DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Scientists say warmer ocean waters due to human-caused climate change is making hurricanes like Laura stronger and causing them to intensify more rapidly ; Hurricane Laura spun up to a Category 4 storm in just 24 hours. Tags: Louisiana Department of Natural Resources Hurricane Laura oil spills National Response Center

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 21, 2020

“There is a lot of membership in the oil and gas industry up there,” says Matt Marshall, a Three Percenter running for state legislature in Washington. The Three Percenters are so named for the dubious historical claim that only three percent of American colonists took up arms in the Revolutionary War.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2023

BusinessGreen rounds up the most widely read stories on the site this week OVO to offer heat pumps at lower cost than gas boilers Energy supplier touts new offer promising heat pumps at cheaper price tag and running costs than conventional gas boilers. -

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 6, 2020

Read time: 10 mins Penny Aucoin and her husband Carl Dee George have worried about living near oil and gas producing sites in New Mexico's Permian Basin since the sites began springing up near their home six years ago. Tags: COVID-19 New Mexico Permian Basin fracking industry fracking health impacts coronavirus

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 23, 2023

“Without these rescue and rehabilitation programmes, local seal populations would almost certainly decrease, so it is vital that we continue to look after the seals in need that turn up on our coastlines. An example of the work carried out by the teams in Scarborough and Hunstanton is the rescue of Lady (pictured, above), in April 2019.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2021

The programme, funded by the Scottish government funded advisory group Zero Waste Scotland and delivered in partnership with North Lanarkshire Council, involves the use of RFID tags. This project involves collecting data relating to the weight and make-up of collected waste and will have no impact on bin collection services.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Have GM and Ford given up on EVs , as many would have us believe? The more imminent threat is coming from China, where automakers have gone beyond the talking stage, and are producing and exporting EVs with eye-catching price tags. Well, not this week.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2019

public, both at the state and federal levels, to be left on the hook for paying to properly shut down and clean up even more drilling sites. Tags: oil and gas cleanup well bonding EP Energy Eagle Ford Shale fracking finances bankruptcies Independent Petroleum Association of America

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Energy Energy 126

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Even the largest companies in the industry appear to have few plans to properly clean up and plug oil and gas wells after the wells stop producing — despite being legally required to do so. Tags: fracking Bankruptcy carbon tracker Lynn Helms Halcón Resources Read time: 11 mins Amid a record wave of bankruptcies , the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 28, 2020

crude oil export ban Congress lifted in 2015 would slash global carbon emissions by up to 181 million tons of CO2 -equivalent each year — a reduction comparable to shuttering dozens of coal-fired power plants. Tags: oil change international greenpeace crude oil export ban Crude Oil Exports

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

The report, which calls out the fossil fuel industry’s misleading narratives around natural gas, comes at a time when progressive members of Congress like Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are introducing a bill to ban fracking and when the industry is ramping up its public relations push around gas.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Read time: 8 mins A large fire at ExxonMobil's Baton Rouge oil refinery late on February 11 lit up the sky for miles and continued until dawn. Tags: cancer alley ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) Lt. What unfolded, however, reinforced a growing community movement to require real-time independent air pollution monitoring at industrial facilities.

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Pollution 103

DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2020

Read time: 7 mins America’s largest bank is shunning calls from shareholders to disclose its full emissions, despite warnings from its own economists that “catastrophic” climate change could end up threatening human life “as we know it.”. JPM organ Chase, which a coalition of U.S. JPM organ Chase, which a coalition of U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 17, 2020

“All over the country, pipeline companies have destroyed people's land, often without even attempting to get permission, and dared the landowners to speak up. Tags: Bayou Bridge pipeline Louisiana landowners eminent domain Atchafalaya Basin energy transfer Well, we did. I hope this victory will encourage many others to as well.”.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The Secret Service apparently didn’t get the electric memo—its agents tagged along in the obligatory huge black gas-guzzling SUVs.) The private sector has stepped up” to build out public charging sites, Granholm told NPR, adding that the response to federal incentives has been “a blockbuster.” Source: NPR

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Energy Energy Automotive Electric vehicle 110

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2021

The facility is highly controversial and would have an enormous greenhouse gas impact, but NWIW has lined up powerful figures in the State of Washington to help make the company’s case. Tags: Kalama washington state Jay Inslee petrochemical development

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2024

This limits the power generation and hence charging rates of these canopies to low AC levels, which, while may be suitable for top-up charge in consistent sunlight, are unlikely to be competitive in the increasingly high-powered fast charging market.

