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Oil Companies Can’t Find Any Buyers For Refineries Struggling Amid Pandemic Crisis

DeSmogBlog

Unable to find any buyers, several refineries are becoming stranded assets as they are permanently shut down. Tags: Refining refinery utilization rates COVID-19 shell Marathon Petroleum Phillips 66 Read time: 9 mins Major players in the U.S.

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Defying Climate Goals, New York Approves Rate Hike to Pay for New Natural Gas Infrastructure

DeSmogBlog

To meet those goals, any new gas infrastructure constructed now and in the future would have to be retired well before the end of its useful life, becoming stranded assets. Tags: new york stranded assets Con Ed natural gas methane

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Exxon and Other US Oil Companies Lag in Responding to ‘Existential Threat’ of Energy Transition, Report Warns

DeSmogBlog

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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How the climate crisis will crash the economy

GreenBiz

It’s natural to follow the people impacted by all this: the local residents, usually in poorer neighborhoods, whose homes and livelihoods are being lost; the farmers and ranchers whose crops and livestock are withering and dying; the stranded travelers and the evacuees seeking shelter amid the chaos. It placed the price tag at up to 10.5

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Reports: Government mulls gas boiler phase out delay amid cost concerns

Business Green

Moreover, figures argued the price tag on low carbon heating systems would only start to fall once installations gather momentum across the country, and that a more stretching timeline for decarbonisation could spur much-needed innovation in the sector. "One investment in low carbon boiler manufacturer Tepeo.

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How the climate crisis will crash the economy

AGreenLiving

It’s natural to follow the people impacted by all this: the local residents, usually in poorer neighborhoods, whose homes and livelihoods are being lost; the farmers and ranchers whose crops and livestock are withering and dying; the stranded travelers and the evacuees seeking shelter amid the chaos. It placed the price tag at up to 10.5

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How the climate crisis will crash the economy

AGreenLiving

It’s natural to follow the people impacted by all this: the local residents, usually in poorer neighborhoods, whose homes and livelihoods are being lost; the farmers and ranchers whose crops and livestock are withering and dying; the stranded travelers and the evacuees seeking shelter amid the chaos. It placed the price tag at up to 10.5