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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). Also see SOMO's 2008 report. James 350 New Orleans Major Investigations & Lawsuits Milieudefensie's lawsuit against Shell in Nigeria Milieudefensie | September 25, 2020 Milieudefensie, together with four Nigerian farmers, sued Shell in 2008.

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Climate Election 2024: “Drill, Baby, Drill” but Then What?

Legal Planet

The 2008-era slogan is shorthand for the Trump campaign’s energy policy, but we know much more about current conservative thinking on the subject thanks to Project 2025 , the 920-page transition plan for the next administration by policy strategists from the Heritage Foundation. That chant is back in vogue, as the general election heats up.

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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. CAPP is trying to buy and build the social license (ie.

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The Shock of the Global

Legal Planet

And aluminum prices are higher than at any time since the financial crisis of 2008. There are echoes here of the energy and economic crisis of the 1970s, a global shock that has reverberated in global politics and economics for much of the last half century. Fossil fuel supporters have been quick to say “I told you so.”

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Climate Reality vs. Public Perception: Will Toxic Haze and the 2023 Danger Season Make a Difference?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Disinformation dulls urgency Climate change denial and skepticism is a key feature of the deep political divide in this nation, fueled by long-running and coordinated campaigns of disinformation , often funded by fossil fuel interests. This has got nothing to do with climate.This is not because of fossil fuels.”

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Default and the Environment

Legal Planet

The result of a default-driven recession: the energy transition is put on hold while carbon emissions from fossil fuels continue — emissions that will stay in the atmosphere warming the planet for two hundred years or more. That brings us to the topic of political ripple effects. Domestic politics. is good for the money.

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Sunday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 10.1.23

PA Environment Daily

Senate next voting day October 2, 3, 4, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24, 25, Nov. 13, 14, 15, Dec. 11, 12, 13 -- Committee Schedule House next voting day October 2, 3, 4, 16, 17, 18, 30, 31, Nov.