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French company to coordinate carbon capture project in Brazil

Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

Founded in 1924 as the Compagnie Française des Pétroles (French Petroleum Company) with the support of the French government and banks, it was renamed Total in 1985. Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 In the U.S.

2013

2013 2007 Fossil Fuels Government

Oil Giant's AFCON Sponsorship Denounced as Plot to Set Off Carbon Bombs Across Africa

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JANUARY 17, 2024

Founded in 1924 as the Compagnie Française des Pétroles (French Petroleum Company) with the support of the French government and banks, it was renamed Total in 1985. Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 In the U.S.

2013

2013 2007 Fossil Fuels Government

Court orders 42 Ugandan families evicted to make way for oil project

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JANUARY 2, 2024

Founded in 1924 as the Compagnie Française des Pétroles (French Petroleum Company) with the support of the French government and banks, it was renamed Total in 1985. Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 In the U.S.

2013

2013 2007 Fossil Fuels Government

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Climate of fear: TotalEnergies implicated in repression of land and environmental defenders in East Africa

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

Founded in 1924 as the Compagnie Française des Pétroles (French Petroleum Company) with the support of the French government and banks, it was renamed Total in 1985. Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 In the U.S.

2013

2013 2007 Fossil Fuels Government

Climate groups call for funding withdrawal of TotalEnergies’ Mozambique project

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NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Founded in 1924 as the Compagnie Française des Pétroles (French Petroleum Company) with the support of the French government and banks, it was renamed Total in 1985. Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 In the U.S.

2013

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South Africa gives go-ahead for TotalEnergies to drill offshore

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OCTOBER 19, 2023

Founded in 1924 as the Compagnie Française des Pétroles (French Petroleum Company) with the support of the French government and banks, it was renamed Total in 1985. Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 In the U.S.

2013

2013 2007 Fossil Fuels Government

Green groups target TotalEnergies over Tanzania, Uganda projects

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OCTOBER 16, 2023

Founded in 1924 as the Compagnie Française des Pétroles (French Petroleum Company) with the support of the French government and banks, it was renamed Total in 1985. Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 In the U.S.

2013

2013 2007 Fossil Fuels Government

General Assembly Diverted $3.602 Billion From Environmental Infrastructure Projects And Programs Into State Budget Black Hole

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Year after year environmental groups, conservation districts, farmers, local governments oppose the cuts and outline the critical environmental infrastructure needs communities have. This, in spite of the fact the PA Supreme Court has specifically declared $1.3 Read more here. million from DEP, $1.5 million; DCNR: $1.5 million; and DEP: $4.2

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US oil company ExxonMobil sues to block investors’ climate proposals

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JANUARY 23, 2024

Smoke, Mirrors & Hot Air: How ExxonMobil Uses Big Tobacco’s Tactics to Manufacture Uncertainty on Climate Science (Union of Concerned Scientists, January 2007). Private Empire: Exxon Mobil and American Power by Steve Coll (Penguin Press, 2012). The History of the Standard Oil Co. by Ida Tarbell (1904).

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Mercenary hackers stole data that Exxon later cited in climate lawsuits -US prosecutors

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NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Smoke, Mirrors & Hot Air: How ExxonMobil Uses Big Tobacco’s Tactics to Manufacture Uncertainty on Climate Science (Union of Concerned Scientists, January 2007). Private Empire: Exxon Mobil and American Power by Steve Coll (Penguin Press, 2012). The History of the Standard Oil Co. by Ida Tarbell (1904).

2017

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USA: “The Coke Side of Life”—More Sugar, Less Science

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JUNE 7, 2023

Other Key Sources Business and Human Rights Resource Centre's profile on Coca-Cola - UK-based Business and Human Rights Resource Centre is an NGO that employs researchers on five continents who work with activists, companies and governments alike to advance human rights in business by eradicating abuse.

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Six Sleeper Proposals in Project 2025

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Crippling air pollution control. Given its passion for fossil fuels, it shouldn’t be a surprise that Project 2025 takes a dim view of pollution control. Consequently, it has a series of proposals to weaken limits on air pollution, especially from power plants, refineries, and cars. 402-404] #5. Download as PDF

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Sabin Center Files Amicus Brief in Support of New GHG Vehicle Emissions Standards

Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

Following the 2007 landmark Supreme Court case Massachusetts v. The petitioners, joined by intervenor States and local governments, appealed this determination, and in Massachusetts v. 497 (2007), the Supreme Court reversed EPA’s denial. Last year, local governments in the U.S. The brief emphasized the threat that U.S.

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Ask a Scientist: Top Takeaways from the New EPA Carbon Pollution Rules

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JUNE 14, 2023

EPA US Supreme Court decision in 2007 and the EPA’s follow-on Endangerment Finding and Cause or Contribute Finding in 2009, which ultimately set the stage for the agency to not only have the authority—but also the obligation—to regulate power plant carbon emissions.

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