DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2024

liquefied natural gas (LNG). In a letter addressed to ING CEO Steven van Rijswijk and the first step in litigation, Milieudefensie says it believes the bank is in breach of its “duty of care” obligation under Dutch law. ING’s climate policy is miles away from what is necessary to achieve the 1.5°C Credit: Sabrina Bedford.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This story is part of the series Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia , which explores the path to low-carbon energy for British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. The economics of carbon-free living have fallen into place. The current 50,000 or so stations are to be expanded to 10 times that by 2030. If not sooner.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 1, 2022

Senate Bill (SB) 32 subsequently strengthened the state’s GHG emissions reductions target to at least 40% below 1990 levels by 2030. Our first post in this series discusses CARB’s Proposed Scenario to achieve the state’s GHG targets, which adopts a carbon neutrality target for 2045.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The Climate Act requires that the scoping plan “inform the state energy planning board’s adoption of a state energy plan,” and the State’s energy law requires that all state entities must make “any energy-related action[s] or decision[s] … reasonably consistent with the. state energy] plan.”.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Available figures compiled from various public corporate reports suggest that on average 80 percent of the businesses’ operations remain in oil and gas and, in one case, coal. It also had the highest share of posts on carbon capture and storage technologies, with these making up one in five of the promos put out by the company.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

Analysing 2,325 social media posts from 22 major European polluters, the report found that 72 percent of posts from oil and gas firms tried to emphasise their spending on green technology. percent of their annual capital expenditures in low carbon technologies between 2010 and 2018. million views.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

To achieve the certification, gas plants must meet certain emissions targets over their lifetime, replace a more polluting fossil fuel plant, and have a plan to be switched to run on low carbon gases by 2035. When a gold standard does emerge elsewhere, this Taxonomy will be left behind.".

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2023

The three countries, alongside Poland and Bulgaria, have reportedly blocked the final approval of an EU law that would mandate the sale of only zero emission cars and vans across the continent from 2035, widespread media reports suggest this week. The first ever full value chain, for carbon capture and storage in Europe," she said.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Many celebrated with their CSOs on meeting ambitious corporate targets for 2020, while setting audacious new goals for 2025, 2030 and 2050. The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. and globally by 2040.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

In January 2021, representatives from the clean energy sector sent a joint letter welcoming the criteria recommended by the TEG and stating that “the inclusion of power generation with a carbon intensity above this limit would not only deviate from science, but would also harm the EU’s decarbonisation trajectory and its 2050 net-zero objectives.”.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 7, 2023

This story is part of a DeSmog series on the influence wielded by the gas lobby in Europe and was developed with the support of Journalismfund.eu Drafted as part of the EU’s target to cut its emissions by 55 percent by 2030, the proposals aim to tackle the third of the bloc’s emissions generated by heating its buildings.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In its list of 2030 commitments to support the European Green Deal, CropLife said that it will “invest 10 billion euros into innovation in precision and digital technologies by 2030.” Similarly, CropLife Europe is ready to spend “4 billion euros into innovation in biopesticides by 2030.”

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 13, 2020

On November 21, 2019, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) passed Resolution 19-27 , approving several amendments to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) program designed to foster stability in the LCFS market and promote access to electric vehicle (EV) transportation for disadvantaged and low-income communities in California.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 13, 2020

On November 21, 2019, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) passed Resolution 19-27 , approving several amendments to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) program designed to foster stability in the LCFS market and promote access to electric vehicle (EV) transportation for disadvantaged and low-income communities in California.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The infrastructure bill signed into law by President Biden in November includes $9.5 fracked gas industry under the guise of “clean” blue hydrogen. Most of the world’s current hydrogen is “gray,” produced from methane without carbon capture, which is an inexpensive but dirty process. economy via what’s known as blue hydrogen.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

It will also explore how complex or jargon-heavy language can be used to mislead costumers and whether companies that fail to provide all relevant information about the sustainability of a product of service - for example, whether it's non-recyclable or highly polluting - have breached consumer law.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 6, 2021

