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Rooftop solar skyrockets if an alternative to monopoly utility models is employed

Renewable Energy World

Since rooftop solar became possible, electric utilities have struggled to incorporate it into their outdated business model. In recent years, this lag in utility recognition has become increasingly problematic, risking the health, environmental, and financial impacts of over-investment in large fossil fuel power plants.

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Scientists Find Appalachian Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Put Endangered Species at Risk Thousands of Times

DeSmogBlog

But in the intervening decades, the region’s rivers were dammed or channeled and the fossil fuel era dawned across Appalachia. It used to be that, if you were lucky and eagle-eyed, you might encounter a diamond darter in many places along the Ohio River Valley, not just this tiny stretch of the Elk River. Mountaintop Mining.

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Over a Half-million Americans Live Near Oil Refineries With High Levels of a Cancer-causing Air Pollutant, Report Finds

DeSmogBlog

2019 was the first full year that the data was reported under 2015 EPA regulations requiring refineries to install benzene monitors at the outer edges of their plants. The EPA also treats benzene as a “canary in a coal mine” for the presence of a broad array of other chemicals in the air around refineries, according to Schaeffer. “If

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How Shell Is Selling the Petrochemical Buildout as ‘Sustainable’

DeSmogBlog

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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Fossil Fuel Companies Are Promoting ‘Lower Carbon,’ ‘Responsibly Sourced’ Oil and Gas

DeSmogBlog

EQT’s move comes on the heels of a similar announcement from Chesapeake Energy, one of the pioneers of fracking which recently emerged from bankruptcy. Industry advisors are increasingly offering up new ideas about how oil and gas companies can use the language of ESG to market their fossil fuel as different from the competition’s.

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Where Does All The Radioactive Fracking Waste Go?

DeSmogBlog

And since 1997 about one million barrels worth of oilfield waste has been brought to Lotus’s disposal site, situated off a dusty desert road located 19 miles west of Andrews, Texas (and just several miles from a massive solar array financed by Facebook and which provides energy to Shell’s fracking operations).

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Inside Eastman’s moonshot goal for endlessly circular plastics

GreenBiz

Polyester renewal technology , or PRT, which involves taking waste polyesters from landfills and other waste streams and transforming them back into a raw material that the company claims is indistinguishable from polyester produced from fossil-fuel feedstocks. jobs, as much as $2.2 billion in annual payroll and $9.9 Fashion forward.

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