DeSmogBlog

MAY 25, 2022

The groups are represented by lawyers from Earthjustice and the Green Energy Institute at Lewis & Clark Law School. Credit: Screenshot from formal testimony to the PUC on April 22, 2022. Credit: Screenshot from formal testimony to the PUC on April 22, 2022.

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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

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. González (@davidJXgonzalez) April 13, 2022. The federal government intends to spend $4.7

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38 North Solutions

JULY 30, 2022

Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 . Methane and Superfund. -$15 Current law taxes the performance-based compensation paid to managers of certain investment partnerships at long-term capital-gains rates rather than as ordinary income provided that a three-year holding period is met. Part 1 (First 3 years or 2022-2024).

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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. explains: pic.twitter.com/kEJZVXxBRY — ExxonMobil (@exxonmobil) August 3, 2022. pic.twitter.com/e4RPxbM3Y9 — Shanu Mathew (@ShanuMathew93) August 16, 2022.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Revelations about high-level and systemic failures of oversight — both private and public — come at a time when historic federal investments in renewable energy are threatening a constellation of fossil fuel interests and political coalitions vying to preserve profits as the U.S. economy is increasingly rocked by climate chaos.

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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. Cascade Natural Gas, a utility with customers in Washington and Oregon, says it expects that regional demand for methane gas will grow by between 0.4

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

is President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), passed into law in August 2022. Of relevance here is the investment help given to businesses in improve infrastructure , to reduce energy costs. Fossil fuel operations generate over one-third of all methane emissions from human activity. meet net-zero goals.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Similar language is used by other the banks encouraging investments by those concerned about climate change. Credit: Julie Dermansky On October 14, 2022, I joined Tangipahoa Parish Council member Kim Coates and third-generation crabber Laramie Hills to see an area of Lake Maurepas where Air Products was doing preliminary work.

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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. Louisiana Oilfield Site Restoration Commission meeting on April 21, 2022.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 17, 2023

More than 100,000 ships over 100 gross tons sailed the seven seas in 2022. 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. The biggest shipping companies (i.e., LSFO (low sulfur fuel oil) is an HFO with less than 1% sulfur content.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In a remarkable testament to the power of innovation, collaboration, and strategic investment, the United States has made a monumental leap from 10th to 2nd place in the Hydrogen Progress Index in just two years, positioning itself as a global leader in the hydrogen industry. Critics argue the process is unsustainable and resource heavy.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The use of these chemicals also damages the environment in other ways; much of the fertilizer used in the world today is the product of methane gas, a fossil fuel, while the wide-scale use of pesticides has been linked to the damage of ecosystems and vital populations of pollinators.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MARCH 11, 2021

The program will include a multi-jurisdictional cap-and-invest program and aims to address environmental justice and equity concerns. The draft MOU detailed the cap-and-invest program and outlined model rules that jurisdictions could use to draft their own implementing legislation or regulations. By Jean-Philippe Brisson , Joshua T.

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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

She joined college students, financial experts, faith leaders, and then-New York City Public Advocate Letitia James in front of the New York Stock Exchange to demand that the city’s five public pension funds factor the financial risks of climate change into their investment decisions. We understood that,” Weiss says.

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EDF + Business

AUGUST 1, 2023

Private-sector investment in clean energy is soaring , driven by the Inflation Reduction Act. One year in, the Inflation Reduction Act is having its intended effect of boosting private-sector investment in the energy transition. electric power sector in 2022. Don’t miss out! DOE has opened the first round for funding. .

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 8, 2024

Much of it is methane, which is especially potent for the twelve years it lingers in the atmosphere with a warming potential 28 times that of carbon dioxide. Reducing methane is seen by experts as a quick climate win, and both the food system and energy sector have been called on by UN climate body the IPCC to curb emissions.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The announcement comes as Duke intends to deploy $63 billion of capital over the next five years, 80% of which is expected to support investments in grid modernization and zero or lower-carbon emitting generation. CEO Lynn Good announced the plans during a call with investors on Feb. Courtesy: Duke). "As GW of capacity since 2010, Good said.

