Forbes Green Tech

JUNE 19, 2020

“If governments take advantage of the ever-falling price tag of renewables to put clean energy at the heart of COVID-19 economic recovery, they can take a big step towards a healthy natural world, which is the best insurance policy against global pandemics.”.

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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.”.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 20, 2020

The response among many American public officials and the public at large to the COVID -19 pandemic has, in many ways, paralleled the response to the climate crisis. The well-funded machinery that sowed doubt about climate is now sowing seeds of doubt over the economic and public health response to COVID -19. .

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Earth Day Policy Health 145

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Tags: American Institute for Economic Research oregon petition COVID-19 COVID Denial

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 6, 2020

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

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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Government 101

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

APRIL 22, 2020

Tags: Independent Petroleum Association of America coronavirus Secretary of Energy Jim Cramer CIEL Stop the Money Pipeline COVID-19 Donald Trump fracking finances oil bailout

Energy 119

Energy Energy 119

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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Fossil fuels Carbon 103

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

APRIL 20, 2020

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

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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

APRIL 16, 2020

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

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Law 100

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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Pollution Methane Organic Climate change 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 144

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2020

Read time: 5 mins Charles Koch , CEO of Koch Industries , is receiving credit for launching a COVID -19 relief fund, as he urged a “distinctly American response” of private charity — and not public benefits — to address this deadly pandemic.

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Government 105

DeSmogBlog

MAY 6, 2020

Read time: 5 mins On Tuesday, May 5, several Democratic members of the House Natural Resources Committee hosted a virtual discussion calling out how far the Trump administration has gone to cater to fossil fuel interests during the COVID -19 crisis and how that favoritism affects average Americans. .

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Fossil fuels 74

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 9, 2020

In 2020 science denial is again a game changer, this time for Republican President Donald Trump, who has continued to downplay COVID -19’s seriousness, even after he was hospitalized for the disease which has killed more than 210,000 Americans.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2020

Tags: clean car standards cafe standards Trump Administration public health COVID-19 Marathon Petroleum Experts also warn it will result in litigation and global market inconsistency to the detriment of automakers.

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Health 105

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 112

DeSmogBlog

MAY 16, 2020

Tags: Jay Inslee COVID-19 joe biden stimulus Evergreen Action 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.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 10, 2020

But less than three months later, on March 23, Boris Johnson was ordering a national lockdown to try and stop that virus, by then known worldwide as COVID -19, from raging across the UK. This came 52 days after the chief medical officer of England had confirmed the nation’s first two cases.

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Health Government 144

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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Pollution Fossil fuels Health 98

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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Demand Government 97

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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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 27, 2020

Read time: 6 mins As the death toll from COVID -19 continues to rise in the U.S. — Tags: air pollution American Lung Association clean air act Trump Administration institute for energy research The findings challenge clean air claims by the Trump administration and fossil fuel allies.

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Fossil fuels Pollution Health Energy 120

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 27, 2020

Even before the recent oil price war and COVID -19 pandemic, these companies could hardly stay afloat, making cries for some type of corporate welfare likely unavoidable. . Tags: fracking Bailout shaleout ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) Scott Sheffield American Petroleum Institute Strategic Petroleum Reserve

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Government 121

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 9, 2020

Tags: Strategic Petroleum Reserve Department of Energy oil and gas Trump Administration COVID-19 Steve Winberg Now, instead of supply shortages, oil markets are facing what consulting firm Rystad Energy is calling “one of the biggest oil supply gluts the world has ever seen.”.

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Packaging Energy Energy 115

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2020

Tags: American Petroleum Institute Strategic Petroleum Reserve Trump Administration COVID-19 oil bailout fracking finances OPEC

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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 78

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Tags: Donald Trump Vice President Joe Biden fracking pennsylvania COVID-19 That year, 64 percent of Pennsylvanians said they had a favorable view of the natural gas drilling industry, and just 15 percent voiced strong opposition, a poll by Franklin & Marshall College found.

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Natural gas Energy Energy 98

DeSmogBlog

JULY 7, 2020

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

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Pollution Government Climate change Demand 90

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 23, 2020

Petroleum products continue to fuel most of our vehicles while fouling our air, leaving some people more vulnerable to suffering severe impacts from respiratory illnesses like COVID -19. Transportation is also the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S.,

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Transportation Earth Day Electric vehicle Pollution 119

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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