Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Under the current plan, ships travelling within the EU will be required to pay for 100 per cent of their carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrogen dioxide emissions for journeys within the bloc, and 50 per cent of emissions of journeys to or from a non-EU destination.

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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. While the U.S.

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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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Charged

JUNE 28, 2022

However, many may be surprised to learn that a substantial amount of this grant money has been used to subsidize fossil fuel-burning vehicles, in preference to EVs, and to promote the consumption of natural gas. marine, construction and agricultural vehicles) doesn’t have a widely available electric alternative. “If

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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. Gas Infrastructure Spending Is Rising Rapidly.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 28, 2023

Though it has applied for them, the company behind this operation has yet to receive the permits it is required by law to construct or operate the engines to power a cryptocurrency mine. The company is required by law to obtain a plan approval from DEP prior to installation and operation of the air contamination sources,” Decker said.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Spears may have invested in the $5,000 machine if a government rebate or tax credit were available to renters, but she couldn’t find one. I’d love to ask my landlord for an induction stove that will cook my food via electromagnetic energy rather than fossil fuel combustion. That was my last attempt,” she said.

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Energy Innovation

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

While new Inflation Reduction Act investments will spur ample opportunities for transitioning to clean energy, additional state and federal policy action is needed to achieve U.S. Only existing state laws and regulations as of January 2023 are included in the model. climate goals.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Oil giants including Shell, BP and Total are promising major investments to meet decarbonization goals. Hydrogen also “burns very differently” than methane, said Jussi Heikkinen, the Americas director of growth and development for Wärtsilä Energy, which is investing in engines that can run on 100 percent hydrogen.

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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. Jo Maugham, director of Good Law Project, said: "For the strategy to have meaning it must be specific and quantified, otherwise it's just hand-waving.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Its chair, Marie Donnelly, last night expressed concern at the “problematic” sectoral targets, which she described as “not consistent” with the objectives of Ireland’s climate laws. per cent of total national emissions, despite the sector contributing only around one percent to GDP.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

Echoing a trend seen among fossil fuel incumbents the world over, Germany’s pipeline operators are casting themselves as gatekeepers to climate solutions. Unlike natural gas, which is comprised mostly of methane, a powerful climate pollutant, hydrogen does not emit planet-warming carbon dioxide (CO2) when burned.

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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

A group of over 500 global investment managers with more than $39tr in assets under management have this week issued a new statement urging governments around the world to raise their climate ambitions in line with the goal of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5C ahead of the upcoming COP27 Climate Summit.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 18, 2023

This innovative approach to geothermal energy garnered attention from both seasoned oil and gas players with drilling know-how, as well as energy transition experts focused on replacing fossil fuels as a source of always-on power across the electric grid. The FORGE initiative field site in Milford, Utah. Photo credit: FORGE.

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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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Renewable Energy World

MAY 13, 2021

Part of a combined heat and power system, the digester mixed cow manure with heat and bacteria to produce biogas that fueled a generator. The digester, and another the dairy installed a few years later, reduced the size of open lagoons of manure that release methane into the atmosphere. It was a novel experiment at the time.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Renewable solar and wind power now typically costs less than fossil-fuel alternatives. That’s looking more doable as renewable-energy prices drop, providing an alternative to fossil fuels. Seattle this year passed a law to phase out natural gas in new commercial establishments and large apartment buildings.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MAY 16, 2022

Scenario 3: Achieves carbon neutrality by 2045 by deploying a broad portfolio of existing and emerging fossil fuel alternatives and clean technologies. Under the Proposed Scenario, buildings in the state will almost completely decarbonize by 2045, with the use of fossil natural gas decreasing to a fraction of what is used today.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 8, 2024

Photos I shot last year in South Louisiana illustrate the Gulf Coast’s rapidly expanding fossil fuel industry, and the groundswell of frontline community members, environmental advocates, and activists fighting to stop it. While “green” hydrogen fuel can be produced with renewable energy, that process is cost prohibitive for now.

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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

AUGUST 18, 2021

Yet at present, the UK boasts little in the way of hydrogen production capacity to meet the expected surge in demand, and scaling up the fledgling sector requires patience, high capital investment and careful planning - a process many a green technology before it has faced. The door remains open to hydrogen for heating homes.

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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. Clean Oceans Initiative doubles funding goal to €4bn by 2025.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

The inflation reduction act clean energy transition: Supporting businesses navigate rising fossil fuel energy costs The inflation reduction act clean energy transition comes at a time where rising fossil fuel energy costs are hitting businesses hard. Inflation rates in the U.S. And leading this transition in the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 29, 2022

The push to sell “blue hydrogen” as a clean energy fuel — which experts have called a misleading rebrand of fossil fuels — hit another setback this month. Climate provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 are bringing new economic headwinds to the gas-derived hydrogen fuel’s prospects.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2022

billion over the next nine years to plug inactive oil and gas wells whose owners can’t be found, under the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, dispensed in grants to state oil and gas regulators. The federal government intends to spend $4.7 Historic redlining and the siting of oil and gas wells in the United States.”

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The infrastructure bill signed into law by President Biden in November includes $9.5 While being presented as a clean hydrogen plan for decarbonizing the energy system, the main focus of the hydrogen section of the bill is to continue and expand the use of natural gas (that is, methane) in the U.S. And then there’s blue.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 13, 2024

Hydrogen derived from fossil fuels – primarily natural gas but also coal – makes up more than 90 percent of global hydrogen production. But his comments reflected not only BP’s public stance but also that of other fossil fuel giants. CCS sits alongside hydrogen as another pillar of Exxon’s “low-carbon solutions” business.)

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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

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

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The use of these chemicals also damages the environment in other ways; much of the fertilizer used in the world today is the product of methane gas, a fossil fuel, while the wide-scale use of pesticides has been linked to the damage of ecosystems and vital populations of pollinators.

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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. While the U.S. based grassroots organization opposing LNG, told DeSmog. “By

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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. There were also successful precedents, says Weiss, pointing to the decisions TRS made to jettison investments in South Africa in the mid-1990s, and firearms in the 2010s. trillion in cash and investments.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MARCH 11, 2021

The program will include a multi-jurisdictional cap-and-invest program and aims to address environmental justice and equity concerns. The draft MOU detailed the cap-and-invest program and outlined model rules that jurisdictions could use to draft their own implementing legislation or regulations. fossil-based gasoline and diesel).

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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.” Constitution’s Fifth Amendment.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 17, 2023

Further, many of the largest businesses are state- or family-owned, beholden not just to the laws of the free market, but political dynamics to boot. This year, the price spread has contracted , shrinking the savings gained by investing in scrubber installations. LSFO (low sulfur fuel oil) is an HFO with less than 1% sulfur content.

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