DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The latest register of MPs’ interests shows that James Cleverly and Tom Tugendhat each received £10,000 in August from Lord Michael Hintze , a Tory peer who is one of the few known funders of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). million from fossil fuel interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 13, 2024

Vinson has also given £49,000 to the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s leading climate science denial group. The GWPF was founded to contradict established climate science and has in the past expressed the view that carbon dioxide has been mis-characterised as pollution when in fact it is a “benefit to the planet”.

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Grist

JULY 24, 2019

The emerald ash borer, native to Asia, has been devouring ash trees from the Midwest to Pennsylvania since 2002, and the brown marmorated stink bug, also from Asia, has eaten its way through orchards in 43 states to date. Land use, pollution, fire history—all factor into ecology. Before coming to the U.S.,

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

Critics also point out that CCUS involves storing the carbon produced by fossil fuels rather than switching to renewable energy sources, thus permitting polluters to keep profiting from oil and gas exploration. Meanwhile, the chair of the Policy Exchange board is Alexander Downer, who served as Australia’s Foreign Minister from 1996 to 2007.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2020

The fashion industry has a pollution problem. But in an industry where the average number of times a garment is worn decreased by 36 percent from 2002 to 2017, garment recycling is a light of hope for many large fashion retailers.

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Green Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2022

In 2002 Governor Davis announced the need for 28,000 new teachers. Some had no idea how pollution from human activities affected ecosystems. Everything in the news about global warming, pollution, and sea level rise, that’s one side of the story. How about producing energy without pollution?

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 1, 2024

We call for robust legislation, an end to greenwashing, and strict accountability for these major polluters.” Experts said the promotion was misleading and ignored the global warming impact of UK diets. Between 2002 and 2021 Mitloehner and the CLEAR Center received close to $12.5

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

That chance encounter with Swan in Kotzebue led to Cole representing Kivalina in a lawsuit in 2002 against one of the world’s largest zinc mines, Teck Cominco’s Red Dog Mine, alleging that the Canadian mining giant was polluting the Wulik River. Early Kivalina Lawsuit. center, and his family in May 2014.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 7, 2024

He recently critiqued policies such as Canada’s cap on oil and gas pollution as belonging to “a slew of costly, ineffective regulatory and subsidy schemes.” Reducing greenhouse gases cannot achieve significant reductions in future global temperatures.”

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

. “It is feared that a further rise in carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere could lead to a higher average surface temperature on Earth, which could have far-reaching environmental, social and economic consequences,” wrote the authors of a 1987 internal Shell publication entitled “Air Pollution: an Oil Industry Perspective.”

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

Language around climate solutions is particularly susceptible to this treatment, especially as polluting companies invest in strategies and tactics to present themselves as part of the solution to climate change when, clearly —as they continue to prioritize drilling for globe-warming fuels — they are not. Fossil Fuel Solutionism.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

Farage’s address was advertised at the top of the Heartland website next to a series of videos rejecting established climate science, with titles including “Media Lying About Heatwaves” and “Crops LOVE Global Warming”. Arnn has also sat on the Heritage Foundation’s board of trustees since 2002.

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