Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Contractors lay pipe at the Crescent Dunes Solar Thermal Facility in Nevada in 2017. While IRENA has not looked into the latest statistics for institutional investors, the organization acknowledged an overall positive trend for renewable energy investment. Photo by Dennis Schroeder / NREL). Experts weigh in on the future.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2021

Western Wire was launched jointly by the oil and gas trade association the Western Energy Alliance and FTI Consulting in 2017 as the “go-to source for news, commentary and analysis on pro-growth, pro-development policies across the West.” . Screenshot of court document published by law firm Baum Hedlund.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in her Pennsylvania hometown, she will be facing off against some of the most powerful fossil fuel interests in the United States. So, instead, she organized a small protest in the parking lot alongside residents from Chester and greater Philadelphia.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

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. 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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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

In the summer of 2022, faced with a very real opportunity to confront the fossil fuel industry, potentially forcing the facility to halt oil train shipments entirely, the city instead chose to strike a compromise that allows the oil facility to continue to operate. You’re in the driver’s seat.

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Front And Centered

AUGUST 19, 2019

Washington’s solar workforce grew by eighteen percent from 2018-2017. Moreover, thanks to planned solar projects and new state laws encouraging clean energy development, the industry is poised to grow even further.

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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. The reality is they haven’t earned it yet.”. John Beard, Jr. ” The ‘Other’ Koch Brother. .

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Patrick Parenteau , Vermont Law School and Rachel Stevens , Vermont Law School. Since Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in 2017, many residents and environmental advocates have called for new clean energy sources for the island. Currently, Puerto Rico gets more than 97% of its electricity from imported fossil fuel.

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Grist

JANUARY 12, 2023

Rising emissions posed a threat to Exxon’s business — selling fossil fuels — so the oil giant took the lead on understanding what was called the “CO2 problem.”. At the time, Exxon was pouring $900,000 a year into researching the effects of burning fossil fuels. Spencer Platt / Getty Images.

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AGreenLiving

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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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

No one foresaw that this very bounty — soil rich with organic material — would, over time, become a curse of sorts. River and marsh bottoms typically have low oxygen levels, which slows the decomposition of organic material that collects there. That organic material contains copious amounts of carbon.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2021

More real estate owners, operators, developers and investment firms see the appeal of future-proofing properties from climate shocks such as floods and fires; from market shocks such as high prices for scarce fossil fuels; and from policy shocks such as any future laws requiring climate disclosures or that tax or penalize greenhouse gas emissions.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Creating better businesses with B Corp Certification and beyond B Corp Certification presents a set of guiding principles that support organizations to minimize their impact on the environment and society. B Analytics aggregates data from B Corps and other impact-focused organizations to provide comparative analysis and best practices.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Barbara got involved with the local Sierra Club chapter, and Don became executive director of the Forest Issues Group — a watchdog organization that tries to stop companies from logging and destroying habitat. But then California’s legislature passed a law to subsidize small biomass plants in 2012.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 26, 2022

Foster organic farming. The central axis of Costa Rica’s decarbonization plan is to maintain an upward curve of economic growth and, at the same time, generate a slowdown in the use of polluting fossil fuels. According to the Ministry of Health, Costa Rica’s recycling rate has increased by 469% between 2015 to 2017.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 23, 2020

Since 2017, Google has been able to procure enough renewable energy to match 100 percent of its overall electricity consumption on an annual basis. But that still leaves many of its data centers consuming power from grids that rely on fossil fuels for a majority of their electricity. Europe and Chile.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

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. 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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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

Wood energy succored Homo sapiens and its ancestors for millions of years, the argument goes, and only during the last couple of centuries was it replaced with fossil fuels like coal. After they are cut they can be replanted, absorbing carbon once again as they mature. communities and destroyed U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Two Bulls, who is Oglala Lakota and North Cheyenne, has been organizing for environmental justice for much of her life. The charges were brought under the Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Practices (RICO) Act, a law originally designed to prosecute the mafia. By Emily Sanders. Credit: Protect the Protest .

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

This ruling followed a 2021 decision in the same case, in which the court ruled that the governments had violated their legal obligations, under Belgian civil law and European human rights law, in failing to protect citizens from dangerous climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Nearly 25 years ago, oil major Shell predicted in an internal 1998 report that a class-action lawsuit would be brought against fossil fuel companies following “a series of violent storms.” The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season, in which both Irma and Maria hit, saw six major hurricanes and resulted in nearly $300 billion of damage.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

The link between airborne pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels and respiratory health is well-known. and in February this year, representatives from five Canadian health organizations described it as the “ greatest public health challenge of the 21st century. ” [iii]. The World Health Organization. April 2017.

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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. based grassroots organization opposing LNG, told DeSmog. “By

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which represents many of the world’s biggest economies, and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) predict that global meat production will continue to rise in the coming decade as incomes increase in developing countries.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 31, 2021

“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. Environmental Protection Agency reached a settlement with Shell over allegations that flaring at the site violated the Clean Air Act and state law.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 5, 2024

For years , the fossil fuel industry has maintained that the First Amendment protects its right to mislead the public about the climate crisis, but that criticism and protest of its operations violates the law. The firm is not historically known for arguing against free speech rights.

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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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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

Spokespeople for the states’ oil and gas industry regulators — the Texas Railroad Commission and the New Mexico Oil Conservation Division — said that fossil fuel companies plug the majority of wells themselves and that state agencies only get involved in rare cases when operators disappear.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

Spokespeople for the states’ oil and gas industry regulators — the Texas Railroad Commission and the New Mexico Oil Conservation Division — said that fossil fuel companies plug the majority of wells themselves and that state agencies only get involved in rare cases when operators disappear.

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Vote Solar

JUNE 29, 2017

Energy advocates organizations?—?including Voters then organized a ballot initiative to give all ratepayers the same choice to bypass the utility and buy renewable energy. Due to Nevada state law, it has to be passed a 2nd time in 2018 to go into effect). People are tired of the fossil-fueled status quo.

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The Verge: Energy

AUGUST 14, 2023

President Joe Biden’s move garnered praise from some environmental advocates but ire from others wary of fossil fuel companies’ deep ties to the emerging carbon removal industry. Climeworks was the first company to suck carbon dioxide out of the air and sell it as a product in 2017, with Coca-Cola as one of its early buyers.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

After the Biden administration’s bipartisan infrastructure law was passed , the administration hailed the bill’s $4.7 The law’s current implementation also offers no assurances that the new jobs promised for oil and gas industry workers will materialize, although it is a stated goal of the law.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Excessive use of antibiotics on farms is a major driver of AMR in people, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). If that were to be applied – and it is the law, so it should be applied – then that would mean changes to animal husbandry practices in the EU. But we’re not seeing that in most countries.”

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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). Here is how they might act in those areas.

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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. As climate concerns lead to a slow but steady decline in the demand for oil, the companies’ collaboration represents a shift by the fossil fuel industry.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Roy Cooper to lead North Carolina’s DEQ in 2017, Regan worked at EPA during the Clinton and George W. Biden’s pledge to advance his environmental agenda, through executive action if required, will also likely draw on that wide-reaching law. Before being selected by Gov. governments on energy issues.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Still others are driving sustainability at nonprofit organizations and consultancies. Badalian received an environmental law degree from Lewis & Clark Law School, which helped shape his policy work, he says. Environmental Protection Agency and Natural Resources Defense Council. Myisha Majumder. Stacia Betley, 29.

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