Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

As we now know, fossil fuel companies lied about it for decades to protect their profits. Now that there is a desperate need to slash global warming emissions worldwide to avoid the worst consequences of climate change, it is critical to rapidly phase out the use of all fossil fuels. What accounts for that?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

In its early years, between 2005 and 2010, the RFS helped launch the massive scaleup of corn ethanol that established 10 percent ethanol as the de facto standard for US gasoline. After 2010, bio-based diesel fuels (biodiesel and renewable diesel) have been the main beneficiary of the RFS. Bio-based diesel fuels are expensive.

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Legal Planet

MAY 29, 2024

Indeed, one can trace direct line from the ongoing diversification strategies of oil and gas companies looking for new ways to make money from their massive reserves of fossil hydrocarbons to the exponential increase of production of plastics and other chemicals. The numbers here are staggering. Download as PDF

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency surveyed more than 49,000 lakes across the country and found that 30 percent contained toxins produced by the blooms. Last year, the Environmental Working Group, a Washington-based research organization, counted 476 harmful blooms in 41 states, five times higher than in 2010. .

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2022

On March 25, the United States and the European Commission came to an agreement on how to address Europe’s need for natural gas through the next two winters by diversifying liquefied natural gas supplies “in alignment with climate objectives” to end Europe’s dependence on Russian fossil fuels. Read more here. Read more here.

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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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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2024

On March 7, the Independent Fiscal Office issued its latest Pennsylvania Electricity update that reports the electricity grid is dependent on one fuel for 59% of the state’s electricity generation-- natural gas-- followed by nuclear power-- 31.9%, coal-- 5.4% In 2010, the mix was 48% coal, 34% nuclear, 15% gas and 2% renewables.

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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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JANUARY 17, 2024

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). PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters. Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

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). PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters. Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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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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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2022

We founded the Environmental Health Institute in 2007. So when this industry and its drilling took off in the late otss, you know, 2009, 2010, we were sort of in the right place at the right time. And we were charged with evaluating how environmental exposures could be affecting Geisinger's patients.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Tyler Larson was diagnosed in 2010 with neurofibroma sarcoma, which resulted in tumors on nerve endings. Environmental Protection Agency is undertaking a mandatory review of federal drinking water standards, due in 2023. Besides Jacob Peters, four of the Aurora kids died from their cancers. He was 19 when he died. If the U.S.

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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.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Tyler Larson was diagnosed in 2010 with neurofibroma sarcoma, which resulted in tumors on nerve endings. So does fossil fuel combustion. Environmental Protection Agency. The sun sets behind the Aurora Ethanol East LLC plant as a tractor harvests corn near Aurora, Nebraska. He was 19 when he died.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

EPA , the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has regulated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. 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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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Enbridge, like many other fossil fuel companies, has well funded PR teams that expertly craft marketing campaigns to give the appearance that the company is willing to work alongside Indigenous communities and act as partners in good faith. Healthy, ecologically intact rivers, like the Bad River, meander and change naturally over time.

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Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

government $265 million plus interest for over-billing on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and in 2010 it was ordered to repay the U.S. USA: Lockheed agrees to pay feds $10M for Marietta overcharges to Air Force and Navy Rhonda Cook | The Atlanta-Journal Constitution | December 10, 2010 According to the U.S. million to a Dutch prince.

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Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Brazil: A wiretap worth billions: How the CIA used a satellite network, tapped the Brazilian government and assured Raytheon's victory over Thomson in the sale of radars for the Amazon Revista Época | December 13, 2010 Brazil was the target of a joint operation by US secret services exclusively aimed at economic espionage.

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Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Brazil: A wiretap worth billions: How the CIA used a satellite network, tapped the Brazilian government and assured Raytheon's victory over Thomson in the sale of radars for the Amazon Revista Época | December 13, 2010 Brazil was the target of a joint operation by US secret services exclusively aimed at economic espionage.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

by 2020 against a 2010 baseline. The original NDC considered an unrealistic 5% GDP growth and an energy growth based entirely on fossil fuels – which is extremely unlikely in a country with a significant representation of clean energy. The NPCC establishes a binding commitment to reduce GHG emissions between 36.1%

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 22, 2022

A paper published in Science in 2010, by a team led by Zhang Fusuo of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, found that over the course of 20 years, pH levels in China’s arable soils had fallen by an average of 0.5, Lin Dasong is a researcher at the Agro-Environmental Protection Institute of China’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

France: Paris Is Covered In Fake Ads That Mock the Climate Talks' Corporate Sponsors George Dvorsky | Gizmodo | December 1, 2015 Brandalism says the 600 fake ads critique “the corporate takeover of the COP21 climate talks,” while exposing “the links between advertising, consumerism, fossil fuel dependency and climate change.”

