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APRIL 20, 2023
Online car marketplace calls for stronger tax incentives from government to support fairer transition to electric cars in the UK
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Peers sought to build urban resilience platform
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 5, 2020
From a water perspective, this means there is now a higher probability of flooding from heavier precipitation and storm surge, but also an increased risk of not having enough water available to keep taps flowing. It is against this background that Isle set up its Urban Resilience Technology Approval Group (UR TAG) in 2019.
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How the climate crisis will crash the economy
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
Even before all that, we’d been watching the real-world risks of climate change looming and growing across the United States and around the world. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued a report addressing climate risks to the U.S. Among the “complex risks for the U.S. It placed the price tag at up to 10.5
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Fossil Fuel Industry Engaging in 'Pervasive Fraud' that Threatens Global Economy, Report Warns
DeSmogBlog
JULY 31, 2020
Tags: fossil fuel industry ExxonMobil Fraud climate risks National Whistleblower Center Tags: fossil fuel industry ExxonMobil Fraud climate risks National Whistleblower Center
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UN Human Rights Experts Condemn Expanding Petrochemical Industry in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley as 'Environmental Racism'
DeSmogBlog
MARCH 3, 2021
Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) data shows has some of the country’s highest cancer risks from air pollution, constitutes “environmental racism” that “must end.”. Tags: cancer alley Human Rights environmental racism Formosa petrochemical development
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In Senate Hearing, Economic Experts Warn Climate Crisis Could Spur Financial Crash Like 2008
DeSmogBlog
MARCH 12, 2020
With markets currently in turmoil due to the coronavirus pandemic, experts testified Thursday that there is high risk for an even larger economic crisis absent urgent climate policy. Tags: financial impacts of climate change Senator Sheldon Whitehouse green swan events subprime mortgage scandal
EPA Clean Air Panel Chair Dismisses His Oil Industry Ties, Slams Harvard Study on Air Pollution and COVID Risks
DeSmogBlog
MAY 18, 2020
The EPA adviser’s critical remarks appear consistent with his track record of disregarding robust science on air pollution and health risks in his consulting work for industry clients such as tobacco and fossil fuel interests. Tags: air pollution COVID-19 Dr. Tony Cox American Petroleum Institute Scott Pruitt Andrew Wheeler U.S.
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Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet
GreenBiz
MARCH 4, 2021
Most investors and companies still don’t put a price tag on natural capital, or the cost of losing it, and biodiversity becoming a top "theme" only means people have begun talking about it. In its Global Risks Report for 2021 , the World Economic Forum ranks biodiversity loss as the world’s No. 5 risk by likelihood and No.
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California Lagged in Capping Century-old Oil Wells Leaking Under Homes of LA Residents Plagued by Illness and Odors
DeSmogBlog
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
What he found, two days later, would eventually confirm his fears and frustrations surrounding an environmental and public health risk haunting the City of Angels. Tags: Los Angeles orphan wells Hydrogen sulfide air pollution DOGGR california Aliso Canyon
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Detroit Knew: GM and Ford Were Aware of Climate Risks Decades Ago Too, Investigation Reveals
DeSmogBlog
OCTOBER 28, 2020
The investigation , published Monday, October 26, also describes how the auto giants largely dismissed those risks and actively lobbied to block action and fund climate science denial campaigns. Tags: climate change Ford general motors automakers E&E News Center for International Environmental Law SUVs climate liability
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Exxon and Other US Oil Companies Lag in Responding to ‘Existential Threat’ of Energy Transition, Report Warns
DeSmogBlog
OCTOBER 13, 2020
oil majors like Exxon and Chevron are failing to grapple with the energy sector’s transition away from polluting fossil fuels and refusing to disclose potential risks to their portfolios from assets that may become “stranded,” or uneconomical to develop, in a low-carbon world, new research from the London-based think tank Carbon Tracker shows.
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Affordable Housing Developers Set their Sights on Former Toxic Oil Fields in LA
DeSmogBlog
OCTOBER 24, 2020
The project’s developer, the Decro Group, has pledged that the new building, which is one of six active multi-family developments under construction in a five-block radius, will provide supportive and affordable housing for “chronically homeless individuals, persons at risk of becoming homeless, and low-income families.”.
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Op-ed: US COVID-19 Bailouts Gave Bonuses to Fossil Fuel CEOs While Workers and Planet Suffered
DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
Right now, we are beginning to experience a world that climate scientists have long warned we were risking. Tags: oil bailout CARES Act Whiting Petroleum COVID-19 U.S. Read time: 6 mins This op-ed is a guest post by Julieta Biegner, U.S. Communications Officer at Global Witness. Federal Reserve
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Carbon Capture Will Require Large Public Subsidies to Support Coal and Gas Power
DeSmogBlog
JUNE 15, 2020
Tags: carbon capture CCUS Center for Global Energy Policy (CGEP) cost of renewable energy
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Bankers and Investors Finding Fracking Industry's Underlying Models Prove Overly Optimistic
DeSmogBlog
JULY 17, 2020
They cited the billions that Buffett invested in the deal as compounding this risk. . Tags: reserves based lending fracking finance Bankruptcy Warren Buffett Harold Hamm Occidental Petroleum Alta Mesa The fracking industry doesn’t care that you’re a world-famous investment sage: It destroys all capital. .
