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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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. It used to be that, if you were lucky and eagle-eyed, you might encounter a diamond darter in many places along the Ohio River Valley, not just this tiny stretch of the Elk River. Mountaintop Mining.

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Business Green

JULY 5, 2021

Andrew Warren explores the potential future for building Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) as the UK shifts towards lower carbon home heating. The days of the gas boiler being the means by which practically all British buildings are heated are looking increasingly numbered. Well, in England at least.

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Grist

JANUARY 31, 2024

.” — a passage from “ Cabbage Koora ,” by Sanjana Sekhar The spotlight Nearly 4 in 5 people support doing “whatever it takes” to mitigate climate change, according to a survey published late last year by the firm Potential Energy. But support for specific policies is somewhat of a different story.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2022

Planned legislation covering energy, transport, and a clamp down on environmental protests was unveiled in today's Queen Speech. Energy Security Bill.

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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. The American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers , a trade association representing U.S. More than a dozen U.S. Benzene Spikes.

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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

APRIL 16, 2021

Leighton owner James Kevin Mayberry denied the allegations to DeSmog, but acknowledged that the company was hired to provide security by Precision Pipeline, a business subcontracted by MVP to build the pipeline, and in turn subcontracted the work to The North Group. “In the director of Virginia’s licensing agency, said in email.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 16, 2021

Leighton owner James Kevin Mayberry denied the allegations to DeSmog, but acknowledged that the company was hired to provide security by Precision Pipeline, a business subcontracted by MVP to build the pipeline, and in turn subcontracted the work to The North Group. “In the director of Virginia’s licensing agency, said in email.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

A spokesperson from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport recently commented: " Human innovation has long helped us overcome adversity and now tech has the power to take on one of the greatest challenges we face as a global society. per cent of GHG emissions. The policy gap.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 29, 2022

The push to sell “blue hydrogen” as a clean energy fuel — which experts have called a misleading rebrand of fossil fuels — hit another setback this month. Climate provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 are bringing new economic headwinds to the gas-derived hydrogen fuel’s prospects.

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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. ” “The people in that community have been surrounded by refineries and industry for their entire lives, breathing that stuff and smelling that stuff,” said Cox.

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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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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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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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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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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

These three business dimensions are often referred to as the “triple bottom line”. Studies have shown that investing in sustainability can actually increase profit in the long run from greater energy savings, operational efficiency and an increase in sales. Sustainability as Differentiation and Competitive Advantage.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

However, while on the surface it may appear to be a positive shift towards lowering the greenhouse gas impact of their projects, the rhetoric about carbon-neutral LNG is mostly hollow, in another attempt to greenwash new fossil fuel projects into existence. Thames is a former executive at Cheniere Energy, a prominent U.S.

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AutoGrid

AUGUST 25, 2022

Inflation Reduction Act: A Boon for VPP Industry. The law will allow consumers to be transformed into prosumers thanks to a series of tax credits and other incentives allowing them to make their homes and businesses vital solutions to the climate change conundrum. The new law never mentions VPPs. By Peter Asmus.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

After the Biden administration’s bipartisan infrastructure law was passed , the administration hailed the bill’s $4.7 The law’s current implementation also offers no assurances that the new jobs promised for oil and gas industry workers will materialize, although it is a stated goal of the law. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2022

The complex contains a circuit board of pipes and steel tanks that cough out steam, flames and toxic substances as it creates the building blocks for plastic from natural gas liquids. The plant is the first joint venture in the Americas between Saudi Basic Industries Corp., Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for toxic Superfund sites and uranium mills, where fuel for nuclear bombs was once assembled. The oil and gas industry produces an extraordinary amount of waste. Adjacent is the Prospero 2 project, whose power has been purchased by a medical services company. Credit: Justin Hamel ©2021.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 15, 2023

Though the storm didn’t devastate the city, 11 of the deaths attributed to Ida were residents who remained in the city and had no way out after power failed. Many were without power for over a week. Venture Global stated via email that it plans to raise the ramp if need be and that it has a separate power source for it.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Only 3 percent of the Wyoming project’s CO2 has been geologically stored in the same formation from which the original gas was extracted, according to estimates from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). During a landmark congressional hearing in October 2021, Democratic Rep. Credit: SaskPower , CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2020

Unless you have good governance, any progress towards goals on healthcare, education, infrastructure, clean energy is going to be fragmentary, short-lived and quite volatile - Matthew Jenkins, Transparency International. Power corrupts. The hope is that the plea to "recover better" can gain traction. The fear is that it won't.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 8, 2023

The NTSB has no enforcement capability, so its recommendations are often ignored by the rail industry. The rail industry has frequently argued that ECP brakes don’t work and are too costly. An industry spokesperson recently said the modern brakes, “have a ‘significant’ failure rate and lengthy repair time that makes them impractical.”

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