DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Over the years of us doing this, as analysts, we’ve learned that you really have to do it well by well,” Shattuck explained of analyzing well performance. Tags: fracking frack finances child wells Permian Basin Aubrey McClendon Wood Mackenzie Chesapeake Energy (NYSE:CHK) David Hughes You cannot take anything for granted.”.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 14, 2020

In a research report last month titled “The Second Wave of Clean Energy,” analysts at Morgan Stanley explained how “the surprisingly low cost of renewables” will drive utilities to close most of the remaining U.S. coal plants over the next decade.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

In an email obtained through a public records request, a Peabody executive explained that it’s “hard these days for utilities to take the praise publicly.”. Tags: clean coal Peabody Energy electric utilities Kemper In the latest sign of the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 14, 2019

A new Cornell University study published today in the scientific journal Biogeosciences helps to explain what sparked the surge in those methane concentrations, both here in the U.S. Tags: Robert Howarth methane fracking venting flaring Permian Basin Bakken Shale and around the world. One big culprit: shale drilling and fracking.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 23, 2023

Elena Rotzokou of environmental data specialist Ecoveritas attempts to explain the initiative. For example, digital links accessible through a unique product identifier will need to be added to the products themselves rather than outer packaging or tags. What are Digital Product Passports and should we care?

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 16, 2019

Walking into the company's office building involved passing through security checkpoints, Leonard explains, so numerous that one investigator later told Leonard that it “reminded him of traveling to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.”. Tags: koch industries Charles Koch David Koch Jane Mayer Christopher Leonard

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As E&E explains in an (unpaywalled) story , the New York case revolves around the company’s use of two sets of “proxy costs” to gauge how much of a hit the company would take from climate policies. Tags: #ExxonKnew ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) Maura Healey New York Attorney General geoffrey supran naomi oreskes

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 22, 2021

Listening stations from Malin Head – Ireland’s most northerly point – to the island of Islay in Scotland will record transmissions from a variety of mobile marine species tagged by the project’s scientists. Well done to all involved for advancing our understanding of our seas,” she added.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The key price point for battery packs to become cheap enough for manufacturers to produce mass market EVs for around the same price tag as typical petrol and diesel vehicles is thought to be around $100/kWh, and BNEF yesterday estimated prices could hit that tipping point as soon as 2024.

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Charged

MARCH 17, 2020

Proponents of the tax increases invariably argue that they’re needed to make up for a growing shortfall in gas tax revenues (in an earlier article , we explained why such arguments are disingenuous). The annual fee is now $213 for private vehicles, and $319 for commercial vehicles, plus a special tag fee of $35.).

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Economic factors have driven the use of this low quality fuel, with there being a noticeable price tag attached to the use of the new emerging breed of low sulphur diesel and other marine fuels. Daw explains that some of the advantages of Protea’s offering is in minimising the need to maintain pumps. Factoring in fuel choice.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Labor productivity in recent plants, for example, is up to 13 times lower than industry expectations, which goes a long way to explaining why the price tag for the Vogtle project in Georgia has more than doubled, rising to around $25 billion. Vogtle also offers an insight into why productivity is so low.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

In terms of industrial impacts on the environment, one of the biggest culprits is the packaging material and accessories that tag along with products. Before we get into explaining the best sustainable packaging options, we need to know what is sustainable packaging? There is a constant search for the best packaging options.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

More than 20,000 units of the fully electric Porsche Taycan were shipped last year, the newspaper reported - with a starting price tag of €80,000.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

The firm has developed the new 'Eco-Towers' to be entirely self-reliant on their own renewable energy systems, enabling them to bring mobile communications to the UK's most remote locations without facing the challenges and costs of connecting to the electricity grid, it explained.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Chicago is an “incredibly segregated city,” explained Horton, where Black and Hispanic communities are far more likely to live in places that are hotter, have poorer air quality, and are most flood-prone.

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 31, 2022

Further, CATL presently has eight factories under construction at a price tag of over $14 billion, underscoring the investments China is making toward securing continued market control. In addition to explaining how his technology works, Mr. Egan provided a number of insights on the industry. Mr. Egan said the difference in the U.S.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

That would for the first time put the price tag for a Tesla electric car at a similar level to conventional fossil fuel cars in the US, said Musk, opening up the mass market for electrified cars, while the new batteries could also offer a 16 per cent increase in driving range compared current models.

