R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 10, 2023

Overview The newest Review shows the world remains heavily reliant on fossil fuels for energy needs, even as renewables like solar and wind continue rapid growth. While renewable power expanded at record rates, fossil fuels maintained an 82% share of total primary energy consumption. growth in 2021. growth in output.

Solar Energy Monitor 78

Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor Energy Energy 78

GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Founded in 2008 as California’s first not-for-profit, community choice aggregation program, MCE today serves over 1 million residents and businesses in four San Francisco Bay area counties: Contra Costa; Marin; Napa; and Solano. Meanwhile, battery costs have followed a similar downward path.

Solar Energy Monitor 425

Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring 425

GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Instead, most oil and gas policies in the IEEFA database are exceedingly narrowly focused on removing extreme project finance (tar sands and arctic drilling) which still leaves room for everything else under the sun. It also means industries like utilities and auto manufacturers that make up the bulk of demand for oil and gas.

Building Energy Monitoring 223

Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor Fossil fuels 223

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

On Wednesday, a group of more than 450 scientists called on advertising agencies to cut off their fossil fuel clients and to end their ties with an ongoing misinformation campaign that has time and again killed progress on addressing the climate crisis. And as this letter makes clear, they have had enough. ” Arena said.

Fossil fuels 98

Fossil fuels Natural gas Climate change Organic 98

R-Squared Energy

JULY 27, 2020

Previous articles covered overall energy consumption , petroleum supply and demand, and natural gas. Coal is often called the dirtiest fossil fuel. Fossil fuels are composed of carbon and hydrogen. Coal contains a higher percentage of carbon than does oil or natural gas. At that point, U.S.

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Natural gas Fossil fuels Asia Nuclear Power 78

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

However, while the Shell deal may be the biggest Havas has ever had with an oil and gas client, it is by no means the first. Further, these are far from being the Bolloré Group’s only connections to the fossil fuel sector. billion euros (around $2.49 subsidiary headquartered in New York City.

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Logistics Fossil fuels Climate change Transportation 109

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2022

consulting and PR firm, with a long history of waging influence campaigns for fossil fuel corporations, is under scrutiny by a congressional committee as part of a broader investigation into the decades-long efforts by the oil industry and its allies to block action on the climate crisis. A powerful Washington, D.C.,

Fossil fuels 96

Fossil fuels Climate change Energy Energy 96

R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In 2008 — his last full year in office — production averaged 5.0 natural gas production also skyrocketed. The price of natural gas, oil, and in turn gasoline, all plunged as production surged. In 2008 gasoline futures averaged $2.45 oil production declined all eight years they were in office. million BPD.

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Natural gas Policy Fossil fuels Electric vehicle 60

Grist

MARCH 8, 2021

The industry accounts for nearly 3 percent of annual global greenhouse gas emissions, a number that’s expected to rise if ships keep using the same dirty fuels, according to the International Maritime Organization, or IMO, the United Nations body that regulates the industry. Yet it’s not exactly a climate win.

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Carbon-neutral Carbon Natural gas Fossil fuels 117

Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The major difference is that many times the best renewable sources are in different locations than the best fossil fuel sources. This means not just upgrading the existing infrastructure but building a whole new network with renewables at the center instead of natural gas and coal.

Energy Monitor 105

Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 105

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The findings raise concerns over a potential pervasive conflict of interest on the boards at a time when the international insurance sector is under pressure to halt its support for the fossil fuel industry. “When insurers underwrite fossil fuels, they actually are underwriting climate change.”

Pollution 98

Pollution Fossil fuels Climate change Aviation 98

Business Green

APRIL 29, 2020

Global carbon emissions are set to drop a record eight per cent this year, with lockdowns on public and economic life introduced to tackle the coronavirus pandemic delivering an unprecedented blow to fossil fuel demand, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).

