The Verge: Energy

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

But this is something that we in our maps and geo organization, we’ve built up a lot of expertise,” Yael Maguire, vice president and general manager of Google’s Geo Sustainability team, said on a press call. “We It’s just training AI to spot well pads, pump jacks, storage tanks, and other fossil fuel infrastructure instead.

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Grist

APRIL 14, 2021

In the late 2000s, the fossil fuel conglomerate Woodside Energy petitioned to build a liquid natural gas processing plant 30 miles north of Broome, on a peninsula known in English as James Price Point, and to the Goolarabooloo as Walmadany. Finally, in 2013, Woodside threw in the towel. Ingetje Tadros / Getty images.

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GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2021

Net zero can be achieved, first and foremost, by cutting or eliminating greenhouse gas emissions and, secondarily, by offsetting any remaining emissions through such actions as planting trees, investing in renewable energy projects that replace fossil-fuel energy, or investing in novel carbon-removal technologies such as direct air capture.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

More recently, the transport sector began to move away from fossil fuels. In a 2013 demo, for instance, scientists showed off a lab-grown burger that cost $325,000. . dairy organization said it would transition the industry to "carbon neutral or better" by 2050. Electricity generation was an early focus.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 7, 2021

It’s the United Nations’ climate-science-focused organization. The last big IPCC assessment was released in 2013. Four RCPs were the focus of the future-looking climate modeling studies incorporated into the 2013 report. a world in which fossil fuel emissions are unfettered and the world heats up a lot.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 30, 2020

BS EN 12619:2013 specifies the flame ionisation detector (FID) method, and is intended for use as a SRM for the measurement of the mass concentration of gaseous and vaporous organic substances in stationary source emissions up to 1,000 mg/m³. Why monitor the emissions of organic compounds?

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Like Hurricane Katrina and numerous storms before it, Hurricane Ida demolished Louisiana’s outdated, fossil-fuel-dependent energy system. Fossil-Fuel Failures. Instead, state and local government, as well as the electric utility, Entergy, continue to fight tooth and nail for more fossil-fuel-powered energy infrastructure.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 1, 2023

Close inspection of the historic arguments used by the fossil fuel industry and its partners to justify their ongoing pollution of the earth’s atmosphere — whether it be by sulfur oxides, CO2, or methane — reveals the same delay-based messaging each time they have faced the prospect of regulation. Edmund Muskie (D-ME).

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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 4, 2024

Hydrogen energy from a pure H2 fuel cell system The pure H2 fuel cell system Tanaka will be installing combines hydrogen with oxygen – essentially the opposite of water electrolysis.  The company has already launched Operation Polaris*2, for the purpose of meeting its 2050 goal of being carbon neutral.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 4, 2022

Tip#1: Choose organic sustainable fabrics. Plus synthetic fibers are fossil-fuel-derived. With this in mind, to support our environment, fashion brands need to use textiles derived from natural fibers such as recycled cotton, organic hemp, and organic linen. Tip #6: Reduce fossil fuel demand.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 23, 2023

Even so, every algae researcher who spoke to the Guardian said a real effort to commercialize biofuels, algal or otherwise, requires several billion dollars, and a long-term dedication to overcoming seemingly fundamental biological limitations of wild organisms. And no oil company was willing to go that far.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Yet Schläffler has continued to call Last Generation terrorists in one way or another; Schläffler also began describing the group as a “criminal organization,” and publicly calling for it to be investigated for organized crime. Just six months later, in May 2023, German police conducted nationwide raids on Last Generation activists.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 2, 2021

As states and the federal government take steps to transition away from fossil fuel generation, it is important to pay attention to recent clean energy developments in states where energy legislation has historically been less proactive, and the traditional integrated utility monopoly model has held influence over the policymaking process.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 23, 2020

But that still leaves many of its data centers consuming power from grids that rely on fossil fuels for a majority of their electricity. Microsoft outlined the concept in a 2013 research paper, and “there are a lot of white papers since then laying out this idea.”

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 15, 2020

Meanwhile, the Upper Midwest, Texas and the Southeast are expected to have more supply than demand, while the Midcontinent Independent System Operator and the Southwest Power Pool face challenges integrating wind-rich northern regions to fossil-fuel-dependent southern regions. billion in 2013 to an estimated $22.4

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

There’s a lot of beautiful things that happen out of [Richmond]," says Khamphanthong, a community organizer with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network whose family emigrated from Laos in the 1980s. And they have suffered collateral damage from the harmful pollutants produced by using fossil fuels. As the U.S.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 26, 2022

In this Green Business Bureau article, we wanted to help you support a sustainable food supply model on a global level, starting at a smaller scale with your organization’s cafeteria. Fossil fuels are demanded throughout the entire food supply chain and consume 30% of the world’s available energy.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 4, 2020

NERA, which as a tax-exempt 501(c)(4) organization isn’t required to disclose its financial backers, argues that net metering overcompensates solar owners at the expense of other electricity customers. In 2013, the trade group wrote a memo stating that distributed solar could “ directly threaten the centralized utility model.".

