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. LNG boom threatens to release vast amounts of methane, a powerful climate pollutant that is the main component of natural gas.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 21, 2020

The bankrupt utility is struggling to secure its grid from causing more deadly wildfires and has been stymied in attempts to set up natural-gas-backed microgrids to power substations during fire-prevention blackouts. PG&E hadn’t planned on relying entirely on mobile generators this year.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Climate activists say the state’s progress on reducing building emissions has been far too slow given the pace of the climate crisis, and that it needs to end incentives for energy-efficient natural gas heating. rise in emissions from natural gas. for natural gas and 6.6% for natural gas and 6.6%

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Defend Our Future

DECEMBER 18, 2020

I am here today to give testimony on the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative ruling. Joining RGGI is key to Pennsylvania lowering pollution, fighting climate change, and providing a better quality of life for Pennsylvanians today. percent, or nearly double that, adding 7,794 jobs in 2017-2019.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 2, 2021

It follows five years of campaigning at a local level to shut down the twin ethylene and liquid natural gas (LNG) plants at Mossmorran. Formed in 2017, Mossmorran Action Group brought together residents fed up with the increased duration and intensity of production activity at the plant. Credit: Jaye Renold. A World Leader?

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

But in a blog post on her Watt-Logic website in September 2017, Porter wrote that “climate models overstate global warming”, with reference to models used by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The UK’s independent Climate Change Committee rebutted these arguments in 2013, after they were made by GWPF advisor Matt Ridley.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

Rolfes was speaking during a visit last month to the German port of Wilhelmshaven, site of a new terminal to unload liquefied natural gas (LNG) — natural gas supercooled for shipping on specialized tankers. German banks like Deutsche Bank are funding this export of gas from the United States,” Rolfes told DeSmog.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

A DeSmog investigation also found that every one of Chase’s board of directors had connections to polluting industries. JPMorgan is one of five major financial institutions to have invested a combined $6 billion in oil extraction projects in the western Amazon between 2017 and 2019, according to a study published by the NGO Amazon Watch.

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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

DECEMBER 20, 2021

This story is part of a collaboration between DeSmog and Public Health Watch. New liquefied natural gas (LNG) and oil export facilities are springing up, as well as petrochemical plants like the GCGV ethane cracker. He pointed out that fencing doesn’t stop the pollution. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Core to this strategy is keeping the benefit of building electrification in these communities — creating jobs, improving health and saving households money. There just isn’t a path to a safe climate future without addressing natural gas in buildings.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

This article provides a primer on the three major policy building blocks available for reducing carbon pollution: pricing mechanisms, subsidies , and regulations. The same elasticity effect applies to pollution. Economists argue that Pigouvian taxes , like a carbon tax, are the most economically efficient means of reducing pollution.

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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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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 2, 2021

The report identifies 10 tactics that polluters, industry lobbyists, and politicians often deploy to deflect accountability for the impacts of fossil fuel production and pollution on the environment and human health. Many of the industry’s tactics are familiar, such as obscuring or denying the true effects of pollution.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The ride-sharing brand positions this as a radical shift that will benefit communities, partly by reducing pollution. Vas" Narasimhan views this moment as the best to be alive, partly because science promises to advance health by unlocking genetic mysteries that have built up over 3.7 billion years of evolution.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 28, 2021

For nearly four years, Piedmont Natural Gas — one of Duke’s wholly owned subsidiaries — and the state’s other major gas distribution company have stymied incentives for new high-efficiency homes, claiming with scant evidence that the rebate scheme will lose them customers. Destructive or unfair competition’? Musser questioned.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Last week, a nationwide study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University ( CMU ) found that the country’s air quality deteriorated in 2017 and 2018 — a dramatic reversal of improvements recorded over the prior seven years. Tags: Consumer Energy Alliance pennsylvania fracking natural gas air quality

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Since Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in 2017, many residents and environmental advocates have called for new clean energy sources for the island. President Joe Biden has called for a governmentwide approach that promotes clean energy, protects public health and the environment, and advances environmental justice.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Over the years, most other Texas fossil fuel plants that emitted large amounts of sulfur dioxide have been required to install so-called “scrubber” equipment , which reduces that air pollution. spoke about Port Arthur, climate change, and Oxbow’s air pollution in front of the Biden White House in October 2021. John Beard, Jr.

