“Emissions fell by a steep 15.5% in 2023, largely driven by reductions in carbon from electricity generation and industry. eu countries added 17 gigawatts of windmills and covered roofs and fields with 56gw of new solar panels. Officials reckon 2024 will be another record year.”

Recommended read: The Financial Times and Reuters have taken down “advertorials” paid for by oil giant Saudi Aramco, following allegations of greenwashing and disinformation, DeSmog reported.

📝 Joey Grostern

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One-liter bottle of water has 240,000 plastic fragments, far more than previously thought

Health concerns of plastic are dramatically underestimated and under-researched

Big corporate polluters must be subject to extended producer responsibility; instead they lobby, obfuscate

Taxing big fossil fuel firms ‘could raise $900bn in climate finance by 2030’ theguardian.com/environment/20…

This Wednesday Sheldon Whitehouse will chair an important hearing to shine more light on Big Oil’s ongoing climate deception.

At this crucial moment, Senate Budget Committee has the power to build on years of work in Congress to hold Big Oil accountable.

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Did the Globe really just give the Former general counsel of RJ Reynolds’s Tobacco a column to argue that fossil fuel and social media companies shouldn’t be held to the same (unsympathetic) legal standard as Big Tobacco?
Yes. Yes they did.

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is costly, 95% of promised projects do not go forward, has a history of sequestering less than 10% of promised carbon reduction & International Energy Agency says can’t be used to justify fossil fuel expansion or exploration yet billions being poured into it instead of…

The projected total spending on CCS projects is around $241 billion globally by 2030

That money could go a long way in terms of decreasing our dependence on fossil fuels, rather than achieving 1-5% reductions on the emissions intensity of a barrel of oil....

Dozens of climate groups call on B.C. government to halt LNG expansion vancouversun.com/news/local-new… via The Vancouver Sun

Thanks Sonia Furstenau & BC Green Party this is much more accurate. #bcpoli

Oh Canada. This is just embarrassing.

No. You don’t get to play “climate leader” while ramping up production. Stop gaslighting us.👖🔥 climateintegrity.org/big-oil-lies-r…

Big Oil companies double down on fossil fuel production while simultaneously running ads promoting themselves as leaders in climate solutions.

Read our guide on more ways the fossil fuel industry is lying to you. climateintegrity.org/big-oil-lies-r…

Yikes. Not good.

Can you believe that still in 2024 in Canada that industry wants to continue polluting Indigenous territories that are already poisoned by industry? We’re talking horrifying mercury poisoning here in Grassy Narrows. When is enough enough?

The mast just fell off the carbon capture and storage flagship.

In Illinois, a massive taxpayer-funded carbon capture project fails to capture about 90% of plant’s emissions news.oilandgaswatch.org/post/in-illino…

Despite the pause on new #LNG exports, projects currently under construction will move forward, leading to 85% growth in U.S. LNG export capacity by 2028. With so much capacity coming online, global LNG markets are at risk of a glut.

Global LNG Outlook: hubs.li/Q02tZxFv0

An old guy explains why it would be neat if our planet decided to rely on the sun for its power, thus cleaning the air, disempowering oligarchs, and blunting some of the climate damage.
Also, almost everyone likes solar power, so that's good

Trans Mountain Expansion (TMX) is scheduled to start May 1, despite insufficient safety protocols, insufficient consultation with FN, & incomplete fibre optic leak detection system. Email your MP to defer the start until these measures are implemented!
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📢 NEW: 196 fossil fuel and chemical industry lobbyists have registered to participate for the critical #INC4 #PlasticsTreaty talks in Ottawa.

That’s more participants than the entire EU delegation, scientists, and Indigenous Peoples.