DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Read time: 6 mins There was some speculation that climate-changing emissions might drop this spring as the world went into lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Tags: COVID-19 World Meteorological Organization methane emissions Robert Howarth Permian Basin

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Read time: 11 mins This year — with its converging crises, from the coronavirus pandemic to longstanding racial injustice to climate-related disasters — was also a remarkably active time for climate litigation. Supreme Court fossil fuel companies

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 23, 2020

Read time: 6 mins With major cities and states issuing stay-at-home orders as coronavirus cases have swept throughout the United States, the Trump Administration opened the floodgates for more offshore drilling and issued a permit for a long contested gas export project.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 25, 2020

Surgeons General, recently filed supporting briefs backing a youth climate lawsuit against the federal government because, like the current coronavirus pandemic, the climate crisis poses “unprecedented threats to public health and safety.”. United States air pollution COVID-19 coronavirus Tags: public health Juliana v.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 1, 2020

Tags: coronavirus natural gas prices oil bailout Harold Hamm low oil prices Strategic Petroleum Reserve Congress rushed to pass in order to respond to millions of job losses provided a once-in-a-generation opportunity for corporate lobbying.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 16, 2020

Jay Inslee's widely-praised climate policy during his 2020 presidential run are now calling on congressional Democrats to adopt the bold initiatives included in the plan to make a shift to a renewable energy economy within coronavirus relief legislation. Tags: Jay Inslee COVID-19 joe biden stimulus Evergreen Action

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Tags: American Institute for Economic Research oregon petition COVID-19 COVID Denial This think tank, funded in part through a corporate investment firm with holdings in major oil and petrochemical companies, operates a network for the international business community that partners with other institutions backed by Koch and fossil fuel cash.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 6, 2020

fossil fuel companies have taken at least $50 million in taxpayer money they probably won’t have to pay back, according to a review of coronavirus aid meant for struggling small businesses by the investigative research group Documented and the Guardian.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 12, 2020

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. Tags: financial impacts of climate change Senator Sheldon Whitehouse green swan events subprime mortgage scandal

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 6, 2020

Tags: COVID-19 New Mexico Permian Basin fracking industry fracking health impacts coronavirus They have wondered what effect the industrial pollution might have on them and their son and daughter — even more so now with the COVID -19 pandemic — but with no money to pick up and relocate, they have remained in their home. .

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2020

Recently, President Trump and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin both made clear their intentions to include some sort of bailout for the oil and gas industry as part of the federal government’s emergency economic response to the coronavirus pandemic.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The phrase carried echoes of his remarks on COVID -19 — made at a time when the coronavirus had killed over 156,000 and infected over 4.7 Tags: Donald Trump Hurricane Laura Louisiana COVID-19 extreme weather COVID Denial Texas has had big storms for a long time, he said , and “that’s the way it is.”. million in the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2020

Read time: 9 mins Oil prices collapsed today amid falling energy demand and the global response to the novel coronavirus outbreak , as the number of confirmed COVID -19 cases worldwide reached over 113,000. Tags: OPEC coronavirus oil prices shale oil fracking finances Trump Administration against the actions of other countries.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 18, 2020

Read time: 11 mins The head of a federal committee tasked with advising the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) on air quality science recently disparaged a new Harvard study examining the link between air pollution and coronavirus fatalities across the country.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 18, 2020

Read time: 7 mins Earlier this spring, while much of the nation’s attention focused on the coronavirus crisis, the U.S. Tags: transportation fairness alliance electric vehicles FTI Consulting American Petroleum Institute American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers

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Transportation Electricity Electric vehicle Policy 90

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2020

Chamber of Commerce remained silent when asked whether they supported the lobbying group’s controversial opposition to using the Defense Production Act to address a shortage of medical supplies and equipment crucial to fighting the coronavirus. .

