DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

petroleum refining industry — which is experiencing a historic downturn due to the coronavirus pandemic — are attempting to sell refineries, with little luck. Tags: Refining refinery utilization rates COVID-19 shell Marathon Petroleum Phillips 66 Read time: 9 mins Major players in the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 2, 2020

Read time: 10 mins With the recent focus on systemic racism in America, the oil and gas industry is depicting itself as leading on the issue of diversity in the workforce. However, its public relations efforts and slick advertisements do not reflect the industry's actual behavior.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 5, 2021

But the question is whether the industry will listen — or continue to gamble with shale gas and oil. Tags: shale fracking Read time: 10 mins Energy companies are increasingly having to face the unprofitable reality of fracking, and some executives are now starting to admit that publicly.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 29, 2021

Read time: 10 mins In December, The New York Times published a story revealing how ExxonMobil and other oil companies had paid a public relations firm named FTI to build “news” and information websites falsely suggesting grassroots support for the fossil fuel industry and its initiatives.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Read time: 7 mins The recent deluge of pro-hydrogen stories in the media that tout hydrogen as a climate solution and clean form of energy can now be linked in part to FTI Consulting — one of the most notorious oil and gas industry public relations firms. Tags: Hydrogen FTI Consulting Bridge Fuel Green hydrogen

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Read time: 8 mins Almost a week after Hurricane Laura struck Louisiana's coast , which is studded with oil and gas industry pipes, tanks, wells, and rigs, I photographed from the sky oil sheen along at least 20 miles of marsh and bayous that absorbed the full strength of the storm.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2021

Read time: 12 mins The fossil fuel industry and its investors have financially benefited from tax policies and subsidies designed to reduce the emissions from oil, gas, and coal — sometimes without taking the action required to tackle climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 1, 2020

The oil and gas industry has been no exception, but some of the proposed initiatives are dividing the industry. Tags: coronavirus natural gas prices oil bailout Harold Hamm low oil prices Strategic Petroleum Reserve

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 12, 2020

So declares a report released Tuesday, May 12 by Friends of the Earth ( FOE ) showing how Big Oil is working to make sure the legislative response to the coronavirus crisis is beneficial to the industry.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Read time: 8 mins As oil prices plummet, oil bankruptcies mount , and investors shun the shale industry, America’s top oil field — the Permian shale that straddles Texas and New Mexico — faces many new challenges that make profits appear more elusive than ever for the financially failing shale oil industry.

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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

JULY 31, 2020

Read time: 5 mins Warning of an impending financial implosion driven largely by fossil fuel industry deception, a recent report calls on fossil fuel insiders and other potential whistleblowers to help expose and prosecute this fraud. Tags: fossil fuel industry ExxonMobil Fraud climate risks National Whistleblower Center

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2020

liquefied natural gas ( LNG ) market, once the promising golden child of the fossil fuel industry, has a major long-term problem. 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. Read time: 7 mins The U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Read time: 5 mins New Jersey has now joined the wave of lawsuits seeking to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable for climate impacts. Tags: Hoboken new jersey climate accountability climate lawsuits fossil fuel industry American Petroleum Institute ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) Chevron (NYSE: CVX) shell

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 13, 2020

Read time: 6 mins The finances of the oil and gas industry are so dismal that the major banks that have funded the money-losing fracking boom are now exploring taking the unusual step of taking over the oil companies that can not afford to pay back the bank’s loans. Tags: fracking finance Big Banks

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 11, 2020

Today, the challenges facing the gas industry here have only worsened, even for LNG exports, its much-vaunted savior. Tags: LNG Exports natural gas Chesapeake Energy (NYSE:CHK) Tellurian Warren Buffett

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 28, 2020

Read time: 21 mins Just over a year ago, the city of Berkeley, California, passed into law a first-in-the-nation ordinance prohibiting natural gas hookups in new buildings, a move that alarmed the gas industry.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Cramer added that “the world's turned on” the industry as they did with tobacco. Tags: fossil fuel industry climate finance big tobacco fossil fuel divestment Climate campaigners drew attention to CNBC 's Jim Cramer's comments on Friday, January 31 that he's “done with fossil fuels” because they're “in the death knell phase.”.

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Charged

JANUARY 5, 2024

As is so often the case in today’s EV industry, this innovation has been brought into practical use not in the US or Europe, but in China. kWh) and a shorter range (251 km), but it sports a lower price tag: RMB 58,800 ($8,300) compared to RMB 62,800-66,800. kWh and a range of 301 km (CLTC).

