DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

LNG boom threatens to release vast amounts of methane, a powerful climate pollutant that is the main component of natural gas. On June 8, 2022, just such an explosion at the Freeport LNG export plant in Texas released a 450-foot-high fireball , shuttering the plant for nine months.

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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

JULY 28, 2022

Eight years after allowing a shale gas company to drill beneath Deer Lakes County Park for methane gas, the Pennsylvania county home to Pittsburgh has banned all industrial activity in the area’s eight other parks — despite a veto from the county executive. July 19, 2022. A “Watershed in Pennsylvania’s Narrative Around Fracking”.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 14, 2021

California state law (SB 1383) takes effect January 1, 2022, requiring the majority of homes and businesses in the area to recycle all food and yard waste in their yard debris carts. Some experts estimate as much as 40% of landfill mass is made up of food waste. The process is nothing new to Republic Services.

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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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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

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. Corporate Lobbying and Lawsuits.

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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. Fossil fuel operations generate over one-third of all methane emissions from human activity. Fossil fuel operations generate over one-third of all methane emissions from human activity. And leading this transition in the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

Instead, they are required to contract with “ industry-governed organizations ” — private trade associations — to promote products. R-CALF USA doesn’t only blame the private trade associations for overturning the law that allowed “Made in the USA” labels. “It’s In 2022, the Beef Checkoff granted $8.1

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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. It seems that those efforts are backfiring.

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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

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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

In December 2022, when a peer-reviewed study estimated that “ nearly 13 percent of childhood asthma cases in the United States can be linked to having a gas stove in the home,” AGA paid the consulting firm Gradient Corporation to criticize the data. This gas industry influence campaign continues to the present day. This study ( Samet et al.,

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 17, 2023

1, 2020 rules adopted by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) came into effect that substantially decreased the amount of sulfur allowed in maritime fuels with the goal of cutting sulfur oxide emissions from ships by 77%. More than 100,000 ships over 100 gross tons sailed the seven seas in 2022. Regulatory rewind: On Jan.1,

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

In October, she invited a university researcher onto the property and discovered that several wells were leaking methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide. This increases the risk of methane seeping into the air and oil migrating into the surrounding groundwater. The Railroad Commission would not confirm this.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

In October, she invited a university researcher onto the property and discovered that several wells were leaking methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide. This increases the risk of methane seeping into the air and oil migrating into the surrounding groundwater. The Railroad Commission would not confirm this.

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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 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

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

They contend that current city Comptroller Brad Lander, who was elected in January 2022, is following his predecessor Stringer in “using that office to advance an environmental agenda at the expense of retirement security.” It’s unclear how much of that total is invested in coal, oil, or methane gas. trillion in cash and investments.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 18, 2022

Schumer is sacrificing frontline communities and our clean energy future, all to placate a coal baron,” Food & Water Watch senior New York organizer Laura Shindell, one of 10 activists taken into custody, said in a statement. link] — No North Brooklyn Pipeline (@nonbkpipeline) August 18, 2022. “Sen.

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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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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 ). Last week, the commission established a new Office of Public Participation, which aims to allow smaller organizations and individuals access to FERC’s proceedings, which commissioners have acknowledged are complex.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

When it comes to those shaping the corporate climate movement — either from within companies or as part of NGOs and policy organizations that recognize the critical role businesses must play in addressing the climate emergency — I’m grateful to say it’s becoming easier to find women with a seat at the decision-making table.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Climate and environmental justice organizations , some climate and energy experts, and some lawmakers, are speaking out against the false promise of CCS. Both of these policy supports have now become law with the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The oil industry has launched an all-out pressure campaign to kill an attempt by Congressional Democrats to tax methane – an extremely powerful greenhouse gas – for the first time. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, which is considering the methane fee as part of the $3.5 Congress Eyes Methane Fee.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 18, 2022

But efficiency advocates noted those numbers actually fell short of federal targets, faulting loopholes in the law that they say promote larger vehicles. A number of organizations with ties to the Koch network also joined in lobbying to weaken clean car standards, as DeSmog previously reported. mile-per-gallon gain to 25.4

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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

MARCH 16, 2024

Hard-won federal policies like the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act put that target within reach. A report from Columbia University’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law identified nearly 230 local measures across 35 states that have been enacted to restrict renewable energy development. .” In 2019, Ohioans weathered a $9.5

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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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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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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

President Biden signed historic climate legislation into law in August, but more action will be necessary to hit climate targets. With global methane gas prices spiking, building new gas-fired power plants would also create new economic risks. The federally-owned, public power corporation operates power plants in the U.S.

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