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. The overall "cap" lowers every year, forcing polluters to reduce their emissions or purchase allowances from others who do. As the U.S.

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Charged

AUGUST 6, 2021

The bucket truck and its auxiliary systems run entirely off the vehicle’s battery pack, eliminating on-site emissions and noise pollution. Lion says its trucks deliver 60% lower maintenance costs, and 80% lower energy costs, compared to fossil-fuel vehicles.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 6, 2020

The price rivals that of other high-profile clean energy acquisitions; Tesla bought SolarCity for $2.6 In the last quarter Sunrun alone logged nearly 300,000 cumulative customers and just over 2 gigawatts of solar installed. billion in 2016, while Google acquired Nest for $3.2 billion in 2014.

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Grist

JULY 7, 2021

Earlier this year, for instance, Occidental Petroleum sold a shipload of oil that it said was completely carbon neutral because it had bought offsets for the latent pollution in the crude at 65 cents for every one of the 2 million barrels. A logging industry facility sits in a forest clearing in Vermont. Grainfill Creative.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

The government on Monday announced that it plans on awarding hundreds of new North Sea oil and gas exploration licences, beginning this autumn, with Energy and Net Zero Secretary Grant Shapps recently declaring that he wants to “max out” the UK’s North Sea oil and gas reserves.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

A project that planted 734 trees created total savings of $56,693 per year through energy savings, air quality and rain interception for the city. . But as is the case with renewable energy credits, there are worries that carbon credits could give businesses the same license-to-pollute mentality. McPherson sees it differently.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The energy produced by the company is currently classified as renewable under UK and EU law, based on the disputed argument that emissions from burning the wood will be recaptured by trees planted in their place. billion in government subsidies for a carbon capture project. manufacturing plants.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2022

A powerful US biomass lobby group is pushing for a raft of changes that would weaken European renewable energy rules geared to better protect biodiversity and tackle climate change, DeSmog can reveal. The lobbying by US Industrial Pellet Association (USIPA) comes at a time of intense debate over the future of energy.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The research at Ohio University could help transform old fossil fuel sites into clean energy assets, though much work remains to be done. Ohio is home to thousands of abandoned coal mines, which have become both public safety and environmental hazards as they leach acidic pollution into nearby waterways. “We One mine at a time.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

According to industry insiders, the American-owned company has taken the decision to repitch for the work, despite Aramco’s record of pollution and greenwashing. Powered by Pollution Aramco’s $2.3 It’s not known if other firms have been invited to bid for the work. McCann and Aramco declined to comment.

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2021

Users will be able to log their commitments and behaviour changes, it added. The pilot saw NatWest customers report they were taking action to reduce their emissions by composting food waste and switching to clean energy suppliers, with younger users reporting they had adopted vegetarian diets and buying second-hand clothes.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The UK’s new climate minister is facing criticism for his support of Drax, ahead of a government decision that could lock in decades of wood burning for energy. A blog post on Stuart’s website describes Drax as providing “the most renewable power of any single location in the UK”, and “vital for ensuring the UK’s energy security”.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 5, 2024

Gibson Dunn is a favorite firm of fossil fuel companies — aside from Chevron, it has represented a veritable “who’s who” of the industry, including the American Petroleum Institute , Energy Transfer, Enbridge, ConocoPhillips, Occidental, and many more. But the firm is perhaps even better known for its First Amendment record.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Funding comes as Forestry Minister Zac Goldsmith faces grilling from MPs over sluggish tree planting rates and government's continued support for biomass energy. But at the local level, trees and woodlands are the lifeblood of communities, essential to supporting wellbeing, reducing pollution and improving people's quality of life.".

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Better to release the heat and pollution during the winter, they figure, rather than in the summer as part of a wildfire. The situation has led some environmentalists to a counterintuitive idea: turning that wood into energy. It’s a way to reduce pollution and generate energy at the same time.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2021

The findings come as the banking industry receives increased scrutiny for financing polluting projects and builds upon previous analysis by DeSmog showing climate-conflicted board members at many of the UK’s top banks and across bank boards worldwide. Between 2016 and 2020, Australia’s “big 4” collectively provided $32.41

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Fossil fuels Climate change Carbon-neutral Logging 98

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 1, 2021

The International Energy Agency’s new “ Net Zero by 2050 ” report has won plaudits for its bold recommendations on how the world can limit warming to 1.5°C, But using available figures, we estimate land used to grow crops and trees primarily for energy comes to far less than 100 million hectares.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 12, 2020

However, they concealed that information and launched sophisticated disinformation campaigns to deceive the public so that they can keep profiting from their energy dominance. Trump's politics are powered by dirty energy and his administration is filled with fossil fuel advocates. The fossil fuel industry has known this for decades.

