GreenTechMedia

MAY 29, 2020

PG&E has been held criminally responsible for 84 deaths in the November 2018 Camp fire and is under criminal probation for its role in the deadly 2010 San Bruno natural-gas pipeline explosion. Critics question whether PG&E will be able to raise the capital its transformation will require amid the COVID-19 economic downturn.

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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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GreenTechMedia

JULY 30, 2020

PG&E withdrew a plan to deploy hundreds of megawatts of natural-gas-fired generators at substations earlier this year amid opposition from communities and environmental groups. billion in 2017 wildfire claim costs and retire about $6 billion in temporary debt.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2023

The Larger Problem of Fracking Waste Persists Presently, more than a third of America’s natural gas supply comes from wells in Ohio, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. The facility will be able to continue operations as usual as EPA conducts the inspection.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JUNE 26, 2019

By way of background, two class action lawsuits filed in the District of Massachusetts alleged that Eversource and Avangrid systematically abused their influence in the natural gas transmission market in violation of federal and state antitrust laws. 2017); Public Util. See, e.g. , Woolsey v. 308 (9th Cir. 27, 2018).

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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. *. The new decision significantly increases the available incentive amounts and expands program eligibility criteria to include projects in Native American communities in California, as defined by federal law.

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 30, 2020

Law firm Haynes and Boone recently released its updated Energy Bankruptcy Reports. These reports cover North American oil and gas producers, oilfield services and midstream bankruptcies from the beginning of 2015 through 2019. As oil prices recovered somewhat after 2016, the number of filings declined to 24 in 2017 and 28 in 2018.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 23, 2022

Since 2012, an estimated 55 coal, oil, and natural gas projects have been proposed for the Pacific Northwest — encompassing Oregon and Washington, as well as British Columbia. Two non-profits, Columbia Riverkeeper and Crag Law Center, are formally opposing the federal request.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

In order to bend that curve and cut direct building emissions, states and cities will have to pursue policies that end the expansion of new gas infrastructure and accelerate the transition to electric heating and cooking. The Majority of Direct Building Emissions Are Coming From Burning Natural Gas.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

The campaigns have been deployed across a number of social media platforms and are part of a global effort to give “millennials a reason to connect emotionally” with oil and gas firms, and to tackle their perception as “the bad guys”. These campaigns often took advantage of lax restrictions on the labelling of social media sponsorships.

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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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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MAY 24, 2022

AB 32 authorized CARB to adopt a market-based compliance mechanism with “declining annual aggregate emission limits for sources or categories of sources that emit greenhouse gas emissions” through 2020. The market-based compliance mechanism deigned by CARB went into effect in 2012 in the form of the California Cap-and-Trade Program.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 1, 2022

The LCFS Program was most recently, and most significantly, amended in 2018 in response to the 2017 Scoping Plan, which “made it clear that developing a more ambitious LCFS is a critical part of the state’s efforts to achieve the SB 32 goal.” [2]

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CleanTX

MARCH 20, 2019

“BP’s commitment to push the next frontier of methane technology and practice is important to prove out solutions that oil and gas companies can use to accelerate emission reductions. The Principles are aimed at continuously reducing methane emissions across the natural gas value chain. BP took such a step today.”.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 31, 2022

Austin Master receives truckloads of drill cuttings bored out of the Marcellus and Utica shale and of radioactive sludge that forms at the bottom of tanks and trucks that hold toxic liquids brought to the surface of fracked oil and gas wells. Credit: Ohio Department of Natural Resources, July 5, 2017 inspection report.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

California, Oregon, and Washington have all passed laws and enacted policies that require utilities to dramatically cut carbon pollution over the next decade. Gas Growth Forecast ‘Not a Reflection of Reality’ TC Energy is relying on agreements with two Pacific Northwest utilities to demonstrate the need for GTN Xpress.

