DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The circumstances surrounding his termination are documented among thousands of pages of public records and internal company documents that provide a penetrating look into the multi-billion dollar stakes of negotiations between governments and state-sanctioned monopolies that are shaping the future of energy systems in Oregon and beyond.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Richmond, a diverse, industrial city where housing prices and incomes have lagged behind its Bay Area neighbors, has poor air quality and some of the highest rates of respiratory and cardiovascular disease in California. Now, when Khamphanthong explains the sound to his young nieces, he sees the fear in their eyes. "I

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The Outlaw Ocean Project documented the forcible transfer of more than a thousand Uyghurs and members of other Muslim minorities 2,000 miles from their homes in landlocked Xinjiang to 10 fish processing plants in the coastal province of Shandong since 2018.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This story is part of the series Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia , which explores the path to low-carbon energy for British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. And, in the United States, political gridlock chopped the heart out of Congress’ most ambitious clean energy plan. . Worried about the climate crisis? If not sooner.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

BASF’s wine tasting is just one example of many such pandemic-style lobbying efforts by the European agriculture industry since the EU has attempted to pass sweeping new policies to combat climate change through measures included in its “Green Deal,” first presented in December 2019. Meet the Industry Trade Groups.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

If you take Shell’s word for it, the oil giant’s growing petrochemical operations are indicative of its “commitment” to a cleaner energy future. Today, a peculiar sign still greets those who enter the town: residential homes are pictured next to an oil tank, surrounded by refinery towers, all basking together underneath the sun and blue sky.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2022

Planned legislation covering energy, transport, and a clamp down on environmental protests was unveiled in today's Queen Speech. Energy Security Bill.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 25, 2022

.” The Ohio and Pennsylvania advocacy groups sent the Austin Master samples to Marco Kaltofen, a nuclear forensics scientist in Massachusetts who has extensive experience examining radioactive waste from the nuclear weapons, nuclear power generation, and oil and gas industries. And research by the U.S. Credit: Justin Hamel ©2021.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Often working from home themselves, they empathized with employees and other stakeholders, some refusing to issue layoffs. Each of these individuals is playing the long game and is in a strong position to move their companies and industries into what could be a more hopeful period of reconciliation, recovery and repair.

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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. 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.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 31, 2022

As Bill Torbett and his colleagues went about their work, handling the sloppy radioactive detritus of oilfields in a cavernous building in eastern Ohio, their skin and clothing often became smothered in sludge. Waste was splattered on the floor and walls, even around the electrical panels. The company has not replied to questions.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

The US Clean Investment Monitor published its annual report for 2023, which saw clean investment total $239bn, up 38% from 2022. Energy & industry. Weaker residential construction activity cooled the HVAC sector, and heat pump sales bore the brunt at a 16% decline compared to 2022.  Happy Monday! 

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 10, 2020

California regulators and utilities want to build microgrids for communities most at threat from the state’s increasingly deadly wildfires, and the widespread public safety power shutoff (PSPS) grid outages meant to prevent them. Image credit: PG&E).

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The global electric racing championship Formula E has been a huge success by any measure. Automakers like Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, Nissan, and Jaguar have embraced the series, which is surely the world’s most prominent showcase for electric vehicle performance. Medeiros told us.

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Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

candidate at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who specializes in climate science, social science, policy and the law, the climate change effects that California has experienced so far are just the tip of what’s to come. Enforcing the use of masks requires monitoring by the state, for example. A new lead crisis?

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Clean Energy Trust

MAY 21, 2020

From mobile phones to computers to electric vehicles, the convenience of on-demand power is driving demand for batteries of all shapes and sizes. Some battery systems for utility-scale energy storage are becoming so large that they need their own buildings for space. Batteries have become ubiquitous in our daily lives.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Richmond, a diverse, industrial city where housing prices and incomes have lagged behind its Bay Area neighbors, has poor air quality and some of the highest rates of respiratory and cardiovascular disease in California. Now, when Khamphanthong explains the sound to his young nieces, he sees the fear in their eyes.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

potentially affecting the ultimate fate of millions of abandoned oil industry wells. The wastewater well sits on land that’s owned by ExxonMobil, was drilled by ConocoPhillips, and eventually wound up run by a tiny start-up called Black Elk Energy that specialized in wringing out the last dregs of oil from aging wells.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Proposed Rule 2305, recently released by the District in discussion draft form, would establish the Warehouse Actions and Investments to Reduce Emissions (WAIRE) Program — which would apply to owners and operators of warehouses located in the South Coast Air Basin (Basin) with greater than 100,000 square feet of indoor space in a single building.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Proposed Rule 2305, recently released by the District in discussion draft form, would establish the Warehouse Actions and Investments to Reduce Emissions (WAIRE) Program — which would apply to owners and operators of warehouses located in the South Coast Air Basin (Basin) with greater than 100,000 square feet of indoor space in a single building.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 22, 2020

