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 to security experts, and students of political science, geoengineering appears as a hybrid, dual-use security technology.

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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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Environmental and Urban Economics

JULY 11, 2021

And this change comes in part from increasing diffusion of fossil fuels. My 2009 piece; " Urban Growth and Climate Change" fleshes this out. I discuss this point at length in chapter 1 of my 2021 Yale Press book and in the 2009 piece "Urban Growth and Climate Change" linked to above. Here is 2012 video where I elaborate.

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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

Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). Riding the Dragon: Royal Dutch Shell and the Fossil Fire by Jack Doyle (2002). Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). Shell’s Big Dirty Secret by Friends of the Earth Europe (2009).

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Their wellbeing budget and the kinder tone of its politics is an inspiration. 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.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). Riding the Dragon: Royal Dutch Shell and the Fossil Fire by Jack Doyle (2002). Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). Shell’s Big Dirty Secret by Friends of the Earth Europe (2009).

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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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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. But no part of their mandate or report matches this description of “stuff you wish you didn’t have to think about, but realize you must” better than SRM. So, what happens now?

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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. French Oil Giant Total S.A. Total to pay $2.9

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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. Photo Gallery Image BP Protester photo R. complaints from 1995-present day.

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

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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. French Oil Giant Total S.A. Total to pay $2.9

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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. French Oil Giant Total S.A. Total to pay $2.9

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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. French Oil Giant Total S.A. Total to pay $2.9

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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. French Oil Giant Total S.A. Total to pay $2.9

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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. French Oil Giant Total S.A. Total to pay $2.9

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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. French Oil Giant Total S.A. Total to pay $2.9

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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. While these numbers seem overly optimistic, due to technical as well as political and other reasons, it is clear that substantial gas storgae capacitzy in Europe exists.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Brazil’s National Policy on Climate Change ( NPCC and subsequent regulation ) was adopted in 2009 based on Brazil’s international commitments with the UNFCCC. In addition, the same political parties brought a similar case questioning how the government paralyzed the Amazon Fund ( PSB et al. by 2020 against a 2010 baseline.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 16, 2024

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. This insistence on power-sharing reflects the divided political opinions in government today, and may actually be the path forward.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 27, 2023

Imperial Oil Ltd: 2019-Present Exxon Mobil Corp: 1983-2009 & 2014-2019 Esso Petroleum Co Ltd: 2009-2014 Villain Career Profile Corson has spent his entire career extracting and marketing oil and gas, working mostly for Imperial Oil and its parent company ExxonMobil. Leaks and Spills 2022 / 2023 (ongoing) — Kearl Lake, AB 5.3

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

USA: Coke Sued for Fraudulent Claims on Obesity-Promoting “VitaminWater” Center for Science in the Public Interest | January 15, 2009 Coke markets VitaminWater as a healthful alternative to soda by labeling its several flavors with such health buzz words as "defense," "rescue," "energy," and "endurance."

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 22, 2022

Hence many soil scientists had for years been calling for a third survey, particularly those who are representatives to China’s top legislature, the National People’s Congress (NPC), or its top political advisory body, the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPCCC). Forty years of change.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 18, 2024

We’re in a race for lithium, copper, cobalt, nickel, and other critical minerals needed to move away from fossil fuels. Rather than start with the ongoing rush for minerals, Turner began “a long time ago in a galaxy far far away… in 2009” when the U.S. In a way, you do have to choose.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

USA: Stop the Formosa Plastics Plant Coalition Against Death Alley | 2021 As part of the fossil fuel industry’s push to increase North American plastic production by 35 percent by 2025(1), Formosa Plastics is planning to build a massive petrochemical industrial complex in St. USA: Formosa Plastics Corp.,

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Cop stands for conference of the parties under the UNFCCC, and the annual meetings have swung between fractious and soporific, interspersed with moments of high drama and the occasional triumph ( the Paris agreement in 2015 ) and disaster (Copenhagen in 2009). Fossil fuel use must also end. What about net-zero?

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Candidate in the Department of Political Science at Colorado State University What do a crack on Glen Canyon Dam and a Van Gogh painting covered in tomato soup have in common? 7] While despair, pessimism, and grief are often associated with political apathy, [8] pessimistic hope can inspire bold activism and provide an outlet for grief.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 11, 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. Photo Gallery Image BP Protester photo R. complaints from 1995-present day.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In 2009, the U.S. Michigan’s work to improve its oversight of CAFOs, including a proposal to update manure spreading practices with a new permitting system, has been impeded by politically influential agricultural groups led by the Michigan Farm Bureau and supported by conservative state lawmakers. . There are many others.

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JULY 29, 2020

In 2009, Cambridge physicist David MacKay showed that providing energy to the UK with 100 percent renewables would require a greater area than the landmass of the entire country. Only nuclear can substitute for fossil fuels while maintaining and increasing levels of energy consumption required for universal human prosperity.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

In 2022, Texas, along with several other states and industry groups representing fuel manufacturers (together, Petitioners), challenged EPA’s new emissions standards in court.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

Maryland County Filed Climate Change Lawsuit Against Fossil Fuel Companies and Trade Group. Annapolis, a city in the county, previously filed a separate lawsuit against fossil fuel companies.) Exxon Mobil Corp. , 451071/2021 (N.Y. BP p.l.c. , C-02-CV-21-000565 (Md. Chevron USA Inc. , 21-15318 (9th Cir. Sunoco LP , No.

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AUGUST 22, 2023

Earlier in his political career, Bettencourt served as Republican House Majority Leader, and as the public face of the conservative agenda in the state’s House of Representatives. New Hampshire’s 2009 Climate Action Plan is the product of a very diverse and thoughtful steering committee.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2018

emissions in the RGGI region would have been approximately 24 percent higher in 2015 but for the program, which took effect in 2009. [5]. The report estimates that “[t]he lifetime effects of these investments are projected to save 28 million MMBtu of fossil fuel energy and 9 million MWh of electricity, avoiding the release of 5.3

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Law Columbia

APRIL 23, 2021

On April 1, 2021, a unanimous Second Circuit panel dismissed a lawsuit filed by New York City against a handful of fossil fuel companies seeking damages for climate change harms under state public nuisance and trespass law. The opinion and other case materials are available here.) Alternatively, the U.S.

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