Green Business Bureau

JUNE 30, 2022

Sustainable Law Firms. Law firm sustainability is a strategic business shift that aims to prevent socially and environmentally damaging operations in the legal industry. This could be by reducing an organization’s carbon footprint while also establishing a healthy work-life balance for employees.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this week fired a shot over the bow at Wall Street companies that promise to help investors avoid putting their money into fossil fuels and tobacco — but steer funds towards those companies anyway. A total of 82.8%

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 20, 2024

In its place is a notice indicating the organization “removed content from our website, social media and other public communications” and that they had done so in response to anticipated changes coming with Bill C-59. This law will merely ensure that companies do not make false environmental claims.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Slow-to-change investors and greenwashers in the business community will lose their cover to continue propping up the fossil fuel economy. The initiative is the product of a nine-organization collaboration that has the backing of climate campaigner and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore. Pull Quote. Finance & Investing.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Over the past month and a half month, California lawmakers have enacted a pair of climate disclosure bills and endorsed a global call to end the fossil fuel era. Lena Gonzalez (D-Long Beach) introduced legislation requiring both funds to divest from the 200 largest fossil fuel companies by the 2030s — holdings worth about $15 billion.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

A new report from InfluenceMap reveals the fossil fuel industry has been waging an international lobbying war to prevent cities and towns from requiring newly built homes and businesses to install climate-friendly heating and other appliances. So far, 26 U.S. So far, 26 U.S. Of the 26 U.S. Of the 26 U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

French environmental organizations Notre Affaire à Tous, Friends of the Earth France, and Oxfam France last week filed what they say is the world’s first climate lawsuit against a commercial bank, suing BNP Paribas over its continued funding of fossil fuels. They also say that the financial sector more broadly is on notice.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The law implements key recommendations of the Climate Action Council and is an important step toward the state’s goal of 2 million electrified and electricity-ready homes by 2030. The New York Geothermal Energy Organization (NY-GEO) and Dandelion Energy had each published statements previously that called for the passage of S6604.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

There’s a lot of beautiful things that happen out of [Richmond]," says Khamphanthong, a community organizer with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network whose family emigrated from Laos in the 1980s. And they have suffered collateral damage from the harmful pollutants produced by using fossil fuels. As the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 26, 2024

Campaigners are increasingly taking out lawsuits against the funders of fossil fuels and other climate-harming activities,, according to a new report. Campaigners, including Oxfam France, had sued the bank for financing fossil fuels in the first-ever climate-related lawsuit against a commercial bank.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 30, 2024

In a landmark hearing at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, legal experts and campaigners argued that businesses, such as the fossil fuel and agriculture industries, have legal duties to stop climate-related human-rights breaches. The Caribbean… as well as South America and Central America are highly vulnerable in human terms.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Ahead of the COP27 UN climate summit, hundreds of scientists are calling on the PR firm in charge of the event’s communications, Hill+Knowlton, to cut ties with its fossil fuel industry clients, which include major oil companies Aramco, ExxonMobil, and Shell as well as an industry coalition called the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

DeSmog analysed examples of more than 100 influencers being paid to promote fossil fuel firms worldwide since 2017, from the US to Malaysia, in campaigns that have reached billions of people. While there’s more knowledge in general around climate change and the harms of fossil fuels, I think that people have a lot of trust in creators.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Yet 636 lobbyists for the fossil fuel industry are conspicuously present at this year’s crucial COP27 climate talks, according to an analysis of the delegates to COP27, compiled jointly by the NGOs Global Witness, Corporate Accountability, and Corporate Europe Observatory. Perhaps no continent demonstrates this better than Africa.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

I live in South Louisiana on the front lines of the climate crisis and cover the fossil fuel industry and impacts related to the warming planet, so facing gaslighting is a regular occurrence for me. So it resonated with me that Merriam-Webster dictionary chose “gaslighting” as the word of the year.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 24, 2020

Read time: 7 mins Minnesota has officially joined the climate accountability movement with the announcement on Wednesday, June 24 of a groundbreaking lawsuit against fossil fuel behemoths such as ExxonMobil and Koch Industries and the nation's largest oil and gas lobbying group for alleged deception on climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The UK organizers of the COP26 climate conference very publicly declined to offer international oil companies any slots in the conference or any formal role in the event, and oil companies without credible climate programs were also barred from sponsoring events at the high-stakes international talks currently underway.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2024

Since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015, a small number of fossil fuel entities — just 57 corporate and state producers — have been responsible for 80 percent of planet-warming carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Chinese coal alone accounts for 25 percent of global fossil fuel CO2 emissions. million barrels of oil.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 17, 2022

