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In Their Own Words: The Dirty Dozen Documents of Big Oil’s Secret Climate Knowledge

DeSmogBlog

For years, academics, journalists, and activists have been unearthing documents proving that the fossil fuel industry knew about the dangers of climate change since the late 1950s. Franta and I recently discussed these key documents, what they say, how they were found, and what this means for the fossil fuel industry. Document 1: 1959.

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Phantom Gas and Missing Documents Reveal Gaps in Utility Oversight

DeSmogBlog

The circumstances surrounding his termination are documented among thousands of pages of public records and internal company documents that provide a penetrating look into the multi-billion dollar stakes of negotiations between governments and state-sanctioned monopolies that are shaping the future of energy systems in Oregon and beyond.

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Inside Beautycounter’s quest to transform its mica supply chain

GreenBiz

What’s been less chronicled is the arduous journey companies go through to clean up their mica supply chain, including the often-grueling work it takes to trace the mineral from its source all the way to products, then make the necessary changes to ensure it meets a company’s ethical and performance standards. School of rock.

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Texas Oil Regulators Profit from the Companies They Oversee

DeSmogBlog

Vague ethics laws, lack of enforcement, and a campaign finance system soaked in fossil fuel cash all combine to make the Texas Railroad Commission a “captive agency,” argue Commission Shift and Texans for Public Justice, two watchdog groups, in their new report. The laws are vaguely defined and that is being exploited.”.

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Why California is suing ExxonMobil for ‘perpetuating the lie’ of plastic recycling

The Verge: Energy

Your office says it “uncovered never-before-seen documents” as part of its investigation into the role fossil fuel companies play in causing plastic pollution. What some of the new documents that have not been seen before really get at is this type of greenwashing by ExxonMobil called advanced recycling. Did anything surprise you?

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Dying oil companies’ parting gift: millions in cleanup costs

Grist

The Railroad Commission needs to enforce better practices upfront so that we can avoid the bankruptcy process and the orphan law process altogether.”. Aside from the orphan wells issue, Commission Shift will target campaign finance and ethics reforms at the RRC, she said. RRC is going through an energy transition,” said Palacios. “We

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Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability: What’s the Difference?

Green Business Bureau

Both corporate sustainability and CSR help companies run in a way that allows them to be ethically profitable, but never at the expense of others. His book Social Responsibilities of the Businessman advocates the ethics and responsiveness of business to societal stakeholders. There are subtle differences between the two concepts.