DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 19, 2024

While serving as business secretary in September 2023, Badenoch also defended the decision by then prime minister Rishi Sunak to water down and delay a number of net zero policies, and argued that new fossil fuel licences were compatible with the UK’s climate targets. Record has given money to both the IEA and the GWPF.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Jim had recently read Boiling Point , Ross’s 2004 book chronicling the fossil fuel industries’ strategy of denial and delay, which Gelbspan correctly labeled a crime against humanity. “I The entire DeSmog team is honored to have benefited from Gelbspan’s inspiration and contributions to climate journalism.

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Clean Energy Canada

JULY 2, 2020

The clean-burning fuel does not produce carbon emissions upon consumption and so can replace fossil fuels in many sectors including heavy industry, transportation and heating. Currently, the majority of hydrogen around the world is produced from fossil fuels (76% from natural gas, 23% from coal).

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 7, 2024

A number of climate consensus studies conducted between 2004 and 2015 found that between 90 percent and 100 percent of experts agree that humans are responsible for climate change. Fossil Fuel Ties A number of GB News presenters have been vocal about their support for policies that would maintain and extend the UK’s reliance on oil and gas.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 30, 2024

However, the GWPF has received funding from individuals and groups with fossil fuel interests. A number of climate consensus studies conducted between 2004 and 2015 found that between 90 percent and 100 percent of experts agree that humans are responsible for climate change.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 23, 2021

In 2004, Colorado passed the first voter-led RES in the U.S., In 2004, Colorado passed the first voter-led RES in the U.S., requiring electricity providers to obtain a minimum percentage of their power from renewable energy sources.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

It has called for new oil and gas projects to be accelerated, labelled the windfall tax on energy companies a “terrible idea”, and argued for a more generous fiscal environment for the UK’s fossil fuel producers. They provide further evidence that Number 10’s fossil fuel agenda is far from accidental.

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

In 2004, over 90% of homes used kerosene for cooking. Now over 90% of homes are using LPG – almost the entire population of Indonesia since 2004. Take Indonesia, for instance. And in that program, actually the reason for that, was to move people away from subsidized kerosene because it was costing the government a lot.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 4, 2024

Read more: Nigel Farage’s Anti-Climate Record Reform’s Fossil Fuel Donations Despite the global warming risks posed in the area, Farage is hoping to win support for his anti-green views when he stands in Clacton on 4 July. Reform has also spread climate falsehoods while supporting the reversal of green measures.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The institute received $77,000 in 2018 from the Charles Koch Foundation , funded by the proceeds of Koch Industries , one of the largest privately owned companies in the United States, which trades heavily in fossil fuels. Two Conservative MPs – Danny Kruger and Miriam Cates – are also ARC advisers.

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Energy Central

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

trillion in 2023, 50x what it was in 2004. And investment in fossil fuels needs to be reduced, not increased… Here are some key points: ➡️ Investment in electrified transport has now overtaken investment in renewable energy to. Annual global investment in the energy transition rose to $1.77 But is it enough?

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Grist

AUGUST 20, 2021

That’s a sharp change from the last comparable study in 2004, when researchers discovered that more than half of articles treated dissenting opinions as equally valid. And although the rhetoric around global warming has changed a lot over the last 20 years, fossil fuel companies aren’t necessarily having a hard time getting their case heard.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

AUGUST 23, 2024

  Twenty years ago in March 2004, wind energy was generating 1.3   That said, during the first quarter of 2024, coal-fired electricity generation overall was 15 percent higher in the United States than the electricity generated by wind energy during the same quarter. 

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The findings raise concerns over a potential pervasive conflict of interest on the boards at a time when the international insurance sector is under pressure to halt its support for the fossil fuel industry. “When insurers underwrite fossil fuels, they actually are underwriting climate change.”

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 23, 2020

Increased fossil fuel consumption made up most of this growth, with every category of fossil fuels showing increased consumption over the decade.”. This was the largest annual increase since 2004. In recent years this has translated into a large expansion of fossil fuel consumption in these regions.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2024

million in donations from fossil fuel interests and climate science deniers in 2022, while two-thirds of the directors in charge of the party’s multi-million-pound endowment fund have a financial interest in oil, gas, and highly polluting industries. DeSmog has previously revealed that the Conservative Party received £3.5

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company has since whipsawed between its wholesale-energy legacy of fossil fuels and greener horizons. Gutierrez joined NRG from Dynegy in 2004 as an energy portfolio director. As for the slower-moving climate crisis, Poppe grabbed the opportunity of a generation to replace fossil fuels and phase in "modular" renewables.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in her Pennsylvania hometown, she will be facing off against some of the most powerful fossil fuel interests in the United States. While that blast was contained, a vapor cloud explosion at an LNG terminal in Algeria in 2004 killed 27 people.

