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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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Best Cleaners – New York’s Capital Region Experts

Green Business Bureau

Best Cleaners is a proud affiliate of America’s Best Cleaners , a third-party organization that searches out the top cleaners across the United States. Other ways that Best Cleaners has greened their business are by switching to LED lighting in their facilities and creating a hanger recycling program. About America’s Best Cleaners.

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Senior Business Development

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Senior Business Development | Apparent | Novato, CA. an energy management services company, is revolutionizing grid-edge technologies. Apparent offers a data-driven solution to optimizing the production and use of clean energy based on local economics. Apparent, Inc., POSITION SUMMARY. KEY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES.

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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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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. . As the Northeast Organizer for Clean Water for North Carolina , she’d met with residents of a small, majority Black town called Ahoskie, 40 miles from her home.

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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.

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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.