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

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

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The investigation , published Monday, October 26, also describes how the auto giants largely dismissed those risks and actively lobbied to block action and fund climate science denial campaigns.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2020

City leaders touted the new law , which is intended to tightly restrict future use of natural gas-powered heating and cooling in new construction, as an important part of the city’s plan to slash greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 10, 2020

Capitol, calling for action on climate change. Previous weeks have seen actors such as Law & Order 's Sam Waterston, Fonda's co-star in Grace and Frankie , Lily Tomin, and Lincoln' s Sally Field, to name a few. . Tags: Jane Fonda Washington DC civil disobedience FireDrillFridays Naomi Klein

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 1, 2020

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. Environmental law requires a range of skills, from technical to interpersonal.

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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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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 8, 2023

Canadians will spend 12% less on energy overall than they do today when they switch off fossil fuels to power their homes, vehicles and businesses with clean electricity, according to a report from the Canadian Climate Institute. Already, provinces with the cleanest grids typically pay the least for electricity.

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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. This is a plan that will drive jobs, tackle the cost of living, and protect our homes for future generations by tackling the climate crisis.".

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 17, 2022

So, it’s not like these neighborhood cops just doing a patrol and checking in,” Eugene Kung, a staff attorney with West Coast Environmental Law, told DeSmog. “In In short, the clans that oppose Coastal GasLink say that both Indigenous and Canadian law are on their side. Pipeline Expansion Incompatible with Climate Goals.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

Oil and gas supermajors including Shell and BP are using UK influencers to push false solutions to the climate crisis and manufacture a more family friendly image, DeSmog can reveal. While there’s more knowledge in general around climate change and the harms of fossil fuels, I think that people have a lot of trust in creators.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Calls for dealing with climate change and environmental justice were elevated by president-elect Biden, who spoke about endangered communities in the last presidential debate and on his campaign website, calling for environmental justice and “rooting out the systemic racism in our laws, policies, institutions, and hearts.”.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

So far, the state has purchased 30,000 of them for New York City’s public housing as part of its plan to tackle climate change. This is, in fact, a huge testing ground for an appliance on which many other governments are pinning their climate ambitions. It can sit on a sill and plug into a wall like a window AC unit.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 17, 2023

While not exactly a climate tech deal, the $4.9B It’s the largest single carbon-management investment since the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), but not quite a true climate tech deal. The generous read: This could benefit climate tech interests in the long-term. Happy Monday-before-Barbenheimer! each hour of 2022).

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

That growth will almost certainly accelerate thanks to a big boost in funding from the federal climate bill, which directs $30bn toward renewable energy over the next decade. Laws and landfills. But what will happen when these photovoltaic panels reach the end of their useful life, 25-30 years in the future?

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

For more on those problems, see CarbonCaptureFacts and the Center for International Environmental Law for starters. The price tag for just this stretch of pipeline is estimated to be $7 billion dollars (page 25 of Princeton report Annex). Kert Davies is the founder and director of Climate Investigations Center.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Especially the combination of these technologies can virtually annihilate all climate issues related to food within five to ten years. Added to this are notes and additions from Mr. Introduction Climate Change. The rules are so strict, that some cheeses that we have been eating for centuries would have been banned under these laws.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

In March, over 300 climate and environmental justice advocacy groups sent a letter to Congress, arguing that subsidizing carbon capture “could entrench the fossil economy for decades to come.”. An unnamed White House official told Bloomberg Law that the approach in the CEQ report remains open to modifications. “It

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Grist

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Federal funding from the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law has been crucial to this trend, largely because one of the biggest barriers to electrifying school bus fleets is the price tag. And more than double that number are committed, meaning that school districts plan to continue electrifying their fleets.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Schäffler has described himself as a “climate skeptic,” and says things like “Climate protection is only possible with [economic] growth.” A young woman, with her hand glued to a road was ripped off the road by her hair; a young man was run over by a truck driver; a passerby punched the protestors and was cheered on.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 1, 2021

The FERC decision was split, with two of the five commissioners dissenting, writing that the Commission had failed to adequately examine the climate-changing pollution linked to the fossil fuel pipeline. Gulf Run’s relatively modest price tag — estimated at $540 million by its builders or over $1.1 Running to the Gulf.

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Grist

JANUARY 10, 2024

But the caribou, which provide essential food and cultural resources for many Alaska Native communities, are facing multiple threats: A slew of climate-related impacts have hampered their grazing, wildfires have burned the forage they rely on, warmer winters may have increased disease , and thawing permafrost has disrupted their migrations.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Although the oil giant publicly touts carbon capture as a “proven” climate solution, its own early foray reveals just how flimsy of a fix the technology really is — and how expensive, both for taxpayers and the climate. House Oversight Committee’s “historic” investigation into Big Oil and climate disinformation.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 8, 2021

And that hefty price tag became more daunting when House Bill 2118 , signed into law by Democratic Gov. The bill that became law was stripped of its original funding source, a tax on dyed diesel fuel, which is used in farm machinery and other non-highway vehicles. But transitioning from yellow to green is expensive.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Joe Manchin (D-WV) pulled the plug on his permitting reform bill on Tuesday, ending what would have been a major overhaul of bedrock environmental laws that date back to the 1970s. But the effort to rewrite environmental laws was also fiercely opposed by a broad coalition of progressive Democrats and climate justice organizations.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JUNE 25, 2021

With the mainstreaming of ESG has come a clearer understanding that environmental sustainability is also a human right, and risks associated with climate change have the potential to severely undermine the enjoyment of rights. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) will now consider whether to schedule H.R. and international markets.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 8, 2023

Modern Braking Systems: Deny the Science Even After Supporting It We now know that the oil industry was well aware of the impacts of fossil fuels on the climate and then actively worked to sow doubt surrounding the validity of that science. Perhaps no one asked whether the NAS actually was capable of this testing before writing it into law.

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