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Fossil Fuel Firms Use Permitting Loopholes to Fast-Track LNG Export Projects Near Black Communities

DeSmogBlog

Now, Ivor van Heerden , the former deputy director of Louisiana State University’s Hurricane Center, is concerned about the disastrous and potentially lethal consequences of a hurricane hitting a liquified natural gas (LNG) export terminal under construction south of New Orleans.

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AI can significantly improve grid management reports DOE

Smart Energy International

Industrials and manufacturing Improving manufacturing quality control and better sort feedstocks for recycling streams Reducing carbon footprint of industry, data centres by optimising energy consumption, cooling, etc.

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A Window into Louisiana’s Continued Embrace of the Fossil Fuel Industry

DeSmogBlog

.” Heerden was hired by three Louisiana-based environmental groups — The Deep South Center for Environmental Justice (DSCEJ), Sierra Club, and Healthy Gulf — that are suing the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources for exempting Venture Global LNG from needing a coastal use permit to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal.

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A decidedly impartial review of Mark Jacobson’s 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything

Renewable Energy World

Along with the publication of the 50-state plans in 2015 was an additional paper that documented how the 100% WWS model could be applied to keep the electric grid stable when all energy needs (not just electricity generation), including transportation, heating and cooling, manufacturing and power storage, were powered by WWS.

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I Converted a Home Fully to Electricity. Here’s How It Worked — and What It Cost

GreenTechMedia

In all likelihood it will get worse as we experience more extreme weather events and sea levels rise from melting ice sheets. Time to burn that bridge to natural gas. Energy Secretary Ernie Moniz positioned natural gas as the bridge to renewables. Some people say this is the new normal. Former U.S.

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A North-Pole, How Much Longer?

Mr. Sustainability

Even if Earth does not have had Arctic sea ice in most of its history, it plays a crucial role in regulating our current climate. Some have actually called the Arctic the world’s “air-conditioning system” because of the role of the large ice sheets in cooling the surrounding continents. Sea level rising (not because of melting).

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Climate change is an infrastructure problem – map of electric vehicle chargers shows one reason why

Renewable Energy World

has built systems of transportation, heating, cooling, manufacturing and agriculture that rely primarily on fossil fuels. The greenhouse gas emissions those fossil fuels release when burned have raised global temperature by about 1.1°C The Conversation , CC BY-ND. Over many decades, the U.S. The infrastructure bill.