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Calling Out Climate Lies for a Living

Union of Concerned Scientists

I first wrote about ExxonMobil in March 2013 after I saw the company’s then-CEO, Rex Tillerson, on the Charlie Rose talk show, who provided me with fodder for perhaps my favorite of two dozen ExxonMobil-related columns. Later in the hour, Tillerson told Rose that the federal government should end subsidies for renewable energy. “I

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Susannah Pierce: A Climate Villain Painting Big Oil Green

Enviromental Defense

Take action by telling the government to hold the oil and gas sector accountable for its pollution by urgently implementing a cap on emissions. a joint venture of Shell, Petronas, Mitsubishi, PetroChina and Kogas): 2013 – 2021 Shell Canada Ltd.: 2010 – 2013 Shell Oil Company Inc.: Is that you? million gas cars.

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Why We Must Talk About Climate Change When Things Are on Fire

Enviromental Defense

Researchers working in the field of attribution science have been able to state with clarity that last year’s fires and droughts, the Alberta floods of 2013, BC’s atmospheric rivers, and the heat waves that have killed hundreds of people in the BC’s Lower Mainland, have all been intensified and magnified by human-caused climate change.

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Tesla sues Swedish government after postal workers allegedly block license plate deliveries

Corp Watch

Tesla sues Swedish government after postal workers allegedly block license plate deliveries CNBC PaulaR Thu, 11/30/2023 - 13:12 Monday, November 27, 2023 Read more Ashley Capoot Tesla filed a lawsuit against the Swedish Transport Agency on Monday that claims it should be able to collect license plates directly instead of receiving them by mail.

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November 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Peabody, a coal company, filed for bankruptcy in April 2016 and emerged from bankruptcy under a plan that became effective on April 3, 2017. 19, 2017); In re Constitution Pipeline Co. , Reorganized Peabody Energy Corp. County of San Mateo (In re Peabody Energy Corp.) , No. 16-42529 (Bankr. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS. Sierra Club v.

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French company to coordinate carbon capture project in Brazil

Corp Watch

Founded in 1924 as the Compagnie Française des Pétroles (French Petroleum Company) with the support of the French government and banks, it was renamed Total in 1985. Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million in 2013. In the U.S.

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An encroaching desert intensifies Nigeria’s farmer-herder crisis

Circle of Blue

A bare-chested old man lies in the emergency room of a government hospital in northeast Nigeria. The government has even tried to retrain some herders to work as ranchers, but there is little known about the progress of this initiative. The Sahara, which is the world’s largest hot desert, grew 10% bigger between 1920 and 2013.