DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2023

A former employee at Exxon told me that if Imperial Oil had instead used its political weight to push for a carbon price in the early 1990s, “it would have been so much easier to address the crisis.” Yet by 1996, Imperial Oil was publicly denying climate change is even real.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

But the sector not only has a renewed exploration roadmap to follow, but a revived political landscape as well. He joined DMT in 2002 and in the intervening 18 years has held a variety of management positions, covering infrastructure, mining, exploration, energy and geo-services. About the author.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 7, 2024

One of Canada’s top political journalists and pundits served on the board of a foundation that gave $6.4 The speaking bureau Speaker’s Spotlight described him at the time as “one of Canada’s most provocative and insightful commentators on political and economic issues.” Coyne was also a sought out public speaker.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2020

When the IPCC was set up in 1988, Houghton was elected to chair it, a position he remained in until 2002. He was amongst the handful of key scientific figures who moved concern about climate change from being dismissed as a cranky theory to its current political acceptance as one of the most important issues in the world.".

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Mark Fullbrook, who ran Truss’s leadership campaign, launched a political consultancy – Fullbrook Strategies – in March , with clients including Cerulean Winds, official records show. A veteran political strategist, Fullbrook was appointed chief of staff by Truss after she took over as prime minister last month.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2024

A DeSmog investigation – compiled in this interactive map – reveals the scale of this network, mapping the connections between oil, gas and coal companies, wealthy political donors, right-wing think tanks, anti-climate media outlets, and senior figures in the ruling Conservative Party.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

Grant Shapps, Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, has repeatedly attacked Labour over the connection, writing in the Daily Mail that Labour has become “the political wing of Just Stop Oil”. Meanwhile, DeSmog revealed in March that the Conservative Party received £3.5

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2020

The study also highlights a failure amongst business and political leaders to tackle widespread energy waste, pointing to BEIS statistics showing that energy consumption per square metre in commercial buildings has flatlined since 2002.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

It’s quite simple,” said Andreae, who served as a Green Party member of parliament from 2002-2019. Kerstin Andreae, BDEW’s managing director, acknowledged in her opening address that the natural gas era was coming to a close — but was quick to present hydrogen as an industry lifeline. Credit: Phoebe Cooke.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Like a chicken and egg dilemma, who came up with these goals first, politics or science? Political Origins of 2°C. The next key moment in the 2°C story is no longer scientific, but political. And we reached the political tipping point around the two-degree mark. In 2002, U.S. But why are both numbers so important?

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 17, 2024

In 2002, the municipality of Pullach in the Isar Valley founded Innovative Energy for Pullach (IEP), and since 2005 households and businesses have benefited from the regional, climate-friendly, safe heat from the depths. He called for reliable political statements and reliable framework condition.

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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

In my experience, it’s because there is a general disbelief of climate change within the oil industry (and on the right side of the political spectrum, which is where most oil industry employees reside). There was sincere disbelief.

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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. The poop draws gnats and stinging insects, and leads to reduced photosynthesis and plant vigor.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

The Helmsley website says that it provides “communications, government relations, thought leadership and political risk to companies on the front line of the energy transition.” “The

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2022

“… buy complacency, political apathy and self-satisfaction.” The 2002 mango tree planting project funded by Coldplay gives a stark reminder of this fact. One individual opposed to carbon offsetting is Guardian columnist George Monbiot. ” – George Monbiot, Paying For Our Sins.

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Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2022

The green levies mainly support older renewable projects (2002-2017) which were more expensive. In the short term, the political choices on what kind of support to provide, how much, how to target and fund it will be the top issue facing the new Prime Minister on 5 September - and there won't be many easy choices.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

Shell agreed to fund their relocation in 2002 — but Hawkins’ family was one of the few who decided to stay. Today, a peculiar sign still greets those who enter the town: residential homes are pictured next to an oil tank, surrounded by refinery towers, all basking together underneath the sun and blue sky.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

million from 2002-2004. Based on gas cost data in company SEC filings from 2002-2004, if NW Natural reported 1 percent unaccounted-for gas to the OPUC during this period, it would be overestimating its gas costs by $4.3 Exactly how much such an overvaluation might inflate final shareholder profits is unclear.

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Eco-Business

MARCH 4, 2025

Political divisions and industry influence derailed the countrys pioneering 2002 ban on polythene bags. Can the new government enforce lasting change with its new ban?

