DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

Panelists, who included representatives from the energy banking industry and advisors to energy companies seeking financing, also expressed strong commitment to continue working to fund the expansion of fossil fuels. Bankers Plan to Fund Fossil Fuels As Long As It Pays. Lending Issues Due to Failed Economics, Not ESG.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

AUGUST 11, 2022

5060 ), titled An Act Driving Clean Energy and Offshore Wind, into law on Thursday August 11, 2022. The law keeps the required procurement total at 5.6 Reduction of Fossil Fuels. Governor Baker signed the climate bill ( H.5060 The act combines and modifies provisions from the House’s proposed offshore wind bill (H.4524)

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 4, 2021

After the IPO is complete, and assuming a suitable acquisition target is identified, the SPAC seeks to combine with the target in what is referred to as a “de?SPAC” As the recent experience at ExxonMobile has shown, investors are eager to invest in, and accelerate the migration toward, energy production that does not rely on fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2021

McCoy also said that the company’s public support for a carbon tax was a “talking point” and an “advocacy tool” — a policy that Exxon saw as unlikely to ever pass into law, which made supporting it an easy way to make the company appear to be a good faith actor on climate policy. The revelations were first reported by Channel 4 News.

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2022

Even then, it was an aspirational goal: One writer referred to it as both “ necessary and inaccessible.”. It doesn’t contradict the laws of chemistry and physics to get to 1.5 ‘We are at a crossroads’: New IPCC report says it’s fossil fuels or our future. As of 2020, the planet had already warmed by 1.2

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 7, 2023

The goal is to spark a wave of renovations of poorly insulated homes; phase-out new gas boilers; and accelerate the uptake of heat pumps and solar panels. These gas groups are lying to society,” Thomas Nowak, president of the European Heat Pump Association, an industry body, told DeSmog. It’s shameless.” Credit: ruralfutures.eu

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 6, 2021

That high level of interest by developers “was very robust and possibly beyond initial expectations” when the laws were passed, said Dan Burgess, director of the Governor’s Energy Office. “I The laws mostly paved the way for new solar generation development.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 2, 2021

That high level of interest by developers “was very robust and possibly beyond initial expectations” when the laws were passed, said Dan Burgess, director of the Governor’s Energy Office. “I The laws mostly paved the way for new solar generation development.

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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

APRIL 5, 2023

For instance, the company’s just-published “ Energy Transition Progress report ” references chemicals right alongside “low carbon energy” and “renewable natural gas” as examples of the company’s stated commitment to lowering emissions. Town sign for Norco, Louisiana. Shell US did not respond to a request for comment from DeSmog.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Commonly known as soot, it is formed from wildfires and fossil fuel consumption and contributes to climate change. Those markets can be either regulated (reflecting laws requiring companies to secure credits in proportion to their emissions) or voluntary (where buyers choose to acquire credits generated by carbon-reducing activities).

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Grist

JANUARY 31, 2024

Mildenberger co-authored a recent survey that found that 31 percent of Americans want a fully electric home; an additional 29 percent would like an electric home with a carve out for their gas stoves.) Earlier this month, a federal appeals court upheld a ruling that struck down a ban on natural gas in new buildings in Berkeley, California.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2021

This month, EQT, the nation’s largest natural gas producer, plans to launch a pilot project that will certify it to start selling not just natural gas, but something it calls “responsibly sourced natural gas.”. Platinum Gas. We need to address the brand problem.”.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

This science-based threshold — considered necessary to achieve emissions targets by 2050 — excluded all fossil fuels from being in the taxonomy. It emphasised the need to “recognize the transitional and enabling role of natural gas,” referring to two of the taxonomy’s three categories.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The Business Secretary made no reference to his past comments on climate and renewables issues, which had earned him a reputation for climate scepticism. The government is set to confirm its decision to make the mandate on carmakers less stringent after a formal consultation of the exercise is completed, according to the report.

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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

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Charles and David notoriously poured fortunes into funding organizations and projects designed to prevent fossil fuel regulation, often by obscuring the role that fossil fuels play in causing climate change. Very few fossil fuel plants continue to operate in Texas without scrubbers, said Cox.

