DeSmogBlog

MARCH 28, 2023

Though it has applied for them, the company behind this operation has yet to receive the permits it is required by law to construct or operate the engines to power a cryptocurrency mine. The company is required by law to obtain a plan approval from DEP prior to installation and operation of the air contamination sources,” Decker said.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 25, 2023

Hoboken is making this claim against fossil fuel companies under the state-level equivalent of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, a federal law used successfully to prosecute organized crime groups such as the Mafia starting in the 1970s and later the tobacco industry. Credit: U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

As co-founder of the community group Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living, Mayfield has spent years fighting to protect her majority Black and low-income city from the pollution spewed by the nearby Covanta waste-to-energy facility — the country’s largest waste incinerator. Credit: Edward Donnelly.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Under the law , the U.S. JBS, the world’s largest meat company — whose methane emissions exceed the combined livestock methane emissions of France, Germany, Canada and New Zealand — has also claimed to be on a net zero pathway based on offsets. The airline has pulled certain ads from the market.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

Mon, 03/01/2021 - 01:30. A useful way to think about the effort and timescales required is to consider the " Carbon Law ," which was coined by my friend Johan Rockström. Despite the name, this isn’t a physical "law" of the universe but rather a set of recommendations. So, what does the Carbon Law say? Jonathan Foley.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 26, 2021

link] via @ABC — NM State Land Office (@NMLandOffice) May 20, 2021. nmpol #nmleg — New Mexico Oil & Gas (@NMOilAndGas) May 12, 2021. See how much your county receives: [link] #nmpol #nmleg pic.twitter.com/VYYgQsiGFY — New Mexico Oil & Gas (@NMOilAndGas) May 11, 2021. Well pad near Roswell, NM.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

Properly plugging and abandoning oil and gas wells is vital to protect the environment and stop methane leaks – but for decades, oil operators have often slipped away without paying to clean up, leaving millions of deteriorating abandoned wells across the U.S. A 2021 McGill University study estimated that one-tenth of the U.S.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The curbing of emissions to reduce the concentration of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane in the environment. The name for the agreement reached at the 2021 UN climate conference in Glasgow, COP26. Short-lived Climate Pollutants (SLCPs). SLCPs include black carbon, methane, and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

But the event was overshadowed by the major polluters who didn’t attend. UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak chose the very day of the summit to announce that his government will push off the deadlines for phase-outs of methane gas-burning boilers, as well as sales of new gasoline and diesel-fueled cars.

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Business Green

JANUARY 15, 2021

90 per cent of people breathe polluted air.". Why should seven million people die every year because of pollution? — liu.hongqiao (@LHongqiao) January 13, 2021. France draft climate law attracts criticism from campaign groups. Why should we sacrifice nature for the sake of development?" Bin Salman continued.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The analysis , however, found that 63 percent of the more than 3,000 online posts and videos posted on YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook by Royal Dutch Shell, TotalEnergies, Repsol, Eni, Fortum and Preem between December 2019 and April 2021 presented the energy companies as “green”. New challenges need new solutions.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

A recently published chapter of the Harvard Law Review argues that “While utility companies have been building and profiting off fossil fuels without internalizing the down-stream consequences and costs for decades, their regulators—state agency leaders—have approved their actions at every step of the way.”.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2022

billion over the next nine years to plug inactive oil and gas wells whose owners can’t be found, under the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, dispensed in grants to state oil and gas regulators. The federal government intends to spend $4.7 Historic redlining and the siting of oil and gas wells in the United States.”

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

India Gate, New Delhi: Residents of the city face pollution levels with a health impact estimated to be equivalent to smoking more than two packs of cigarettes a day (image credit: Amit kg / Shutterstock.com). Centuries on, sources of airborne pollution are only becoming more numerous and wide ranging.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

California, Oregon, and Washington have all passed laws and enacted policies that require utilities to dramatically cut carbon pollution over the next decade. Out of 425 gas project proposals FERC considered between 2000 and 2021, the agency has rejected only two. percent a year on average through 2050. Credit: Rogue Climate.

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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. Invited to the event was a small group of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs).

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Credit: Julie Dermansky Air Products plans to build a manufacturing complex near Burnside, a small town in Ascension Parish, that will transform the methane in natural gas into ammonia and blue hydrogen while using technology to capture up to 95 percent of the CO2 emissions created in the process.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

You’ve got plenty of company after the events of 2021: Heat waves, hurricanes, fires, and floods hit new and deadly extremes. Sachs’ view was backed in a July 2021 study from the San Francisco-based think tank Energy Innovation, which pulled together eight research efforts by universities and other experts. That’s begun in Cascadia.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

36% of small business owners have seen their energy bills spike in 2021; with one in five experiencing a 15% surge, and one in ten reporting a hike of 20%. is President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), passed into law in August 2022. And leading this transition in the U.S. meet net-zero goals.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

