DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Industry trade associations in the United States that work on climate and energy issues spent more than $3 billion over 10 years on political activities, according to a new study that sheds light on trade associations’ role in influencing policies and obstructing climate action. billion on climate-related political activities.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The UK organisers of the upcoming COP26 climate summit have come under fire for approving just two events that refer to fossil fuels, the primary driver of climate change, in a programme of public events happening alongside the main conference. In 2018, 89 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions came from fossil fuels and industry.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 11, 2022

The New Scientist magazine has quietly dropped fossil fuel sponsorship of its science festival amid mounting pressure from climate campaigners. However, the New Scientist Live (NSL) festival, which runs in Manchester this weekend, has no fossil fuel sponsors or exhibitors listed on its website.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2024

Fossil fuel giants BP and Shell were given “ample opportunity” to privately influence proposals for taxing oil and gas companies that were later backed by the government, new documents reveal. Polluters are given allowances that allow them to emit only a set quota of carbon; if they exceed their allowances they can be fined.

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Grist

APRIL 4, 2022

Greenhouse gas emissions must peak within the next three years, and in the next eight, the world must push fossil fuels aside, rapidly scaling up the use of clean energy like wind and solar. The authors’ top recommendation: Immediately move away from fossil fuels and replace them with renewable technologies.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Juliet Philips, senior policy advisor at the thinktank E3G, described it as “a bit of a red herring as a low-carbon solution”. DeSmog has mapped the sprawling network of fossil fuel companies, trade associations, PR firms and other organisations behind the push for hydrogen, which offers some clues. Political Access.

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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND – Only two of the 35 stalls lauding countries’ green credentials at the COP26 UN climate summit mention the need to cut fossil fuel production — the chief cause of the carbon emissions driving climate change. . We urge all leaders to put people and the planet over the profit of the fossil fuel industry.”.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

This net zero scepticism has quickly entered the upper echelons of Westminster politics, with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak saying that policies to achieve the UK’s legally binding climate targets shouldn’t “hassle” households and should be “proportionate and pragmatic”.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2024

One of the major backers of broadcaster GB News is now employing a leading right-wing lobbying company that has ties to polluting interests. CT Group was founded by political consultant and lobbyist Lynton Crosby in 2002. Hiring CT Group appears to be the latest attempt by the Legatum Group to expand its political influence.

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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. None of which need be a show-stopper.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 24, 2024

The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) filed its latest accounts on 18 January, showing an income of £280,000 for the year ending 30 September 2023, a drop of £110,000 from the previous year. Pearson has claimed that green policies will cause “life as we know it” to “[return] to the pre-industrial age”.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 15, 2023

His Majesty the King alleges Canada’s policies and actions that perpetuate fossil fuels and worsen the climate crisis amount to violations of youths’ fundamental rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Initially filed in 2019 by 15 young Canadians, La Rose v. Manson dismissed the suit in an October 2020 ruling.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs) are informal cross-party groups of MPs and Lords which discuss issues and try to influence policy around a specific subject area. DeSmog can reveal that three APPGs received benefits in the past two years from think tanks whose funders or members include major polluters, including Shell and Equinor.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The UK's export credit agency could support up to 42,000 jobs around the UK by 2035 if it switches it support for overseas fossil fuel projects to renewables and clean energy infrastructure, according to a major new analysis from Vivid Economics.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Pollution, poverty and race collide in many other disadvantaged communities across California — and the country — and some argue that the state’s climate policies haven’t helped. The overall "cap" lowers every year, forcing polluters to reduce their emissions or purchase allowances from others who do.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

New licences were also awarded this week to fossil fuel giants Shell and Equinor. It’s clear there is no public benefit from the policy… But new fields could make a tidy little profit for a handful of oil and gas executives and their shareholders, including Conservative Party donors.” The Conservatives received £3.5

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2024

In Colorado, fossil fuel interests are vigorously opposing legislative bills meant to clean up the state’s heavily polluted air. Instead, several have retained fossil fuel lobbyists to work on their behalf. Weld County also employs Capitol Solutions, a lobbying firm it shares with the Kiewit Corp.,

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2021

Solar and wind power could push fossil fuels out of the electricity sector by the mid-2030s and out of the energy supply system altogether by 2050, as clean energy costs continue to plummet and governments pursue policies designed to ditch fossil fuels for cheap, home-grown renewables. per cent of daily sunshine.".

