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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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 27, 2023

The analysis by researchers at the University of Waterloo, published today in partnership with the organization Stand.earth, has found that the total cumulative value of six major U.S. without the fossil fuel holdings. The analysis found that while the total actual value of the six funds was $402.8

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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

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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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

But it was canceled without explanation by conference organizers several weeks before it was due to begin. The event aims to bring together policymakers and liquified natural gas (LNG), natural gas, and hydrogen players to explore new avenues for fossil fuel expansion. Their little gatherings shouldn’t happen in peace.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Oil spills may be dramatic and devastating, but they’re not the biggest contributor to ocean oil pollution — not by a long shot. A report released Wednesday gives that distinction to fossil fuel runoff from highways, parking lots, and other land-based infrastructure, mostly transportation related. and Canada.

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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

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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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2023

Elite law schools in the United States are disproportionately funneling their students into jobs serving fossil fuel clients, according to a new report published Thursday. LSCA, an organization of law students working to hold the legal sector accountable for its role in the climate crisis, has previously scrutinized the top ranked U.S.

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Energy Central

JANUARY 29, 2024

What they found were volatile organic compounds in sufficient amounts to be potential pollution hazards for those living downwind of the site. These chemicals could become widely dispersed in the environment polluting soil and water.

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The City Fix

MAY 17, 2021

Vehicle traffic is also a major source of toxic air pollutants like NOx, volatile organic compounds and carbon monoxide, accounting for 18%, 21%. In densely urbanized Hong Kong, transport is the second largest source of greenhouse gas emissions, at 18%. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2022

A new report attempts to provide a diagnostic of the scale of the ocean pollution challenge facing humanity. The Invisible Wave: Getting to zero chemical pollution in the ocean has been prodeuced by Back to Blue, an initiative of Economist Impact and The Nippon Foundation.

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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 methane impact of organic waste vs fossil fuel emissions. Read more here:Â .

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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

JUNE 12, 2021

The report — titled “ The Big Con: How Big Polluters Are Advancing a “Net Zero” Climate Agenda to Delay, Deceive, and Deny ” — was published by Corporate Accountability, the Global Forest Coalition, and Friends of the Earth International, and is endorsed by over 60 environmental organizations.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2024

Since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015, a small number of fossil fuel entities — just 57 corporate and state producers — have been responsible for 80 percent of planet-warming carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. And a majority of those actors have only expanded production in the intervening years. million barrels of oil.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2020

Air pollution is not a new problem in the UK – the London smog of 1952 killed 12,000 people. Since then, the effects of climate change, major industry and lifestyle changes have altered the air that we breathe, for example, coal-burning has dramatically declined, while increased road transport has led to new air pollutants.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 24, 2023

If it’s flooded, it could then pollute the surrounding wetlands, he added. With these permit exemptions, Nopetro LNG and Venture Global avoided lengthy environmental reviews to begin building two polluting facilities as fast as possible near Black communities in the Gulf of Mexico. But more than three-fourths of the U.S-produced

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The Environmental Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

It’s no secret that pollution and waste are big problems in today’s world. Here’s why: Less Pollution When we use less packaging, we create less pollution. Making, moving, and getting rid of packaging takes a ton of energy, usually from fossil fuels. All those mountains of packaging waste?

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The UK organizers of the COP26 climate conference very publicly declined to offer international oil companies any slots in the conference or any formal role in the event, and oil companies without credible climate programs were also barred from sponsoring events at the high-stakes international talks currently underway.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 5, 2021

More than 100 billion tons of resources enter the economy every year — everything from metals, minerals and fossil fuels to organic materials from plants and animals. Each year, huge quantities of fossil fuels are used to produce clothes from synthetic fibers each year. 5 opportunities of a circular economy.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2022

World leaders aren’t doing enough to address pollution at its source, leaving nearly 9 million people each year to die from its effects. That’s the message delivered on Tuesday by public health experts from the Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health, a high-profile panel of scientific experts. named for their diameter of just 2.5

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2024

The researchers set out to convert pollutants from wastewater into semiconductor biohybrids directly in the wastewater environment. The work was led by Professor GAO Xiang from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Professor LU Lu from the Harbin Institute of Technology.

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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

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Italian oil major Eni knew of the climate impacts of fossil fuel extraction since 1970, according to a report by Greenpeace Italy and advocacy group ReCommon shared with DeSmog.

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

At COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, world leaders will focus on the seemingly overwhelming task of fast-tracking the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions while lessoning our dependence on fossil fuels. Two days later, Urban Transitions 2022 gets underway in Sitges,

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

A group of over 100 creators, experts and educators have released a joint letter urging global PR firm Edelman to stop working with fossil fuel companies. Alongside other PR brands, Edelman has helped promote the use of plastics and fossil fuels. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, one of the organizers of the letter.

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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. On top of the financial risks from abandoned wells, the fossil fuel industry brings numerous environmental and public health hazards as well. Well pad near Roswell, NM. Credit: BLM. (CC

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 27, 2022

The World Health Organization has reported that climate change contributes to approximately 150,000 deaths annually. To protect our communities and save taxpayer dollars, we need to slow these costly impacts by reducing carbon pollution now – at the same time we accelerate the clean energy solutions that will power our future prosperity. .

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

An international group of scientists has cautioned against reliance on mechanical cleanup devices as a means of addressing the plastic pollution crisis. Their commentary has been published as world leaders prepare to resume discussions on the Treaty at the third meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 1, 2021

Today it’s relatively expensive and highly polluting. But these organizations can’t do it alone. Labor unions and trade associations have important roles to play in charting a just and sustainable transition from fossil fuels to renewables. Urging clean energy and justice for tribal nations. Roger Sorkin.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 12, 2023

have ties to polluting companies and organizations, including major fossil fuel companies, according to a new DeSmog analysis. It reveals that 82 percent of board members at these six banks currently hold or have held positions with climate-conflicted organizations.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 2, 2024

The county argues oil companies’ “campaigns to deceive and mislead the public about the damaging nature of their fossil fuel products” delayed climate action for decades, robbing communities of precious time to mitigate the climate-driven disasters they now face.

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Grist

MARCH 8, 2024

It’s been six years since cities in California started the trend of taking Big Oil to court for deceiving the public about the consequences of burning fossil fuels. The long delays might have strengthened the legal arguments against fossil fuel companies. Last year, the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

billion in new subsidies to oil and gas companies, and other heavy emitters, for expanding the production of fossil fuels, according to climate experts. We need to keep in mind that this is about reducing emissions and not reducing production,” the organization said last year in a separate submission, as revealed by DeSmog. “We

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

"There’s a lot of beautiful things that happen out of [Richmond]," says Khamphanthong, a community organizer with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network whose family emigrated from Laos in the 1980s. The overall "cap" lowers every year, forcing polluters to reduce their emissions or purchase allowances from others who do. As the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 21, 2023

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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