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

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Like many corporations, the global COVID-19 pandemic and lack of usual in-person events meant they had to get creative about how to shape the political debate and find new allies to support their agendas. Read more about the industry’s climate lobbying at DeSmog’s agribusiness database.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

If you take Shell’s word for it, the oil giant’s growing petrochemical operations are indicative of its “commitment” to a cleaner energy future. It’s an apt welcome to a place where the realities of everyday life seem to be in stark contrast to the green illusion marketed by the fossil fuel and petrochemical industries.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Mountaintop removal coal mining — one of the most notoriously destructive forms of mining — has torn through over 500 mountains across Appalachia, even as coal’s dominance over American energy supplies has faded in recent years. The paper suggests that all of this might have happened in violation of federal law. The diamond darter.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Climate TRACE (Tracking Real-Time Atmospheric Carbon Emissions) is a project to use satellite image processing, remote sensing technologies, machine learning and artificial intelligence to monitor worldwide human-made greenhouse gas emissions in real time. Vice President Al Gore.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Larry Fink’s 2020 Letter to CEOs , where he explicitly named climate risk as a “defining factor in companies’ long-term prospects,” was followed by an avalanche of climate commitments across industries throughout the year (see Microsoft , Shell , Unilever , and on ). What is ‘Climate Intelligence’? Silviaterra ).

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2021

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) combine with nitrogen oxide to create ozone, a key precursor to smog. Industries getting particular focus when it comes to VOC management in China include electronics, packaging and printing, pharmaceuticals, petrochemical, chemical, industrial coating, oil storage and transportation.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2021

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) combine with nitrogen oxide to create ozone, a key precursor to smog. Industries getting particular focus when it comes to VOC management in China include electronics, packaging and printing, pharmaceuticals, petrochemical, chemical, industrial coating, oil storage and transportation.

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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. As the Northeast Organizer for Clean Water for North Carolina , she’d met with residents of a small, majority Black town called Ahoskie, 40 miles from her home.

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Varuna

MAY 11, 2020

Say what you will, and I’m not discussing the politics of this situation we find ourselves in with the pandemic, the prevailing facts suggest that we did not have a plan to fight COVID19. So what does this look like for the industry I most worry about for the next possible shock, water? Or any pandemic. The current state of the U.S.

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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. “But at the same time, when you look at the reality of it, it is sad.”

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Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

candidate at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who specializes in climate science, social science, policy and the law, the climate change effects that California has experienced so far are just the tip of what’s to come. Enforcing the use of masks requires monitoring by the state, for example. A new lead crisis?

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 21, 2015

I started there with the expectation that real-world finance experience would be useful and that I could navigate to an area of the company that was closer to my interest in renewable energy It was important for me to have an impact and to be hands-on with renewables. It was a powerful experience. I read it through in two sittings.

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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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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 11, 2015

solar industry. The state leads the country by housing about half of the nation’s total installed solar capacity, according to the latest data from the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). Concern that the Golden State’s solar industry could weaken is heavily rooted in the murky future of solar policy.

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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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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Policy and Regulatory Affairs Associate | Fervo Energy | NV, UT, IH, or CA. FERVO ENERGY Fervo Energy Roles: Policy and Regulatory Affairs Associate – Western States . Geothermal energy can play a central role in decarbonizing the energy sector. 2+ years of experience with roles in policy, electricity, or energy .

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 22, 2020

After the turmoil of the last several months, residential solar is now coping with a new threat — one the industry says is existential. Net metering credits home solar customers for the power they sell back to the grid if they produce in excess of their own usage. now has more than 2.4 year average.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

To provide our customers with high quality, efficient, and reliable water, power, and wastewater services in a manner that values environmental and community interests and sustains the resources entrusted to our care. Supervise, train, and monitor the activities/assignments of public service aides. OUR VISION . Experience.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Today K-Solv is legally allowed to release almost 20 times more volatile organic compounds — a class of chemicals that includes benzene — into the air each year than it did back then. Although it has been linked to leukemia since the late 1920s, it is unevenly regulated because of relentless opposition from industry groups.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 29, 2021

In his spare time, David Levy, owner of Petrotechnologies, a company that makes specialty parts for the oil and gas industry, monitors the fossil fuel industry across southwest Louisiana from the sky. Canals cut by the oil and gas industry in the Atchafalaya Basin that are no longer used. Credit: Julie Dermanksy.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

DECEMBER 10, 2021

SDG&E is an innovative San Diego-based energy company that provides clean, safe and reliable energy to better the lives of the people it serves in San Diego and southern Orange counties. SDG&E is a subsidiary of Sempra Energy (NYSE: SRE). After all, it takes the best to build the best.

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

It's race, class, money and politics. Queen attributes the issues that north Minneapolis faces today — the vacant homes, the poor access to medicine and food, the proximity to industrial pollution — to a lack of Black ownership and the political power that accompanies wealth. It's race, class, money and politics.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2020

… It’s race, class, money and politics. Queen attributes the issues that north Minneapolis faces today — the vacant homes, the poor access to medicine and food, the proximity to industrial pollution — to a lack of Black ownership and the political power that accompanies wealth. That is the narrative.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

New research asserts most have undermined those goals by keeping coal plants running and building new natural gas plants meant to operate for decades to come. electricity sector by 2035, and the cost imperatives of U.S. Most of the biggest U.S. utilities have promised to eliminate their carbon emissions by midcentury.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

States, cities, businesses, and organizations across the country are taking increasingly large steps to reduce emissions — and those efforts are aided by the falling costs of renewable energy and other decarbonizing technologies. Both Hawaiʻi and Guam have committed to using 100 percent renewable energy by 2045.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In June, Public Health Watch, the Investigative Reporting Workshop and Grist published a year-long investigation about pollution, power, and politics in the Texas petrochemical industry. And those in power, especially at the state level, need to know.”. But the data from the monitors confirmed her worst fears.

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Grist

JANUARY 13, 2020

Without Tony Bowdoin’s grandfather, Georgia Power might never have come to the quiet town of Juliette. By the late 1960s, Georgia Power had started planning to build the Robert W. Scherer Power Plant. The Riverkeeper’s results could give the people of Juliette the power to fight back. million households.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2022

It's not enough for companies to report about their financial activities and liabilities as required by law, according to Sen. They should also be reporting their climate political activity," the Rhode Island Democrat said at the GreenBiz VERGE Net Zero virtual event on Tuesday. Sheldon Whitehouse.

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Low Impact

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

“Wildlife,” on the other hand, seems always to be waiting in the political wings. It has plenty of constituents, as evidenced by the millions of members of wildlife organizations including the World Wildlife Fund, National Wildlife Federation, and Defenders of Wildlife. Rubber pandas and social science at the WWF?

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 6, 2020

In their place he has given foxes the run of the hen house hiring fossil fuel industry advocates rather than qualified individuals. Trump is trying to brand himself as the "law and order" president. However, drawing on Richard Nixon political tactic from 1970 may not be the most effective strategy in 2020.

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

He nonetheless empowered federal prosecutors to investigate “irregularities,” but the 16 federal prosecutors in charge of monitoring the election told Barr there is no evidence of substantial voting irregularities. Trump also fired top intelligence officials at the pentagon replacing them with political hacks who will do Trump’s bidding.

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