DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Global advertising and public relations company WPP has more contracts with fossil fuel clients than any of its rivals, despite the group’s pledge to reach net zero emissions by 2030, according to a report by campaign group Clean Creatives. Omnicom followed with 39 contracts; Interpublic Group had 25; and Publicis Groupe had 11. “The

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

billion invested in fossil fuels firms – including oil and gas majors Chevron, Shell, and Equinor – as of June 2023. DeSmog can also now report that one of the largest shareholders in Marshall’s hedge fund has extensive fossil fuel investments. As revealed by DeSmog, Marshall Wace had £1.8

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 7, 2024

Fossil fuel interests spent millions of dollars in an effort to influence Colorado’s recent legislative session, a DeSmog analysis shows — and environmental advocates say the campaign helped to scuttle a raft of clean air bills. Ground-level ozone — the key component in smog — results when certain pollutants react with sunlight.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

According to Saudi Aramco’s podcast, the fossil fuel industry is innovating new climate solutions, and BP’s podcast proclaims more of the same. Darren Woods, the CEO of Exxon, celebrates the potential of carbon capture to dramatically reduce global emissions. and Europe.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Pollution, poverty and race collide in many other disadvantaged communities across California — and the country — and some argue that the state’s climate policies haven’t helped. The overall "cap" lowers every year, forcing polluters to reduce their emissions or purchase allowances from others who do. As the U.S.

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Grist

APRIL 4, 2022

Greenhouse gas emissions must peak within the next three years, and in the next eight, the world must push fossil fuels aside, rapidly scaling up the use of clean energy like wind and solar. The authors’ top recommendation: Immediately move away from fossil fuels and replace them with renewable technologies.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 18, 2025

The Tory leader, who has received recent donations from fossil fuel interests and climate science deniers, made her speech at the Havas Village in Kings Cross, London, and was introduced by H/Advisors CEO Neil Bennett. By abandoning net zero by 2050, Badenoch has sold out the interests of the British people to the fossil fuel industry.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

The event aims to bring together policymakers and liquified natural gas (LNG), natural gas, and hydrogen players to explore new avenues for fossil fuel expansion. Sarcastically, he thanked the room of “polluters” for destroying Louisiana’s coastline. “On On my way out, I called them a bunch of greedy a s,” Hoffman said.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Fossil fuel companies are using the technology as “a fig leaf” to pursue oil and gas drilling, campaigners have warned, as industry lobbyists across the energy sector seek to win over policymakers. Nearly a fifth of the CCSA’s 100 members are oil and gas companies, including BP, Exxon, Shell and Equinor.

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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. On the other hand, there’s been political pushback from the fossil fuel industry’s backers.

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Grist

JULY 15, 2021

We talk so much about the supreme challenge of reducing emissions — something that already requires transitioning our entire economy away from the burning of fossil fuels, adapting to existing climate threats, and doing all that in a way that at the very least doesn’t add to the burdens of already marginalized communities.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

Net-zero" became a key commitment during 2020 — goals that aim to eliminate, at least on paper, a company’s greenhouse gas emissions, water extractions, fossil-fuel use or deforestation activities by a given date. Given this, it was not surprising to see an uptick in corporate ambition on sustainability issues. That’s changing.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The UK organisers of the upcoming COP26 climate summit have come under fire for approving just two events that refer to fossil fuels, the primary driver of climate change, in a programme of public events happening alongside the main conference. In 2018, 89 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions came from fossil fuels and industry.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 12, 2024

Robert Noyes, a campaigner at Fossil Free Parliament warned against “cosy dinners and the easy access they buy”. He told DeSmog: “What the fossil fuel lobby wants, the fossil fuel lobby gets.” million from polluting interests in 2022. million from polluting interests in 2022. degree-warmed world.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

They stem from the system we chose when we grabbed and relied on fossil fuels," McCarthy said. McCarthy observed that the pandemic is one more example of how our system has left some communities behind, drawing a parallel to the disproportionate impact of climate change and pollution on communities of color. Policy & Politics.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2024

Half of the board members at the world’s six largest advertising and public relations companies have ties to polluting industries, DeSmog can reveal. Over the past two years, they have collectively held at least 163 contracts with fossil fuel clients, according to research by DeSmog and campaign group Clean Creatives.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2021

The report — titled “ The Big Con: How Big Polluters Are Advancing a “Net Zero” Climate Agenda to Delay, Deceive, and Deny ” — was published by Corporate Accountability, the Global Forest Coalition, and Friends of the Earth International, and is endorsed by over 60 environmental organizations.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 18, 2023

Environmental groups, faculty associations and others seeking to slow climate change are pushing California to cut its investments in fossil fuels. billion invested in fossil fuel companies that are driving the climate crisis. They’ve had little success. State pension funds have an estimated $14.8