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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. . Tags: COVID-19 New Mexico Permian Basin fracking industry fracking health impacts coronavirus

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In a clear signal of how the fossil fuel industry feels about efforts to enact Rights of Nature protections that safeguard communities and the environment from the impacts of coal, gas, and oil development, an energy company has — yet again — filed a federal lawsuit challenging a local law in Grant Township, Pennsylvania.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The student-led initiative, Law Students for Climate Accountability , calls for holding the legal industry accountable for profiting from work defending and lobbying for fossil fuel clients as the world faces what scientists say is a climate emergency. Whitehouse

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2020

oil and gas industry is on the verge of defaulting on billions of dollars in environmental cleanup obligations. Even the largest companies in the industry appear to have few plans to properly clean up and plug oil and gas wells after the wells stop producing — despite being legally required to do so.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 5, 2020

fracking industry is working to its advantage. Tags: Enron fracking finances Alta Mesa Bethany McLean Fraud Like I said at the conference, I was good at finding loopholes.”. As Fastow explained, in finance, the difference between a loophole and fraud isn’t always easy to identify. And that may be something the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

However, in the days since the results were announced November 7, two senators from both parties are finding common ground in a familiar space: opposition to the Green New Deal and support for a dying coal industry. Tags: coal Bankruptcy Peabody Joe Manchin mitt romney joe biden green new deal

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 4, 2020

Read time: 6 mins More than a half century ago, the oil industry's top lobbyist warned his peers of the potentially “catastrophic consequences” of burning fossil fuels, consequences that are already starting to unfold as historic heat scorches Siberia and bakes the Middle East this summer.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Read time: 10 mins In October, New Mexico announced new rules that propose slashing the massive volumes of methane which the oil and gas industry is releasing into the atmosphere. Tags: New Mexico methane regulations Hilcorp Jeffrey Hildebrand

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 20, 2020

Tags: Mercatus Center State Policy Network koch industries Tufts University transportation and climate initiative But one of the main funders of this think tank, called the Center for State Policy Analysis , is a program tied financially to the petrochemical billionaire Koch family.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 24, 2020

Read time: 7 mins Minnesota has officially joined the climate accountability movement with the announcement on Wednesday, June 24 of a groundbreaking lawsuit against fossil fuel behemoths such as ExxonMobil and Koch Industries and the nation's largest oil and gas lobbying group for alleged deception on climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 25, 2020

Read time: 6 mins New research based on satellite data confirms that the oil and gas industry in the Permian region of Texas and New Mexico is leaking record amounts of methane. percent of the total methane produced by the oil and gas industry there. Tags: Bridge Fuel methane natural gas emissions Permian

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2019

oil and gas shale industry, already struggling financially, is now facing “core operational issues.” Tags: fracking fracking finances Read time: 7 mins This week, the Wall Street Journal highlighted that the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Expect these companies to try reducing their debt through the process of bankruptcy and, like the coal industry , attempting to get out of environmental and employee-related financial obligations. . This trend of failing finances has the potential for the U.S.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 18, 2020

Ulta Beauty is bringing refillable containers back to the cosmetics industry. The beauty industry has a plastic waste problem. Ulta, like Sephora, is planning a Made Without list that will tag products free of parabens, phthalates and 25 other chemical categories. Jesse Klein. Tue, 08/18/2020 - 02:00. And it knows it.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

fossil fuel industry has continued what it has always done: advance its own interests at the expense of people and the planet. Big Oil executives have walked away with millions of dollars in bonuses while the industry has lost over 100,000 jobs from February to August. Even amid the pandemic, the U.S. Federal Reserve

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

The report, which calls out the fossil fuel industry’s misleading narratives around natural gas, comes at a time when progressive members of Congress like Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are introducing a bill to ban fracking and when the industry is ramping up its public relations push around gas.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 3, 2021

Read time: 8 mins Human rights experts appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council issued a statement on March 2 raising concerns about the further industrialization of Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley.” Tags: cancer alley Human Rights environmental racism Formosa petrochemical development

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Medium-duty vehicles serve as the backbone of the commercial transportation industry, but fleet customers today face acute shortages of gas- and diesel-powered vehicles, and any meaningful supply of production-ready EV offerings is still years out,” said CEO John Harris.

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