Charged

AUGUST 2, 2023

Fleets don’t want to go electric at scale until they’ve done years-long pilots, but the Advanced Clean Trucks regulation will artificially constrict that timeframe. Rustam Kocher: I think it’s going to be an issue for any company that has a large battery pack. Soon they won’t have a choice. Rustam Kocher: It is.

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Low Impact

OCTOBER 31, 2021

I could end this article here, but I won’t, because that’s not the main problem. I wouldn’t be as impolite, of course, as to call what’s coming at COP26 an ‘ avalanche of climate b t ’, but here’s how I would put it. I’ve also been told that it’s China’s fault, not ours. Your fridge?

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2022

Finally, people understand what you do and why you do it. They are being confronted by a small but growing armada of politicians, business leaders, activists, regulators and media who seem to have sustainability and ESG in their crosshairs. If it is, why create onerous new layers of disclosure? Be careful what you wish for.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Val Miftakhov: I was fascinated with aircraft from my childhood. My father worked in the oil industry, but his formal education was in aviation maintenance and mechanics back in the Soviet Union, so I got exposed to some of that early on. Then, when I came over to the US, I got my pilot’s license.

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Charged

AUGUST 24, 2020

My recent work with one V2G charger developer, Fermata Energy, has convinced me that V2G has found its proverbial killer app : load peak shaving for commercial/industrial energy customers. For example, my local utility, TECO, assesses a demand charge of $11.03/kW m (20 in) on a side, while a 12.5

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Andrew Winston

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

I wrote this last month about what businesses should be doing in the wake of the IPCC report. Nothing in the US report changes my view (but reality on the ground -- including the destruction of an entire town in California from wildfires -- has made the case even clearer). F) since pre-industrial times, holding the world to 1.5°C

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GreenBiz

APRIL 28, 2021

I first started working on climate change in the 1990s, advising President Clinton as Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers in the run-up to the 1997 Kyoto Conference of Parties. Today, I would like to provide an overview of what Treasury intends to do — and, in some cases, is already doing. Janet Yellen. Wed, 04/28/2021 - 00:15.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The series is supported by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University, and is part of their POWER project. The area is rural, and peppered with industries — including Westrock Paper Mill, a warehouse and distribution center for Lowe’s Hardware, an industrial hog farm, and Enviva.

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

I will never forget the first time I killed a tree. It was a warm January morning, and my forehead was sweating under my orange hardhat. I pulled the starter rope of my chainsaw, lifted the roaring silver blade, and sliced through a small Douglas fir. I love all trees, but I’m especially moved by oaks.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

To support this work, he started the Center on Race, Poverty, and the Environment (CRPE) in 1989 with the help of his mentor Ralph Abascal, a preeminent poverty lawyer who began his career working with Chicano Rights leaders César Chávez and Dolores Huerta. It’s interesting to think about why that is, and why it remains so uncommon.”.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

“I forget that this isn’t normal,” he says. Richmond, a diverse, industrial city where housing prices and incomes have lagged behind its Bay Area neighbors, has poor air quality and some of the highest rates of respiratory and cardiovascular disease in California. The air Climate change is usually seen as a global problem.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2024

This article, a joint reporting project of Floodlight and NPR , is published here as part of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now. Frank for NPR and Floodlight) Chevron’s bid to control the public discourse comes as efforts to combat climate change threaten the fossil fuel industry, especially in California.

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 25, 2022

The more people I speak with about lithium, the bigger this story gets. Following my previous article — How The U.S. Is Losing The Lithium Industry To China — several readers told me that this battle is already lost. In today’s article, I want to reiterate two threats to U.S. Threats to National Security.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Creating better businesses with B Corp Certification and beyond B Corp Certification presents a set of guiding principles that support organizations to minimize their impact on the environment and society. Certified B Corps are part of a global movement that safeguards the environment and supports the well-being of communities.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

“I belong here,” I reminded myself, as I drove toward the checkpoint to gain entry to the groundbreaking event for the $2.9 As one of the few reporters to challenge the project’s feasibility , I was not surprised that I was not invited. Two scoping hearings I attending this year held by the U.S.

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Charged

MAY 31, 2022

Christian: Could you start by telling us why you founded the company? I spent 25 years buying and selling commodities, primarily focusing on North American energy—natural gas, crude oil, and then some electricity. Then I founded and sold a couple of different companies. The last one I was running is called Concord Energy.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

But given the number of examples of greenwashing I regularly snap photos of, those guidelines aren't often getting passed along to the communications people whose job is to feed the social media beast," she said. That's my biggest watch-out for brands," she said. More terms to be wary of.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Mica mining has become a growing problem for the image- and brand-conscious cosmetics industry. ” A year later, the Indian government legalized mica mining in an effort to allow the sector to be regulated, root out child labor and ensure better wages and conditions for mine workers of all ages.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

By the late 1970s, the petroleum industry had spent about two decades collecting information from their own scientists and outside experts and knew that burning fossil fuels would create catastrophic climate change. THACKER: What I love about this document is that you can see they’re kind of getting concerned. Document 7: 1981.

