DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

In a February 2013 email, then-Assistant Attorney General Michael Weirich noted that the OPUC had continued to receive requests from Dye for information about agency action related to his whistleblower complaints. “I never did find out the results of my complaints to the OPUC about NW Natural,” he wrote. Any information you can give me?”.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

According to recent reports, VCs invested $60B in climate tech between 2013–2019 with an 84% CAGR in capital deployed, with no signs of slowing in 2020 (see below). Aclima (Series B | $67M | $160M): hyperlocal air quality and greenhouse gas measurement to reduce emissions and protect public health. Insight Engines. million.

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38 North Solutions

JULY 30, 2022

Health Care. -$100 Methane and Superfund. -$15 Legislation extends expiring subsidies for individuals to purchase health insurance from Affordable Care Act marketplace. Reestablishes Clean Energy Manufacturing Investment Tax Credit (originally created as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and expired in 2013).

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

The first hamburger from lab-grown meat was created by Mark Post from the Maatsricht University back in 2013. Lab-grown meat dramatically cuts back on carbon emissions , methane emissions, water consumption and land use. Maybe however the best argument is not climate-change, animal suffering, health or low costs. Absolutely.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

Those levels are more than 400 times the protective health limits designated by the U.S. According to the company’s own quarterly reports to the Railroad Commission, Lotus took in over 10 times more waste in 2013 (83,895 barrels) compared to a decade earlier (6,673 barrels in 2003).

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

The environmental impacts of these facilities have contributed to negative health outcomes and lowered property values in the adjacent communities.”. Southern Company’s Kemper County coal plant with carbon capture system under construction in 2013. ExxonMobil refinery in Baytown, Texas, in 2012. Credit: Roy Luck , CC BY 2.0.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 15, 2023

September 3, 2013, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. Any changes to NEPA that fast-track the permitting process will likely lead to bad environmental and health impacts,” Wilma Subra, a technical advisor who works with frontline communities, said on a call after the bill passed.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In 2013, she criticised solar farms and both offshore and onshore wind energy, claiming that developments were “blighting” her rural constituency. She also wrote that climate change was a “huge health challenge” and it was important to improve the “climate resilience” of health systems as well as cut emissions from the sector.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

A 2013 report by Greenpeace went so far as to proclaim that "Tanoto, through his business empire, carries the dubious distinction of being the single largest driver of deforestation in the world". After a raft of complaints from environmental groups over its alleged deforestation activities, APRIL severed its ties with FSC in 2013.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

How to Scale Regenerative Agriculture and Draw Down Carbon (Part 1) (Panel Discussion): Regenerative agriculture has the potential to draw down billions of tons of carbon dioxide while simultaneously restoring soil health. But there is a limited supply of RNG, and industries are competing for what little exists.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

But none of that has stopped President Trump and some of his allies doubling down on their short-termist, science-rejecting, overtly populist tactics, presumably in the hope they can scapegoat their way out of the escalating economic, health, and social crisis. Meanwhile, a fightback is gathering momentum.

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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. Joe Manchin (D-WV) at a 2013 event.

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