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Alex Pourbaix: The Big Oil Spindoctor

Enviromental Defense

This is despite the expense of CCS , its record of failures and underperformance , and recognition from climate and energy experts that we need to phase out fossil fuels to avoid climate disasters. Both were eventually rejected by governments. That followed 1,500 worker layoffs in 2015, and 440 in 2016.

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Solar Panels Are More Carbon-Intensive Than Experts Admit

Environmental Progress

Information unearthed by Environmental Progress points to a gaping oversight in how the figures influencing government net zero policy and investments in solar worldwide are compiled and collated due to the difficulty of collecting accurate information out of China, especially for the purification processes used to create silicon wafers.

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Lisa Baiton: Big Oil’s Climate Misinformation Maestro

Enviromental Defense

For decades the fossil fuel lobby has masterfully weakened, derailed, and outright blocked government climate policy. The fossil fuel lobby meddles with Canadian politics and inserts itself into international climate change politics and diplomacy. We need governments to regulate industry.

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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The district court ruled that EPA was required to conduct such evaluations in October 2016 and set an expedited schedule for EPA’s compliance. The federal government argued that denial of the motion to dismiss was based on clear error and that mandamus was warranted to confine the district court to the lawful exercise of its jurisdiction.

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Release: Nearly all COP27 sponsors are either major polluters or enablers of fossil fuel industry

Corp Watch

Elmore (2014) Coca-Cola: The Alternative Report by War on Want (2006) The Coke Machine by Michael Blanding (2010). The Coke Machine: The Dirty Truth Behind the World's Favorite Soft Drink by Michael Blanding (2010) Belching Out the Devil: Global Adventures with Coca-Cola by Mark Thomas (2008).

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Brazil: Volkswagen will pay more than R$10 million in labor lawsuits

Corp Watch

German climate protesters block train carrying Volkswagen cars DW | July 14, 2019 Dozens of climate protesters tied themselves to a train track in front of a freight train to protest the German government's 'failed climate policy.' assembly plant in Tennessee. Here, a critical retrospective of a German success story.

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VW owners affected by "Dieselgate" in Switzerland will not receive compensation

Corp Watch

German climate protesters block train carrying Volkswagen cars DW | July 14, 2019 Dozens of climate protesters tied themselves to a train track in front of a freight train to protest the German government's 'failed climate policy.' assembly plant in Tennessee. Here, a critical retrospective of a German success story.

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