DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Photos I shot in 2022 for DeSmog capture damage from extreme weather events and the continued expansion of the fossil fuel industry — the dominant industry causing global warming. Industries reliant on methane gas continue to expand their footprint, despite bipartisan discussions about the need to develop climate solutions.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 5, 2024

As part of its “Sustainable Gas Program,” the Virginia-based private utility wanted to purchase what it calls “Next Generation Natural Gas.” But it needed the state’s blessing in order to pass on to customers a 15 percent premium for buying this specially certified gas. And Virginia is not alone.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

A major cold snap led to record electricity usage in the Canadian province of Alberta over the weekend, culminating in demands from provincial utilities to limit consumption. The extreme cold and record-setting electrical consumption has reignited local debates about whether heat pumps are a viable option in the province.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 29, 2022

The push to sell “blue hydrogen” as a clean energy fuel — which experts have called a misleading rebrand of fossil fuels — hit another setback this month. Climate provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 are bringing new economic headwinds to the gas-derived hydrogen fuel’s prospects.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 14, 2020

this weekend will push California’s grid to the limits, as the state charts a course to eliminating fossil fuel power. To prepare, grid operator CAISO issued a Flex Alert , asking customers to reduce electricity consumption during the late afternoon and evening Friday as the grid copes with “near-record or record-breaking heat.”

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 8, 2024

Photos I shot last year in South Louisiana illustrate the Gulf Coast’s rapidly expanding fossil fuel industry, and the groundswell of frontline community members, environmental advocates, and activists fighting to stop it. While “green” hydrogen fuel can be produced with renewable energy, that process is cost prohibitive for now.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Built on the foundation of this newsletter, Sightline Climate’s subscription intelligence product goes beyond the inbox with data, tools, and frameworks to bring clarity to industry professionals navigating climate transition decisions. Clean energy chills 30% this year What goes up must come down. Plus, the US funds $3.5B

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 30, 2020

Last fall, community choice aggregators serving three Northern California counties announced plans to deploy thousands of solar-battery systems to provide backup power to residents facing the threat of fire-prevention blackouts. rooftop solar installer and behind-the-meter battery aggregator, to get it done.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 19, 2020

After a massive heat wave in California that led grid operator CAISO to order its first rolling blackouts since the 2001 energy crisis on Friday and Saturday, the state has thus far managed to avoid further forced outages. CAISO has issued a "Flex Alert" asking Californians to conserve energy from 3 p.m. through at least Wednesday.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Early this month, three community-choice aggregators and one municipal utility serving much of California’s San Francisco Bay Area launched a 30-megawatt distributed energy storage-plus-solar solicitation. Half of the new systems are to come from single-family homes, and the other half from multifamily and small commercial customers.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 16, 2020

Last year, utilities, grid operators and grid edge vendors all continued to grapple with their evolving roles in delivering and managing power. million electric vehicle charging points were installed globally in 2019, Wood Mackenzie found in Q4, with another 18.3 A building electrification crossroads. A total of 4.8

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 15, 2022

WHY ECO FRIENDLY HOMES MATTER. Now more than ever consumers are using their purchasing power to push companies to be more sustainable. HOW TO RENOVATE A HOME TO BE MORE ECO FRIENDLY. Let’s look at the major areas that determine how sustainable and eco-friendly a home is: Building Design & Materials.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 15, 2022

The industry is moving toward sustainable construction. WHY ECO FRIENDLY HOMES MATTER. Now more than ever consumers are using their purchasing power to push companies to be more sustainable. HOW TO BUILD and RENOVATE A HOME TO BE MORE SUSTAINABLE. Energy Usage and Electricity. Recycled Steel.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 16, 2024

  Ship Orders  Yara Eyde, a joint venture between Yara Clean Ammonia and North Sea Container Line, aims to be the  world’s first clean ammonia-powered container ship. Saudi Arabian ACWA Power outlined a $4bn green hydrogen and ammonia facility in Egypt that could produce up to 600,000 tons of green ammonia per year.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

AUGUST 16, 2023

Approximately 90 boreholes will be drilled to depths of approximately 600-700 feet (182-213 meters) which will then be the foundation heating loop that will run across nearly 40 buildings, including residential homes, a fire station, a community college, and the Framingham Housing Authority buildings.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 10, 2020

California regulators and utilities want to build microgrids for communities most at threat from the state’s increasingly deadly wildfires, and the widespread public safety power shutoff (PSPS) grid outages meant to prevent them. Image credit: PG&E).