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 11, 2022

The New Scientist magazine has quietly dropped fossil fuel sponsorship of its science festival amid mounting pressure from climate campaigners. However, the New Scientist Live (NSL) festival, which runs in Manchester this weekend, has no fossil fuel sponsors or exhibitors listed on its website.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND – Only two of the 35 stalls lauding countries’ green credentials at the COP26 UN climate summit mention the need to cut fossil fuel production — the chief cause of the carbon emissions driving climate change. . We urge all leaders to put people and the planet over the profit of the fossil fuel industry.”.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

In strongly worded address to UN General Assembly, Antonio Guterres aims latest stinging criticism at fossil fuel firms and 'their enablers' in the PR and investment industries. And yet climate action is being put on the back burner - despite overwhelming public support around the world.".

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The Guardian: Energy

MAY 13, 2024

Government told Net Zero Teesside gas scheme will be massive polluter despite its carbon capture claims A multibillion-pound “net zero” project backed by two of the world’s biggest fossil fuel firms will be responsible for more than 20m tonnes of planet-heating carbon over its lifetime, according to research submitted to the UK government.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

An in-depth article by the website Carbon Brief argues that the fuel is unlikely to be taken up universally, particularly as “the volume required to satisfy all the possible applications for low-carbon hydrogen would likely far exceed the amount available, even if production is significantly scaled up.”. Political Access.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2023

The payment from the former coal-fired power station was registered on September 12 last year, and published in December in the Electoral Commission register of political donations. I’m not comfortable with leadership figures cosying up to big polluters and corporate interests,” she told DeSmog.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The UK's export credit agency could support up to 42,000 jobs around the UK by 2035 if it switches it support for overseas fossil fuel projects to renewables and clean energy infrastructure, according to a major new analysis from Vivid Economics.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 29, 2021

Combined, the six CEOs lead organizations that have poured over $1 trillion in financing into the fossil fuel industry since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015, based on the numbers tallied in a 2021 report from Rainforest Action Network and other environmental advocates.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Industry trade associations in the United States that work on climate and energy issues spent more than $3 billion over 10 years on political activities, according to a new study that sheds light on trade associations’ role in influencing policies and obstructing climate action. billion on climate-related political activities.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 1, 2023

Power plants are the second-largest source of greenhouse gases in the United States, and the pollution standards, which are open for public comment until August 8, will mark a new milestone in climate action. National policy must avoid imprudent attempts to make ‘great leaps forward,’” declared Philip Sporn in 1967.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 4, 2021

In a discussion that tacked to the personal and political, Baker and Klee reviewed principles for renewable energy economics. Baker, starting an online dialogue with Yale School of the Environment lecturer Rob Klee, cast a parallel question: How can a new source of energy induce a new system for siting and pricing energy?

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2020

Read time: 6 mins Pennsylvania, traditionally a battleground state in electoral politics, is currently embroiled in a battle over the state potentially joining a regional program to curb carbon pollution from the power sector. Participating states have then used that revenue to invest in energy efficiency and clean energy programs.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2022

The UK is also a leading member of the Powering Past Coal Alliance , a coalition of governments and businesses supporting a transition away from the fuel. The Adani Group has faced opposition in India for its coal extraction and pollution, and protests in Australia over its Carmichael coal mine. Adani Group did not respond.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Two Bulls is just one of many victims of the fossil fuel industry’s use of SLAPPs — strategic lawsuits against public participation — to silence and intimidate its critics. A wide range of concerned groups, from community organizers to members of Congress, are taking up the fight against SLAPPs.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 2, 2024

The findings come after United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for a worldwide fossil fuel advertising ban, arguing that advertising companies were serving as “enablers to planetary destruction” by greenwashing polluting clients. James Park tube stations near Parliament, the requests showed.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

Policy Exchange, one of Westminster’s most prominent think tanks, engaged in a high-level influencing campaign over the UK’s North Sea oil and gas policies while being funded by fossil fuel interests, DeSmog can reveal. Fossil fuel firms tout CCUS and hydrogen as green energy solutions, yet the reality is more complicated.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Its current director Benny Peiser has claimed it is “extraordinary that anyone should think there is a climate crisis” and the group suggested in a 2015 report that carbon dioxide pollution is “a benefit to the planet”. million to right-wing political parties in just over two decades, including £7.2

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 5, 2020

And they consume fossil fuels such as natural gas or propane to power furnaces, boilers, and water heaters. That persistent reliance on fossil fuels makes buildings one of the largest sources of planet-warming pollution. They use electricity to power lights, refrigerators and electronic devices.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 10, 2024

Although it doesn’t get enough attention, the two major parties — the Conservatives and Labour — have chosen climate change and, in particular, fossil fuel production in the North Sea as a clear political dividing line for the electorate. The UK is heading to the polls on July 4. Financial Power The first is the material.

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