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Charged

JANUARY 31, 2024

That’s why battery-integrated solutions became a priority. That’s why our product mix plays into what the infrastructure constraints are in the US. Loosening the utility bottleneck Charged : That leads neatly into my next question, which is about utility interconnects. Then the NZS fits in that 200- to 300-kilowatt range.

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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 The couple wasn’t aware of the permit hearing for Commonwealth LNG’s new export terminal project until I mentioned it to them.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

In 2015, nearly 200 countries agreed to “Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C C above pre-industrial levels , recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change”.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Record numbers of delegates from business and finance attended the COP15 Biodiversity Summit, but these actors are not part of official negotiations – so why do they make the trip? Corporate attendance has been typically limited to a handful of extractive industry and pharmaceutical firms, who attend in a largely defensive capacity.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

This article describes my view on how a project-driven company should be structured and organized using the latest in 21st century thinking. I use an idea on energy-independence services to show how I would shape my own business, starting with the why (purpose) all the way to the how (non-negotiables) and the what (organization).

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2023

One of the main reasons why organic has such a highly regulated labeling and certification scheme is that the organic label serves to justify a premium or higher price on the product," said Berninger. And I think that's the heart of the matter." I think regenerative practices should be used at scale, instead of siloed off."

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GreenBiz

APRIL 22, 2021

Midway through our inaugural GreenFin event last week, during a break devoted to three-minute bursts of randomly selected networking conversations, I found myself paired with a university student attending the conference as part of his studies. . Apparently, he’d been advised by the professors at his school in the U.S.

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Mr. Sustainability

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Let us start by assuming that you are most likely interested in this article because you are either: A. Whichever case applies to you personally, this article is intended to be a how-to guide for creating sustainable businesses that are built to last. Nothing stated in this article is either new or untested. all of the above.

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Mr. Sustainability

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Let us start by assuming that you are most likely interested in this article because you are either: A. Whichever case applies to you personally, this article is intended to be a how-to guide for creating sustainable businesses that are built to last. Nothing stated in this article is either new or untested. all of the above.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

When I think about RBG, these are the lessons I take for the climate fight. In her own words (and quoting Roscoe Pound): “One must be sensitive to the sensibilities and mindsets of one’s colleagues, which may mean avoiding certain arguments and authorities, even certain words… I emphasize that dissents are not devoutly to be avoided.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Though the administration claims it will establish safeguards, currently there are no rules to compel state oil and gas regulators to use the federal funds in a way that prioritizes plugging the inactive and supposedly ownerless wells that are emitting the most methane, or even any methane at all. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Compiled by Dutch climate activist Vatan Hüzeir , and reviewed by DeSmog and Dutch investigative journalism platform Follow The Money , the documents show how Shell was actively supporting research that clearly underscored the dangers posed by burning its fossil fuel products from the mid-1970s — years earlier than previously thought.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Sometimes there is a total disconnect that takes place somewhere between an idea that I have in my head, and a reader’s interpretation of what I am saying. I am happy to report that today’s column addresses a reader who understood me clearly, and who responded in a clear and informative manner.

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2021

temperature goal and its commitment to "achieve a balance between anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases in the second half of this century" has unleashed one of the fastest and most consequential corporate trends since the inception of the first Industrial Revolution.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 22, 2021

GreenFin 21 and the 5 cornerstones of sustainable finance Heather Clancy Thu, 04/22/2021 – 02:11 Midway through our inaugural GreenFin event last week, during a break devoted to three-minute bursts of randomly selected networking conversations, I found myself paired with a university student attending the conference as part of his studies.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 22, 2021

GreenFin 21 and the 5 cornerstones of sustainable finance Heather Clancy Thu, 04/22/2021 – 02:11 Midway through our inaugural GreenFin event last week, during a break devoted to three-minute bursts of randomly selected networking conversations, I found myself paired with a university student attending the conference as part of his studies.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

When I think about RBG, these are the lessons I take for the climate fight. In her own words (and quoting Roscoe Pound): “One must be sensitive to the sensibilities and mindsets of one’s colleagues, which may mean avoiding certain arguments and authorities, even certain words… I emphasize that dissents are not devoutly to be avoided.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

When I think about RBG, these are the lessons I take for the climate fight. In her own words (and quoting Roscoe Pound): “One must be sensitive to the sensibilities and mindsets of one’s colleagues, which may mean avoiding certain arguments and authorities, even certain words… I emphasize that dissents are not devoutly to be avoided.

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