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

JANUARY 11, 2024

Hintze, a Conservative peer and hedge fund manager, was one of the early funders of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , founded by the late Conservative chancellor Nigel Lawson. DeSmog has previously revealed that the Conservative Party received £3.5

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2020

City leaders touted the new law , which is intended to tightly restrict future use of natural gas-powered heating and cooling in new construction, as an important part of the city’s plan to slash greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 6, 2024

Since 2015, Stringer has been a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation , a group founded to contradict established climate science and advocate against policies to limit greenhouse gas emissions. But it can’t do both,” said Jolyon Maugham, director of the Good Law Project.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 26, 2024

As revealed by The Mirror and Good Law Project in the former’s print edition, Lilley controls a series of companies that own 12,000 hectares of farmland in the Stavropol region of Russia, in the south west of the country, used to produce cereals and oilseeds. Farage also has a history of denying climate science and attacking green policies.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 19, 2024

Neil Record , a millionaire Tory donor and founder of the investment firm Record Financial Group, is chair of Net Zero Watch (NZW), the campaign arm of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). million from fossil fuel interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers.

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Grist

JANUARY 12, 2023

The chart below shows how global warming projections modeled by Exxon scientists compared to the actual temperature that ensued. The study comes at a time when oil giants are under pressure to curb carbon pollution and prepare for a future powered by renewables like wind and solar. Grist / Jessie Blaeser.

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Rinexii

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The new law will require oil producers to monitor their preproduction and beginning stages of production in the state much more strictly. This new law is thought to be the first of its kind for the US. The Air Commision plans to monitor Methane, Benzene, and other pollutants. This may not be the end of law changes.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 24, 2024

The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) filed its latest accounts on 18 January, showing an income of £280,000 for the year ending 30 September 2023, a drop of £110,000 from the previous year. The UK’s most prominent climate science denial group has seen its income drop to the lowest level since 2016, DeSmog can reveal.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Canadian environmental organizations welcomed the news, by and large calling it a much needed cap on pollution. Loopholes which allow companies to avoid having to reduce their own pollution, like offsets and a decarbonization fund, must also be closed.” I think he’s destroyed the trust.”

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

s investigative journalism arm, and the British Channel 4 News this summer exposing how the oil giant and lobby groups such as the American Petroleum Institute seed doubt about climate change and undermine legislation to stop global warming. I love how he calls greenhouse gas emissions from cars “pollution.” Document 1: 1959.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2024

The UK government’s most senior climate minister has publicly celebrated a petrol campaigner who wants to “scrap net zero” and claims “man is not responsible for global warming”. He also has a record of climate science denial, writing on X in August 2022: “I am now even more convinced man is not responsible for global warming.”

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Grist

MAY 16, 2023

Experts say the new research could help advance growing efforts to take polluters to court. Since 2017, cities and states have filed around 20 lawsuits against fossil fuel companies based on state laws that prohibit deceptive advertising, seeking money to adapt to the effects of climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

In 1971, Eni set up a new company in Rome to study pollution problems called Tecneco. Eni’s prediction was quite accurate: Global warming in the year 2000 was exactly 0.5 ° C and CO2 concentrations were around 370 ppm. Eni also understood the need to limit fossil fuel pollution decades ago, according to the report.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2024

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world’s foremost climate science body, has stated that carbon dioxide “is responsible for most of global warming” since the late 19th century, which has increased the “severity and frequency of weather and climate extremes, like heat waves, heavy rains, and drought”.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

Rishi Sunak has confirmed that a fossil fuel-funded think tank helped to draft his government’s laws targeting climate protests. Sunak’s statement yesterday appears to confirm openDemocracy’s allegation that sections of the 2022 law were ‘directly inspired’ by Policy Exchange’s report. million to the party since 2014.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 28, 2023

MAG “ fiercely opposes ” next month’s expansion of London’s flagship anti-pollution measure, the ultra-low emission zone (ULEZ), and claims to have played a “key” role in April’s anti-ULEZ demonstrations held in central London. Baker is himself a leading opponent of climate action in parliament.

