DeSmogBlog

JULY 17, 2020

General Russel Honoré to watch the United States lose the war against COVID -19, but it does not surprise him. He has advocated for the federal government to tap the military to set up COVID -19 testing and contact tracing nationwide since the pandemic began spreading rapidly across the United States. .

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 25, 2020

John The Baptist Parish, told me a couple of days before the governor of Louisiana issued a stay-at-home order due to the rapid spread of COVID -19 in the state. Tags: cancer alley COVID-19 Denka Many of us have cancer and weakened immune systems from the chemical onslaught we endure everyday.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

response to COVID -19 has enabled an insidious pattern of fossil fuel companies receiving government handouts, despite struggling long before the pandemic. Tags: oil bailout CARES Act Whiting Petroleum COVID-19 U.S. Federal Reserve

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 22, 2020

Read time: 8 mins The COVID -19 pandemic hasn’t changed life much for Chris Burnet, a lifelong resident of Isle de Jean Charles, a quickly eroding strip of land among south Louisiana’s wetlands. 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 17, 2020

Tags: COVID-19 oil bailout fracking finances Read time: 6 mins At a time of overlapping crises, putting fossil fuel assets into public ownership offers a way to slash carbon emissions and pave the way for a just transition for oil and gas workers who find themselves without a job, according to a new report.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has broachedumpteen pervasive challenges on multiple fronts- health, environment and economy. Although the healthcare institutions follow the protocol pertaining to COVID-19 waste disposal but there is no such segregation rule in place for the home quarantine centers. Although PWC 4.0

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2020

Read time: 9 mins On January 30, 2020, the World Health Organization ( WHO ) declared that the outbreak of novel coronavirus 2019 , which causes the disease COVID -19, was officially a “public health emergency of international concern.” At the time, there were cases confirmed in 19 countries and deaths in China had reached 170.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Tags: COVID-19 World Meteorological Organization methane emissions Robert Howarth Permian Basin But, according to a new report by the World Meteorological Organization ( WMO ) , this year's sudden drop off in travel — and transportation fuel consumption — didn't lead to sizable declines in planet-heating emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 16, 2020

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

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Law 100

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 9, 2020

These protests, and the many others like it around the country, are taking place in the midst of the COVID -19 pandemic, whose death toll has disproportionately affected African Americans and illuminated racial disparity in the United States.

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Law 143

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 20, 2020

Tags: bp america (nyse: BP) BP oil spill deepwater horizon offshore drilling Plaquemines Parish COVID-19

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2020

Tags: LNG exports natural gas prices social license COVID-19 The real issue for the LNG industry is an existential one: It's a fossil fuel in a rapidly warming world, and these polluting fuels are losing public favor fast.

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Natural gas Fossil fuels Pollution 110

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 15, 2020

Read time: 17 mins Over the past few months, amid the COVID -19 pandemic and stay-at-home orders, Shell Pipeline Company has pressed onward with the construction of a 97-mile pipeline running through Ohio and western Pennsylvania. FracTracker Alliance

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 18, 2020

Tags: air pollution COVID-19 Dr. Tony Cox American Petroleum Institute Scott Pruitt Andrew Wheeler U.S. The EPA adviser’s critical remarks appear consistent with his track record of disregarding robust science on air pollution and health risks in his consulting work for industry clients such as tobacco and fossil fuel interests.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

As the economy and agriculture begin to build back with the gradual easing of the COVID -19 restrictions, we need to support a recovery for farmers that puts the fight against climate change and biodiversity loss at its core.”. The speaker? Not Greta Thunberg, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or Al Gore.

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Climate change Agriculture Fossil fuels Biodiversity 145

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 12, 2020

Around 27,000 Indigenous people already isolated by COVID -19 were left with little or no access to freshwater and fishing after more than 15,000 barrels of crude oil gushed into the Rivers Coca and Napa and downriver to Peru. Tags: Petroecuador Amazon Frontlines

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 25, 2020

United States air pollution COVID-19 coronavirus Tags: public health Juliana v. 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.”.

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Health Climate change Government Pollution 77

DeSmogBlog

JULY 7, 2020

Tags: climate litigaton climate lawsuits climate crisis Human Rights Urgenda carbon majors COVID-19

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 17, 2020

Tags: COVID-19 environmental racism environmental justice George Floyd protests National Black Environmental Justice Network (NBEJN) That plea has become part of the current rallying cry for racial justice and an end to police brutality in the U.S.