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Business Green

JULY 5, 2021

Natura is part of a project, dubbed Concertação pela Amazônia (Consultation for the Amazon) which brings together NGOs, academia, political actors, and companies to plot and promote approaches to sustainable development in the rainforest, including finding new ways to give value to the forest.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

From 2002 to 2012 Coco was President and COO of Taos, a Gartner global top 20 leader in IT cloud professional and managed services. degree (honors) in computer and information science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and studied international political economy at the University of Copenhagen. Coco Brown.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Monbiot explains that carbon offset projects are an indulgence for the rich, where businesses can… “… buy complacency, political apathy and self-satisfaction.” The 2002 mango tree planting project funded by Coldplay gives a stark reminder of this fact. Permanence : Forests are fragile ecosystems.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

John Maynard Keynes It is the Australian autumn of 2002. John Howard has just won an election through a combination of populism, misinformation, and the stoking of anti-immigrant feeling, providing a cynicism-soaked playbook that dominates anglosphere politics to this day. The conversation drifts towards politics and fear.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Between 2002 and 2008 both populations exhibited similar hospitalization trends. It’s much harder politically to ask the whole oil and gas industry to go away.” But after 2009, after which the fracking boom really took off, the Pennsylvania sample saw a sharp increase in heart attacks and heart failure.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 13, 2022

billion), with violations ranging from wrongful termination of employees to a $30 million settlement over a kickback scheme related to Iraq’s oil-for-food program in 2001 and 2002. Chamber of Commerce’s influence and political machinery dates back decades. The origin of U.S. Official portrait of the 1976 U.S. Powell, Jr.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

Fossil fuel companies and their allies may use delay arguments and tactics across a range of platforms: in promotional campaigns, public declarations, online ads , social media , or political lobbying. Milloy employed a combination of these terms when he wrote in 2002 : “When the Clean Air Act was enacted in 1970, air pollution in the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Cole argued that the law was not the ultimate weapon, but only one, and that the overarching goal is political empowerment toward systemic change. Harris said that to address this systemic problem, Cole argued that the law was not the ultimate weapon, but only one, and that the overarching goal is political empowerment toward systemic change.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

Credit: National Park Service , public domain Questionable Expertise Curry held faculty positions at the University of Colorado Boulder, Penn State University, and Purdue University prior to her tenure at Georgia Institute of Technology, where she chaired the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences from 2002 to 2014.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2020

Although the UK government has not provided funding for coal thermal plants since 2002, and not supported coal mines since 2016, Johnson's pledge is the first time Number 10 has agreed to adopt a formal policy banning support for such projects.

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Grist

JANUARY 8, 2025

As leading policymakers push pro-development agendas and parcels of agricultural land are sold to the highest bidder, districts are grappling with political demands to advance water permits often at the cost of conservation. billion by 2040 , with the state footing over $500 million of that bill. Florida farms are a crucial part of the U.S.

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Low Impact

JUNE 6, 2021

Banking is perhaps the least trusted of professions (with the possible exception of politics). Credit default swaps (CDS) are developed – insurance policies against default on debts. You can take out a CDS on anything – they’re, in effect, bets against debts being paid. Dotcom bubble bursts.

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The Guardian: Energy

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Gavin coal plant, now part-owned by Blackstone whose CEO backs Trump, bought Cheshire in 2002 to move people en masse.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 14, 2024

government by shuttering bureaus and offices, overturning regulations, and replacing thousands of public sector employees with hand-picked political allies. The amount is said to be “among the largest — if not the largest — single contributions ever made to a politically focused nonprofit,” according to The New York Times.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

between 2002 and 2009, when he was governor. This story was a collaboration between The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues, and ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.

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38 North Solutions

JANUARY 9, 2025

As the first individual to serve as Chief of Staff to both a House Speaker and a Senate Majority Leader, Dave offers a unique and unmatched perspective on todays political landscape. Mr. Hoppe served as chief of staff to House Speaker Paul Ryan (2015-16) and Senate Republican Leader Trent Lott (1996-2002).

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Mosaic

DECEMBER 27, 2022

I first met Parish a few years after he dropped out of Yale, in 2002, to start the Energy Action Coalition, one of the first big campus climate-action groups in this country; Steyer and I have long been involved in campaigns against pipelines and investing in fossil fuels.) “There’s so much clean energy that wants to be built,” he said.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 1, 2020

A major factor holding lawmakers back is, of course, politics. Overcoming a "third-rail issue" in California politics. But the backing of the California Air Resources Board (CARB), one of the world’s most powerful air-quality regulators, could change the political conversation.

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