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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. Workers at the site face particularly acute health risks, Subra said.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

According to the World Health Organization, more than 200,000 deaths in Europe every year can be attributed to particulate matter alone. But the pollution caused by burning marine fuels are directly linked to hundreds of thousands of deaths each year. In 2017 alone, there were about 93,161 vessels in existence.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The federal Clean Air Act defines an indirect source as any facility, building, structure, or installation, or combination thereof, which generates or attracts mobile source activity that results in emissions of any pollutant (or precursor) for which there is an air quality standard. [6] Proposed Warehouse ISR. Endnotes. [1] 20, 2019). [6]

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The federal Clean Air Act defines an indirect source as any facility, building, structure, or installation, or combination thereof, which generates or attracts mobile source activity that results in emissions of any pollutant (or precursor) for which there is an air quality standard. [6] Proposed Warehouse ISR. Endnotes. [1] 20, 2019). [6]

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, or TCEQ, has not told residents about the health risks they face. TCEQ documents obtained by Public Health Watch show that some of those early readings were double the level Texas considered safe at the time. Emerging research also connects it to diabetes and reproductive problems.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

The ride-sharing brand positions this as a radical shift that will benefit communities, partly by reducing pollution. Addressing health equity is a special focus area for Narasimhan, who cut his teeth as a public health doctor addressing malaria and HIV in developing nations. billion years of evolution.

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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. The complex contains a circuit board of pipes and steel tanks that cough out steam, flames and toxic substances as it creates the building blocks for plastic from natural gas liquids.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Proponents of carbon capture, usage, and sequestration (CCUS) often highlight ways that it could be used for sectors like steel and cement whose carbon pollution is generally considered “hard to abate.” The pipeline network would be twice the size of the current U.S.

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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. Those levels are more than 400 times the protective health limits designated by the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Proponents hailed it as one of the most important environmental projects undertaken by the oil and gas industry in recent U.S. It lies in the heart of north central Appalachia’s booming Marcellus and Utica gas fields — America’s top natural gas-producing region — and was built to process 600 truckloads per day of fracking wastewater.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Growing up outside of Boston, Zack Angelini spent summers swimming, but one polluted river was off limits. "I She took matters into her own hands in 2017, when she founded the reusable underwear line Pantys , the first of its kind in Latin America. Essentially, sustainable fashion meets women’s health. Zack Angelini, 29.

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The Verge: Energy

APRIL 25, 2024

Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has just finalized rules aimed at slashing greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. But it still doesn’t crack down on the nation’s fleet of gas-fired power plants. A power plant in Thompsons, Texas, U.S.

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EDF + Business

MARCH 1, 2021

Prior to his current role he worked as scientist in a public health lab, and as post-doctoral fellow at the University of Southern California. Areas of interest: Personalized medicine, Bioinformatics, Public health policy, Environmental sustainability, Sanitation, Water, Ecology, Biodiversity, and Science education and communication.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

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. Essentially, sustainable fashion meets women’s health. Modernizing the space, though, would require a new approach.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

CCS and the related carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS), are a set of technologies designed to trap some of the carbon pollution produced from industrial facilities. A natural gas demonstration plant in Texas tests carbon capture technology. Credit: NET Power , CC BY-SA 4.0

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Boma Brown-West, Director of Consumer Health, EDF+Business. She is at the center of the NGO’s working relationship with Walmart , among other retailers and consumer brands, helping it launch in 2017 an expansive strategy to reduce its chemical footprint for consumables by 10 percent by 2022. . LinkedIn | Twitter.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Polluting industries are often located near Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities, impacting the health of communities suffering from long standing problems of disenfranchisement and disinvestment. We have more than 42 major and minor polluting sources that are impacting our community and more are opening up every day.”.

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CleanTechnica

APRIL 17, 2020

Below is an article I published in August 2017. As we consider perhaps more than ever how much different things cause death in the USA, I think it's good to take note of the vast number of premature deaths that come as a result of air pollution — 200,000 a year in the United States.

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