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This Database Exposes the Client Conflicts of More Than 1,500 Big Oil Lobbyists

DeSmogBlog

As lawsuits mount against the fossil fuel sector for decades of sowing climate disinformation, the PR and ad agencies , banks , institutional investors , and law firms that work with the industry are also facing increased scrutiny. This overlap raises conflict of interest concerns, experts say.

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Roundup: Fellows in the Field

Defend Our Future

Catching up with the Community Organizing Fellows While Defend Our Future’s campus ambassadors are enjoying a well-deserved summer break, our community organizing fellows have been hard at work with our partners to engage community members to build a future free from fossil fuels.

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Roundup: Fellows in the Field

Defend Our Future

Catching up with the Community Organizing Fellows While Defend Our Future’s campus ambassadors are enjoying a well-deserved summer break, our community organizing fellows have been hard at work with our partners to engage community members to build a future free from fossil fuels.

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PG&E Plans Utility-Owned ‘Remote Grids’ for Isolated Communities

GreenTechMedia

The threat of power grid-sparked wildfires is forcing California utilities to invest billions of dollars in hardening and monitoring their grids and to institute grid blackouts affecting up to hundreds of thousands of customers to reduce the risk of live wires sparking conflagrations. ” How remote microgrids could pencil out.

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Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South

GreenBiz

The series is supported by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University, and is part of their POWER project. . As the Northeast Organizer for Clean Water for North Carolina , she’d met with residents of a small, majority Black town called Ahoskie, 40 miles from her home.

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Interview – Celsius Energy and decarbonizing buildings using shallow geothermal systems

ThinkGeoEnergy

Heating and cooling buildings accounts for about a third of the final energy consumption globally and 30% of energy-related CO 2 emissions. Celsius Energy aims to contribute to solving this energy dilemma by providing shallow geothermal heating and cooling systems, thus reducing the carbon footprint of buildings.

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How Shell Is Selling the Petrochemical Buildout as ‘Sustainable’

DeSmogBlog

If you take Shell’s word for it, the oil giant’s growing petrochemical operations are indicative of its “commitment” to a cleaner energy future. Today, a peculiar sign still greets those who enter the town: residential homes are pictured next to an oil tank, surrounded by refinery towers, all basking together underneath the sun and blue sky.