The assertions also lack detail, face technical problems, ignore leaking methane emissions, and depend on government subsidies for funding. To complicate matters further, new research suggests that fugitive methane emissions from fracking operations are far higher than official data indicates. And that is from just one project.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 17, 2023

With the growth of e-commerce and demand for faster shipping (which means burning more fuel), maritime emissions increased nearly 5% between 2020 and 2021. Further, many of the largest businesses are state- or family-owned, beholden not just to the laws of the free market, but political dynamics to boot. Regulatory rewind: On Jan.1,

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 1, 2021

In stopping climate change, time is as important as tech Jonathan Foley Mon, 03/01/2021 – 01:30 This article originally appeared on the author’s personal blog, and was written in that capacity. Despite the name, this isn’t a physical “law” of the universe but rather a set of recommendations. That’s it.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

“It may provide something of a roadmap for future cases,” Jennifer Rushlow, dean of the Maverick Lloyd School for the Environment, professor of law, and faculty director of the Environmental Law Center at Vermont Law School, told DeSmog. In Norway, a climate lawsuit trial got underway during the same week as the Belgium ruling.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 8, 2024

Climate strategies that create a broad demand for hydrogen fuel instead of transitioning to renewables and electrification largely serves the fossil fuel industry because, at the moment, it will increase the demand for methane, the primary component of natural gas, while promising to capture emissions for so-called “blue” hydrogen.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 29, 2021

The number of orphaned wells in oil and gas producing states nationwide continues to increase, as does the amount of planet warming methane emissions leaking from them. In fact, methane is up to 86 times more potent than carbon dioxide in the first 20 years after entering the atmosphere. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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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 billion package to cap orphaned oil and gas wells as a move to tackle “super-polluting methane emissions,” saying it will combat the climate crisis and create jobs. Who Writes the Bills That Become Law?

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2022

The newly enacted Inflation Reduction Act contains the world’s first-ever fee on methane, a powerful greenhouse gas believed to be responsible for roughly 30 percent of global temperature rise since the Industrial Revolution. billion in financial incentives to clean up their methane.” By Jake Johnson, Common Dreams.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

Lotus LLC office and truck yard in Andrews, Texas, in April 2021. Credit: Justin Hamel ©2021. Credit: Justin Hamel ©2021. Accordingly, we will seek restitution under the law for personal and financial injury caused by any misrepresentation caused by this.”.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Proponents of carbon capture, usage, and sequestration (CCUS) often highlight ways that it could be used for sectors like steel and cement whose carbon pollution is generally considered “hard to abate.” An unnamed White House official told Bloomberg Law that the approach in the CEQ report remains open to modifications. “It

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 6, 2021

If you live in Oregon, it’s likely you’ve been bombarded with misleading PR from the local utility company, Northwest Natural, about the potential for what the industry is calling renewable natural gas (RNG) — methane captured from places like landfills and repurposed into energy for homes.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

. “It is feared that a further rise in carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere could lead to a higher average surface temperature on Earth, which could have far-reaching environmental, social and economic consequences,” wrote the authors of a 1987 internal Shell publication entitled “Air Pollution: an Oil Industry Perspective.”

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Climate Lawsuits Historical evidence of what oil majors knew about climate change is taking on new significance in the courtroom as lawyers seek to hold big polluters to account for the accelerating devastation caused by the climate crisis. based Center for International Environmental Law has reported.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2022

We operate under a stringent state and federal regulatory system, and report emissions to the EPA and TCEQ in a consistent and timely manner in accordance with all applicable laws, regulations and permits.”. Pollution from plastic production in the U.S. When you’re breathing this stuff,” he said, “it’s microscopic, less than 2.5

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Slowly, slowly, fossil fuel interests are taking over our institutions,” Jolyon Maugham of the Good Law Project told DeSmog. At the 2021 planning inquiry she described the coal as an “environmentally friendly” domestic source for steel. Coal is the most polluting fossil fuel, releasing more carbon dioxide than oil or gas when burnt.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 12, 2024

The donation comes on the heels of the Conservative government issuing hundreds of new oil and gas licences in 2023, and writing annual licensing rounds into law. Offshore gas fields worldwide are major sources of emissions of methane, a powerful, short-lived greenhouse gas. million from polluting interests in 2022.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

It simultaneously acted as a potential solution to the worsening greenhouse gas crisis, while still remaining the biggest source of that pollution. In 2021, the mothballed carbon capture unit was demolished. What actually happened: Failed to meet capture targets; barely reduced overall carbon pollution.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

This week, environmental advocates addressed intensifying fossil fuel pollution, climate injustices, and the Biden administration’s failure to take the lead on climate change solutions during the People vs. Fossil Fuels protests in Washington, D.C. Law enforcement arrested 55 Indigenous leaders. Credit: Julie Dermansky. John Beard, Jr.

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