DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

An organization run by former Obama-era Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, with the backing of the AFL-CIO, a federation of 56 labor unions, has created a policy “blueprint” to build a nationwide pipeline network capable of carrying a gigaton of captured carbon dioxide (CO2). Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data from 2019.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Subsequently, two independent reports suggested that the funds would “face high potential risk for economic disruption from the transition to a low carbon global economy” if they continued to invest in fossil fuel. It’s unclear how much of that total is invested in coal, oil, or methane gas. trillion in cash and investments.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

“It is feared that a further rise in carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere could lead to a higher average surface temperature on Earth, which could have far-reaching environmental, social and economic consequences,” wrote the authors of a 1987 internal Shell publication entitled “Air Pollution: an Oil Industry Perspective.”

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) was high on the agenda at New York Climate Week last week, where critics of the technology raised concerns it would be used to extend the life of the fossil fuel industry. The data showed us that their carbon capture plans are not working at scale.” What CCS Projects Promise. And What They Deliver.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

And going further back than that, he was among the Tory rebels who pushed for the government to stop backing onshore wind in 2012. An undercover investigation by Greenpeace in 2012 caught him boasting that he was working to write opposition to wind energy “into the DNA of the Tory Party” and campaign against the UK’s climate goals.

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

The largest carbon capture and storage project in the world has been delayed indefinitely due to Covid-19 Summary - Exxon has postponed development of the ‘LaBarge Carbon Capture and Storage’ project in Wyoming due to Covid-19. It contains natural gas, helium, and carbon dioxide.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

This story is part of the series Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia , which explores the path to low-carbon energy for British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. Activists won a string of local victories, passing municipal and regional laws to ban new and expanded fossil fuel developments.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

The landmark legislation's climate provisions could unlock billions of dollars of low carbon investment and millions of green jobs - but it also paves the way for new fossil fuel infrastructure. The US is set to get its first ever carbon equivalent tax - on methane. temperature goal is to be kept alive.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

President Biden signed historic climate legislation into law in August, but more action will be necessary to hit climate targets. March, 2012. He also noted that the TVA has an 80 percent emissions reduction target by 2035 and argued that gas “gets us to a carbon-free future without sacrificing reliability or raising rates.”.

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