Clean Energy Canada

MAY 29, 2019

government passing a new law that will require automakers to sell a growing percentage of electric vehicles in the province: “British Columbians are excited about electric cars and the chance to cut both their fuel costs and pollution. In October 2018, Clean Energy Canada released a study on B.C.’s

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The pair of California leaders were there to discuss the lawsuit the state had recently filed against Big Oil on behalf of the people of California to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for the effects of climate change. But California is the first fossil-fuel-producing state to do so. History in the making….

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 23, 2024

In December 2015 they got their wish when President Obama signed into law a $1.15 From less than half a million barrels per day (BPD) in 2015, exports reached 1 million BPD in 2017, 2 million BPD in 2018, 3 million BPD in 2020, and 4 million BPD in 2023. Since 2018, the primary regional destinations for U.S. Annual U.S.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 16, 2019

Vermont Law School (VLS) offers three environmental masters degrees. A master's degree from VLS is different from other law degrees. Instead of studying theories about how policies work, VLS master's candidates learn the law and how to use it to effect change. MASTER OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY (MELP) Climate change.

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Front And Centered

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Washington passed 100% clean electricity into law earlier this year, and with public input government agencies are currently drafting rules to guide utilities on how to comply with the law by phasing out fossil fuel emissions and integrating equity in their service models. Directs Dept. Directs Dept.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 12, 2020

Cities and counties often are required by state law to buy electricity from a regulated investor-owned utility (IOU) and lack the ability to choose their electricity supplier or generation source. Phasing out fossil fuels. Partnering with investor-owned utilities.

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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. electric sector reduced its carbon emissions by 26 percent from 2005 to 2018.

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GreenBiz

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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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Transportation accounts for about two-fifths of California’s carbon emissions, and vehicles are harder to decarbonize than electricity generation or using fossil fuels for heating buildings. Jerry Brown in 2018. That move puts California in the vanguard among U.S. and the Netherlands.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 12, 2021

The trio argue that continued “tax breaks” for the fossil fuel industry are unlawful. The government introduced a range of climate targets, such as reducing offshore production emissions by 50 percent by 2050 against a 2018 baseline to create a “net zero basin” by mid century. Now, you must do the same at home.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

But the groups have unearthed a 1970 report by Eni’s Isvet research centre that warned of the “catastrophic” risk the build-up of carbon dioxide (CO2) caused by burning fossil fuels could pose to the climate. Methane is the clean energy of the future,” ran a 1986 promotion in Eni’s company magazine Ecos.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 10, 2023

A judge in Hawaii has cleared the way for a youth climate case challenging the state’s fossil fuel-dependent transportation system to proceed to trial. law, and only a handful of states have included the right to a clean and healthful environment in their constitutions. I am excited to finally get to the substance of our claims.”

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 10, 2021

A UK-Canada event last week praised 26 “exceptional individuals actively working to move Canada to net-zero emissions”, five of whom work for companies and investors involved in the fossil fuel industry, including the Canadian oil sands.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 2, 2023

The think tank has received funding from the Sarah Scaife Foundation , which has $30 million worth of shares in energy companies including Exxon and Chevron, and the DonorsTrust , which has been used to channel funding from the fossil fuel funded Koch family. Despite this, the organisation does not declare its major funders. “The

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 18, 2021

Activists including Lavinge called on customers to close their Chase accounts due to the bank’s investments in fossil fuel projects including its backing of Enbridge’s Line 3 Pipeline project in Minnesota. James was founded in 2018 and initially focused on a proposed $1.25 Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The environmental campaign group claims the government had a legal duty to assess whether the oil set to be extracted would harm the climate – but failed to consider the emissions created from burning the fossil fuel. A first licence was granted to drill Vorlich in 1981, but the permit was only issued in 2018.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Institutional capital accounted for just 2% of total direct investment in renewables in 2018. Compared to more volatile and increasingly more expensive fossil fuel sources, renewable energy power fits the institutional investors’ requirements. He expects that advantage to grow bigger every year. “I

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 4, 2020

Utility Dominion Energy is planning a major shift toward renewable energy and batteries as it looks to comply with Virginia's ambitious new clean energy law. Under the law, Dominion Virginia and the smaller Appalachian Power Co. gigawatts of energy storage over the next 15 years.

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Americans weighed-in on clean energy, fossil fuels and wildlife. Voters passed the same measure in 2018. State law requires that constitutional amendments be passed in two consecutive even-numbered election years. Steve Sisolak signed a bill into law that mandates 50 percent renewables by 2030 (passed).

