DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2022

As the New York Times reported in 2020, FTI helped set up regional astroturf websites for its oil industry clients, such as Texans for Natural Gas, New Mexicans for Economic Prosperity, Citizens to Protect PA Jobs, Western Wire, and the Arctic Energy Center.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

A little over a decade ago, Gary Dye, then a gas measurement engineer at NW Natural, Oregon’s largest gas utility, lost faith in his employer to responsibly deal with what he believed to be systematic inaccuracies among the company’s hundreds of thousands of gas meters.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 22, 2020

It generates electricity and provides energy solutions and natural gas to residential, small business, commercial, and industrial customers through a diverse portfolio of retail brands. .” NRG Energy, Inc brings the power of energy to people and organizations by putting customers at the center of its business.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

It’s much harder politically to ask the whole oil and gas industry to go away.” Robert Howarth, a biogeochemist and ecosystem scientist at Cornell University in New York, has studied shale gas for more than a decade, and his research has focused on the methane emissions from the gas industry.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

While Texas Republicans were quick to pounce on renewable energy and to blame frozen wind turbines , the natural gas, nuclear and coal plants that provide most of the state’s energy also struggled to operate during the storm. Lessons from 2011.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

It also birthed a class of oil barons whose wealth and conservative political interests shaped national politics and popularized Texas culture in movies and TV shows. Those left behind tend to be poorer and have less political power. On March 16, 2011, an investigator spent seven minutes outside K-Solv.

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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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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Indian environmental researcher Sunita Narain has been associated with the country’s Center for Science and Environment for close to 30 years, starting as an assistant and assuming the director general role in 2011. One example is the adoption of buses that run on compressed natural gas (CNG) in India’s capital city. .

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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. It goes to show that there remains much disparity amongst the biggest oil and gas companies on the strategies to follow.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

Deepening political polarization, fueled by social media, has helped transform renewable energy into a culture-war issue—and extended the reach of its most ardent opponents. Since 2011, the whales’ deaths—largely from ship strikes and entanglements in fishing gear—have outpaced births.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

The incident was the second in three years for North Texas-based Luminant, whose equipment malfunctions during a more severe storm in 2011 resulted in a $750,000 fine from state energy regulators for failing to deliver promised power to the grid. The agency declined to comment, saying it doesn’t discuss investigations.

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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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CleanTechnica

JULY 29, 2021

In 2011, Donziger won a $9.5 Environmental lawyer Steven Donziger was found guilty of criminal contempt by U.S. District Court Judge Loretta Preska Monday for refusing a judge’s order to hand over evidence.

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CleanTechnica

JULY 13, 2021

The EPA approved dangerous chemicals that break down into PFAS for use in fracking in 2011, according to records obtained by Physicians for Social Responsibility and reported by the New York Times.

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