Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

New analysis warns national climate targets for 2030 point to dangerous warming of 2.4C, as rush for LNG capacity risks further undermining chances of meeting goals of Paris Agreement. Projected global warming in 2100 based on national climate targets announced to date remains at a worryingly high 2.4C of warming this century.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Porter’s blog repeatedly cites the work of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s main climate science denial group. Porter’s Energy Blogs Climate models accurately predict global temperature rises, with observed warming tracking the forecasts.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

Further research by DeSmog has shown that Eni’s company magazine Ecos made repeated references to climate change during the late 1980s and 1990s — while running advertising campaigns promoting natural gas, which is mostly comprised of planet-warming methane, as a “clean” fuel. In 2022, Eni reported a profit of $14.12

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MAY 24, 2022

On May 10, 2022, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) released its Draft 2022 Scoping Plan Update for public review and comment. The Final Scoping Plan Update is currently expected to be published by December 2022, and is expected to be followed by a rulemaking process to amend the Cap-and-Trade Program in 2023.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MAY 16, 2022

The Draft 2022 Scoping Plan Update takes an all-of-the-above approach to decarbonize California. On May 10, 2022, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) released its Draft 2022 Scoping Plan Update for public review and comment. By Joshua T. Bledsoe and Brian McCall.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Producing “green“ hydrogen, which involves using electrolysis powered by solar and wind to split water and create the final product, is widely seen as an important way to decarbonise industrial processes where it is hard to avoid greenhouse gas emissions. Green hydrogen, produced using electricity is the only zero carbon option.“

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 1, 2022

On May 10, 2022, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) released its Draft 2022 Scoping Plan Update (Draft Scoping Plan) for public review and comment. While in May 2021 LCFS Credits were trading for an average price of $190, [6] in the week of May 23-29, 2022, CARB reports an average Credit price of $105.03. [7] By Joshua T.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2021

The firm announced yesterday that it would begin to produce heat pumps at its boiler manufacturing facility in Belper from 2022, revealing that it had seen "record demand" for the zero emission heating solution in recent months.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

It expects its wind and solar capacity to reach 10 gigawatts by the end of the year, on its way to a 13 GW target by 2022. Most recently, natural gas has been denied the status as a “transition fuel.” That figure is linked to the threshold required to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

They study glaciers and global temperature changes, climate solutions and adaptation, the oceans and the human influence on global warming. LeakForPlanet — Christine Arena (@ChristineArena) January 20, 2022. However, studies, including from the gas industry, show it is expensive and impractical at a large scale.

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2022

But hidden on page 25 of the “Summary for Policymakers” was an even grimmer note: That even in the IPCC’s most optimistic models, the chances of holding global warming to less than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) — compared to the pre-industrial average — is only around 38 percent. Luckily for humanity, 1.5

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Today the influential International Energy Agency (IEA) waded into the debate with a wide-ranging new report that warned global methane emissions from the energy sector are around 70 per cent higher than the amount officially reported by national governments. The report - titled Global Methane Tracker 2022 - makes for sobering reading.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The phrases laid out below will also be in the back pockets of lobbyists, who doubled in number year on year in 2022 as an analysis by DeSmog revealed , and are expected to show up in force in 2023. Nature-based solutions” is one of the only phrases linked to agriculture to be mentioned in the COP cover text.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 29, 2022

Climate provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 are bringing new economic headwinds to the gas-derived hydrogen fuel’s prospects. players in the blue hydrogen sphere — and natural gas is a common denominator. players in the blue hydrogen sphere — and natural gas is a common denominator.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2022

In a speech in Glasgow to mark six months since the landmark UN Climate Summit, the COP26 President conceded the Kremlin's "illegal and brutal" war, rising inflation, and cost of living concerns had dominated the political and media agenda in 2022, but stressed that climate action must remain a top priority for governments around the world.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

At the same time, the increasingly dire effects of global warming are bringing more Americans in line with much of the rest of the world in making carbon-emissions reduction a top policy priority. Utilities in many states now face mandates to move to 100 percent renewable energy or cut carbon to zero by 2050. Dominion Energy.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

Diverse compounds are emitted by everything from motor vehicles to power plants, and include both greenhouse gases and short-lived climate pollutants – which are known to fuel global warming – as well as a host of volatile organic compounds that can lead to short- and long-term health problems in humans. trillion, equivalent to 6.1

