DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 21, 2020

During those trips, Earthworks found and documented emissions from the oil industry's equipment, and on 141 separate occasions, they reported what they found to the state’s environmental regulators. Tags: TExas Commission on Environmental Quality flaring Earthworks Sharon Wilson

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The night of the fire, ExxonMobil representatives claimed that air monitoring inside the plant and in surrounding neighborhoods did not detect the release of harmful concentrations of chemicals, a claim echoed by first responders and state regulators. Tags: cancer alley ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) Lt.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The ongoing US - UK trade talks have been seen by some lobby groups as an opportunity to strip back environmental and food safety regulations to allow them to sell products – pesticides, hormone-fed meat, genetically modified crops ( GMO s), and chemicals – that have been previously banned under EU law.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

It placed the price tag at up to 10.5 However, it warned, “The existing disclosure regime has not resulted in disclosures of a scope, breadth and quality to be sufficiently useful to market participants and regulators.”. Regulators should require listed companies to disclose Scope 1 and 2 emissions. percent of GDP by 2100.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 31, 2020

Tags: fossil fuel industry ExxonMobil Fraud climate risks National Whistleblower Center

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 28, 2020

American Electric Power has secured enough state regulator approvals to move ahead with a 1,485-megawatt wind power project in Oklahoma — even if Texas regulators end up denying its plans. of Oklahoma and 810 megawatts more to its Southwestern Electric Power Co. Swepco) utility.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 7, 2020

On the evening of January 6, Louisiana state regulators issued 15 key permits to the Taiwanese petrochemical corporation Formosa for its $9.4 Tags: cancer alley Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) Formosa plastics petrochemical development James Parish.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 19, 2019

Tags: kochdocs kochvsclean Charles Koch Richard Fink institute for energy research koch industries americans for prosperity (AFP)

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 24, 2020

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2019

Tags: kochvsclean David Koch Kochland Charles Koch Jane Mayer Christopher Leonard Kochtopus

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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. .

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 7, 2019

The Koch Network Database will chronicle the historical and present deeds and quotes associated with the people and organizations that have helped to advance the Kochs' free market approach to environmental regulations, and the subsequent consequences of such approaches for climate change, public health, and democracy.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

billion price tag originally put on the MATS rule lived on, even after it was clear that that number was way off. When EPA promulgates new rules that appear to carry big price tags, smart people get to work and figure out more cost-effective ways to comply. Unfortunately, the $9.6 People forget that markets work.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

If North Dakota’s regulators, some of the most industry-friendly in the country , are sounding the alarm, then that doesn’t bode well for the rest of the nation. Tags: abandoned oil wells orphan wells Western Organization of Resource Councils North Dakota pennsylvania

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 24, 2020

The work of governance, regulation, and oversight are instead shifted to a relatively unknown cadre of boards. Boards whose leadership is a revolving door of the industries the government is supposed to regulate. Sitton, who recently lost reelection , regulates the very activities he personally profits from.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 17, 2019

It’s part of a string of accidents that a retired state regulator says indicates the vehicles may be violating a federal exemption allowing the trucks to operate, but which federal regulators have disputed. Tags: virtual pipelines Compressed Natural Gas PHMSA Massachusetts

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 25, 2019

That's according to a new petition to federal regulators from the attorneys general of North Dakota and Montana, in response to a Washington state law that aims to prevent trains hauling oil through the state from derailing and exploding.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Its leadership is facing calls to simultaneously increase its ambition to tackle climate change and cut the very regulations that would deliver reductions in globe-warming pollution. Tags: Boris Johnson Covering Climate Now 2019 brexit climate deniers Brexit Party Vox European Parliament

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The Environmental Blog

JANUARY 21, 2022

Instead, it is often blended with diesel and tagged based on the amount of diesel it’s mixed with. On the other hand, petroleum diesel contains sulfur and carcinogenic benzene—two components the state emission boards and EPA regulate. billion gallons in 2013. Biodiesel is rarely used in its pure form. Biodiesel is currently the U.S.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 11, 2024

Its appearance follows a drive by the regulator Ofwat to create an open data and data sharing culture, initially voluntary but in time to become compulsory via a licence condition, to capture the benefits it can offer. Most innovations involve data in some shape or form, so having this sector approach should help to enable future innovations.”

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2020

Tags: coronavirus COVID-19 oil and gas pipelines Dakota Access Pipeline energy transfer TigerSwan Mariner East Keystone XL

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 8, 2020

This was “due only in part to safety regulations,” noted the authors. 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.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Underpinning the effort to comply with marine emissions regulations is the monitoring of these exhaust gases, and instrumentation seems an indispensable support for marine operators under pressure to make good decisions with respect to things like fuel selection and the specification of scrubber systems. Factoring in fuel choice.

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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. Prudent regulators are attempting to be technology-neutral while incentivizing significant improvement in market adoption, performance, affordability, emissions and durability. Free delivery." The future is not known yet.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

The European eel (anguilla anguilla) is critically endangered and the European Union has a regulation to assist its recovery (The EC Eel Regulation (1100/2007)). As a result the UK has specific legislation, the Eels (England and Wales) Regulations 2009, which includes screening intakes and providing passage for eels.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Duke’s 2020 integrated resource plan (IRP), filed Tuesday with state regulators, lays out six scenarios for reaching its challenging goals of halving its emissions by 2030 and hitting net-zero carbon by 2050. ” Looking at the price tags. But that's about where the similarities stop.

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2021

Poll of consumer energy users commissioned by the regulator points to growing interest in EVs, but less awareness of climate impacts of home heating. Climate change can only be tackled if consumers are engaged in the process," he said. For this to happen the transition to a low carbon economy needs to be fair, inclusive, and affordable.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 8, 2023

The paper precedes the forthcoming Clean Electricity Regulations that will provide the regulatory support. The Clean Electricity Regulations help ensure that Canada’s regionally divided power system remains both clean and affordable in the years ahead. Already, provinces with the cleanest grids typically pay the least for electricity.

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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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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 18, 2019

2019 has seen a steady evolution of policy, regulation and business model innovation at the grid edge. The largest incumbent regulated utility demand response programs have been in place for over a decade. Reflecting on the third quarter, Wood Mackenzie's grid edge team highlighted key trends and developments in the U.S.

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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.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 28, 2022

During manufacture, Ford batteries and their inner modules are tagged with 2-D data matrix codes, which are then scanned with a cell phone by each organisation as the battery changes hands.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In the shorter term, meanwhile, Wood Mackenzie predicts EV sales in China, Europe and the US will hit seven million a year by 2025, before doubling to 15 million a year by 2030 as price tags drop due to economies of scale, cheaper battery technology, and impending bans on fossil fuel vehicle sales.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Connecticut regulators said Vineyard won with a price “lower than any other publicly announced offshore wind project in North America.” The industry is anxiously awaiting the auction of more such zones in 2020 off the coasts of New York and California. Big win for Bridgeport.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 19, 2022

And this is a bit of the fallacy that tags along when we talk about the ubiquitous smart grid. Utilities usually have switches and regulators for different assets. Then one can look at a capacitor bank for circuit voltage regulators on that same circuit and see a full telemetry. The grid is only smart in places.

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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

JUNE 11, 2021

Each aircraft comes with a price tag of around $4m, it said. As such, should it achieve certification from air travel safety standards regulators in the US and Europe, Vertical Aerospace believes it could unlock a potential total market for electric air taxis of between $1tr-4.4tr by 2040.

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