Climate Denial & Greenwashing
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Trans Mountain Tries to Hide Insurers’ Identities as Industry Pushes for Climate Disclosure
The Crown corporation building the controversial Trans Mountain pipeline expansion has asked a federal regulator to conceal the names of its insurance companies to ... -
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Nine Big Emitters Would Pay Their Share Under ‘Hypothetical Climate Liability Regime’
The world’s big oil and mining companies emit vast amounts of climate-changing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. By extension, the actions of these corporate ... -
Carbon-Free TransitionCCS & Negative EmissionsClimate & SocietyClimate Action/"Blockadia"Climate Denial & GreenwashingInternationalJurisdictionsNon-Renewable Energy
Lots of Hype, Little Help in Corporate Embrace of Carbon Capture
As some of the world’s heaviest corporate emitters double down on carbon dioxide removal (CDR) as their go-to path to net-zero, activists and experts ... -
Climate & SocietyClimate Action/"Blockadia"Climate Denial & GreenwashingDemographicsEnergy PoliticsMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasSub-National GovernmentsUnited States
Teachers, Youth Fight Fossil Influence in U.S. Schools
The heavy influence of Big Oil in U.S. teaching materials and a lack of support for educating students about climate change has left many ... -
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Shareholders Squirm, Climate Analysts Pounce as Shell Releases ‘Grotesque’, ‘Delusional’ Climate Plan
Colossal fossil Royal Dutch Shell is taking criticism from all sides for its latest attempt at a decarbonization strategy, with fossil-friendly investors driving its ... -
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Alberta’s Reinstated Coal Policy Leaves Gaping Opportunities for Mining
Its recent mea culpa notwithstanding, the Jason Kenney government in Alberta has by no means closed the barn door on the idea of metallurgical ... -
Climate & SocietyClimate Denial & GreenwashingJurisdictionsMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasUnited States
Twitter ‘Greentrolling’ Throws a Wrench in Big Oil’s Media Machine
Long masters of the art of controlling the message in traditional media, Big Oil is finding social media—and its fact-checking, falsehood-revealing denizens—far less easy ... -
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Science ‘Translators’ Needed to Help Investors Avoid Climate Greenwashing
Investors and their advisors may be making a dangerous mistake if they allow climate modelling to give them a false sense of certainty over ... -
Carbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyClimate Action/"Blockadia"Climate Denial & GreenwashingDemographicsFinance & InvestmentJobs & TrainingJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasUnited States
Ex-Exxon Engineer Personifies ‘Generational Schism’ Facing Millennial Oil and Gas Workers
As pressure on climate-unfriendly Big Fossil builds, so does the sense of disillusionment among the industry’s younger employees, for whom climate change is a ... -
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EXCLUSIVE: UNESCO Partnership Helps Global Gas Exporters ‘Boost Legitimacy’, Undercuts UN Climate Goals, Analysts Say
The United Nations agency responsible for science, education, culture, and protected areas is undercutting global action on the climate emergency, analysts and campaigners warn, ... -
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French Court Orders More State Action on Climate Change
In what campaigners are calling a landmark ruling, a French court has judged the country to be failing in its commitments to fight the ... -
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Industrial Hog Farm Biogas Projects Ignore Community Impacts
Many Black and low-income communities in the U.S. have long played unwilling hosts to industrial hog farms and their sub-par waste-treatment processes. Now, efforts ... -
CanadaCarbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyClimate Action/"Blockadia"Climate Denial & GreenwashingEnergy PoliticsJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasSub-National Governments
Alberta Fossil Defence Tactics Ripped Right from Fossil Petro-State Playbook, Analysis Shows
Alberta’s government may brandish democracy when it promotes its oil to the world, but its transparent efforts to silence voices of opposition to fossil ... -
Carbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyClimate Action/"Blockadia"Climate Denial & GreenwashingJurisdictionsMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionUnited States
Cut the Catchphrases and Stick to Values to Connect with Climate Deniers
Trying to get through to your favourite climate denier? Stop telling them to “listen to the science” and start listening instead to where they’re ... -
Auto & Alternative VehiclesBiodiversity & HabitatCCS & Negative EmissionsClimate & SocietyClimate Denial & GreenwashingClimate Impacts & AdaptationDemand & DistributionFinance & InvestmentJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryMethaneNon-Renewable EnergyShale & FrackingUnited States
Musk Faces Headwinds in Bid to Power SpaceX Rockets with Fossil Gas
Tesla Motors founder Elon Musk is facing serious criticism for plans to power his other major business venture, SpaceX, with fossil gas.
