DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Climate and energy policy experts say electrifying vehicles is necessary to mitigate these emissions. Tags: electric vehicles Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) climate science denial ExxonMobil Koch Union of Concerned Scientists Energy and Policy Institute In the U.S.,

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 31, 2020

Read time: 4 mins The Supreme Court of Ireland has ruled in favour of an environmental group challenging the Irish government’s climate plans, finding its policies did not meet legal requirements for detailing how the country will meet emissions-reduction targets.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 12, 2020

Read time: 6 mins Could the climate crisis precipitate a financial crash akin to or even greater than the one in 2008? With markets currently in turmoil due to the coronavirus pandemic, experts testified Thursday that there is high risk for an even larger economic crisis absent urgent climate policy.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2023

BusinessGreen rounds up the most widely read stories on the site this week OVO to offer heat pumps at lower cost than gas boilers Energy supplier touts new offer promising heat pumps at cheaper price tag and running costs than conventional gas boilers. -

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Read time: 4 mins Koch Industries, the second largest privately held company in the United States, has significantly increased its lobbying spending this year, including efforts to influence policy on key climate and transportation issues and legislation. Tags: koch industries kochvsclean lobbying John Barrasso

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 9, 2020

Read time: 6 mins Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has doubled down on his refusal to strengthen his administration’s approach to climate policy as his country burns. Tags: infowars Newswars alex jones myron ebell patrick michaels Tony Abbott global warming policy foundation christopher monckton rupert murdoch

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Read time: 3 mins Organisations promoting climate science denial and anti-environmentalism in Europe share the same rhetoric, narratives and right-wing links as their US counterparts, new research has found.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Chamber of Commerce over its lobbying on climate change issues published a report today criticizing the pro-business lobbying and advocacy group for continuing to push for pro-fossil fuel policies despite recognizing that climate change is real. Read time: 5 mins A new campaign targeting the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 10, 2020

Read time: 5 mins As California works to shift away from fossil fuels to meet its climate goals , one of the state's largest suppliers of fossil energy is fighting tooth-and-nail against this energy transition, even to the point of taking California to court over its energy policy.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 3, 2020

Read time: 6 mins Opponents of a regional proposal to curb transportation sector emissions in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic are using a number of deceptive tactics to attack and criticize the Transportation and Climate Initiative.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 19, 2020

Read time: 4 mins Advocates for holding fossil fuel companies accountable in court for the substantial costs of climate change are urging New Jersey to sue oil majors like ExxonMobil, as over a dozen municipal and state governments have done over the past three years.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 7, 2020

Tags: Southern California Gas Company San Luis Obispo Gas Industry fossil fuel front groups climate policy Californians for Balanced Energy Solutions

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 1, 2021

Read time: 4 mins By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network. Almost 150 lawyers, academics and policy-makers from around the world have written to the court , urging it “to mitigate the profound harm” which they say will be caused by its judgement allowing the government to go ahead with its plans to expand Heathrow.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

How the climate crisis will crash the economy. Even before all that, we’d been watching the real-world risks of climate change looming and growing across the United States and around the world. The financial climate, it seems, has been as unforgiving as the atmospheric one. Joel Makower. Mon, 09/14/2020 - 02:11.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 4, 2021

Until very recently, investor demands regarding environmental impact largely have focused on the climate crisis and greenhouse gas emissions. Most investors and companies still don’t put a price tag on natural capital, or the cost of losing it, and biodiversity becoming a top "theme" only means people have begun talking about it.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 2, 2020

Read time: 3 mins In its latest end of year accounts, the Global Warming Policy Foundation ( GWPF ), the UK ’s most prominent climate science denial group, has reported that its total income has increased by around £75,000 over the last year – an increase of almost 20 percent.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Read time: 8 mins DeSmog UK ’s first editor, Brendan Montague, shares his personal experience of investigating climate science deniers at the time of Climategate. Fred Singer Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) Benny Peiser institute of economic affairs Tags: Climategate Nigel Lawson Christopher Monkton S.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Chicago last week brought the newest lawsuit against Big Oil companies for spreading disinformation about the climate-warming hazards of burning fossil fuels — adding the third largest city in the U.S. BP is simultaneously reneging on its climate pledges and increasing its production of oil and gas. “At

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 30, 2020

Read time: 11 mins While fossil fuel companies defend against mounting climate liability lawsuits in court, their surrogates are working in parallel to target the attorneys, academics, and institutions supporting these lawsuits. Tags: ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) chris horner Energy Policy Advocates climate liability

