Climate Denial & Greenwashing
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Fossil ‘Greenwashing’ Prompts Big Investors to Double Renewables Spending through 2025
Institutional investors with nearly US$7 trillion at their disposal are planning to double their renewable energy holdings over the next five years, to about ... -
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With Fossils Making Net-Zero Promises, Not All Targets Are Equal
Most North American and European fossil producers have published voluntary carbon reduction commitments, but not all targets are equal, Pembina Institute Senior Analyst Benjamin ... -
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Alberta Youth Want Better Education on Climate Change, Survey Concludes
A recent survey by the Alberta Council for Environmental Education concludes that 61% of the province’s youth are worried about climate change, and 69% ... -
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‘Complacency is Breathtaking’ as Nations Approve 10 Years of Rising Emissions from International Shipping
Governments attending a key meeting on international shipping have adopted what one observer calls a “disastrously weak” plan that will lead to a decade ... -
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Alberta Auditor General Slams Fossil ‘War Room’ for Undocumented Sole-Source Contracts
Alberta Auditor General Doug Wylie took aim at the Jason Kenney government’s hapless fossil industry “war room” in an annual report that identified more ... -
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Biden-Harris Campaign Launches BuildBackBetter. com Transition Team Site
With the final ballots still being counted in five key states, but analysts and a desperate-sounding Donald Trump signalling the imminent end of the ... -
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Distraction, Not Biofuel, the Likely Output from Exxon Algae Initiative
ExxonMobil’s decade-old algae-to-biofuel venture is long on PR, short on research, and even shorter on proof that it will actually work, according to a ... -
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Shell Gets ‘Ratioed’ After Twitter Poll Touts Individual Climate Action, Obscures Fossils’ Responsibility
Colossal fossil Shell got more than it bargained for earlier this week when it launched a Twitter poll aiming to reinforce the fossil-driven frame ... -
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Election Just ‘One Step Along the Way’ as U.S. Vote Counting Continues, Climate Community Awaits Results
With vote counting in Tuesday’s U.S. presidential election not nearly complete, climate campaigners were clear about two key points: that every ballot must be ... -
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#GM&FordKnew About Climate Impacts in Early 1960s, E&E News Investigation Reveals
Giant U.S. automakers General Motors and Ford “knew as early as the 1960s that car emissions caused climate change,” but spent decades lobbying against ... -
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Opinion: Time to Uncover the Toxic Legacy of Plastics Recycling
Blue bins have long been a symbol of reassurance for convenience-craving consumers across North America, offering citizens the comfortable belief that the disposables we ... -
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Exxon Keeps Misleading in Bid to Discredit #ExxonKnew Researchers
ExxonMobil’s bid to discredit researchers who’ve documented the colossal fossil’s massive efforts to foster climate denial and confusion has only ended up confirming the ... -
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Students Push for Climate Accountability from Finance Professionals, Lawyers
Representatives from the legal and finance sectors are calling for their peers to do more to fight the climate crisis—which, in some cases, begins ... -
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New Carbon Regulations Give International Shipping a Free Pass Until 2030
International shipping companies are on track to get a free pass on their greenhouse gas emissions for the rest of this decade under what’s ... -
Coney Barrett Refuses to State ‘Views on Climate Change’ En Route to U.S. Supreme Court Appointment
U.S. Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett dodged and weaved through two days of questioning before the Senate Judiciary Committee, but “created perhaps the ...
