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Connecticut losing ground on building emissions despite efficiency programs

Renewable Energy World

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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How Shell Is Selling the Petrochemical Buildout as ‘Sustainable’

DeSmogBlog

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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Fossil Fuel Companies Are Promoting ‘Lower Carbon,’ ‘Responsibly Sourced’ Oil and Gas

DeSmogBlog

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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Could the EU's Fit for 55 programme unleash a new wave of climate litigation?

Business Green

Cases could also be grounded in domestic climate change framework laws, arguing that government actors are failing to comply with relevant duties established under these laws. It added that such cases could be particularly relevant for the bioenergy sector, as well as permitting processes for both renewables and fossil fuel projects.

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Insurance Giants Under Fire from First Nations for Backing Trans Mountain Tar Sands Pipeline

DeSmogBlog

Indigenous peoples in Canada and a coalition of environmental groups launched a “Global Week of Action” for June 14-21 , aimed at pressuring an array of insurance companies to cut ties with a long-distance tar sands pipeline under construction in Canada. They should know and understand that the fossil fuel industry is in a state of demise.

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Earthquakes. Drought. Geysers. Permian Oilfield Water Woes Pile up in West Texas

DeSmogBlog

But those quakes themselves are just one sign of an oceanic problem confronting Texas: what to do with the billions of barrels of toxic wastewater, mixed with salable fossil fuels, that the oil and gas drilling industry pumps out each year? The most powerful among them was a 4.5 Texas has begun exploring options. The post Earthquakes.

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California Sets $200M Budget for ‘Complex, Multi-Property Microgrid’ Projects

GreenTechMedia

But private microgrid developers argue the plan doesn’t go far enough to allow private investment to bolster resilience for this year’s fire season, or to meet the mandate of a 2018 law calling for tariffs to allow commercial microgrids to flourish. megawatt solar array and 8.8-megawatt-hour