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WEBAug 14, 2024 · Confronting Big Oil at Cannes Lions: The Viral Moment That Exposed the Ad Industry's Complicity in the Climate Crisis. By Tolmeia Gregory. on Jun 19, 2023 @ 16:32 PDT. Climate activist Tolmeia Gregory sparked a social media sensation when she challenged a Shell executive at last year's festival.
The Global Climate Coalition Files: How Big Business Funded
WEBApr 25, 2019 · The Global Climate Coalition (GCC) — a fossil-fuel backed industry group launched in 1989 as a project of the National Association of Manufacturers — was for decades able to influence the scientific process behind the United Nations climate assessments, using lobbyists and industry-funded scientists to manipulate the international UNFCCC climate change negotiations and attack climate ...
Drax: The UK's 'Carbon Neutral' Biomass Power Plant - DeSmog
WEBBritain’s biggest power plant, Drax in North Yorkshire, produces around 6% of the UK’s electricity through burning biomass. Drax claims to be Europe’s largest decarbonisation project, after pivoting from coal to biomass in the 2010s. In 2021 Drax officially ended its commercial coal generation, but remains the single biggest emitter of ...
BBC Accused of Doing PR for Major Polluters - DeSmog
WEBAug 22, 2024 · A screenshot of a BBC StoryWorks film, sponsored by Boeing, from its ”Humanising Energy“ series. Credit: BBC. SAFs have been criticised as being environmentally damaging and currently economically unviable. The Advertising Standards Authority this month banned a Virgin Atlantic advert for making the “misleading” claim that it had developed a “100 percent sustainable aviation fuel”.
EU Elections: Food and Farming Misinformation and the Far-Right
WEBMay 2, 2024 · The False Claims on Food and Farming That May Sway EU Elections. By Clare Carlile, Coen Ramaer, Laura Villadiego, Kevin Carboni, Marta Kasztelan, Katharina Wecker, Rachel Sherrington and Joey Grostern. on Jun 7, 2024 @ 07:25 PDT. DeSmog analysed misleading statements by farming groups, media influencers, and political candidates in France ...
Energy Archives - DeSmog
WEBSep 11, 2024 · Canada Will Spend $300 Million on Hydrogen Export to Germany. By Taylor Noakes. on Aug 19, 2024 @ 10:25 PDT. Government bolsters ‘clean’ burning fuel, while environmentalists sound alarm on ‘energy-intensive, inefficient’ export scheme.
What the Campaign Against a North London Waste Incinerator
WEBDec 15, 2021 · The drizzle thickened over a working-class neighbourhood in northeast London on a cold June evening, as activist Delia Mattis stood waiting for friends, parka hood pulled up against the biting mist, clutching a sack full of campaign leaflets. For the next two hours, the small group walked door to door distributing anti-waste incineration flyers in […]
To Many's Dismay, Permian Produces More Gas and Condensate …
WEBFeb 21, 2020 · As oil prices plummet, oil bankruptcies mount, and investors shun the shale industry, America’s top oil field — the Permian shale that straddles Texas and New Mexico — faces many new challenges that make profits appear more elusive than ever for the financially failing shale oil industry.. Many of those problems can be traced to two issues for the Permian Basin: The quality of its oil ...
How U.S. Crude Oil Exports Are Hastening the Demise of the Oil
WEBJan 28, 2021 · When Congress lifted the export ban on U.S. crude oil in December of 2015 to allow for exports beginning in 2016, the oil industry celebrated. However, looking back at the impact of lifting the 40-year-old ban, it appears the move has helped hasten the financial demise of the U.S. oil industry — while also increasing the industry’s huge contribution to climate change.
This Is the Drilling Method for Most US Oil But Regulators Offer …
WEBAug 4, 2017 · Credit: Clean Water Action. Regulatory Issues. As the report explains, the EPA classifies EOR under the Safe Drinking Water Act as a Class II underground injection well, the same category as the underground injection of the brine or waste products coming from oil and gas drilling processes.. The regulations for EOR were created in the 1980s and have not been updated since.
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