DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

After calling around, they soon found out that a company wanted to build a liquefied natural gas ( LNG ) import terminal in Coos Bay on the Oregon coast, and run a natural gas pipeline to California — and Evans’ land was in the way. Tags: Jordan Cove LNG Pacific Connector Pipeline Pembina eminent domain niskanen center

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 23, 2020

Read time: 11 mins California communities last month got an important procedural win in their efforts to get fossil fuel companies to pay for climate-related impacts. Tags: climate liability U.S. Supreme Court Manufacturers Accountability Project FTI Consulting Energy In Depth chris horner

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 31, 2020

Tags: COVID-19 california wildfires climate change climate liability She left once last year because of the smoke—Plant and her husband both have respiratory conditions — but this was different. This time she was afraid if they left, she’d never see her home again. .

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 7, 2020

Tags: Southern California Gas Company San Luis Obispo Gas Industry fossil fuel front groups climate policy Californians for Balanced Energy Solutions

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Read time: 7 mins California and Colorado’s public pension funds together lost out on over $19 billion over the past decade by investing in fossil fuel stocks, according to a report released on Tuesday. Tags: pension funds fossil fuel investments CalPERS CalSTRS

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

California thinks it has an answer. On September 19, the California Air Resources Board endorsed the Tropical Forest Standard, which sets the groundwork for electric utilities, oil refineries and other California polluters to “offset” their greenhouse gas emissions by paying governments in tropical forest areas not to cut down trees.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 7, 2020

California officials expect that the state needs 1 gigawatt of new long-duration energy storage by 2026 to advance its clean-energy transition. That figure emerged in the “reference system portfolio” that the California Public Utilities Commission approved on March 26. Long-duration storage is not new to California.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 4, 2021

Recent research by Leaders Arena ESG Advisory Services finds that institutional investors managing more than $7 trillion in equity assets consider biodiversity issues to some extent, including Allianz Global Investors, BNP Paribas Asset Management and California Public Employees’ Retirement System, better known as CalPERS.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The more the city invests in community adaptation, the higher the price tag — in its complaint, the city said it is already spending $188 million on climate projects in low-income communities — and that’s the kind of thing Chicago wants oil companies to help pay for. Or it could be simpler than all that.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

It’s a great advertising tag line, but there are no free rides; someone always pays somewhere. California already has enacted regulations requiring all trucks and vans sold in the state to be zero-emission by 2045. That has to come from somewhere on a reliable and consistent basis or you do not get fed. Free delivery."

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

It placed the price tag at up to 10.5 And if you really want a sleepless night or two, read this story about “The Biblical Flood That Will Drown California,” published recently in Mother Jones magazine. economy throughout this century, especially in the absence of increased adaptation efforts.” percent of GDP by 2100.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 5, 2019

The industry is anxiously awaiting the auction of more such zones in 2020 off the coasts of New York and California. Surging demand for offshore wind power from states running from Massachusetts down through Virginia has driven up the cost of development zones to record levels.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 18, 2019

next year, for a zone near New York and via a joint venture in California. In September the company closed finance on 125 megawatts of projects spread across California, Pennsylvania, New Mexico and Kansas. According to the firm’s Capital Markets Day presentation it intends to bid on both coasts of the U.S. Lightsource BP.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 18, 2019

The FERC decision on price formation will set a precedent for how state energy regulation and subsidies impact pricing for ISO/RTO markets with a capacity market — and more broadly on the responsibility and price tag on resource adequacy procurement.

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GreenTech Gazette

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

But Canoo GOEV, a start-up based California thought differently and they brought this revolutionary design for their new launch. Its cost started at $33,000 and we expect a price tag like this only. This thing looks completely different than the traditional gasoline-based cars.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

Still, the study is a good start for scientists looking to put a price tag on disasters brought on by warming temperatures, vicious hurricanes, and rising seas. Similar research could be used in court against oil companies. Orton, who was living in New Jersey when Sandy hit, said that the research felt personal. “We

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Wood pet tags Rover can proudly wear this attractive pet tag , and if/when he roves, it will be easy for somebody to direct him home using the tag’s info. These tags are handmade in Palo Alto, California and promise to be “water/drool and tear resistant.”

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

In April, Alphasense OPC devices received a favourable billing from the US-based Air Quality Sensor Performance Evaluation Center (AQ-SPEC) program, a third-party evaluation undertaken by the agency responsible for the attainment of state and federal clean air standards in a large region of southern California which includes Los Angeles.

