GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Fossil fuels, primarily gas, are a fixture in millions of American homes and businesses, but the building sector’s climate impact hasn’t received the same scrutiny as coal and gas in the power sector or oil in the transportation sector. Fortunately, that’s changing.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2024

Weatherford, a lawyer from the corporate law firm Baker Hostetler, stated in opening arguments that Mann was so disliked that “even his own family won’t come to court to defend him.” Mann and other scientists have steadily pointed out that climate deniers took the emails out of context. —

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Greenpeace Italy and Re:Common have alleged in their climate lawsuit — Italy’s first — that despite knowing at least as early as 1970 that burning fossil fuels posed a serious climate risk, Eni went on to promote “natural” –- or methane – gas as a safe energy source for decades. the spokesperson stated.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Despite its name, ambition was largely lacking at mid-September’s Climate Ambition Summit at the United Nations in New York. Secretary General António Guterres asked nations to arrive at the session with concrete commitments for phasing out fossil fuels, observing in his opening remarks that “humanity has opened the gates of hell.”

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Canadian pipeline company TC Energy is aiming to expand the volume of methane gas that it ships through a long distance pipeline in the Pacific Northwest, potentially locking in higher gas use despite laws in western states that chart a path away from fossil fuels in the years ahead.

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Front And Centered

AUGUST 29, 2022

The other bright spot—which is not traditionally considered climate policy but does make up a key part of the Just Transition—is that the IRA contains baby steps to curbing the systemic advantage of large corporations. This includes a 15% corporate minimum tax, a stock buyback tax, and a methane leakage tax. Gaping Gaps.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Don't listen to the fossil fuel enthusiasts pushing fracking as a solution for the UK's currently volatile energy market, argues ECIU's Dr Simon Cran-McGreehin. This crisis highlights the benefits of weaning ourselves off fossil fuels - to stabilise our energy market, whilst achieving our climate goals.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 7, 2022

“It’s clear this new government has made the all-important link between climate action and economic action. In particular, the mandate letter to the minister for environment and climate change strategy states that new industrial development must align with B.C.’s s climate goals.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The curbing of emissions to reduce the concentration of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane in the environment. Adjusting to current or expected effects of climate change, such as building defences to protect against rising sea-levels, to reduce risk or benefit from opportunities where possible. Climate finance.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Such reductions require massive infrastructural changes, especially in our homes, where water and food are often warmed with what is known as “natural gas” but is better understood as methane gas, a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change. But I grow anxious just thinking about it.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2022

Three campaign groups - Friends of the Earth, ClientEarth, and the Good Law Project - mounted separate challenges questioning the legality of the strategy in January. In what could become a landmark legal case, the judicial review could lead to the High Court ruling that the government's climate plans are inadequate and must be strengthened.

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Energy Innovation

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

State EPS models can inform policy to close emissions reduction gaps The United States government, as well as many state governments, have set ambitious targets to reduce GHG emissions and align with global efforts to solve climate change. climate goals. The five-policy scenario includes strong methane capture and destruction.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

For a start, when all the sectoral targets are tallied up, they represent – at best – a 43 per cent reduction, according to the government’s own Climate Change Advisory Council (CCAC). per cent of total national emissions, despite the sector contributing only around one percent to GDP.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

James, with the help of Tulane’s law clinic, fought to protect their constitutional right to protest in Gramercy. The law is on our side,” Lavigne told me. The current push to expand the petrochemical industry and increase LNG exports would lock in an increased demand for natural gas at a time of worsening climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

While the recent UN climate change conference in Scotland may have captured the world’s attention, an equally important, albeit far more obscure process has been slowly unfolding far from the glitz and glamour of the global stage. However, it is no less dangerous to the planet than other fossil fuel pipelines.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2021

Both EQT and Chesapeake will seek certification from outside providers, including a business called Project Canary, which touts its ability to collect data on methane emissions and pollutants from oil and gas wells and offers a certification it calls TrustWell. Platinum Gas.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Investors are urgently seeking to manage their exposure to climate risks and increase the contribution that their investments make to the Paris Agreement goals," the statement read. We encourage governments to engage closely with investors to make sure these risks are effectively managed and that these opportunities are fully realised.".

