DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The circumstances surrounding his termination are documented among thousands of pages of public records and internal company documents that provide a penetrating look into the multi-billion dollar stakes of negotiations between governments and state-sanctioned monopolies that are shaping the future of energy systems in Oregon and beyond.

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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. ” The debate around gas stoves in the U.S.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The proposals follow industry calls for "methodological flexibility" and the DWP said trustees will be supported with updates to statutory guidance. Climate change is happening and it is accelerating so the world needs to work together to protect our planet and the UK has been leading in terms of our ambition.".

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

It's been a big week for European climate policy, and the implications are likely to ripple far beyond the EU itself. Agnès Pannier-Runacher, French Minister for the energy transition - who led the negotiations - hailed the agreement on the Fit for 55 package as "a crucial step in attaining our climate objectives". "The

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

BASF’s wine tasting is just one example of many such pandemic-style lobbying efforts by the European agriculture industry since the EU has attempted to pass sweeping new policies to combat climate change through measures included in its “Green Deal,” first presented in December 2019. Meet the Industry Trade Groups.

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Business Green

JULY 4, 2022

Banking giant takes a stab at caclulating biodiversity impacts of its financing activities for first time, as it looks to meet requirements of new French nature reporting law. From there, it calculated its own headline biodiversity footprint. Register now for your ticket.

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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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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

It is a far from unsurprising message from Skidmore, who having signed the 2050 target into law, has long been a staunch advocate for an ambitious net zero agenda. Similarly, legislation should ensure all new non-domestic buildings must achieve an EPC rating of B from 2025.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Louisiana applied for Class VI primacy on September 17, 2021, having already managed the other five UIC well classes (industrial and municipal waste disposal wells, oil and gas related injection wells, solution mining wells, shallow hazardous and radioactive waste injection wells, and wells that inject non-hazardous fluids). 2, 2024). [2]

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. Most support science-based targets and sit on multiple boards, collaborations and advocacy groups to further industry-level sustainability goals. Elsa Wenzel.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 19, 2019

In order to drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions and protect our planet, we will need to creatively redesign and reinvent our underlying energy, agriculture, water, mobility, and economic systems. And as the first state to set a 100% renewable energy goal, our work here can serve as the beacon for other states and countries to follow.

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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.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2023

The Plan for Water , released by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) this morning, outlines the government's intention to change the law to increase penalties on water companies that break environmental law, and make it easier for regulators to impose fines on firms without lengthy court processes.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 6, 2024

A wave of farmers protests in Europe earlier this year were jumped on by populist politicians, resulting in the watering down of measures including a law to restore nature – ignoring that many of the farmers’ concerns were unrelated to green rules. We need to change the concept of climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

And DeSmog can also reveal that a growing group of ethical investors are demanding that ad and PR companies come clean about their true climate impact. An outpouring of criticism of French ad giant Havas — a self-styled climate leader — for taking a global media buying contract with oil major Shell is another clear indicator of this trend.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The veterinary medicines industry dismisses concerns that it may resist implementation of the new rules, saying it is committed to building on reductions in the use of antibiotics on farms that have already been achieved, while continuing to tackle animal disease. drug makers Elanco Animal Health Inc., Phibro Animal Health Corp.,

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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. Winners include manufacturing, up 133% from 2022, and emerging climate technologies that saw a whopping 10x jump to $4.3bn. Energy & industry. Happy Monday! 

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

The industrial revolution – despite its many benefits – sounded a death knell for air quality, increasing coal-generated smog levels 50-fold in many large cities. A 2022 report from the World Bank estimated that the global health cost of mortality and morbidity caused by exposure to fine particulate matter air pollution in 2019 was $8.1

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

And DeSmog can also reveal that a growing group of ethical investors are demanding that ad and PR companies come clean about their true climate impact. An outpouring of criticism of French ad giant Havas — a self-styled climate leader — for taking a global media buying contract with oil major Shell is another clear indicator of this trend.

