DeSmogBlog

MAY 2, 2023

Lord David Frost – a Conservative peer and former Cabinet Office minister who was appointed in November – is also a GWPF director , along with Terence Mordaunt , who has donated £342,500 to the Conservative Party and its MPs since 2008 via First Corporate Consultants and First Corporate Shipping.

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GreenBiz

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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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Compiled by Dutch climate activist Vatan Hüzeir , and reviewed by DeSmog and Dutch investigative journalism platform Follow The Money , the documents show how Shell was actively supporting research that clearly underscored the dangers posed by burning its fossil fuel products from the mid-1970s — years earlier than previously thought.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2024

Tax credits for Piñon would be another way that CCS incentives are being used by the oil and gas industry to fuel fossil fuel development. The EPA’s 712-page approval makes no mention of the plant’s safety record, the fire, or its causes. When contacted by DeSmog, Piñon Midstream declined to comment.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 10, 2024

Labour plans to overhaul planning laws, and massively expand the grid to transport electricity in pylons across the country from dozens of new solar and wind farms. Many of Labour’s new MPs will be too young to remember when Miliband became the UK’s first Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change under Gordon Brown in 2008.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Its chair, Marie Donnelly, last night expressed concern at the “problematic” sectoral targets, which she described as “not consistent” with the objectives of Ireland’s climate laws. After the painful financial crash of 2008/9, the political atmosphere in Ireland ahead of the lifting of quotas was febrile. Irish Agriculture.

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Grist

JUNE 12, 2024

Companies worked to make it official: Starting in 1989, the Plastic Bottle Institute lobbied for state laws mandating that the code numbers appear on plastic products. The laws eventually passed in 39 states. This spring, Maine passed a law to incentivize companies to use accurate recycling labels on their packaging.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Sinclair campaigned against green taxes in senior roles at the TaxPayers’ Alliance pressure group from 2008 to 2013. In 2016, he blamed high energy prices on solar and wind power, saying on Twitter: “This is how UK climate policy works. Huge investment in renewables etc -> higher profits -> higher prices.”.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 5, 2021

If polluters are allowed to continue releasing polluting greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere without consequence, it risks continuing to warm the planet at a time when experts warn countries must rapidly transition away from fossil fuels. Three years later, Bulgaria passed new laws restricting offshore ownership.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Seven states, as well as Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, have passed 100 percent clean energy transition laws. All 100 percent state laws, and some city and county policies, also include interim targets to keep clean energy deployment on track. The binding nature of these targets is also noteworthy. Washington D.C.

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Business Green

JANUARY 12, 2022

Seperate law suits filed by ClientEarth and Friends of the Earth allege the government's flagship Net Zero Strategy focuses too heavily on unproven future technologies and could breach carbon budgets.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Spending the past year as Ecolab’s president and COO, he joined as an executive vice president in 2008 after capping off 15 years as Nestlé’s head of corporate sales in Europe. The company has since whipsawed between its wholesale-energy legacy of fossil fuels and greener horizons. Company profile. LinkedIn | Company profile.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 26, 2022

The case was originally filed in 2008 and two of the plaintiffs died in the 13 years it took for the verdict to be issues. At the time, Stone’s law firm, Cullinan & Associates, represented local fishing and ski boat organizations as part of public consultations over whether license should be granted.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This strategy aims for net zero emissions by around 2050 and includes shorter-term goals of cutting emissions by at least 20% and aiming for a 30% reduction by 2030, relative to 2008 levels. Early Phase-Out of Coal-Fired Power Plants (CFPP) The Taxonomy also provides a hybrid framework to phase out CFPPs at both a facility and entity level.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

None of this equates with actual action to reduce emissions or tackle inequality, but it’s clearly not fringe anymore (which fossil fuel giant ExxonMobil found out when activist investors forced it to take on sustainability-friendly board members). To me, we’ve reached the end of the beginning. But what’s happened since is unclear.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

Ruling on a case brought by Friends of the Earth, ClientEarth, and the Good Law Project, Mr Justice Holgate agreed the strategy lacked sufficient explanation or quantification as to how the decarbonisation plans set out in the Net Zero Strategy published last autumn would achieve emissions targets for the 2030s and beyond.

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Business Green

AUGUST 10, 2022

On 18 July 2022, the English High Court handed down its landmark decision in an action brought against the UK Government by Friends of the Earth, ClientEarth and the Good Law Project. The new Prime Minister should be prepared to answer questions about the xourt's decision on a global stage at COP27 Climate Summit this autumn.

