DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Despite promises of a “robust conversation” from the moderator, a panel discussion titled “Examining the Impact of Bill C-59” concluded that Canada’s efforts to clamp down on false advertising in the fossil fuel sector is part of a broad conspiracy to silence the energy industry. So it becomes green hushing — you can’t talk about it.”

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 16, 2020

The fossil fuel industry has faced serious headwinds for several years, but the rise of renewables combined with the fall in consumption as a consequence of the global corona crisis is pushing it over the edge and into “terminal decline”. The fossil fuel industry has faced an oversupply problem, as well as a public relations problem.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

European law-makers are due to vote on a revised renewable energy directive next week, part of the EU’s Green New Deal to slash carbon emissions by 55 percent by 2030. The post Biomass Lobby Makes ‘False’ Claims to Sway EU Law-makers appeared first on DeSmog.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2023

McDonald’s is at the forefront of a campaign against new laws to reduce packaging waste in the EU, in what has been described by some insiders as the largest-scale lobbying effort they have ever witnessed in the European Parliament. The European Parliament is expected to vote on the law in the next 12 months.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Smiling into the camera, she tells viewers that “the world needs ways to reduce carbon emissions.” Speakers from diverse backgrounds then reassure viewers that, luckily, they’re working on solutions to that very problem, “like carbon capture , and clean energy from hydrogen.” These kinds of ad campaigns are popping up all over.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 29, 2021

It proposes to make Europe the first continent to reach carbon neutrality by 2050 and the first to deliver a climate law with binding emissions targets. Neither do the EU’s ‘cohesion’ and ‘just transition’ funds exclude fossil fuel investments. The fossil fuel industry spent nearly €60m in 2019 lobbying for hydrogen.

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

The Planning Inspectorate had opposed the project, warning it could lock-in high carbon infrastructure at the expense of the UK's climate goals, marking the first time it had opposed a major project on such grounds. It also argued wind and solar power would be more cost-effective for bill payers compared to new gas power capacity.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

He’s an ExxonMobil scientist in a company ad that also shows other scientists in a high-tech lab working to develop “low-carbon technologies.” To top it all off, the claim in the tagline promotes the perception that ExxonMobil, and fossil fuel companies more generally, are “part of the solution.” That’s how PR strategies work.”

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

But the groups have unearthed a 1970 report by Eni’s Isvet research centre that warned of the “catastrophic” risk the build-up of carbon dioxide (CO2) caused by burning fossil fuels could pose to the climate. Eni has set a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The research, conducted by the non-profit Global Energy Monitor and shared with DeSmog, found thousands of cases in which high-profile corporations engage in lobbying in state capitols, hiring the same lobbyists that do work for powerful fossil fuel companies. They were working for ‘blood money’.”. Blocking Climate Action.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 22, 2021

Our current fossil fuel economy has reached its limit,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said at a press conference. European airlines are fully committed to decarbonize air transport and accelerate their efforts to make Europe the world’s first carbon neutral continent by 2050,” the paper says.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

In June this year, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged communications agencies to stop working for fossil fuel companies, saying PR campaigns run by “Mad Men fuelling the madness” were making the climate crisis harder to address. None of the accounts did so. “If

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2021

It is the latest example of the courts being used to challenge governments and companies over climate policies and the extraction of fossil fuels, and comes days after Shell pulled out of the Cambo North Sea project , putting the future of the development in question. They were joined in court by Uplift Director Tessa Khan.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2021

Investment in clean energy from fossil fuel majors saw a marked uptick during the pandemic in 2020, research suggests. Well, there are a growing signs that some may be at least starting to quietly plot their future beyond fossil fuels.

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Business Green

JULY 23, 2020

First, it must understand the labour market impacts of decommissioning fossil fuel power plants and reskilling workers to build and manage the new low-carbon economy. Second, it must also engage with the social impacts of new low-carbon energy systems and infrastructures, with an emphasis on equity and justice concerns.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Within 100 days, the Commission will present a new Climate Law designed to lock in the continent’s commitment to net-zero emissions by 2050. Among its many provisions, the Green Deal will include: A "Just Transition Fund" to make sure vulnerable sectors and regions are not negatively impacted by the changes.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 1, 2023

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is considering proposals aimed at reducing climate-warming carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from existing coal and gas-fueled power plants. In December 1963 the Clean Air Act was signed into law, barely a month after President Kennedy’s assassination. Edmund Muskie (D-ME).

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2021

These innovations could create low-carbon energy to power UK homes and businesses, avoid imports and form a “key component in the UK’s commitment to tackle climate change”, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said in a press release. Carbon Capture. Carbon Neutral? billion in government subsidy.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2022

These are difficult for consumers to interpret and may also suggest an item or service has no negative environmental impacts. Carbon Offsets. The time frame for carbon-offset emission reductions should be included in the claim. That is, carbon offsetting gives emission reductions years beyond when the offsets were made.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 16, 2020

That's the message from several recent reports focusing on the role of service-sector companies in addressing - positively or negatively — climate change. Exhibit A: law firms. Its research focuses on the work of Vault Law 100 firms, "the most prestigious law firms based on the assessments of lawyers at peer firms.".