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

The government went one step further and in April, set the world’s most ambitious climate change target into law: to reduce emissions by 78% by 2035 compared to 1990 levels. … while a lot has changed, not much has changed.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 25, 2022

The groups are represented by lawyers from Earthjustice and the Green Energy Institute at Lewis & Clark Law School. Some sections included safety information and tips on energy conservation, but many others promote natural gas, describe its benefits, or position gas as a clean alternative to dirtier fuels.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Renewable solar and wind power now typically costs less than fossil-fuel alternatives. In British Columbia, Premier John Horgan’s government detailed policies to nearly double climate-protection efforts. The journalists sussed out what it will take for the region to transition to a fully climate-friendly economy.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Revelations about high-level and systemic failures of oversight — both private and public — come at a time when historic federal investments in renewable energy are threatening a constellation of fossil fuel interests and political coalitions vying to preserve profits as the U.S. economy is increasingly rocked by climate chaos.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

For its electric business, the new net zero goal will include greenhouse gas emissions from the power it purchases for resale, from the procurement of fossil fuels used for generation, and from the electricity purchased for its own use. Irish government announces ambitious Home Energy Upgrade Scheme.

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Business Green

AUGUST 18, 2021

Before 2019, when the UK had a legally binding goal to achieve an 80 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions between 1990 and 2050, the government and Climate Change Committee has scenarios for hydrogen which foresaw it playing little to no role whatsoever in the future economy.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

This technique of using statements that are technically true but omit crucial information and therefore are misleading, is called paltering — and it’s an old favorite of the fossil fuel industry. R-CALF USA doesn’t only blame the private trade associations for overturning the law that allowed “Made in the USA” labels. “It’s

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 1, 2021

In stopping climate change, time is as important as tech Jonathan Foley Mon, 03/01/2021 – 01:30 This article originally appeared on the author’s personal blog, and was written in that capacity. The only sure path to stop climate change is to zero out greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible. That’s it.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

BusinessGreen's quick guide to the IPCC's landmark Working Group III report on climate solutions. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has this afternoon published a landmark guide to climate change solutions, the first report of its type in more than six years. is now lower than it was in 2018.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

California, Oregon, and Washington have all passed laws and enacted policies that require utilities to dramatically cut carbon pollution over the next decade. Cascade Natural Gas, a utility with customers in Washington and Oregon, says it expects that regional demand for methane gas will grow by between 0.4 Credit: Rogue Climate.

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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.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

“It’s also important to remember that CCS is controversial among some environmentalists who regard it as technology that perpetuates fossil fuel exploration and detracts from efforts to eliminate it,” a post by the global bank ING explains. Air Products, a global hydrogen manufacturing company, is proposing to build a $4.5

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

I think what the cancellation shows is that people have had enough of fossil fuel infrastructure being forced upon them,” said Lorne Stockman, research co-director with Oil Change International. “It It doesn’t surprise me that communities are standing up to these projects and occasionally winning.”

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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. s climate goals. “We While the U.S. A spokesperson from the B.C.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

Properly plugging and abandoning oil and gas wells is vital to protect the environment and stop methane leaks – but for decades, oil operators have often slipped away without paying to clean up, leaving millions of deteriorating abandoned wells across the U.S. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law signed this past November set aside $4.7

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Monica Weiss attended her first fossil-fuel divestment protest on a frigid February day in 2015. Subsequently, two independent reports suggested that the funds would “face high potential risk for economic disruption from the transition to a low carbon global economy” if they continued to invest in fossil fuel.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

It’s a recurring theme that somehow the livestock sector and eating meat is detrimental to the environment, that it is a serious negative in terms of the climate change discussions,” Hsin Huang, Secretary General of the International Meat Secretariat (IMS) , told his audience. The Climate Impact of Meat.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Nor does it refer to a topic that was of unequivocal scientific concern at the time: The “greenhouse effect,” or what is now known as climate change. This impressive history shows for just how long climate issues were known by Shell personnel,” said Ben Franta, senior research fellow in climate litigation at the University of Oxford.

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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 22, 2023

. | Photo by Elizabeth Flores/Star Tribune via Getty Images The Biden administration proposed new tax guidelines today aimed at making it cheaper to produce hydrogen as a less-polluting alternative to fossil fuels. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law also set aside $8 billion to create hydrogen production ‘hubs’ across the US.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

State of Montana that the state’s ongoing support for and promotion of fossil fuel development — including directing state regulators not to consider a project’s climate impacts during the permitting process — violated Montana’s constitutional guarantee of the right to a clean and healthful environment, which extends to a stable climate.

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