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 30, 2020

Read time: 7 mins The coronavirus pandemic and record-low oil prices dealt a blow to the fossil fuel industry this year. Tags: NAFTA USMCA Trump Administration Andrés Manuel López Obrador oil and gas industry Mexico Energy Reforms The deal goes into effect July 1.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 22, 2020

Besides loving life on the island, he believes its remoteness has kept him and the remaining island residents safe from the coronavirus. . Tags: Isle de Jean Charles Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Tribe Isle de Jean Charles Louisiana COVID-19

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Sea level rise Climate change 101

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 16, 2020

Tags: petrochemical development COVID-19 Center for International Environmental Law fracking finances oil bailout

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2020

Read time: 6 mins Bucking President Trump’s directive for buying oil to fill up the Strategic Petroleum Reserve ( SPR ), Senate Democrats last week nixed what they say was a $3 billion bailout for oil producers from the coronavirus economic stimulus bill that passed the Senate on March 25.

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Packaging 81

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 20, 2020

Tags: coal Black Lung national mining association coronavirus

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 23, 2020

Tags: electric vehicles EV tax credit EV charging clean cars general motors oil industry coronavirus Covering Climate Now Trump Administration

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2020

Tags: COVID-19 coronavirus Covering Climate Now climate crisis Naomi Klein Nationalism But in both cases, pulling away from each other, at least in spirit, may be our collective undoing. .

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 6, 2020

Tags: coronavirus COVID-19 fossil fuel industry House Natural Resources Committee Trump Administration

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 15, 2020

During that same time, vast numbers of other businesses in both states — including the Shell plastics plant itself — were forced to slow or stop activities in efforts to combat the spread of the deadly coronavirus. Tags: falcon pipeline Shell Oil Company COVID-19 NWP 12 Permit Keystone XL Shell Pipeline Co. FracTracker Alliance

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2020

The industry is actually looking to fill rail tank cars with oil and then just park them as a form of additional storage as the current oil glut, combined with the huge drop in demand due to the coronavirus, is likely to fill all available storage in the next 2-3 months. Tags: oil by rail Bomb Trains Canadian oil by rail BNSF

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 25, 2020

With the coronavirus pandemic now stalling energy demand, coal production has dropped about 26 percent in the past 12 months alone, perhaps ringing the death knell for coal as an energy source in America. “

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The film, produced by CFACT , the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow , and starring Climate Depot’s Marc Morano , was originally set to be released on April 21, before the coronavirus pandemic shut down theaters and much of American life. . Tags: climate hustle marc morano CFACT

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2020

Tags: coronavirus COVID-19 oil and gas pipelines Dakota Access Pipeline energy transfer TigerSwan Mariner East Keystone XL

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GreenBiz

MARCH 4, 2021

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. Still, progress in this area could move faster than we’ve typically seen in ESG-land, for a few reasons: .

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The Environmental Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has only accelerated the trend for online shopping, and even committed high-street shoppers are now shifting towards ecommerce. One example is the US-based company Japanese Greentea Co. ( [link] ), which sells premium Japanese green tea online and gives 10% of its profits to One Child Matters ( [link] ).

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 24, 2020

Tags: Ryan Sitton Texas Railroad Commission oil and gas industry texas COVID-19 coronavirus

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

More than 20,000 units of the fully electric Porsche Taycan were shipped last year, the newspaper reported - with a starting price tag of €80,000. Porsche has previously said it expects about half of the cars it sells by 2025 to be electric.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The average price tag on an electric vehicle (EV) could shoot up by £2,800 in the UK in the event of a 'no-deal' Brexit, with resulting tariffs imposed on battery imports likely to effectively cancel out consumer savings from the government's plug-in car grants scheme, Britain's car industry has warned.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The plates will feature a green tag or 'flash' on the left hand side of the plate to make it easy to identify zero emission models. Only fully zero emission electric and fuel cell cars will be eligible for the green plates, with hybrids and plug in hybrids deemed ineligible. per cent of all sales this year, up from 1.5

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In the shorter term, meanwhile, Wood Mackenzie predicts EV sales in China, Europe and the US will hit seven million a year by 2025, before doubling to 15 million a year by 2030 as price tags drop due to economies of scale, cheaper battery technology, and impending bans on fossil fuel vehicle sales.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

APRIL 14, 2020

<< As Earth Day turns 50, societies across the globe are responding to the acute danger of the novel coronavirus COVD-19. Tag your posts with #WCSEarthDay so we can share with each other. Not a members, but want to be? Find out how you can be a WCS member here. << But what about the chronic condition of climate change?

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