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Is Natural Gas the New Coal?
DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 27, 2019
We run the risk of being demonized like that other fossil fuel out there called coal.”. Tags: methane natural gas fracking finances UN Climate Summit ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) The industry really is at a critical juncture,” Coleman said. “We
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Exclusive: 2020’s Hurricane Zeta Nearly Caused 'Another Deepwater Horizon Catastrophe' in Gulf of Mexico
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 5, 2021
What happened over the following week, however, not only left the crew of the Asgard in deadly peril and caused over $5 million in damages to the ship and its equipment, but also, according to experts, risked an oil spill potentially several times the size of the largest oil spill in U.S.
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DC Is the Latest to Sue Exxon and Big Oil for Climate Disinformation Campaigns
DeSmogBlog
JUNE 25, 2020
lawsuit alleges that these companies knew since at least the 1950s about the harmful consequences of burning fossil fuels and that they engaged in a campaign to deceive the public about those risks.
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Deniers Deflated as Climate Reality Hits Home
DeSmogBlog
AUGUST 11, 2019
Read time: 4 mins Climate science deniers are becoming desperate as their numbers diminish in the face of incontrovertible evidence that human-caused global warming is putting our future at risk. Tags: climate science denial Heartland Institute cornwall alliance ross mckitrick frank luntz
As New York Takes Exxon to Court, Big Oil’s Strategy Against Climate Lawsuits Is Slowly Unveiled
DeSmogBlog
NOVEMBER 8, 2019
More specifically, the company is charged with exaggerating the stringency of its financial safeguards in pricing risks from regulations restricting greenhouse gas emissions, according to the complaint filed last year in New York state court. .
UK Government Implements Fracking Ban – For Now
DeSmogBlog
NOVEMBER 3, 2019
The UK government has issued an immediate moratorium in England because of the risk of earth tremors. Tags: Preston New Road Preston New Road Action Group After seven years of promoting fracking, Conservative ministers have withdrawn their support and blocked the prospects of a shale gas industry.
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The Brief: BALLE’s common future, de-risking digesters, bamboo diapers, new gender-lens funds
Impact Alpha
OCTOBER 17, 2019
Just follow @ImpactAlpha on Instagram, then comment and tag two friends. Featured: ImpactAlpha Original Q&A with The post The Brief: BALLE’s common future, de-risking digesters, bamboo diapers, new gender-lens funds appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Void where prohibited!
A Decade After the Deepwater Horizon Explosion, Offshore Drilling Is Still Unsafe
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 15, 2020
While scientists now know more about these effects, risks of deepwater blowouts remain, and the energy industry and government responders still have only very limited ability to control where the oil goes once it’s released from the well. Later, I served as a courtroom witness for the government on the effects of the spill.
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Chevron’s #BlackLivesMatter Hypocrisy
DeSmogBlog
JUNE 10, 2020
They claim that it risks leaving marginalized communities out in the cold and stalls development in Africa. Tags: Chevron (NYSE: CVX) Black Lives Matter civil rights National Urban League big tobacco American Petroleum Institute Royal Dutch Shell Plc bp america (nyse: BP) environmental racism Chevron Oil Richmond Refinery Explosion
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Revealed: Anglo American Mine Expansion Could Put Chile's Glaciers and Emissions Goals At Risk
DeSmogBlog
OCTOBER 15, 2019
This project poses a risk to Santiago’s fresh water supply and wilderness areas,” Ezio Costa, the Executive Director of Chilean environmental justice NGO FIMA , told DeSmog about Los Bronces Underground ( LBU ) expansion project. Tags: Anglo American Chile COP25 Carolina Schmidt
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Study: Three quarters of UK businesses feel threatened by climate crisis
Business Green
JULY 5, 2020
Yet just one in ten firms listed climate risk assessments as a priority, according to new survey results published today by earth science AI firm. Iggy Bassi, founder and chief executive of Cervest, said: "Our findings show that businesses are unclear of the risks that climate presents to them, and the potential price tag that goes with that.
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Could plummeting battery costs deliver mass market EVs as soon as 2024?
Business Green
DECEMBER 1, 2021
Electric vehicles could reach cost-parity with petrol and diesel cars within three years, but immediate commodity supply risks pose challenges, according to latest BNEF report. These automakers may now have to make a choice between reducing their margins or passing costs on, at the risk of putting consumers off purchasing an EV.".
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Years Before Exxon Valdez, Documents Show Exxon’s Imperial Oil Prioritized Public Image Over Spill Impacts
DeSmogBlog
DECEMBER 2, 2019
Tags: Imperial Oil ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) oil spills oil industry public relations
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After Second Deadly Crash, Regulators Say Trucks Leaking Fracked Gas Cargo Are Fine
DeSmogBlog
OCTOBER 17, 2019
Let me put this in perspective, if one of these trucks blew up in the right conditions, it could destroy a neighborhood,” said Bill Huston, director of a research and advocacy program called Terra Vigilate, and one of a small group of advocates raising awareness about the extreme risks of fire and explosion of Virtual Pipeline trucks. “We
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How RFID technology is playing a role in reducing waste and increasing recycling
Envirotec Magazine
DECEMBER 19, 2019
PragmatIC says its technology could allow a low-cost inlay (tag) to be incorporated in packaging, allowing consumers to access information about product usage, food storage, cooking instructions and local recycling. Finding the solution through innovative technology.
