DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Canadian pipeline company TC Energy is aiming to expand the volume of methane gas that it ships through a long distance pipeline in the Pacific Northwest, potentially locking in higher gas use despite laws in western states that chart a path away from fossil fuels in the years ahead. That trend is spreading in the Northwest.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

That means Southern Company intends to keep building new natural gas power plants to meet its supply needs, even as it grows its renewable energy portfolio from 9 gigawatts today to about 14 GW by 2024. But Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, the states where Southern Company’s electric utilities serve about 4.2

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Grist

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The way it’s usually described, getting to this nightmare requires taking a “business as usual” path, meaning that the world dramatically increases burning coal and other fossil fuels without worrying about the consequences. Remember that high-end fossil-fuel intensive scenario with no climate policy to 2100, & no climate impacts?

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Greenpeace Italy and Re:Common have alleged in their climate lawsuit — Italy’s first — that despite knowing at least as early as 1970 that burning fossil fuels posed a serious climate risk, Eni went on to promote “natural” –- or methane – gas as a safe energy source for decades. the spokesperson stated.

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EDF + Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

All the rulemaking we’ve been tracking regarding EPA’s emission standards for oil and gas methane, fossil fuel power plants, vehicles, and transmission are all important drivers for accelerating progress. Key programs now expire on September 30, 2024. EDF and Google are partnering on mapping methane using satellite data.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 13, 2021

Part of a combined heat and power system, the digester mixed cow manure with heat and bacteria to produce biogas that fueled a generator. The digester, and another the dairy installed a few years later, reduced the size of open lagoons of manure that release methane into the atmosphere. It was a novel experiment at the time.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 3, 2023

Finding alternative fuel sources is essential (and tricky) for a few reasons:   Existing infrastructure has been developed to store, transport, and utilize hydrocarbons extracted from the Earth. Price sensitivity is high for fuels in tight-margin industries such as shipping and travel. Engines are optimized for fossil fuels.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Look forward to 2024 predictions from many of your favorite clairvoyant climate voices. In news this week, COP28 wraps up with a landmark agreement on transitioning away from fossil fuels, DOE announces a new office focused on AI, and over 2M Teslas were recalled. 🧑‍💻 COP28 was climate tech-ier than ever.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 8, 2024

Photos I shot last year in South Louisiana illustrate the Gulf Coast’s rapidly expanding fossil fuel industry, and the groundswell of frontline community members, environmental advocates, and activists fighting to stop it. While “green” hydrogen fuel can be produced with renewable energy, that process is cost prohibitive for now.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In part because air travel is such a technical marvel, engineering our way around direct emissions from burning fossil fuels strapped to those big jet engines on the wings is definitionally “hard to abate.”  Their first plant, Freedom Pines, is scheduled to come online in early 2024.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Countries and companies have also kicked off pledges to triple investments in renewables and nuclear, drive down methane emissions, and commit loss and damage funds. 50 companies , representing over 40% global oil production, committed to reduce methane emissions to 0.2% Execution questions marks. and raising the remaining $23.5

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The City Fix

JANUARY 24, 2024

Last year shattered global heat records. The world witnessed the effects of rising temperatures in the form of devastating wildfires, severe flooding, extreme heatwaves and more. Poor countries and communities who have contributed the least to causing the climate crisis.

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Business Green

AUGUST 1, 2022

There is potential to create a more circular economy that ensures these crucial raw materials are re-used multiple times, but there is no credible path to net zero emissions that does not require a significant increase in demand for multiple mining commodities, even as demand for fossil fuels plummets.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The initiative, also known as the “Protect Washington Act”, imposes a steadily increasing carbon pollution fee on most fossil fuel uses and directs revenue toward projects to reduce carbon emissions, as well as investments in forests, water, community preparedness, and support to displaced workers and people with lower incomes.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2023

We have the largest and most diverse mangrove forests in the world, and we are committed to rehabilitating 600,000 hectares of mangroves by 2024. As long as they can get away with it they will continue to invest in fossil fuels, they will continue to throw people under the bus," Thunberg said.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 17, 2023

This annual assessment acts as a “stick” policy to push shippers to decarbonize and ratings will become more stringent over time, with the threshold for each decreasing by ~2% each year—meaning ships that receive an A in 2023 could get a B rating in 2024 with the same CII score. Ease of Adoption: Easiest.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

At the very least, utilities will need plans that can get them most of the way there, while rushing ahead with next-generation technologies: long-duration energy storage, small modular nuclear reactors or green hydrogen and methane to fuel natural gas peaker plants. Here's a look at the five largest U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

State of Montana that the state’s ongoing support for and promotion of fossil fuel development — including directing state regulators not to consider a project’s climate impacts during the permitting process — violated Montana’s constitutional guarantee of the right to a clean and healthful environment, which extends to a stable climate.