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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.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Patrick Parenteau , Vermont Law School and Rachel Stevens , Vermont Law School. Since Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in 2017, many residents and environmental advocates have called for new clean energy sources for the island. In September 2017, Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico with sustained winds of 155 mph.

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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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Electricity Natural gas Energy Energy 83

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 13, 2020

The steady advance of LCFS credit prices since the summer of 2017 is well documented in CARB’s Credit Transfer Activity Reports. The rulemaking appears to reflect CARB’s acknowledgment of long-held concerns in the LCFS market that deficit generation will outstrip credit generation, and the CCM will be unable to adequately cap credit prices.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 13, 2020

The steady advance of LCFS credit prices since the summer of 2017 is well documented in CARB’s Credit Transfer Activity Reports. The rulemaking appears to reflect CARB’s acknowledgment of long-held concerns in the LCFS market that deficit generation will outstrip credit generation, and the CCM will be unable to adequately cap credit prices.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

According to residential ratepayer advocates , years of foot-dragging by NW Natural and the OPUC cost customers millions by delaying the pursuit of an independent analysis in 2017 that recommended shifting a larger portion of the company’s “very substantial” — and confidential — storage-related profits back toward NW Natural’s utility customers.

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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. The failed 2016 revenue neutral carbon tax , Initiative 732 , was a pure pricing mechanism.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

EPIC was formed in 2017 to build, own and operate midstream infrastructure in both the Permian and Eagle Basins in the Texas oil part. The Port of Corpus Christi said in late January that it ended 2021 with record tonnage, mainly attributable to a greater than 80%t increase in shipments of liquefied natural gas (LNG).

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Consumers Energy CEO since 2016, she was praised for preventing a bigger emergency two subzero Januarys ago, after a fire at a natural gas compressor threatened energy transmission. Ulf Mark Schneider, CEO since 2017, likes to boost markets in areas he’d like to accelerate.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

Under growing pressure to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, developers of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are turning to questionable claims about “carbon neutrality,” “net-zero,” or “green LNG,” in order to pass muster with governments, investors, and society, who are becoming increasingly anxious about the climate crisis.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 23, 2020

Massachusetts may become just the third state, after California and New York, to begin planning for a managed decline of its conventional natural gas industry. In other words, if Massachusetts is to meet its legally binding carbon targets, there is no future for fossil gas. Annual U.S. So what are the options?

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

In Texas, property rights are split into two categories: the land on the surface and everything underground, including oil and natural gas. One 2015 law required a special bond to be posted for wells that have been inactive for longer than two years. The Railroad Commission would not confirm this.

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Methane Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 98

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

In Texas, property rights are split into two categories: the land on the surface and everything underground, including oil and natural gas. One 2015 law required a special bond to be posted for wells that have been inactive for longer than two years. The Railroad Commission would not confirm this.

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Methane Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 89

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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Fossil fuels Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 98

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

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

For example, the majority of natural gas-powered trucks operating in California today are running on renewable natural gas that can have a negative carbon intensity. Endnotes. [1] 3] Institute for Applied Economics — Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation, Goods on the Move! 5] See [link] (last visited Nov.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

In 2017 alone, there were about 93,161 vessels in existence. Although heavy fuel oil is conventionally used in the shipping industry, Sleipnir operates on Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) with Marine Gas Oil (MGO) as pilot fuel and as a back-up. Strømman (Transportation Research Part D, 2017). Where can we choose from?

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

For example, the majority of natural gas-powered trucks operating in California today are running on renewable natural gas that can have a negative carbon intensity. Endnotes. [1] 3] Institute for Applied Economics — Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation, Goods on the Move! 5] See [link] (last visited Nov.

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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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Building Energy Monitoring Carbon Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 98

DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

After the Biden administration’s bipartisan infrastructure law was passed , the administration hailed the bill’s $4.7 billion package to cap orphaned oil and gas wells as a move to tackle “super-polluting methane emissions,” saying it will combat the climate crisis and create jobs. Who Writes the Bills That Become Law?

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