Tag: fossil fuel industry

“Emissions snapped back like a rubber band.”

The pressure and devolving social license have even started to influence business leaders’ decisions.

Analysis found links to Exxon, Koch Industries, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, raising concerns about a potential “revolving door,” one campaigner said, between the insurance and fossil fuel industries.

From the U.S. to Japan, governments are quickly putting money behind oil and gas industry efforts selling blue hydrogen produced by natural gas with carbon capture as a clean fuel for the energy transition. But new research finds blue hydrogen may be no cleaner than burning natural gas.

Five of the individuals praised at COP26 event hold senior roles at fossil fuel companies and investors, including the Royal Bank of Canada and Suncor.

A major new catalogue of fossil fuel company adverts based on DeSmog’s research shows the gap between their public image and the reality of their operations.

“Providing corporate giveaways during a time of widespread suffering to fossil-fuel companies is unconscionable.”

As climate change intensifies and countries turn to clean energies, Big Oil will take increasingly desperate measures to survive.

“Shell’s 'comprehensive carbon management approach’ is yet another proof of the little interest that this polluting company has to reduce its emissions.”

“Grant Township has proven against all odds that a community is capable of stronger protections for the environment than state or federal governments.”