DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The European Union’s scientific and political communities are locked in a battle over whether gas and nuclear can be considered green investments. It emphasised the need to “recognize the transitional and enabling role of natural gas,” referring to two of the taxonomy’s three categories.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

But even as the freezing temperatures that caused the crisis have waned, the political stances over who to blame have been hardening. But these attacks have run up against the cold fact that the state’s natural gas infrastructure was central to its broader grid failure. Texas Republicans like Gov.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

They are doubling down on oil and natural gas and investing what amounts to pocket change in innovative climate-oriented efforts like small nuclear power plants and devices that suck carbon out of the air. State interests also intervene with political ambition, though Norway and China appear to be setting the stage.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 21, 2021

Thursday’s appointment was welcomed by clean energy groups as a critical early step to put a supporter of Biden’s energy and climate push in charge of setting the agenda of the federal agency that holds regulatory authority over interstate electricity transmission and natural gas networks.

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