If you live in Oregon, it’s likely you’ve been bombarded with misleading PR from the local utility company, Northwest Natural, about the potential for what the industry is calling renewable natural gas (RNG) — methane captured from places like landfills and repurposed into energy for homes.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Several promising carbon reduction measures are combined which are technically viable and based on matured technology, although scaling of existing technologies and cooperation with key partners is required. It originates from Heerema’s ambition to become a carbon neutral offshore contractor.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Many celebrated with their CSOs on meeting ambitious corporate targets for 2020, while setting audacious new goals for 2025, 2030 and 2050. The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. and globally by 2040.

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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. Good said Duke's wind and solar capacity would increase from 10,000 MW currently to 24,000 MW by 2030.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The United States just enacted $500 billion clean energy industrial strategy investments within historic legislation (the Inflation Reduction Act, CHIPS Act, and Infrastructure Law) that will cut emissions by one gigaton in a decade. Training a transitioning energy workforce to fill the 120,000 clean energy jobs Britain will need by 2030.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 1, 2021

China's CO2 emissions are on track to peak by the mid-2020s, ahead of its stated target of 2030, according to the IEA. The country's existing policies rely on energy efficiency, growth in renewables and cuts to coal use to achieve peak CO2 emissions by 2030. Hopes grow that India could enhance carbon targets at COP26.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Angelini was instrumental in setting two signature goals for 2030. The second is a commitment to sourcing 100 percent of the natural materials Timberland uses from regenerative agriculture, such as leather for boots. Environmental Protection Agency and Natural Resources Defense Council.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

utilities have promised to eliminate their carbon emissions by midcentury. New research asserts most have undermined those goals by keeping coal plants running and building new natural gas plants meant to operate for decades to come. utilities that still rely on coal and natural gas for most of their generation capacity.

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EDF + Business

MARCH 1, 2021

She has developed a vendor sustainability scorecard for a Fortune 100 company, consulted with a national brand to improve impact measurement and reporting, and quantified the carbon emissions of an industry association. Praneet Singh Arshi. A certified B Corp, Grove serves hundreds of thousands of households in the U.S. every month.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

Angelini was instrumental in setting two signature goals for 2030. The second is a commitment to sourcing 100 percent of the natural materials Timberland uses from regenerative agriculture, such as leather for boots. Environmental Protection Agency and Natural Resources Defense Council.

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Business Green

JULY 3, 2020

Ireland's new coalition government has vowed to drastically strengthen the country's climate plans, promising to pass a new net zero emissions law within 100 days and deliver an ambitious green recovery plan. By 2040, we will be carbon neutral. New Irish government to step up climate ambitions. complete renewables mega-deal.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Drawing on that mandate, Ardern declared a "climate emergency" and set the wheels in motion for New Zealand’s public sector to become carbon neutral by 2025. She passed a Zero Carbon Bill during her first term that mandates net-zero emissions by 2050 and campaigned on tougher action this term. . percent of its GDP.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Trumps agenda has been distinctly anti-environment, including loosening restrictions on methane emissions , waiving environmental laws during the pandemic , rolling back fuel efficiency requirements , repealing water protections and weakening the Endangered Species Act. Biden pledged not to take any fossil fuel money for his campaign.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

But at a time when the climate emergency is worsening and the Democrats’ climate agenda is sputtering, DeFazio’s anointed successor for his relatively safe Democratic seat is a candidate who has a long record of supporting Jordan Cove, the now-defunct liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project that southern Oregonians battled for more than 15 years.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 15, 2020

I have beat oil companies in terms of clean air laws. When it comes to the issue of fracking, I actually see natural gas as a transition fuel. It's a transition fuel to where we get to carbon neutral. And that is to get to carbon neutral by 2045 to 2050, to get to by 2030 to a 45 percent reduction.

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