Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Climate activists say the state’s progress on reducing building emissions has been far too slow given the pace of the climate crisis, and that it needs to end incentives for energy-efficient natural gas heating. rise in emissions from natural gas. for natural gas and 6.6% for natural gas and 6.6%

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 30, 2020

“We are prepositioning about 360 megawatts of temporary generation to meet critical community needs” at substations, health care facilities and other locations, Smith said. billion in 2017 wildfire claim costs and retire about $6 billion in temporary debt.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 21, 2020

Pacific Gas & Electric is turning to a decidedly low-tech solution to keep its customers’ lights on for this year’s coming fire season: mobile diesel generators. Another 40 megawatts of generators were deployed to back up critical facilities such as hospitals and water treatment plants.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in her Pennsylvania hometown, she will be facing off against some of the most powerful fossil fuel interests in the United States. LNG boom threatens to release vast amounts of methane, a powerful climate pollutant that is the main component of natural gas.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 20, 2021

shift away from coal and natural gas. Natural gas plants will only make up 16 percent of new capacity in 2021, according to EIA data. But natural gas remains the single largest source of electricity in the country, and almost all the utilities with zero-carbon pledges also plan to build more of them in the decade ahead.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Clifford Rechtschaffen was appointed to the California Public Utilities Commission by Governor Jerry Brown in January 2017. *. De-energization can have significant health, safety and economic impacts for communities affected, particularly for customers who depend on electricity to provide them with life-sustaining medical support.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Badalian received an environmental law degree from Lewis & Clark Law School, which helped shape his policy work, he says. Most recently, Barudin led a tribal task force with the nonprofit group Vote Solar to support New Mexico's new law enabling tribes and pueblos to access community solar programs.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Proponents hailed it as one of the most important environmental projects undertaken by the oil and gas industry in recent U.S. It lies in the heart of north central Appalachia’s booming Marcellus and Utica gas fields — America’s top natural gas-producing region — and was built to process 600 truckloads per day of fracking wastewater.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 28, 2021

For nearly four years, Piedmont Natural Gas — one of Duke’s wholly owned subsidiaries — and the state’s other major gas distribution company have stymied incentives for new high-efficiency homes, claiming with scant evidence that the rebate scheme will lose them customers. Destructive or unfair competition’?

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

“Even the advocates of direct air capture technology acknowledge that they don’t anticipate that it would be at a scale to make any meaningful reduction in atmospheric CO2 levels until 2060, 2070 and beyond,” said Carroll Muffett, president of the environmental law nonprofit Center for International Environmental Law.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, or TCEQ, has not told residents about the health risks they face. TCEQ documents obtained by Public Health Watch show that some of those early readings were double the level Texas considered safe at the time. Emerging research also connects it to diabetes and reproductive problems.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

A natural gas demonstration plant in Texas tests carbon capture technology. In a November 2017 document marked “confidential,” Shell discusses the CCS opportunity in the U.S. But this gas-as-a-guiding-star underpinning doesn’t appear in the framework itself, a point not lost on Democratic lawmakers.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

Olson is the executive director of the nonprofit law firm Our Children’s Trust, which has spearheaded youth climate change lawsuits across the United States. The company’s clients include electric utilities, energy traders in natural gas, and two petroleum companies, according to her deposition.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 31, 2022

In a press release, American Energy Partners describes Austin Master as “a full-service, comprehensive environmental services firm specializing in radiological waste management solutions” that provides “professional safety, industrial hygiene and health physics services.” The company has not replied to questions.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Over the past year, many professional services organizations that previously had little to say publicly about their climate change strategy — from law firms to management consultants to ad agencies — found themselves under closer scrutiny not just for their own footprint but for supporting some of the biggest climate deniers around.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2022

The flares started last December, an event Errol Summerlin, a former legal-aid lawyer, and his neighbors had been bracing for since 2017. The complex contains a circuit board of pipes and steel tanks that cough out steam, flames and toxic substances as it creates the building blocks for plastic from natural gas liquids.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 31, 2021

“Some of the area’s refineries started shutting down operations leading up to Harvey, including ExxonMobil, Petrobras, Shell, and Chevron Phillips Chemical,” DeSmog reported in 2017. Black carbon released by flares can be a powerful — if short-lived — greenhouse gas in its own right. Credit: Julie Dermansky. In 2018, the U.S.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

DECEMBER 20, 2018

In summary, the Court of Appeal determined: If two statutes of limitation of equal authority apply to a claim brought pursuant to CEQA — one contained in a general state planning and zoning law and the other contained in a statute specific to CEQA — and the two cannot be reconciled, the more specific limitations period pursuant to CEQA prevails.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

