DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

There, he met with OPUC staff in person and exchanged emails with Lori Koho, then OPUC’s senior official overseeing natural gas utilities. He hoped that his list of complaints would show “how the unethical culture [at NW Natural] goes all the way to the top,” as one of his emails to Koho explains.

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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?

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Grist

JANUARY 31, 2024

.” — a passage from “ Cabbage Koora ,” by Sanjana Sekhar The spotlight Nearly 4 in 5 people support doing “whatever it takes” to mitigate climate change, according to a survey published late last year by the firm Potential Energy. But support for specific policies is somewhat of a different story.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Wed, 12/16/2020 - 01:30. 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. Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice? Julia Rosen. every first Wednesday.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

Pacific Gas & Electric is on the verge of escaping from its 18-month bankruptcy , only to begin a years-long effort to prevent a repeat of the disasters that pushed it into insolvency in the first place. PG&E must keep up with the state’s ambitious clean energy, environmental and electrification goals.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In February 2021, German agribusiness giant BASF hosted a virtual wine tasting, a seemingly cozy affair swirling glasses of Portugal’s finest in front of a webcam debating the future of EU agricultural policies. million on lobbying in 2019 and 2020, according to the latest available data on their lobbying spending from official EU data.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2022

Minimum energy consumption standards for products and rented homes have galvanised improvements in energy efficiency in recent years, argues Andrew Warren. Effective energy saving programmes need three mutually supportive facets to succeed. Grants programmes were combined with tighter minimum energy consumption standards.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Last summer, when 750,000 Californians experienced rolling blackouts as heatwaves overtook the west, some politicians in Texas took the opportunity to blame liberal policies to explain the outages. . Attorney General Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) September 6, 2020. Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) August 19, 2020.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 21, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted nationwide energy supply-and-demand patterns. Stay-at-home social distancing measures have altered U.S. electricity consumption. In turn, this economic slowdown has shifted electricity generation to rely more on the renewable energy sector. renewables first beat coal last year.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 21, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted nationwide energy supply-and-demand patterns. Stay-at-home social distancing measures have altered U.S. electricity consumption. In turn, this economic slowdown has shifted electricity generation to rely more on the renewable energy sector. renewables first beat coal last year.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 7, 2023

AtmosZero is focused on replacing the gas boilers that create the steam to power industry. I ended up publishing an article in Joule in early 2021 on this with Greg Thiel , director of technology at Energy Impact Partners, essentially saying: to decarbonize industry, we need to decarbonize heat first.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 23, 2020

market for distributed energy resources will look very different in five years than it does today. And electric vehicles will give utilities and regulators the opportunity to promote pricing regimes to encourage charging when electricity is abundant — or suffer potentially grid-destabilizing consequences.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

May 27, 2020. Justin Hamel ©2020. A growing body of evidence has demonstrated that proximity to drilling has negative health impacts, including for infants, but this was the first study to specifically analyze the impact of oil and gas drilling on hypertension for pregnant women. “Oil Credit: Justin Hamel ©2020.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Upgrading to the latest resource efficient appliances and equipment is a great way to green your home, lower utility bills and minimize your environmental impact. Below you will find several sustainable home products that can bring long-term cost savings and help preserve our resources and planet health. total energy consumption.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 29, 2022

The push to sell “blue hydrogen” as a clean energy fuel — which experts have called a misleading rebrand of fossil fuels — hit another setback this month. Climate provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 are bringing new economic headwinds to the gas-derived hydrogen fuel’s prospects. per million British thermal units (MMBtu).

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The initial carbon pollution fee of $15 per (tCO2e) in 2020 increases annually by $2/tCO2e plus urban-area inflation. LCPI finds that one third of reductions, approximately 10 million tCO2e, should be expected from current trends and existing policies plus the price-elasticity effect of the fee if I-1631 is enacted.

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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. That would be too expensive for backup power that has to last for up to three days in a row.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

After several delays spanning at least a year, the government has finally unveiled vision for a future net zero energy system - here are the eight things you need to know about the long-awaited Energy White Paper. To describe autumn 2020 as a busy period for green economy policy in the UK would be an understatement.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

New Frontiers in Renewable Energy and Resources will take place on November 25-26, 2019 in Rome, Italy. The theme is "Renewable Energy for a Better Future" and the it will include: Keynote talks, Plenary sessions, Discussion Panels, B2B Meetings, Poster symposia, Video Presentations, and Workshops.

