Sentences with phrase «companies knew about climate»

This 1988 Shell report, discovered by Jelmer Mommers of De Correspondent, shines light on what the company knew about climate science, its own role in driving global CO2 emissions, the range of potential political and social responses to a warming world.

Investigations alleged that the company knew about climate change decades ago, but top executives decided to hide the truth and instead, «embarked on a massive campaign of disinformation.»

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Investigative reports revealed Exxon knew about climate change as far back as the 1970s, yet the company's executives chose to embark on a decades - long campaign of deception.

And some believe fossil fuel companies could be legally liable if they knew about climate change dangers but suppressed that information.

The cities allege that, for decades, the companies sold fossil fuels they knew were contributing to climate change, while engaging in a multimillion - dollar campaign to sow doubt about global warming.

If you can, talk to someone who knows a bit about recruitment, even if you aren't planning to return to their company — they will be able to give you an honest perspective on the current hiring climate.

Co-opting what winter - gear manufacturers know about keeping people warm and dry in extreme climates, pet apparel companies are applying similar technology to gear for dogs, while taking into account the physiology of dogs, as well as their comfort, the way they move and the winter activities they are likely to engage in.

«At the core of the plaintiff's lawsuit is the idea that these companies have long known about risks of their products... yet they took a course of action that resisted regulation and sought to keep them on the market as long as possible,» said Burger, the Columbia climate law expert.

And as long as businessmen with a vested interest (Exxon / Mobil, Peabody Coal, power companies), and economists with a political bias (CEI, Heartland, Cato, Wall Street), and lawyers (Bachmann, Cornyn, Cantor) believe that they know more about global warming than climate scientists, nothing will get done to combat global warming.

If companies or individual building owners are serious about combating climate change and / or reducing carbon emissions then their is NO possible way to continue to use any form of combustion based, fossil fuel, systems of any kind!

These are companies that care deeply about consumer feedback, so when consumers ask them to be leaders on climate solutions, we know they will listen.

It would also immunize fossil - fuel companies from lawsuits for damages done by their products — lawsuits such as those bound to arise from the revelations that ExxonMobil and other companies knew for decades about the climate damages their products cause, and lied about it.

The cities say that the oil companies have known about the risks of anthropogenic climate change, but that rather than disclose what they know, the companies engaged in a decades - long campaign to deceive the public that the science is uncertain.

The oil company Exxon knew about climate change's impact in the 1970s, and found out that action would impact their bottom line.

The plaintiffs fault oil and gas companies for knowing about climate change in the mid-20thcentury, accusing them of ignoring the «warnings» and proceeding «to double - down on fossil fuels.»

On Wednesday night, the City and County of Santa Cruz, California filed two lawsuits against 29 oil, gas, and coal companies, claiming they knew about climate change and somehow hid it from the public.

What energy companies must do immediately is convey their scientific beliefs and real concerns about climate change risks to Congress and the general public, many of whom do not know what to believe.

They're also committed to responding to their customers - and they know that increasingly, brands will be judged based on the decisions companies make about climate.

Since then, InsideClimate News published an exposé detailing a $ 30 million, multi-decade effort by Exxon Mobil to sow doubt about climate change, despite the company's own internal deliberations about known climate risks associated with fossil fuel use.

«ExxonMobil, the world's largest and most powerful oil company, knew everything there was to know about climate change by the mid-1980s, and then spent the next few decades systematically funding climate denial and lying about the state of the science.»

It's the first time a federal court has ever put climate science on trial, and skeptics want to dispel the notion we know enough about global warming to hold companies liable for it.

With a decision that could have far - reaching implications, a federal judge in California has ordered the first ever U.S. court hearing on climate science for a «public nuisance» lawsuit, meaning that major oil and gas companies for the first time may have to go on the record regarding what they knew about the planetary impacts of their products — and when.

The groups, ranging from the [Rockefeller Brothers Fund - supported] 350.org, Food and Water Watch, The Nation, Sierra Club and others, have asked DOJ to investigate what ExxonMobil knew about climate change and when the company knew it, juxtaposing that insider knowledge, exposed by both InsideClimate News and the Los Angeles Times, with the climate change denial campaign it funded both in the past and through to the present.

These companies have known for decades that their products — coal, oil, and natural gas — cause harm, yet even today they continue to fund front groups and trade associations who seek to sow confusion about climate science and block policies designed to reduce the heat - trapping emissions that cause global warming.

The groups, ranging from the [Rockefeller Brothers Fund - supported] 350.org, Food and Water Watch, Climate Parents, Moms Clean Air Force, The Nation, Sierra Club and others, have asked DOJ to investigate what ExxonMobil knew about climate change and when the company knew it, juxtaposing that insider knowledge, exposed by both InsideClimate News and the Los Angeles Times, with the climate change denial campaign it funded both in the past and through to the present.Climate Parents, Moms Clean Air Force, The Nation, Sierra Club and others, have asked DOJ to investigate what ExxonMobil knew about climate change and when the company knew it, juxtaposing that insider knowledge, exposed by both InsideClimate News and the Los Angeles Times, with the climate change denial campaign it funded both in the past and through to the present.climate change and when the company knew it, juxtaposing that insider knowledge, exposed by both InsideClimate News and the Los Angeles Times, with the climate change denial campaign it funded both in the past and through to the present.climate change denial campaign it funded both in the past and through to the present.»

Royal Dutch Shell has known about the links between fossil fuel use and climate change for decades, according to newly - released internal company documents.

Now just a couple of weeks later, we find out that back then oil companies like Shell in fact didn't know any more about climate change than other climate experts.

Today's customers and stakeholders want to know what companies are doing about climate change.

But late Tuesday night, Harvard history professor Naomi Oreskes and her colleague Geoffrey Supran published a report conceding that #ExxonKnew was never really about what Exxon «knew,» but instead was focused on punishing the company for arguing against specific climate policy proposals.

In fact, right now Attorneys General in multiple states have active investigations into what ExxonMobil knew and when about the scientific research on climate change and whether the company actively worked to undermine what they knew to be true.

Glad we got that out of the way because I was starting to worry about that whole climate change thing, but now that I know how easily consensus is overturned, an oil company funded lackey and some pundit have me convinced that it's all a load of hooey.