DeSmogBlog
AUGUST 5, 2021
Under the Emissions Trading System (ETS) all major polluters must submit an annual report declaring how much carbon dioxide they emitted that year. The system was designed to provide an economic incentive for polluters to use greener forms of energy, but it has faced accusations of fraud that have cost taxpayers billions. and Cyprus.
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 7, 2021
Bespectacled, tall, and barrel-chested, with blonde hair and a beard punctuated by gray, Cole stood confidently before a classroom of conference attendees at a University of Oregon environmental law symposium in 2008, less than a year before his death. Abascal gave Cole a desk and a phone, and Cole got to work. Early Influences.
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Green Technology
OCTOBER 13, 2022
Some had no idea how pollution from human activities affected ecosystems. Everything in the news about global warming, pollution, and sea level rise, that’s one side of the story. How about producing energy without pollution? Were there particular “big ideas” or concepts that you found could hit home time and time again?
Grist
JANUARY 12, 2023
Researchers at Harvard University and the University of Potsdam in Germany found that Exxon’s estimates from 1977 to 2003 proved to be just as precise as those from independent academics and government scientists. The chart below shows how global warming projections modeled by Exxon scientists compared to the actual temperature that ensued.
GreenTechMedia
MARCH 1, 2021
” The financial impact is also likely to put a crimp in public utilities’ investment plans, including efforts to replace polluting fossil fuel power plants with renewable energy. Gray Davis losing a recall election to Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2003. Larger power companies are also feeling the pinch.
GreenBiz
JANUARY 11, 2021
It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. The ride-sharing brand positions this as a radical shift that will benefit communities, partly by reducing pollution. As electric vehicles drive toward the mainstream, General Motors has come full circle as well.
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 22, 2021
If the industry was not exempt from hazardous waste law,” said Troutman, “the characterization of their waste would be far better, the tracking would be far better, and it would be harder for companies to manipulate the system like this.”. One particularly damning Railroad Commission inspection occurred in May 2003.
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