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2022

Travis Dardar, an indigenous fisherman in Cameron, Louisiana, has a front-row view of the expansion of the liquified natural gas (LNG) industry’s export capacity on the Gulf Coast — and it isn’t pretty. “It If approved, the permit would allow a massive natural gas liquefaction and export facility to emit 3.5

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2022

Belgium's Flanders has become the latest region to move to accelerate the shift away from fossil gas boilers, with the state government this week announcing it plans to pull forward a ban on the installation of gas boilers in new homes by one year by one year to 2025.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The latest update to the agency's Global Methane Tracker found the global energy industry was responsible for 135m tonnes of methane emissions in 2022, only slightly below record levels seen in 2019. This is a significant problem. target set by the Paris Agreement in the near term. "Our There is just no excuse.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

State regulators controlled by the oil and gas industry helped create this crisis,” said Biven when I met her in January 2022. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management employee who founded and runs True Transitions , an organization committed to making sure oil and gas workers have a seat at the table during the energy transition.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

degrees Celsius of global warming. 2 Another study published by McKinsey says that if the current trajectory continues, global temperatures would increase by 3-4 degrees Celsius by 2100, rendering 90% of the global population’s current habitat areas uninhabitable. years left to limit global warming to 1.5

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 23, 2022

liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports for Europe. It was 2014 and “American gas” would save Europe from being dependent on Russian gas imports. Full letter below: pic.twitter.com/q6z8ElKXzM — American Petroleum Institute (@APIenergy) March 1, 2022. Gas is not as easily transportable as oil. Get in touch.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

GW of natural gas, 1.2 Coal and natural gas remain for decades. Ameren already planned to close its Meramec Energy Center coal plant by 2022 and two units of its four-unit Labadie Energy Center plant by 2036, removing three-quarters of its coal-fired energy generating capacity by 2040. Ameren Missouri’s 10.1

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Business Green

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Meanwhile, demand for coal, oil and natural gas fall by 80 per cent, 60 per cent and 45 per cent, respectively, by 2060 compared with last year. The current trajectory, in the IEA's Announced Pledges Scenario (APS), sees solar becoming the country's largest primary energy source by around 2045.

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

It contains natural gas, helium, and carbon dioxide. It is the biggest LaBarge, as the gas operation is known, would have become one of the world’s foremost examples of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), a technology most climate-modeling experts view as essential to slowing down global warming and, eventually, reversing it.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Imagine you woke up in 2030 to find that Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia had done little to slow the global warming that cooked the Cascadia region this year. We have not kept pace with the scope of the crisis,” Oregon Global Warming Commission Chair Catherine Macdonald wrote to legislators that month.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Here, DeSmog looks back at some of the stories from the past year that might propel an even faster transition in 2022, developments and stories whose importance was perhaps easy to miss amid the urgent headlines generated by the climate crisis from day-to-day. is seeing higher gas bills. Fossil Fuels Drove Inflation, Volatility.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Peterson is now planting doubt via his podcast and social media posts about the severity and urgency of global warming in the minds of younger generations. Traditionally, people who are “doubtful” or “dismissive” of climate change have tended to skew older.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

.” That apparent conservation activist was, in fact, an infamous climate change disinformation artist : Marc Morano, who’s done more than perhaps any other person to manufacture doubt about global warming. Hard-won federal policies like the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act put that target within reach.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Scientists say urgent and deep cuts to greenhouse gas emissions are needed to slow the rate of global warming, and slashing methane offers one of the most immediate and impactful ways of achieving this. Methane seeps out from drilling sites, pipelines, compressor stations, storage tanks, and liquefied natural gas terminals.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2021

Steve Brown, Orcadian’s founder, regularly shared posts on social media from his recently-deleted Twitter account that cast doubt on climate policy and modelling, including content from the Global Warming Policy Foundation , the UK’s principal climate science denying group.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2022

But transforming our economy to run on electric vehicles, powered by clean energy, will mean that no one will have to worry about gas prices. — President Biden (@POTUS) March 9, 2022. and around the world say the ban on Russian oil imports won’t do much if the broader solution is simply finding other sources of oil and gas.

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CleanTechnica

OCTOBER 4, 2022

One was that NextEra Energy issued its Investor Conference Report 2022 to its stockholders. Another was a paper from Stanford University, “Low-cost solutions to global warming, air pollution, and energy insecurity for 145 countries,” (LCS study) by Mark Z. Jacobson, et al. […].

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