Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 27, 2023

This blog is co-authored with Alienor Rougeot, Climate and Energy Program Manager Two prominent figures of Canada’s oil and gas industry were recently on Global TV’s politics show, The West Block with Mercedes Stephenson, where they spread a bunch of misinformation and half truths. But does CCUS work? have ended in failure.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

The bench trial took place last month in the state capitol, Helena, where 16 youth plaintiffs ages 5 to 22 made the case that Montana’s unwavering promotion of fossil fuels violates the state constitution’s guarantee to a “clean and healthful environment.” The admission says a lot about political will.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 20, 2023

The regulatory decisions made by the Governments of Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile in the following months and years will set the course for the lithium industry, with significant consequences for the planet’s future. The world will need large amounts of lithium to reduce fossil fuel emissions drastically. million tons by 2030.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 23, 2023

This is a good opportunity for the government of Ontario to select a more appropriate person to lead the agency, ideally one that supports the much needed transition away from fossil fuels. All of the alternatives are available now and are cheaper than fossil gas.

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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 company sued the government of Argentina in 2012 for $10 billion after the country nationalized YPF with the backing of 80 percent of legislators of parliament. Corporation Repsol S.A.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Six environmental groups launched the proceeding challenging the stay after EPA published notice of the stay in the June 5, 2017 issue of the Federal Register. filed June 5, 2017; emergency motion for stay granted July 3, 2017). June 29, 2017). June 28, 2017). June 28, 2017). Clean Air Council v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

By Jacob Carter and Martha Kinsella In late August 2017, Hurricane Harvey brought Texas rain that just wouldn’t stop. But given that the area is home to Superfund sites , fossil fuel fired power plants, and other petrochemical hubs, this wasn’t ordinary rainwater.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

org Summary ExxonMobil is a fossil fuel company headquartered in Irving, Texas. Oil workers go on strike at Exxon Mobil in Nigeria: union Reuters | May 11, 2017 Nigerian workers at U.S. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. In the U.S. SEC Charges Total S.A.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 19, 2023

News that the Pakistan government plans to secure financing and start construction on a long-stalled 300-megawatt coal-fired power plant in the port city of Gwadar has triggered a debate on the direction of the country’s energy sector. “We Pakistan’s energy sector is dominated by fossil fuels.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

org Summary ExxonMobil is a fossil fuel company headquartered in Irving, Texas. Oil workers go on strike at Exxon Mobil in Nigeria: union Reuters | May 11, 2017 Nigerian workers at U.S. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. In the U.S. SEC Charges Total S.A.

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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.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. In the U.S. SEC Charges Total S.A.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. In the U.S. SEC Charges Total S.A.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. In the U.S. SEC Charges Total S.A.

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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.

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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.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. In the U.S. SEC Charges Total S.A.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. In the U.S. SEC Charges Total S.A.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

For decades the fossil fuel lobby has masterfully weakened, derailed, and outright blocked government climate policy. The fossil fuel lobby meddles with Canadian politics and inserts itself into international climate change politics and diplomacy. We need governments to regulate industry.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land.

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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.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

For two or three weeks, climate politics gets intense worldwide news coverage. The middle ring is the space of informal, improvised action by diverse actors, including national governments, international organizations, private business and industry, and environmental and other civil-society groups. Then things move on.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 4, 2023

Following meetings between President Biden and Prime Minister Trudeau, Canada’s government pledges increased spending on the Great Lakes. Jurisdiction of the Kanienʼkehá꞉ka (Mohawk) territory of Akwesasne is shared three ways — a council elected by the Canadian government, a council elected by the U.S.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 16, 2018

That could be changing, though, as modern-day climate activists like the Valve Turners vigorously protest industry and government inaction in the face of increasingly dire climate change threats. Common Dreams (March 10, 2017), [link]. Although no U.S. and one in Minnesota (a Valve Turners’ case). reduce the risk of a possible harm.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2024

For more than a century, the United States has recognized this, and maintaining roads and bridges has been a core function of federal, state, and local governments. The federal government embraced a role in supporting transit in the 1970s, but this was cut back for the past 40 years and didn’t rebound until the pandemic.

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Vermont Law

OCTOBER 16, 2017

The slow shift from fossils fuels, like oil and coal, to more green sources of energy hasn’t been exactly met with a. presently hostile political administration. Solar power may be the green-energy solution of the future but not until the government steps into the light on this issue. warm reception. great success.

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Energy and Climate Law

DECEMBER 15, 2021

From a governance perspective, hydrogen is taken out of ENTSO-G`s competence and a new EU body will be created, the European Network of Network Operators for Hydrogen (ENNOH), according to article 40 rGR. These practices have been significantly reduced by the industry in the past and are often used in emergency siutuations.

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Science Blogs

AUGUST 29, 2017

The release of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels is, conceiveably, the most important environmental issue in the world today. — "Costs and benefits of carbon dioxide," Nature , May 3, 1979. And along with the economic costs will come social and political side effects. Tue, 08/29/2017 - 08:57.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 27, 2023

And if you want to challenge the power that Brad Corson has you can help us hold Imperial Oil accountable for its recent toxic tailings disaster by clicking here to send a letter to the federal government and government of Alberta. Leaks and Spills 2022 / 2023 (ongoing) — Kearl Lake, AB 5.3

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

In a separate but similar Ninth Circuit appeal, the federal government filed a brief on October 18 urging the court to overturn a district court decision vacating the listing of a ringed seal subspecies as threatened based on climate change threats through the end of the century. Sentencing was scheduled for February 3, 2017.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Vietnamese blogger who filmed chemical spill protests released from prison Radio Free Asia PaulaR Wed, 01/17/2024 - 14:44 Thursday, January 11, 2024 Read more Nguyen Van Hoa was arrested in 2017 following massive demonstrations against a Taiwan-owned steel plant. By RFA Vietnamese 2024.01.11

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

Total Penalties $241,580,318 (July 7, 2023) Number of Records 118 Books Agrifood Atlas: Facts and figures about the corporations that control what we eat by Heinrich Böll Foundation, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation & Friends of the Earth Europe (2017) Citizen Coke by Bartow J. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), promising to pay $2.25

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

German climate protesters block train carrying Volkswagen cars DW | July 14, 2019 Dozens of climate protesters tied themselves to a train track in front of a freight train to protest the German government's 'failed climate policy.' but virtually nothing in Europe.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

German climate protesters block train carrying Volkswagen cars DW | July 14, 2019 Dozens of climate protesters tied themselves to a train track in front of a freight train to protest the German government's 'failed climate policy.' but virtually nothing in Europe.

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