GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Our grid isn't ready for climate change. Last summer, when 750,000 Californians experienced rolling blackouts as heatwaves overtook the west, some politicians in Texas took the opportunity to blame liberal policies to explain the outages. . Biden/Harris/AOC want to make CA’s failed energy policy the standard nationwide.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The Hydrogen Map divides clean hydrogen production projects into two categories on the basis of production method: blue denoting steam reforming of natural gas with carbon capture; and green denoting hydrogen produced via electrolysis of zero-carbon energy sources, such as renewables and nuclear. billion in 192 startups.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Pollution, poverty and race collide in many other disadvantaged communities across California — and the country — and some argue that the state’s climate policies haven’t helped. In their eyes, it doesn’t do enough to address climate change and allows emitters to continue polluting the air in the meantime. As the U.S.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Most H2 is produced using fossil fuels like natural gas, but can the right methods make that green? The primary issue at the moment is that the vast majority of H2 is made using methods involving fossil fuels, such as natural gas or even coal. Another major barrier is the lack of regulatory clarity and political support.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Energy policy will be a major focus at the October conferences of both major parties, which fall weeks after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak dramatically announced plans to water down the UK’s green targets. The website makes no mention of gas, though gas companies make up half of its clients featured in the ‘Hydrogen Zone’.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2023

This “vicious cycle” of pesticide use fueling climate change, and vice versa, is examined in a report published Tuesday by the advocacy group Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA). According to PANNA , the assessment is the first in-depth scientific review of the relationship between pesticides and climate change.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Research by DeSmog shows that Porter has a track record of publicly casting doubt on established science on human-caused climate change. Porter’s blog repeatedly cites the work of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s main climate science denial group.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In his first speech after staging a stunning political comeback at Brazil’s presidential elections, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva vowed to halt the Amazon deforestation that surged under outgoing rival Jair Bolsonaro. Climate Denial. In order to succeed, Lula won’t just need to face down farmers, loggers, and miners.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial temperatures — the target named in the Paris Agreement that would prevent the most catastrophic impacts of climate change. This means that global oil and gas production must decline 3 percent on average every year until 2050. Nature (2021). degrees Celsius (2.7 C scenario.

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The Angry Clean Energy Guy

APRIL 16, 2015

Enough With The Doom And Gloom: Fighting Climate Change Promotes Prosperity The coverage of climate change and the rhetoric around it are wearing me down. On Saturday 18 April, President Obama declared during his weekly address that there is “ no greater threat ” than climate change. “ But we don’t.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 24, 2020

Lyft's 100% EV strategy requires a policy blitz. So essentially Lyft has to act as a catalyst — using policy, economic and industry tools — to spur the broader transportation ecosystem to more rapidly adopt zero-emission vehicles. Lyft is committed to using the most powerful tool we have to fight climate change: policy influence.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 3, 2022

Gas as ‘economic and political weapon’. For decades the European gas supply has been dominated by Russia and now nobody is under any illusions – Russia is using this as an economic and political weapon,” said IEA executive director Fatih Birol in a press conference. Climate change.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Global leaders belly-flopped well short of the pool at a pivotal climate-protection summit, even after the United Nations declared a “code-red” emergency. . And, in the United States, political gridlock chopped the heart out of Congress’ most ambitious clean energy plan. . This is also largely true across North America, and beyond.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

In a joint letter , the scientists say that they are “consistently faced with a major and needless challenge” of having to correct false information and rebut the fossil fuel industry’s efforts to downplay the severity of climate change. Front Groups, False Solutions, and Promotional PR.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Ultimately, the challenge faced by California and Germany with high-level penetrations of renewables is one that many federal and local governments must grapple with as they pursue policies in an attempt to mitigate the most dangerous impacts of climate change.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

He expects blue hydrogen made from natural gas via steam reforming to meet around 80 percent of the 5 GW target, with HyNet alone planning for 3.5 Plan welcomed, but stakeholders want more policy details soon. The direction of travel in the ten-point plan has been broadly welcomed but for many, policy details are now required.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

There is a widespread political, economic, business, and economic consensus that renewables, energy efficiency, and net zero are a key part of the solution to the UK's challenges this winter and beyond - it should be difficult for the new PM to ignore.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2022

From rogue Tory backbenchers to North Sea profits for Putin, in the past year the DeSmog UK team has kept tabs on the people, money and PR machines that work to slow meaningful action on climate change. North Sea Gas Profits Going Direct to the Kremlin. The Dangers of Liquified Natural Gas Lock-In.

