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ExxonMobil Accurately Projected Rising Temperatures While Publicly Disparaging Climate Science

Union of Concerned Scientists

2023 ) 2) ExxonMobil produced quality science internally, but cast doubt on it publicly ExxonMobil was producing quality science. The new paper in Science summarizes key statements by ExxonMobil executives between 2000 and 2013 that cast doubt on the science. Let’s dig into what Supran et al.’s Source: Supran et al.,

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Shell called out for promoting fossil fuels to youth via Fortnite game

Corp Watch

Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). In the Niger River Delta, the company was responsible for an average of 2,976 spills a week between 1976 to 1991, on the land of the Ogoni people.

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Diesel is the Reason for the Sneezin’: Cleaner Holiday Deliveries are on the Horizon

Union of Concerned Scientists

The share of online transactions among total US sales grew from just under six percent in 2013 to around 15 percent in 2021, according to the Census Bureau’s Annual Retail Trade Survey. Some of the same researchers are currently working on a comparable study for the United States and their preliminary results are similar.

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Maine Offshore Wind Roadmap Expected in Early 2023; Here’s Why the OSW Industry Should Take Note

Law and Environment

The State of Maine is expected to release the Maine Offshore Wind Roadmap in early 2023, and the global offshore wind industry should be watching. What can we expect to see when the final Roadmap is released in early 2023? Formally establish state procurement commitments. Act regionally to maximize benefits and lower costs.

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Why We Must Talk About Climate Change When Things Are on Fire

Enviromental Defense

Researchers working in the field of attribution science have been able to state with clarity that last year’s fires and droughts, the Alberta floods of 2013, BC’s atmospheric rivers, and the heat waves that have killed hundreds of people in the BC’s Lower Mainland, have all been intensified and magnified by human-caused climate change.

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The energy transition is already happening, and it’s being led by our Indigenous communities

Enviromental Defense

In 2013, I returned to university to complete a master’s degree with a research focus on energy transition. But when the government released the Sustainable Jobs Plan in February 2023 (after two years of consultation), it quickly became clear that the legislation was plagued by features typical of a business-focused colonial government.

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Analysis: New coal mines add question mark to India’s climate commitments

A Greener Life

But this announcement was seemingly at odds with another made just three days earlier, when coal minister Pralhad Joshi confirmed that India intends to increase production for the fossil fuel. From 2013 to 2014, Indian coal production was 565 million tonnes; from 2022 to 2023, that had increased by 58% to 893 million.