GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

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. . On top of those impacts, as many scientists and environmental groups now say, wood pellets are not the hoped-for transition fuel championed just 11 years ago. .

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 19, 2021

The Texas energy crisis in February 2021 reminded us of the precariousness of energy systems and their high costs of failure. This event nearly devastated the state’s power grid due to a frequency drop that put Texas four minutes and 37 seconds away from a months-long blackout.

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Grist

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Blue-green algae contain a powerful class of toxins called cyanotoxins. A new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that toxic algae sent more than 300 Americans to the emergency room between 2017 and 2019. Atmospheric pollution from fossil fuel plants and cars can seed algal blooms, too.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

“I am here to sound the alarm alongside my German colleagues: This is destruction masked as economic development, and we will do everything we can to protect our homes and to stop it,” said Anne Rolfes, director of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade , a New Orleans nonprofit working with communities affected by the fossil fuel industry.

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Business Green

JUNE 2, 2020

Trillions of dollars will be spent to stimulate the global economy after the pandemic - we must not continue the mistake of fossil fuel dependency, argues Mainstream Renewable Power CEO Andy Kinsella. Simply put: the polluter must pay. There must be a just transition from coal, oil and gas to clean energy.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The initiative, also known as the “Protect Washington Act”, imposes a steadily increasing carbon pollution fee on most fossil fuel uses and directs revenue toward projects to reduce carbon emissions, as well as investments in forests, water, community preparedness, and support to displaced workers and people with lower incomes.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

James plans to keep pursuing environmental justice in the courts if regulators continue to put the needs of the fossil fuel industry above the needs of fenceline communities in Cancer Alley. John the Baptist Parish have a lifetime risk of cancer from air pollution that is 800 times higher than the national average.

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Green Tech Challenge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Based on catalytic combustion, its technology runs on different fuels and scales from small to large. Singapore to Regulate E-Waste Last year, Greentech Challenge reported that global electronic waste was set to grow by a worrying 33% in 2017. Our alumni Podbike offers an active, zero emission and sustainable transport solution.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

It had been about a year and a half since he left his job at an aerospace company to found a clean energy startup in San Francisco with three of his friends, but the path to success he’d once envisioned had crumbled. Charm would use the same technology, but instead of turning plants into a useful energy product, it would offer a service.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2021

I arrived in Portland that night after driving from south Louisiana, documenting some of the fossil fuel industry’s expansion in the Gulf Coast region along the way. He pointed out that fencing doesn’t stop the pollution. Golden Pass LNG, an ExxonMobil and QatarEnergy facility being built in Sabine Pass, Texas.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Charles and David notoriously poured fortunes into funding organizations and projects designed to prevent fossil fuel regulation, often by obscuring the role that fossil fuels play in causing climate change. Very few fossil fuel plants continue to operate in Texas without scrubbers, said Cox. John Beard, Jr.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. As electric vehicles drive toward the mainstream, General Motors has come full circle as well. It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. and globally by 2040. LinkedIn | Personal website.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

.” Pollution, poverty and race collide in many other disadvantaged communities across California — and the country — and some argue that the state’s climate policies haven’t helped. The overall “cap” lowers every year, forcing polluters to reduce their emissions or purchase allowances from others who do. As the U.S.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

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. On top of those impacts, as many scientists and environmental groups now say, wood pellets are not the hoped-for transition fuel championed just 11 years ago.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

How to divert energy flows from fossil to renewable using electricity and biomass Summary - Up to 20% of our energy needs could be met by sustainably harvested biomass, in particular food and agricultural waste, as well as manure. In part II we learned that the world needs 435 TWh of energy per day. Or is there?

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Once again, we will (and we must ) transition from fossil fuels to into a zero-emission world. That is because the fuel generally used by the marine industry is the most toxic substance imaginable: Heavy Fuel Oil, commonly referred to as HFO or IFO. In 2017 alone, there were about 93,161 vessels in existence.

