Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 10, 2023

This year has brought new evidence of what major fossil fuel companies knew and when about the role their products play in climate change, as well as what they did in spite of what they knew. I is for Intensity Targets Reducing global warming emissions intensity alone is not sufficient to slow the pace of climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 18, 2022

Each year, summer-like temperatures arrive all too soon during spring, thanks to human-induced climate change. Our advocacy efforts were part of a larger Public Citizen campaign to unite a national network of organizations to protect workers from heat stress in a warming climate. And that danger is only increasing.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 22, 2023

The onslaught has led to another round of media headlines and press releases from environmental and public health groups asking whether the nation is at a tipping point of urgency to fight climate change. A Vox headline on the orange skies from Canadian wildfires said, “Wildfire smoke reminded people about climate change.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 8, 2022

So much so that climate advocates complain that news of the war now overshadows the much more important UN climate report , released on Monday the 28th of February which got very little media attention. . First, as I have previously argued ; conflicts and wars do nothing but slow down and halt action on climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 2, 2022

UCS has laid out the reasons why mandatory and standardized climate disclosure will help communities, spur climate action, stabilize the financial system, and hold fossil fuel companies accountable. The good news is that this rule meets a lot of the criteria we set, although there are some areas that could be improved.

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Law and Environment

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

And the news this week was that Michael Bloomberg is putting $85 million into a new “ Beyond Petrochemicals ” campaign. . The difference is apparent from the get-go; the campaign is not called “Beyond Plastics”; it’s called “Beyond Petrochemicals”.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

It is urgent to implement the Methane Pledge as soon as possible given methane, a potent heat-trapping gas, already has devastating effects on human health and the climate, which will continue for years to come. Of course, we also will have to make sharp cuts in CO2 emissions, the main driver of climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 5, 2024

For instance, half of adults in the United States obtain their news at least sometimes from social media. For instance, oil and gas companies have long denied or undermined climate change science. Science unfortunately is an appealing target for people looking to disinform the public.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 15, 2021

Swiss voters reject proposals to mitigate impacts of climate change and improve drinking water. A new report finds the Canadian province of Ontario loses millions of gallons of clean water every day due to leaky pipes. IN RECENT WATER NEWS. A Michigan city applies for funding to remove more than 1,000 lead service lines.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 11, 2023

That makes them three of Canada’s top ‘climate villains’. That’s why we’ve included them in our brand-new campaign that names and shames the key players in the fossil fuel industry who are guilty of fueling climate chaos and the tactics they use to greenwash and misinform us all. Why did we launch ‘Climate Villains’?

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 8, 2024

This research was shared by several news outlets, and although finding microplastics in these food items was not much of a surprise to us , plenty of people were shocked by our results and began to ask more questions about microplastic pollution and human health impacts. What did we find?

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 26, 2022

Alexis Rosenfeld, French photographer and founder of the 1 Ocean campaign, who led the diving mission explains : “It was magical to witness giant, beautiful rose corals which stretch for as far as the eye can see. The discovery of this reef in such a pristine condition is good news and can inspire future conservation.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 25, 2022

In Recent Water News. bombing campaign during the war against the Islamic State, the rising cost of water in Chicago’s communities of color, and U.K. The post The Stream, January 25, 2022: Agricultural Experts Ask For Proactive Climate Investment in British Columbia appeared first on Circle of Blue.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Indigenous communities around the world,,, like the Mising tribe, suffer the most from climate change. The Stream will be back to covering daily water news on January 5. If you rely on our nonprofit journalism, I hope you’ll consider donating to our end-of-year NewsMatch campaign. Happy New Year!

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A Greener Life

MARCH 25, 2022

The devastating war in Ukraine has understandably distracted media and political attention from climate change and related issues. But for those who did manage to absorb the findings of the latest publication from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the news was grim. .

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Circle of Blue

MAY 4, 2022

As the nation prepares to pour hundreds of billions of federal dollars into rescuing water systems, the Great Lakes News Collaborative investigates the true cost of water in Michigan. . Like other inland lakes in the area, residents around Elk Lake in Antrim County are seeing changes in the water. . The Township board voted that down.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 25, 2023

More Water News Hammams — Morocco World News reports that, amid nationwide water shortages, the country has launched a campaign to raise public awareness of water conservation in 400 hammams, traditional bath houses, across major cities.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 12, 2021

IN RECENT WATER NEWS. Climate Change Is Intensifying the Water Cycle, New IPCC Report Finds – The climate crisis will jeopardize key sources of fresh water and make extreme weather events more severe. Now an activist, she campaigns for Indigenous rights – and the water to sustain them.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2022

on Friday, with no news alert, press statement or announcement, ExxonMobil for the first time revealed who received its lobbying money and how much. Further down the list are organizations that may not be as immediately recognizable but are well known to UCS and other groups that track climate disinformation.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 5, 2021

Some of the images captured by news agencies include flames engulfing trees on a hillside near the coastal resort of Marmaris, and drone footage showed a grey landscape nearby with smouldering buildings and blackened tree trunks. On Monday seven were still burning helped by temperatures above 40 degrees C, strong winds and low humidity.

