Corp Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Oil giant Total is being sued by cities and NGOs for not fighting climate change hard enough Francois de Beaupuy | Fortune | January 28, 2020 Oil giant Total SA is being sued by 14 local governments and a handful of non-governmental organizations in France for not doing enough to reduce its carbon emissions and fight global warming.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Oil giant Total is being sued by cities and NGOs for not fighting climate change hard enough Francois de Beaupuy | Fortune | January 28, 2020 Oil giant Total SA is being sued by 14 local governments and a handful of non-governmental organizations in France for not doing enough to reduce its carbon emissions and fight global warming.

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HumanNature

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Carbon emissions from land use and land-cover change. Biogeosciences 9 , 5125–5142 (2012). Farmers struggle to break into booming carbon-credit market. Science of The Total Environment 685 , 1181–1192 (2019). Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C 110 , 195–202 (2019). Scale Carbon Emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 25, 2022

Going forward, annual performance reports will assess each participating building’s carbon emissions intensity and progress. below the baseline, a slight decrease from the 2020 reduction of 42.1%, but still far greater than the 2019 reduction of 19.8%. Last year, Pittsburgh 2030 District partners reduced energy use to 34.9%

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 19, 2021

In 2012, the Legislature passed the largest corporate subsidy in its history—a 25-year, $1.65 million tons of carbon pollution annually, despite being ordered recently by a judge to slash its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030, from 2019 levels.

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

The total number of negative price hours, whereby power plants had to pay people to take unneeded electricity, grew dramatically between 2019 and 2020, just as they did in California during the same period, and have grown since. Part of the problem in Texas was that wind and solar farms set the price for the rest of the system.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

ExxonMobil spent at least $39 million on some 70 of these organizations from 1998 through 2020, more than any funder besides Charles Koch and his brother David, co-owner of Koch Industries until his death in 2019. ExxonMobil is still funding those folks, big time.”

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

In 2012, 2017, and 2021 the National Academies of Science and Engineering published three separate reports on threats to the grid, resilience, and the future of electricity. [1] 19] France spends just over half as much per kilowatt-hour for electricity that produces one-tenth of the carbon emissions of German electricity. [20]

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Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Noam Scheiber | The New York Times | March 25, 2021 The National Labor Relations Board on Thursday upheld a 2019 ruling that Tesla had illegally fired a worker involved in union organizing and that the company’s chief executive, Elon Musk, had illegally threatened workers with the loss of stock options if they unionized.

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Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Noam Scheiber | The New York Times | March 25, 2021 The National Labor Relations Board on Thursday upheld a 2019 ruling that Tesla had illegally fired a worker involved in union organizing and that the company’s chief executive, Elon Musk, had illegally threatened workers with the loss of stock options if they unionized.

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Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Noam Scheiber | The New York Times | March 25, 2021 The National Labor Relations Board on Thursday upheld a 2019 ruling that Tesla had illegally fired a worker involved in union organizing and that the company’s chief executive, Elon Musk, had illegally threatened workers with the loss of stock options if they unionized.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 12, 2023

2011 Supreme Court decides AEP case, barring lawsuits against carbon emitters using the federal common law of nuisance. 2012 EPA adopts regulation limiting carbon emissions for new cars. 2019 Trump EPA revokes California’s waiver for regulating CO2 from new cars. 2014 Supreme Court decides UARG v.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Noam Scheiber | The New York Times | March 25, 2021 The National Labor Relations Board on Thursday upheld a 2019 ruling that Tesla had illegally fired a worker involved in union organizing and that the company’s chief executive, Elon Musk, had illegally threatened workers with the loss of stock options if they unionized.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Noam Scheiber | The New York Times | March 25, 2021 The National Labor Relations Board on Thursday upheld a 2019 ruling that Tesla had illegally fired a worker involved in union organizing and that the company’s chief executive, Elon Musk, had illegally threatened workers with the loss of stock options if they unionized.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Noam Scheiber | The New York Times | March 25, 2021 The National Labor Relations Board on Thursday upheld a 2019 ruling that Tesla had illegally fired a worker involved in union organizing and that the company’s chief executive, Elon Musk, had illegally threatened workers with the loss of stock options if they unionized.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Noam Scheiber | The New York Times | March 25, 2021 The National Labor Relations Board on Thursday upheld a 2019 ruling that Tesla had illegally fired a worker involved in union organizing and that the company’s chief executive, Elon Musk, had illegally threatened workers with the loss of stock options if they unionized.

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Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

In 2019 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change warned that warming of 1.5 36] And a paper published in Nature in 2019 found that “agro-ecological” farming, which has long been promoted by European governments, US NGOs, and the UN, does not improve the agricultural productivity of small African farmers. [37] and around the world.

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

US electricity sector emissions decreased 34 percent from 2005 to 2019, including an astonishing 10 percent in 2019, which is the largest year-on-year decline in history. Carbon emissions are thus following the same trajectory as other air pollutants.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 31, 2022

The committee followed up that hearing —during which the executives disingenuously denied funding such a campaign—with another hearing on February 8 focusing on the oil companies’ inadequate plans to cut their carbon emissions. By contrast, the second-largest funder of climate disinformation, ExxonMobil, spent $39.2

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Montana Federal Court Agreed to Consider Keystone XL-Specific Documents and 2012 Biological Opinion in Challenge to Authorization Under Nationwide Permit. Federal Court Denied Motions to Dismiss Challenges to 2019 Presidential Permit for Keystone XL. Washington Supreme Court Invalidated Regulation of Indirect Greenhouse Gas Emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

Perhaps the most consequential of all Paxton’s actions, however, is a lawsuit he and AGs from 19 other states, including Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina, filed in 2021 challenging the EPA’s authority to curb power plant carbon emissions. After she took office in January 2019, that pledge went out the window.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

21 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. -- PG: Study: Great Allegheny Passage Trail Is ‘An Economic Highway’ That Generated $121 Million In 2019 -- PG Editorial: Great Allegheny Passage Bike Trail Leads To Economic Growth -- PG: Pittsburgh Regional Asset District Budget Invests $7.8

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NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The pact recognizes that world’s countries would need to reduce global carbon emissions by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030 levels to limit warming to 1.5 Richmond is the Presidential Chair in Science and a professor of chemistry at the University of Oregon and has been a member of the National Science Board since 2012.

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DECEMBER 19, 2016

6, 2012). [7]. in domestic or international efforts to reduce carbon emissions. Instead Mr. Ebell seems perfectly suited to eviscerate the efforts of the Obama Administration to reduce carbon emissions as part of the international cooperation to spare the globe from looming catastrophe. 2, 2014). [8].

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