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. It’s an apt welcome to a place where the realities of everyday life seem to be in stark contrast to the green illusion marketed by the fossil fuel and petrochemical industries.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 1, 2020

In a landmark move, California regulators last year redirected the Self-Generation Incentive Program (SGIP), the state’s main support mechanism for behind-the-meter batteries, to focus more than half of its $1.2 billion budget through 2024 on providing backup power to protect its most vulnerable populations.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

To identify the powerful actors most actively lobbying against these key EU regulations and policies, DeSmog analysed corporate reports, lobbying records, official position papers, responses to public EU consultations, media events, and meetings held with various EU bodies over the past two years. Meet the Industry Trade Groups.

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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 26, 2021

EQT’s move comes on the heels of a similar announcement from Chesapeake Energy, one of the pioneers of fracking which recently emerged from bankruptcy. Industry advisors are increasingly offering up new ideas about how oil and gas companies can use the language of ESG to market their fossil fuel as different from the competition’s.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Cap-and-Trade programs, Electric Vehicles (EV) incentives, and the United States backing out of the Paris Climate Agreement were hot topics at WCS’s recent California Climate Policy panel discussion, hosted at Sandbox Suites in San Francisco. China has recently committed to stop selling cars that run on fossil fuels.

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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.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 15, 2021

California regulators have approved a microgrid plan directing $200 million to help communities build networks that can supply power through the state’s extended wildfire-prevention blackouts, a task expected to take years to move from planning to completing its first projects. Slow progress on microgrid policy.

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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Earlier this month, France’s constitutional court upheld a law cutting palm oil from the country’s list of approved biofuels and eliminating associated tax exemptions. of transport’s energy mix would need to be composed of biofuels. A powerful economic driver. C by 2100, at least 26.3% Kallista Alam has managed to evade a $26.5

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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. Happy Monday!    Lots of spice for clean investment this week. The picture was less rosy for new wind and heat pumps, both of which have suffered from high interest rates.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

As the new 2050 target, now enshrined in law, is to reduce emissions to net zero, it is important to distinguish between gross zero and net zero. It can be hard to define scientifically the equivalence between one negative emissions unit generated through a given NET and one positive emissions unit abated in the industry or power sectors.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

While California already has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 13 percent since their peak in 2004, many residents still suffer from high levels of air pollution — much of it produced by fossil fuels. And they have suffered collateral damage from the harmful pollutants produced by using fossil fuels. 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. Other wood pellet companies have flocked to the region, including Drax , a major energy utility in the UK that now manufactures wood pellets in the U.S.

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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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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MARCH 11, 2021

In December 2018, after having successfully reduced greenhouse gas emissions from the power sector by 53.3%, a majority of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) jurisdictions announced plans to design a program to address carbon emissions from the combustion of transportation fuels. Background.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 31, 2021

Black carbon released by flares can be a powerful — if short-lived — greenhouse gas in its own right. In 2018, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reached a settlement with Shell over allegations that flaring at the site violated the Clean Air Act and state law. We expect this to continue until power is restored.”.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

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. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management staffer. ” Megan Milliken Biven, former U.S. In the 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

As of April 2018, the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) region, which encompasses the Basin, was home to approximately 34,000 warehouses with 1.17 For example, the majority of natural gas-powered trucks operating in California today are running on renewable natural gas that can have a negative carbon intensity.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

As of April 2018, the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) region, which encompasses the Basin, was home to approximately 34,000 warehouses with 1.17 For example, the majority of natural gas-powered trucks operating in California today are running on renewable natural gas that can have a negative carbon intensity.

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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. But we’re not seeing that in most countries.”

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2022

or SABIC, a chemical manufacturing giant tied to one of the world’s richest royal families, and Exxon Mobil, America’s biggest energy company. 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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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 29, 2021

In his spare time, David Levy, owner of Petrotechnologies, a company that makes specialty parts for the oil and gas industry, monitors the fossil fuel industry across southwest Louisiana from the sky. Levy believes orphaned wells aren’t being monitored properly. Credit: Julie Dermanksy. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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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

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

APRIL 22, 2021

And since 1997 about one million barrels worth of oilfield waste has been brought to Lotus’s disposal site, situated off a dusty desert road located 19 miles west of Andrews, Texas (and just several miles from a massive solar array financed by Facebook and which provides energy to Shell’s fracking operations). Credit: Justin Hamel ©2021.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Clean energy for Native American communities. As the North American program manager for the Climate Group’s EV100 program, Badalian works to get large companies to commit to 100 percent electric mobility by 2030, then helps them replace global fleets with electric vehicles, deploy charging stations and affect government policy.

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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. As the North American program manager for the Climate Group’s EV100 program, Badalian works to get large companies to commit to 100 percent electric mobility by 2030, then helps them replace global fleets with electric vehicles, deploy charging stations and affect government policy.

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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

APRIL 5, 2021

It was Thursday, October 22, 2020, when the crew aboard the Transocean Deepwater Asgard, an ultra-deepwater rig in the Gulf of Mexico, started monitoring a weather disturbance in the nearby Caribbean Sea that bore the tell-tale signs of a forming hurricane. million barrels of oil — more oil than the roughly 20 million barrels the entire U.S.

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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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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2020

Then the scientists: like the analysts you see at sporting events monitoring players' heartbeats and movement - warning in the 2018 UN IPCC climate science report the game for the planet is winnable - but slipping out of reach. It's slow, because the opposition is exceptionally well-funded, connected, with deep roots to power.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The White House yesterday released a revised reconciliation framework for its 'Build Back Better Bill, stressing that the legislation was still dominated by action on climate change, despite the apparent removal of previous provisions to introduce a Clean Electricity Performance Program (CEPP). More than $500bn over 10 years," he added.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2020

Unless you have good governance, any progress towards goals on healthcare, education, infrastructure, clean energy is going to be fragmentary, short-lived and quite volatile - Matthew Jenkins, Transparency International. The hope is that the plea to "recover better" can gain traction. The fear is that it won't.

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Green Market Oracle

MAY 28, 2020

His attacks on the Clean Air Act, the Clean Power Plan and cleaner cars increase climate change causing greenhouse gas emissions and are directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans. percent between 2016 and 2018. Trump's fossil fuel powered politics is supported by Republicans.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In the last four years, federal leadership on clean energy and climate change has stalled. In 2018, California became just the second state working towards a mandate of 100 percent clean electricity. Approval of a ballot measure in Nevada plus consistent bipartisan support for clean energy means some action is still possible.

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