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Defective Meters and Whistleblower Complaints Raise Questions About Gas Utility’s Profits

DeSmogBlog

A little over a decade ago, Gary Dye, then a gas measurement engineer at NW Natural, Oregon’s largest gas utility, lost faith in his employer to responsibly deal with what he believed to be systematic inaccuracies among the company’s hundreds of thousands of gas meters. Faulty Meters Raise Questions About Profits.

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Phantom Gas and Missing Documents Reveal Gaps in Utility Oversight

DeSmogBlog

The circumstances surrounding his termination are documented among thousands of pages of public records and internal company documents that provide a penetrating look into the multi-billion dollar stakes of negotiations between governments and state-sanctioned monopolies that are shaping the future of energy systems in Oregon and beyond.

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In Their Own Words: The Dirty Dozen Documents of Big Oil’s Secret Climate Knowledge

DeSmogBlog

Found in the book “ Energy and Man: A Symposium ” Provenance: Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware. He helped develop the fusion bomb, which is immensely more powerful than even the atomic bomb. Available at the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL). View on DocumentCloud. But this is basic physics, right?

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Danone's Eric Soubeiran: 'The food system is broken'

GreenBiz

Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an "enterprise à mission," a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law. Danone, founded more than a century ago and famously declared an asset of national importance by the French government in 2005, has long prided itself on being a purpose-led business.

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Climate Tech Entrepreneurs React to the Inflation Reduction Act

Elemental Excelerator

In addition to celebrating the bill’s clean energy cost-cutting measures and job-creating potential, we are providing a few additional considerations and themes that are relevant to our portfolio and systems change work. Allume Energy , Transcend ). Forest Frizzell, CEO of Shifted Energy. Allison Wolff, CEO of Vibrant Planet.

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Danone's Eric Soubeiran on regenerative farming and fixing the 'broken' food system

Business Green

Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an ‘entreprise à mission', a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law. If you really want to do sustainability well in a company, you need to know your business well," Soubeiran says. You showed evidence that finance can change the world.

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A Texas Community Is Being Bombarded by Cancer-Causing Benzene. State Officials Have Known for Nearly Two Decades

DeSmogBlog

Instead, the TCEQ has allowed K-Solv, a chemical distribution company nestled in Channelview’s Jacintoport neighborhood, to expand its operations four times since the problem was discovered in 2005. That’s seven times higher than Texas said was safe back in 2005, when Channelview’s benzene problem was discovered.