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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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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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. “On the other hand, you know, it’s 2024 now. .

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Intended to fill the policy vacuum emerging from the UK’s departure from the EU on 31 January, the Environment Bill has been eagerly anticipated, and seemingly gives government the power to set legally binding targets on all aspects of the environment in future. Before publication the Bill had promised a legally binding target on PM2.5

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2021

British savers have around £1.33trn invested in pension schemes, and the DWP said by the end of 2022, the climate risk to all these savings will be assessed, and in time, published "for the benefit of the saver". But she warned the UK "needs to go further to harness the full power of pensions".

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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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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. Credit: Anne Rolfes In 2021, Shell launched its “Powering Progress” strategy outlining how it plans to “transform into a net-zero emissions energy business.”

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2023

The absence of locks, weirs, and dams makes the river a lifeline for more than a thousand species, a busy passageway for migrating birds and fish, and a place of refuge for numerous endangered animals, including the European eel. If the story is not as you want it to be, there is a way to change that story. How do they find partners?

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This blog post summarizes the latest developments in Class VI primacy, focusing on Louisiana’s experience, and the broader legal and commercial implications on liability transfers and environmental attributes. This change bolsters accountability for environmental compliance, even after project ownership has changed hands.

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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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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. Slow progress on microgrid policy.

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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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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. In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. and globally by 2040. Patrick Collison, CEO and co-founder, Stripe; San Francisco.

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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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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!  Manufacturing.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Creating better businesses with B Corp Certification and beyond B Corp Certification presents a set of guiding principles that support organizations to minimize their impact on the environment and society. Hence, certified B Corps often experience bottom-line benefits helping the business thrive. What is B Corp?

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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 ). Forest Frizzell, CEO of Shifted Energy.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Importantly, fossil fuel deals could also hit employee retention in a sector where the average age of staff is 34, and hiring the best creative minds from an environmentally conscious younger generation is key to staying in business. million project for an oil and gas lobby called the Canadian Energy Centre.

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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

Importantly, fossil fuel deals could also hit employee retention in a sector where the average age of staff is 34, and hiring the best creative minds from an environmentally conscious younger generation is key to staying in business. million project for an oil and gas lobby called the Canadian Energy Centre.

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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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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. CCS is basically the only path for an O&G company to decarbonize while continuing its fossil fuels business.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

billion “Clean Energy Complex” to manufacture blue hydrogen and an accompanying carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) project, that would be operational by 2026. More broadly, backers of hydrogen energy and CCS tend to see environmental advocates as obstacles to these technologies. Water Moccasin in the wetlands next to Lake Maurepas.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In 2022, the EU took a significant step towards curbing excessive use of antibiotics by banning farmers from giving the drugs to large groups of healthy animals – seeking to achieve further reductions in the use of antibiotics, which has fallen by 53 percent from 2011 to 2022, according to official data covering 25 European countries.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

A nascent but growing body of research suggests that these sorts of leaks make oil and gas wells significant contributors to climate change — especially if they’re not plugged. Just like in Midland, business in Hobbs was booming until the price of oil bottomed out in 2020. The Railroad Commission would not confirm this. “We

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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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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

A nascent but growing body of research suggests that these sorts of leaks make oil and gas wells significant contributors to climate change — especially if they’re not plugged. Just like in Midland, business in Hobbs was booming until the price of oil bottomed out in 2020. The Railroad Commission would not confirm this. “We

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

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. We need to remember though that the polluters are not just big water companies or careless businesses - they are us, the public, too. Two years ago I gave a speech called Defusing the Weatherbomb.

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AutoGrid

AUGUST 25, 2022

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), signed into law last week, is a boon for virtual power plants ( VPPs )–a term commonly used to refer to the ability of digital software platforms to aggregate and optimize distributed energy resources ( DER ) through the use of artificial intelligence (AI). By Peter Asmus.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Clean energy for Native American communities. We’d like to express our appreciation to the World Business Council for Sustainable Business and Net Impact for helping to cast a global net for this year’s nominees. I've always been an energy nerd and I just knew that was my place. The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30.

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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

As usual, it was another year of ups and downs for sustainable business. Two steps forward, one step back: the sustainable business cha-cha, as I've long described it. And there were new climate laws in the United States and Europe, which breathed new life to climate action in those countries.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The facility, called Clearwater, was built by the Denver, Colorado-based oil and gas extraction company, Antero Resources, and an affiliate of Veolia, the multinational French waste, water and energy management company. On the same day that Antero filed its lawsuit, Veolia filed counterclaims for more than $118 million.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Burning that oil emits far more carbon dioxide (CO2) than what is captured, and therefore CCS doesn’t represent a viable solution to tackle climate change, critics argue. Data on subsidies was provided by Oil Change International , which plans to launch a database of government support for CCS in 2024.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

Clean energy for Native American communities. We’d like to express our appreciation to the World Business Council for Sustainable Business and Net Impact for helping to cast a global net for this year’s nominees. “I’ve always been an energy nerd and I just knew that was my place. Planet-healing fast food.

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Grist

JANUARY 10, 2024

Pilots flew through alpine valleys, where ribs of electric green growth emerged from a blanket of snow. In January 2022, a flurry of snow fell as the Alaska Board of Fish and Game gathered in Wasilla, far from where the Mulchatna caribou pawed through drifts, steam rising from their shaggy backs.

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