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Grist

MARCH 6, 2024

Natural gas is 70 to 90 percent methane, a greenhouse gas that’s about 30 times more potent than carbon dioxide in the short term. “We don’t have existing fossil fuel refineries here. Do you know an organizer standing up to the fossil fuel industry on behalf of their community (like Bekah Hinojosa)?

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Business Green

MARCH 14, 2021

Amid depressed prices and slumping demand for fossil fuels, firms have embraced cloud computing and data services that allow them to make their operations more efficient and reduce overheads. The oil and gas sector is in the midst of a digital transformation. We see it as a demonstration project," he says.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

Why focus on creating sustainable marine fuels? > Eventually all fossil fuels are to be replaced with a sustainable alternative, hopefully some time before 2050. At Mr. Sustainability however, we are not interested in replacing all fuels. We focus on the maritime industry for a reason. No surprise there.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

Why focus on creating sustainable marine fuels? Because sea going vessels are hard to electrify and we are Mr. Sustainability Eventually all fossil fuels are to be replaced with a sustainable alternative, hopefully some time before 2050. We however are not interested in replacing all fuels. No surprise there.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 12, 2024

Robert Noyes, a campaigner at Fossil Free Parliament warned against “cosy dinners and the easy access they buy”. He told DeSmog: “What the fossil fuel lobby wants, the fossil fuel lobby gets.” Offshore gas fields worldwide are major sources of emissions of methane, a powerful, short-lived greenhouse gas.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2022

The newly enacted Inflation Reduction Act contains the world’s first-ever fee on methane, a powerful greenhouse gas believed to be responsible for roughly 30 percent of global temperature rise since the Industrial Revolution. billion in financial incentives to clean up their methane.”

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) was high on the agenda at New York Climate Week last week, where critics of the technology raised concerns it would be used to extend the life of the fossil fuel industry. 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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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

A proposed Clean Fuel Standard that requires fossil fuel suppliers to reduce the carbon intensity of the fuel they supply. Requiring oil and gas companies to reduce methane emissions by at least 75% below 2012 levels by 2030. s new target and en route to 100% zero-emission vehicle sales by 2035.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2024

John Allaire, a former environmental engineer in the oil industry, photographed with fossil fuel infrastructure behind. 29th, 2024, U.S. As Gas Outlook reported last year, the LNG terminals themselves are leaking methane that is going unrecorded. They also provide a buffer against floods and storms.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 24, 2023

Update : The company broke ground on a commercial-scale facility this week that will be the first in the country to make alternative jet fuel from CO2 and grid power once production begins in mid-2024. Looking ahead : We’ll be watching how Fervo scales from a 3.5MW pilot to larger deployments.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 11, 2024

  MethaneSAT, a methane-tracking satellite, was launched this week and will be operated by a subsidiary of the Environmental Defense Fund. After divesting €15bn from fossil fuels in 2021, ABP now anticipates cutting its portfolio company investments roughly by half as a result of this monumental shift. 

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2021

In the communique posted at the close of the G20 Summit this afternoon, the influential nations also for the first time acknowledged the "significant contribution" of methane emissions to rising temperatures, and pledged to take action to "significantly" reduce releases of the powerful greenhouse gas. pic.twitter.com/c1nhIDbA8m.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2022

If approved by the EU's 27 member states, the coal ban would mark the first coordinated embargo from the bloc to tackle Russia's fossil fuel exports. Methane emissions soar to record high. They have also set out draft reforms for Germany's clean energy law and legislation that could speed up grid development.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

From President Biden to methane pledges, BusinessGreen explores the biggest developments on the fifth full day of the pivotal climate talks in Sharm EL Sheikh. Last year, I committed to work with our Congress to quadruple our climate finance to provide $11bn annually by 2024, including $3bn for adaptation," he said.

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Business Green

AUGUST 6, 2021

The Trump administration had moved to water down US auto emissions standards, but the new order proposes a strengthening of the rules so that the EPA would require a 10 per cent year-over-year strengthening of emissions standards for model year 2023, followed by five per cent increases each year from 2024 through to 2026.

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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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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 22, 2023

And because we can’t help ourselves, we then attempted to extrapolate the straight line between these divergent views of what’s to come for climate tech in 2024. Andrew Beebe , Obvious Ventures : Yes, 2024 will beat both 2023 and 2022. Potentially a fair number will go under in 2024, again as a lagging indicator.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2021

In March, the UK government ignored campaigners’ calls to end the issuance of offshore oil and gas licences and reverse its policy of maximising economic recovery of fossil fuels in the North Sea, leaving the door open for more privately-owned and less-transparent companies to purchase and profit from North Sea assets.

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2021

As a fossil fuel industry lobbyists told the New York Times this week , "I underestimated the level of seriousness that these guys had about this.". Some of the biggest challenges will come from his own side, as he seeks to balance the demands of coal-state Senators with those of the young activists who demand radical reforms.

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