GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The proposals include a new climate law to be drafted within 100 days and stronger carbon taxes including the creation of so-called carbon borders. These would levy carbon taxes on imports to prevent the offshoring of emissions by firms that shift activities overseas. ” Electrification.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 22, 2021

However, the proposals are not yet law, and big European business groups are lining up to water them down, despite adopting official positions supporting climate action, according to a new report by InfluenceMap, a corporate watchdog group. But it opposes the EU’s efforts to end a tax break for jet fuel.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 27, 2021

On Thursday the 19 th of August, the Climate Council in partnership with the law firm Shearman & Sterling, hosted an intriguing panel to discuss a major topic in the energy industry: Will low-carbon hydrogen be the silver bullet in APAC? But the question remained, “how low carbon is low-carbon hydrogen?”

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2024

liquefied natural gas (LNG). In a letter addressed to ING CEO Steven van Rijswijk and the first step in litigation, Milieudefensie says it believes the bank is in breach of its “duty of care” obligation under Dutch law. ING’s climate policy is miles away from what is necessary to achieve the 1.5°C In March last year, U.S.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2022

These definitions, coupled with new anti-greenwashing laws , are meant to help suss out bad actors. While companies should be trying to phase out carbon to achieve these net-zero commitments, Sick noted that life doesn't work without carbon. There's a reason why carbon is all around.

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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. The economics of carbon-free living have fallen into place. This project is produced in partnership with InvestigateWest and other media outlets. If not sooner.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MAY 24, 2022

In developing the 2022 Draft Scoping Plan Update (Draft Scoping Plan), CARB evaluated four scenarios to identify the most viable path to achieve the state’s 2030 interim GHG reduction and GHG neutrality targets. In this second post, we discuss how the Cap-and-Trade Program (the Program) features in the Draft Scoping Plan.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

The idea that oil and gas companies can address ESG concerns — like climate change, workers’ rights, and executive pay — by doing things that “may not take that much” effort is reflected right now as natural gas producers claim that their fracked gas is “responsibly sourced, ” but offer little transparency about those standards.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2020

Last week, duel announcements from the two public utilities commissions, the bodies that regulate the states' electricity and natural gas infrastructure (among other things), revealed the "competition" is not very close. New York is focused on incentivizing fuel switching, while California is focused on restricting new natural gas.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The Climate Act requires that the scoping plan “inform the state energy planning board’s adoption of a state energy plan,” and the State’s energy law requires that all state entities must make “any energy-related action[s] or decision[s] … reasonably consistent with the. state energy] plan.”.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Available figures compiled from various public corporate reports suggest that on average 80 percent of the businesses’ operations remain in oil and gas and, in one case, coal. It also had the highest share of posts on carbon capture and storage technologies, with these making up one in five of the promos put out by the company.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 1, 2022

Our first post in this series discusses CARB’s Proposed Scenario to achieve the state’s GHG targets, which adopts a carbon neutrality target for 2045. The Draft Scoping Plan states that CARB will initiate a rulemaking on the LCFS to ensure it continues to support low-carbon fuels that will displace petroleum fuels. [1].

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

Analysing 2,325 social media posts from 22 major European polluters, the report found that 72 percent of posts from oil and gas firms tried to emphasise their spending on green technology. percent of their annual capital expenditures in low carbon technologies between 2010 and 2018. million views.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

To achieve the certification, gas plants must meet certain emissions targets over their lifetime, replace a more polluting fossil fuel plant, and have a plan to be switched to run on low carbon gases by 2035. The proposal will now be scrutinised by EU governments and the European Parliament, which must approve it before it becomes law.

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2023

The three countries, alongside Poland and Bulgaria, have reportedly blocked the final approval of an EU law that would mandate the sale of only zero emission cars and vans across the continent from 2035, widespread media reports suggest this week. The first ever full value chain, for carbon capture and storage in Europe," she said.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

In January 2021, representatives from the clean energy sector sent a joint letter welcoming the criteria recommended by the TEG and stating that “the inclusion of power generation with a carbon intensity above this limit would not only deviate from science, but would also harm the EU’s decarbonisation trajectory and its 2050 net-zero objectives.”.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 7, 2023

