DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

President Biden signed historic climate legislation into law in August, but more action will be necessary to hit climate targets. With global methane gas prices spiking, building new gas-fired power plants would also create new economic risks. Climate change threatens the basic foundations of society.

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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

DWR measures the CO2 and methane emissions from the wetlands it created on Sherman Island. Established in 2006 by the law AB32, the cap-and-trade system seeks to reduce the state’s greenhouse gas emissions by harnessing market forces. The role of hydrology is definitely emerging as a knob we can turn,” Windham-Myers told me.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MARCH 11, 2021

The MOU leaves open the possibility that certain “blendstocks” (such as ethanol-blended fuel and biodiesel) will not be considered Affected Fuels based on the definition in the MOU. “Affected Fuel” is defined as “the fossil fuel components of motor gasoline and on-road diesel fuel.”

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

Barring any late Congressional dramas, President Joe Biden could sign the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) into law before the week is out, triggering a multi-billion dollar green investment bonanza that promises to drastically accelerate US emissions reduction efforts. The US is set to get its first ever carbon equivalent tax - on methane.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

However, when counting the combined CO2 produced by its dedicated gas turbine; the upstream CO2 and methane leaks from fossil gas production; as well as the downstream carbon emissions incurred by shipping CO2 for EOR production, Stanford University professor Mark Z. Department of Energy states it captured only approximately 3.9

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

NOVEMBER 14, 2015

Cynthia Christensen of Namasté Solar might agree, though she got into solar almost by accident — after a bet she made as a pre-law student with a boyfriend that they couldn’t handle each other’s classes. It was a law school lottery number for picking electives — 499 out of 500 — that led her to environmental law.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Reacting to DeSmog’s findings, Karen Sokol, a professor at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, said “the industry’s ‘climate and society friendly’ messaging is nothing new. ” Karen Sokol, a professor at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law. This means putting their money where their mouths are.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

A few months later, the New York Times reported on the study, bringing national attention to the issue, and an op-ed in the Yale Law Journal described indoor air pollution, as a “menace” that required “comprehensive federal legislation.” Definitely. JOHN I think people are becoming more aware. The science has also grown.

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Charged

MAY 8, 2023

When we had that peak last year, we brought down the load to 52 gigawatts, but everything was turned on—methane gas generators, gasoline generators, everything. But buses, school buses, all those things will definitely be a part of it. Charged : Do you think SB 233 has a good chance of being signed into law?

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

A growing group of environmentalists, politicians, communities, and even the industry’s own workers have become increasingly critical of the fossil fuel industry, and see room for action under the Biden administration, though most attention has been placed on hot-button topics like climate change and methane emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

based Center for International Environmental Law has reported. Wilson saw WOCOL as a definitive study that would buoy support for coal among policymakers around the world. National Academy of Sciences that explicitly warned of the risks human-induced global warming could pose to earth’s weather and “ecological balances,” the U.S.-based

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

While these distinctions are helpful, they’re definitely not exhaustive or absolute. The number of companies voluntarily reporting on environmental risk is rapidly increasing and regulations making this type of disclosure mandatory are beginning to be written into law. First Street Foundation (Nonprofit): flood risk data provider.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

That same year, NW Natural and other gas utilities applied for and received approval from the OPUC to create a definition of “unaccounted-for-gas” based on a five-year average, noting at the time that utilities had different methods of calculating annual gas costs because there was “no formula” defined by the OPUC.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Lab-grown meat dramatically cuts back on carbon emissions , methane emissions, water consumption and land use. The rules are so strict, that some cheeses that we have been eating for centuries would have been banned under these laws. I therefore definitely recommend this book if you are interested in the subject. Absolutely.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

And who definitely won’t? And in December, he said North Sea gas was needed to produce “blue hydrogen” – a fuel touted as low-carbon despite methane leakage from the gas extraction process and doubts about the carbon capture technology involved. But what about her new cabinet? The Obstructors.

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