Shell To Spend $450M On Possibly Worthless Carbon Offsets
"British multinational to spend huge sums on schemes that do not bring genuine carbon reductions, analysis shows".
Source: Guardian, 01/20/2023
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"Biden Tours Storm-Ravaged California Coast Thursday"
"U.S. President Joe Biden will travel to California on Thursday to tour areas hit hard by a series of deadly "atmospheric river" storms that inflicted widespread flooding, felled trees and brought mudslides to a state long gripped by extreme drought."
Source: Reuters, 01/19/2023Granholm Says GOP Bill Would Weaken SPR, Result In Higher Gas Prices
"Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm is pushing back on a Republican proposal to put stipulations on withdrawing oil from the country’s strategic reserve, arguing that the measure would curtail the use of a key security tool and drive up prices."
Source: The Hill, 01/19/2023"‘It’s Time To Start Suing’: States Tee Up Next WOTUS War"
"Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Wednesday he filed a challenge against the new EPA and Army Corps of Engineers definition of which waterways and wetlands are subject to federal permitting requirements."
Source: E&E News, 01/19/2023Greta at Davos: Fossil Fuel Giants 'Throw People Under The Bus' For Gain
"Greta Thunberg is leading some big names in youth climate action at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland."
Source: Euronews, 01/19/2023"How Dark Money Groups Led Ohio To Redefine Gas As ‘Green Energy’"
"Conservative groups helped Ohio lawmakers push the narrative that the fuel is clean, documents show. They are taking their campaign to other states."
Source: Washington Post, 01/18/2023"Biden’s Green Energy Bank Races to Leverage $394 Billion to Scale Cleantech"
"The Energy Department office that helped Tesla — and made a bad bet on Solyndra — is hustling to get loans out as the GOP vows scrutiny."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 01/18/2023"Federal Government Advances Big Water Projects"
"Before ending its session and swearing in new members, Congress passed a fiscal year 2023 budget with key provisions for water infrastructure and disaster recovery. That’s in addition to approving legislation that authorizes Army Corps of Engineers projects for flood protection, navigation, and environmental restoration."
Source: Circle of Blue, 01/18/2023Arizona’s New Governor Takes on Water Conservation and Groundwater Report
"A top water expert at Arizona State University began the year with a demand in a newspaper Op-Ed column directed at incoming Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs: Immediately release a state report on groundwater in Buckeye, one of the fastest growing cities in the U.S."
Source: Inside Climate News, 01/18/2023"Greta Thunberg Carried Away By Police At German Mine Protest"
"Police in western Germany carried Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and other protesters away Tuesday from the edge of an open coal pit mine where they demonstrated against the ongoing destruction of a village to make way for the mine’s expansion, German news agency dpa reported."
Source: AP, 01/18/2023"Davos 2023: Big Oil In Sights Of Climate Activist Protests"
"Big oil firms came under pressure at the start of the World Economic Forum (WEF) from activists who accused them of hijacking the climate debate, while a Greta Thunberg-sponsored "cease and desist" campaign gained support on social media."
Source: Reuters, 01/17/2023"African Activists Cast Doubt Over Climate Talks’ Credibility"
"Climate activists in Africa are expressing anger toward the United Nations climate agency, accusing it of allowing corporations and individuals with dubious climate credentials to greenwash their polluting activities by participating in its annual climate conference."
Source: AP, 01/17/2023Exxon Scientists Predicted Warming, Even as Company Cast Doubts: Study
"In the late 1970s, scientists at Exxon fitted one of the company’s supertankers with state-of-the-art equipment to measure carbon dioxide in the ocean and in the air, an early example of substantial research the oil giant conducted into the science of climate change."
Source: NYTimes, 01/13/2023"U.S. House Passes Bill Banning Exports Of Reserve Oil To China"
"The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill on Thursday to ban releases of oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve from being exported to China, though the measure faces an uncertain future in the Senate."
Source: Reuters, 01/13/2023"Brazil Makes Official Bid For Amazonian City To Host COP30"
"Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Wednesday he had officially launched a bid for the northeastern city of Belem to host the COP30 international climate summit in 2025, fulfilling a promise he made last year."
Source: Reuters, 01/13/2023
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