DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

European law-makers are due to vote on a revised renewable energy directive next week, part of the EU’s Green New Deal to slash carbon emissions by 55 percent by 2030. The article misleadingly refers to a report of ours, which [lists] emergency measures governments *could* turn to *if* Russia cuts off all gas to the EU this winter.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The pair of California leaders were there to discuss the lawsuit the state had recently filed against Big Oil on behalf of the people of California to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for the effects of climate change. But California is the first fossil-fuel-producing state to do so. History in the making….

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 1, 2019

Job Description: The Center for Biological Diversity seeks a full-time Clean Transportation Advocate/ Staff Attorney in our Climate Law Institute to join our bold and progressive campaign to advance the urgently needed transition away from fossil fuel vehicles to zero emissions transportation in California and around the country.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 1, 2019

Job Description: The Center for Biological Diversity seeks a full-time Clean Transportation Advocate/ Staff Attorney in our Climate Law Institute to join our bold and progressive campaign to advance the urgently needed transition away from fossil fuel vehicles to zero emissions transportation in California and around the country.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2024

Now, the Dutch NGO that successfully sued Shell over its climate plans is taking those financial backers to court in a case that could help reverse the global banking sector’s support of fossil fuel firms and their activities. C target,” the letter asserts, referring to the Paris Agreement’s more ambitious climate objective.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

laws and regulations as of May 2021, and incorporates existing international laws. Energy Information Administration modeling forecasts increasing global energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions through 2050. The EIA released the International Energy Outlook 2021 on Wednesday , which makes assumptions based on U.S.

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Clean Energy Canada

MAY 29, 2019

government passing a new law that will require automakers to sell a growing percentage of electric vehicles in the province: “British Columbians are excited about electric cars and the chance to cut both their fuel costs and pollution. “A going electric cuts your fuel bill by three-quarters. It’s no mystery why.

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2023

The regulation, which will come into force in 20 days' time, strengthens the interim 2030 emissions reduction target automakers in the EU have to meet, as well as enshrines the 2035 phase-out date into law.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

From repeated calls for a fossil fuel “phase out” to campaigns to regulate the oil and gas industry, pressure against Big Oil is stronger than ever and isn’t only coming from outside. Oil and Gas Playbook vs. Shareholder Activism In the face of increasing shareholder activism, fossil fuel companies are resistant.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

MANCHESTER – Conservative MPs gave resounding backing to the fossil fuel industry this week at a conference event paid for by U.S. The panel “Can fossil fuel companies play a role in the energy transition?” None of the speakers on the panel referred to the major role of fossil fuels in bringing about global heating.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

With the start of the 28th annual United Nations climate summit, COP28, just two weeks away, a battle is brewing over the role of fossil fuels as nations try to stem the tide of climate change. Now, a new report shows that fossil fuel production by 2030 is set to exceed the level that would be compatible with limiting warming to 1.5°C

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

To top it all off, the claim in the tagline promotes the perception that ExxonMobil, and fossil fuel companies more generally, are “part of the solution.” This is what experts refer to as a prime example of corporate greenwashing. This is what experts refer to as a prime example of corporate greenwashing.

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Grist

AUGUST 12, 2021

For years, plaintiffs around the world have sought to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for their contributions to climate change — often seeking compensation for damages like economic losses from floods or wildfires. In other words, “How much has an individual fossil fuel company contributed to climate change?”

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 31, 2023

While industry associations like the American Chemistry Council and America’s Plastic Makers now refer to it as “advanced recycling,” Enck said it is neither advanced nor recycling. Instead, many of the technologies use methods like gasification and pyrolysis to convert plastic into fuel.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 18, 2021

Hawaii passed a law requiring 100 percent renewable electricity by 2045; that requires shutting down fossil fueled plants and replacing them with suitable alternatives. Swell's effort joins a growing roster of projects large and small that Hawaii is building to wean its grid off fossil fuels.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Transportation accounts for about two-fifths of California’s carbon emissions, and vehicles are harder to decarbonize than electricity generation or using fossil fuels for heating buildings. That provides a frame of reference for how many could be installed with the new funding, spokesperson Lindsay Buckley said in an email.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

In Australia, a student filed a consumer complaint with Ad Standards against the financial services organization HSBC for claiming to support the protection of the Great Barrier Reef despite its links to fossil fuel operations.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

As an alternative to landfill, which is due to be phased out, the GAYA chain is positioned as the channel of reference for making use of non-recyclable waste to produce a storable renewable gas, which can substitute for natural gas and as such has multiple end uses, in sectors such as sustainable mobility, industry and the tertiary sector.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

But the groups have unearthed a 1970 report by Eni’s Isvet research centre that warned of the “catastrophic” risk the build-up of carbon dioxide (CO2) caused by burning fossil fuels could pose to the climate. Methane is the clean energy of the future,” ran a 1986 promotion in Eni’s company magazine Ecos.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