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Jigar Shah

JUNE 11, 2019

Expectations around success long-held by prior generations — like car ownership, reliance on fossil fuels, or skepticism of scientific discoveries — have ceded to an inclination to form conscious habits. We can be grateful here that younger generations have a tendency to break away from their parents’ viewpoints.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 23, 2020

Back to normal is not an option To rebuild the economy, the United States government so far seems to choose to deploy the same playbook it did in 2008: funding legacy companies in industries such as oil and gas. Even without those policies — they soon expire — renewables are more than competitive against fossil fuels.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 23, 2020

Back to normal is not an option To rebuild the economy, the United States government so far seems to choose to deploy the same playbook it did in 2008: funding legacy companies in industries such as oil and gas. Even without those policies — they soon expire — renewables are more than competitive against fossil fuels.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

The link between airborne pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels and respiratory health is well-known. Air pollution: Fossil fuel combustion produces fine-particulate air pollution, which leads to the premature death of an estimated 14,400 people across Canada. 2008 May 22;7:24. xii] [xiii]. May 1, 2019.

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Jigar Shah

JUNE 11, 2019

like car ownership, reliance on fossil fuels, or skepticism of scientific discoveries?—?have However, building infrastructure and decarbonizing our energy system has been the largest job growth area since the 2008 financial crisis. Expectations around success long-held by prior generations?—?like This might sound overwhelming.

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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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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2022

Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine is a massive violation of rights, and could signal the final phase of the fossil fuel industry, writes Clean Creatives director Duncan Meisel. There are signs that the spike in oil prices is already impacting consumer behaviour as well.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

Spokespeople for the states’ oil and gas industry regulators — the Texas Railroad Commission and the New Mexico Oil Conservation Division — said that fossil fuel companies plug the majority of wells themselves and that state agencies only get involved in rare cases when operators disappear.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

Spokespeople for the states’ oil and gas industry regulators — the Texas Railroad Commission and the New Mexico Oil Conservation Division — said that fossil fuel companies plug the majority of wells themselves and that state agencies only get involved in rare cases when operators disappear.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Working closely with the community, Cole represented the residents in lawsuits fighting against major mining and fossil fuel companies, including the groundbreaking case Kivalina v. He developed a form of environmental justice law focused on community empowerment and mobilization.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

That would mean that the project cost nearly ten times the roughly $71,000 it cost DNR to restore an average orphan well from 2008 to 2019, state records show. million barrels of wastewater piped to shore from a half-dozen Gulf oil and gas platforms into Freshwater City from 1982 to 2008 (records from earlier years were unavailable).

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Spending the past year as Ecolab’s president and COO, he joined as an executive vice president in 2008 after capping off 15 years as Nestlé’s head of corporate sales in Europe. The company has since whipsawed between its wholesale-energy legacy of fossil fuels and greener horizons. “I view that as job No.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) was high on the agenda at New York Climate Week last week, where critics of the technology raised concerns it would be used to extend the life of the fossil fuel industry. The data showed us that their carbon capture plans are not working at scale.” Based upon Val Verde, since the 1970s, U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 18, 2024

GB News presenters have claimed that net zero will cause “death by poverty and starvation”, that the policy “poses an existential threat to the free world”, and have called for the UK to “drill, baby, drill” for more fossil fuels. The group is also hostile to climate action and has ties to fossil fuel interests.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

ShareAction itself has already filed resolutions at Barclays and - just recently - HSBC where it has the backing of 117 other institutional investors in calling on the bank to phase out fossil fuel financing. In financial markets, too, confidence in low carbon assets has become more pronounced. But there is still a long way to go.

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Grist

JULY 6, 2024

degrees Celsius warmer than the pre-industrial average, due to the vast amounts of heat-trapping carbon dioxide that humans have added to the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels. That company was recently purchased by fossil fuel giant Occidental for $1.1 And yet: Last year, the global average temperature was almost 1.5

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 23, 2020

“In order to combat the climate crisis and meet our clean energy goals, we must transition away from fossil fuels and change the way gas utilities do business in our state,” Healey said in a statement. Progress on emissions from heating lags power sector.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

As abundant investigative reporting and academic studies have documented, the companies’ own scientists were telling their executives in the 1970s that burning more oil and other fossil fuels would overheat the planet. The bottom line is that we can’t solve a problem caused by fossil fuels with more fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 27, 2022

Even before the Ukraine conflict provided the industry with a rationalization to push for more drilling, it was leaning on powerful political influencers to fight restrictions on fossil fuel production. Elite Campaigners and Law Firms Lobby for Drilling. Newsom’s New Hire Lobbied for Marathon Petroleum.

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Business Green

APRIL 24, 2020

The incentives are designed to support long-standing goals to ensure NEVs, which include electric vehicles, plug-in hybrids, and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, account for a fifth of auto sales by 2025, compared to around five per cent currently.Citi. Citi tightens fossil fuel lending policies. warming trajectory.

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