DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

There, he met with OPUC staff in person and exchanged emails with Lori Koho, then OPUC’s senior official overseeing natural gas utilities. He hoped that his list of complaints would show “how the unethical culture [at NW Natural] goes all the way to the top,” as one of his emails to Koho explains.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

And on October 28, Congress questioned the CEOs of ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP America, Shell, and the American Petroleum Institute on their history of blocking climate policy. Available at the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL). Business as usual would lead to: 2005: 1°C rise in temperatures that would be barely noticeable.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 20, 2021

and Puerto Rico have adopted laws or executive orders setting goals for reaching 100% clean electricity by 2050 or sooner. We analyzed the “business as usual” projection in the 2005 Annual Energy Outlook published by the Energy Information Administration , the U.S. This drop happened thanks to policy, market and technology drivers.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Our interstate storage business, which has newly added capacity, remains a growth opportunity we expect to add significantly to our bottom line in the future,” wrote former NW Natural CEO Mark Dodson in a 2005 annual letter to shareholders. asked Doug Tilgner, a manager at NW Natural, in a 2005 internal email. “I’d

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

"They’re really trying to appease a nascent but quite powerful movement of [environmental, social and governance focused] shareholders and institutional investors," said David Pomerantz, executive director of utility watchdog group Energy and Policy Institute, which tracks carbon targets. Once it started taking off.it It generated 73.6

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

is President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), passed into law in August 2022. The IRA reports that methane emissions from oil and gas must exponentially decrease if we are to meet Net Zero Emission 2050 targets. Under the policies of the Action Plan, the government will provide $1.55 meet net-zero goals.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

"As coal is phased out from our generation profile, it will be replaced with zero-carbon resources and prudent investments in cleaner natural gas," Good said, according to a transcript summary of the call. Duke claims to have already reduced Scope 1 emissions from electricity generation by 44% from 2005 levels. Climate mandate.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The RFS was first passed into law with the Energy Policy Act of 2005, and it was subsequently expanded in 2007 (both under President Bush). For the first time in nearly 70 years, we have become a net energy exporter, and the United States is now the number one producer of oil and natural gas on the face of the earth.”.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

As the North American program manager for the Climate Group’s EV100 program, Badalian works to get large companies to commit to 100 percent electric mobility by 2030, then helps them replace global fleets with electric vehicles, deploy charging stations and affect government policy. Solar is a new technology to be able to do so.".

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

New research asserts most have undermined those goals by keeping coal plants running and building new natural gas plants meant to operate for decades to come. utilities are on track to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 80 percent by 2030 compared to a 2005 baseline, the target needed to prevent global warming beyond 1.5

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The transition of oil and gas to deep geothermal is one that requires radical transformation of paradigms, business models, and policies. He founded his law firm in Berlin in 1992. In 1995 he established the first German linked law firm in Poznan. Tipping points are expected to occur in the 2030s when the 1.5-degree

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

But the debate over controversial energy legislation in North Carolina shows how companies like DuPont, Chemours, and Georgia Pacific are increasingly aligned with environmental groups on utility policy. New competition for natural gas. The strange bedfellow scenario stems in part from economics. A decade of tumbling prices.

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The Verge: Energy

APRIL 25, 2024

The Biden administration pledged to cut its carbon pollution in half from 2005 levels by the end of the decade under that agreement. “A The EPA says it is doing something about existing natural gas plants — that, in fact, it’s “committed to expeditiously proposing GHG emission guidelines for these units,” and plans to propose new rules.

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

It contains natural gas, helium, and carbon dioxide. Even today the overwhelming majority of capture and storage projects are associated with EOR,” says Julio Friedmann, senior research scholar at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy. The shale boom also sent prices for natural gas into free fall.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

As the North American program manager for the Climate Group’s EV100 program, Badalian works to get large companies to commit to 100 percent electric mobility by 2030, then helps them replace global fleets with electric vehicles, deploy charging stations and affect government policy. “Solar is a new technology to be able to do so.”

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

When it comes to those shaping the corporate climate movement — either from within companies or as part of NGOs and policy organizations that recognize the critical role businesses must play in addressing the climate emergency — I’m grateful to say it’s becoming easier to find women with a seat at the decision-making table. "An

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 4, 2023

Elections matter (a lot), and so does policy. The biggest policy win on climate was the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in the U.S. on a path to cut emissions 40% by 2030 (from 2005 levels). The pressure on business to align its lobbying and policies with its big sustainability goals and its values is growing.

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