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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

MARCH 30, 2020

Tags: coronavirus COVID-19 us chamber of commerce american coalition for clean coal electricity (ACCCE) national mining association Some of those same energy companies, and their trade associations, have for years lobbied for the use of the Defense Production Act to bail out struggling coal plants.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 23, 2020

Despite governments around the world claiming they want to support low-carbon industries in the wake of COVID -19, many have prioritised airlines and plane manufacturers for bailouts with no green strings attached — giving or lending money to some of the world’s biggest polluters.

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Aviation Government Pollution Transportation 64

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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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 18, 2020

Between the “ COVID -19 pandemic and the ensuing economic fallout,” the project would be crucial to restoring the state’s economy, the letter argued. The “open letter,” addressed to Gov. Kate Brown, asked her to support Jordan Cove LNG , a controversial coastal liquefied natural gas ( LNG ) export terminal.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 31, 2020

Tags: COVID-19 california wildfires climate change climate liability She left once last year because of the smoke—Plant and her husband both have respiratory conditions — but this was different. This time she was afraid if they left, she’d never see her home again. .

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2020

Read time: 8 mins Aviation has been one of the sectors worst hit by the fallout from the COVID -19 pandemic. Tags: International Air Transport Association (IATA) Air Transport Action Group (ATAG) Airlines for America (A4A) Airport Operators Association IATA says $200 billion is needed globally.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 24, 2020

On March 19, he published an opinion piece in Bloomberg, “ The U.S. His article asks the federal government to allow oil and gas companies to behave like the OPEC cartel and limit oil production, raise prices on already suffering Americans during the COVID -19 pandemic, and continue with a status quo energy policy.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 20, 2020

Tags: disinformation COVID-19 pr tobacco American Petroleum Institute Edelman Public Relations astroturfing

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GreenBiz

MAY 3, 2021

A perennial concern of corporate sustainability professionals — how to nurture employee buy-in for the organization’s programs and strategy — easily could have been sidelined during the COVID-19 pandemic, as companies everywhere shifted to accommodate remote workforces. .

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Business Green

AUGUST 27, 2020

Spanish energy giants Iberdrola and Endesa each won an allotment from the auction, while German energy firm TAG took away two. The auction finally took place after being delayed several times due to the Covid-19 crisis.

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Solar Power Fossil fuels Europe Energy 101

Grist

MAY 18, 2023

Those impacts come with a surprisingly steep price tag, according to the study, which was published in Science on Thursday. The COVID-19 crisis ground entire sectors of the global economy to a halt and led to hundreds of millions of lost jobs. El Niño is more costly than we realized,” Christopher W.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 28, 2020

That 2-gigawatt development was rejected by Texas regulators in August 2018 on the grounds that its $3 billion price tag and the need for a new $1.6 billion transmission line put too much financial risk on Swepco ratepayers. of Oklahoma and Swepco over its 30-year life.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

COVID-19’s impact on the North American supply chain, hopefully, has heightened everyone’s appreciation that while food does grow on trees, a truck and driver probably has to get it to you. It’s a great advertising tag line, but there are no free rides; someone always pays somewhere. Trucks require energy. Free delivery."

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2021

Sustainability-linked sovereign bonds can help promote economic resilience and a much-needed sustainable recovery to Covid-19, according to the World Bank's Fiona Stewart and Samantha Power. Difficulties around resource intensive budget tagging and project identification could also be avoided.

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Eco-Business

JUNE 17, 2020

The Indonesian government has announced a list of 89 priority projects, tagged at US$100 billion, to jump-start the economy out of the current Covid-19-induced slump.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 24, 2020

COVID-19 exposes flexibility challenges. That’s where companies such as Vodafone come in, since mobile SIM cards can act as device-specific identity tags. Kok said the experiment showed the Energy Web platform could let up to a million consumer batteries take part in the two-second frequency response market.

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Greenability Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2020

If the packaging material is Kraft paper, you can use it to wrap gifts or make gift tags. This year, the holiday parties may be very small or non-existent to keep everyone safer during the COVID-19 pandemic. Gather with zero waste.

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