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These suits, which were filed in state court, are part of «a growing body of legal action against oil companies over climate change,» Reuters notes.

Richmond, California, home to a Chevron refinery near San Francisco Bay, is one of several cities suing fossil fuel companies over climate change.

Jan. 9, 2018: New York City files suit in federal court against five fossil fuel companies over climate change - related costs.

If you live in a city or county that sues oil companies over climate change, prepare for a blowback.

U.S. cities suing energy companies over climate change may have mischaracterized their own evidence, casting more doubt on the validity of the litigation and putting an additional spotlight on the environmental activists who are steering the broader campaign.

An ad campaign attacking Mayor de Blasio's plan to sue oil companies over climate change is set to launch Monday.

The lawsuits are the latest legal challenges against oil companies over climate change and come as the firms are searching for new business models amid pressure by governments and consumers for cleaner energy.

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While some finance resources exist on the ground in Holland, including the SmartZone, which provides infrastructure and support to growing companies — and aims to invest $ 7.5 million in Holland startups over the next 10 years — businesses are well aware that the funding climate is not especially strong.

Half of the board of Southern Cross Electrical Engineering, including its chairman John Cooper, has quit citing a difference in opinion over strategic direction as the company announced a number of redundancies and cost - saving initiatives in response to the tough climate for local contractors.

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Over a year which has seen large banks halt funding for fossil fuel projects, major institutions divest from oil, gas and coal holdings, and oil companies snap up power and renewables companies in a bid to diversify their asset base, research published today by the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) and the Climate Change Collaboration suggests nervousness over climate risk has shot up in financial circOver a year which has seen large banks halt funding for fossil fuel projects, major institutions divest from oil, gas and coal holdings, and oil companies snap up power and renewables companies in a bid to diversify their asset base, research published today by the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) and the Climate Change Collaboration suggests nervousness over climate risk has shot up in financial cClimate Change Collaboration suggests nervousness over climate risk has shot up in financial circover climate risk has shot up in financial cclimate risk has shot up in financial circles.

But he said moving to meet climate targets is becoming more affordable because while policy is still important the energy market is transforming so fast that «market forces have taken over», market forces around wind and solar power and batteries «are just accelerating regardless of what anyone else does» and decisions by companies like AGL Energy to close their Liddell coal power station «are being made on economic grounds».

Frustration over what was viewed as weak UN climate agreements, plus the US Senate's failure to pass a climate bill in 2010, pushed foundations and nonprofit groups — such as Greenpeace — to ensure their investments were not going to big oil companies.

When Bon Appétit started our Low Carbon Diet program in 2007 — making us the first restaurant company to connect food and climate change — it was with specific targets in mind for reducing our carbon emissions over five years.

«There is a lot of cost pressure, and now you have Brexit as well, so there is a question over labour availability, and a lot of companies are hurt by currency swings, so to go and ask for # 10 million to build a new food factory, it's a difficult climate,» he says.

Top attorneys led by New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and former Vice President Al Gore announced a collective effort to investigate Exxon Mobil over environmentalist claims that the company misled the public about its role in climate change.

The letter comes on the eve of a House hearing on the legality of the subpoenas issued by the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology to Schneiderman's office over the investigation over whether major energy companies downplayed the risks of climate change.

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While Exxon Mobil provided plenty of details about the company's thinking on climate change and disclosed steps it was taking internally to meet regulatory and other challenges around carbon emissions, it held fast to the broader assertion that the world's energy needs over the next three decades can not be met with low - carbon energy alone.

The Southern Company is not only polluting the environment with carbon and other dangerous emissions — it's also polluting the debate over climate policy by funding bad science.

Even here in the US — where leadership at the federal level will certainly be missed — the massive number of states, cities, companies, organizations and individuals who committed to redoubling their climate efforts suggests that we're unlikely to see too much backsliding before a new administration takes over in Washington.

CDP, voted number one climate research provider by investors, works with 827 institutional investors with assets of US$ 100 trillion and 89 purchasing organisations with a combined annual spend of over US$ 2.7 trillion, to motivate companies to disclose their impacts on the environment and natural resources and take action to reduce them.

Lindzen was one of several prominent climate change deniers who offered «friend of the court» briefs as part of a case in which San Francisco and Oakland are suing fossil fuel companies over the costs their cities face due to climate change.

From finance and real estate, food processing to telecommunications companies from across sectors are laying out their intention to align their business practices with the latest climate science, while new and important sectors, including chemicals and automobiles could see an rapid uptake of target setting over the next two years.

