Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 4, 2024
There has been comparatively less attention to the decision by climate scientist Dr. Susan Avery not to seek re-election to the ExxonMobil board of directors. Yet this shift in corporate leadership is significant, marking the end of a chapter in ExxonMobil’s long and ongoing history of climate deception and disinformation.
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 8, 2022
To get an assessment of the progress thus far, as well as an idea if what has to happen next, I turned to two of my colleagues in the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) Climate & Energy Program: Principal Climate Scientist Rachel Licker and Transmission Policy Manager Sam Gomberg. It’s a big deal.
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PA Environment Daily
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
Everyone can understand that renewable energy sources-- sunlight, wind, the heat of the earth, and water in various forms of motion-- have an initial advantage over sources that must be continually extracted, processed, transported, and burned. Mann, Climate Scientist & Author, At The Water's Edge Gala On Nov.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 31, 2022
For more than two decades, the Koch network has been diligently spreading disinformation to sabotage efforts to transition to a clean energy economy, more often than not by attacking proposed climate policies on economic grounds. Climate scientists, he added, “have these models that show it, but the models don’t work….”.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 29, 2023
And the rigorous teaching of climate science does not inculcate anyone with anything except a greater understanding of the physical world and how humans are altering it. I’d bet a climate scientist would have been glad to make the short trip to talk to Senator Cirino. Clean energy is where the job growth is and will be.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 10, 2023
In a telling moment during a 2021 congressional hearing, top oil and gas company executives refused to tell API’s president to stop opposing climate and environmental policies the corporations claim to support. P is for Paltering Researchers describe paltering as the use of technically true statements to create an overall false impression.
PA Environment Daily
AUGUST 7, 2022
Senate passed compromised legislation that would make the largest federal investment-- $375 billion-- in climate change fighting strategies, including investments in renewable energy production, tax rebates for consumers for energy efficiency and electric vehicles and more. Republicans voted against the bill.
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