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 30, 2019

has deployed more energy storage since the second half of 2018 than the total of all prior years. Without energy storage, the excess solar energy produced during the day is wasted, requiring more fossil fuel-based power plants to meet the evening demand. In 2020 alone, we expect total storage deployed to double again.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Secretary General António Guterres asked nations to arrive at the session with concrete commitments for phasing out fossil fuels, observing in his opening remarks that “humanity has opened the gates of hell.” A two-week hearing on the case before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg, Germany concluded on Monday.

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Grist

JULY 26, 2023

One reader, Katrina Amaral, shared a response that struck at this balance: As part of the resources for dealing with extreme heat, I would love to see examples of heat-adaptation and climate-change mitigation ordinances or laws that have passed at municipal / state / federal levels.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

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. James Parish, a region that has become a build-out hub for the petrochemical and fossil fuel industry. Town sign for Norco, Louisiana.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

These seven members of the public serve on the Virginia State Water Control Board, an independent regulatory body tasked with administering the state’s water laws. However, it is no less dangerous to the planet than other fossil fuel pipelines. The harm from the MVP will mirror its massive scale. . The MVP has received over $2.5

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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. The task force’s members include the Pennsylvania director of the American Petroleum Institute, the most powerful fossil fuel lobby group in the U.S.,

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Vague ethics laws, lack of enforcement, and a campaign finance system soaked in fossil fuel cash all combine to make the Texas Railroad Commission a “captive agency,” argue Commission Shift and Texans for Public Justice, two watchdog groups, in their new report. The laws are vaguely defined and that is being exploited.”.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

An annual greenhouse gas inventory released last week for 2018 — the latest available data — showed vehicle exhaust remains the state’s largest problem, but the sharpest year-over-year increase came in the residential sector. million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emitted in Connecticut in 2018 was up 2.7% metric tons.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 24, 2024

As the nuclear forensics scientist Marco Kaltofen has told me: “With fossil fuels, essentially what you are doing is taking an underground radioactive reservoir and bringing it up to the surface where it can interact with people and the environment.” law, it is still considered nonhazardous. And yet, by U.S.

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2022

In 2018, when the special report was released, holding warming to 1.5 It doesn’t contradict the laws of chemistry and physics to get to 1.5 ‘We are at a crossroads’: New IPCC report says it’s fossil fuels or our future. As of 2020, the planet had already warmed by 1.2 degrees.). “It

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Though there is some domestic demand for wood pellets for electric utilities — particularly in the Northeast — the majority of wood pellets manufactured in the region are exported to the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom (UK), to fulfill global commitments to mitigate climate change by reducing reliance on fossil fuels. .

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Two weeks ago, the federal government enshrined its carbon pollution targets into law. The federal government recently introduced legislation that legally commits it to reduce Canada’s carbon pollution from the 729 megatonnes in 2018 to its stated goal of net-zero emissions by 2050.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 15, 2022

The environmental law non-governmental organization, which has bought shares in Shell, claims the company’s 13 executive and non-executive directors failed to adopt and implement a climate strategy that truly aligns with the Paris Agreement and says this is a breach of their legal duties under the UK Companies Act. United States.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Judge Jeffrey Meyer rejected Shell’s argument “in quite strong terms,” and suggested setting a trial date for May, according to Chris Kilian, vice president of strategic litigation at the Conservation Law Foundation and one of the attorneys in the case, which CLF brought in 2021.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Frank Mitloehner (@GHGGuru) May 10, 2018. And in some cases, sustainable agriculture is even being mandated by law. Frank Mitloehner (@GHGGuru) May 10, 2018. This helps farmers reduce their reliance on fossil fuels and lower their carbon footprint. Curiously, organic food achieves none of these benchmarks.”

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2021

There is a generation of Millennials around the globe who have written off fossil fuels,” Chris Romer, co-founder of Project Canary, told the oil and gas industry trade publication Rigzone this month. “We We need to address the brand problem.”. Platinum Gas.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 5, 2021

Between 2018 and 2020, Bobov Dol burned a mixture of sub-bituminous coal, which the Executive Environmental Agency (EEA) says should have an emissions factor of 96.1, Between 2018 and 2020, Bobov Dol burned a mixture of sub-bituminous coal, which the Executive Environmental Agency (EEA) says should have an emissions factor of 96.1,

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

A 2018 investigation by Greenpeace Unearthed revealed that the IEA had received funding from oil giant BP every year since 1967. BP did not respond to multiple requests for comment on whether the company still donates to the group.

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