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| Oct 17, 2020 | Is President Macron Preparing To Leave The Paris Agreement? | 16 Oct: French President Emmanuel Macron talks to media at the end of the second day of an EU Summit ... [+] on October 16, 2020 in Brussels, Belgium.Getty Images |
| Sep 16, 2020 | Environmentalists pan Facebook's new climate change hub | Facebook this week announced it would replicate its widely used COVID-19 information center in combating another global crisis: climate change.
Many Facebook users opened the platform on Tuesday to find a banner prompting them to "see ... |
| Sep 7, 2020 | QAnon Conspiracy: Far Right Group Convince Thousands To Join Climate Denial Campaign | 1
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Back in December 2019, two conspiratorial worldviews collided as, for the first time, QAnon’s Q suggested his followers should question anew a topic that, by now, has been considered, and reconsidered,... |
| Aug 31, 2020 | Morning Brief: Utilities battle net metering in Michigan, Indiana and California, gas industry battles electrification everywhere | Clean energy advocates in the Consumers Energy rate case called on the Michigan Public Service Commission to conduct a new Value of Solar study to determine a fair rate for energy that customer-owned solar systems provide to the electric gr... |
| Apr 30, 2020 | Don’t Bail Out Oil & Gas — Use The Money For Environmental Cleanup Instead | 1 0
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Despite the evidence that the fossil fuel industry in the U.S. is not profitable and basically a giant money pit, President Trump tweeted last Tuesday that he has directed his cabinet to come up with... |
| Apr 25, 2020 | A Look At The Oil Industry’s Favourite Climate Solutions | 1
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Shell recently announced plans to “stop adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere by 2050,” a move hailed by some as a major step towards addressing climate change. Around the same time, however, the... |
| Apr 24, 2020 | Amid Historic Oil Collapse, An Opportunity To Accelerate Clean Transportation | 2
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Petroleum products continue to fuel most of our vehicles while fouling our air, leaving some people more vulnerable to suffering severe impacts from respiratory illnesses like COVID-19. Transportatio... |
| Nov 21, 2018 | Video shows FERC nominee Bernard McNamee’s bias against renewables | By Dave Anderson, Energy and Policy Institute
A newly resurfaced video further confirms Bernard McNamee is biased against renewable energy and favors fossil fuels, as the Senate considers his nomination by President Trump to serve on the Fe... |
| Jul 6, 2017 | Column:: Mississippi power plant’s shutdown confirms that ‘clean coal’ as an industry savior is a myth | The faith of coal advocates in the doctrine of “clean coal”— technology that would allow utilities to burn coal for electricity without somehow poisoning the environment — has suffered a possibly fatal blow.
Southern Co., which has been bui... |
| May 24, 2017 | Column:: A convicted coal executive is still trying to dodge blame for the deaths of 29 miners | In the annals of executive chutzpah, one would be hard-pressed to find a more extreme case than Don Blankenship’s efforts to vindicate himself for his role in a huge mine disaster.
Blankenship was chief executive of Massey Energy on April 5... |
| Feb 10, 2017 | Water Wars: US Hits Reset Button in Asia-Pacific | Trump administration formulates policy in the East, South China Seas
President Trump speaks on phone with foreign leader (Photo: NDTV)
Secretary of Defense James Mattis continued making waves throughout the Asia-Pacific as he wrapped up a v... |
| Feb 7, 2017 | One Less Thing to Worry About: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson Didn’t Actually Call for a Blockade of China’s South China Sea Islands | Earlier this month, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson made comments during his confirmation hearing that alarmed many China watchers since they seemed to call for something close to a naval blockade of Chinese reclaimed islands in the South ... |
| Jan 21, 2015 | How Climate Change Denial Still Gets Published in Peer-Reviewed Journals | Meet one of the world's leading climate change skeptics.
Though he is not a scientist, Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brentley, is a prolific and vocal opponent of mainstream climatology. Once a Special Adviser to Margaret ... |
| Aug 19, 2014 | Why Won’t Our 'Environmental President' Stop Fracking on Public Land? | Barack Obama is apparently down with fracking. Photo via Flickr user IREX
It has become increasingly fashionable in liberal circles to credit President Barack Obama for doing all he possibly can to combat climate change. Praise reached espe... |
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| EGEB: US Interior Department official falsified climate-policy reports | In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
An Interior Dept official falsified reports with climate-denial language.
EPA chief Andrew Wheeler defends the proposed slashing of his department’s budget.
After complete destruction by Hurric... |
| Air pollution really does increase coronavirus deaths. Here’s why | A Harvard University study at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health, which was updated on April 5, has confirmed that there is a direct correlation between long-term exposure to air pollution and a higher coronavirus death rate.
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| Minnesota files a lawsuit against fossil-fuel companies | The state of Minnesota filed a lawsuit yesterday against the American Petroleum Institute (API), Exxon Mobil Corp, and Koch Industries that stated the companies violated Minnesota laws barring consumer fraud, deceptive trade practices, and ... |
| EGEB: JPMorgan Chase leads with the world’s largest bifacial solar rooftop — and lending to fossil-fuel companies, more | In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
JPMorgan launches the world’s largest commercial installation of bifacial solar modules — and also leads in fossil-fuel lending.
Energy CEOs voice defiance on efforts to reduce carbon emissions... |
| EGEB: Honolulu files lawsuit against 10 oil and gas companies | In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
Honolulu files a lawsuit against oil and gas companies for monetary damages due to climate change.
The US gets a public database that will comprehensively collect and maintain all electricity r... |
| ‘Transportation Fairness Alliance’ is uncovered as an anti-EV lobby group | A research team at DeSmog has debunked the messaging of an organization that calls itself the “Transportation Fairness Alliance.” It proclaims itself to be in favor of “competitive and equitable transportation,” but it’s actually a powerful... |
| Tesla/Elon Musk’s words twisted in attack over material disclosure of fatal Model S Autopilot accident | Yesterday, we reported on a strange article in which Fortune Magazine tried to make the case that Tesla should have disclosed the fatal Model S accident on Autopilot before raising capital through a secondary offering a few weeks after the ... |
| EGEB: Trump lawyer sues Greenpeace; Orlando electricity going up 8.5%; dual rotor wind ; more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial and political review/analysis of important green energy news.
Trump’s lawyers sue Greenpeace over Dakota Pipeline, making jaw-dropping accusations – First: Energy Transfer Partners, ... |