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Major global firms accused of concealing their environmental impact
This The Guardian article discusses how major global firms conceal their environmental impact. More than 700 companies, including Amazon, Tesco and ExxonMobil, lack transparency, campaign group claims.
A $10tn (£7.9tn) investor alliance has accused more than 700 companies, including Amazon, Tesco and ExxonMobil, of failing to reveal […]
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Exxon climate fraud case
This Inside Climate News article discusses the Exxon climate fraud case. The judge rejected the defense tactic that attacked the prosecutor. The oil giant is accused of trying to deceive investors about how it was managing economic risks posed by climate change.
ExxonMobil has suffered yet another setback in its […]
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Fracking Companies Lost on Trespassing, but a Court Just Gave Them a Different Win
This Propublica article discusses how fracking companies lost a court case on trespassing, but a were handed a different win. As conflicts continue between West Virginians and the state’s natural gas industry, complex legal cases are helping some residents, but not others.
A week after the West Virginia Supreme […]
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Mobil sought to fight environmental regulation, documents show
This The Guardian article discusses documents that show how Mobil sought to fight environmental regulation. Oil giant looked to make tax-exempt donations to universities and civic groups in the early 1990s to promote the company’s interests.
Oil giant Mobil sought to make tax-exempt donations to leading universities, […]
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DeSmog Blog – June 8, 2019
This DeSmogBlog weekly posting addresses:
A March Through Heat, Felony Threats, and Pollution Brings Louisiana’s Cancer Alley to Governor’s Attention
Will Ohio River Get Optional Pollution Limits as New Fracking-Reliant Plastics Industry Moves in?
Exclusive: Enbridge Is Behind This Front Group Pushing the Company’s Line 3 Oil Pipeline Project
Congressional […]
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Ohio’s Nuclear Bailout Plan Balloons to Embrace Coal (while Killing Renewable Energy Rules)
This Inside Climate News article discusses Ohio’s Nuclear Bailout Plan Balloons to Embrace Coal (while Killing Renewable Energy Rules). It’s a trifecta the Trump administration has pushed for nationally, with businesses and homeowners footing the bill for uneconomical power plants.
While other states are embracing renewable energy, Ohio is heading in […]
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How eminent domain is blighting farmers in path of gas pipeline
This The Guardian article discusses how eminent domain is blighting farmers in path of gas pipeline. Compulsory purchase – or the threat of it – of property on the route of a pipeline for fracked natural gas has left a slew of grievances and lawsuits in West Virginia and […]
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DeSmog Blog
This week’s edition includes a discussion of:
After DeSmog’s Revelations, Enbridge’s Weymouth Gas Facility Air Permit in Jeopardy
First, Climate Change, Now the Global Extinction Crisis: Industry-Paid Hacks Deny Science to Congress
Secrecy Versus Sunshine: Efforts to Hide Government Records Never Stop
Op-Ed: Climate Change: ‘We’ve Created a Civilization Hell […]
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Climate deniers are the hysterical alarmists
This The New Republic article discusses why climate deniers are actually the hysterical alarmists. They, not climate scientists or activists, are stoking fear with exaggerated rhetoric and outright lies. The climate deniers in the Trump administration are at it again. On Monday, The New York Times reported that […]
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A Major U.S. Utility Is Closing Its Coal-Fired Power Plants a Decade Early
This Yale Environment 360 article discusses why a U.S. utility is closing its coal-fired power plants a decade early. One of the United States’ largest utilities, Xcel Energy Inc., announced it will close its remaining coal-fired power plants in the Upper Midwest a decade ahead of schedule and add 3,000 […]
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