DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Read time: 4 mins With lawsuits against major fossil fuel producers over climate damages on the rise , a new report and initiative examines how prestigious law firms are enabling climate breakdown. Tags: climate accountability law firms #DropExxon Paul Weiss climate crisis fossil fuel industry Sen.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The UK government has appointed a law firm with a history of defending fossil fuel companies over environmental disasters to provide legal services for the upcoming COP26 climate summit. Law firms have a responsibility to act to prevent climate catastrophe. The firm says it is doing the work pro bono. billion ($2.16

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Renew Economy

JUNE 7, 2023

ACT votes on law to ban new gas connections for homes and businesses, in a major coup for electrification and a new blow to the fossil fuel lobby. The post ACT passes first law in Australia banning gas in new homes, as fossil empire strikes back appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Is a law, rule, subsidy, compensation package or other action incentivizing the kind of behavior a society needs for let’s say … long-term survival? If not, it may be time to scrap it.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2023

A national industry group representing gas producers is quietly paying for digital advertisements urging Canadians to “speak up” to their elected officials against laws addressing climate change and public health, DeSmog can reveal. It’s a lobbying organization that pushes the interests of the fossil gas industry,” Temper said.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 18, 2023

As more than two dozen climate liability lawsuits by state and local governments against fossil fuel companies continue to progress, a case brought by the city and county of Honolulu could become the first to put Big Oil on trial. Arguing for the oil companies, attorney Theodore J. Boutrous, Jr.,

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2024

and EU to drop their landmark climate change laws, spreads falsehoods about green policies, and fondly recalls an attempt to cancel a major climate conference. The UK government has given £20 billion more in support to fossil fuel producers than renewables companies since 2015.

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The Guardian: Energy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

We must join them If Labour wants an energy transition in which working people don’t foot the bill, it has to address fossil fuel companies’ secret weapon against national climate laws: the energy charter treaty (ECT). Eleven countries have already pledged to exit the disastrous international charter treaty.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Over the past month and a half month, California lawmakers have enacted a pair of climate disclosure bills and endorsed a global call to end the fossil fuel era. Lena Gonzalez (D-Long Beach) introduced legislation requiring both funds to divest from the 200 largest fossil fuel companies by the 2030s — holdings worth about $15 billion.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 28, 2023

They are just some of the countries in which Europe-headquartered fossil fuel companies stand convicted or credibly accused of criminal, civil, or administrative offences. The history of fossil fuels is a litany of criminal accusations, from corruption and bribery to human rights violations and even complicity in war crimes.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In a clear signal of how the fossil fuel industry feels about efforts to enact Rights of Nature protections that safeguard communities and the environment from the impacts of coal, gas, and oil development, an energy company has — yet again — filed a federal lawsuit challenging a local law in Grant Township, Pennsylvania.

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Grist

MAY 16, 2023

While a century of fire suppression and other land management choices contribute to the severity, climate change is a key factor fueling these fires, roughly doubling the acreage burned over the last 40 years. Most of the links have been well known for a long time, but this is the first study to connect the dots, quantitatively.”

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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. In September 2022, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the UN General Assembly: “We need to hold fossil fuel companies and their enablers to account.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

French environmental organizations Notre Affaire à Tous, Friends of the Earth France, and Oxfam France last week filed what they say is the world’s first climate lawsuit against a commercial bank, suing BNP Paribas over its continued funding of fossil fuels. They also say that the financial sector more broadly is on notice.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Puerto Rico adopted laws that called for generating 100 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2050. But FEMA's fossil fuel plans might stymie that progress.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The law implements key recommendations of the Climate Action Council and is an important step toward the state’s goal of 2 million electrified and electricity-ready homes by 2030. “We are thrilled that Governor Hochul has signed this bill into law.

