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Op-ed: Battered by Hurricanes and Pollution, It Is Time for Louisiana to Imagine Life Beyond Oil

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 6 mins This is a guest post by environmental communication professor and Louisiana native Ned Randolph. Tags: Louisiana cancer alley nurdles Formosa plastic production

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Comment: Pay-as-you-throw can drive the circular economy

Envirotec Magazine

Extracting raw materials has an impact on climate, as do the manufacturing processes that we use to make products.

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Newly Revealed Emails Highlight Coziness and Favors Between Local Officials, Jordan Cove LNG Backers

DeSmogBlog

The emails , obtained via an open records request by the Energy and Policy Institute and shared with DeSmog, appear to show contacts between Pembina officials and Coos County commissioners — communications that were not disclosed during public hearings.

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Polling Shows Growing Climate Concern Among Americans. But Outsized Influence of Deniers Remains a Roadblock

DeSmogBlog

Tags: yale project on climate change communication Ed Maibach climate denial disinformation ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM)

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Op-ed: US COVID-19 Bailouts Gave Bonuses to Fossil Fuel CEOs While Workers and Planet Suffered

DeSmogBlog

Communications Officer at Global Witness. Raging wildfires and worsening storms are destroying homes, decimating communities, and polluting the air and water, all during a pandemic which disproportionately affects those living in polluted areas. Tags: oil bailout CARES Act Whiting Petroleum COVID-19 U.S. Federal Reserve

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Fact-checking the American Petroleum Institute's New Ads Selling Natural Gas as a Climate Solution

DeSmogBlog

s largest oil and gas industry lobbying group, the American Petroleum Institute ( API ) , was involved with a communications plan whose goal was promoting “uncertainties in climate science” among the American public. Over 20 years later, their communications plan looks a little different but still needs fact-checking. .

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New Research Points to Effective Ways to Talk to Skeptical Conservatives about Climate Change

DeSmogBlog

Tags: climate science denial climate change psychology climate change communications Although the press release is promisingly headlined as “ pathways to changing the minds of climate deniers ,” we remain skeptical that there’s any real way to change a denier’s mind. After all, if they were open to change, they wouldn’t be deniers!