DeSmogBlog

APRIL 30, 2021

oil refineries released the potent carcinogen benzene in 2020 at levels high enough to require action under federal law, the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) reported this week. These are exactly the places where people are already struggling with pre-existing health conditions that make them more vulnerable to pollutants like benzene.”.

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Defend Our Future

AUGUST 14, 2023

Catching up with the Community Organizing Fellows While Defend Our Future’s campus ambassadors are enjoying a well-deserved summer break, our community organizing fellows have been hard at work with our partners to engage community members to build a future free from fossil fuels. Let’s take a look at what they’ve been up to!

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Defend Our Future

JULY 11, 2023

Catching up with the Community Organizing Fellows While Defend Our Future’s campus ambassadors are enjoying a well-deserved summer break, our community organizing fellows have been hard at work with our partners to engage community members to build a future free from fossil fuels. Let’s take a look at what they’ve been up to!

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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. And, in the United States, political gridlock chopped the heart out of Congress’ most ambitious clean energy plan. . Worried about the climate crisis? If not sooner.

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Front And Centered

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Justice is the foundation for a transition where we literally (for real) stop the sources of pollution driving the climate crisis that are deeply rooted in all aspects of the economy. “In general, making climate action profitable is still being prioritized over pollution reduction and equity.” Of the $626.5

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Trade body Energy UK becomes latest influential group to endorse plans to shrink electricity bills by reducing the costs paid to legacy low carbon electricity generators.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

But in the intervening decades, the region’s rivers were dammed or channeled and the fossil fuel era dawned across Appalachia. Their goal was to find out more about the impact mountaintop removal mining has had on those water pollution levels. Mountaintop Mining. Mountaintop removal is a form of strip mining.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

James Parish town of Gramercy and its mayor, Steve Nosacka, an outspoken supporter of the oil and gas industry. James was planning to hold a protest march in Gramercy in an effort to stop an industry-friendly ballot initiative. The law is on our side,” Lavigne told me. James after a two-year legal battle against the St.

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Front And Centered

MAY 17, 2019

While the full HEAL act passed in both the House and Senate by significant margins, the Washington Business Building Industry Association of Washington (BIAW) and the Association of Washington Business (AWB) were able to slow reconciliation of the two bill versions, preventing it from passing before the session expired.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Th announcement follows the final consultation paper that the Green Finance and Industry Taskforce released in February 2023. The Taxonomy utilises a “transition” category, acknowledging the unique challenges and needs of Asia’s shift towards a net zero economy amidst economic growth and increasing energy demands.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Industry Voice: From UNFCCC to NDCs and IPCC to 1.5°C, This is the global temperature rise above pre-industrial levels targeted by the 2015 Paris Agreement. Commonly known as soot, it is formed from wildfires and fossil fuel consumption and contributes to climate change. Energy transition. Energy transition.

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

  KoBold Metals discovered a major copper deposit, which could be the start to solving growing supply and demand imbalances brought on by copper’s fundamental role in the energy transition.  Demand The most critical of energy transition minerals.   Demand is on the rise.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

BASF’s wine tasting is just one example of many such pandemic-style lobbying efforts by the European agriculture industry since the EU has attempted to pass sweeping new policies to combat climate change through measures included in its “Green Deal,” first presented in December 2019. Meet the Industry Trade Groups.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

It is a far from unsurprising message from Skidmore, who having signed the 2050 target into law, has long been a staunch advocate for an ambitious net zero agenda. Similarly, legislation should ensure all new non-domestic buildings must achieve an EPC rating of B from 2025.

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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. Credit: Julie Dermansky. Flight provided by Southwings. If the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2021

EQT’s move comes on the heels of a similar announcement from Chesapeake Energy, one of the pioneers of fracking which recently emerged from bankruptcy. Industry advisors are increasingly offering up new ideas about how oil and gas companies can use the language of ESG to market their fossil fuel as different from the competition’s.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

However, a DeSmog investigation has found that these scores take little or no account of multiple risks associated with the advertising and PR industry’s role in the climate crisis — from reputational damage caused by greenwashing fossil fuel clients, to threats to staff retention, and the danger of being sued for climate damages.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

potentially affecting the ultimate fate of millions of abandoned oil industry wells. The wastewater well sits on land that’s owned by ExxonMobil, was drilled by ConocoPhillips, and eventually wound up run by a tiny start-up called Black Elk Energy that specialized in wringing out the last dregs of oil from aging wells.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