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Carbon Carbon-negative Natural gas Demand 100

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 18, 2023

One of the Fraser Institute’s senior fellows recently authored an op-ed in the Calgary Sun arguing that net-zero is “the pathway to Canadian decline” and that alternatives to fossil fuels are “unstable and unreliable.”

Climate change 97

Climate change Fossil fuels Natural gas Carbon 97

Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 2, 2021

As states and the federal government take steps to transition away from fossil fuel generation, it is important to pay attention to recent clean energy developments in states where energy legislation has historically been less proactive, and the traditional integrated utility monopoly model has held influence over the policymaking process.

Solar Energy Monitor 102

Solar Energy Monitor Policy Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 102

Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 23, 2019

Since 2008, the carbon price has substantially reduced the consumption and demand for fossil fuels including: Reducing demand for gasoline by between7% and 17% by 2011. Decreasing residential natural gas consumption between 6.9% drivers to purchase more fuel-efficient vehicles.

Carbon 44

Carbon Fossil fuels Natural gas Pollution 44

AGreenLiving

MARCH 5, 2020

The data indicates that declines in coal use was the main factor that led to last year’s carbon emissions decrease, as both oil and natural gas usage levels remained unchanged. carbon emissions from coal dropped by as much as 80%, while natural gas was by 20% and oil by only 6%.

Carbon 28

Carbon Natural gas Climate change Energy Monitor 28

GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

While California already has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 13 percent since their peak in 2004, many residents still suffer from high levels of air pollution — much of it produced by fossil fuels. It also dramatically has increased the volume of gas flared off as waste — another source of harmful compounds.

Pollution 421

Pollution Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Policy 421

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 2, 2021

The fossil fuel industry continues to use a long list of deceptive tactics to conceal environmental destruction that harms Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and low-income communities. That’s the top finding of a newly released NAACP report titled “Fossil Fuel Foolery.”

Fossil fuels 101

Fossil fuels Pollution Organic Politics 101

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2022

On November 29, Coterra Energy and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) signed a consent order allowing the operator, one of the largest natural gas producers in the state, to drill laterally beneath an area that has been mostly fracking-free since 19 households found methane in their water in 2008 and 2009.

Pollution 74

Pollution Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 74

Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 12, 2022

However, as countries seek to decarbonise their economies, ammonia, produced by green hydrogen, offers a carbon-free alternative to fossil fuels, and the accurate measurement of emissions is an essential component of any engine development program.”. Background. New ammonia analyser.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Demand 246

Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

In 1992 carbon emission hit a 20-year low due to three factors: A mild winter, reduced demand for gasoline and, most significantly, a drop in coal-fired electricity generation because of historically low natural gas prices. The negative values in 1996 are due to a slowing economy associated with the Asian financial crisis.

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Carbon-negative Energy Monitor Fossil fuels Carbon 52

Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Political public relations arguably holds its origins in the oil, gas and coal industries, but amid growing criticism it is now facing increasing pressure to forge a future path beyond fossil fuel marketing. Political public relations (PR) has its origins in the coal, oil and gas industry.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Politics Pollution 41

AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Founded in 2008 as California’s first not-for-profit, community choice aggregation program, MCE today serves over 1 million residents and businesses in four San Francisco Bay area counties: Contra Costa; Marin; Napa; and Solano. .” Meanwhile, battery costs have followed a similar downward path.

Solar Energy Monitor 28

Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring 28

Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2008, Jacobson teamed up with student, Graeme Hoste, to assess whether California’s hourly demand for electricity could be satisfied with a combination of renewable power sources. Jacobson’s Greenhouse-Gas-Free (GHGFREE) Teslas run on solar power, as does his home, built by BoneStructure. (Photo Courtesy Mark Jacobson).

Solar Energy Monitor 101

Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 101

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

As DeSmog reported in 2018, quoting from The Big Short , a book about the lead up to the 2008 financial crisis: “All these subprime lending companies were growing so rapidly, and using such goofy accounting, that they could mask the fact that they had no real earnings, just illusory, accounting-driven, ones.

