Business Green

MARCH 30, 2021

Finds raised through stock market flotations for companies involved in fossil fuels have dwindles, while clean energy IPOs begin to surge, analysis suggests. Investors have woken up to the fact that fossil fuel companies are no longer the growth stories they once were," he said.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Fossil fuel representatives develop undergraduate courses. The authors came to that conclusion by conducting a first-ever review of dozens of existing academic and civil society investigations into fossil fuel infiltration of higher education, looking primarily at institutions in the U.S., UK, Canada, and Australia.

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The Guardian: Energy

JANUARY 28, 2025

Readers of the Guardians 2012 obituary of Martin Fleischmann will know that the situation regarding cold fusion is more complicated than that commonly assumed: that the claims of Fleischmann and Stanley Pons for the process were discredited.

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Energy Central

MAY 15, 2024

Isn’t that surprising that the word ‘fossil fuel’ appeared just once in COP 18 held at Qatar in 2012 as against 46 times of the COP28 report where governments agreed to transition away from all fossil fuels.

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 18, 2020

The world still gets about 80% of its energy from fossil fuels today which generate the lions share of emissions. According to the EIA , in 2017, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from burning fossil fuels for energy were equal to about 76% of total U.S. billion metric tons of greenhouse gas pollution (MIT, 2012).

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GreenBiz

MAY 29, 2020

It is well documented that the current industrial agricultural model yields outputs of questionable quality, relies on fossil fuels and practices that are damaging to ecosystems, and is built around supply chains that involve long-distance transport that make it vulnerable to border closures.

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Rinexii

OCTOBER 22, 2021

2021 has shaped up to be rather a surprising year for the fossil fuel industry. After the sudden quarantine of vast swaths of the world through 2020, the shuttering of businesses, and the general loss of revenue, large fossil fuel giants are getting hammered from citizens, government, and even their own investors.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2024

Fossil fuel giants BP and Shell were given “ample opportunity” to privately influence proposals for taxing oil and gas companies that were later backed by the government, new documents reveal. Fossil fuel companies will survive while there is demand for what they produce.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Lord Hintze was revealed as one of the GWPF’s financial backers in 2012 by The Guardian, while DeSmog revealed in early September that he is one of the main donors in the ongoing Conservative leadership race, donating £10,000 each to James Cleverly, Tom Tugendhat, and Priti Patel. to “drill baby drill” for more fossil fuels.

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Solar Industry

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

“Our commitment to renewable energy, reflected in our financing of over 300 MW of solar energy projects in the past month alone, exemplifies Monarch’s dedication to fostering economic growth and job creation (particularly in areas of high unemployment and historic dependence on fossil fuels).” creating nearly 12,000 jobs.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Hawaii also faces unusually high fuel costs because fossil fuels must be shipped there; solar-plus-storage beat incumbent power sooner there than on the mainland. Finn-Foley displayed the Energy Information Administration's projections for national solar deployment from 2011, 2012 and 2013.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2024

In the past, CT Group has lobbied for fossil fuel interests across the globe, working for the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association, and the mining giant BHP. However, it’s known that the institute has received funding from fossil fuel interests.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Investors haven’t failed to notice the promise of white hydrogen As much as green H2 still holds promise, it can be extremely expensive to produce when compared to the extraction of fossil fuels from the ground. White hydrogen would provide an option to use similar extraction concepts currently used for extracting natural gas.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

One accident there — a 2012 fire — sent a cloud of black smoke billowing over San Francisco Bay and left thousands of local residents struggling to breathe. And they have suffered collateral damage from the harmful pollutants produced by using fossil fuels. As the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

In February this year, UNIMIB and Eni signed a five-year “Joint Research Agreement,” (JRA) in which the university and the fossil fuel company pledged to collaborate on “research projects of common interest” related to the energy transition, according to an Eni press release. org, an international movement working to end fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 9, 2025

Norway is also a northern oil exporting nation with an economy heavily dependent on fossil fuel extraction. Recent polling shows that most Canadians from across the political spectrum support moving faster on climate action, phasing out fossil fuels and embracing renewable energy.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

California is looking for ways to keep power flowing to customers amid wildfires without burning fossil fuels. Customers looking for economic multiday backup power usually have to turn to fossil fuels, like gas or diesel generators. The startup, founded in 2012, raised a CAD $3.4 Photo credit: e-Zinc).

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

“The Liberals announced key additional policies to help them achieve an increased climate target and build a sustainable economy, such as a 2035 clean electricity standard, a requirement for 50% of new cars to be zero-emission by 2030 (en route to 100% by 2035), capping oil and gas emissions, and eliminating fossil fuel subsidies.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 23, 2020

All this is part of National Grid ESO's plans to be able to support a fossil-fuel-free network by 2025. The grid operator has been forced to curtail wind power in huge volumes this summer due to a lack of fossil-fuel generators to provide essential flexibility. The latest solution comes just in time.