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Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Electric vehicle 147

Mearth

JANUARY 20, 2021

Signing up for Mearth’s newsletter on the blog homepage. Tagged 3 friends in your shared post. Signed up for Mearth’s newsletter on the blog home page . Pop Quiz Mechanics: To join Mearth’s Pop Quiz, simply answer the questions correctly posted on Mearth’s Facebook Stories. Following Mearth’s official Instagram account.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2020

org released a new guide Thursday to assess how likely President-elect Joe Biden's possible picks for top roles will be “to stand up to the fossil fuel industry to take on the climate crisis.”. Tags: joe biden Ernest Moniz 350.org Advocacy group 350.org org Deb Haaland Mustafa Ali Heidi Heitkamp

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Fossil fuels 68

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 3, 2020

Elizabeth Yeampierre, executive director of UPROSE , Brooklyn's oldest Latino community-based organization, said she considers showing up to fight police brutality and racial violence integral to her climate change activism. . Tags: climate justice environmental justice Covering Climate Now structural racism racism

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 17, 2020

He has advocated for the federal government to tap the military to set up COVID -19 testing and contact tracing nationwide since the pandemic began spreading rapidly across the United States. . Russel Honoré Louisiana John Bel Edwards cancer alley COVID-19

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Government 100

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Held across England and Wales, the world-first initiative enabled monetary rewards and charity donations to be claimed through the Bower app, in which customers simply set up their account and add their regular recycling bins and bank account. Up to £4,000 worth of rewards were obtained during the nine week long trial.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Climate and clean energy advocates in the community have become fed up with the city-owned utility, which is not only stalling in efforts to phase out its fossil fuel portfolio, but is actively funding two gas industry trade associations to the tune of a quarter of a million dollars each year.

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Fossil fuels Natural gas Energy Energy 91

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 19, 2019

More than two decades later, that blueprint is still being followed in a broad-scale effort to serve the Kochs’ free-market libertarian ideology, to prop up the oil and gas industries that pad their fortunes, and to forestall any political action on climate change that they believe would threaten their bottom line.

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Politics Climate change Government Energy 111

Envirotec Magazine

JULY 23, 2021

Supplied by John McCluskey, Key Account Manager at Thomas Hardie Commercials, the 6x4s are powered by Volvo’s D11K engine generating 380 hp and up to 1,800 Nm of torque, while the 8×4 tridems benefit from Volvo’s larger D13K engine producing 420 hp and 2,100 Nm of torque. It was an easy decision in the end.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 14, 2023

Under the banner “Get Tooled Up”, Fletcher Moorland is giving away five sets of quality tools to young apprentices and aspiring engineers every month. Anyone who wants to nominate a young person to be entered can also do so by tagging or, if they aren’t on LinkedIn, nominating them on the post featuring the hashtag.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 4, 2020

First, the European Court of Justice advocate general, Juliane Kokott , ruled that An Bord Pleanála, Ireland’s planning appeals body, erred in not requesting an up-to-date environmental impact study for the proposed Shannon LNG terminal before extending planning permission for a planned project.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 20, 2020

million barrels of oil daily in 2019, up from fewer than 350,000 barrels per day just a decade earlier. Tags: environmental racism flaring Eagle Ford Shale public health The Eagle Ford is widely considered the most profitable U.S. shale play , producing more than 1.2

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

However, evidence is piling up that the U.S. Tags: Peak Permian fracking finances Permian Basin Shale fracking Bloomberg reporter Simon Casey goes on to qualify that “[p]redicting peak Permian output for 2020 isn’t a mainstream view.”

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The impacts from the BP oil spill are still taking a toll on the environment, and a number of people exposed to the oil and the dispersant used to break up the oil continue to fight the company for compensation due to their health claims. Tags: BP oil disaster Isle de Jean Charles Louisiana cancer alley

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2021

That same day, the oil well it was drilling more than a mile below the water’s surface experienced a kick — an eruption of oil, gas, or other fluids from deep underground up the drill pipe. Tags: deepwater horizon Hurricane Zeta transocean If not properly controlled, this type of incident can sometimes lead to a blowout.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Read time: 6 mins While Canadians turned out en masse for large climate protests last week, the country's oil and gas industry continued its plans to ramp up and export its massive and polluting reserves of tar sands oil, also known as bitumen, to the rest of the world. .

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Pollution 71

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 23, 2020

However, some of the companies facing those lawsuits appear to be gearing up for a larger battle , looking to the Supreme Court to weigh in and using their network of promoters to continue attacking these lawsuits outside the courtroom. Tags: climate liability U.S.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 4, 2021

Now, investors are beginning to wake up to the threat of habitat destruction and biodiversity loss and we’re beginning to see examples of action by means of both carrots — such as sustainability-linked loans tied to biodiversity-related metrics — and sticks such as the one which Nordea whacked JBS with. . Pull Quote. Finance & Investing.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 20, 2020

For a long time, the story went that the tobacco industry cooked up disinformation and then spread it to the fossil fuel guys, the chemical industry, pharma, you name it. Tags: disinformation COVID-19 pr tobacco American Petroleum Institute Edelman Public Relations astroturfing

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Fossil fuels 69

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 17, 2019

They need grown-ups to take them seriously and heed the scientific evidence about global warming. Tags: Greta Thunberg School Strikes climate strikes nobel peace prize Ethiopia Instead, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali was deservedly awarded for ending more than 20 years of conflict with neighboring Eritrea.

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Global warming 76

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 30, 2020

That argument hasn’t gained traction in court, but this hasn’t stopped operatives tied to fossil fuel funding from trying to take up that charge. Tags: ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) chris horner Energy Policy Advocates climate liability

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