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Gregory L. Ebel: The Pipeline Pusher

Enviromental Defense

Ebel, the CEO of Enbridge, to our list of infamous Climate Villains – powerful people with fossil fuel interests holding Canada back from effective climate action. The executives behind the fossil fuel industry often avoid public scrutiny, which is why we’re shining the spotlight on their activities.

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

Corp Watch

Riding the Dragon: Royal Dutch Shell and the Fossil Fire by Jack Doyle (2002). 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. Lessons Not Learned: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth (2004). Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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9th Compendium Of Studies On Health & Environmental Harms From Natural Gas Development Released - ‘The Rapidly Expanding Body Of Evidence Compiled Here Is Massive, Troubling And Cries Out For Decisive Action’

PA Environment Daily

Sandra Steingraber, Senior Scientist with the Science and Environmental Health Network , provided an overview of findings from the newly published 9th Compendium of Scientific, Medical, Media Findings Demonstrating Risk, Harms of Natural Gas Development and Infrastructure during a briefing hosted by the Better Path Coalition.

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Something Stinks: California Must End Manure Biomethane Accounting Gimmicks in its Low Carbon Fuel Standard

Union of Concerned Scientists

This approach originated from the recognition that many alternative fuels, especially ethanol, involve a lot of fossil fuels and other pollution in their production. This approach holds fuel producers accountable for reducing fossil fuel use and other global warming pollution in their supply chains.

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Susannah Pierce: A Climate Villain Painting Big Oil Green

Enviromental Defense

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.

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Saturday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 10.8.22

PA Environment Daily

Limiting Methane Emissions From Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities To Oct. Heating Oil 49% Higher Than Last Year] -- Baker Hughes PA Natural Gas Drill Rig Count At 23 - Same Number For Last 8 Out Of 9 Weeks -- Reuters: U.S. 15 In Pittsburgh -- Reminder: Bucknell University River Symposium Abstracts Due Oct.

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Israel has just given BP licences to drill for gas off the coast of Gaza. So, people blockaded its head office.

Corp Watch

Drowning in Oil: BP and the Reckless Pursuit of Profit by Loren C. Steffy (McGraw-Hill, 2011). Some Common Concerns: Imagining BP’s Azerbaijan-Georgia-Turkey Pipelines System by PLATFORM et al. The History of the British Petroleum Company: The Developing Years, 1901-1932 by R.W. Ferrier (Cambridge University Press, 1982).

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