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A sprawling midwest carbon capture project vowed it wouldn't be used for enhanced oil recovery But new evidence indicates Summit Carbon's Midwest Carbon Express carbon capture project was always available for oil recovery purposes My latest for @desmog.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2024/04/08/s...
Sell Our CO2 to Pump More Oil? It’s Likely, Says Iowa-based Carbon Capture Project.www.desmog.com Summit Carbon Solutions insisted for years that its proposed Midwest carbon pipeline network would not be used for enhanced oil recovery in North Dakota.
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🤨 Liz Truss Book Calls for Climate Laws to be Abolished and Boasts of Effort to Cancel UK COP Summit The former prime minister attacks flagship climate deals and makes false claims about electric vehicles, Russia’s influence on energy policies, and net zero. @desmog.bsky.social
Liz Truss Book Calls for Climate Laws to be Abolished and Boasts of Effort to Cancel UK COP Summitwww.desmog.com The new book by former Prime Minister Liz Truss urges the UK, U.S. and EU to drop their landmark climate change laws, spreads falsehoods about green policies, and fondly recalls an attempt to cancel a...
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A new campaign is calling on MPs to break the fossil fuel sector’s “chokehold” on politics in a critical election year. Learn more about the protests that happened earlier this week on London’s Westminster Bridge in the article from Phoebe Cooke 🔗 www.desmog.com/2024/04/15/c...
MPs Challenged to Cut Ties with Polluterswww.desmog.com A new campaign is calling on MPs to break the fossil fuel sector’s “chokehold” on politics in a critical election year. Lawmakers returning to work today (Monday) were greeted with smoke flares and a ...
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🔴 NEW | How Development Banks Underwrote Fast Food’s Global Takeover Industrial chicken firms that supply KFC have benefited from financing from the World Bank Group and the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development 📝 Alex Park www.desmog.com/2024/04/19/d...
Revealed: How Development Banks Underwrote Fast Food’s Global Takeoverwww.desmog.com With its unparalleled purchasing power and exacting demands, fast food has long shaped agricultural systems in the United States, Europe, and China. But as major American fast food brands, like KFC, e...
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DeSmog can reveal that a gathering of “Europe’s hard-right elite” held in Brussels last Tuesday was organised by a fossil fuel funded think tank. The conference descended into chaos as police were called. Learn more in the article from Sam Bright 🔗 www.desmog.com/2024/04/16/n...
‘Hard-Right’ NatCon Event Was Organised by Oil Funded Groupwww.desmog.com A gathering of “Europe’s hard-right elite” held in Brussels today was organised by a fossil fuel funded think tank, DeSmog can reveal.  The National Conservatism (NatCon) conference was mired in contr...
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🔴 NEW | Prospective GB News Board Member is Fossil Fuel Investor Lord Agnew is a shareholder in Equinor, the Norwegian oil and gas firm behind the ‘carbon bomb’ Rosebank oil field. 📝@adambarnett.bsky.social & Sam Bright www.desmog.com/2024/04/12/l...
Prospective GB News Board Member is Fossil Fuel Investorwww.desmog.com A Conservative peer who is expected to join the board of broadcaster GB News has shares in Equinor, the oil and gas multinational behind the Rosebank oil field in the North Sea.  According to his parl...
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Journalists, join us in Philly at #SEJ2024 for our panel "Cutting Through Carbon Capture Greenwash"! Our journalists and experts will help you understand what CCS is, unpack its deep ties to the fossil fuel industry, and share practical tips for how to critically cover it.
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission voted to move forward with rules that will require public companies to disclose climate-related business risks to investors. But climate and environment campaigners are concerned about loopholes. www.desmog.com/2024/03/08/t...
The U.S. Livestock Industry Has Side-Stepped Scrutiny – Againwww.desmog.com The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) made headlines around the world this week by voting to move forward with rules that will require public companies to disclose climate-related business...
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How $9 billion from taxpayers fueled plastics production–and illegal pollution. A new report estimates the public cost of underwriting US plastics industry growth and the environmental violations that followed. Dive into Sara Sneath's breakdown here www.desmog.com/2024/03/14/9...
How $9 Billion From Taxpayers Fueled Plastics Production – and Illegal Pollutionwww.desmog.com A new report estimates the public cost of underwriting U.S. plastics industry growth and the environmental violations that followed.
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NYC pensions are being sued in a lawsuit meant to stifle the divestment movement. Monica Weiss is one of the protestors working for years to keep pensions out of fossil fuels. Learn about Weiss' story and the upcoming lawsuit in the article from Liz Rosenberg 🔗 loom.ly/hjeWRtk
NYC Pensions Are Sued for Shedding Fossil Fuelsloom.ly Monica Weiss attended her first fossil-fuel divestment protest on a frigid February day in 2015. She joined college students, financial experts, faith leaders, and then-New York City Public Advocate L...
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🔴 NEW: UK Government Holds its Nerve on Heat Pumps as Clean Heat Policy Confirmed ✍️ Phoebe Cooke loom.ly/0J5lwWE
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I am quoted in this @desmog.bsky.social article by Stella Levantesi on the latest developments in the climate delay discourse, including the worrying new phrase "Unabated Fossil Fuels" www.desmog.com/2023/11/30/c...
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As this year’s climate summit gets underway in Dubai, powerful food and farming companies are well positioned to ensure their interests are protected. Dive into these connections in our interactive map of big agriculture's influence 🗺️ www.desmog.com/2023/12/01/m...
Mapped: Big Ag’s Routes to Influence at COP28www.desmog.com As this year’s climate summit gets underway in Dubai, powerful food and farming companies are well positioned to ensure their interests are protected. They will use their connections to network, lob...
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Did you hear that Chancellor Jeremy Hunt told Equinor to ‘work with us’ on oil and gas messaging? Phoebe Cooke explains the impact of this in her latest article. Read more here. www.desmog.com/2023/10/27/c...
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