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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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Front And Centered

MARCH 26, 2024

The following is a statement by the Front and Centered Coalition Leadership regarding I-2117: The campaign to repeal these recently enacted laws represents a reckless and bad faith effort by a wealthy individual and his politics of despair and division to undermine well-intentioned policy for the environment, education, and healthcare.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The meetings – which include in-person talks with the then Business and Energy Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng and his minister Greg Hands (now the Conservative Party chairman) – are revealed in research by Fossil Free Parliament (FFP), a group campaigning against fossil fuel influence on UK politics.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 2, 2021

As states and the federal government take steps to transition away from fossil fuel generation, it is important to pay attention to recent clean energy developments in states where energy legislation has historically been less proactive, and the traditional integrated utility monopoly model has held influence over the policymaking process.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 14, 2020

Late last year, the European Union introduced a $1 trillion plan to reach carbon neutrality by 2050 and achieve a just transition away from polluting technologies. Europe’s Green Deal enjoys strong backing from many of the EU’s top political figures. But it faces pushback from coal-heavy member states.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 12, 2023

The US-based organisation – which has links to a network of fossil fuel funded think tanks and advocacy groups – has opposed climate-friendly measures in Europe, such as the phase-out of petrol cars and green farming reforms, despite being removed from the lobby register over a year ago.

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Business Green

MAY 24, 2022

The steel, which has just a fraction of the climate footprint of conventional steel, has been provided by SSAB, one of a handful of Swedish firms behind the world's first fossil-fuel-free steel plant, the HYBRIT facility in northern Sweden. That is, to a large extent, a political decision.".

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 30, 2021

Net zero” is equally stamped all over international, EU and national climate policies. What it really means is that while some greenhouse gas emissions will be cut, fossil fuels will continue to be burnt but will be ‘balanced’ or ‘offset’ with an ‘equivalent’ amount of so-called ‘carbon removal’. Big Polluters.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2024

Hintze, a Conservative peer and hedge fund manager, was one of the early funders of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , founded by the late Conservative chancellor Nigel Lawson. Steve has never discussed environmental policy with him. Steve is fully committed to the government’s net zero aims.”

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2021

Investment in clean energy from fossil fuel majors saw a marked uptick during the pandemic in 2020, research suggests. It is beginning to look as though the writing may now be on the wall for polluters that fail to take radical steps to reform their business as quickly as possible.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

Because our economies are still coupled with the burning of fossil fuels, this markedly reduced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In a May 2020 paper in the Oxford Review of Economic Policy, a team of economists led by Cameron Hepburn led a survey to assess the most climate-friendly recovery policies. From Hepburn et al.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

” Even the threat of such cases is having a chilling effect on public environmental policy, Boyd has found. As DeSmog has reported , Jones Day’s clients have included major energy companies such as Chevron and Southern Company, as well as private equity firms with fossil fuel holdings, like Goldman Sachs and Carlyle Group.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2024

The IEA has extensive influence in politics and the media. The group has also received donations from a number of philanthropic trusts accused of channelling funds from the fossil fuel industry and helping to support climate science denial groups. The IEA also received a £21,000 grant from U.S. oil major ExxonMobil in 2005.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Anti-net zero campaigners and climate science deniers are claiming credit for the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s weakening of UK green policies, as a senior official told DeSmog that civil servants were left “scratching their heads” after being ignored by Sunak this week. Household energy efficiency standards would also be dropped.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 13, 2022

New farming policy stripped of ambition to aid nature recovery, says conservation group. Out-of-date farming policies have caused degraded soils, polluted rivers, and extreme loss of wildlife including the disappearance of insects and pollinators. The Government has broken its promise to reform farming post-Brexit.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 23, 2023

million from polluters, fossil fuel interests, and climate deniers in 2022. These policies contravene the International Energy Agency’s warning that new fossil fuel development is incompatible with net zero goals. This comes after DeSmog revealed in March that the Conservatives received £3.5

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