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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.

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Phantom Gas and Missing Documents Reveal Gaps in Utility Oversight

DeSmogBlog

When Gary Dye, a former engineer with Oregon’s largest gas utility, began blowing the whistle on alleged unethical behavior by his employer, he never dreamed his nearly two-dozen complaints would amount to nothing. In late 2012, several months after Dye took his complaints to OPUC, NW Natural fired him.

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US Solar Industry Rallies Behind 20% Generation Target for 2030

GreenTechMedia

The hosts of Solar Power International claimed the mantle of largest energy conference in North America, but the goal is to grow much larger. The Solar Energy Industries Association industry group published a roadmap Monday to increase solar power to 20 percent of U.S. Solar contributed about 2 percent of U.S.

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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. Anytime to you have that kind of pay-to-pollute scheme, the communities that already were being sacrificed — that becomes a business decision," Zucker says.

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Activists Decry FERC Rush to Construct LNG Gas Terminal, Say Permits for More Potential ‘Train Wreck’

DeSmogBlog

On my lastest flight surveying fossil fuel industry sites in southwest Louisiana at the end of September, I photographed liquified natural gas (LNG) export facilities, signs of drought, fire-scarred stretches of marsh, and a salt dome site at risk of collapsing. billion CP2 site and other LNG export facilities in the area.

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Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice?

AGreenLiving

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. “Anytime to you have that kind of pay-to-pollute scheme, the communities that already were being sacrificed — that becomes a business decision,” Zucker says.

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Waves of Abandonment

DeSmogBlog

In Texas, property rights are split into two categories: the land on the surface and everything underground, including oil and natural gas. Just like in Midland, business in Hobbs was booming until the price of oil bottomed out in 2020. The mighty Chesapeake Energy, a publicly traded company with $8.5 We just cashed in.”.

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