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Business Green

AUGUST 23, 2022

Firms no longer permitted to promote petroleum and coal products and services in France under new climate law. Adverts promoting fossil fuel products and services have been banned in France, after a cornerstone of President Emmanuel Macron's green legislative agenda officially came into force yesterday.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

DeSmog analysed examples of more than 100 influencers being paid to promote fossil fuel firms worldwide since 2017, from the US to Malaysia, in campaigns that have reached billions of people. While there’s more knowledge in general around climate change and the harms of fossil fuels, I think that people have a lot of trust in creators.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Environmental law non-profit writes to pension fund executives warning their bond investments' exposure to fossil fuels could amount to a breach of their fiduciary duty

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Exhibit A: law firms. According to a new report from Law Students for Climate Accountability, most of the top 100 law firms in the United States "provide far more support to clients driving the climate crisis than clients addressing it." supported $1.316 trillion in transactions for 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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The Guardian: Energy

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Investor-State Dispute Settlements are legal, huge and often hush-hush – and fossil fuel firms and others are using them to hold the planet to ransom How a US mining firm sued Mexico for billions – for trying to protect its own seabed What do you get if you cross the planet’s richest 1% , a global legal system adapted to their investment whims, and (..)

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 13, 2022

A newly published report by Fossil Free California finds California’s pension fund managers are circulating divestment “misinformation” by exaggerating the costs involved in shedding their fossil fuel investments in documents prepared for state lawmakers. The two pension funds have estimated holdings of $7.4 billion and $4.1

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Bank bosses due to attend a green investment summit tomorrow head institutions which have provided over £700 billion of financing for the fossil fuel industry since the 2015 Paris Agreement, including £129 billion in 2020 alone. . JPMorgan financed £230 billion in fossil fuels between 2016 and 2020. billion in 2020.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

I live in South Louisiana on the front lines of the climate crisis and cover the fossil fuel industry and impacts related to the warming planet, so facing gaslighting is a regular occurrence for me. So it resonated with me that Merriam-Webster dictionary chose “gaslighting” as the word of the year.

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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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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. A few high-profile defeats for the fossil fuel industry stand out. But the industry’s blitz is not yet over. ” – Emily Moore.

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Energy Central

APRIL 23, 2024

Whether you support President Biden or not, it’s hard to argue with the fact that he has passed the most substantial climate law in our history. Ironically, he has also overseen historic levels of energy (fossil fuel) production. Usually, politicians get credit for such accomplishments.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 20, 2021

We knew departments in our university took money from fossil fuel companies, but we were shocked by the sheer scale: since 2015, Oxford has received over £8.2 Incredibly, we found the fossil fuel companies themselves were generally more transparent about their research funding and donations than a public university.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 17, 2022

It was the third time the international body reproached the Canadian federal and provincial governments for their treatment of Indigenous communities in relation to the construction of the two fossil fuel projects. In short, the clans that oppose Coastal GasLink say that both Indigenous and Canadian law are on their side.

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FuelCellsWorks

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Germany has taken a significant step towards reducing its reliance on coal and gas for home heating— an initiative aimed at curbing fossil fuel consumption.

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The Guardian: Energy

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Energy firm’s lawsuit seeks indefinite block on protesters targeting its infrastructure Business live – latest updates Shell is suing Greenpeace for $2.1m in damages in one of the biggest ever legal threats against the group after its campaigners occupied a moving oil platform earlier this year.

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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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Business Green

MAY 3, 2022

New report from Clean Creatives argues communications agencies could soon face legal action if they do not stop working with fossil fuel companies. Agencies have a clear choice: continue the dirty work of spreading lies on behalf of the fossil fuel industry or become a clean creative and help us save the climate.

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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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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

OCTOBER 12, 2021

I’m an investigative journalist and I’d been arrested twice in 2018, both times for allegedly trespassing on what’s known as “critical infrastructure,” a felony under a then-new Louisiana law that — at the urging of the oil and gas industry — redefined pipelines and their construction sites as critical infrastructure. (In In the U.S.,

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