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Charged

OCTOBER 6, 2019

In addition to having founded several successful companies, he’s served as a local elected official as well as a Senior Policy Advisor in the Clinton White House and the EPA. Slutzky founded vehicle-to-grid pioneer Fermata Energy in November, 2010. million investment from TEPCO Ventures, the investment arm of Tokyo Electric Power.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Julia Rosen Wed, 12/16/2020 – 01:30 Growing up in North Richmond, California, Denny Khamphanthong didn’t think much of the siren that wailed once a month at 11 a.m. Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice? every first Wednesday. To many, cap and trade highlights a contradiction.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

In the minds of the fossil fuel executives, this point must have been hammered home when federal scientists published a report on carbon dioxide and climate change in 1979. Exxon completes an “Atmospheric CO2 Scoping Study,” which concludes that reducing fossil fuel use through efficiency and renewable energy is the only foreseeable option.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

Under growing pressure to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, developers of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are turning to questionable claims about “carbon neutrality,” “net-zero,” or “green LNG,” in order to pass muster with governments, investors, and society, who are becoming increasingly anxious about the climate crisis.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Accelerating the build-out of clean energy will reduce costs and make the UK more secure, write Josh Freed and Isabelle Chan of US think tank Third Way, which released a new policy paper on the topic on 29 September. For example, the UK has the Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy Department. Why industrial strategy?

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

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Charged

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Charged ’s home state of Florida is something of an EV hotspot—there are an estimated 58,000 electric vehicles in the Sunshine State, and according to the DOE, Florida has the third-largest number of charging stations in the US, behind only California and New York. of Florida’s electrical energy).

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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. Others have lost their own homes to natural disasters. Badalian received an environmental law degree from Lewis & Clark Law School, which helped shape his policy work, he says. Environmental Protection Agency and Natural Resources Defense Council. GreenBiz Editors.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

VERGE Energy Conference (VERGE 20) will take place on October 26-30, 2020. This online event can be attended from anywhere, The central theme at VERGE 20 will focus on how energy systems can be decarbonized, decentralized, digitized and democratized.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 15, 2023

They live in Plaquemines Parish a few hundred feet from a massive liquified natural gas (LNG) export terminal being built by Venture Global and the Gator Express pipeline, which will transport natural gas under high pressure to the facility. Many were without power for over a week.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2024

The power lines had been replaced four times in the past two decades. “It Department of Energy (DOE) revises its review process. At issue is one big question: Is exporting gas in the “public interest”? exporting gas to countries that do have a free-trade agreement with the U.S. I had a house right over here. Hiatt said.

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Clean Energy Trust

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

August 2020 Cleantech Roundup: EV Charging Investments | Why Were Californians in the Dark? | This month, we’re talking about partnerships between automakers and electric vehicle charging companies, the recent rolling blackouts in California, and why cleantech investing today may fare better than a decade ago. Well, yes and no.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

Clean energy for Native American communities. Others have lost their own homes to natural disasters. Badalian received an environmental law degree from Lewis & Clark Law School, which helped shape his policy work, he says. Environmental Protection Agency and Natural Resources Defense Council.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

This is a review of an article from the Financial Times , which first appeared in February 2020 just before the fossil fuel industry had its worst year ever. It has been amended upon and received comments by Mr. Sustainability in italic , with the knowledge of the events of the latter part of 2020 and 2021. million b/d in 1986.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 13, 2020

Since 2018, when Pope became CEO at Portland General Electric (PGE), Oregon’s largest utility, the U.S. The unemployment rate has surged in PGE’s region during the coronavirus pandemic, hobbling commercial demand for power. has seen social and political upheaval on a scale few would have predicted.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 30, 2020

By far the biggest grid edge story of 2020 was the continued commitment of U.S. Plenty of industry observers and critics have pointed out the gaps between utilities’ 2050 net-zero carbon goals and their short- and long-term resource plans, many of which call for continued buildout of natural gas-fired power plants.

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