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 1, 2021

In June, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) narrowly approved the construction of a new 42” diameter gas pipeline that will connect shale wells in Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Ohio to a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on the Gulf Coast, carrying over a billion cubic feet of fracked gas to be transported overseas every day.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Clean energy for Native American communities. Decarbonized buildings. Others have lost their own homes to natural disasters. The second is a commitment to sourcing 100 percent of the natural materials Timberland uses from regenerative agriculture, such as leather for boots. The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 20, 2023

On my lastest flight surveying fossil fuel industry sites in southwest Louisiana at the end of September, I photographed liquified natural gas (LNG) export facilities, signs of drought, fire-scarred stretches of marsh, and a salt dome site at risk of collapsing. billion CP2 site and other LNG export facilities in the area.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Although it has been linked to leukemia since the late 1920s, it is unevenly regulated because of relentless opposition from industry groups. And there are still no federal standards for ambient benzene exposure — the amount that people who live near industrial facilities can safely breathe as they go about their daily lives.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Often working from home themselves, they empathized with employees and other stakeholders, some refusing to issue layoffs. Each of these individuals is playing the long game and is in a strong position to move their companies and industries into what could be a more hopeful period of reconciliation, recovery and repair.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

There, he met with OPUC staff in person and exchanged emails with Lori Koho, then OPUC’s senior official overseeing natural gas utilities. He hoped that his list of complaints would show “how the unethical culture [at NW Natural] goes all the way to the top,” as one of his emails to Koho explains.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Indian state owned natural gas company GAIL has started the country’s first hydrogen blending with natural gas in Madhya Pradesh state. The hydrogen blended natural gas is supplied to the Indore headquartered Avantika Gas, one of GAILs’ joint venture companies with the Hindustan Petroleum Corporation.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

After several delays spanning at least a year, the government has finally unveiled vision for a future net zero energy system - here are the eight things you need to know about the long-awaited Energy White Paper. To describe autumn 2020 as a busy period for green economy policy in the UK would be an understatement.

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Business Green

AUGUST 24, 2022

BP, Shell, Total Energies, and Equinor were all found to be investing the vast majority of their profits back into fossil fuel projects. The analysis revealed that BP invested £300m into renewables and low carbon projects in the first half of 2022 - which according to the analysis is equivalent to just 2.5

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2024

The power lines had been replaced four times in the past two decades. “It Allaire spent more than three decades as an environmental engineer in the oil industry, working for Amoco and then BP, after the two companies merged in the late 1990s. Department of Energy (DOE) revises its review process. “I had a house right over here.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

An energy trade association that represents and promotes gas boilers and manufacturers is behind a barrage of negative press attacking heat pumps, DeSmog has learned. Much of the media coverage about heat pumps features Mike Foster, a former Labour MP and the chief executive of the Energy and Utilities Association trade body.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Additional €100bn for renewables, heat pumps, energy efficiency, and biomethane needed as EU faces 'sterner' gas supply test next year, IEA warns. The European Union has made significant progress in reducing reliance on Russian natural gas supplies, but it is not out of the danger zone yet," said IEA executive director Fatih Birol.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 7, 2023

Decarbonizing heavy industry is going to mainly depend on finding emissions-free mechanisms to generate heat. TL;DR About 20% of global CO2 emissions could be avoided by decarbonizing heat , which makes up ~75% of all industrial sector emissions. AtmosZero is focused on replacing the gas boilers that create the steam to power industry.

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Green Technology

JUNE 21, 2023

Here are the categories for recognition at the May 2023 Sustainable Facilities Forum recently held at the Scottish Rite Masonic Center in Sacramento, California: State Building Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Local Government Pioneer (There were two awardees in this category for 2023.)

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

gas export projects since the beginning of 2022, a sharp increase on the 1.86 Rolfes was speaking during a visit last month to the German port of Wilhelmshaven, site of a new terminal to unload liquefied natural gas (LNG) — natural gas supercooled for shipping on specialized tankers. German banks lent 2.17

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Coast Guard for floating LNG projects off Grande Isle, Louisiana , were moderated by third-party contractors who offer permit expediting services for industry. This new land will create a natural barrier that will help protect the New Orleans metro area from storm surge, project proponents say. Federal and state trustees approved $2.26

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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Even the negatives — the politicization of ESG investing and reporting, the economic downturn, the energy crisis created by the Russian invasion of Ukraine — are temporal phenomena, part of the regular ebbs and flows of economics and policy. Overall, it was more positives than negatives. Here are five trends worth noting.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

BASF’s wine tasting is just one example of many such pandemic-style lobbying efforts by the European agriculture industry since the EU has attempted to pass sweeping new policies to combat climate change through measures included in its “Green Deal,” first presented in December 2019. Meet the Industry Trade Groups.

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Grist

JANUARY 31, 2024

.” — a passage from “ Cabbage Koora ,” by Sanjana Sekhar The spotlight Nearly 4 in 5 people support doing “whatever it takes” to mitigate climate change, according to a survey published late last year by the firm Potential Energy. ” The debate around gas stoves in the U.S.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

VERGE Energy Conference (VERGE 20) will take place on October 26-30, 2020. This online event can be attended from anywhere, The central theme at VERGE 20 will focus on how energy systems can be decarbonized, decentralized, digitized and democratized. Climate change is the most significant global threat we face today.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2022

A new league table has highlighted how the global electric vehicle market is continuing to rapidly expand, with China seeing sales of zero emission models top three million units last year. The new analysis from electric vehicle subscription service Elmo confirms that China remains the largest EV market by sales, with nearly 3.4

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