However, a DeSmog investigation has found that these scores take little or no account of multiple risks associated with the advertising and PR industry’s role in the climate crisis — from reputational damage caused by greenwashing fossil fuel clients, to threats to staff retention, and the danger of being sued for climate damages.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

While commercial mining of the deep seafloor is not yet happening, momentum is building and the world is now seriously entertaining the possibility. To vacuum up these treasured chunks requires industrial extraction by massive excavators. In June, Nauru took the first step in launching the industry.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2021

In recent years obviously false or egregiously overstated environmental claims have become a relatively rare occurrence, as companies and their advertising agencies have responded to the reputational damage that results from trying to rebrand demonstrably polluting activities as environmentally-friendly.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Each of these individuals is playing the long game and is in a strong position to move their companies and industries into what could be a more hopeful period of reconciliation, recovery and repair. Most support science-based targets and sit on multiple boards, collaborations and advocacy groups to further industry-level sustainability goals.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

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. And in several recent years, it emitted as much or more of certain air pollutants.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 15, 2021

California regulators have approved a microgrid plan directing $200 million to help communities build networks that can supply power through the state’s extended wildfire-prevention blackouts, a task expected to take years to move from planning to completing its first projects.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

There are over 2,600 people living within three miles of Oxbow Corporation’s industrial plant in Port Arthur, Texas, a community that’s almost entirely people of color. spoke about Port Arthur, climate change, and Oxbow’s air pollution in front of the Biden White House in October 2021. The reality is they haven’t earned it yet.”.

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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2022

After many years of oil and gas companies coming under fire for targeting much of their marketing budget on touting clean energy investments that make up just a tiny fraction of their business activity, the acceptability of a firm promoting its green initiatives without provide a full picture of its environmental impact is fast receding.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The heat pump replaced a radiator — those rattling, hissing things that are hallmarks of most old buildings in New York City. They’re supposed to save energy, cut down utility costs, reduce pollution, and give residents access to air conditioning that didn’t have it before.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Air Products, a global hydrogen manufacturing company, is proposing to build a $4.5 billion “Clean Energy Complex” to manufacture blue hydrogen and an accompanying carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) project, that would be operational by 2026. Credit: Julie Dermansky Spoonbill in a wildlife management area, next to Lake Maurepas.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 16, 2021

Examples include energy engineers, environmental attorneys, urban planners, water resource engineers, wildlife conservationists and environmental researchers. Those questions are often at the heart of many students and professionals trying to build a career that is more purpose driven. Energy Manager.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The veterinary medicines industry dismisses concerns that it may resist implementation of the new rules, saying it is committed to building on reductions in the use of antibiotics on farms that have already been achieved, while continuing to tackle animal disease. drug makers Elanco Animal Health Inc., Phibro Animal Health Corp.,

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Once again, we will (and we must ) transition from fossil fuels to into a zero-emission world. Why push for zero-emission vessels, if the marine industry is only a small part of the total problem? It is a category of fuel oils with a tar-like consistency identified as a "worse case substance".

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 16, 2021

Examples include energy engineers, environmental attorneys, urban planners, water resource engineers, wildlife conservationists and environmental researchers. Those questions are often at the heart of many students and professionals trying to build a career that is more purpose driven. Energy Manager.

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Elemental Excelerator

AUGUST 12, 2022

Not to mention President Biden also signed the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 , putting about $67 billion toward zero-carbon industries and climate research. Boosting shared solar installations through the 10-year extension of the 30% Investment Tax Credit, which is now technology neutral and covers energy storage, clean hydrogen, and more.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Businesses that are solely profit-focused are often unmindful about their waste and pollution and how they impact surrounding ecosystems. This often involves minimizing waste, preventing pollution and investing in resource efficiency strategies. Sustainability as Differentiation and Competitive Advantage. Gaining the Upper Hand.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Certification is shown to attract and engage top talent, increase credibility and build trust, slash costs, meet the demands of a consumer majority, and protect a company’s mission in the long term. Today, there are over 6,000 certified B Corps , in more than 8 countries and over 150 different industries.

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