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 8, 2020

During this time we made significant progress on a number of environmental fronts including asbestos, acid rain, DDT, open-air nuclear tests, endangered species, toxic waste, waste recycling, leaded gasoline, ozone, pollution, mercury emissions and SLCPs. In 2013 we also saw major strides in renewable energy across the country.

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R-Squared Energy

MAY 5, 2020

More wood grew on our farm than we ever harvested, so it’s ridiculous to suggest that wood can’t provide sustainable energy. Planting trees for carbon sequestration will work, but only if we cut down on new sources of industrial carbon pollution. The majority of it has been fueled through carbon-based energy sources.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 12, 2021

Companies that use these certifications are committed to advancing the practice of sustainable logging and promoting forest productivity and regrowth after they harvest the wood. Aluminum is also considered a sustainable metal as it is easy to recycle and in doing so, saves around 95% of the energy that it would cost to produce new aluminum.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2020

This included appropriate gas detectors connected to a controller with logging capability and a live display of gas levels. In recent years, the effects of vehicular air pollution on human health have become better understood, and received greater political and media attention. A car park installation.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Public Health Watch also analyzed more recent TCEQ pollution data and found that Channelview’s benzene problem has only worsened over the years. A Public Health Watch analysis of TCEQ pollution data shows that between 2019 and 2021, annual readings soared as high as 2.1 ppb, exceeding even today’s weakened TCEQ guidelines by 50%.

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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. An Eni spokesperson rejected this characterization. “We

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 13, 2022

A new report from consumer watchdog group Public Citizen details how 111 known members of the Chamber — including major polluters and banks that back fossil fuels — have violated state and federal laws at least 15,896 times since 2000, totaling more than $156 billion in fines and penalties. The bulk of the fines came from a massive $5.15

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

What Ahoskie got was approximately 50 direct jobs, local tree loss, noise , heavy traffic, air pollution, and combustible dust from wood drying and processing that threatens their health and enjoyment of their homes. Joyner’s home sits in a cozy loop of houses in a small Northampton County town. million tons of pellets per year.

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Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 36

Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 17, 2019

Last month, energy ministers and corporate leaders from around the world descended on Vancouver for the 10th Clean Energy Ministerial to discuss all things clean energy. To kick things off, the International Energy Agency released its new Global Electric Vehicles Outlook , the data-driven crystal ball of the electric future.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 17, 2020

The 2020 Coronavirus /COVID-19 pandemic has created a new normal for much of the population — a daily routine that now means moving from the bedroom to the living room instead of battling a commute and logging hours in an office building. Pollutants can float through your home, moving from one space to another.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The NFU will today highlight how labour shortages and soaring energy prices are hitting a poultry industry already reeling from avian influenza, pushing UK egg production to its lowest level in nine years.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 28, 2021

by Elizabeth Outzs, Energy News Network. Duke Energy’s effort to expand a popular energy-efficiency program to its entire North Carolina service area is drawing stiff opposition from a surprising quarter: Duke Energy. . Not productive for either industry’. We need to get along’. Builders in the territory, covering 1.4

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 17, 2020

The 2020 Coronavirus /COVID-19 pandemic has created a new normal for much of the population — a daily routine that now means moving from the bedroom to the living room instead of battling a commute and logging hours in an office building. Pollutants can float through your home, moving from one space to another.

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Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Pollution 28

Grist

MAY 18, 2021

It had been about a year and a half since he left his job at an aerospace company to found a clean energy startup in San Francisco with three of his friends, but the path to success he’d once envisioned had crumbled. Charm would use the same technology, but instead of turning plants into a useful energy product, it would offer a service.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 5, 2022

They have an extremely onerous energy consumption and negative environmental impact,” Orlandi said. The wooded area sitting on 10,000 square meters in the province of Milan was about to be logged before GPR saved it. We continue to confuse exhaust pollution with the environmental footprint,” he said.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

A host of smaller green policy efforts could also be fast-tracked by Biden's team, including measures to restrict single-use plastics in federal buildings and land, the US ratification of the Kigali Amendment to the global Montreal Protocol to restrict HFC pollutants, and the resumption of US payments to the global UN Climate Fund.

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Fossil fuels Policy Climate change Carbon 78

Green Tech Challenge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Our alumni Bluebenu is developing a lead technology that transforms the plastic pollution rescued from the oceans into eco-fuel. US Efforts to Improve Energy Efficiency The US has set energy programmes in place across all states to generate renewable energy.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The journalist was investigating claims by local people that the plants run by KelKos, a subsidiary of Austrian energy firm Kelag, were operating without permits and potentially damaging the local ecosystem and water infrastructure. “We Jaramillo says these sorts of legal challenges jeopardize a fast and just transition to renewable energy.

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AGreenLiving

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. The overall “cap” lowers every year, forcing polluters to reduce their emissions or purchase allowances from others who do. As the U.S.

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Pollution Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Policy 28