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

France: Paris Is Covered In Fake Ads That Mock the Climate Talks' Corporate Sponsors George Dvorsky | Gizmodo | December 1, 2015 Brandalism says the 600 fake ads critique “the corporate takeover of the COP21 climate talks,” while exposing “the links between advertising, consumerism, fossil fuel dependency and climate change.”

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

France: Paris Is Covered In Fake Ads That Mock the Climate Talks' Corporate Sponsors George Dvorsky | Gizmodo | December 1, 2015 Brandalism says the 600 fake ads critique “the corporate takeover of the COP21 climate talks,” while exposing “the links between advertising, consumerism, fossil fuel dependency and climate change.”

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

France: Paris Is Covered In Fake Ads That Mock the Climate Talks' Corporate Sponsors George Dvorsky | Gizmodo | December 1, 2015 Brandalism says the 600 fake ads critique “the corporate takeover of the COP21 climate talks,” while exposing “the links between advertising, consumerism, fossil fuel dependency and climate change.”

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

France: Paris Is Covered In Fake Ads That Mock the Climate Talks' Corporate Sponsors George Dvorsky | Gizmodo | December 1, 2015 Brandalism says the 600 fake ads critique “the corporate takeover of the COP21 climate talks,” while exposing “the links between advertising, consumerism, fossil fuel dependency and climate change.”

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

France: Paris Is Covered In Fake Ads That Mock the Climate Talks' Corporate Sponsors George Dvorsky | Gizmodo | December 1, 2015 Brandalism says the 600 fake ads critique “the corporate takeover of the COP21 climate talks,” while exposing “the links between advertising, consumerism, fossil fuel dependency and climate change.”

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

France: Paris Is Covered In Fake Ads That Mock the Climate Talks' Corporate Sponsors George Dvorsky | Gizmodo | December 1, 2015 Brandalism says the 600 fake ads critique “the corporate takeover of the COP21 climate talks,” while exposing “the links between advertising, consumerism, fossil fuel dependency and climate change.”

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

France: Paris Is Covered In Fake Ads That Mock the Climate Talks' Corporate Sponsors George Dvorsky | Gizmodo | December 1, 2015 Brandalism says the 600 fake ads critique “the corporate takeover of the COP21 climate talks,” while exposing “the links between advertising, consumerism, fossil fuel dependency and climate change.”

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 12, 2023

France: Paris Is Covered In Fake Ads That Mock the Climate Talks' Corporate Sponsors George Dvorsky | Gizmodo | December 1, 2015 Brandalism says the 600 fake ads critique “the corporate takeover of the COP21 climate talks,” while exposing “the links between advertising, consumerism, fossil fuel dependency and climate change.”

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Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

Brazil: A wiretap worth billions: How the CIA used a satellite network, tapped the Brazilian government and assured Raytheon's victory over Thomson in the sale of radars for the Amazon Revista Época | December 13, 2010 Brazil was the target of a joint operation by US secret services exclusively aimed at economic espionage.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

Brazil: A wiretap worth billions: How the CIA used a satellite network, tapped the Brazilian government and assured Raytheon's victory over Thomson in the sale of radars for the Amazon Revista Época | December 13, 2010 Brazil was the target of a joint operation by US secret services exclusively aimed at economic espionage.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

Brazil: A wiretap worth billions: How the CIA used a satellite network, tapped the Brazilian government and assured Raytheon's victory over Thomson in the sale of radars for the Amazon Revista Época | December 13, 2010 Brazil was the target of a joint operation by US secret services exclusively aimed at economic espionage.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

Brazil: A wiretap worth billions: How the CIA used a satellite network, tapped the Brazilian government and assured Raytheon's victory over Thomson in the sale of radars for the Amazon Revista Época | December 13, 2010 Brazil was the target of a joint operation by US secret services exclusively aimed at economic espionage.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

Brazil: A wiretap worth billions: How the CIA used a satellite network, tapped the Brazilian government and assured Raytheon's victory over Thomson in the sale of radars for the Amazon Revista Época | December 13, 2010 Brazil was the target of a joint operation by US secret services exclusively aimed at economic espionage.

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