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Lisa Baiton: Big Oil’s Climate Misinformation Maestro

Enviromental Defense

The fossil fuel lobby meddles with Canadian politics and inserts itself into international climate change politics and diplomacy. political and public support) for fossil fuels, but we can tell our elected officials not to fall for CAPP’s pro-oil propaganda and to instead prioritize climate action.

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Rich Kruger: The Nightmare on Oil Street

Enviromental Defense

He then rose through the ranks at Exxon during the time when the company was successfully suppressing and denying climate science and spending big on climate denial and political obstruction. He joined regional leadership in 1999, became executive VP Production in 2006, and President of Exxon Production and VP of Exxon Corp in 2008.

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Pesticide Warning Labels: We Need Transparency

Vermont Law

California’s Proposition 65 tends to take a careful approach while the EPA has tended to tailor its decisions to satisfy pesticide manufacturers and political parties. [18]. 95, 95 (2008). [7]. 105, 132 (2006). [13]. Pesticide Law. , at 104-105. [10]. 33 Ecology L.Q. 24 ELR 10449, 10459 (1994). [15].

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Nuclear Plant Closures And Renewables Increase Electricity Prices & Unreliability, Testifies Michael Shellenberger to U.S. Senate

Environmental Progress

People wonder how we made it through the heat wave of 2006,” said the CEO of California’s grid operator, CAISO, at the time. The answer is that there was a lot more generating capacity in 2006 than in 2020. 25] And that amount does not include the costs associated with local and state political opposition. trillion. [25]

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The President and Congress Deliver $11 Billion for Abandoned Mine Cleanups

Circle of Blue

In recent rounds of reauthorization, Congress reduced the AML fee: the 2006 reauthorization reduced the fee by 10 percent in 2008, and another 10 percent in 2013. The political story behind this change in financing has a main character: the Wyoming congressional delegation. A regular tug-of-war ensued. billion tons.

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Release: Nearly all COP27 sponsors are either major polluters or enablers of fossil fuel industry

Corp Watch

Elmore (2014) Coca-Cola: The Alternative Report by War on Want (2006) The Coke Machine by Michael Blanding (2010). The Coke Machine: The Dirty Truth Behind the World's Favorite Soft Drink by Michael Blanding (2010) Belching Out the Devil: Global Adventures with Coca-Cola by Mark Thomas (2008).

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UK: Coca-Cola Enterprises boss admits taking £1.5m in bribes

Corp Watch

Elmore (2014) Coca-Cola: The Alternative Report by War on Want (2006) The Coke Machine by Michael Blanding (2010). The Coke Machine: The Dirty Truth Behind the World's Favorite Soft Drink by Michael Blanding (2010) Belching Out the Devil: Global Adventures with Coca-Cola by Mark Thomas (2008).

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