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Defective Meters and Whistleblower Complaints Raise Questions About Gas Utility’s Profits

DeSmogBlog

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. Faulty Meters Raise Questions About Profits.

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Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South

GreenBiz

The series is supported by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University, and is part of their POWER project. . And then once [Enviva] start building it, then they were saying ‘oh this is coming,’ and I told them ‘this is what I tried to tell you all about.’” .

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The Outlaw Ocean Project Exposes China’s Use Of Forced Uyghur Labour To Supply UK Seafood Industry

DeSmogBlog

China has also made widespread use of biometric surveillance and forcibly put Uyghurs to work in Xinjiang’s cotton fields, or in other industries around the country, according to human rights groups. With its domestic fishing industry in long-term decline , the UK imports more than 80 percent of its seafood.

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What Were Europe’s Oil Majors Doing When GTM Launched in 2007?

GreenTechMedia

It’s been an honor and a privilege to track Europe’s energy transition for the sector’s most discerning audience. Energy transition " wasn’t a term in common usage and certainly not one that sprang to mind when thinking of the Big Five oil companies. This will be my final piece for Greentech Media.

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Phantom Gas and Missing Documents Reveal Gaps in Utility Oversight

DeSmogBlog

He filed 21 internal complaints in 2012, then bumped them up to the Oregon Public Utility Commission (OPUC), the group that regulates utilities in the state, later that year. In late 2012, several months after Dye took his complaints to OPUC, NW Natural fired him. economy is increasingly rocked by climate chaos.

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Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice?

GreenBiz

One accident there — a 2012 fire — sent a cloud of black smoke billowing over San Francisco Bay and left thousands of local residents struggling to breathe. In-state emissions were offset by purchasing cleaner power and carbon credits from other projects that reduced emissions elsewhere.). I forget that this isn’t normal," he says.

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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

Charged

The electric road ahead for heavy trucks is not exactly clear, and there are several roadblocks, some obvious and some far less so. Fleets don’t want to go electric at scale until they’ve done years-long pilots, but the Advanced Clean Trucks regulation will artificially constrict that timeframe. Soon they won’t have a choice.