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Nobel Prize-winning economist calls for climate tax on billionaires - Heated World  (Apr 24) |
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Apr 24 · For the first time, the world’s most powerful countries are considering a proposal that would tax the super rich and send the money directly to the people on the front lines of the climate crisis. The proposed climate tax is the brainchild of Nobel Prize-winning economist Esther Duflo, who presented it to the Group of 20 summit in Washington D.C. last Wednesday. Duflo suggested taxing global corporations and the world’s top billionaires to raise money for climate adaptation in countries that are most impacted by the climate crisis. The funds would be directly sent to the poorest individuals in those countries to help them prepare for climate disasters. “Richer citizens ... Read more ... |
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An Earth Day response from Al Sharpton - Heated World  (Apr 22) |
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Apr 22 · Last week, HEATED reported that Al Sharpton used his annual National Action Network (NAN) civil rights convention to spread fossil fuel industry propaganda to Black communities. HEATED reported that Sharpton personally introduced a panel titled “Affordable energy is a civil rights issue,” during which four paid gas industry spokespeople falsely told attendees that methane gas is a “clean” fuel; that a net-zero future is primarily being pushed by rich people; and that access to methane should be seen as a civil rights issue.Our article featured reaction from several climate justice activists - including former EPA environmental justice chief Mustafa Santiago Ali - who strongly ... Read more ... |
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The only way to save coral reefs - Heated World  (Apr 18) |
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Apr 18 · The world’s coral reefs are in bad shape. On Monday, two major scientific bodies announced that record-breaking ocean heat is causing a worldwide coral bleaching event. It’s the fourth-ever mass bleaching event on record, and the second in the last decade. This current global bleaching is expected to be the worst ever recorded, endangering coral from the Caribbean to the South Pacific. I’ve been following this latest mass coral bleaching with concern since Monday. And through it all, I haven’t been able to stop thinking of something one of the world’s premier coral reef scientists told me years ago. We were chatting for a 2022 story about the world’s most climate-threatened ... Read more ... |
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“Reprehensible”: Fossil fuel industry infiltrates civil rights convention - Heated World  (Apr 16) |
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Apr 16 · TODAY’S ISSUE, IN BRIEF… Al Sharpton invited paid fossil fuel industry representatives to speak at his annual civil rights conference. Sharpton’s group did not disclose representatives’ deep financial ties to the fossil fuel industry. Representatives characterized themselves as former lawmakers speaking “truth to power.” Representatives argued that expanding methane gas is a civil rights issue; that methane gas is clean energy; and that methane gas is more affordable than renewable energy. Climate justice advocates, who were not represented on the panel, balked. “The fossil fuel industry puts Black lives in danger,” said Mustafa Santiago Ali. “Energy ... Read more ... |
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Big Oil is quietly paying state legal officials to kill climate litigation - Heated World  (Apr 11) |
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Apr 11 · At the Society of Environmental Journalists conference this year, we heard about a promising legal case that experts believe actually has a real shot at holding the fossil fuel industry accountable for climate change. City & County of Honolulu v. Sunoco LP is the first climate liability lawsuit against fossil fuel companies to be greenlit for trial, expected later this year. In it, Honolulu accuses several oil and gas giants of misleading its citizens about the environmental consequences of fossil fuels for decades, and seeks financial compensation for past, present, and future damages to the region. As a trial comes closer, however, we learned that the lawsuit is facing ... Read more ... |
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A guide to electric car misinformation (part 2) - Heated World  (Apr 3) |
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Apr 3 · Last week, we talked about the recent uptick in politically-motivated electric vehicle misinformation, and went through some of the most prevalent myths and misleading claims about EV policy. This week, we’ll be going through some of the most prevalent myths and misleading claims that power-seekers and profit-seekers are spreading about EVs in general. Financially-motivated EV misinformation comes from both sides of the aisle (the lane?). Industries that see EVs as a threat exaggerate their harms in a bid to get you to hate EVs. And industries that profit from EVs greenwash their benefits in a bid to get you to love EVs. Most often, you can recognize EV ... Read more ... |
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GOP congresswoman blames Green New Deal for bridge collapse - Heated World  (Mar 28) |
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Mar 28 · Republicans have blamed the Green New Deal for the war in Ukraine. They’ve blamed it for inflation and striking U.S. workers. They’ve blamed it for blackouts and for coronavirus aid delays. And now they’re blaming the Green New Deal for the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. Read more ... |
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A guide to electric car misinformation (part 1) - Heated World  (Mar 27) |
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Mar 27 · The closer we get to the 2024 presidential election, the more sketchy information you’re going to hear about electric cars. Both Joe Biden and Donald Trump have decided to make electric cars central to their campaigns. Biden is doing this by promoting his administration’s efforts to expand EV production and ownership, and Trump is doing this by attacking those efforts. GOP polling has shown that attacking electric vehicle policy has been “amazing” for Republicans, former Trump energy advisor Michael McKenna recently told the New York Times. And Biden’s EV policies have drawn praise from both green groups and the United Auto Workers union - two important political ... Read more ... |
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Boeing's big green disaster - Heated World  (Mar 21) |
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Mar 21 · If you’ve ever used Google Flights to buy plane tickets, you might have noticed a green symbol telling you which flights have less greenhouse gas emissions. These flights are the result of a Google algorithm that predicts per-passenger carbon emissions. And there are two planes that pop up over and over again in the results: One is the European Airbus A320neo, and the other is the Boeing 737 Max 9. The 737 Max 9 is now infamous for an incident in January, when the door blew off an Alaska Airlines flight, exposing passengers to the outside air at 16,000 feet. The culprit was several bolts that hadn’t been attached, according to the preliminary findings of several ongoing ... Read more ... |
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“Meat and dairy should be suing oil and gas” - Heated World  (Mar 12) |
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Mar 12 · Big Meat is looking more like Big Oil every day. A new study published in the journal Climatic Change finds that, much like fossil fuel industry, the animal agriculture industry has been creating and funding academic research institutions that claim the world doesn’t need to consume less of their products; that it’s not necessary to preserve a safe and livable climate. That is, to be clear, not what non-industry funded research says. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - whose findings are compiled by hundreds of climate scientists and signed off on by 195 countries - has warned that the industry-preferred strategy of “technical fixes only” is not moving fast enough ... Read more ... |
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