Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Last week world leaders gathered in New York for the UN Climate Ambition Summit where countries shared concrete action they’ve taken to phase out fossil fuels. There, the conversation was grounded in science, with leaders such as California’s Governor Newsom saying “The climate crisis is a fossil fuel crisis. Is that you?

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

For years, grid parity – the time when solar and wind would be cost-competitive with fossil fuels and nuclear – was the holy grail of renewables energy, a target to reach in a distant future. The numbers for this year’s edition are quite impressive: Nuclear is the most expensive per MWh: $148 (+20% since 2009).

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

Investors and governments will be expected to refer to the Taxonomy in order to determine whether an activity they want to pursue can be considered sustainable, and under what conditions (screening criteria). Notably, in the same proposal, the Commission has also included screening criteria for gaseous fossil fuels.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 19, 2023

Uber founded in 2009; Lyft in 2012), public micromobility systems such as scooters and bikeshares, electrification, shared automated vehicles : all came with the promise of “ faster, smarter, greener ” cities that would be “ connected, heterogenous, intelligent and personalized.” New ride hailing services (e.g.,

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Website Summary Repsol is a fossil fuel exploration company that evolved from a Spanish state venture that was set up in the 1920s. The company sued the government of Argentina in 2012 for $10 billion after the country nationalized YPF with the backing of 80 percent of legislators of parliament. Corporation Repsol S.A.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

These higher costs are being driven by a major overreliance on natural gas, which has sharply spiked in price and is currently the dominant fuel source in the US for both home heating and electricity generation. These claims just add to the deluge of greenwashing and disinformation from the fossil fuel industry.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Demonstrators took to the streets at the 2009 global climate convention in Copenhagen. When they converge on Glasgow this fall to rekindle pivotal global climate negotiations that were dampened during the pandemic, diplomats and government ministers will confront a world much changed since their last convention.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

In my last post I discussed the Commission’s remarkably radical – and challenging – headline recommendation on mitigation, a global phaseout of fossil fuels. Since the specific knowledge and governance conditions that would meet this standard cannot be codified in advance, this is about as good as you can get.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

Corporation Shell Plc (Royal Dutch Shell) Image Image Products Liquefied Natural Gas, Lubricants, Natural gas, Petrochemicals, Petroleum The Corrib gas project of Royal Dutch Shell - Photo Credit William Murphy Summary Royal Dutch Shell is a fossil fuel exploration company. Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005).

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

Corporation Shell Plc (Royal Dutch Shell) Image Image Products Liquefied Natural Gas, Lubricants, Natural gas, Petrochemicals, Petroleum The Corrib gas project of Royal Dutch Shell - Photo Credit William Murphy Summary Royal Dutch Shell is a fossil fuel exploration company. Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005).

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

Corporation Shell Plc (Royal Dutch Shell) Image Image Products Liquefied Natural Gas, Lubricants, Natural gas, Petrochemicals, Petroleum The Corrib gas project of Royal Dutch Shell - Photo Credit William Murphy Summary Royal Dutch Shell is a fossil fuel exploration company. Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005).

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land. Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 22, 2022

The government has identified seven sites across the country to install solar farms, at a cost of around 21.6 The government plans to complete the country’s first large solar plant , the 17 MW project in Sephu, Wangduephodrang, within 18 months from when it starts construction later this year. Solar energy has become competitive.

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Legal Planet

JULY 21, 2023

A more conventional ‘risk-benefit’ analysis of geoengineering – such as that by the Royal Society back in 2009 – already attends to climate risks, insofar as they are affected by geoengineering. But in conclusion I want to note some contrasts between the OSTP report and another recent government announcement. So what’s new?

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land. Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Corporation Shell Plc (Royal Dutch Shell) Image Image Products Liquefied Natural Gas, Lubricants, Natural gas, Petrochemicals, Petroleum The Corrib gas project of Royal Dutch Shell - Photo Credit William Murphy Summary Royal Dutch Shell is a fossil fuel exploration company. Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005).

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. In the U.S. SEC Charges Total S.A.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), site of the COP28 conference at the end of the month, where government representatives from all UN countries will discuss global efforts to limit climate change and adapt to its effects. Fossil fuels alone – coal, oil and gas – account for over 75% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 21, 2023

Environmental Defence is calling on the Minister to fulfill the government’s promise and use this budget to finally eliminate fossil fuel subsidies. Yet, the federal government extended even greater financial support in 2022 than the previous two years, which totalled $8.6 billion and $18 billion respectively.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 22, 2022

We all know that to successfully address climate change we need to phase out fossil fuels and switch to electric power. Unfortunately, the current Ontario government’s plan is to burn more fossil gas to generate power. . Between 2009 and 2016, Ontario built over 2000 MW of solar power and about 3000 MW of wind power.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. In the U.S. SEC Charges Total S.A.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. In the U.S. SEC Charges Total S.A.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 17, 2021

I remember writing, all the way back in 2009, about an announcement from the New Zealand government that they wanted to be zero carbon by 2025. It’s an energy giant with an economy that depends entirely on fossil fuels. Their wellbeing budget and the kinder tone of its politics is an inspiration. Not a great deal.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. In the U.S. SEC Charges Total S.A.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. In the U.S. SEC Charges Total S.A.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 5, 2023

Almost all plastic is made from fossil fuels. In fact, plastic and petrochemicals (chemicals made from oil and gas) have been called the fossil fuel industry’s Plan B – a way to prop up demand for oil and gas as the world stops using it for transportation and energy in order to meet climate commitments.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2022

“Every time a company or organization installs an energy-efficient heating, cooling, or lighting system, it’s another step for Pennsylvania and the nation toward independence from fossil fuels. Local governments, businesses, school districts, hospitals, and nonprofit organizations are eligible to apply. Who Can Apply?

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. In the U.S. SEC Charges Total S.A.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. In the U.S. SEC Charges Total S.A.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Political Influence OpenSecrets.org Profile of BP (British Petroleum) Image Similar Companies Related Gulliver Profiles Repsol SA Royal Dutch Shell Total SA Federal Contractor Misconduct Database Project On Government Oversight's list of U.S. Federal Government (via USA SPENDING). Photo Gallery Image BP Protester photo R.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

As part of its ongoing investigation of fossil fuel industry climate disinformation, the US House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Reform released more than 200 pages of internal corporate documents last month that provide new evidence of industry deception. Companies Plot “Greenwashing” Campaigns.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

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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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Consider IPAA’s website Energy in Depth (EID), which attacks UCS and other climate accountability experts while promoting disinformation, such as claims that fossil gas and fracking benefits the environment.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

1) of Australia’s Environmental Planning & Assessment Act (the EPA), obligates the government to consider the public interest as part of its review of a development application. federal courts considering municipal suits against fossil fuel companies for climate-related damages. Section 4.15(1) Four Key Takeaways.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 16, 2024

How we do this, and how well it happens, depends on planning and collaboration across local, state and federal government. Smaller, decentralized growth in electric heat pumps for buildings, and electric transportation replacing fossil fuels also require more access to electricity and a modern grid.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

On October 26, 2021, Observatório do Clima (OC), a network of 71 civil society organizations, filed a class action at the federal court of Amazonas against the Environmental Ministry and Brazilian government ( Laboratório do Observatório do Clima v. Omissions from the Brazilian government on climate policy. o C global warming scenario.

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Energy and Climate Law

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This is a positive development, given that the applicability of the 2009 Gas Directive to hydrogen has been discussed controversially in the past. Accordingly, the Directive as well as the Regulation differentiate between rules applicable to natural gas and gases more broadly defined.

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