DeSmogBlog

JUNE 17, 2020

This story originally appeared in Grist and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. “ Tags: COVID-19 environmental racism environmental justice George Floyd protests National Black Environmental Justice Network (NBEJN) I can’t breathe.”

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2020

Covering Climate Now is a global journalism collaboration committed to strengthening coverage of the climate story. Tags: Save Lamu Centum Gulf Energy coal plant Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty UNESCO World Heritage Site Covering Climate Now

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Jacobson's study, published last month in the peer-reviewed journal Energy and Environmental Science, concludes that carbon capture technologies are inefficient at pulling out carbon, from a climate perspective, and often increase local air pollution from the power required to run them, which exacerbates public health issues.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2020

Covering Climate Now is a global journalism collaboration committed to strengthening coverage of the climate story. 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

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Read time: 4 mins It may come as something of a surprise to regular readers of DeSmog that we are joining more than 250 other news outlets in a global collaboration called “ Covering Climate Now ,” led by The Nation and the Columbia Journalism Review.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2020

Covering Climate Now is a global journalism collaboration committed to strengthening coverage of the climate story. Tags: carbon capture natural gas carbon tax biofuels ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) Imperial Oil Covering Climate Now

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2019

These documents add new context to the groundbreaking investigative reporting by Inside Climate News , and the Columbia School of Journalism in partnership with the Los Angeles Times , that revealed the #ExxonKnew conspiracy. Tags: Imperial Oil #ExxonKnew ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM)

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2020

This story originally appeared in The Nation and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. Tags: Bill McKibben Earth Day U.S. Read time: 6 mins By Bill McKibben. Nineteen-seventy was a simpler time. There was nothing subtle about it.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 8, 2019

Read time: 5 mins In early 2018 when major financial publications like the Wall Street Journal were predicting a bright and profitable future for the fracking industry, DeSmog began a series detailing the failing business model of fracking shale deposits for oil and gas in America.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 30, 2019

Read time: 6 mins Back in 2015, if you’d searched YouTube for information about climate change, the videos offered up might have left you with a warped sense of the state of climate science and the degree of scientific certainty that people are heating the world’s climate, a new study published in the journal Frontiers in Communication suggests.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2019

The title of finance editor David Nahass's take-down is “Clickbait Journalism at The New York Times.”. Tags: Lac-Megantic Bomb Trains The New York Times Railway Age oil trains However, Railway Age, the leading rail industry publication, attacked The Times' coverage in an incredibly flawed critique.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 14, 2019

A new Cornell University study published today in the scientific journal Biogeosciences helps to explain what sparked the surge in those methane concentrations, both here in the U.S. Tags: Robert Howarth methane fracking venting flaring Permian Basin Bakken Shale and around the world. One big culprit: shale drilling and fracking.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

This story originally appeared in Columbia Journalism Review ( CJR ). Tags: climate gate michael mann Climate Gate michael mann hockey stick Covering Climate Now 2019 climate science denial Read time: 9 mins By Brendan Fitzgerald, CJR. Michael Mann's work as a press critic began in earnest a decade ago.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

published in the journal Energy Science and Engineering. billion (CAD) price tag by 2030 to fund the project. Two recent and independent analyses have cast serious doubt on Shell’s claims regarding the carbon capture capabilities of the Quest project. Robert Howarth and Mark Z. Pathways estimates a $16.5

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 11, 2023

The tag “forever chemicals” is clearly very appropriate for a class of synthetic compounds whose unusual molecular structure, including the carbon-fluorine (C-F) bond (considered one of the strongest found in organic chemistry), appears to offer little scope for any thermal or other degradation at all, so they endure permanently.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 17, 2022

Earlier this year, Trans Mountain said the price tag could reach C$21.4 The approach by the RCMP and the Canadian governments towards Indigenous people opposing oil and gas pipelines should be viewed through a “counterinsurgency” lens, Miles Howe, an assistant professor at Ontario-based Brock University, told DeSmog.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2021

This story originally appeared in Capital and Main and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now , a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. Tags: New Mexico Navajo Nation U.S. Read time: 11 mins By Jerry Redfern, Capital and Main. For nine years, the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 13, 2020

This story originally appeared in InsideClimate News and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. Tags: Covering Climate Now republican party climate change U.S. Read time: 10 mins By James Bruggers , InsideClimate News.

