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Global Coal Use is Falling But Not Fast Enough to Tackle Climate Change

DeSmogBlog

Boom and Bust: Tracking the Global Coal Plant Pipeline , a new report from Global Energy Monitor, found that “China commissioned 76 percent of the world’s new coal plants in 2020, up from 64 percent in 2019, driving a 12.5 GW (gigawatt) increase in the global coal fleet in 2020.”. Can Coal Replace Natural Gas?

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Revealed: Oil and Gas Industry Links of Telegraph Energy and Climate Commentator

DeSmogBlog

Blackmon hosts a podcast called “The Energy Question”, which is sponsored by the US Oil and Gas Association (USOGA), a lobby group that describes its mission as promoting “national public policy that supports exploration and production for the domestic oil and natural gas industry”. Porter also contributes to the Telegraph.

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GIS Owners in California Must Comply With SF6 Regulation

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

Gas-insulated switchgear owners face easy-to-miss, CARB-enforced emissions requirements. Since 2011, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) has regulated sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) emissions from gas-insulated switchgears (GIS). For comparison, carbon dioxide has a global warming potential of 1.

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GIS Owners in California Must Comply With SF6 Regulation

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

Gas-insulated switchgear owners face easy-to-miss, CARB-enforced emissions requirements. Since 2011, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) has regulated sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) emissions from gas-insulated switchgears (GIS). For comparison, carbon dioxide has a global warming potential of 1.

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A decidedly impartial review of Mark Jacobson’s 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything

Renewable Energy World

This is where Jacobson’s story takes on a cinematic glow, which I wrote about for HuffPost in 2011. On the evening of July 10, 2011, Jacobson attended a swanky event in San Francisco. It would be the first clean energy roadmap that Jacobson would draft, and he did it on the evening of September 13, 2011. The Solutions Project.

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To Save the Amazon, Lula Must Defeat an Old Foe

DeSmogBlog

Rodrigo Constantino, another founder, columnist at Gazeta do Povo , and president of the libertarian Instituto Liberal, has accused scientists of deceptively using the term “climate change”, rather than “global warming”, in order to blame all extreme weather events on the phenomenon.

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Climate-Science Deniers, Right-Wing Think Tanks, and Fossil Fuel Shills Are Plotting Against the Clean Energy Transition

DeSmogBlog

.” That apparent conservation activist was, in fact, an infamous climate change disinformation artist : Marc Morano, who’s done more than perhaps any other person to manufacture doubt about global warming. Since 2011, the whales’ deaths—largely from ship strikes and entanglements in fishing gear—have outpaced births.