Tag: Fuel

In Texas verspotten die CEOs von Fossil Fuel Nation’s Clean Energy Push – Mother Jones

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Diese Geschichte wurde ursprünglich von veröffentlicht Wächter und wird hier im Rahmen der Climate Desk-Zusammenarbeit wiedergegeben.

Die Chefs von Die weltweit führenden Öl- und Gasunternehmen haben die Bemühungen, von fossilen Brennstoffen abzuweichen, mit Verachtung gewürdigt und sich darüber beschwert, dass der Übergang zu sauberer Energie „sichtbar scheitert“ und in einem „unrealistischen Tempo“ vorangetrieben werde.

Die Ölmanager, die sich auf der jährlichen Cera Week-Konferenz der Branche in Houston, Texas, versammelt haben, haben sich diese Woche abgewechselt, um Forderungen nach einem raschen

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Die Jury vergibt 130 Millionen US-Dollar an Einwohner von Nevada, die schwere Leberschäden erlitten haben, nachdem sie trendiges Wasser in Flaschen getrunken hatten, das mit der Chemikalie ROCKET FUEL angereichert war – was einen tötete und bei einem anderen eine Nottransplantation zur Folge hatte

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Eine Jury in Nevada hat Patienten, die schwere Leberschäden erlitten hatten, nachdem sie trendiges, mit giftigen Chemikalien angereichertes Mineralwasser getrunken hatten, etwa 130 Millionen US-Dollar Schadenersatz zugesprochen.

Fünf Menschen erlitten unerträgliche Schmerzen und verloren die Kontrolle über ihre Gliedmaßen, nachdem sie das 2,99 US-Dollar teure „alkalisierte“ Real Water getrunken hatten, das Hydrazin enthielt, eine extrem entzündliche und krebserregende Chemikalie, die zur Herstellung von Raketentreibstoff verwendet wird.

Myles Hunwardsen unterzog sich im Alter von 29 Jahren einer Lebertransplantation, während Jazmin Schaffer,

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Fossil Fuel Industry Knew of Profound Climate Risks In the 1950s – Mother Jones

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An artistic depiction of the Keeling Curve, which shows atmospheric CO2 concentrations over time.Swen Pförtner/AP

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

The fossil fuel industry funded some of the world’s most foundational climate science as early as 1954, newly unearthed documents have shown, including the early research of Charles Keeling, famous for the so-called ‘Keeling curve’ that has charted the upward march of the Earth’s carbon

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Earth Scientists Challenge Their Society’s Coziness With the Fossil Fuel Industry – Mother Jones

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American Geophysical Union fall meeting Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019, in San Francisco.Eric Risberg/AP

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. 

Scientists who have risked their careers, freedom and livelihoods led a town hall meeting here on Tuesday at the world’s largest annual gathering of earth and space scientists to ask their colleagues to consider what their professional society’s stance should be in relation to the fossil fuel

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How the Media Greenwashes the Fossil Fuel Industry

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The CEO of Exxon, Darren Woods, celebrates the potential of carbon capture to dramatically reduce global emissions. Saudi Aramco says in its podcast that the fossil fuel industry is innovating new climate solutions. BP’s podcast proclaims more of the same. These sound like examples pulled from the public-relations departments of the fossil fuel industry, but they were respectively produced and promoted by Bloomberg, Reuters, and The New York Times. Over decades, these media companies built trust with readers; … Read more

Inside Britain’s biggest EV hub…where electric car drivers say charging is a nightmare and costs MORE than fuel

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Britain’s enormous new super hub for charging electric vehicles (EVs) has a major shock in store for eco-punters – it’s more expensive than fuel.

Drivers claim that using the nation’s largest ‘Gigahub’ is much more costly than charging at home and paying can be a nightmare. 

The site at Birmingham’s National Exhibition Centre (NEC) has 180 charging points operated by BP Pulse UK, a subsidiary of the oil giant.

At any given time most of them are standing idle, but

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Israel Palestine news LIVE: Gaza power plant runs out of fuel as Hamas rocket hits Israeli hospital

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Rocket sirens have been activated in Israel’s north, the country’s army said, while citizens in the region were told to seek shelter after ‘hostile aircraft’ entered from Lebanon.

It came as Hamas claimed that it has fired a long-range missile at

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How the far right turned heat pumps into electoral rocket fuel – POLITICO

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When they write the book on the downfall of liberal democracy, will it begin with the heat pumps?

Immediately outside the main train station in the German city of Wiesbaden, an election poster has been tied high up on a lamppost, out of reach of those who would tear it down in the belief that it’s a harbinger of fascism once again spreading across the country. The subject? Not scary depictions of migrants. Nor the overreach of the European Union.

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I’m attempting the world’s longest solo expedition across Antarctica – and I’ll need to eat 7,600 calories a day to fuel me across the 1,240-mile journey in -50ºC conditions

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In March 2020, Sam Cox was on a military exercise in the sweltering heat of Brunei.

When he’d left, Covid was barely making news and he had no idea what was happening in the world beyond the jungle.

But within days, Sam went from a life packed with activity to being stuck on the sofa during a national lockdown.

While most of us were sat on the sofa watching Tiger King, Sam got to work planning a record-breaking expedition across

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