R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

Mr. Rockall highlighted a major global problem in which the fossil fuel solution is clearly better than the status quo. Robert – About a decade ago I was researching a book chapter I was writing, and I learned something new. James – What is it that makes a fuel clean? Nobody produces LPG because they want LPG.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 3, 2023

According to the US Department of Energy , hydrogen fuel can be produced from a broad spectrum of different technologies and energy sources.    These include “fossil fuels, biomass, and water electrolysis with electricity.” Making hydrogen fuel at home requires only the most basic materials.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

But so much of the discussion in that sector focuses on the supply side: how fast will wind and solar displace fossil fuels? What will happen with natural gas? Download the free TrinaPro Solution Guide Book on how to optimize utility-scale solar projects. Consumers tend to be confusing when it comes to energy.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 24, 2024

And, eventually, it all became this book, Petroleum 238: Big Oil’s Dangerous Secret and the Grassroots Fight to Stop It — available here on Amazon , here on Bookshop , or it can be ordered at any local bookstore. Radon is America’s second leading cause of lung cancer deaths and naturally contaminates natural gas.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

natural gas production comes from federal leases in the Gulf of Mexico, according to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. gas is produced, have been surprised to find that about 4 percent of the natural gas they pulled from the ground was leaking into the atmosphere. oil production and 1 percent of U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Interviewer Thomas Kolster, the author of the book “Goodvertising: Creative advertising that cares”, opens with a softball: “Yannick, advertising and climate can seem like quite an oxymoron. However, while the Shell deal may be the biggest Havas has ever had with an oil and gas client, it is by no means the first.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 28, 2020

microgrid market since 2016, with only 58 megawatts of projects on the books, according to WoodMac’s survey of projects of at least 100 kilowatts in size. The coronavirus pandemic has thrown a wrench into U.S. The first half of 2020 was the slowest for the U.S.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Sean Gallup/Getty Images Tens of thousands of negotiators, activists, and corporate execs have descended upon Dubai to wrangle over the future of fossil fuels. Can governments broker a deal to phase out the oil, coal, and gas causing climate change? The future of fossil fuels Let’s start with some backstory on COP28.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

These revelations quickly spurred calls for Congress to investigate Exxon’s and other fossil fuel companies’ efforts to obstruct climate action. For years, academics, journalists, and activists have been unearthing documents proving that the fossil fuel industry knew about the dangers of climate change since the late 1950s.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 18, 2023

One of the Fraser Institute’s senior fellows recently authored an op-ed in the Calgary Sun arguing that net-zero is “the pathway to Canadian decline” and that alternatives to fossil fuels are “unstable and unreliable.” It’s total greenwashing,” he said of Shell Canada’s current promises to cut emissions.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2021

The taxonomy rule book, which has long been in development as a core pillar of the EU's aim to build a net zero economy by 2050, is designed as a labelling system for investment which the Commission hopes can divert hundreds of billions of euros towards the green economy. A version of this article originally appeared at Investment Week.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 11, 2022

A household in Bend, Oregon would save an average of $192 in the all-electric scenario compared to a household that still uses some gas. “We NW Natural has pressed Eugene’s city council not to support a gas hookup ban, and has also run ads in the Eugene area, warning customers about the prospects of “forced electrification.”.

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Sunrun

AUGUST 23, 2019

Going solar can affect the climate, the economy and our own pocket books. Wide scale adoption of solar and other renewable energy must continue so we can address the negative societal and economic impacts of dirty fossil fuels.10 14 Solar Saves on Gas and Fuel 9. Unlike fossil fuels, sunlight is never going away.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 25, 2021

As the global population rises and the global middle class expands, countries and industries are given a unique opportunity to leapfrog stages of development and avoid reliance on fossil fuels altogether. There is an additional focus on providing access to clean and safe cooking fuels to improve emissions, health, and quality of life.

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Grist

APRIL 14, 2021

This story is adapted from the forthcoming book WARMTH which will be published by Penguin Books in August. Broome residents attend a 2011 protest rally against the proposed natural gas plant. Goolarabooloo protesters stand at a 2011 rally against construction of the natural gas plant.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

When you’ve followed the evolving research of a leading clean energy expert and become a supporter of his vision for a global clean energy transition, it should come as no surprise that I was eager to crack open Mark Jacobson’s 2021 book release, 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 25, 2021

As the global population rises and the global middle class expands, countries and industries are given a unique opportunity to leapfrog stages of development and avoid reliance on fossil fuels altogether. There is an additional focus on providing access to clean and safe cooking fuels to improve emissions, health, and quality of life.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

There, he met with OPUC staff in person and exchanged emails with Lori Koho, then OPUC’s senior official overseeing natural gas utilities. He hoped that his list of complaints would show “how the unethical culture [at NW Natural] goes all the way to the top,” as one of his emails to Koho explains. Systemic Failures of Oversight.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

It also walked back restrictive rules on its books related to marches. James plans to keep pursuing environmental justice in the courts if regulators continue to put the needs of the fossil fuel industry above the needs of fenceline communities in Cancer Alley. Now citizens and groups like RISE St.