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EV uptake is ‘critical litmus test’ for Europe’s energy transition
Smart Energy International
MARCH 6, 2024
chief Europe risks being seen as ‘weak’ in new energy balance of power Also vital for the customer – certainly in the mind of the customer themselves – is the initial cost of an EV. More Eurelectric news: Data interoperability key to advance e-mobility finds Eurelectric “I’m dismayed at the discussion about AI in Europe” says E.ON
Managing risk, achieving impact: Linking sovereign debt with climate and nature targets
Business Green
MAY 23, 2021
Investors know that through these instruments, they can drive risk mitigation and management and are, hence, willing to accept a lower interest rate. Difficulties around resource intensive budget tagging and project identification could also be avoided. Reducing risk and raising targets. Reducing risk and raising targets.
American Electric Power’s 1.5GW Wind Project Set to Sail Ahead
GreenTechMedia
MAY 28, 2020
That 2-gigawatt development was rejected by Texas regulators in August 2018 on the grounds that its $3 billion price tag and the need for a new $1.6 billion transmission line put too much financial risk on Swepco ratepayers.
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How traceability can tackle cattle-driven deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
Business Green
AUGUST 23, 2021
Unfortunately, the agreement did not cover the indirect supply of calves into fattening and rearing ranches, where there are far more farms and the risk of illegal deforestation is much higher.
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'Faster than expected': EV sales predicted to overtake fossil fuel cars within three years across Europe
Business Green
JANUARY 11, 2022
As such, it said that once EVs achieve price-tag parity with petrol and diesel vehicles, drivers would rapidly switch towards electric mobility, leaving the electric car market poised for exponential growth in the coming years.
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How Dominion Energy Plans to Launch an Offshore Wind Empire
GreenTechMedia
MAY 20, 2020
With two turbines, the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind pilot is tiny; and with a price tag of $300 million, it’s very expensive for a generation facility of its size. Four years after the Block Island project first put wind turbines in American waters, the second U.S. A tiny project in a market obsessed with scale. offshore wind market.
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A tale of two gigafactories…
Terra Infirma
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
As the name suggests, an EV battery gigafactory is truly colossal with a price tag to match – we’re talking billions rather than millions. ” Would an investor or investors risk hundreds of millions or billions on that prospectus? Give us money, lots of it.”
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Commercial trucking's future is in the details
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 8, 2020
They are taking risks now, and always have, to get you products you need to survive. It’s a great advertising tag line, but there are no free rides; someone always pays somewhere. Over 70 percent of all freight moved in the United States is on trucks. If the trucks don’t move, you do not get food, toilet paper or masks. Free delivery."
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REDEEMing pumping stations for eels
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 17, 2020
Of the acoustic tagged eels, 80.8% Understanding this temporal pattern in fish movements is helping to determine operating regimes at pumping stations and artificial habitat improvements in the upstream river to reduce the risk of coarse fish entrainment. These are known to occur at night during the new and dark moon phases.
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How Pre-Approving Homeowners Through Mosaic Can Transform Your Sales Process
Mosaic
FEBRUARY 4, 2020
The pre-approval feature available through the Mosaic platform lets you flip this process on its head and lead with financing in a much less stressful way, with no risk and major benefits for both you and your customer. If you’re comfortable, I just need you to respond YES to a text message to look at those options.”
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Sensing evolution
Envirotec Magazine
SEPTEMBER 5, 2022
Whilst there are key similarities between the two sectors, Gas Safety devices are typically concerned with immediate exposure, 15-minute exposure (STEL) and 8-hour exposure (TWA) where air quality monitoring instruments are focused on the risks associated with long-term exposure, not only hours but months and years. Particulates and health.
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Chicago Takes Big Oil to Court, Adding Another Heavyweight to the Fight
DeSmogBlog
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Those groups are still most at risk from extreme heat and air pollution in Chicago, which can coincide to produce “profound public health consequences,” said Horton, like they did when wildfire smoke from Canada gave the city the worst air quality in the world in June.
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The UK's net zero target is under threat because there's no plan to pay for it
Business Green
MAY 26, 2022
The UK government's plan for achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 is at a serious risk of sinking before it's been fully launched. With the Treasury having rejected a request by MPs to come up with a " clear funding plan ", there's now every chance that an already bad plan will turn into no plan at all.
Green Dividend Stocks: The Comfort Food of Investing in a Sustainable Future
Hydrogen Fuel News
MARCH 5, 2024
But let’s chit-chat about something that often tags along with investing: dividends. And in the spirit of keeping it real, let’s not forget — investing always comes with risks. Let’s talk risk—it’s like the roller coaster of investing. Let’s dig in. Diversify your investments.
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