Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

million fine New Gas Plant Threatens Indigenous Livelihoods in Russia’s Far North Total oil project hurts 'tens of thousands' in rural Uganda: watchdog NGOs Brazil environment regulator denies Total permit to drill Foz do Amazonas basin Total settles U.S. million, upgrade Port Arthur refinery Violations at Port Arthur refinery bring $8.75

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

4] Some energy experts and reporters have contended that Texas regulators did not expect to rely on wind to provide much electricity during the cold snap, and rather had relied on natural gas and other thermal power plants. This hour saw a difference of 28.9 GW between expected demand and delivered generation. [4]

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Most of these pieces were about the company’s support for a seemingly independent network of anti-regulation, “free-market” nonprofits that spread falsehoods about the reality and seriousness of climate change. 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] 11] Part of the reason for inadequate in-state electricity supply in California last August was that state regulators had closed in-state baseload power plants.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 12, 2023

EPA’s power to regulate greenhouse gases, established in litigation in 2007, now seems beyond question. Emissions standards for new cars temporarily stalled under Trump but are nonetheless much tighter than they were before Obama. should not enter into any climate agreement that fails to limit emissions from developing countries.

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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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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.

Waste 52

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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.

Electricity 52

Electricity 2022 2017 2020 52

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

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

Circuit Declined to Speed Up or Slow Down Challenges to Withdrawal of California Waiver and Preemption of State Authority to Regulate Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Montana Federal Court Agreed to Consider Keystone XL-Specific Documents and 2012 Biological Opinion in Challenge to Authorization Under Nationwide Permit.

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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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ESA

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. or WOTUS. “In

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

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Vermont Law

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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