It was the third time the international body reproached the Canadian federal and provincial governments for their treatment of Indigenous communities in relation to the construction of the two fossil fuel projects. In short, the clans that oppose Coastal GasLink say that both Indigenous and Canadian law are on their side.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 26, 2021

Inadequate bonding requirements means there is a serious gap in available funding to properly clean up after the fossil fuel industry. On top of the financial risks from abandoned wells, the fossil fuel industry brings numerous environmental and public health hazards as well. Well pad near Roswell, NM. Credit: BLM. (CC

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

As the Northeast Organizer for Clean Water for North Carolina , she’d met with residents of a small, majority Black town called Ahoskie, 40 miles from her home. On top of those impacts, as many scientists and environmental groups now say, wood pellets are not the hoped-for transition fuel championed just 11 years ago. .

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Italian oil major Eni knew of the climate impacts of fossil fuel extraction since 1970, according to a report by Greenpeace Italy and advocacy group ReCommon shared with DeSmog.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 21, 2024

Under a newly proposed law, ads like these could be banned in the state of Pennsylvania. Troves of internal documents have revealed an industry-wide strategy to market unproven technologies, like carbon capture and algae biofuels, and unsubstantiated climate pledges in order to sidestep demands to phase out fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The pair of California leaders were there to discuss the lawsuit the state had recently filed against Big Oil on behalf of the people of California to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for the effects of climate change. But California is the first fossil-fuel-producing state to do so. History in the making….

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Grist

JANUARY 12, 2023

Rising emissions posed a threat to Exxon’s business — selling fossil fuels — so the oil giant took the lead on understanding what was called the “CO2 problem.”. At the time, Exxon was pouring $900,000 a year into researching the effects of burning fossil fuels.

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Clean Energy Canada

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Notably, switching your fossil-fuel-powered car for an electric equivalent saves money in every region of the country, while installing a heat pump saves money in most provinces. How can we ensure more Canadians can access the cost savings that come from ditching fossil fuels?

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Multnomah, Oregon, has added NW Natural — Oregon’s oldest and largest supplier of “natural” gas, also known as fossil or methane gas — to the list of defendants in a lawsuit that seeks to make fossil fuel companies pay $52 billion for their role in the deadly 2021 Pacific Northwest heat dome.

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Front And Centered

JANUARY 23, 2020

Her work has focused on fossil fuel infrastructure and land use for the past five years, as an environmental policy researcher at Sightline Institute. Tarika is a popular speaker who has traveled throughout the region speaking on fossil fuels and environmental justice. from Vanderbilt University Law School.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 2, 2024

The county argues oil companies’ “campaigns to deceive and mislead the public about the damaging nature of their fossil fuel products” delayed climate action for decades, robbing communities of precious time to mitigate the climate-driven disasters they now face.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 21, 2023

As lawsuits mount against the fossil fuel sector for decades of sowing climate disinformation, the PR and ad agencies , banks , institutional investors , and law firms that work with the industry are also facing increased scrutiny. This overlap raises conflict of interest concerns, experts say.

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Grist

MARCH 8, 2024

It’s been six years since cities in California started the trend of taking Big Oil to court for deceiving the public about the consequences of burning fossil fuels. The long delays might have strengthened the legal arguments against fossil fuel companies. Last year, the U.S.

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Rinexii

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Colorado was built on a foundation of love for the wilderness, so it’s no surprise that it is one of the first states out there to take a good hard look at the fossil fuel industries place in their state. This new law is thought to be the first of its kind for the US. This may not be the end of law changes.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

In France, three non-governmental organizations sued the oil company Total over alleged “inadequate” environmental and human rights assessments of its oil project in Uganda and Tanzania. It’s one of the reasons I think these lawsuits have emerged when they have, because of that greater attention on the fossil fuel industry.”.

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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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Charged

JUNE 28, 2022

However, many may be surprised to learn that a substantial amount of this grant money has been used to subsidize fossil fuel-burning vehicles, in preference to EVs, and to promote the consumption of natural gas. The program paid out $210 million over the past four years to help organizations to upgrade their diesel trucks.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 17, 2025

Arguments against EV mandates ignore the substantial harms that fossil-fuel-driven vehicles inflict upon the health of people across Canada, said Vipond. Their emissions also fuel the climate crisis that threatens our current and future health.

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Green Market Oracle

MAY 22, 2020

This includes individuals, businesses, all levels of government, as well as international organizations and multinationals. While laws, rules and regulations are undeniably critical, to address the scale of the threat we face we need action independent of censure or sanction.

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