Environmental Politics

"‘Last, Best Hope:’ Leaders Launch Crucial UN Climate Summit"

"GLASGOW, Scotland — A crucial U.N. climate summit opened Sunday amid papal appeals for prayers and activists’ demands for action, kicking off two weeks of intense diplomatic negotiations by almost 200 countries aimed at slowing intensifying global warming and adapting to the climate damage already underway."

Source: AP, 11/01/2021

"Dems, Oil Execs Clash At Hearing: ‘They Are Obviously Lying’"

"Minutes into the questioning of oil company executives at a hearing on climate disinformation this morning, House Oversight and Reform Chair Carolyn Maloney suggested the head of Exxon Mobil Corp. had perjured himself."

Source: E&E News, 10/29/2021

"Climate Change Became the Largest Part of Biden Spending Bill"

"Climate has emerged as the single largest category in President Biden’s new framework for a huge spending bill, placing global warming at the center of his party’s domestic agenda in a way that was hard to imagine just a few years ago."

Source: NYTimes, 10/29/2021

Trudeau Picks Ex-Greenpeace Activist As Climate Chief, Angering Oil Patch

"Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a post-election overhaul of his government on Tuesday, naming a former Greenpeace activist dubbed “Green Jesus” as environment and climate change minister in a move that has caused consternation in the country’s oil-rich west."

Source: Washington Post, 10/28/2021

Big Oil Uses Newsletter Ads to Spread Misinformation Ahead of Hearing

"On Thursday, a cadre of Big Oil CEOs will testify at a high-profile Congressional hearing examining whether their companies engaged in a campaign to mislead the public about climate change. In the run-up to that hearing, those same Big Oil companies have been running ads to mislead the public about climate change in the nation’s most popular political newsletters."

Source: Earther/HEATED, 10/28/2021

"Italy Hosts A Climate-Focused G20 As Geopolitics Shift"

"The leaders of Russia and China aren’t coming. Turkey nearly set off a diplomatic incident on the eve of the meeting. And the United States, Australia and France will be at the same table for the first time since Washington pulled the rug out from under Paris’ $66 billion submarine deal Down Under."

Source: AP, 10/27/2021

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