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Grist

JUNE 21, 2021

The 9-year-old girl’s fatal asthma attack might have passed without public notice except for the fact that, after a long legal fight, it became the first British death officially attributed to fossil fuel-caused air pollution. When she died in 2013, no doctors mentioned environmental causes. In the U.S.,

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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). All told, the entire U.S. industrial sector emitted 822.4

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

This technique of using statements that are technically true but omit crucial information and therefore are misleading, is called paltering — and it’s an old favorite of the fossil fuel industry. Instead, they are required to contract with “ industry-governed organizations ” — private trade associations — to promote products.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

A CSR strategy is implemented by an organization to: minimize harm, practice fair business, be responsible along a global supply chain, exercise philanthropy and create a self-oriented human resource management system. Examples include deforestation and burning fossil fuels. This is not sustainable.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

In 2013, when Enviva Biomass opened a new plant near Belinda Joyner’s community in Northampton County, North Carolina, she already knew what to expect. 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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DeSmogBlog

JULY 1, 2021

The FERC decision was split, with two of the five commissioners dissenting, writing that the Commission had failed to adequately examine the climate-changing pollution linked to the fossil fuel pipeline. Fracking in the Haynesville Shale near Shreveport, Louisiana, 2013. Running to the Gulf. bcf per day by 2026.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

As a key plank of its strategy, Edelman organized an influence drive in tandem with U.S. Climate campaigners have stepped up calls for bans on fossil fuel advertisements, and are urging creatives to stop working with polluting clients. Secretary of Energy in 2013.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

But in the intervening decades, the region’s rivers were dammed or channeled and the fossil fuel era dawned across Appalachia. But at the moment, fossil fuel projects still have powerful friends in the U.S. Mountaintop Mining. The new research highlights how, even as the U.S. Image Credit: ILoveMountains.org, via Flickr.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

More carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel use is released into the environment, increasing from ~25 GtCO2 in 1999 to ~37 GtCO2 in 2019. kg/person in 2013. political arena as president, a period said to have a concerted assault on many green organizations. “ kg/person in 1970 to 43.22 We’re using more plastic.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Revelations about high-level and systemic failures of oversight — both private and public — come at a time when historic federal investments in renewable energy are threatening a constellation of fossil fuel interests and political coalitions vying to preserve profits as the U.S. economy is increasingly rocked by climate chaos.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 29, 2021

Between 2006 and 2013, China’s global share of production of PV cells, the solar industry’s core technology, surged from 14 percent to 66 percent. As prices declined, solar power became competitive with fossil fuels, even reaching grid parity in some places including China, Italy and California.

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 20, 2021

We held our first DEMO Day in 2013, two years after Greentown’s founding. Check out DEMO Day and the Climatetech Summit throughout the years: 2013 Nov. The 2014 DEMO Day was hosted in partnership with Global Cleantech Meetup Week, which was organized by the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center and ACTION New England.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 9, 2019

The world's leading scientific organizations have also repeatedly warned us about climate change. In 2013 The U.S. Seven years ago the IEA and the WRI warned that we need to stop burning fossil fuels. In fact, in the 1960s the fossil fuel industry's own science revealed that they are causing global warming.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 14, 2022

A business can then consider all the aspects of their business that produce carbon, including fossil fuels , land clearance and the production and consumption of food, manufactured goods, materials, wood, roads, buildings, transportation and other services. Your carbon footprint can then be managed once understood.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The use of these chemicals also damages the environment in other ways; much of the fertilizer used in the world today is the product of methane gas, a fossil fuel, while the wide-scale use of pesticides has been linked to the damage of ecosystems and vital populations of pollinators. Corporate Lobbying and Lawsuits.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

More carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel use is released into the environment, increasing from ~25 GtCO2 in 1999 to ~37 GtCO2 in 2019. kg/person in 2013. political arena as president, a period said to have a concerted assault on many green organizations. “ kg/person in 1970 to 43.22 We’re using more plastic.

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Green Technology

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

In July 2017 China, which is by far the world’s largest importer and recycler of scrap metals, plastic and paper, notified the World Trade Organization that it planned to effectively ban imports of 24 types of scrap , which its environment ministry called “foreign garbage,” by the end of the year. Immediately, organizations such as the U.S.-based

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 30, 2020

Aidan Dresang is a climate justice advocate and digital organizer from Madison, Wisconsin. This passion quickly turned into community organizing and eventually led to his involvement with YCAT where he served as one of their executive directors. "I Karen Dong is an organizer from Watchung, New Jersey and currently resides in New York.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2022

This includes fossil fuel lobbying, campaign contributions and dark money operations by which businesses and trade organizations exert their power in Washington, which all worked against the IRA's passage, according to the Rhode Island lawmaker. And I think a lot of it is fossil fuel money into Republicans.

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