After the turmoil of the last several months, residential solar is now coping with a new threat — one the industry says is existential. Net metering credits home solar customers for the power they sell back to the grid if they produce in excess of their own usage. now has more than 2.4 year average.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

According to the US Drought Monitor , the state is currently drought-free, although some regions are still considered abnormally dry. The rulemaking responds to 2018 legislation (AB 1668 and SB 606), mandating the SWRCB to establish efficiency standards that apply to urban retail water suppliers.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 31, 2021

“This process adds to air pollution because it leads to flaring off excess toxic gases , together with natural gas and oxygen, to keep the chemicals from building up to dangerous pressures.”. Black carbon released by flares can be a powerful — if short-lived — greenhouse gas in its own right. In 2018, the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 2, 2020

The group claiming status as a ratepayer advocacy group in its attempt to get federal regulators to override state net metering regimes has finally revealed the identity of one of its members. But that revelation appears to strengthen claims by its opponents that it is representing energy industry interests rather than those of ratepayers.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Often working from home themselves, they empathized with employees and other stakeholders, some refusing to issue layoffs. Each of these individuals is playing the long game and is in a strong position to move their companies and industries into what could be a more hopeful period of reconciliation, recovery and repair.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

APRIL 26, 2019

To see some of the first-rate work ESDers have accomplished in the past fiscal year, review the ESD 2018 Annual Report. Effective July 1, 2018, all employees holding positions in this classification shall receive an approximate 5% ongoing non-pensionable compensation increase. What is it like to be an ESDer?

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

APRIL 26, 2019

To see some of the first-rate work ESDers have accomplished in the past fiscal year, review the ESD 2018 Annual Report. Effective July 1, 2018, all employees holding positions in this classification shall receive an approximate 5% ongoing non-pensionable compensation increase. What is it like to be an ESDer?

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Although it has been linked to leukemia since the late 1920s, it is unevenly regulated because of relentless opposition from industry groups. And there are still no federal standards for ambient benzene exposure — the amount that people who live near industrial facilities can safely breathe as they go about their daily lives.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2022

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. The plant is the first joint venture in the Americas between Saudi Basic Industries Corp.,

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

Several houses near her home remain vacant. It's also home to the highest rates of lead poisoning among children in the city. In 2018, the median household income in Queen's neighborhood was about $39,000 , compared to the state average of more than $70,300. In many ways, Maleta Kimmons defines her neighborhood by what it lacks.

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EDF + Business

MARCH 1, 2021

He/Him/His) Energy & Sustainability Consultant, Cumming Corporation Los Angeles, CA, USA Shorenstein Realty Services (‘15). As an Assistant Project Manager, Trevor Anderson supports his Energy and Sustainability team and their clients on a variety of sustainability consulting services. Ian Champ. (He/Him/His)

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Clean energy for Native American communities. Decarbonized buildings. Others have lost their own homes to natural disasters. And that’s his hope for the apparel and footwear industry as a whole. Badalian received an environmental law degree from Lewis & Clark Law School, which helped shape his policy work, he says.

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Grist

JULY 21, 2022

Recently, international attention has homed in on the problem, which is only growing worse as plastic doesn’t decompose but degrades into smaller pieces that will remain in the environment for thousands of years. A micron is just 1/25,000 of an inch, or one-millionth of a meter.).

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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. Veolia would design, build, operate and maintain the facility under a 10-year agreement in return for more than $255 million, Antero said in 2015. In April, the District Court reduced the amount of damages.

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Mearth

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The Law provides, amongst other issues, for the fee arrangements and payment establishments that comprise the Brazilian Payment System. Bitcoin prices had been negatively affected by a number of hacks or thefts from cryptocurrency exchanges, including thefts from Coincheck in January 2018, Bithumb in June, and Bancor in July.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

Clean energy for Native American communities. Decarbonized buildings. Others have lost their own homes to natural disasters. And that’s his hope for the apparel and footwear industry as a whole. Badalian received an environmental law degree from Lewis & Clark Law School, which helped shape his policy work, he says.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2020

Several houses near her home remain vacant. It’s also home to the highest rates of lead poisoning among children in the city. ” In 2018, the median household income in Queen’s neighborhood was about $39,000 , compared to the state average of more than $70,300. .

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