Renewable Energy World

APRIL 28, 2021

For nearly four years, Piedmont Natural Gas — one of Duke’s wholly owned subsidiaries — and the state’s other major gas distribution company have stymied incentives for new high-efficiency homes, claiming with scant evidence that the rebate scheme will lose them customers. Builders in the territory, covering 1.4

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R-Squared Energy

MAY 5, 2024

Department of Energy has finalized a rule banning fossil fuels from new and renovated federal buildings. The Clean Energy for New Federal Buildings and Major Renovations of Federal Buildings Rule, mandated by the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) of 2007, mandates a phased reduction in fossil fuel usage in these buildings.

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Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 60

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

Under growing pressure to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, developers of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are turning to questionable claims about “carbon neutrality,” “net-zero,” or “green LNG,” in order to pass muster with governments, investors, and society, who are becoming increasingly anxious about the climate crisis.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

I have been calling the carbon capture CO2 pipeline buildout plan a “publicly-funded sewer system for the fossil fuel industry” for some time. For more on those problems, see CarbonCaptureFacts and the Center for International Environmental Law for starters. A reality check is in order. What would this look like on the ground?

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Pollution Carbon Waste Waste 79

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Natura, which issues a regular environmental profit-and-loss statement , went carbon-neutral in 2007 and became the first public B Corporation in 2014. The company has since whipsawed between its wholesale-energy legacy of fossil fuels and greener horizons. million acres the 4.4 million acres it protects in the Amazon.

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Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 28

DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

Montana has hired a climate scientist turned climate contrarian to be an expert witness in an upcoming trial challenging the state’s promotion of fossil fuels. Olson is the executive director of the nonprofit law firm Our Children’s Trust, which has spearheaded youth climate change lawsuits across the United States.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The rapidly declining costs of clean energy mean the gas plants mandated in the bill will almost certainly cost large ratepayers more than would cleaner alternatives, a reversal from a decade ago. For decades, the provision favored fossil fuel plants over more expensive wind and solar farms. New competition for natural gas.

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

A Few Relevant Data Points With the advent of the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th century, humans began their dependence on the burning of fossil fuels?coal coal first and then later oil and natural gas?to This economic catch-up game using fossil fuels is, of course, highly controversial.

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Climate change Fossil fuels Global warming Pollution 40

DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

And as a trove of industry documents reveals, Exxon is far from the only fossil fuel company selling carbon capture as its golden ticket to continue pumping its products, despite internal concerns about the technology’s feasibility. A natural gas demonstration plant in Texas tests carbon capture technology.

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Carbon Fossil fuels Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 98

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The efforts of Indigenous peoples in North America have helped block or delay a long list of major fossil fuel projects over the past decade, successfully leading to the avoidance of a massive amount of greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report. The numbers don’t lie. November, 2016. Credit: Becker1999. (CC CC BY 2.0).

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Mosaic

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The great majority of them are heated with natural gas or oil, and parked in their garages and driveways or on nearby streets are some two hundred and ninety million vehicles, an estimated ninety-nine per cent of which, as of August, run on gasoline. My house has gas pipes in it. But can it actually be done?

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