Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Clean transport advocates point out £30bn price tag for railway electrification is in the same ball park as budget for road building. Currently, just 42 percent of the UK rail network is electrified, according to official data. Solar rail social enterprise Riding Sunbeams also branded the move "absolutely disastrous". "A

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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

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Several recent developments in the rail arena are setting up the tar sands industry to realize those plans in a major way. Tags: oil by rail Bomb Trains Canadian tar sands oil Alaska to Alberta Mike Dunleavy

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 28, 2019

The city of Phoenix dealt a decisive blow to a Koch Brothers-backed measure on Tuesday when voters rejected a proposition that would have banned any expansion of the city's light rail system. Tags: Phoenix David Koch Koch brothers americans for prosperity (AFP) public transportation

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2019

Read time: 7 mins Six years after the oil train derailment and explosion in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec — which claimed 47 lives and destroyed the downtown of this small lakeside town — The New York Times reviewed what progress has been made since the disaster , with a headline that noted “Deadly Cargo Still Rides the Rails.”.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 25, 2019

Tags: bakken bomb trains Bakken crude North Dakota Attorney General's Office Montana and North Dakota

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Climate 4.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

billion, high-speed rail line in Egypt to service a new capital city, financed with investment from China, is the latest indicator of a recent trend in developing nations of governments throwing their hands in the air and starting from scratch to create viable, workable administrative centers. A newly announced plan to build a $4.5

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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. The development of jet commercial aviation in the 1960s largely eliminated the passenger rail system in the U.S. That has to come from somewhere on a reliable and consistent basis or you do not get fed. Free delivery."

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 12, 2021

Read time: 12 mins The Biden administration’s cancelation of the Keystone XL ( KXL ) pipeline in January appears to be driving a revolutionary improvement in Canadian oil-by-rail safety that could protect the public from what have become known as “ bomb trains. ”.

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Charged

APRIL 20, 2022

The trips included driving, rail, transit and air travel. “A Furthermore, considering the still-high cost of batteries, automakers may want to consider offering models with less range and lower price tags. Some 28% of trips were for less than one mile, and just 2% were for greater than 50 miles.

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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. The development of jet commercial aviation in the 1960s largely eliminated the passenger rail system in the U.S. That has to come from somewhere on a reliable and consistent basis or you do not get fed. “Free delivery.”

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2020

For one, Nick Charter, professor of behavioural science at Warwick Business School, suggests the government introduced a 'carbon pound' tagged to all goods and services that would alert consumers to the environmental impact of their purchases and activities.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 24, 2020

The red lacquer and gold leaf structure was built in Thailand , shipped by sea, rail and truck to Madison, then reassembled by Thai artisans without using screws or nails. You can even wear a silence tag if you want to take a silent retreat, and people won’t talk to you. Images via Teresa Bergen / Inhabitat.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 7, 2020

Read time: 10 mins As 2019 drew to a close and the new year ramps up, a number of signs point to the growing risks of transporting oil and gas by rail, with little government oversight to speak of: from increasing oil train traffic into the U.S. to fiery oil train derailments and new approvals for moving liquefied natural gas ( LNG ) by rail.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 19, 2020

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration ( PHMSA ), challenging a recently finalized Trump administration rule to allow the transportation of liquefied natural gas ( LNG ) by rail. . “ Tags: LNG By Rail Bomb Trains Liquefied Natural Gas Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration Trump Administration

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Read time: 9 mins On September 28, President Donald Trump signed a presidential permit to ship Alberta’s tar sands oil via a proposed 1,600-mile private rail line across the U.S.-Canada Referred to as A2A Rail, the project is specifically touted by its proponents as a way to expedite exports to Asian markets.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2019

In response to Trump's April executive order pushing federal agencies to make that happen, the Department of Transportation ( DOT ) on October 18 announced a proposed rule for what it calls the “safe transportation of liquefied natural gas [ LNG ] by rail tank car.”. Instead, the rule, coming from the U.S.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

And we're accelerating new road, rail and energy projects by removing restrictions that have slowed down progress for too long. "We Boosting the ECO scheme could well end up being cost neutral on Treasury with insulation cutting gas demand and so the overall price tag of the bailout.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 8, 2023

National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) chair Jennifer Homendy concluded that the East Palestine, Ohio, rail disaster was “100% preventable.” The NTSB has no enforcement capability, so its recommendations are often ignored by the rail industry. The rail industry has frequently argued that ECP brakes don’t work and are too costly.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The total price tag for the package comes to over $1.2 After much inter- and intra-party wrangling, the US House passed an infrastructure package that authorizes $550 billion of new investment over several years, including $7.5 billion for EV charging infrastructure and several other EV- and clean energy-related items. In addition to the 7.5

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 17, 2020

The price tag for your climate plan is about $1.7 And that’s why we should be talking about things like I’ve been talking about for years, high speed rail, taking millions of automobiles off the road. Jake Tapper: (16:17) … they told you at the Pentagon. That’s about $14 trillion less than Senator Sanders wants to spend on this.

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