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Business Green

JULY 5, 2020

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. Bearing the brunt of this current pandemic will be an immediate focus for many companies.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 25, 2022

"Heat pumps are an essential part of the UK's route to a net zero economy but they should also be considered a tool to keep costs to taxpayers down while gas prices are so high," explained Andrew Sissons, deputy director of sustainable future at Nesta.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

When ice melts from glaciers or from Greenland, that water doesn’t get evenly distributed around the world like peanut butter on a piece of bread,” Strauss explained. 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.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Follow @EngelsAngle. As progress continues on Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind , the largest offshore wind project in development in the U.S., the estimated cost of the project has increased to $10 billion.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 8, 2021

The company also relies on low-impact packaging like shoeboxes and brochures made from recycled paper as well as wooden hang tags made out of wood from certified sustainable forests. Most of the sneakers are handmade and fairly produced via a small family manufacturer in Italy.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2024

We found that fish activity, swimming ability, and time of day all play a role in fish passage, often more so than spill levels alone,” explained PNNL Earth scientist Ryan Harnish. To take a closer look at how spill level affects fish passage, researchers needed detailed tracking information showing when and how fish passed through a dam.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Thursday, the commerce technology company Shopify released " Buying Carbon Removal, Explained." Here is a brief download on three resources released in the last quarter. Shopify's carbon removal buying guide.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

It explained that these include impacts on Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPs & LCs), biodiversity, pollution, human rights, labour rights, and gender equality. It explained that this will set out its criteria for assessing categories of different carbon projects, such as cookstoves or forestry projects, for different programs.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 12, 2019

To make the pieces more collectible, the garment tags include information about the festival name, material features and the design story behind the brand. So what’s next for P+365? In the future, Lei hopes to collaborate with specific festivals that have high numbers of abandoned tents in order to sell directly to festival-goers.

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Defend Our Future

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Keep tagging us in your photos on Instagram or Twitter–we want to see them, and we’ll include the best in an upcoming photo gallery on our website! Send your member of Congress an email explaining that you took part in the strike because we need climate change solutions now, and you expect them to lead the way. Don’t stop there!

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Business Green

APRIL 12, 2022

The company teased plans introduce a low-cost mini-EV for business from 2024 in Japan, with a price tag of roughly 1m yen ($8,000), a launch which it said would be followed by a string of mini-EVs and EV sports utility vehicles (SUVs) for personal use.

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Planet Pulse

JANUARY 11, 2024

All of yesterday’s growth and fun came with a steep price tag. But if you have a better guess as to what might explain the variation, reach out ! Without fossil fuels there’d be no Moon landing and aerospace industry, no computers, no global trade, and no drives to the beach to watch a sunset.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

We explain why it’s intentionally used but how this is risky business. The commercial explained that by changing a cow’s diet, Burger King was able to reduce their methane emissions by 33%. The environmental claim is implied by the tag line, but the solution it provides is to yesterday’s problem of oil shortage.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2019

When guests consume less energy, attend ecological activities and make sustainable dietary choices during their visit, the price tag of their stay can be discounted by up to 50 percent. A Finnish hotel is changing the tourism industry by showing that sustainability can really pay off.

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Business Green

JUNE 6, 2022

But how will this drive change the look, feel, and price tag of items on sale on high streets and fashion sites? For example, ASOS's head of design Nick Eley explained how the company's sustainability mission depended on a major effort to rethink how footwear is designed and manufactured.

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Business Green

MARCH 13, 2023

As such, farmers are starting to address sustainability issues "almost as a tag-along", according to Dierenfeld. Actions taken by one segment or sector influence the rest of the system," the report explained. The report also warned there were significant obstacles to the adoption of more sustainable practices.

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Business Green

MARCH 13, 2023

As such, farmers are starting to address sustainability issues "almost as a tag-along", according to Dierenfield. Actions taken by one segment or sector influence the rest of the system," the report explained. The report also warned there were significant obstacles to the adoption of more sustainable practices.

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Business Green

APRIL 25, 2022

Meanwhile, modern historians routinely point to adverts, be they for cigarettes or cars or household appliances, to help explain both the economic trends and social assumptions that define a period. All of which goes a long way to explaining why advertising is emerging as a major front in the push to accelerate the net zero transition.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 1, 2020

“For clients who are not energy experts, my job is about making them feel comfortable enough to enter these wonky proceedings and explain things in layman’s terms,” she said. Typical programs have a price tag of several hundred thousand dollars. Chinyere finds that people skills are key in her position.

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