DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2024

Half of the board members at the world’s six largest advertising and public relations companies have ties to polluting industries, DeSmog can reveal. Over the past two years, they have collectively held at least 163 contracts with fossil fuel clients, according to research by DeSmog and campaign group Clean Creatives.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Global advertising and public relations company WPP has more contracts with fossil fuel clients than any of its rivals, despite the group’s pledge to reach net zero emissions by 2030, according to a report by campaign group Clean Creatives. Omnicom followed with 39 contracts; Interpublic Group had 25; and Publicis Groupe had 11. “The

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2022

A fossil fuel executive recently told Fortune , “Appalachia is the elephant in the room,” referring to the claim that demand for natural gas is rising, while supply in Appalachia and the United States is falling. But what he gets wrong is that the future does not entail further dependence on fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

The campaigns have been deployed across a number of social media platforms and are part of a global effort to give “millennials a reason to connect emotionally” with oil and gas firms, and to tackle their perception as “the bad guys”. When influencers that people know and respect talk about something, they’re likely to believe them.” ‘We

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 2, 2020

Earlier this year, Pacific Gas & Electric faced pushback from environmental and solar and energy storage industry groups to a plan to deploy natural gas generators to back up communities facing multi-day fire-prevention blackouts. Natural gas vs. diesel vs. solar-storage.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

From the world’s biggest soccer championship to soccer training for kids , from major universities to music festivals and art galleries to — if you can name it, fossil fuel companies have probably sponsored it. Aramco has partnered with Spain’s Laguna de El Hito Nature Reserve to conserve bird species.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Photos I shot in 2022 for DeSmog capture damage from extreme weather events and the continued expansion of the fossil fuel industry — the dominant industry causing global warming. Travis and Nicole Dardar in front of their home in Cameron, Louisiana, near the Venture Global Calcasieu Pass LNG export facility. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

billion into fossil fuel projects around the world since the Paris Climate Agreement was signed in 2015, undercutting global efforts to combat the worsening climate crisis. The Big Shift Global report called on the World Bank to definitively rule out support, both direct and indirect, for fossil fuel projects, which it has yet to do.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 24, 2023

Now, Ivor van Heerden , the former deputy director of Louisiana State University’s Hurricane Center, is concerned about the disastrous and potentially lethal consequences of a hurricane hitting a liquified natural gas (LNG) export terminal under construction south of New Orleans. But more than three-fourths of the U.S-produced

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Green Living Guy

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Renewable energy development is key for Thailand to cut its dependency on fossil fuel imports, as gas-based thermal power generation accounted for nearly 61.3% The post New Study: Thailand’s Natural Gas Reserve is Declining and More Renewable Energy is Key appeared first on The Green Living Guy.

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The Verge: Energy

MARCH 4, 2024

Image: MethaneSAT via EDF A mission to map and track global methane pollution, a powerful greenhouse gas, is scheduled to launch today after years of collaboration between some of the biggest names in tech. It also routinely escapes from oil and gas fields, pipelines, and even home appliances.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2020

City leaders touted the new law , which is intended to tightly restrict future use of natural gas-powered heating and cooling in new construction, as an important part of the city’s plan to slash greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The fuel comes in a variety of “colours”, depending on how it is produced, with almost all hydrogen currently created using fossil gas and termed “grey”. When taking into account methane its climate footprint is “more than 20 percent greater than burning natural gas or coal for heat”, they found. Hydrogen Europe.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Indigenous delegates said they had been amazed at the “wilful ignorance” they encountered when demanding global banks cease financing new fossil fuel projects on their ancestral lands in what is today North America. The scheme would supercool fracked gas from the Permian Basin for export as liquefied natural gas (LNG).

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 25, 2023

The preliminary route shown follows an existing natural gas pipeline owned by the Navajo Nation, running from near Shiprock, New Mexico, to a spot north of Flagstaff, Arizona. This pipeline is a symbol of the ongoing controversies that already divide the Navajo Nation — and New Mexico — over fossil fuel development.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

natural gas production comes from federal leases in the Gulf of Mexico, according to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. gas is produced, have been surprised to find that about 4 percent of the natural gas they pulled from the ground was leaking into the atmosphere. oil production and 1 percent of U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

COP27 has just ended and while the agreement to develop a loss and damage fund is a real victory for vulnerable nations already devastated by climate change impacts, UN climate talks once again failed to address the root cause of these impacts: fossil fuel production. For women, fossil fuel impacts are even more devastating.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

JPMorgan Chase is the world’s biggest financier of fossil fuels, according to environmental organisations. In 2020 the bank pledged to end fossil fuel loans for Arctic oil drilling and phase out loans for coal mining. Fossil Finance.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2021

As global efforts to ramp up the hydrogen industry gain support with big government subsidies, new research casts increasing doubt on the climate credentials of the main recipient of that support, so-called “blue” hydrogen, which is extracted from natural gas and paired with carbon capture technology. What’s the pollution?’”