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Green Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2022

He served on the California State Board of Education’s Curriculum Commission and then founded Ten Strands as a nonprofit organization to support California’s efforts to achieve statewide penetration of high-quality environment-based education into schools. The environment isn’t just a faraway stream, a mountain or a glacier.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 31, 2020

The new school of pumped hydro focuses on isolated reservoirs that don’t disrupt river ecosystems; this simplifies permitting, but projects still face a decade-long development timeline and billion-dollar price tags. Nevertheless, a handful of such projects are inching forward.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Among a raft of announcement at the EV giant's AGM in California on Wednesday, the billionaire said Tesla had developed a new means of manufacturing lithium ion batteries, which he said would enable the US firm to more rapidly scale up cell manufacturing in the coming years. "I

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Green Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2022

He was part of the team that helped develop California’s Blueprint for Environmental Literacy , and continues to be involved in its implementation of the state’s Environmental Principles and Concepts through the California Environmental Literacy Initiative. California is doing some amazing work.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

When the cost of vehicles gets low enough - like the $45,000 price tag for the E-Transit — entire segments of commercial vehicles could tip to electric, especially in states such as California that offer both incentives and mandates for commercial zero-emission vehicles.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Shop Sparitual on Amazon Pacifica The fifth-place position goes to Pacifica , another California brand, with 60,170 Instagram hashtags. Shop Billy Jealousy on Amazon Nanshy With 9,326 tags, Nanshy moved into the tenth-place spot. The company’s makeup brushes and storage accessories are cruelty-free and budget-friendly.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

The combined platform will now enable teachers to assess how students are doing and then quickly match them to resources in the UClass library, where content is tagged for compliance with Common Core standards.

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Charged

JUNE 30, 2023

The California Public Utilities Commission’s Public Advocates Office is in the process of preparing an estimate of the costs. The good news is that this estimate is far lower than the $50-billion price tag indicated by a similar study conducted by analytics firm Kevala for the CPUC in 2021.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Both the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) jointly warn that because of these serious healthcare and medical costs, climate change is essentially a public health crisis. The environment shapes our society. Hence, as climate change worsens, so do healthcare costs.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 7, 2022

It’s based out of California even though the materials and production are sourced from India, so there was no international travel to get the product to me in Oregon. Product tags are also sourced from natural materials and the bags are colored with GOTS-certified dyes. The package arrived quickly. Just the way I like it.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

We took one on a hike down to McClures Beach in Point Reyes, California in the height of summer. Hang tags are already printed on 100% recycled and biodegradable material with a recycled cotton string and a completely biodegradable clasp. The goal is to eliminate plastic from all packaging by the end of 2020.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

We took one on a hike down to McClures Beach in Point Reyes, California in the height of summer. Hang tags are already printed on 100% recycled and biodegradable material with a recycled cotton string and a completely biodegradable clasp. The goal is to eliminate plastic from all packaging by the end of 2020.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Meanwhile, a version of Dye’s proposed solution to this problem has been adopted by several other utilities, including the country’s largest gas distribution company, SoCalGas, which received the blessing of California regulators in 2019 to run a pilot project that has continued and grown since then.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 4, 2021

Recent research by Leaders Arena ESG Advisory Services finds that institutional investors managing more than $7 trillion in equity assets consider biodiversity issues to some extent, including Allianz Global Investors, BNP Paribas Asset Management and California Public Employees’ Retirement System, better known as CalPERS.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 6, 2024

State and local incentives – Several US states and a number of municipalities within them are offering drivers rebates, tax credits and other incentives for choosing low- or zero-carbon vehicles, shrinking the price tag overall. Will drivers be interested with limited refueling options?

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This is inherently wasteful and it comes with a price tag of emissions. GeothermEx is thrilled to be involved in the California Direct Air Capture (DAC) Hub. The preference for clean power is quite high not only in California, but also in many other states. This is driven partly by the solar penetration in California.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Some of the funding could well go to microgrids like the one installed at the city of Fremont, California’s Fire Station #6 , the site of Tuesday’s press conference for the solicitation. The move also highlights the increasing role that CCAs are taking in California’s energy future.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Eco Central , a UK-based campaign group that runs ads that claim California wildfires were caused by green policies, that question the green credentials of electric vehicles and wind turbines, and call for climate change education to be banned from schools, has run nearly £3,500 of ads through Facebook's ad platform since 2018.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

” It’s a great advertising tag line, but there are no free rides; someone always pays somewhere. California already has enacted regulations requiring all trucks and vans sold in the state to be zero-emission by 2045. That has to come from somewhere on a reliable and consistent basis or you do not get fed. “Free delivery.”

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