Panelists, who included representatives from the energy banking industry and advisors to energy companies seeking financing, also expressed strong commitment to continue working to fund the expansion of fossil fuels. Bankers Plan to Fund Fossil Fuels As Long As It Pays. Lending Issues Due to Failed Economics, Not ESG.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 27, 2021

Reduce fossil fuel use. It should be a standard reference for all fisheries working to become more sustainable. Despite strict fines and penalties , many fishing vessels continue to overfish simply because of how hard it is to enforce these laws over millions of square miles of open ocean. Reduce Fossil Fuel Use.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

AUGUST 11, 2022

5060 ), titled An Act Driving Clean Energy and Offshore Wind, into law on Thursday August 11, 2022. The law keeps the required procurement total at 5.6 Reduction of Fossil Fuels. Governor Baker signed the climate bill ( H.5060 The act combines and modifies provisions from the House’s proposed offshore wind bill (H.4524)

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Greenpeace Italy and Re:Common have alleged in their climate lawsuit — Italy’s first — that despite knowing at least as early as 1970 that burning fossil fuels posed a serious climate risk, Eni went on to promote “natural” –- or methane – gas as a safe energy source for decades. the spokesperson stated.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Judges in the Court of Appeal have ruled that Surrey County Council acted lawfully in its approval of an onshore oil development, despite ignoring emissions produced when the fuel is eventually used. Surrey County Council welcomed the ruling, with a spokesperson telling the BBC : “We note the judgment that our planning decision was lawful.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Secretary General António Guterres asked nations to arrive at the session with concrete commitments for phasing out fossil fuels, observing in his opening remarks that “humanity has opened the gates of hell.” A two-week hearing on the case before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg, Germany concluded on Monday.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Canadian environment minister Steve Guilbeault outlined his government’s plan to gradually eliminate fossil fuel-powered cars and light trucks at a Toronto news conference held December 19. Canadian EVs would include both battery and plug-in vehicles, as well as hydrogen-powered ones. Credit: Wikimedia Commons “The flawed U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 4, 2021

After the IPO is complete, and assuming a suitable acquisition target is identified, the SPAC seeks to combine with the target in what is referred to as a “de?SPAC” As the recent experience at ExxonMobile has shown, investors are eager to invest in, and accelerate the migration toward, energy production that does not rely on fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2024

Weatherford, a lawyer from the corporate law firm Baker Hostetler, stated in opening arguments that Mann was so disliked that “even his own family won’t come to court to defend him.” Separate investigations by Penn State and the National Science Foundation cleared Mann of any wrongdoing.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

But in the intervening decades, the region’s rivers were dammed or channeled and the fossil fuel era dawned across Appalachia. The paper suggests that all of this might have happened in violation of federal law. Mountaintop Mining. The new research highlights how, even as the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

In the summer of 2022, faced with a very real opportunity to confront the fossil fuel industry, potentially forcing the facility to halt oil train shipments entirely, the city instead chose to strike a compromise that allows the oil facility to continue to operate. You’re in the driver’s seat.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2021

McCoy also said that the company’s public support for a carbon tax was a “talking point” and an “advocacy tool” — a policy that Exxon saw as unlikely to ever pass into law, which made supporting it an easy way to make the company appear to be a good faith actor on climate policy. The revelations were first reported by Channel 4 News.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 6, 2021

That high level of interest by developers “was very robust and possibly beyond initial expectations” when the laws were passed, said Dan Burgess, director of the Governor’s Energy Office. “I The laws mostly paved the way for new solar generation development.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 2, 2021

That high level of interest by developers “was very robust and possibly beyond initial expectations” when the laws were passed, said Dan Burgess, director of the Governor’s Energy Office. “I The laws mostly paved the way for new solar generation development.

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2022

Even then, it was an aspirational goal: One writer referred to it as both “ necessary and inaccessible.”. It doesn’t contradict the laws of chemistry and physics to get to 1.5 ‘We are at a crossroads’: New IPCC report says it’s fossil fuels or our future. As of 2020, the planet had already warmed by 1.2

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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. Shell Norco.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Judge Jeffrey Meyer rejected Shell’s argument “in quite strong terms,” and suggested setting a trial date for May, according to Chris Kilian, vice president of strategic litigation at the Conservation Law Foundation and one of the attorneys in the case, which CLF brought in 2021.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 7, 2023

But the directive is facing concerted opposition from a branch of the fossil fuel industry that receives relatively little scrutiny: Suppliers of liquefied petroleum gas, or LPG, who see the proposed boiler phase-out as an existential threat to their $40 billion business. It’s shameless.” This is a marketing tactic, it’s propaganda.”

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