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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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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

A declining cap on fossil fuel consumption has a much larger set of unknowns regarding technology, resources, and other shifts that could affect the cost of compliance. These real health and environmental costs not currently included in the purchase price of fossil fuels are commonly referred to as the social cost of carbon.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

A few exceptions do remain, though — holdouts that have not promised to eliminate their greenhouse gas emissions. Some have promised to lower emissions intensity, which allows them to keep burning fossil fuels as long as they also build zero-emission plants. Others haven’t even promised that. NextEra Energy.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 24, 2021

Deploying an optical gas camera that uses infrared radiation to detect the typically invisible methane leaking from oil and gas infrastructure, CATF conducted a months-long investigation of fossil fuel sites in Europe. This type of camera is used widely by the oil and gas industry itself to find and detect leaks.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

Under growing pressure to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, developers of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are turning to questionable claims about “carbon neutrality,” “net-zero,” or “green LNG,” in order to pass muster with governments, investors, and society, who are becoming increasingly anxious about the climate crisis.

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Grist

MAY 26, 2021

If these projects are successful, the Biden administration hopes that places like Gillette will go from being the powerhouses of the fossil fuel era to the foundation of a new domestic supply chain that will build tomorrow’s energy systems. Thermal coal’s had a good run,” Ford said, referring to burning coal for energy.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Once again, we will (and we must ) transition from fossil fuels to into a zero-emission world. That is because the fuel generally used by the marine industry is the most toxic substance imaginable: Heavy Fuel Oil, commonly referred to as HFO or IFO. All the technology that is required exists and is matured.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 23, 2020

Massachusetts may become just the third state, after California and New York, to begin planning for a managed decline of its conventional natural gas industry. In other words, if Massachusetts is to meet its legally binding carbon targets, there is no future for fossil gas. Annual U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

After the Biden administration’s bipartisan infrastructure law was passed , the administration hailed the bill’s $4.7 billion package to cap orphaned oil and gas wells as a move to tackle “super-polluting methane emissions,” saying it will combat the climate crisis and create jobs. Who Writes the Bills That Become Law?

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2022

The complex contains a circuit board of pipes and steel tanks that cough out steam, flames and toxic substances as it creates the building blocks for plastic from natural gas liquids. As climate concerns lead to a slow but steady decline in the demand for oil, the companies’ collaboration represents a shift by the fossil fuel industry.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

“The oil and gas industry has been really good at painting the picture that they are not a radioactive industry,” said Melissa Troutman, an Earthworks analyst and author of a 2019 report on oil and gas waste, “when in reality it produces a massive amount of radioactive material.”.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Given the challenges of energy transition, Europe is optimally positioned to lead this movement by implementing political and economic policies that will incentivize oil and gas companies to leave fossil fuels behind and make the transition to deep geothermal. He founded his law firm in Berlin in 1992.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 15, 2023

They live in Plaquemines Parish a few hundred feet from a massive liquified natural gas (LNG) export terminal being built by Venture Global and the Gator Express pipeline, which will transport natural gas under high pressure to the facility.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 1, 2021

Supreme Court this week ruled in favor of a natural gas pipeline taking state land for the project’s construction. While opponents of the pipeline called the ruling “devastating,” highlighting the need to limit new fossil fuel infrastructure in order to tackle climate change, other hurdles remain in the pipeline’s path.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 6, 2022

“They are powered by oil and natural gas!”. Here in New Mexico — the fastest-warming and most water-stressed state in the continental United States, where wildfires have recently devoured over 120,000 acres and remain uncontained — the oil and gas industry is coming out in force to deepen the region’s dependence on fossil fuels.

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

It contains natural gas, helium, and carbon dioxide. Most of these carbon-capture projects are run by fossil fuel companies. Big Oil likes to celebrate the technology: By putting carbon back in the ground, the industry can provide consumers with the benefits of fossil fuel without the full climate impact. “If

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

And as a trove of industry documents reveals, Exxon is far from the only fossil fuel company selling carbon capture as its golden ticket to continue pumping its products, despite internal concerns about the technology’s feasibility. A natural gas demonstration plant in Texas tests carbon capture technology.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Twisted Symbiotic Relationship’ One example of Peterson’s amplifying effect is his interview with Judith Curry, a former Georgia Institute of Technology climatologist who now does consulting work for clients including petroleum companies and natural gas traders. She didn’t respond to questions from DeSmog. It’s out!” It now has over 1.04

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

“If you were a fossil fuel project, you would have been shut down long ago.” For fossil fuel ideologues, sowing misinformation about wind and solar power is proving to be an effective stall tactic. “Hear this message: We’re here to save the whales!”

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 7, 2023

Austin Wall was attending an environmental law conference at the University of Tennessee not long ago when, during a discussion of natural gas pipeline projects, a map appeared on the screen and gave him a surprise. I’m like, hold up, that Google Maps looks really familiar to me,” the 25-year-old law student said. “I

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