DeSmogBlog
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
But his wife began experiencing nausea and skin blotches, and testing showed that the Ely’s water was contaminated with methane, according to the grand jury investigation. A water well of another Dimock resident, Norma Fiorentino, exploded in January 2009. When Ely held a lighter up to a jug containing his tap water, it lit on fire.
DeSmogBlog
JANUARY 25, 2024
Weatherford, a lawyer from the corporate law firm Baker Hostetler, stated in opening arguments that Mann was so disliked that “even his own family won’t come to court to defend him.” Separate investigations by Penn State and the National Science Foundation cleared Mann of any wrongdoing.
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GreenTechMedia
FEBRUARY 17, 2020
To meet the targets laid out in the state’s ambitious new climate change law, RMI analysis estimates that New York will have to decarbonize 1,600 commercial buildings and 67,000 residential units per year between now and 2030. New spending on gas infrastructure tripled from 2009 to 2017, rising to $14.9
Renewable Energy World
MAY 13, 2021
The digester, and another the dairy installed a few years later, reduced the size of open lagoons of manure that release methane into the atmosphere. The California Air Resources Board adopted the Low Carbon Fuel Standard in 2009. It was a novel experiment at the time.
DeSmogBlog
DECEMBER 16, 2022
A recently published chapter of the Harvard Law Review argues that “While utility companies have been building and profiting off fossil fuels without internalizing the down-stream consequences and costs for decades, their regulators—state agency leaders—have approved their actions at every step of the way.”.
DeSmogBlog
JUNE 29, 2022
Properly plugging and abandoning oil and gas wells is vital to protect the environment and stop methane leaks – but for decades, oil operators have often slipped away without paying to clean up, leaving millions of deteriorating abandoned wells across the U.S. and regulators in different drilling regions face different issues.
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 18, 2023
In 2015, the NPPC, which claims only 3 percent of pig farmers as members, joined NCBA in lobbying to repeal a law that went into effect in 2013 allowing beef and pork producers to put “Made in the USA” labels on their product. It’s your own Checkoff working against [you],” Meyer told DeSmog.
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