ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Given the challenges of energy transition, Europe is optimally positioned to lead this movement by implementing political and economic policies that will incentivize oil and gas companies to leave fossil fuels behind and make the transition to deep geothermal. He founded his law firm in Berlin in 1992. degrees Celsius.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

The report comes four months after the two organizations announced a lawsuit against the company alleging Eni used “lobbying and greenwashing” to push for more oil and gas production, despite having known about the risks fossil fuels posed over the past 53 years.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 25, 2023

“I even took off my farm boots and wore high heels to come here today,” Camila Telles told the audience of political activists, business executives, and students at April’s Liberty Forum, an annual conservative gathering in Brazil sponsored by the Atlas Network. Some camps supported the reelection of populist strongman Jair Bolsonaro.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Conway, authors of the classic 2010 book Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming , have released a new book placing that doubt machine into a longer arc of U.S. business and political history. kilowatt output,” according to the book.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Bespectacled, tall, and barrel-chested, with blonde hair and a beard punctuated by gray, Cole stood confidently before a classroom of conference attendees at a University of Oregon environmental law symposium in 2008, less than a year before his death. Abascal gave Cole a desk and a phone, and Cole got to work. Early Influences.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Imagine you woke up in 2030 to find that Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia had done little to slow the global warming that cooked the Cascadia region this year. We have not kept pace with the scope of the crisis,” Oregon Global Warming Commission Chair Catherine Macdonald wrote to legislators that month.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The Assembly is a network of social, environmental, and political groups that have banded together to oppose offshore oil drilling along Argentina’s Atlantic coast. The company’s stock immediately jumped by nearly 9 percent after the law was changed. When the law passed, the public reaction was immediate and intense.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

That sends a clear political message that the industry “is less powerful and trusted than before,” Nick Caleb, a climate and energy attorney with Breach Collective, told DeSmog. Nuclear physicist Edward Teller warned the oil industry at an API event in 1959 that global warming might melt the polar ice caps and submerge coastal cities.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 23, 2021

Rapid progress towards establishing net zero industry clusters can be facilitated by making best use of regional resources and organizations. Political will must be galvanized and renewed as we emerge from the fall-out of Covid-19, and energies refocused on climate change as soon as resource is available. Policy-driven benefits.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

“There’s no shortage of ideas; there’s no shortage of legislation that’s out there, but it’s all about what is in the realm of the political right now,” said Murkowski, the Alaska Republican who chairs the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Instead of enjoying carefree childhood hobbies , they are protesting, litigating, organizing, and public speaking about the importance of policy-based climate solutions. Look up parent-centric climate organizations like Parents for Future , Climate Mama , Science Moms , Climate Action Families.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

This is “due to the sector’s role in driving global warming, and the seismic risks that climate change and the energy transition present to the industry,” he explained. The reverse is also true: litigation brought by outside organizations against oil and gas companies can influence shareholders and, in turn, increase pressure.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Every policy, law, regulation, study, analysis, proposal or action that has the climate crisis in mind is built on the basis of those two figures: 1.5 Like a chicken and egg dilemma, who came up with these goals first, politics or science? Political Origins of 2°C. That paragraph, in article 2, paragraph 2.a.,

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

“Climate litigation is a formidable tool to put pressure on the State and ask to strengthen its efforts in the climate fight,” said Marica Di Pierri, spokesperson for A Sud, the organization bringing the lawsuit. “As That’s why we have decided to [bring] the first Italian climate lawsuit.”.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

More than a decade after its first introduction, a national green bank bill is back before Congress, with much more funding than previous versions proposed over the past two years, and a far greater chance to be passed into law, its backers say. Democrats now hold a slender majority in both houses of Congress.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

utilities are on track to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 80 percent by 2030 compared to a 2005 baseline, the target needed to prevent global warming beyond 1.5 Achieving the clean energy transition we and these organizations envision will require supportive policy," Duke spokesperson Erin Culbert said in an email. "We

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Rinexii

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Phil Sharp, Former RFF President has said, “The American people seem far more unified than our political leadership on the need to address climate change. The two major parties worked together to bring clean air and clean water acts into law, and the results were very beneficial for the United States. It’s true.