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

This story is part of Covering Climate Now , a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story. . Its leadership is facing calls to simultaneously increase its ambition to tackle climate change and cut the very regulations that would deliver reductions in globe-warming pollution.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Social media influencers were paid to boost the UAE’s climate credentials in and around COP28 in what appears to be a coordinated PR effort by the oil-dependent host nation, DeSmog can reveal. Researchers identified at least five high-profile Instagram accounts which appeared to promote the UAE as a climate leader during the summit.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Read time: 9 mins Fossil fuel interests appear intent on swaying public opinion about the electric vehicle tax credit, based on recent polling on the policy. Tags: kochvsclean EV tax credit IER American Energy Alliance tom pyle Mike McKenna

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 21, 2019

On last Thursday evening, Bloomberg reported that Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey is proceeding with the state’s case against ExxonMobil for “engaging in unfair or deceptive acts or practices” in its efforts to cast doubt on climate science.

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2022

UK and US researchers have run the numbers on the huge costs of runaway climate change – and the myriad benefits of achieving net zero emissions. How much could climate change impacts cost the UK economy, and how much will it cost the UK to decarbonise and avoid the worst of these impacts? per cent by 2050 rising to 7.4

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Clean transport advocates point out £30bn price tag for railway electrification is in the same ball park as budget for road building. The budget for road building is £34bn so spending more to make the climate emergency worse is better than spending less to reduce carbon.".

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 10, 2021

The UK government has defended its decision to celebrate representatives of companies involved in Canada’s controversial tar sands industry as “Climate Champions”, ahead of the COP26 UN climate summit it is set to host later this year. TAG), the largest natural gas transporter in Brazil.

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2021

It is clear that unprecedented levels of investment will be needed to enable countries to both recover and transition to climate and nature-smart economies. In this context, policy makers, the private sector, and investors are asking whether the solutions to these challenges can be linked.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Green businesses contend the social media giant's policies are treating their adverts in the same way as campaigns from 'dark money' funded lobbyists, undermining the timeliness and effectiveness of their marketing messages in the process. But, as Fidler points out, she was trying to advertise a careers event, not make a political point.

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2021

Confirmed speakers include climate scientist Michael E Mann, former Energy and Climate Change Secretary Amber Rudd, Schroders' CEO Peter Harrison, Bank of America President (International) Bernard Mensah, Nomad Foods CEO Stefan Descheemaeker, NatWest CEO Alison Rose, Bertrand Piccard of the Solar Impulse Foundation, and many others.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

It is important not to overstate the strength of arguments against climate action that have repeatedly falied to gain traction. None of this passes the sniff test, even before you consider the neo-climate denial it is built upon. And that's it. The public is not stupid.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

With attempts to deny the seriousness of the climate crisis and discredit the feasibility of clean technologies overwhelmed by observable reality those opposed to climate action have increasingly turned to questioning the cost of decarbonisation. Moreover, this price tag is for capital investments, not costs.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

As green groups slam the government's 'attack on nature', the opposition is this week seeking to make bolder climate action central to its offer to the country. Labour's new green energy policy is a case in point.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 1, 2020

Large environmental nonprofits can play a key role in shaping policy and regulation around cleantech. Kit Kennedy, senior director of the climate and clean energy program at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), spends her time promoting renewable and sustainable solutions to problems that face the public.

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Front And Centered

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

If Washington wants to stand as a national leader on environmental policy and climate action, its lawmakers must do better to protect all of its people and the health conditions of where we live and work. BlueGreen Alliance | Centro Latino | Children’s Alliance | Casa Latina | Citizens for a Healthy Bay | Climate Solutions.

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Business Green

MAY 26, 2022

Research by Inside Housing has put a price tag of £104bn on decarbonising all the UK's homes, with an upper estimate of £250bn - equivalent to just under a quarter of the government's total projected spending for 2022-23. Unfortunately, that doesn't necessarily spell money for the private sector.

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Terra Infirma

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The weekly bin collection policy was ditched by his Government the following year. In 2010, the Secretary of State Eric Pickles claimed ‘It’s a basic right for every English man and woman to be able to put the remnants of their chicken tikka masala in their bin without having to wait a fortnight for it to be collected.’

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Truss's first speech as PM touts vision for 'aspiration nation' characterised by tax cuts and business-led growth, but leaves out any mention of net zero, nature, or the climate crisis. Our country was built by people who get things done," said Truss.

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