Clean Energy Climate Scientist Fossil Fuels 
Union of Concerned Scientists
OCTOBER 1, 2024
Climate Week events highlighted commitments and actions needed from the financial sector and other corporations to support and spur government ambition. I had the honor of moderating one of the latter events, Scientists & Activists vs. Fossil Fuel Finance.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 10, 2023
This year has brought new evidence of what major fossil fuel companies knew and when about the role their products play in climate change, as well as what they did in spite of what they knew. But these technologies are no substitute for sharp cuts in fossil fuels if we keep the goals of the Paris climate agreement within reach.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 4, 2024
There has been comparatively less attention to the decision by climate scientist Dr. Susan Avery not to seek re-election to the ExxonMobil board of directors. Yet this shift in corporate leadership is significant, marking the end of a chapter in ExxonMobil’s long and ongoing history of climate deception and disinformation.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 14, 2025
As the climate crisis deepens, so does the urgency to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for decades of deception. UCS is already working with social scientists and economists, civil engineers and health practitioners who can bring extensive expertise to multi-faceted litigation.
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
Last year, I met Dave Schneider, a climate scientist who studies ice sheets and climate systems, work very similar to my own. He recently published a children’s book titled Goodnight Fossil Fuels! that’s specifically about climate change and fossil fuel accountability.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 30, 2022
Wider repercussions, including the inequitable impacts of rising food and energy prices and the potential for a food crisis hitting vulnerable populations around the world, must also be urgently addressed by global leaders. Other countries are dependent upon these fossil fuels, they don’t make themselves free of them.
A Greener Life
OCTOBER 17, 2022
Despite being in the same political party that created it, the UK’s new prime minister, Liz Truss, is in the process of completely changing the country’s energy policy. Gone are the net-zero promises and focus on a rapid clean energy transition, and in its place is a new narrative that more fossil fuels will solve the country’s energy crisis.
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