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Trump wants to delay certification of the election results and then get Republican legislatures to change the laws of their state so that they can flout the democratic will of the electorate and give him their state’s electoral votes. He certainly wants to delegitimize Biden’s presidency, but there is something far more sinister at work here.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 30, 2020

Aidan Dresang is a climate justice advocate and digital organizer from Madison, Wisconsin. This passion quickly turned into community organizing and eventually led to his involvement with YCAT where he served as one of their executive directors. "I Karen Dong is an organizer from Watchung, New Jersey and currently resides in New York.

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Grist

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The spectacle of waiting for so many white people to collectively see the cost of their political choices to themselves is an expedient way to go mad. We surely would be in a different place if COVID-19 and global warming slammed Americans of all races, regions, and classes at the same time, allowing no room for denial of their impact.

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Charged

APRIL 1, 2020

“One thing we’ve learned from the Trump administration is be careful what you ask for,” said David Victor, Director of the Laboratory on International Law and Regulation at the University of California, San Diego. Instead what they got was the populist politics of the far right, which is blowing up in their faces.”. The oil industry.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

.” That apparent conservation activist was, in fact, an infamous climate change disinformation artist : Marc Morano, who’s done more than perhaps any other person to manufacture doubt about global warming. million advertising blitz in favor of another disastrous energy law. In 2019, Ohioans weathered a $9.5

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

A “high ambition” coalition of nations such as France, Tuvalu, Ethiopia, and Ireland backed by climate scientists, climate and civil society organizations , and the UN Secretary General , are calling for commitments to phase out coal, oil, and gas. percent of current global energy sector emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 23, 2022

It took pressure from the whole world seeing Putin’s “horrific international law and human rights abuse,” Romanko said, for most of them to publicly announce they would pull out of their stakes in Rosneft, Gazprom, or other joint ventures. “Putin has deliberately weaponized fossil gas.” ” – Svitlana Romanko.

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Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

As changing weather patterns driven by global warming have extended California’s wildfire season and increased the intensity and size of the infernos burning across the state, residents who don’t take precautions do so at their own peril. According to Emily Williams, a Ph.D. particulate matter are designated as “unhealthy.”

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

But now, with global warming knocking on our door, the case for mitigation and adaptation solutions is making more and more financial sense. To date, insurance and financial organizations have relied upon predictive risk models based on historical trends. We believe this represents the biggest opportunity of our generation?—?to

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

Photo Credit: REUTERS While some politicians and citizens continue to deny the existence of man-made global warming, the evidence supporting it continues to grow. The UCSUSA points out that “Consequences of global warming include drought, sea level rise, flooding, extreme weather, and species loss.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 11, 2015

Del Chiaro has taken these two attributes and poured them into her career of working in public policy to help pass green laws and regulations. Signed into law in 2006, the legislation created a mandate to put 3,000 megawatts of solar on California roofs by the end of 2016. People are now realizing that we’re in this together.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 29, 2021

There are tens of thousands of known orphaned oil and gas wells in the United States and thousands of abandoned wells that were never properly plugged that are leaking methane and emitting other toxins that threaten the environment and contribute to global warming. Calling for a Smarter Solution.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 29, 2019

Blame Bolsonaro Opposition politicians, student activists, and Indigenous organizations have called for a congressional investigation into the cause of the fires. This includes changing environmental rules, defunding government oversight, failing to enforce existing laws and dissolving the Amazon fund's committees.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 9, 2019

This debate was organized around five themes: Leadership in Canada and the world / Polarization, human rights and immigration / Indigenous issues / affordability and income security / environment and energy. -- Hon. The UN is a dysfunctional organization, and we must be able to fight for our country. Thank you.

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