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New Oregon Energy Policy Simulator Modeling Shows Major Benefits Of Accelerating Climate Policies

Energy Innovation

This week, Energy Innovation launched the Oregon Energy Policy Simulator (EPS) , our newest state-specific, open-source, peer-reviewed, and nonpartisan model that estimates the environmental, economic, and public health impacts of hundreds of climate and energy policies. By Shelley Wenzel.

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Ominous Trend Revealed in Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data

Green Market Oracle

Emissions include carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O) and (commonly measured through what is known as carbon dioxide equivalents or CO2e). GHGs are caused directly and indirectly by human activity especially energy (73%). percent per year since 2010, but in 2019 they grew by 2.6

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Ominous Trend Revealed in Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data

Green Market Oracle

GHGs are caused directly and indirectly by human activity especially energy (73%). Other sources of GHGs are agriculture, forestry and land use (18%), waste (3%) and industry (5%)*. Fossil fuel use is a major contributor of GHGs and coal powered power plants especially harmful. percent in 2019.

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Private equity enters the race to net zero

EDF + Business

EDF was an early partner with Carlyle Group, KKR, and others to make environmental measurement and management a best practice for industry leaders and a key strategy for value creation. Investors need reliable data to allocate capital to transition-ready assets and monitor portfolio companies’ progress on emissions reduction.

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Pennsylvania Lets Polluter Resume Drilling in Protected Zone, Outraging Residents in Fracking’s ‘Ground Zero’

DeSmogBlog

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.

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The Battle to Stop Air Products’ Carbon Capture Project at Lake Maurepas Grows

DeSmogBlog

Air Products, a global hydrogen manufacturing company, is proposing to build a $4.5 billion “Clean Energy Complex” to manufacture blue hydrogen and an accompanying carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) project, that would be operational by 2026. Credit: Julie Dermansky Spoonbill in a wildlife management area, next to Lake Maurepas.

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A Push to Expedite Permits Fueled by Disaster Capitalism Threatens to Fastrack the Climate Crisis

DeSmogBlog

Coast Guard for floating LNG projects off Grande Isle, Louisiana , were moderated by third-party contractors who offer permit expediting services for industry. Two scoping hearings I attending this year held by the U.S. Federal and state trustees approved $2.26