DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Charles and David notoriously poured fortunes into funding organizations and projects designed to prevent fossil fuel regulation, often by obscuring the role that fossil fuels play in causing climate change. Very few fossil fuel plants continue to operate in Texas without scrubbers, said Cox.

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Front And Centered

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Washington passed 100% clean electricity into law earlier this year, and with public input government agencies are currently drafting rules to guide utilities on how to comply with the law by phasing out fossil fuel emissions and integrating equity in their service models.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 20, 2020

A group of House lawmakers recently released a 547-page report on climate change. Reporters at E&E News called it “arguably the most comprehensive climate policy plan in American politics.” We’ll also look at a companion infrastructure bill from House Democrats that makes clean energy a centerpiece.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2024

The UK government’s most senior climate minister has publicly celebrated a petrol campaigner who wants to “scrap net zero” and claims “man is not responsible for global warming”. Coutinho, who was photographed smiling with Cox, hailed his ‘PumpWatch’ campaign to monitor the price of petrol and diesel.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Electricity generation produces a quarter of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions that drive climate change. The electric grid also is highly vulnerable to climate change effects, such as more frequent and severe droughts , hurricanes and other extreme weather events. Felix Mormann , Texas A&M University.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

The US Clean Investment Monitor published its annual report for 2023, which saw clean investment total $239bn, up 38% from 2022. Winners include manufacturing, up 133% from 2022, and emerging climate technologies that saw a whopping 10x jump to $4.3bn. Energy & industry. Happy Monday!  of dollars put to work.  

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

It is also a strong example to bring to the COP26 summit of how to follow climate change targets with action. That’s the apparent conclusion of a new independent assessment of the Net Zero Strategy published on 26 October by the Climate Change Committee (CCC). This is the UK’s climate governance working as it should.”.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2021

EQT’s move comes on the heels of a similar announcement from Chesapeake Energy, one of the pioneers of fracking which recently emerged from bankruptcy. Industry advisors are increasingly offering up new ideas about how oil and gas companies can use the language of ESG to market their fossil fuel as different from the competition’s.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 18, 2022

Last week Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act, which now heads to President Biden’s desk to be signed into law. The bill has been championed as a “climate change bill”, but it also allocates hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade to several programs designed to reduce inflation.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

gigawatt natural gas power plant in the U.K. have been shelved by the developer Drax, highlighting the challenging economics of converting coal-fired power to a cleaner, but still fossil-fuel-fired, alternative. ’s climate change laws. ’s largest power plant. Plans for a new 3.6-gigawatt

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AutoGrid

AUGUST 25, 2022

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), signed into law last week, is a boon for virtual power plants ( VPPs )–a term commonly used to refer to the ability of digital software platforms to aggregate and optimize distributed energy resources ( DER ) through the use of artificial intelligence (AI). By Peter Asmus.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The connections with oil and gas lobbyists, the researchers say, undercut the highly public positions the companies have taken on addressing climate change. There is no ‘separate’ when the climate crisis will affect almost every issue before a state legislature — health care, infrastructure, taxes, and the whole economy,” he said.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In the last four years, federal leadership on clean energy and climate change has stalled. In 2018, California became just the second state working towards a mandate of 100 percent clean electricity. Last year, Governor Tim Walz, a Democrat, introduced a path to 100 percent clean energy by 2050. State Legislatures.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 12, 2020

Donald Trump is the world's most powerful advocate of the industry that is at the heart of the climate crisis. The fossil fuel industry has known this for decades. Their rejection of science and climate denial have brought us to the brink of collapse. They are complicit in the systemic racism that plagues the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 15, 2021

California regulators have approved a microgrid plan directing $200 million to help communities build networks that can supply power through the state’s extended wildfire-prevention blackouts, a task expected to take years to move from planning to completing its first projects. Slow progress on microgrid policy.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

EU 2035 car ban clears final hurdle Plans to ban the sale of new internal combustion engine cars across the EU from 2035 cleared their final major hurdle this week, as MEPs approved a new law that formalises long-standing plans to phase out petrol and diesel vehicles. These are good cars.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

While California already has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 13 percent since their peak in 2004, many residents still suffer from high levels of air pollution — much of it produced by fossil fuels. In their eyes, it doesn’t do enough to address climate change and allows emitters to continue polluting the air in the meantime.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 30, 2020