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Business Green

APRIL 10, 2022

But human actions can also affect the climate for the better by reducing fossil fuel burning and carbon emissions. Human activities - particularly relying on coal, oil and natural gas for energy - have dramatically affected the climate , with dire consequences. Believing ‘I can do this'.

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GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2021

The co-founder and chief scientist of the nonprofit Rewiring America, formed in July, has mapped out with his colleagues how to ditch fossil fuels for the billion fossil-fuel-powered machines involved in energy production and use, which he said account for 87 percent of U.S. CO2 emissions.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Summary - Freaked out scientists and gleeful captains of fossil-fuel tankers are now sailing through climate history in the melting polar region. Crossing the so-called Northern Sea Route in the Arctic waters, in just under three weeks it moored at the Chinese port of Yangkou, unloading its shipment of liquefied natural gas.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Meanwhile, Michigan approves a bundle of clean energy bills, the UN irons out details for the "loss and damages" fund ahead of COP, and Flexport launches a book and claim model for SAFs.  The Notorious Hannah Ritchie finds that clean energy will require less mining than fossil fuels.  Aka land platypus.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2021

As you'd imagine, firms in the fossil-fuel sector are squarely in the bullseye, but so are those in other sectors: retail, technology, finance, food and ag, mining, transportation and more. They called such commitments "a blank cheque for the continued burning of fossil fuels and the acceleration of habitat destruction.".

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Andrew Winston

JUNE 11, 2018

And at UPS, about 9,000 of its roughly 112,000 vehicles already have some environmental advantage (most are powered by natural gas, but 1,000 are electric hybrids or pure electric). And, yes, an EV running off an electric grid with fossil fuels is still cleaner, no matter where in the U.S. you plug in. Get your copy here.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2022

She also called on highly profitable fossil fuel companies to offer a crisis contribution, because, as she says, ‘profits must be shared and channelled to those who need it the most.’. Add this all up, and we’re seeing a perfect storm of high energy prices for years to come – unless Russian gas supplies resume.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

As DeSmog reported in 2018, quoting from The Big Short , a book about the lead up to the 2008 financial crisis: “All these subprime lending companies were growing so rapidly, and using such goofy accounting, that they could mask the fact that they had no real earnings, just illusory, accounting-driven, ones.

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Grist

JANUARY 10, 2022

Faced with falling natural gas prices and the growth in wind and solar energy, coal plants from Illinois to New Mexico closed their doors. And as coal vanished, replaced by less carbon-intensive natural gas, U.S. greenhouse gas emissions edged down. That’s bad news for the climate. Last year, however, U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 28, 2024

This is a complex issue, but fundamentally it’s a marketing play by the fossil fuel industry,” ETCRC co-chair Jacob Komar told The Energy Mix Monday. “We The memo cites fertilizer, steel, biofuel, and petrochemical production as four hard-to-decarbonize industries where hydrogen may be the most realistic alternative to fossil fuels.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 20, 2021

So, the reality is that we will have more coal as we go forward,” said Sumant Sinha, chairman and managing director of ReNew Power, India's largest clean energy company, and author of the book Fossil Free. Source: Brookings Institute " Coal in India " report. “Coal will no longer be the king.”

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 7, 2020

utility record books. SCE has already contracted for hundreds of megawatts of front-of-meter storage under the state’s 2013 energy storage mandate , and to boost reliability after the closure of the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility. The four-hour duration 2.63 became the first to do so last year.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

2023 is on track to be the hottest in the books , and unless we want to shatter that record year after year, every country on Earth will have to work together to wean themselves off fossil fuels. The US, the world’s biggest producer of oil and gas , has more work to do than others. We have to have this transition.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 19, 2021

This includes: investor concerns about the environmental impact of Canada’s oil sands; more oil supply from OPEC, which would compete with Canadian oil; and the long-term uncertainty about oil demand amid a global shift away from fossil fuels. Indian Chiefs (UBCIC), said in a statement. On August 17, First Nations leaders in B.C.

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Business Green

MAY 28, 2021

The co-founder and chief scientist of the nonprofit Rewiring America, formed in July, has mapped out with his colleagues how to ditch fossil fuels for the billion fossil-fuel-powered machines involved in energy production and use, which he said account for 87 per cent of US CO2 emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

This makes it ripe for disaster capitalism, a phrase Naomi Klein coined in her book “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.” Both are reliant on a steady stream of cheap natural gas. While natural gas burns cleaner than coal, the advantage of using it is negated by the methane emitted in its production.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

A member of the Canadian parliament has proposed a ban on misleading fossil fuel advertising. Taking inspiration from Canadian government bans on tobacco advertising that went into effect in the 1990s, New Democratic Party (NDP) MP Charlie Angus has proposed private members bill C-372, An Act respecting fossil fuel advertising.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 27, 2021

The co-founder and chief scientist of the nonprofit Rewiring America, formed in July, has mapped out with his colleagues how to ditch fossil fuels for the billion fossil-fuel-powered machines involved in energy production and use, which he said account for 87 percent of U.S. CO2 emissions.

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