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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

MAY 14, 2024

One of the major backers of broadcaster GB News is now employing a leading right-wing lobbying company that has ties to polluting interests. It is curious how certain agencies, including Lynton Crosby’s, end up advising both the Tories and their friends,” Jolyon Maugham, director of the Good Law Project, told DeSmog.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 22, 2024

Global meat and dairy giants are investing just a fraction of their revenues into cutting emissions despite being among the world’s largest polluters, according to new estimates. The report found that the industry had instead used “extraordinary political access” to push back against nature-friendly laws. In the U.S.,

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Newsom’s surprise decision last month, amid record-breaking heat waves and wildfires driven by global warming, to set a 2035 deadline for ending sales of new gasoline-fueled vehicles. This week's announcement follows on Gov. That move puts California in the vanguard among U.S. and the Netherlands.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2024

million from fossil fuel interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since the 2019 election. Jolyon Maugham, director of the Good Law Project, told DeSmog: “Abraham Lincoln spoke of government ‘of the people, by the people and for the people.’ percent (£1.8 The party has received £2.3

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 1, 2024

We call for robust legislation, an end to greenwashing, and strict accountability for these major polluters.” Experts said the promotion was misleading and ignored the global warming impact of UK diets.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

KKR is actively funding polluting projects and the creation of new fossil infrastructure, despite clear scientific evidence and global agreements pointing to the need to phase out fossil fuels,” said Alyssa Moore, researcher at the data analysis group Global Energy Monitor.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Analysis of data from campaign group BankTrack finds that eight of the banks represented at the summit have continued to finance highly polluting coal, oil and gas through commercial and investment banking in the five years since the Paris Agreement was reached to pursue efforts to limit global warming to 1.5C.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

. “It is feared that a further rise in carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere could lead to a higher average surface temperature on Earth, which could have far-reaching environmental, social and economic consequences,” wrote the authors of a 1987 internal Shell publication entitled “Air Pollution: an Oil Industry Perspective.”

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2023

Leader of the House of Commons Penny Mordaunt and Conservative MP Liam Fox have each received £10,000 from companies owned by a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) – one of the UK’s leading climate science denial groups.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 18, 2023

The previous months were Earth’s hottest in perhaps 125,000 years, a direct result of interactions between global warming and the cyclical warm-weather pattern called El Niño. So far, oil majors haven’t promised to end fossil fuel production, a key requirement if they want to help the world halt global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

He said that it was important for the government to have “interlocking policies” on “the quality of our rivers”, “marine protected areas”, “air pollution”, and “nature restoration”. From 2015 to 2023, he was a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation , the UK’s leading climate science denial group.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

These seven members of the public serve on the Virginia State Water Control Board, an independent regulatory body tasked with administering the state’s water laws. In 1988, he wrote The End of Nature, the first book for a common audience about global warming. billion MVP is now $2.5 He is a co-founder and Senior Advisor at 350.org,

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

He founded his law firm in Berlin in 1992. In 1995 he established the first German linked law firm in Poznan. His law firm focuses on business law, German and Polish geothermal law and has clients from Asia and Europe who invest in Germany or Poland. degrees Celsius of global warming. degrees Celsius.

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Business Green

JULY 23, 2021

It was the first major economy to put net zero in law by 2050 and it has also cut its existing emissions at the fastest rate in the G7 since 1990. To keep global warming to a maximum of 1.5 To keep global warming to a maximum of 1.5 The UK is, in many ways, leading the world on decarbonisation. That's no easy task.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Now Ministers need to concentrate on an ambitious agreement in Glasgow which meets the goals of the Paris Accord to limit global warming to 1.5 Ending our hypocritical position on fossil fuels financing is a basic prerequisite for being a credible host of COP26," he said.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

“Fossil fuels are everywhere at this COP except in the decisions being negotiated by governments,” Nikki Reisch, the director of climate and energy at the Center for International Environmental Law, wrote to DeSmog from Glasgow. In some cases, the affiliation with the oil industry was publicly declared on the participant list for COP26. “The

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

If successful, their lawsuit could spur Italy to make major cuts in climate pollution by 2030. In a statement, the lawyers called out the “contradiction” between the measures Italy should be taking to reach its target for limiting global warming and their “inadequate implemented actions.”

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Methane is an especially potent greenhouse gas: During its 12-year lifespan after being released, it traps 84 times as much heat as carbon dioxide, and its effect on global warming over a century is 34 times that of CO2. The need to rein in methane emissions is especially urgent in Cali­fornia, home to 1.8 million dairy cows.

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2021

Tech firms, airlines, and oil-and-gas giants have all recently pledged to reach “net-zero” emissions by 2050 — a loosely defined strategy which generally means they’re working to cut new emissions and reverse past pollution. Climate scientists say the world must now do both to limit global warming to 1.5

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