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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. The company says that 70 per cent of its investments are in natural gas operations. million from polluting interests in 2022. degree-warmed world.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

On Thursday, the Labour Party announced it would scrap its commitment to spend £28 billion a year on green investments, days after it was reported the Conservatives are poised to ditch a mechanism that could slash emissions from domestic heating. A member of the group’s board was also appointed to a parliamentary committee on climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Unplugged wells frequently continue to emit methane , a greenhouse gas with a warming impact many times that of CO2. billion in global profit in 2022. The second largest holder is Aera Energy, which was owned by Shell and ExxonMobil until 2022, and which retains 8,948 idle wells. billion each.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Despite this massive increase in investment, the project’s coal gasification process did not operate reliably during testing as leaks were discovered. million tonnes of CO2/year Note: The industry-backed Global CCS Institute says five million tonnes of CO2/ year, which was the plant’s actual operating capacity in 2022.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Rees-Mogg was previously referred to the parliamentary standards watchdog for failing to declare in debates that his investment firm, Somerset Capital Management, held shares worth around £3 million in mining firms, £2.4 That is why we need these companies to be ploughing that investment into the North Sea.”.

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

But in the absence of strong government support or regulation, the oil industry might not have the will to invest enough. Its self-help projects, which include reducing methane leaks and improving energy efficiency, would have amounted to a reduction of 11 million metric tons per year—less than 10% of Exxon’s current direct emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 1, 2021

The pipeline’s backers plan to have it up and running by 2022 (though Golden Pass won’t begin exporting LNG until 2025 ). In 2022, the new office will start working on developing a program to help public interest groups obtain funding for the legal costs associated with playing a role in a FERC proceeding. . Running to the Gulf.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

When InvestigateWest launched the Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia series in January 2021, the latest official data showed that emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases had risen steadily from 2012 to 2018, and the region wasn’t on track to make big cuts this decade. “We

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Ardern is being watched closely : Her administration has been criticized for being lenient on reducing biogenic methane from agricultural production — notably dairy cattle and sheep — which accounts for almost half of New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions and roughly 6.6 Mellody Hobson, Co-CEO and President, Ariel Investments.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

While Exxon has already spent millions on this project — and plans to invest up to $400 million more to expand it — Shute Creek has consistently fallen short of its carbon capture goals. According to the document, “API also supports federal tax provisions incentivizing CCUS investment and deployment.”

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 7, 2023

Austin Wall was attending an environmental law conference at the University of Tennessee not long ago when, during a discussion of natural gas pipeline projects, a map appeared on the screen and gave him a surprise. I’m like, hold up, that Google Maps looks really familiar to me,” the 25-year-old law student said. “I

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 8, 2023

Austin Wall was attending an environmental law conference at the University of Tennessee not long ago when, during a discussion of natural gas pipeline projects, a map appeared on the screen and gave him a surprise. I’m like, hold up, that Google Maps looks really familiar to me,” the 25-year-old law student said. “I

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Andrew Winston

DECEMBER 22, 2021

This is in no way scientific — and on reflection, it’s far too heavily weighted to climate and the E side of ESG (I’ll set a resolution to do better in 2022!). Comcast RISE to Support 13,000 BIPOC-Owned Small Businesses With Tech Services, Marketing Resources and Millions of Dollars in Grants by 2022… here.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In either case, this wasn’t on our bingo card… In the news, the British government passed new reforms to speed up interconnection, Colombia launched a $1B biodiversity fund, the US released $6B in funding for climate resiliency, and the US and China made modest progress on methane reduction at APEC.  SPAC valuation ).

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38 North Solutions

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Despite a series of successes, including passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), the CHIPS Act , and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), there is no doubt that President Biden and his Democratic Colleagues, who currently control both the House and Senate, faced difficult headwinds coming into the 2022 midterm elections.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

The landmark legislation's climate provisions could unlock billions of dollars of low carbon investment and millions of green jobs - but it also paves the way for new fossil fuel infrastructure. As President Biden observed, the IRA "makes the largest investment ever in combatting the existential crisis of climate change".

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