This story is part of a DeSmog series on the influence wielded by the gas lobby in Europe and was developed with the support of Journalismfund.eu Often billed as a “clean” fuel because it burns cleaner than the coal or heating oil also used in rural areas, LPG nevertheless produces considerable amounts of planet-warming carbon dioxide.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The latest, most urgent call to action from the IPCC has increased attention on policies to reduce CO2 emissions and enhance carbon sequestration. This article provides a primer on the three major policy building blocks available for reducing carbon pollution: pricing mechanisms, subsidies , and regulations.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

A spokesperson for Cefic said the group supported the European Green Deal and that the European chemical industry was “uniquely positioned at the heart of European manufacturing to contribute to realizing a climate neutral society.” The main ingredient in fertilizers is ammonia, which is produced from natural gas.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 13, 2020

On November 21, 2019, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) passed Resolution 19-27 , approving several amendments to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) program designed to foster stability in the LCFS market and promote access to electric vehicle (EV) transportation for disadvantaged and low-income communities in California.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 13, 2020

On November 21, 2019, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) passed Resolution 19-27 , approving several amendments to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) program designed to foster stability in the LCFS market and promote access to electric vehicle (EV) transportation for disadvantaged and low-income communities in California.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year. billion U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The infrastructure bill signed into law by President Biden in November includes $9.5 fracked gas industry under the guise of “clean” blue hydrogen. Most of the world’s current hydrogen is “gray,” produced from methane without carbon capture, which is an inexpensive but dirty process. economy via what’s known as blue hydrogen.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

This arresting visual captures the sentiments of opponents of a plan to develop the world’s largest carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) project under the lake. billion “Clean Energy Complex” to manufacture blue hydrogen and an accompanying carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) project, that would be operational by 2026.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 15, 2020

Specifically, it puts Pacific Gas & Electric and Southern California Edison in charge of managing “local RA,” or resources needed for grid reliability in the Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay Area regions. That can allow those generators to demand higher prices. Last year the CPUC called for 3.3

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

Under growing pressure to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, developers of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are turning to questionable claims about “carbon neutrality,” “net-zero,” or “green LNG,” in order to pass muster with governments, investors, and society, who are becoming increasingly anxious about the climate crisis.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

California regulators have allocated $45 million to incentives for heat pump water heaters through 2025, in another step on the path toward the state's 2045 carbon neutrality goal. Around 90 percent (PDF) of the furnaces and water heaters in California are fueled by natural gas or propane. million in total.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The CPUC’s proposed decision, set for a vote in January, also takes steps toward enabling community and third-party operated microgrids, as required under 2018 state law SB 1339. Natural gas generators would be a more effective solution, he said. Image credit: Enchanted Rock).

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 13, 2021

Laws such as the National Environmental Policy Act and state equivalents provide for public involvement in decisions about many major projects. Environmental laws such as the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act and Endangered Species Act also can affect energy-related projects. policy since the 1970s.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

It will also explore how complex or jargon-heavy language can be used to mislead costumers and whether companies that fail to provide all relevant information about the sustainability of a product of service - for example, whether it's non-recyclable or highly polluting - have breached consumer law.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 6, 2021

If you live in Oregon, it’s likely you’ve been bombarded with misleading PR from the local utility company, Northwest Natural, about the potential for what the industry is calling renewable natural gas (RNG) — methane captured from places like landfills and repurposed into energy for homes.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Several promising carbon reduction measures are combined which are technically viable and based on matured technology, although scaling of existing technologies and cooperation with key partners is required. It originates from Heerema’s ambition to become a carbon neutral offshore contractor.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year. billion U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The announcement comes as Duke intends to deploy $63 billion of capital over the next five years, 80% of which is expected to support investments in grid modernization and zero or lower-carbon emitting generation. The Carbon Plan" would then be reviewed every two years and may be adjusted. GW of capacity since 2010, Good said.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The United States just enacted $500 billion clean energy industrial strategy investments within historic legislation (the Inflation Reduction Act, CHIPS Act, and Infrastructure Law) that will cut emissions by one gigaton in a decade. Training a transitioning energy workforce to fill the 120,000 clean energy jobs Britain will need by 2030.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The findings, taken from the IEA's An Energy Sector Roadmap to Carbon Neutrality in China report, suggests Beijing's existing policies will also give the country the capacity to accelerate its transition to clean energy sources and reach carbon neutrality before 2060. Sri Lanka to cease new coal power projects.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Badalian received an environmental law degree from Lewis & Clark Law School, which helped shape his policy work, he says. Most recently, Barudin led a tribal task force with the nonprofit group Vote Solar to support New Mexico's new law enabling tribes and pueblos to access community solar programs.

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