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The Verge: Energy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Unlike fossil fuels, hydrogen fuel doesn’t create planet heating carbon dioxide pollution when burned. Coal still makes up more than a third of the world’s electricity mix, generating more power and greenhouse gas emissions than any other fuel.

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Business Green

APRIL 20, 2022

As the alt-folk singer Father John Misty instructed listeners on his 2012 song Now I'm learning to love the war , "Try not to think so much about / The truly staggering amount of oil that it takes to make a record / All the shipping, the vinyl, the cellophane lining ". Fay Milton of Music Declares Emergency welcomed the new technology.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 15, 2024

For all of London’s promises back in 2012, having BP as a sponsor augured badly all along. Fossil Fuel Playbook At a larger level the oil-dependent aviation and vehicle industries have used a similar playbook to the fossil fuel companies. He would not want them to be made from fossil fuel smoke.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

HSBC, whose chief executive Ian Stuart is expected to attend, is the 13th biggest funder of fossil fuels in the world, according to the Rainforest Action Network. The bank has invested nearly £80 billion in fossil fuel projects since the Paris Agreement six years ago.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

It contributes directly to the ENGIE Group’s purpose, “to act to accelerate the transition towards a carbon-neutral economy, through reduced energy consumption and more environmentally friendly solutions”.

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Clean Energy Canada

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Requiring oil and gas companies to reduce methane emissions by at least 75% below 2012 levels by 2030. Eliminating fossil fuel subsidies by 2023 and developing a plan to phase out public financing for the fossil fuel sector, including from Crown corporations.

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Green Market Oracle

MAY 18, 2020

The energy sector has not been spared and fossil fuels have been hit particularly hard. While 20 percent of the clean energy and efficiency jobs could be lost up to 33 percent of the fossil fuel exploration and production workforce could lose their jobs. Fossil fuels are the leading cause of climate change.

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Business Green

MAY 28, 2020

University claims its plan, which promises to end all investments in fossil fuel companies by 2022 and fully decarbonise its investments by 2038, goes 'further than other fossil fuel divestment programmes'. The policy, it said, goes "further than other fossil fuel divestment programmes".

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 9, 2021

” His appointment to the now defunct energy and climate change committee in 2012 was criticised over a potential conflict of interest over his then role at oil and gas company, Tethys Petroleum. It recently faced a backlash from local members after it came out in support of onshore wind and solar subsidies.

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Grist

JANUARY 30, 2021

The world was going to end in 2012, based on a popular misreading of the Mayan calendar — and then it didn’t. There’s even a giant digital clock in Union Square counting down the hours, minutes, and seconds until we have to totally stop burning fossil fuels — or face the consequences. Comforting.).

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Grist

AUGUST 30, 2022

That’s even if everyone stopped burning fossil fuels today. One paper from 2012 found that researchers had misjudged the risks of the potential disintegration of the West Antarctic ice sheet. Greenland’s melting ice sheet will raise global sea levels by at least 10.6

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2022

consulting and PR firm, with a long history of waging influence campaigns for fossil fuel corporations, is under scrutiny by a congressional committee as part of a broader investigation into the decades-long efforts by the oil industry and its allies to block action on the climate crisis. A powerful Washington, D.C.,

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 27, 2020

utilities in setting a net-zero carbon target for 2050, aiming to balance the emissions from its sizable fossil fuel-fired generation fleet and sprawling natural gas business with reductions to be gained by expanding its portfolio of renewable energy and energy efficiency. Southern Company has joined other major U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 25, 2023

Hoboken is making this claim against fossil fuel companies under the state-level equivalent of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, a federal law used successfully to prosecute organized crime groups such as the Mafia starting in the 1970s and later the tobacco industry. Credit: U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This research helped establish that burning fossil fuels has been the main driver of climate change, and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) included the hockey stick graph in its 2001 assessment report on climate science. That report was a mess,” Simberg testified. “It

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Smart Energy International

MAY 15, 2022

The pivot to renewable energy away from fossil fuels will help slash global carbon emissions — but it’s likely to put significant strain on the grid, writes Emily Newton. The most popular forms of renewable energy cannot flexibly increase or decrease production to meet demand like fossil fuel-fired power plants can.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Henrik Poulsen took over as CEO at Ørsted in 2012, when it was still known as Danish Oil and Natural Gas. Dong produced just short of 200,000 barrels a day in 2012. Alongside petrochemicals and supplying the tail end of demand with those hard-to-replace fossil fuels, BP also wants to underpin freshly electrified sectors.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 9, 2019

In 2012 scientists warned us that our oceans are dying but we did not respond. By 2012 dozens of studies made the case for anthropogenic climate change including a report from UNEP that warned that we are on the brink of a climate catastrophe. PricewaterhouseCoopers ( PwC ) issued a climate warning in 2012 and so did the World Bank.

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