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House Committee Poised for Potential Subpoena of PR Firm for Climate Disinformation

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consulting and PR firm, with a long history of waging influence campaigns for fossil fuel corporations, is under scrutiny by a congressional committee as part of a broader investigation into the decades-long efforts by the oil industry and its allies to block action on the climate crisis. A powerful Washington, D.C.,

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Fossil Fuel Companies Are Promoting ‘Lower Carbon,’ ‘Responsibly Sourced’ Oil and Gas

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Both EQT and Chesapeake will seek certification from outside providers, including a business called Project Canary, which touts its ability to collect data on methane emissions and pollutants from oil and gas wells and offers a certification it calls TrustWell. But meanwhile, the industry’s methane emissions have continued to rapidly rise.

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Mapped: Big Ag’s Routes to Influence at COP28

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“A pink badge is like a country badge, which allows you into the negotiations, so you can track what’s going on,” explains Corporate Europe Observatory researcher Pascoe Sabido, who has extensively tracked the influence of the fossil fuel industry at the annual COP climate summits.

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Investigation: How the Meat Industry is Climate-Washing its Polluting Business Model

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A study published in Science last year found that even if emissions from fossil fuels ceased right away, projected eating habits would make it impossible to keep global average temperature rises to 1.5C. That’s what these people in these positions are paid to do”, she says, referring to trade associations such as the IMS and AAA.

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How to build a green hydrogen refinery for the maritime industry in Rotterdam

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Why focus on creating sustainable marine fuels? > Eventually all fossil fuels are to be replaced with a sustainable alternative, hopefully some time before 2050. At Mr. Sustainability however, we are not interested in replacing all fuels. We focus on the maritime industry for a reason. No surprise there.

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How to build a green hydrogen refinery for the maritime industry in Rotterdam

Mr. Sustainability

Why focus on creating sustainable marine fuels? Because sea going vessels are hard to electrify and we are Mr. Sustainability Eventually all fossil fuels are to be replaced with a sustainable alternative, hopefully some time before 2050. We however are not interested in replacing all fuels. No surprise there.

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Where Does All The Radioactive Fracking Waste Go?

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And since 1997 about one million barrels worth of oilfield waste has been brought to Lotus’s disposal site, situated off a dusty desert road located 19 miles west of Andrews, Texas (and just several miles from a massive solar array financed by Facebook and which provides energy to Shell’s fracking operations).

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