Business Green

JUNE 21, 2020

For most of its life the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) has been plagued by a massive surplus of allowances - something we've been highlighting (under Ember's previous guise as Sandbag) since 2008. This could include putting a carbon price on gas for heating, shipping, or fugitive methane emissions, to name a few.

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2022

The UK's progress on emissions reductions, climate policy, and international finance has been charted in its latest National Communication report to the UN - BusinessGreen takes a look at the key takeaways. It also details the funds that have been distributed from British coffers to climate mitigation and adaptation internationally.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2022

The websites artificially created the appearance of grassroots political energy, and shared misleading “news” that downplayed environmental damage from fracking while simultaneously promoting the benefits of pro-drilling policies. FTI remains a major, major contractor to the fossil fuel industry.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

LCPI finds that one third of reductions, approximately 10 million tCO2e, should be expected from current trends and existing policies plus the price-elasticity effect of the fee if I-1631 is enacted. The measure would rely on a robust investment program to achieve the remaining 20 million tCO2e. the fee) and targeted investments.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Don’t Call It Methane, It’s ‘Natural’ Gas. Methane is an even more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, yet it has received far less attention. One reason is that the oil and gas industry has positioned methane — which marketing experts cleverly labeled “natural gas” — as the future of the energy economy.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Fracking’s fiercest front man, McClendon spent his career championing methane molecules (the primary component of natural gas), as he ran Chesapeake Energy through wild booms and at least one staggering bust. Shale gas could change all that, McClendon argued, by making methane supplies abundant.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

In a critique published in Nature in August 1972, three Shell employees argued that it was “too early” to draw policy conclusions from The Limits To Growth. He died in 2008. Such studies included Work For the Future (1973); the findings of the Workshop on Alternative Energy Strategies (1977); and the World Coal Study (1980).

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2024

That premise has begun to fall apart as research on methane has piled up in recent years, examinations that consistently point to an industry-wide problem that is much worse and much more widespread than previously thought. As Gas Outlook reported last year, the LNG terminals themselves are leaking methane that is going unrecorded.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

The State of the Carbon Economy in 2020 (Panel Discussion): To avoid the worst impacts of climate change, we must build a new carbon economy: an ecosystem of companies, capital and policies that work together to remove billions of tons of carbon from the atmosphere every year. That economy is now taking shape. Enchanté, renewables!

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 25, 2024

By Joshua Bledsoe , Kevin Homrighausen , and John Detrich On December 2, 2023, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a final report that substantially increases estimates of the social cost of greenhouse gases (GHG), including carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide (collectively, SC-GHG). 3d 1172 (9th Cir. 2016), [link].

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Sleipner and Snøhvit Projects Operator: Equinor (Statoil), 1996-present; Snøhvit since 2008 Location: Offshore (North Sea Sleipner West field), Norway Stated maximum capacity: Sleipner 1 million tonnes of CO2/year Stated maximum capacity: Snøhvit 0.7 What actually happened: Costs more than doubled from initial estimates to $7.5

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

Key areas where data is needed to formulate, implement and monitor development policies and programmes are population and housing censuses. Walney offshore wind farm | Credit: Ørsted. Thankfully, multiple industries seem to have recognised this truism.

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

“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. Fossil fuels were first discovered in the LaBarge field in 1920, but it was only in the 1980s that Exxon first began selling gases from the site.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

We need to develop a proper policy and strategy starting from now." The firm's suppliers cleared at least 140,000 hectares of natural forests between 2008 and 2011 alone, the report claimed. The big question for campaigners is how effective these policies are actually proving.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2021

The update was sparked by decades old changes in drilling technology already used in an area that gained notoriety for having one of the largest methane hot spots on the planet — because of leaking oil and gas wells. For much of the past 20 years, the basin has been a methane hot spot as the potent greenhouse gas leaks from wells.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

DonorsTrust gave the group nearly $8 million between 2008 and 2017, according to federal tax data. Hard-won federal policies like the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act put that target within reach. Dave Anderson, a policy analyst at the pro-renewables Energy and Policy Institute , has watched figures like Droz reappear perennially.

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Sustainability Consulting

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The last decline in CO2 emissions was during the 2008 recession. Finally, he would integrate climate change into foreign policy, trade, and national security strategies. Methane is a greenhouse gas more potent than CO2, although it has a shorter lifespan in the environment.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Department of Energy and former EPA chief administrator Gina McCarthy as domestic "climate czar," elevating two women with strong Democratic party credentials and records on combatting climate change to play key roles in enacting the president-elect’s climate change policy agenda.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Alone, these executive branch policies are wildly insufficient to the task of getting America to meet its climate goals. But all of these policies are necessary components of the puzzle, and represent the lowest-hanging fruit in terms of climate action.”. Ongoing cleanup at Kingston plant, site of 2008 coal ash spill.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

Finally climate policy action is getting real," he said. It is significantly larger than the clean tech focused stimulus package the Obama administration passed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, which played such a big role in accelerating US renewables and electric vehicle deployment. temperature goal is to be kept alive.

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