The human suffering and economic turmoil of the global coronavirus pandemic, and the impacts of climate change-driven heatwaves and wildfires, have given humanity little reason to celebrate the year that’s coming to a close. FERC Order 2222: distributed energy as a grid resource comes of age.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

However, a DeSmog investigation has found that these scores take little or no account of multiple risks associated with the advertising and PR industry’s role in the climate crisis — from reputational damage caused by greenwashing fossil fuel clients, to threats to staff retention, and the danger of being sued for climate damages.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 21, 2023

As lawsuits mount against the fossil fuel sector for decades of sowing climate disinformation, the PR and ad agencies , banks , institutional investors , and law firms that work with the industry are also facing increased scrutiny. This overlap raises conflict of interest concerns, experts say.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Clean energy for Native American communities. As the North American program manager for the Climate Group’s EV100 program, Badalian works to get large companies to commit to 100 percent electric mobility by 2030, then helps them replace global fleets with electric vehicles, deploy charging stations and affect government policy.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

However, a DeSmog investigation has found that these scores take little or no account of multiple risks associated with the advertising and PR industry’s role in the climate crisis — from reputational damage caused by greenwashing fossil fuel clients, to threats to staff retention, and the danger of being sued for climate damages.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Coal-fired power plants in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (image credit: Asian Development Bank , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 ” The document from the Climate Crisis Advisory Group (CCAG)[1] sets out seven recommendations that it believes global leaders at COP26 must consider to make carbon pricing more effective. license ).

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The threat of power grid-sparked wildfires is forcing California utilities to invest billions of dollars in hardening and monitoring their grids and to institute grid blackouts affecting up to hundreds of thousands of customers to reduce the risk of live wires sparking conflagrations. ” How remote microgrids could pencil out.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

So far, the state has purchased 30,000 of them for New York City’s public housing as part of its plan to tackle climate change. They’re supposed to save energy, cut down utility costs, reduce pollution, and give residents access to air conditioning that didn’t have it before.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Only 3 percent of the Wyoming project’s CO2 has been geologically stored in the same formation from which the original gas was extracted, according to estimates from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). C and with the net-zero energy transition. Credit: SaskPower , CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

On Tuesday, the United States government published the Fifth National Climate Assessment — an exhaustive summary of the leading research on climate change and how it affects life in every part of the country. These changes will only worsen for as long as society continues to burn fossil fuels, and for some time after.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 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. Worried about the climate crisis? And, in the United States, political gridlock chopped the heart out of Congress’ most ambitious clean energy plan. .

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

By Faye Bowser, Head of Energy Solutions, Siemens plc. How do we find the energy and ideas now to put in place the changes needed to sustain our collective trajectory to 2050, and also identify the next set of ‘big wins’ for industry? … while a lot has changed, not much has changed.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Trade body Energy UK becomes latest influential group to endorse plans to shrink electricity bills by reducing the costs paid to legacy low carbon electricity generators. The voluntary CfD scheme would apply to generators that secured contracts under the Renewables Obligation scheme, which closed to new applicants in 2017.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Contributed by Saverio Grosso, Edison Energy. New York City’s Climate Mobilization Act has been lauded as one of the most ambitious and innovative legislative initiatives by a major city to combat climate change. There’s been a tremendous uptick in energy optimization and efficiency projects. Last month, the U.S.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South. South to burn them overseas in its power plants. million tons of pellets per year.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

s investigative journalism arm, and the British Channel 4 News this summer exposing how the oil giant and lobby groups such as the American Petroleum Institute seed doubt about climate change and undermine legislation to stop global warming. This conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity. Document 1: 1959.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

An organization run by former Obama-era Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, with the backing of the AFL-CIO, a federation of 56 labor unions, has created a policy “blueprint” to build a nationwide pipeline network capable of carrying a gigaton of captured carbon dioxide (CO2).

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Republican representatives unveiled the “Trillion Trees Act” on Wednesday, the first of what they are framing as a three-part climate plan expected to include later installments focused on clean energy and conservation. A newly created task force would monitor progress.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Adjusting to current or expected effects of climate change, such as building defences to protect against rising sea-levels, to reduce risk or benefit from opportunities where possible. The Sixth Assessment Report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Climate finance. Energy transition.

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