Business Green

JANUARY 15, 2023

However, a big opportunity exists among many regulated countries, many of which still rely heavily on fossil fuels, to have cleaner grids. We find that the net-metering laws are widely varied across the globe and even within a single country. Most of Europe and roughly half of the United States is deregulated. Absolutely.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

A growing group of environmentalists, politicians, communities, and even the industry’s own workers have become increasingly critical of the fossil fuel industry, and see room for action under the Biden administration, though most attention has been placed on hot-button topics like climate change and methane emissions.

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Waste Waste Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 98

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. The company has since whipsawed between its wholesale-energy legacy of fossil fuels and greener horizons. As electric vehicles drive toward the mainstream, General Motors has come full circle as well.

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Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 28

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

Previous reports indicate that Tufton Street groups have received substantial funds from organisations that support climate science denial in the past decade, with some donations provided directly by fossil fuel firms. Every single one of its members was given the lowest transparency rating – E – by openDemocracy’s ‘ Who Funds You?

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Fossil fuels Government Policy Politics 98

DeSmogBlog

JULY 1, 2021

The FERC decision was split, with two of the five commissioners dissenting, writing that the Commission had failed to adequately examine the climate-changing pollution linked to the fossil fuel pipeline. ” The judicial branch of government has also just upended how FERC has traditionally approached fossil fuel pipelines.

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Construction Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 98

GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Over the past year, many professional services organizations that previously had little to say publicly about their climate change strategy — from law firms to management consultants to ad agencies — found themselves under closer scrutiny not just for their own footprint but for supporting some of the biggest climate deniers around.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Fighting Public Utilities, Child Labor Laws One of the first campaigns in that spirit occurred within the electricity utility industry via an organization which eventually became known as the Edison Electric Institute. The NELA campaign’s legacy, however, goes far beyond its sector alone, according to Oreskes and Conway.

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Electricity Climate change Fossil fuels Politics 98

GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 4, 2019

fossil fuel industry was seen by some as a poor choice to lead an agency tasked with maintaining the U.S. energy policy on behalf of the fossil fuel industry was a failure, however. But compared to predecessors such as physicists Steven Chu and Ernest Moniz, the Texas Republican with ties to the U.S. Billy Tauzin (R-LA).

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Energy Energy Fossil fuels Politics 100

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 18, 2021

The Baton Rouge Advocate reported that Landry advised his employees in an email that they could use state laws to claim either a religious or philosophical objection to the mask mandate for students — and to a vaccine if one is required.

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Organic Education Politics Climate change 98