DeSmogBlog

MAY 23, 2024

This story was published in partnership with ExxonKnews When Susan Avery was first nominated to ExxonMobil’s board in 2017 after pressure from shareholder advocates to bring on a climate scientist, many hoped that her expertise could help steer the oil major in a new direction. Exxon is expanding its investments in fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Melissa Lem was shocked when she saw an advertisement from a major Canadian fossil fuel lobby group showing young parents and their two children happily cooking a meal over a brand new gas stove. The companies changed an online version of the ad to read “the least polluting fossil fuel.”. And all fossil fuels are bad.”.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

On Wednesday, a group of more than 450 scientists called on advertising agencies to cut off their fossil fuel clients and to end their ties with an ongoing misinformation campaign that has time and again killed progress on addressing the climate crisis. And as this letter makes clear, they have had enough. ” Arena said.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

MANCHESTER – The Conservative chair of a parliamentary group on hydrogen has defended the body’s receipt of £70,000 in funding from fossil fuel giants including Shell and Equinor. He added: “[Firms] like Shell, BP, fossil fuel companies, they’ve got money. There’s no influence over what we look at, what we do,” he said.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Fossil fuels, primarily gas, are a fixture in millions of American homes and businesses, but the building sector’s climate impact hasn’t received the same scrutiny as coal and gas in the power sector or oil in the transportation sector. New spending on gas infrastructure tripled from 2009 to 2017, rising to $14.9

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 27, 2020

utilities in setting a net-zero carbon target for 2050, aiming to balance the emissions from its sizable fossil fuel-fired generation fleet and sprawling natural gas business with reductions to be gained by expanding its portfolio of renewable energy and energy efficiency. Southern Company has joined other major U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 19, 2024

Nearly half of diet-related greenhouse gas emissions in the UK come from meat and dairy due to emissions of methane, an extremely potent greenhouse gas, in livestock farming. Veronica Wignall from campaign group Ad Free Cities said the promotion of meat and dairy to Gen Z resembled “a playbook strategy from the fossil fuel industry”.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2023

As Louisiana attempts to spew less climate-warming pollution, which disproportionately comes from industry, fossil-fuel companies have convinced lawmakers to jump onto the bandwagon of carbon capture and storage (CCS), a controversial and unproven method of addressing the issue. CCS is also an energy-intensive process.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 12, 2023

Last fall, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) greenlit the Hackberry gas storage project , which involves converting underground domes constructed in the 1970s to mine for salt into storage space for up to 25.5 natural gas, which is primarily composed of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. billion cubic feet of natural gas.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

China is both a clean energy leader and a dirty energy behemoth. An analysis by Global Energy Monitor reveals that the situation is going from bad to worse as the country is currently building or planing 148 gigawatts of new coal power capacity. China is now the world's second largest economy and the largest carbon emitter.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Increasingly, the compelling economics of clean energy alternatives play a major role in these decisions. Utilities in Florida and California recently made similar decisions to move away from gas in favor of renewable energy. cannot afford to lock in future carbon emissions by investing in gas or other fossil fuel infrastructure.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

It is hard to imagine anything more ludicrously unsustainable than the chain of machinery which gobbles up trees in the southern USA, extrudes them as pellets, ships them across the Atlantic and converts them into electric energy so that Europeans can continue to enjoy a level of affluence unachievable for most people in the world.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Greenpeace Italy and Re:Common have alleged in their climate lawsuit — Italy’s first — that despite knowing at least as early as 1970 that burning fossil fuels posed a serious climate risk, Eni went on to promote “natural” –- or methane – gas as a safe energy source for decades. the spokesperson stated.

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Business Green

JULY 16, 2020

The target covers both carbon dioxide and methane emissions from OGCI member companies' operated upstream oil and gas exploration and production activities, as well as emissions from associated imports of electricity and steam. Progress against the goals is to be reported on an annual basis.

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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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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 at a protest the group held near the Fifth Ward Elementary School on October 18, 2017. The law is on our side,” Lavigne told me.

