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. Satellite data crunched by SkyTruth reveal how much of the land in Appalachia has been directly affected by surface mining from 1985 to 2015 (in yellow). Mountaintop Mining. Image Credit: SkyTruth.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2020

circular – of all the minerals, fossil fuels, metals and biomass that enter it each year just 8.6% billion tonnes in 2015 to 100.6 This third report sparks an alarm for all governments; we need to deploy all the array of policies to really catalyze this transformation.”. are reused. This has fallen from 9.1%

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 12, 2020

With a long history in fossil fuels and nuclear energy, Engie has pivoted dramatically toward renewables over the past few years — a strategy that included the U.S. In 2015 the company changed its name from GDF Suez to Engie to reflect its new clean-energy focus. ” Avice-Huet said.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Compared to the previous round, the latest auction has been expanded to wider array of technologies, with offshore wind, onshore wind, solar, tidal and floating offshore wind projects, among others, all eligible to bid for funding through the auction process.

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 13, 2020

These threats are not new, in 2015 it was clear that climate change was real and demanded urgent action. We’ve reached a crossroads where our own future is at stake if we don’t move away from fossil fuels and end wildlife exploitation, and at the same time, necessarily, address poverty and injustice." Or maybe we won't.

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Low Impact

JULY 11, 2021

It’s a ministerial statement of June 2015, based I think on a sense that a lot of Conservative supporters in rural areas really hated turbines. The government’s real focus is on big energy, and largely on fossil fuels. The worst hit is wind, because there’s effectively a planning ban on onshore wind turbines in England.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2022

For context, 100GW is more than the UK's entire current electricity capacity, which stands at around 75GW from both clean and fossil fuel sources. The firm was also part of the four-strong consortium behind the 630MW London Array offshore wind farm, which was the world's largest when it was completed in 2013.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 30, 2021

2019 was the first full year that the data was reported under 2015 EPA regulations requiring refineries to install benzene monitors at the outer edges of their plants. The EPA also treats benzene as a “canary in a coal mine” for the presence of a broad array of other chemicals in the air around refineries, according to Schaeffer. “If

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Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

For this reason, the hydrogen market today is dominated by steam reformation of natural gas, it’s essentially a fossil fuel. Despite the growing interest in renewable hydrogen, the cost has remained an impediment to widespread adoption and displacement of the fossil-fuel derived hydrogen that dominates the current market.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Several sets of factors converged to make these funds an even better bet than the S&P 500, Dow Jones or NASDAQ exchanges that covered a broad array of individual equities, mutual funds or indexed portfolios. A declining investment rationale for fossil fuels. ESG investors were not unwise. What was once a trend is now a rout.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

"They are choking our planet, based on their vested interests and historic investments in fossil fuels, when cheaper, renewable solutions provide green jobs, energy security, and greater price stability. But the truly dangerous radicals are the countries that are increasing the production of fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 15, 2021

This year’s Goldman honorees have claimed a wide array of environmental victories worldwide. Berta Cáceres, who fought dams in Honduras and was awarded the Goldman Prize in 2015, was assassinated in 2016. Kimiko Hirata, 50, fought coal plant construction in Japan following the 2011 meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Several sets of factors converged to make these funds an even better bet than the S&P 500, Dow Jones or NASDAQ exchanges that covered a broad array of individual equities, mutual funds or indexed portfolios. A declining investment rationale for fossil fuels. ESG investors were not unwise. What was once a trend is now a rout.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2022

Frustration with the banking industry is gaining currency - in particular, the sector's role in financing fossil fuels. The funding was dominated by four US banks - Bank of America, Citi, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo - which together accounted for a quarter of all fossil-fuel financing since 2015.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

And since 1997 about one million barrels worth of oilfield waste has been brought to Lotus’s disposal site, situated off a dusty desert road located 19 miles west of Andrews, Texas (and just several miles from a massive solar array financed by Facebook and which provides energy to Shell’s fracking operations).

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2022

trillion in clean energy investments in 2022, with investment growing by 12% since 2020, up from 2% in 2015. The sixth largest producer of biofuels to replace fossil fuels, primarily in aviation and chemical manufacturing. The International Energy Agency estimates that there will be more than £1.2

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

While at Tufts University, from which he received a bachelor’s in international relations and economics, Dowd was involved with the school’s fossil fuels divestment campaign and interned in the Obama White House. When most people think about solar, they think about electricity.

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Business Green

JULY 10, 2020

Emerald envisions the transformation of the maritime landscape from fossil fuel production to a clean renewable energy source. The project is intended to be delivered as a staged development, starting with a pre-commercial array of approximately 100MW capacity and building to an overall capacity of 1GW upon final completion.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

While at Tufts University, from which he received a bachelor’s in international relations and economics, Dowd was involved with the school’s fossil fuels divestment campaign and interned in the Obama White House. “You have to be aware of what others are doing to do your best within your own lane.”

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

“If you were a fossil fuel project, you would have been shut down long ago.” For fossil fuel ideologues, sowing misinformation about wind and solar power is proving to be an effective stall tactic. “Hear this message: We’re here to save the whales!” One of those names is John Droz.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The efforts of Indigenous peoples in North America have helped block or delay a long list of major fossil fuel projects over the past decade, successfully leading to the avoidance of a massive amount of greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report. The numbers don’t lie. November, 2016. Credit: Becker1999. (CC CC BY 2.0).

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2021

And businesses felt little pressure to respond to early COPs, shackled for years by US-led doubts that human greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels were the main driver of climate change, and by the reluctance of many nations to make a wrenching economic shift away from fossil fuels. Paris breakthrough.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

This applies to the fossil fuel and other industries as well as political.parties and most notably, political leaders like Donald Trump. However, in practice the interactions envisioned by the reticulate public sphere devolve into an anarchic array of endless permutations. under the leadership of President Donald Trump.

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