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 23, 2024

The bill contained a provision “to promote the efficient exploration, production, storage, supply, marketing, pricing, and regulation of energy resources, including fossil fuels, no official of the Federal Government shall impose or enforce any restriction on the export of crude oil.” From 2004 through 2007, U.S. million BPD.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

The gathering comes as Rishi Sunak’s government – which is already off track to meet the UK’s climate commitments – pursues new fossil fuel extraction, and prominent figures in the right-wing media continue to cast doubt over net zero policy. It’s time to kick toxic fossil fuel interests out of politics once and for all.”

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

For decades, the think tank has disputed whether climate change is a crisis along with questioning whether human activities like fossil fuel production are to blame. The Fraser Institute featured Koonin — who after working for BP from 2004 to 2009 briefly served in the U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 29, 2021

For the past decade and a half, China became the dominant player in the PV manufacturing field, after the sector received critical help from government subsidies back in 2004. As prices declined, solar power became competitive with fossil fuels, even reaching grid parity in some places including China, Italy and California.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

Previous reports indicate that Tufton Street groups have received substantial funds from organisations that support climate science denial in the past decade, with some donations provided directly by fossil fuel firms. Every single one of its members was given the lowest transparency rating – E – by openDemocracy’s ‘ Who Funds You?

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Green Market Oracle

APRIL 20, 2020

Fossil fuels are a leading cause of climate change and research shows that ubiquitous spills and leaks are often far worse than reported. Taylor Spill A 2019 report states that a spill that began in 2004 may rival the Deepwater Horizon.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 15, 2021

In 2004, Margie Richard of Norco, Louisiana, co-founder of the environmental watchdog Louisiana Bucket Brigade, was the first Black American to be awarded the Goldman Prize for her efforts to force Shell to pay to relocate residents living nearest the company’s heavily polluting Norco chemical plant.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 10, 2024

Hydrogen is a clean-burning fuel that has won support across the benches a as a better alternative to fossil fuels in certain contexts, but the extent of its use remains controversial. She was also the director of London Luton Airport (1999-2003), and a director of pro-European pressure group Britain in Europe (2002-2004).

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Christopher Kemper

JUNE 20, 2020

2004 Tsunami This changed my life. utilizing fossil fuels for automobiles and electricity) which are difficult for the earth to adequately absorb through its natural cycles. utilizing fossil fuels for automobiles and electricity) which are difficult for the earth to adequately absorb through its natural cycles.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 2, 2021

In 2004, the UN and International Corporate Finance worked together to develop a system that would integrate environmental, social, and governance concerns into capital markets. As such, there’s a heightened pressure for these institutions to act responsibly, that is, to stop financing fossil fuels, pollution, and exploitation.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Believe it or not, that basically represents the first electricity link between the island country of Cyprus (full member of the EU since 2004) and the EU grid. No wonder the President of Cyprus, Nicos Anastasiades, celebrated the development as an important milestone that will put an end to the country’s “energy isolation”.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Choosing reclaimed wood reduces the fossil fuel use and pollution that comes from clearing and processing trees into lumber. All Forbo products are made from safe and 100% traceable raw materials and from 2004-2021, Forbo reduced the average carbon emission per square meter of product by 70%.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

A collection of over 100 organizations cited the reports’ findings in calling for a revamped approach to chemical industry regulation following the recommendations of the Louisville Charter for Safer Chemicals , released in 2004 and updated this year. 8, 2021, during the ethylene oxide town hall meeting about local air quality concerns.

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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

When Jones Tract, a delta island, flooded in 2004, the damage cost $90 million to fix. Fossil fuels, you might say, are an aged form of blue carbon. The event would likely incur tens of billions of dollars’ worth of damage and could take a year and a half to repair. Nor is the flooding of delta islands unprecedented.

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Unsustainable

MARCH 10, 2020

Scientists have warned us that the world needs to work towards completely reducing our dependence on fossil fuels and produce zero emissions by 2050. This group of stunning islands was at the forefront of the Tsunami destruction in 2004. That is a lot of CO 2. People lost their homes, jobs and loved ones.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

While California already has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 13 percent since their peak in 2004, many residents still suffer from high levels of air pollution — much of it produced by fossil fuels. And they have suffered collateral damage from the harmful pollutants produced by using fossil fuels. As the U.S.

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Eco-Business

APRIL 14, 2020

This year during the Budget 2020, Singapore also announced plans to halve 2030 peak greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, and phase out all fossil fuel vehicles within the next two decades. Ricoh Asia Pacific's office has been Eco-Office Certified since 2004 in recognition of its environmentally-friendly practices.

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Grist

JUNE 21, 2021

The 9-year-old girl’s fatal asthma attack might have passed without public notice except for the fact that, after a long legal fight, it became the first British death officially attributed to fossil fuel-caused air pollution. When she died in 2013, no doctors mentioned environmental causes. In the U.S.,

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company has since whipsawed between its wholesale-energy legacy of fossil fuels and greener horizons. Gutierrez joined NRG from Dynegy in 2004 as an energy portfolio director. To mollify shareholders, NRG shed its renewables business and EVGo vehicle-charging infrastructure.

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