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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.

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2022

When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — the consortium of scientists responsible for summarizing the world’s climate knowledge and releasing it in roughly decadal, 3,000-plus-page installments — published its latest report on Monday, the findings were just as grim as usual. For all intents and purposes, the 1.5-degree

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Now, the city is at the forefront of the country’s dash to break its dependence on Russian gas. On Saturday, a newly built jetty is due to welcome the Norwegian-flagged Höegh Esperanza, a 280-metre vessel capable of offloading cargoes of natural gas supercooled into liquid form, then shipped across the ocean in specialised tankers.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The European Union’s scientific and political communities are locked in a battle over whether gas and nuclear can be considered green investments. It’s a “green investment guidebook,” said Henry Eviston, spokesperson on sustainable finance at WWF European Policy Office. And that is exactly what is happening for fossil gas.”.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2022

NW Natural, a gas utility based in Oregon, is seeking to raise gas bills on its customers in order to pay for millions in executive bonuses, higher returns to shareholders, and a larger advertising budget. NW Natural ads promote low-cost natural gas, but do not disclose that the utility is seeking rate increases.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2024

Scientists continue to cast doubt on whether carbon capture will ever function at the huge scale required to make a dent in climate change. In 2022, IPG published a policy directly addressing the issue of working for fossil fuel clients — something the other five companies have yet to do. Transitioning With the Times?

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

above the pre-industrial average in 2020, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned in its recent report that Earth could hit 1.5C could help avoid the most serious effects of climate change. Fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas are the source of just over 80% of the world’s energy.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

s investigative journalism arm, and the British Channel 4 News this summer exposing how the oil giant and lobby groups such as the American Petroleum Institute seed doubt about climate change and undermine legislation to stop global warming. And you’re right. It’s basic science.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In February 2021, German agribusiness giant BASF hosted a virtual wine tasting, a seemingly cozy affair swirling glasses of Portugal’s finest in front of a webcam debating the future of EU agricultural policies. Read more about the industry’s climate lobbying at DeSmog’s agribusiness database.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

An emergency decision to approve two new gas import terminals, and the virtual absence of discussion of climate policy on the campaign trail, have raised the risk that energy companies will leave Italy hooked on planet-warming fossil gas for decades to come, campaigners say.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

“This is a turning point for the industry — communications agencies who work for oil and gas clients are knowingly accelerating the global climate emergency, and their legal risks will accelerate, too,” said Duncan Meisel, executive director of Clean Creatives.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

There, he met with OPUC staff in person and exchanged emails with Lori Koho, then OPUC’s senior official overseeing natural gas utilities. He hoped that his list of complaints would show “how the unethical culture [at NW Natural] goes all the way to the top,” as one of his emails to Koho explains.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

This investment programme is going to breathe life into the UK economy - it's as much an economic policy as a climate policy, particularly over the next 10 years as we recover from the pandemic'. million heat pumps would have been sold by 2030, ahead of natural gas boilers being removed from sale entirely by 2033 at the latest.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 2, 2021

How insurance functions overall in a climate changed future is an open question that policymakers across the United States are now mulling. Solar, climate change and a hardening insurance market. Climate change is expected to sharpen that trend because damages become more likely.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

Since it was first set up in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has been a hugely influential player in world energy politics. Such a strategy can no longer be deemed credible, argued Kelly Trout, interim energy transitions and futures programme director at campaign group Oil Change International.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

I’ve long viewed Jacobson’s life — and his collaboration with researchers, cultural icons, business leaders and political leaders — as a well-written movie script. The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement adopted by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in December 1997. Jacobson didn’t stop there.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

And all of this must happen without excessively raising customer rates, if it’s to avoid political and customer backlash. That’s the view of Michael Wara, head of Stanford University’s Climate and Energy Policy Program and a member of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Wildfires Blue Ribbon Commission.

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Grist

JULY 15, 2021

The International Panel on Climate Change estimates that 430 ppm marks the threshold beyond which the climate will heat up by more than 1.5 We cannot put this stuff back on the Earth’s surface,” said Julio Friedmann, senior research scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University. “We

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