DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

TotalEnergies will sponsor the 2023 Rugby World Cup in France. As pressure on the industry grows to phase out dirty energy and take responsibility for the climate crisis, buying goodwill may be a better marketing investment than ever. Aramco has partnered with Spain’s Laguna de El Hito Nature Reserve to conserve bird species.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

natural gas production comes from federal leases in the Gulf of Mexico, according to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. Flying 10,000 feet above the Gulf of Mexico, in a plane outfitted with infrared imaging equipment, researchers could see methane gas bubbling under water, likely from an undetected pipeline leak.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2022

Abu Dhabi's state-owned renewable energy giant Masdar is undergoing a restructure of its ownership, while ramping up its overall clean energy goal to 100GW by 2030. Masdar, Abu Dhabi's state-owned clean energy company, harbours some seriously lofty ambitions. But it is hungry for far, far more.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Trade groups like the International Air Transport Association (IATA) generally see sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs) as the most viable option for a few reasons: The energy density of jet fuel is extremely hard to beat, so for most flights longer than an hour, batteries become too heavy and hydrogen takes up too much space.  

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 7, 2024

So, let’s look at three themes in sustainability from 2023 that really dwarf other stories. This was a rough year. The world’s biggest challenges generally got worse, or at least more complicated. Our biggest existential threat, climate change, is no longer a scientific model of the future; it’s now a relentless daily challenge.

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2022

BusinessGreen rounds up the top takeaways from the government's long-awaited Jet Zero Strategy to decarbonise domestic flight by 2040. Could passengers be enjoying climate-friendly flights within the UK by 2040? Here are the five key takeaways. SAF is tipped for rapid growth.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This week’s Smart Energy Finances looks at a deal between an energy trading company and a decision tech developer to improve price optimisation, which involves simulations of market dynamics based on the transmission grid. Also on the radar are stats from BNEF showing how, in 2022, clean energy activities generated at least $2.56

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

After holding up my press pass, I was allowed in, though I was not among the select media invited to the event by the state agency responsible for the project, Louisiana’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA). Edwards speaking at the groundbreaking event for the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion project on August 10, 2023.

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Charged

MAY 31, 2022

Once an EV can double as a stationary storage device, it will take its place as part of an energy ecosystem that includes rooftop solar and energy management—and could even become a source of revenue for owners and a valuable grid-balancing resource for utilities. The last one I was running is called Concord Energy.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Case in point: ChatGPT , the scary-smart artificial intelligence engine capable of answering a breathtakingly broad array of questions, which seems to be the tech world's bright, shiny object of 2023. Can artificial intelligence conduct an informed conversation about the broad and complex technologies under the climate tech umbrella?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

In January China's largest steel producer and second largest in the world by output - state-owned Baowu - announced it would achieve 'carbon neutrality' by 2050, and - importantly - would aim to peak its emissions in 2023. The Cumbria mine is set to extract about three million tonnes of coal annually, mainly from under the seabed.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2021

On the eve of the Glasgow Summit, green business, economy and diplomacy experts gave BusinessGreen an exclusive overview of their hopes, fears, and expectations for the two weeks of talks. The COP26 Climate Summit is finally upon us, but what issues should business be following closely? And what would a 'good' outcome look like? Set against that 1.5C

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2024

This story originally was published on Gas Outlook and is the second of a two-part long read on LNG expansion in Louisiana and its impacts on the local community. Read the first part here. Cameron, Louisiana) — John Allaire spreads an old map across his table, which shows what his property in Cameron, Louisiana looked like in 1982.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2023

9, 2023, when Richard Trumka Jr., CPSC Chair Alexander Hoehn-Saric tried to douse the uproar, stating that he was “ not looking to ban gas stoves ” and that his agency “has no proceeding to do so.” Why, then, have they assumed such a heated role in climate politics? This debate reignited on Jan. a member of the U.S.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

This story is part of the series Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia , which explores the path to low-carbon energy for British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. This project is produced in partnership with InvestigateWest and other media outlets. That killed 600 people in British Columbia alone.

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Business Green

AUGUST 28, 2020

All the top green business stories from around the world this week. Green Climate Fund hit by reports of harassment and bullying. The FT reported that GCF's own internal documents show complaints to the fund's Independent Integrity Unit nearly doubled to 40 last year, from 21 the previous year.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 30, 2020

A spending package President Trump signed before the New Year keeps the Investment Tax Credit at 26 percent through 2022 and at 22 percent through 2023, a policy similar to one the White House eliminated during spending negotiations at the same time last year. By nearly all measures, 2020 was a trying year. An ITC extension.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

Morano and company’s mission failed, as construction continued on the 12 turbines that now compose one of the largest offshore wind farms built to date in the United States. In December, New York flipped the switch on South Fork Wind , which will deliver renewable power to some 70,000 homes in the state.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2020

Still, some are undoubtedly moving ahead of others, driven by state mandates, the inexorable math of ever-cheaper renewables, or other factors. Out of scores of potential examples, GTM has chosen to highlight four companies: NextEra Energy, Berkshire Hathaway Energy, Dominion Energy, and Pacific Gas & Electric.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 4, 2023

And no, the fusion energy breakthrough will not save us all). The legislation includes hundreds of billions of spending on climate priorities, with tax credits for clean energy, incentives for EVs, and funding for clean tech manufacturing. energy production.”. It’s a labor of love and pain. It puts the U.S.

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Charged

JANUARY 18, 2022

To help us sort out how the new policies are likely to unfold, we turned to Margo Oge, former Director of the EPA’s Office of Transportation and Air Quality and author of the book Driving the Future. Basically, they finalized [rules for model years] 2023 through 2026. Now I understand the new rules are finalized.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

State-owned energy firms Enea and Energa issued a joint statement yesterday in which they said that, due to market headwinds faced by the global coal sector and the increasing shift of capital away from the fossil fuel power source, they would be withdrawing billions of zlotys of funding from the proposed Ostro??ka

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Andrew Winston

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The big stories of 2023 included the “anti-ESG” movement’s silencing effect on many companies; the explosion of clean tech; new reporting laws that are pressuring companies to measure and do more; and most oddly, the annual global climate meeting held in the United Arab Emirates, a petro-state. So, what will 2024 look like?

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