DECEMBER 20, 2018

In summary, the Court of Appeal determined: If two statutes of limitation of equal authority apply to a claim brought pursuant to CEQA — one contained in a general state planning and zoning law and the other contained in a statute specific to CEQA — and the two cannot be reconciled, the more specific limitations period pursuant to CEQA prevails.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to investigate whether Texas’s oversight of Oxbow Calcining violates federal civil rights laws, which prohibit racial discrimination in the way that the nation’s environmental laws are enforced. Meanwhile, various legal battles between the brothers continued for years.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

"Vas" Narasimhan views this moment as the best to be alive, partly because science promises to advance health by unlocking genetic mysteries that have built up over 3.7 Addressing health equity is a special focus area for Narasimhan, who cut his teeth as a public health doctor addressing malaria and HIV in developing nations.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

DonorsTrust gave the group nearly $8 million between 2008 and 2017, according to federal tax data. A report from Columbia University’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law identified nearly 230 local measures across 35 states that have been enacted to restrict renewable energy development. In 2019, Ohioans weathered a $9.5

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

On May 8, 2017, a drum of radioactive oilfield waste from Australia arrived at a remote West Texas disposal site operated by local oil and gas environmental services company, Lotus LLC. Those levels are more than 400 times the protective health limits designated by the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Some of these scientists were actively engaged in research to discredit the idea that cigarette smoking was a health risk, but most of it was more subtle; the industry supported research on causes of cancer and heart disease other than tobacco, such as radon, asbestos, and diet. A Spider’s Web of Pipelines.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

At the SCAQMD’s March 2018, board meeting, district staff recommended development and adoption of rules targeting these indirect sources, relying on authority granted to the SCAQMD under the California Health and Safety Code Sections 40716(a)(1) and 40440(b)(3). Proposed Warehouse ISR. Endnotes. [1] 5] See [link] (last visited Nov.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

At the SCAQMD’s March 2018, board meeting, district staff recommended development and adoption of rules targeting these indirect sources, relying on authority granted to the SCAQMD under the California Health and Safety Code Sections 40716(a)(1) and 40440(b)(3). Proposed Warehouse ISR. Endnotes. [1] 5] See [link] (last visited Nov.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

For example, state records suggest that the Chevron Richmond Refinery, one of California’s largest emitters, released more greenhouse gases in 2017 and 2018 — the last years for which data are publicly available — than it has since 2008. And in several recent years, it emitted as much or more of certain air pollutants. As the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2021

The BLM’s mission is to manage its lands for multiple uses and “to sustain the health, diversity and productivity of public lands.” Jackson talks of preserving the national park and also the health impacts of living near oil and gas development. Historically in the northern bands, operators drilled primarily for natural gas.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

According to the World Health Organization, more than 200,000 deaths in Europe every year can be attributed to particulate matter alone. It is also about the costs If you are not interested in creating zero-emission vessels for the environment or your health, you could be concerned over your wallet as a shipowner.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Examples of hybrid policies include: Washington’s 2017 introduced HB 2338 – Carbon Fuel Standard bill is a technology agnostic hybrid combining a regulatory requirement with a pricing mechanism affecting transportation fuels. Carbon taxes can be beneficial to an economy.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

Badalian received an environmental law degree from Lewis & Clark Law School, which helped shape his policy work, he says. Most recently, Barudin led a tribal task force with the nonprofit group Vote Solar to support New Mexico’s new law enabling tribes and pueblos to access community solar programs.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

Health, wellness and nutrition are Camp’s key interests. . He also worked with Nestlé while at McCann Enterprise to develop a low-technology platform for communicating nutrition and health information to low-literate consumers in equatorial Africa. Project Coordinator, District of Columbia Sustainable Energy Utility; Washington D.C. .

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EDF + Business

MARCH 1, 2021

Prior to his current role he worked as scientist in a public health lab, and as post-doctoral fellow at the University of Southern California. Areas of interest: Personalized medicine, Bioinformatics, Public health policy, Environmental sustainability, Sanitation, Water, Ecology, Biodiversity, and Science education and communication.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Vasant Narasimhan, CEO, Novartis; Basel, Switzerland LinkedIn | Company profile “Vas” Narasimhan views this moment as the best to be alive, partly because science promises to advance health by unlocking genetic mysteries that have built up over 3.7 billion years of evolution. No wonder he keeps an ammonite fossil in his bag.

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