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Phantom Gas and Missing Documents Reveal Gaps in Utility Oversight

DeSmogBlog

The circumstances surrounding his termination are documented among thousands of pages of public records and internal company documents that provide a penetrating look into the multi-billion dollar stakes of negotiations between governments and state-sanctioned monopolies that are shaping the future of energy systems in Oregon and beyond.

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St. Louis Adopts Midwest?s First Building Performance Standard

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Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson recently signed a law establishing a mandatory Building Energy Performance Standard in the city, which is the second-largest in Missouri. Buildings are responsible for nearly 80 percent of St. Louis Building Division, told Greentech Media in an email. and Washington state.

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In Their Own Words: The Dirty Dozen Documents of Big Oil’s Secret Climate Knowledge

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And on October 28, Congress questioned the CEOs of ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP America, Shell, and the American Petroleum Institute on their history of blocking climate policy. The fossil fuel industry was first warned about climate change back in 1959 by famed physicist Edward Teller, known as “the father of the hydrogen bomb.”

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Defective Meters and Whistleblower Complaints Raise Questions About Gas Utility’s Profits

DeSmogBlog

A little over a decade ago, Gary Dye, then a gas measurement engineer at NW Natural, Oregon’s largest gas utility, lost faith in his employer to responsibly deal with what he believed to be systematic inaccuracies among the company’s hundreds of thousands of gas meters. Faulty Meters Raise Questions About Profits.

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China’s new frontier for VOC regulations

GreenBiz

Over the past several decades, public health and environmental concerns have made controlling smog a top national policy goal in China and enforcement an increasingly critical issue for companies to navigate. More than a decade ago, national policies laid the groundwork for reducing air emissions in China. Air emission reform in China.

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How Defra's post-Brexit statutory instrument spree could weaken UK environmental law

Business Green

Detailed analysis of more than 100 EU exit statutory instruments laid by Defra prompts campaigners to warn of 'significant governance gaps in the application, interpretation and enforcement of environmental law' post-Brexit. Ministers have insisted that the process was necessary to ensure continuity of environmental legislation.

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EPA Extends CCR Regulations to Previously Exempt CCR Units

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

Karg , Phil Sandick , Jacqueline Zhang , Bruce Johnson , and Samuel Wallace-Perdomo This post is the second in a series on four key power plant rules that the Environmental Protection Agency recently released. It discusses the rule on requirements governing disposal of coal combustion residuals at inactive power plants.