First things first, extreme weather and toxic air pollution are impacting communities right now and it will not be stopped until the whole world stops expanding and manages the decline of fossil fuels. In the meantime, we must do everything we can to cut pollution from existing oil and gas facilities. This includes calling out and ground truthing “false solutions” designed to preserve record industry profits while perpetuating harm to communities and climate.
In April of this year, Earthworks and Oil Change International did just that (read the report here): we called out “gas certification” as untested, inadequate and, at worst, potentially intentionally deceptive.
Two weeks ago, the climate movement scored a major victory on that front when Project Canary, one of the leading gas certification companies and the target of our Certified Disaster report, announced it would be parting ways with its founder and CEO Chris Romer and shifting the company strategy away from certification.
Why it’s Significant:
Our Certified Disaster report put Project Canary’s claims of “altering the course of climate change” under the microscope. The 60 plus page report found major issues, the most startling of which was that their pollution monitors weren’t actually catching pollution. According to Bloomberg, it was these findings, in part, that put Project Canary under pressure for change.
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