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Mosaic

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The key to achieving this objective is to: “tag” resources and events with their usage context route messages to the appropriate physical deployment based on that usage context tag. Lagom has the concept of a journal which stores all inserts and updates to a particular resource. Thus, we ventured into the world of CQRS.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 30, 2021

Then in 2015, the Los Angeles Times, Inside Climate News, and the Columbia Journalism School blew the case open by tracing the crime link to ExxonMobil, then the world’s largest oil company. Please help amplify this message by sharing it and tagging @CoveringClimate and using the hashtag #CCNow.

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Grist

JUNE 21, 2021

“In the mind of the public, health and climate change represent different and separate realms of knowledge and concern,” laments the latest annual report on health and climate change published by the leading medical journal The Lancet earlier this year. Doctors put a price tag on the annual health impacts of climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 30, 2023

This story is part of The North Sea Investigations , a multi-year international reporting project on the battle for the future of the North Sea, led by Dutch investigative journalism platform Follow the Money in cooperation with Norwegian broadcaster NRK , Belgian newspaper De Tijd, and DeSmog. One by one, mussels fall down from the sky.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 24, 2019

In an interview with The Wall Street Journal , Tyson executives said that they expected its plant-based sector to generate $1 billion in sales per year. Nonetheless, food extruders can carry a price tag of almost two million dollars for a single unit, severely restricting the production capabilities of startups in the sector. .

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2022

Often blended with other fabrics, such as cotton, and typically accompanied with fixtures such as buttons, zippers and tags, polyester can be found in all types of apparel, sportswear and footwear. This design complexity makes our clothes and shoes notoriously difficult to recycle using conventional technologies.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 20, 2020

Covering Climate Now is a global journalism collaboration committed to strengthening coverage of the climate story. Read time: 13 mins This story is a part of Covering Climate Now’s week of coverage focused on Climate Solutions, to mark the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. And as with the climate crisis, this is no accident.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 23, 2020

Covering Climate Now is a global journalism collaboration committed to strengthening coverage of the climate story. Tags: electric vehicles EV tax credit EV charging clean cars general motors oil industry coronavirus Covering Climate Now Trump Administration

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2020

Read time: 6 mins This story originally appeared in Capital & Main and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration committed to strengthening coverage of the climate story. Tags: Covering Climate Now COVID-19 Moms Clean Air Force air pollution Trump Administration U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2020

This week, an independent panel of experts who previously advised the EPA on these air standards slammed the current agency's decision in the New England Journal of Medicine, pointing out it's literally a matter of life or death, especially for communities of color. Andrew Wheeler environmental justice COVID-19 U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Read time: 4 mins Senator John Barrasso and the Wall Street Journal ( WSJ ) editorial board are once again attacking the federal electric vehicle tax credit, and are once again relying on easily debunked talking points born of the Koch network ’s influence machine. . So here goes. .

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 5, 2020

Long appreciated as “carbon sinks,” those days will soon be over, according to a new study published in the journal Nature. The team tagged individual trees with aluminum nails, charting their height and diameter every few years and calculating the carbon stored in both the surviving trees and those that died.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Ad industry journals, car mags and the EV press all analyzed and criticized the three spots in detail. We also find it telling that the company is pushing a vehicle that won’t be produced for another 2 years, and will almost certainly be a low-volume model with a six-figure price tag.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 1, 2021

Gulf Run’s relatively modest price tag — estimated at $540 million by its builders or over $1.1 forecast to add about 10 bcfd from 2020 to 2035, growing by 86% during that time,” the Oil and Gas Journal reported this month. “A bcf per day and wound up embroiled in legal challenges that reached the Supreme Court. “The

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

After years of inching up catch limits in the region, the state government eventually granted unlimited purple urchin removals for a handful of acres near Fort Bragg in early 2020, allowing Reef Check and other environmental marine groups to organize urchin removals like the one I tagged along on a year ago.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 8, 2023

To the point that a 2010 article on rail braking and safety in the trade journal Progressive Railroading opens with the following: “There’s no doubt electronically controlled pneumatic (ECP) brakes provide a slew of benefits compared with conventional braking systems.” billion in pre-tax income. 7 Robb Mandelbum, “Stop That Train!,”

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