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Here’s What We’re Asking Major Fossil Fuel Corporations at This Year’s Annual Meetings

Union of Concerned Scientists

At this year’s annual general meetings, major investor-owned fossil fuel corporations are facing fewer climate-related shareholder proposals than at any time since the adoption of the Paris climate agreement in 2015. Department of Justice to investigate the fossil fuel industry’s decades-long history of engaging in deceptive practices.

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Calling Out Climate Lies for a Living

Union of Concerned Scientists

Rex Tillerson, ExxonMobil CEO from 2006 to 2016. It was a bogus argument that fossil fuel proponents would repeat ad nauseum over the next 10 years, so when Rose failed to provide some needed context, I jumped in. I’m not aware of anything the fossil fuel industry gets that I would characterize as a subsidy.”

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

Corp Watch

Shell faces lawsuit from climate change activists over fossil fuels Reuters | April 5, 2019 Environmentalist and human rights groups said on Friday they had started a lawsuit against Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands to force the energy firm to cut its reliance on fossil fuels.

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July 3rd 2023 was the hottest day ever recorded

A Greener Life

By Anders Lorenzen Data from the US National Centre for Environmental Protection has concluded, that Monday the 3rd of July 2023 was the hottest day ever recorded globally. degrees C, the average global temperature set a new record surpassing the previous record set in August 2016 of 16.92 Measuring 17.01

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ESA Policy News: April 3, 2023

ESA

The assessment will also allow the country to look ahead at how nature might change in the future and identify opportunities for investments in nature to help achieve climate, health, environmental justice and economic goals. What are specific activities that this individual has accomplished informed by ecological science?

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Why Energy Bills Will Be Even Higher This Winter

Union of Concerned Scientists

And Eversource Energy’s New Hampshire utility won approval from the state Public Utilities Commission over the summer to increase electric rates by a whopping 53 percent through the end of January 2023 to account for high gas prices in New England. It provides essential services that can be a matter of life or death for millions of people.

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Everywhere and Forever All at Once: PFAS and the Failures of Chemicals Regulation

Legal Planet

While these specific instances of corporate malfeasance are hardly atypical in the world of toxic harms, the current settlement dollars involving PFAS are quite large— more than $11 billion in 2023 , a figure that is expected to increase in coming years. And so we continue to allow industry to fill our world with toxic chemicals.