Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 4, 2024
That 2013 headline resulted from the first effort to quantify emissions from the ‘carbon majors’ —fossil fuel companies and cement manufacturers whose businesses have contributed an outsized amount of heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere. Nearly two-thirds of industrial heat-trapping emissions can be traced to just 90 entities.
Corp Watch
OCTOBER 13, 2023
Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). In the Niger River Delta, the company was responsible for an average of 2,976 spills a week between 1976 to 1991, on the land of the Ogoni people.
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A Greener Life
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
But this announcement was seemingly at odds with another made just three days earlier, when coal minister Pralhad Joshi confirmed that India intends to increase production for the fossil fuel. From 2013 to 2014, Indian coal production was 565 million tonnes; from 2022 to 2023, that had increased by 58% to 893 million.
Corp Watch
JANUARY 17, 2024
Website Summary Repsol is a fossil fuel exploration company that evolved from a Spanish state venture that was set up in the 1920s. The case was settled in 2014 after Argentina paid Repsol $5 billion. Corporation Repsol S.A. Repsol fined for anti-competitive practices.
Real Climate
AUGUST 13, 2021
This is a pretty clear illustration of how sea level starts to rise slowly; but in the long run, sea-level rise caused by fossil-fuel burning and deforestation in our generation could literally go off the chart and inundate many coastal cities and wipe entire island nations off the map. But first things first.
Enviromental Defense
MAY 11, 2021
In 2013, after moving with my husband and young children to the beautiful coastal community of White Rock/South Surrey, BC, I learned that there was a plan to develop a US thermal coal transfer facility at Fraser Surrey Docks, about a 30-minute drive from our home with the intent of shipping 8 million metric tonnes of coal to Asia.
Corp Watch
NOVEMBER 17, 2023
Historical Refernces Britain’s first North Sea oil rig collapses Julian Gavaghan | Yahoo News | December 24, 2013 December 27, 1965: Britain’s first ever North Sea oil rig collapsed and killed 13 men during a bitter snowstorm and 20ft-high waves on this day in 1965. Public Interest Research Group Education Fund (October 1999).
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