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2020

Companies planning to build new coal-fired power plants will no longer be able to get financing from BNP Paribas, following the banking giant's introduction of a string of new policies aimed at eliminating its exposure to coal-fired electricity projects.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Supporting these findings, a 2017 report by the Upjohn Institute concluded that employee-owned organizations were 75% less likely to go out of business. The minimum wage is not enough to meet the basic needs of employees – to cover housing, energy, food, and childcare costs. Monitor and evaluate the plan.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 30, 2023

What looks like scaffolding turns out to be the legs of a discarded North Sea fossil fuel platform. Energie Beheer Nederland, the government-owned gas company, has formed an initiative with the Dutch oil and gas industry called Nexstep to manage the process. billion euros.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 31, 2021

Refinery flares can add to air pollution in the wake of natural disasters. Some of the area’s refineries started shutting down operations leading up to Harvey, including ExxonMobil, Petrobras, Shell, and Chevron Phillips Chemical,” DeSmog reported in 2017. We expect this to continue until power is restored.”.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

However, while on the surface it may appear to be a positive shift towards lowering the greenhouse gas impact of their projects, the rhetoric about carbon-neutral LNG is mostly hollow, in another attempt to greenwash new fossil fuel projects into existence. Thames is a former executive at Cheniere Energy, a prominent U.S.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. As electric vehicles drive toward the mainstream, General Motors has come full circle as well. It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. and globally by 2040.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The 2016 AQMP analyzes existing and potential regulatory control options and seeks to achieve multiple goals in partnership with other entities promoting reductions in greenhouse gases (GHGs) and toxic risk, as well as efficiencies in energy use, transportation, and goods movement. Endnotes. [1] 5] See [link] (last visited Nov. 20, 2019). [6]

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The 2016 AQMP analyzes existing and potential regulatory control options and seeks to achieve multiple goals in partnership with other entities promoting reductions in greenhouse gases (GHGs) and toxic risk, as well as efficiencies in energy use, transportation, and goods movement. Endnotes. [1] 5] See [link] (last visited Nov. 20, 2019). [6]

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2022

The flares started last December, an event Errol Summerlin, a former legal-aid lawyer, and his neighbors had been bracing for since 2017. or SABIC, a chemical manufacturing giant tied to one of the world’s richest royal families, and Exxon Mobil, America’s biggest energy company. microns in diameter, very tiny.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Companies, particularly tobacco and fossil fuels, have also regularly challenged the science of causation with claims that evidence is weak, insufficient, or uncertain,” said Jennifer Jacquet, professor of environmental science and policy at the University of Miami. A shortage of vets for food animals – in the U.S. ,

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

While officials have argued that oil prices will eventually rise, reviving inactive wells, environmental advocates and energy analysts say that the industry is in a downward spiral that will cause the number of abandoned wells to balloon. The mighty Chesapeake Energy, a publicly traded company with $8.5

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

While officials have argued that oil prices will eventually rise, reviving inactive wells, environmental advocates and energy analysts say that the industry is in a downward spiral that will cause the number of abandoned wells to balloon. The mighty Chesapeake Energy, a publicly traded company with $8.5

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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).

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

billion package to cap orphaned oil and gas wells as a move to tackle “super-polluting methane emissions,” saying it will combat the climate crisis and create jobs. L) David Levy flying near the Big Cajun ll Power Plant in New Roads, Louisiana. (R) Are we really that naive to think the same puppets will fix it?”

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

On May 8, 2017, a drum of radioactive oilfield waste from Australia arrived at a remote West Texas disposal site operated by local oil and gas environmental services company, Lotus LLC. Adjacent is the Prospero 2 project, whose power has been purchased by a medical services company. Credit: Justin Hamel ©2021.

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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.” and eventually other nations.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Clean energy for Native American communities. Growing up outside of Boston, Zack Angelini spent summers swimming, but one polluted river was off limits. "I Today, Barudin works on state clean energy policy, collaborating closely with tribal leaders to ensure community buy-in and outcomes that are equitable. GreenBiz Editors.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 1, 2021

In June, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) narrowly approved the construction of a new 42” diameter gas pipeline that will connect shale wells in Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Ohio to a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on the Gulf Coast, carrying over a billion cubic feet of fracked gas to be transported overseas every day.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

Clean energy for Native American communities. Zack Angelini, 29 Senior Environmental Stewardship Manager, Timberland; Malden, Massachusetts LinkedIn Growing up outside of Boston, Zack Angelini spent summers swimming, but one polluted river was off limits. “I’ve always been an energy nerd and I just knew that was my place.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

These changes will only worsen for as long as society continues to burn fossil fuels, and for some time after. The report notes that the cost of solar energy has fallen 90 percent in the last decade, and the cost of wind power has dropped 70 percent. But the report also offers reason for hope. decreased by 12 percent.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Only 3 percent of the Wyoming project’s CO2 has been geologically stored in the same formation from which the original gas was extracted, according to estimates from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). C and with the net-zero energy transition. Credit: SaskPower , CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

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