DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Climate change” describes only the result of fossil fuel-based greenhouse gases. A term like “fossil fueled-destruction” would name the cause as well as the effect. They are polluting in plain sight. The fossil fuel industry hid for decades what it knew about the impacts of its products.

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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

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

DECEMBER 10, 2021

An in-depth article by the website Carbon Brief argues that the fuel is unlikely to be taken up universally, particularly as “the volume required to satisfy all the possible applications for low-carbon hydrogen would likely far exceed the amount available, even if production is significantly scaled up.”. Political Access.

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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 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

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

AUGUST 3, 2023

Policy Exchange, one of Westminster’s most prominent think tanks, engaged in a high-level influencing campaign over the UK’s North Sea oil and gas policies while being funded by fossil fuel interests, DeSmog can reveal. Fossil fuel firms tout CCUS and hydrogen as green energy solutions, yet the reality is more complicated.

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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

APRIL 21, 2022

The UK is also a leading member of the Powering Past Coal Alliance , a coalition of governments and businesses supporting a transition away from the fuel. The Adani Group has faced opposition in India for its coal extraction and pollution, and protests in Australia over its Carmichael coal mine. Adani Group did not respond.

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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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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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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2020

Read time: 6 mins Pennsylvania, traditionally a battleground state in electoral politics, is currently embroiled in a battle over the state potentially joining a regional program to curb carbon pollution from the power sector. Participating states have then used that revenue to invest in energy efficiency and clean energy programs.

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The Verge: Energy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Each year, greenhouse gas pollution has continued to grow globally. The long-term goal is to reach net-zero greenhouse gas pollution globally by the middle of the century. Notably, the report uses language that somehow still tries to include fossil fuels in a future with clean energy. Carbon emissions?

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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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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. Are we up to the challenge?

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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

JANUARY 24, 2024

The GWPF’s director Benny Peiser has claimed that it would be “extraordinary anyone should think there is a climate crisis”, while the group has also expressed the view that carbon dioxide has been mis-characterised as pollution, when in fact it is a “benefit to the planet”.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

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. The findings are part of analysis of the latest official registers of interest by DeSmog, based on new research by campaign group Fossil Free Parliament.

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Energy Central

JUNE 2, 2022

We, therefore, by necessity need to continue relying on fossil fuels being extracted, processed, transported, and burned. What they don’t admit is that through these actions they are aiding and abetting pollution leading to 1 in 6.

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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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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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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

New licences were also awarded this week to fossil fuel giants Shell and Equinor. This is despite the International Energy Agency stating that new fossil fuel exploration is “incompatible” with the Paris Agreement target of limiting global heating to 1.5C. Spencer has publicly advocated for the fossil fuel industry.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2021

Global assessment of soil pollution warns of major threat to food supplies unless urgent action is taken to accelerate adoption of sustainable farming practices and tackle industrial waste. The knowledge gap on soils affected by diffuse pollution and its impact on other environmental compartments is even greater.".

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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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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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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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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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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

After new evidence emerged last week showing that oil major Shell internally acknowledged the dangers of their fossil fuel products decades ago, a member of Congress is renewing his previous call for the U.S. A separate letter from U.S. In a 1985 journal article , Shell employee T.G.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 30, 2021

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. What’s more these false solutions keep lining the pockets of Big Polluters.

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Terra Infirma

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Their complaint implied that their day job should somehow allow them to pollute – otherwise they wouldn’t have mentioned what they did for a living. Whatever the final agreement at COP, I suspect there will be a loophole for OPEC to cling to the belief that ‘abated fossil fuels’ will form part of the future.

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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

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

as a global climate solution, with some industry boosters even going so far as to call Canada’s supply of the fossil fuel the “cleanest in the world.” C is to stop building new fossil fuel projects. Oil and gas companies have for years marketed fracked gas from B.C. This could have dire health impacts.

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2023

However, while the fuels are seen as a more sustainable alternative to biofuels they remain in their infancy and are significantly more expensive than other types of engine fuel. Now is not the time to put domestic political interests ahead of the health and welfare of our planet and EU citizens, and indeed of future generations.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The impacts have become so clear that contrarians, fossil fuel interests, polluters, conservative media personalities and media organisations that advocate for them… can no longer claim that [climate change] is not happening because people can see it with their own eyes," he said. You can register for a free pass here.

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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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