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Lost Decade: How Shell Downplayed Early Warnings Over Climate Change

DeSmogBlog

Harmful Wastes” Shell’s knowledge of the risks posed by the build-up of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) from burning fossil fuels can be traced to at least the early 1960s. He died in 2008. All shared Wilson’s goal of producing an authoritative account for governments on how the world could power itself to the end of the century.

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The Top Energy Stories Of 2023

R-Squared Energy

When you look back on 2008—when U.S. Those sectors have done well in recent years, but this year rising interest rates began to negatively impact the growth forecasts for many renewable energy companies. Along with Vogtle Unit 4, these are the first newly constructed nuclear units built in the United States in more than three decades.

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Greentech Media Bids Farewell

GreenTechMedia

I came to GTM in the fall of 2008, just in time to catch the start of the cleantech VC bubble bursting around our San Francisco Bay Area editorial offices. Two months later, Barack Obama was elected president and began work on the stimulus package, passed in February 2009, that reinjected life into the faltering clean energy sector.

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Inflation Reduction Act: 10 ways it will turbocharge US climate action (and one way it won't)

Business Green

The landmark legislation's climate provisions could unlock billions of dollars of low carbon investment and millions of green jobs - but it also paves the way for new fossil fuel infrastructure. Clean power producers would be eligible to receive 1.5 The US is set to get its first ever carbon equivalent tax - on methane.