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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

APRIL 18, 2021

Fossil fuel companies could face legal challenges over their misleading advertising, after a DeSmog investigation uncovered the extent of their “greenwashing” Environmental lawyers ClientEarth have put companies on notice with the publication of the Greenwashing Files. ExxonMobil – “Powering Progress”.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 20, 2021

The push to quickly transition carbon-intensive activities away from fossil fuels while meeting the world’s growing energy needs has put electricity producers and consumers squarely in the forefront of the emerging clean economy. And the era of fossil fuels is hardly over. Subscribe here.

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Grist

JULY 15, 2021

We talk so much about the supreme challenge of reducing emissions — something that already requires transitioning our entire economy away from the burning of fossil fuels, adapting to existing climate threats, and doing all that in a way that at the very least doesn’t add to the burdens of already marginalized communities.

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The Environmental Blog

MARCH 4, 2020

Foregoing fossil fuels, these vehicles are charged directly through a power outlet, generating no harmful emissions, and offering savings in the long run, despite their higher initial price. The question remains, however, how much do they actually help in the reduction of pollution?

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 26, 2021

Inadequate bonding requirements means there is a serious gap in available funding to properly clean up after the fossil fuel industry. million MCF of natural gas in 2020. This record production is fueling New Mexico’s economic recovery and providing $2.8 According to the report, it could cost as much as $8.38

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The Verge: Energy

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A rendering of MethaneSat | Image courtesy of Google Google announced a partnership with the nonprofit Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) today to map methane pollution and oil and gas infrastructure from space. Meanwhile, Google is using AI to map oil and gas infrastructure to create a global map of pollution sources.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2020

liquefied natural gas ( LNG ) market, once the promising golden child of the fossil fuel industry, has a major long-term problem. While it's facing financial disaster due to the current crash in oil and natural gas prices, that's only the short-term threat. Read time: 7 mins The U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Melissa Lem was shocked when she saw an advertisement from a major Canadian fossil fuel lobby group showing young parents and their two children happily cooking a meal over a brand new gas stove. A ‘Fuelling Canada’ ad claims Canada ‘produces the cleanest natural gas in the world.’

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Previous articles discussed the trends in global carbon dioxide emissions , the overall highlights of the Review, the production and consumption of petroleum, and natural gas production and consumption. That was behind oil (31.6%), but ahead of natural gas (23.5%). times 160 pounds, and natural gas emitted 23.5%

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 31, 2024

Football fans, campaigners, and civil society from Africa and beyond have all decried this egregious act of sportswashing by the French major, the top oil and gas extractor in Africa. Despite the glitzy adverts and misleading green claims, TotalEnergies is doubling down on fossil fuel production globally, and especially in Africa.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Just over half of all directors at 30 of the world’s largest insurance companies have affiliations to polluting companies and organisations, reveals an investigation by DeSmog, including several individuals holding senior roles at some of the world’s largest energy companies.

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

Mr. Rockall highlighted a major global problem in which the fossil fuel solution is clearly better than the status quo. Every year, almost four million people die from household air pollution, which is mostly coming from cooking. You don’t need to develop vaccines to stop people dying from air pollution.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

While the focus is usually on fossil fuel emissions as the main climate change culprit, a new analysis by the nonprofit Energy Vision concludes that reducing emissions from organic waste would more steeply reduce methane. The EPA is planning stricter regulations to ensure that oil and gas companies locate and repair methane leaks ASAP.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 16, 2023

fossil fuel firms are pushing to build more than 2,900 miles of natural gas pipelines to feed liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facilities in Louisiana, Texas, and Alaska, in a bid to send more of the fuel to Asia and Europe, a new analysis by Global Energy Monitor shows.

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EDF + Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

By Ben Ratner At the behest of the American Petroleum Institute, the Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to eliminate nationwide limits on methane pollution, sending America’s natural gas industry backwards to the days of uncontrolled emissions. America’s natural gas industry is no different.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

climate talks in Egypt demanded European governments halt a “dash” for the continent’s natural gas. At least nine gas deals have been struck so far on the sidelines of the negotiations – known as COP27 – five involving Africa. percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. We cannot be Europe’s gas station.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 24, 2023

It’s not a question of ‘if,’ it’s just a matter of ‘how soon’” With renewables now the cheapest power source, solar and wind energy are loosening fossil fuels’ grip on the global economy. Demand for coal, oil, and gas is expected to peak this decade, according to the IEA’s new Outlook. degrees of global warming this century.

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