Carbon neutrality

You’ve Almost Certainly Never Heard of the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Biggest Methane Polluter

When it comes to the U.S. oil and gas industry’s greenhouse gas pollution, I tend to think of well-known and much-hated oil giants like Chevron and Exxon. But a new analysis released Tuesday shows that when it comes to the energy sector’s methane emissions, these massive firms aren’t the only major contributors. Small, relatively unknown…

Energy Dharna Noor Jun 2

Shell Just Got Wrecked in Dutch Court

A court in the Netherlands just handed down a landmark ruling, ordering Shell to slash its carbon pollution 45% by 2030. It’s hard to overstate how radical the ruling is and the far-ranging impacts it could have not just for the Dutch oil giant but oil companies around the world. Milieudefensie, the Dutch chapter of…

Climate Change Brian Kahn May 26

Shell’s CEO Thinks We’re Dumb

Big Oil executives want us to know we need them. In an interview with Axios on HBO on Sunday, Shell CEO Ben van Beurden said that corporations like his must be an integral part of the transition away from the polluting energy they’ve made billions off of. “What quite often I think is insufficiently understood…

Climate Change Dharna Noor May 10

New Climate Pledges Give Us a 50-50 Shot at Meeting the Paris Agreement

Updated climate pledges the U.S., China, and a dozen other nations have made in recent weeks will likely put the world on track for 4.3 degrees Fahrenheit (2.4 degrees Celsius) of warming by the end of the century, according to a new analysis. This is a modicum of good news, assuming countries actually follow through,…

Climate Change Dharna Noor May 5

California’s Carbon Offset Program Is a Complete Disaster

As businesses in California race to tamp down their emissions by buying carbon offsets, some serious math errors in the program may mean more carbon dioxide—not less—is being added to the atmosphere. On Thursday, ProPublica and MIT Technology Review published an investigation into forest offset programs in California, based on an analysis created by CarbonPlan,…

Climate Change Molly Taft Apr 29

How Big Meat Is Funding Climate Denial and Polluting the Planet

Move over, Big Oil, and make some room for Big Meat at the climate shame table. A new study shows agribusiness is a major source climate misinformation as well as carbon emissions. The analysis, published last month in Climatic Change, looks at the PR moves behind some of the world’s largest producers of meat and dairy,…

Climate Change Molly Taft Apr 5

Warren Buffet and Other Deadbeats’ Climate Commitments Are Missing the Mark

What’s really in a big corporation’s pledges to cut emissions, anyway? For a lot of those promises, not much, a new investor-led report finds. An exhaustive benchmark analysis of the climate pledges of nearly 160 global companies released Monday digs into the specifics of some of these carbon-cutting and/or net-zero promises, finding that no company…

Climate Change Molly Taft Mar 22

Big Oil’s New Slate of Desperate Buzzwords Are Greenwashing at Its Worst

The past year has been not great for oil companies. Between financial losses from the pandemic and increasing pressure from investors and the public at large to do something about how their product is messing up the planet, fossil fuel producers are feeling the heat. Big Oil’s new act appears to be convincing the public…

Earther Molly Taft Mar 3

Texas Legislature May Introduce Bill to Blacklist Businesses That Don’t Love Fossil Fuels

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said that one of his “legislative priorities” for this year is passing a bill to protect the fossil fuel industry, by blacklisting businesses. In a public policy forum on Thursday sponsored by a business group, Patrick said the potential McCarthy-esque rule could be modeled off a disastrous pro-Israel bill he…

Earther Molly Taft Feb 12

Shell Says It Has Reached Peak Oil Production

Shell says oil is on its way out. In a Thursday statement, the fossil fuel giant said its “oil production peaked in 2019,” and that we can now expect it to decline gradually by 1 or 2% per year. Shell also said its total carbon emissions peaked in 2018 at 1.7 gigatonnes. The statement doesn’t…

Earther Dharna Noor Feb 11

The Empire State Building Runs on the Wind

One of the most iconic buildings in the world is running on clean electricity. On Wednesday, the company that owns the Empire State Building announced it had inked a deal to meet the electricity needs of not just that building but its entire portfolio with wind power. The Washington Post broke the story that the…

Climate Change Brian Kahn Feb 3

What Would a Futuristic Low-Carbon Tech World Actually Look Like?

Let’s face it, if we’re going to save the planet from ourselves, we’re going to have to develop cleaner technologies. Here’s what the future has in store once we make the transition to a high-tech, low-carbon world. Our world is steadily transitioning to a low-carbon economy. And it’s not just because of climate change. Other…

Climate Change George Dvorsky Dec 10

Dell’s “Carbon Neutrality” Is Really a Bunch of Cow Poop

Over the summer, Dell declared that it had become “carbon neutral.” You would think that meant, amazingly, it’s reduced its carbon footprint to the point it’s no longer adding to greenhouse gases. Total BS. Dell’s declaration of its carbon neutrality is based on a self-defined carbon footprint that includes emissions produced by its boilers, company-owned…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Dec 30

You’ve Almost Certainly Never Heard of the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Biggest Methane Polluter

Shell Just Got Wrecked in Dutch Court

Shell’s CEO Thinks We’re Dumb

New Climate Pledges Give Us a 50-50 Shot at Meeting the Paris Agreement

California’s Carbon Offset Program Is a Complete Disaster

How Big Meat Is Funding Climate Denial and Polluting the Planet

Warren Buffet and Other Deadbeats’ Climate Commitments Are Missing the Mark

Big Oil’s New Slate of Desperate Buzzwords Are Greenwashing at Its Worst

Texas Legislature May Introduce Bill to Blacklist Businesses That Don’t Love Fossil Fuels

Shell Says It Has Reached Peak Oil Production

The Empire State Building Runs on the Wind

What Would a Futuristic Low-Carbon Tech World Actually Look Like?

Dell’s “Carbon Neutrality” Is Really a Bunch of Cow Poop

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