importance of replacing fossil fuels with renewables is significant. A report commissioned by the Guardian found that replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy could curb the rise in global temperatures by reducing CO2 emissions by 70 percent by 2050. oil demand is expected to experience a 9 percent decline.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2021

After Congress lifted a ban on crude exports in late 2015, oil and gas production in the Permian Basin soared while domestic consumption remained flat—leading to a massive build-out of pipelines and other infrastructure that culminated in the U.S. Between 2015 and 2020, U.S. oil consumption actually declined by 7 percent.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company has since whipsawed between its wholesale-energy legacy of fossil fuels and greener horizons. She is a chicken farmer, a zoo doctor, a firefighter, a polar marine biologist, a park ranger and a political candidate. No wonder he keeps an ammonite fossil in his bag. One in five is Black.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

Montana has hired a climate scientist turned climate contrarian to be an expert witness in an upcoming trial challenging the state’s promotion of fossil fuels. The company’s clients include electric utilities, energy traders in natural gas, and two petroleum companies, according to her deposition. climate litigation.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Canada has not provided a transition pathway for its fossil fuel workers to move into other industries, and as global demand for oil and gas wanes, tens of thousands of workers could lose their jobs, say the authors of a new report. More difficult careers to transition are the reservoir engineers, hydrologists, and dispatchers.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

In May, the Cornell Board of Trustees announced a moratorium on fossil fuel investments, following more than a decade of student and faculty activism. Thanks to the university's new environmental literacy gen-ed requirement, students sign up for courses like Politics of Oil and Insects, Food, Culture.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

It has confused the public about climate science, bought the eternal gratitude of one of America’s two main political parties, and repeatedly out-maneuvered regulatory efforts. Methane is an even more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, yet it has received far less attention. Except that methane gas isn’t clean.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 23, 2022

Editor’s Note: This is part of a new column, Gaslit , which will navigate society’s dysfunctional relationship with fossil fuel disinformation. liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports for Europe. It was 2014 and “American gas” would save Europe from being dependent on Russian gas imports. Have a tip or idea?

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2023

Why, then, have they assumed such a heated role in climate politics? Consumer Product Safety Commission , told Bloomberg News that the agency planned to consider regulating gas stoves due to concerns about their health effects. Gas stoves account for just 0.1% greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. a member of the U.S.

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2020

He also claimed an "American energy revolution is saving American families" by lowering electricity bills and pump prices, and that the US was on the "threshold of unlimited forms of energy", specifically naming natural gas, nuclear, LNG, and "clean coal". We couldn't care less about your party politics," she said.

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