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

We were founded by the Manhattan Project nuclear physicist, Leo Szilard , because he said ‘the sweet voice of reason alone could not do the job, that campaign contributions could not do the job, but the combination of the sweet voice of reason and substantial campaign contributions might very well do the job.’

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Mercenary hackers stole data that Exxon later cited in climate lawsuits -US prosecutors Yahoo News PaulaR Tue, 11/07/2023 - 17:23 Thursday, October 12, 2023 Read more Raphael Satter & Christopher Bing WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. org Summary ExxonMobil is a fossil fuel company headquartered in Irving, Texas.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Drexel University, in partnership with the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University , has launched a new platform, The Environmental Collaboratory , focused on climate change, environmental justice and human wellbeing.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

New Shell documents could aid climate cases, attorneys say Follow the Money PaulaR Thu, 01/25/2024 - 16:59 Thursday, January 18, 2024 Read more Matthew Green, Merel de Buck & Birte Schohaus Latest Shell-files show that the company reflected on climate change caused by fossil products as early as the 1970s.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 10, 2021

IN RECENT WATER NEWS. climate summit in November. Coming out of the summit, climate campaigners accused political leaders of another compact phrase — of being too timid. Seaside towns and cities like Keta have slowly been eroding over the years due to rising sea levels. Too little. Too polluted. Too frequent.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Exxon’s refineries in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Baytown, Texas, has also been in the news over a series of explosions in 1989, 1994 and 2021 that killed workers and caused major air pollution. Photo Gallery Image Exxon Knew Protest - Photographer 350.org

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 13, 2022

The funds were raised through The GIANT Company’s Healing Our Planet campaign, which ran from March 1 to May 31, and allowed customers to round up their checkout purchases to the nearest dollar at GIANT, MARTIN’S and GIANT Heirloom Market stores. The GIANT Company presented Rodale Institute with a check for $1,099,208.55

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ESA

AUGUST 25, 2023

Dr. Running shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 as a chapter Lead Author for the 4th Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In the popular press, his essay in 2007, “The 5 Stages of Climate Grief” has been widely quoted. More reading Kids Sued Montana over Climate Change and Won

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

Shell campaign IndustriALL Global Union | May 22, 2020 IndustriALL is calling on Shell to engage with unions on a global level in a campaign to limit precarious work, improve health and safety, and ensure that Shell applies the same high-level standards at its operations everywhere, including suppliers.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The Latest On The Debate In PA Click Here for latest PA Environmental News Like PA Environment Digest on Facebook Follow PA Environment Digest on Twitter Threads PA Environment Digest Feed Read Weekly PA Environment Digest [Posted: September 12, 2023] PA Environment Digest Sharif Street -- Inquirer: Independence Blue Cross Spet $3.3

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

Shell campaign IndustriALL Global Union | May 22, 2020 IndustriALL is calling on Shell to engage with unions on a global level in a campaign to limit precarious work, improve health and safety, and ensure that Shell applies the same high-level standards at its operations everywhere, including suppliers.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 25, 2023

owned all of New Brunswick’s English language daily newspapers and used them to promote their industries , but now news just got less accessible. Access to information and analysis on the climate crisis is critical for empowering people to take action, which is why we publish regular blogs that you can follow here.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Shell campaign IndustriALL Global Union | May 22, 2020 IndustriALL is calling on Shell to engage with unions on a global level in a campaign to limit precarious work, improve health and safety, and ensure that Shell applies the same high-level standards at its operations everywhere, including suppliers.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

For two or three weeks, climate politics gets intense worldwide news coverage. It’s pretty clear that neither the innermost nor outermost circle has yet achieved much concrete advance in dealing with climate change. Then things move on. The inner circle. (And

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Shell campaign IndustriALL Global Union | May 22, 2020 IndustriALL is calling on Shell to engage with unions on a global level in a campaign to limit precarious work, improve health and safety, and ensure that Shell applies the same high-level standards at its operations everywhere, including suppliers.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 6, 2021

IN RECENT WATER NEWS. Water Groups Lauded A Side Agreement at the Paris Climate Conference. For years, water had been an afterthought at the annual UN climate conferences, even though deficits and surpluses of water are two of the most damaging ways in which people experience a warming planet. Then It Languished.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Shell campaign IndustriALL Global Union | May 22, 2020 IndustriALL is calling on Shell to engage with unions on a global level in a campaign to limit precarious work, improve health and safety, and ensure that Shell applies the same high-level standards at its operations everywhere, including suppliers.

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