Investment 98

Investment Fossil fuels Natural gas Energy 98

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

By the late 1970s, the petroleum industry had spent about two decades collecting information from their own scientists and outside experts and knew that burning fossil fuels would create catastrophic climate change. Man’s use of fossil fuels and exploitation of the land,” federal scientists concluded. Document 7: 1981.

Fossil fuels 97

Fossil fuels Global warming Building Energy Monitoring Climate change 97

Grist

JANUARY 10, 2023

For our broad categories (natural sources, agriculture and waste, and fossil fuels), we used U.S. The report presents a number of top-down estimates, so we chose the median value for the decade of 2008-2017. sectors, like manure, natural gas, and landfills. The natural world. Fossil Fuels.

Methane 98

Methane Fossil fuels Waste Waste 98

Business Green

MARCH 31, 2020

New figures released by the ENA today show gas and electricity networks in the UK have already delivered over 1,100 green grid innovation projects since 2008, which it claims have helped to slash emissions, reduce costs, and deliver better services for customers.

Home Energy Monitoring 50

Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 50

R-Squared Energy

MARCH 4, 2022

Fossil fuel usage will plummet. No need for Germany to rely on Russian gas. If it was removed from the market today, the price of oil would skyrocket far past the previous record price set in 2008. That brings me to Russia’s natural gas. Let’s consider the natural gas industry in the U.S.

Energy Monitor 60

Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Natural gas Energy 60

Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The initiative, also known as the “Protect Washington Act”, imposes a steadily increasing carbon pollution fee on most fossil fuel uses and directs revenue toward projects to reduce carbon emissions, as well as investments in forests, water, community preparedness, and support to displaced workers and people with lower incomes.

Pollution 45

Pollution Carbon Business Energy Monitoring Carbon-negative 45

GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Spending the past year as Ecolab’s president and COO, he joined as an executive vice president in 2008 after capping off 15 years as Nestlé’s head of corporate sales in Europe. The company has since whipsawed between its wholesale-energy legacy of fossil fuels and greener horizons. Company profile. LinkedIn | Company profile.

Sustainability 516

Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 516

AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

While California already has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 13 percent since their peak in 2004, many residents still suffer from high levels of air pollution — much of it produced by fossil fuels. It also dramatically has increased the volume of gas flared off as waste — another source of harmful compounds.

Pollution 28

Pollution Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 28

Business Green

MARCH 26, 2020

Electricity generation from natural gas fired power plants also fell back slightly by 2.2 per cent, while nuclear power dropped 14 per cent to its lowest level since 2008 due to a series of prolonged outages at Dungeness B and Hunterson B last year, the statistics show.

Aviation 101

Aviation Carbon Climate change Transportation 101

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2021

The fossil fuel industry and its investors have financially benefited from tax policies and subsidies designed to reduce the emissions from oil, gas, and coal — sometimes without taking the action required to tackle climate change. This makes them incredibly popular with the fossil fuel industry.

Fossil fuels 99

Fossil fuels Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 99

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Natural gas’s notorious price volatility has been making a comeback — in a big way. The UK is experiencing a natural gas price surge so severe that the government stepped in to prevent a cascade down the supply chain that threatened to create food shortages. In the U.S., In the U.S.,

Natural gas 98

Natural gas Fossil fuels Europe Methane 98

GreenTechMedia

JUNE 23, 2020

Massachusetts may become just the third state, after California and New York, to begin planning for a managed decline of its conventional natural gas industry. In other words, if Massachusetts is to meet its legally binding carbon targets, there is no future for fossil gas. Annual U.S.

Natural gas 130

Natural gas Fossil fuels Global warming Innovation 130

Business Green

MARCH 21, 2022

But, rather than continuing to inflict damage to the planet, what if the millions of tonnes of plastics used to make bottles, food packaging, carrier bags, clothes, carpets, and much more every year, were actually made from a sustainable, plant-based, fossil fuel-free polymer that was both fully recyclable and degradable?

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