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The battle has exposed deep rifts within the Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers and other business lobbies, with companies leaving their trade organizations almost daily in disputes over climate change legislation.

Kinder Morgan, developer of the controversial Trans - Mountain oil pipeline in Canada, is the latest major company to take heat from shareholders over its climate impact.

C. Technically, it is still possible to solve the climate problem, but there are two essential requirements: (1) a simple across - the - board (all fossil fuels) rising carbon fee [2] collected from fossil fuel companies at the domestic source (mine or port of entry), not a carbon price «scheme,» and the money must go to the public, not to government coffers, otherwise the public will not allow the fee to rise as needed for phase - over to clean energy, (2) honest government support for, rather than strangulation of, RD&D (research, development and demonstration) of clean energy technologies, including advanced generation, safe nuclear power.

«Over 100 business leaders worldwide have backed the final recommendations of a global task force set up by the G20 to disclose how companies manage climate - related risk, in a move that could divert trillions of investments away from polluting fossil fuels.»

But meanwhile Climate Chaos, Inc. (Big Green, Big Government, alarmist scientists, crony corporatist «green» energy companies, and allied universities and scientific groups) will become richer, gain more control over our lives and livelihoods, and rarely be held accountable for the damage they cause.

Already under current climate policy settings, companies risk wasting over $ 1 trillion over the next decade.

A certified GHG emissions expert, Howie has been working with companies and organizations for nearly a decade in helping them assess and manage their environmental footprint, with over five years of experience in greenhouse gas emissions accounting, carbon markets and international climate policy.

Other companies to leave ALEC since 2014 include Google, Yahoo, Facebook, eBay and Yelp — all in the face of criticism over ALEC's climate change views.

Over forty employees at Qteros, a Marlborough, MA - based biofuels company, are expected to plant trees as part of the International Day of Climate Action, October 24, 2009.

After a decade of grass - roots rural community angst from being ridden over roughshod by multi-national energy companies aided by state and federal governments eager to be seen to be «doing something» about climate change, while ignoring the basic human right to enjoy rest and repose in their own home, the issue of health impacts will now get the hearing it deserves.

But a key provision in the CLC's plan protected companies «from lawsuits over their contribution to climate change.»

For too long, oil companies have reaped massive profits through a monopoly over our transportation options, leaving people with few alternatives to fossil fuels — fuels which are by far Washington's largest source of climate and air pollution.

If, as Brulle declares, these groups are all «fronts» (his word) for oil, gas, and goal companies, those carbon - fuel companies are more devious than we thought, because they managed to completely take over, and turn to their advantage, national organizations with long histories like the Chamber of Commerce, the Farm Bureau, and the Heritage Foundation — major national organizations that were advising Presidents long before Global Warming / Climate Change was ever heard of.

For example, in the past week, three major energy companies, PG&E, Exelon, and PNM have quit the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over the chamber's ongoing denial of climate change and their attacks on climate protection legislation.

The email from Exxon's in - house climate expert provides evidence the company was aware of the connection between fossil fuels and climate change, and the potential for carbon - cutting regulations that could hurt its bottom line, over a generation ago — factoring that knowledge into its decision about an enormous gas field in south - east Asia.

San Mateo County and other coastal California counties and cities are suing fossil fuel companies over their role in climate change, particularly sea level rise.

For over 15 years, First Climate has supported hundreds of companies in the development of effective carbon reduction strategies.

As reporters from Tribune's various newspapers voice their discontent, Forecast the Facts and Courage Campaign have obtained over 100,000 petitions to the Tribune Company against the Koch bid, citing Tribune reporting on climate change that could be threatened by Koch ideology.

«Over the course of 2018, I will be working to expand the adoption of science - based targets not only across the Mahindra Group, but amongst my business colleagues so that by the Global Climate Action Summit in September, 500 companies step up and commit to set science - based targets,» he said.

Brune pointed to state and city governments choosing renewable energy over coal, and the efforts of private companies on climate change, as well as popular support for action on climate change.

And the number of companies making bold climate commitments through the We Mean Business coalition's Take Action campaign has reached over 660.

But the judge presiding over the suits, William Alsup, wanted to get the science straight first, and he invited the cities and the oil companies to present the history of climate change research and the best available findings in a kind of unusual hearing that he's become known for.

This is the fifth installment of our series analyzing how Exxon Mobil Corporation has communicated to its shareholders the risks associated with climate change over the last two and a half decades, using the company's annual 10 - K reports to the... Continue reading →

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