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 16, 2021

Offsets offer a carbon polluter (like the operator of a steel plant) an additional option to comply with government rules that limit carbon pollution. Carbon offsets have been enabled under international law in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and were first used internationally in 2001. WHAT ARE OFFSETS?

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 14, 2020

In a previous article , I analyzed the carbon footprint of producing hydrogen from fossil fuels. To recap, the carbon footprint of hydrogen production from natural gas in a steam methane reformer (SMR) is higher than from directly burning the natural gas. On a mass basis, it is 9.3 Hydrogen from Electrolysis.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

Echoing a trend seen among fossil fuel incumbents the world over, Germany’s pipeline operators are casting themselves as gatekeepers to climate solutions. It’s clear that if we want to reach carbon neutrality by 2045, we have to transition away from gas. But we’ll need molecules, and that is the deciding factor. “In

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Energy Innovation

JULY 6, 2020

The authors find that many (though not all) regions see net gains without considering any climate benefits, and all regions of the world see substantial net economic benefits when adding in the social cost of carbon at $100 per ton (see bold pink line in Figure 1). b, Benefits of coal-exit scenario for year 2050 in absolute terms.

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2021

UN argues 'rapid deployment' of CCUS needed to meet carbon neutrality goals. The report acknowledges that CCYUS technologies alone will not be sufficient to deliver carbon neutrality in line with the goals ofthe Paris Agreement. The trend now is to shift away from carbon," said Maeda Tadashi.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

But now Europe is poised to enact laws that would not only recognise the harms of chemical-intensive agriculture, but also to ensure that synthetic pesticide and fertiliser use is significantly reduced. Industry has lobbied hard to ensure these targets don’t become law. Experts say that this narrative is misleading on multiple fronts.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The Cameron-era decisions to block onshore wind development, slash energy efficiency funding, delay green building standards, and shelve carbon capture and storage (CCS) plans undermined UK energy security and slowed the clean energy transition. Where does this rank in the halls of climate policy infamy? We should be getting clean.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 10, 2023

Those who track the growing backlash against renewables see what’s happening in Alberta as the latest victory for an international movement aiming to halt the shift away from fossil fuels. Credit: YouTube “Carbon dioxide is the gas of life,” Mallett said in a phone interview.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2020

The Planning Inspectorate had opposed the project, warning it could lock-in high carbon infrastructure at the expense of the UK's climate goals, marking the first time it had opposed a major project on such grounds. It also argued wind and solar power would be more cost-effective for bill payers compared to new gas power capacity.

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Business Green

JANUARY 22, 2021

The Planning Inspectorate had opposed the project, warning it could lock-in high carbon infrastructure at the expense of the UK's climate goals, marking the first time it had opposed a major project on such grounds. It also argued wind and solar power would be more cost-effective for bill payers compared to new gas power capacity.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

It’s a recurring theme that somehow the livestock sector and eating meat is detrimental to the environment, that it is a serious negative in terms of the climate change discussions,” Hsin Huang, Secretary General of the International Meat Secretariat (IMS) , told his audience.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Josh Burke at LSE's Grantham Research Institute navigates the costs, opportunities, advantages and disadvantages of different carbon capture and negative emissions technologies. As the new 2050 target, now enshrined in law, is to reduce emissions to net zero, it is important to distinguish between gross zero and net zero.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 17, 2021

The Clean Energy Jobs Act would require mandatory closure dates for all coal plants in the state, including the Prairie State Energy Campus, a 1,600-megawatt southern Illinois power station that is by far the state’s largest carbon emitter. And without carbon emissions, it might not need to close under an Illinois energy law.

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Front And Centered

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In the next few weeks, the Washington State Department of Ecology is set to deliver a decision on whether to turn Washington’s cap and trade program into a carbon über-market tying our climate future to California and Québec. permits to pollute) into one marketplace where the permits are traded at the lowest possible cost.

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Grist

JANUARY 31, 2024

Another aspect of that future is limiting carbon-intensive forms of travel. Is this a realistic version of how we might address the carbon intensity of air travel? That 2019 law was the first of its kind in the nation, and the ruling casts doubt on the dozens of cities that had followed Berkeley’s lead.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The use of these chemicals also damages the environment in other ways; much of the fertilizer used in the world today is the product of methane gas, a fossil fuel, while the wide-scale use of pesticides has been linked to the damage of ecosystems and vital populations of pollinators.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 29, 2024

In addition, 52 percent of those surveyed reported a negative effect on their quality of life. One great example of a subsidy targeted at the community level is Clean School Bus Rebates (CSB), an Environmental Protection Agency program funded through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. doi: 10.1177/0739456X231163755.Zhao,

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