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Elemental Excelerator

AUGUST 12, 2022

It’s not often that we have a chance to savor a history-making win on the climate change front. The $370B in climate provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act — the biggest climate bill ever passed — provides such a moment. Allume Energy , Transcend ). What We Love: Building Community Capacity.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

potentially affecting the ultimate fate of millions of abandoned oil industry wells. 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.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Air Products, a global hydrogen manufacturing company, is proposing to build a $4.5 billion “Clean Energy Complex” to manufacture blue hydrogen and an accompanying carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) project, that would be operational by 2026. Credit: Julie Dermansky Spoonbill in a wildlife management area, next to Lake Maurepas.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Kermanian , and Julie Miles The winter of 2022-23 brought historic levels of precipitation to California after years of deep drought , dwindling reservoirs, and groundwater depletion. According to the US Drought Monitor , the state is currently drought-free, although some regions are still considered abnormally dry.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Certification is shown to attract and engage top talent, increase credibility and build trust, slash costs, meet the demands of a consumer majority, and protect a company’s mission in the long term. Today, there are over 6,000 certified B Corps , in more than 8 countries and over 150 different industries.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

In 2015, nearly 200 countries agreed to “Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C C above pre-industrial levels , recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change”.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 17, 2023

deal on Thursday, ExxonMobil acquired Denbury , a Texas-based energy company focused on carbon capture and storage (CCS) and enhanced oil recovery (EOR) that controls the largest network of CO2 pipelines in the US. 💼 Find or share roles on our job board here. Exxon captures Denbury In a $4.9B

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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. Core Principles and Mechanism.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

When Laura Briggs and her husband finally found their dream home in West Texas, they knew they’d be sharing space with the oil industry. However, the family did see the wells leaking oil and gushing produced water — an industry byproduct that’s often imbued with hazardous chemicals. This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

When Laura Briggs and her husband finally found their dream home in West Texas, they knew they’d be sharing space with the oil industry. However, the family did see the wells leaking oil and gushing produced water — an industry byproduct that’s often imbued with hazardous chemicals. This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021 Elsa Wenzel Mon, 01/11/2021 – 02:15 The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S.

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Grist

MAY 11, 2022

This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the rolling hills around San Diego and its suburbs, the rumble of bulldozers and the whine of power saws fill the air as a slew of new homes and apartments rise up. Photography by Ted Wood, courtesy of E360.

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AutoGrid

AUGUST 25, 2022

Inflation Reduction Act: A Boon for VPP Industry. Though the bill is wide-ranging and addresses health care and federal deficit reduction, the most transformative impact this legislation will have is clearly on reducing the threat of global climate change. The new law never mentions VPPs. By Peter Asmus.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

We are still seeing too much pollution from sources we have known about for years: sewage, farming, industry and road-run off. But our ability to protect our waters depends on us having the powers and resources to do that, and that hasn't always been the case. Two years ago I gave a speech called Defusing the Weatherbomb.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Clean energy for Native American communities. Decarbonized buildings. And that’s his hope for the apparel and footwear industry as a whole. EV100 Program Manager for North America, The Climate Group; New York City. The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30. GreenBiz Editors. Mon, 05/17/2021 - 00:01. Planet-healing fast food.

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EDF + Business

MARCH 1, 2021

The purpose of the Climate Corps Alumni Advisory Board is to work in partnership with the Climate Corps team to enhance Climate Corps’ impact and programming through deeper alumni engagement. Members serving in the 2021-2022 term are: Trevor Anderson. (He/Him/His) Ian Champ. (He/Him/His)

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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Even the negatives — the politicization of ESG investing and reporting, the economic downturn, the energy crisis created by the Russian invasion of Ukraine — are temporal phenomena, part of the regular ebbs and flows of economics and policy. Overall, it was more positives than negatives. Here are five trends worth noting.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Proponents hailed it as one of the most important environmental projects undertaken by the oil and gas industry in recent U.S. Veolia would design, build, operate and maintain the facility under a 10-year agreement in return for more than $255 million, Antero said in 2015. Antero did not respond to repeated requests for comment.

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