DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2022

“We’re just goddamn puppets,” said Ray Kemble, 30-year Dimock resident of the 9-square-mile moratorium zone and water pollution victim, who stood next to Attorney General and Gov.-elect elect Josh Shapiro the day he applauded his office for reaching a conclusion to the years-long battle for clean water in the area.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 12, 2021

Meanwhile, in California and Texas Relevant for illustrating the reliable role distributed renewables such as solar and storage can provide during blackout events — on the mind of industry observers in a state like California that has a high percentage of distributed solar –California Gov.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Writing on Twitter in response to the news of the proposed target, Emma Pinchbeck, chief executive of trade body Energy UK, said: "Energy UK members are up for this challenge. But exactly when in the 2030s we green electricity depends on Gov action now: we need policy & markets & tech to do it.".

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 8, 2024

Sometimes it’s clear like British Airways + Shell + LanzaJet or more complex like a European energy major buying a biofuels business to grow its trading business.  Government  Who & how  From Gov or its entities (e.g. Can your addition meaningfully grow existing operations?   The good  Silver bullet.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This opportunity to trade energy for mutual advantage stretches far beyond Cascadia. One could scarcely ask for a better example of how this plays out in the real world than Washington Gov. And if the wind fails in Montana, it’s a good bet that solar, wind and/or water power dispatched from Cascadia could help save their day.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 27, 2020

FirstEnegy shares plummeted from more than $41 last Tuesday to less than $25 on the following day, and have since traded at about $30. Friday’s earnings report yielded no discernible uptick, with shares trading at about $29 as of mid-Monday trading.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 1, 2021

On Monday, Griddy was shut down by ERCOT for failure to pay its bills, and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the company on the grounds that it violated state deceptive trade practices law by failing to disclose that risk or prepare financially to protect its customers. Larger power companies are also feeling the pinch.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 28, 2021

We can sum it up by saying this will be one of the strongest hurricanes to hit anywhere in Louisiana since at least the 1850s,” Gov. Bcf/d,” NatGasWeather said,” trade publication Natural Gas Intelligence reported on Friday. Hurricane Katrina made landfall as a Category 3 with peak wind speeds of 125 mph. “We

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

But from ironworkers to electrical workers to the building trades, there’s wide resolve to develop a U.S. gigawatt project built off North Carolina’s coast by 2030 — in line with goals set by Gov. The enormous towers, blades and other specialized parts that make up offshore wind farms are now made in Europe.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

While it was working to burnish the UEA’s green credentials, the PR giant was also creating public relations campaigns on behalf of fossil fuel organizations to slow climate legislation, such as the 2009 cap-and-trade bill in the United States. In 2007, Edelman began writing speeches for Al Jaber about the importance of renewable energy.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

New Climate Cases United States In June, Multnomah County , Oregon – home to Portland, the state’s largest city – sued more than a dozen oil and gas companies and several of their trade associations. billion in future damages.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 27, 2022

In addition, the industry’s reach keeps extending into state government as Gov. Winner, who died in March, began his career as an assistant to Gov. Pat Brown in 1958 and was appointed chairman of the California Horse Racing Board by Gov. Elite Campaigners and Law Firms Lobby for Drilling. Jerry Brown more than 50 years later.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 2, 2020

The Edison Electric Institute (EEI), the chief trade organization for U.S. Chris Sununu, a net metering opponent whose 2018 campaign was funded by Eversource.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 1, 2020

But Exelon CEO Chris Crane noted Wednesday that the economic struggles of its Illinois nuclear fleet — now the subject of a tense standoff with Gov. “I think there’s a well-understood mechanism for reflecting the costs that generators face to comply with these programs in their energy market offers.

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Grist

OCTOBER 19, 2020

California’s system for capping and trading greenhouse gases is aimed at a global crisis, climate change, but the argument over the scheme centers on a local issue: dirty air spreading within neighborhoods surrounding polluting factories and power plants. It’s a debate over priorities, global versus local. Voters still rejected it.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 24, 2021

Credit: BC Gov Photos. The agency went on to add that the volume of LNG traded needs to fall sharply going forward. Seven of 12 LNG projects proposed on Canada’s Pacific Coast have been canceled, and only one project led by Shell and a consortium of Asian energy companies, called LNG Canada, is moving forward. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Southeast’s biggest utilities have filed plans for a Southeast Energy Exchange Market, an electricity trading platform that they say could reduce power prices for about 50 million people and better integrate the region’s growing share of clean power in years to come. Roy Cooper.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

On Tuesday, the last day for Virginia's House and Senate to send bills to each other for consideration, legislators were set to advance the Clean Economy Act, which would establish a 100 percent renewable energy target by 2045 or 2050, in line with an executive order issued by Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam last year.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 6, 2020

The Clean Economy Act passed Virginia’s House of Delegates by a 51—45 vote on Thursday and the state Senate by a 22—17 vote on Friday, clearing the way for the bill to be signed by Gov. Ralph Northam, who issued an executive order calling for it last year.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 23, 2020

at the close of Monday trading to $27.33 at the end of trading Thursday. McCarthy, Gov. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of Ohio, revealed Tuesday that it has been issued a subpoena related to the investigation. FirstEnergy shares fell from $41.26

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 11, 2019

It’s easy to see why multinationals might as they face pressure from sub-national regions — California Gov. the EU backed a proposal to strike no new trade deals with countries not in the Paris climate accord (i.e., The big question now is whether businesses will push back and go down a cleaner path on their own. So even if U.S.

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R-Squared Energy

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Following last week’s Republican debate, conservative Fox News host Sean Hannity and California Gov. has moved toward energy independence in some ways, it still depends on international crude oil for key elements of its energy needs, making the country’s energy market sensitive to overseas developments in energy, trade and foreign policy.”

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Interstate grid operator Southwest Power Pool has expanded its wholesale energy market, the latest step in a series of nationwide moves aimed at bringing more efficiency to parts of the country rich in renewable energy potential but lacking in the energy trading regimes to make the best use of it. Expanding energy markets across the country.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

Stokes is finishing a report on the subject, due out in early February, in partnership with progressive data analysis and polling nonprofit Data for Progress and Evergreen, a group formed by staffers from Washington Gov. Jay Inslee's presidential campaign, which injected the 2035 goal into the climate policy conversation.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 31, 2019

There has been no shortage of climate related news in recent days ⁠— from President Trump’s attack on California’s emissions-trading system to Senator Schumer’s $450 billion electric vehicle proposal, and disastrous wildfires raging in the West to the anniversary of Superstorm Sandy in the East. SacBee : Gov.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

These dynamics have caught the imagination of North Carolina Gov. If we’re going to meet Gov. Especially on a partisan package, it’s encouraging to see a bipartisan group of trades pushing together to encourage a clean energy transition,” Jason Ryan, spokesperson for American Clean Power, said in an email.

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