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Grist

JANUARY 10, 2023

As you cruise through this tiny world, you pass more than 400,000 nitrogen molecules, 100,000 oxygen molecules, 219 carbon dioxide molecules, before you find what you’re looking for: a single molecule of methane. Methane is one of the most powerful yet misunderstood greenhouse gasses on Earth. methane emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 19, 2023

An international research team led by Dutch investigative journalism platform Follow the Money has found that governments and companies are falling behind in their obligations to dismantle and remove obsolete oil and gas installations — threatening to turn the North Sea into a vast graveyard of decaying fossil fuel infrastructure.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

IEA warns that methane emissions from the global energy sector fell only fractionally last year, despite projects to cut methane leaks providing hugely attractive returns on investment By rights methane emissions from the fossil fuel industry should be one of the easiest climate problems to fix.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

According to a 2021 study by researchers from the New York University (NYU) Department of Environmental Studies, meat companies “emphasize mitigating energy use, with limited focus on emissions (e.g., methane) from animal and land management and land-use change, which make the biggest warming contributions in the agricultural sector.”.

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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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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 20, 2021

You’ll also learn about key technology areas that are driving momentum to equitably tackle the climate crisis, and explore the plentiful opportunities for everyone to be a part of the energy transition that’s already unfolding. Northeast Clean Energy Council President Peter Rothstein. Massachusetts Clean Energy Center.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Bloomberg Philanthropies said it would take a three-pronged approach to help accelerate coal phase out efforts, funding advocacy work in support of 'no coal' policies, supporting competitive clean energy projects, and providing financing and investment to fund pilot clean energy projects that encourage further private sector investment.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 7, 2024

The world’s largest deposit was discovered at a mine in the Eastern European Country The largest white hydrogen flow ever discovered in the world has been detected in a mine in Albania, as was reported last month by Hydrogen Fuel News.   The gas also contained much smaller amounts of methane and nitrogen.

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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

JULY 20, 2023

But TC Energy, the Canadian owner of a major regional gas pipeline, has asked federal regulators to approve a plan that would dramatically expand the line’s capacity, flooding the region for decades with new supplies of methane gas – even as demand dwindles. percent a year on average through 2050.

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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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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Driving this sea change in long-term planning is a combination of public pressure and energy economics. Utilities in many states now face mandates to move to 100 percent renewable energy or cut carbon to zero by 2050. Dominion Energy. Virginia-based Dominion Energy is, after NextEra, the largest U.S. Duke Energy.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In addition, in 2019 the UK introduced the Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR) standard which makes it mandatory for large companies operating in the UK to annually report their energy and carbon emissions. By energy purchased, we’re referring to electrical energy. billion tons of CO 2e in 2018, and 13.15

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

In October, she invited a university researcher onto the property and discovered that several wells were leaking methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide. This increases the risk of methane seeping into the air and oil migrating into the surrounding groundwater. Experts predict the trend will continue.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

In October, she invited a university researcher onto the property and discovered that several wells were leaking methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide. This increases the risk of methane seeping into the air and oil migrating into the surrounding groundwater. Experts predict the trend will continue.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 8, 2020

According to a 2017 study , Europeans use 36 billion disposable straws annually. Rather, by using an alternative resource to fossil fuels, biodegradable straws enable a reduced ecological footprint across the whole of the product lifespan – from production to disposal. It is notoriously energy intensive, first of all.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

State of Montana that the state’s ongoing support for and promotion of fossil fuel development — including directing state regulators not to consider a project’s climate impacts during the permitting process — violated Montana’s constitutional guarantee of the right to a clean and healthful environment, which extends to a stable climate.

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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. So Biven is determined to make sure her “Methane Memo,” which lays out a plan to safeguard the funds, makes its way to him. Who Writes the Bills That Become Law?

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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

DECEMBER 10, 2021

As abundant investigative reporting and academic studies have documented, the companies’ own scientists were telling their executives in the 1970s that burning more oil and other fossil fuels would overheat the planet. Don’t Call It Methane, It’s ‘Natural’ Gas. Except that methane gas isn’t clean.

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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.” Based upon Val Verde, since the 1970s, U.S.

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