DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2022

consulting and PR firm, with a long history of waging influence campaigns for fossil fuel corporations, is under scrutiny by a congressional committee as part of a broader investigation into the decades-long efforts by the oil industry and its allies to block action on the climate crisis. A powerful Washington, D.C.,

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Climate activists say the state’s progress on reducing building emissions has been far too slow given the pace of the climate crisis, and that it needs to end incentives for energy-efficient natural gas heating. rise in emissions from natural gas. for natural gas and 6.6% for fuel oil.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2019

But these tools proved unexpectedly useful when the Aliso Canyon natural-gas leak jeopardized fuel supplies for Southern California power plants. Hawaii also faces unusually high fuel costs because fossil fuels must be shipped there; solar-plus-storage beat incumbent power sooner there than on the mainland.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Shifting heating from fossil fuels to electricity can cut direct emissions. And managing electricity use to match grid needs can help utilities control the costliest part of decarbonizing their systems — reducing reliance on dispatchable fossil-fueled power.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Biomass energy harnesses organic matter, including wood, agricultural crops, and waste by-products, as fuel. It’s a renewable resource that’s widely available in nature. As we seek alternatives to fossil fuels, biomass holds significant potential due to its sustainability.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 13, 2020

Yieldcos focus on the relatively low-risk business of operating wind farms, solar arrays and other clean-energy assets, and typically offer investors a generous dividend. The recent revived interest in yieldcos may have been driven by jitters over the outlook of other energy stocks, and particularly those related to fossil fuels.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

This is the most ubiquitous explanation for why the solar panels you see on a rooftop or in a small solar array alongside a stretch of highway are almost certainly from Chinese firms. This inter-industry competition also makes price more important than performance, especially versus the low-cost incumbents, coal and gas.

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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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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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GreenTechMedia

MAY 12, 2020

With a long history in fossil fuels and nuclear energy, Engie has pivoted dramatically toward renewables over the past few years — a strategy that included the U.S. Despite Henry Hub natural gas spot prices below $2 per MMBtu, Avice-Huet said Engie is not investing in new U.S. My journey in the U.S.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 23, 2019

But what about those wind turbines, those solar arrays, those hydro dams? This electrification of industry, buildings and transportation will help displace fossil fuels and cut pollution. Making renewables preferable to natural gas. And the cleaner the electricity, the greater the benefit.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Crystal-clear liquid flows from the array into big plastic drums, which chemists wheel toward a tall metal still. billion metric tons), largely a result of burning oil, coal, and natural gas. But short-lived products can still benefit the environment if they displace products made from fossil fuels.

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Charged

DECEMBER 21, 2022

To figure out how to make electric trucks work in practice, the manufacturer, the state of California, and a wide array of partners—more than a dozen all told—launched the Volvo LIGHTS (Low Impact Green Heavy Transport Solutions) project in 2019 to test its first electric Class 8 tractors with multiple Southern California operators.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Local authority decision-makers are faced with a bewildering array of potential options to achieve decarbonisation, so it's important to understand which are the most effective and which could help to spark a wider adoption of low-carbon technologies across the region.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

For this reason, the hydrogen market today is dominated by steam reformation of natural gas, it’s essentially a fossil fuel. For the Air Liquide Normand’Hy project, for example, Siemens Energy will work with a French company to produce the skid-mounted electrolyzer array.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 23, 2023

The two corporations investing billions to build three new factories just outside Columbus, Ohio, have said that the facilities will be carbon neutral — despite Ohio’s near-total reliance on electricity from fossil fuels. Dvorkin agreed.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The system is highly efficient and does not lead to the production of greenhouse gas emissions. Though there are other methods of green hydrogen production, the majority of today’s H2 is produced using natural gas and other fossil fuels, with unmitigated carbon emissions.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

This marks Dominion Energy’s first solar energy investment in Ohio, where the company owns and operates a Cleveland-based natural gas local distribution company serving 1.2 Dominion owns solar arrays in nine other states, including in North Carolina, South Carolina and Utah, where the company also owns and operates gas utilities.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

Shell - Gas to liquids (GTL) | Shell Natural Gas. This is the practice where natural gas is separated into hydrogen and CO2. Why focus on creating sustainable marine fuels? > Eventually all fossil fuels are to be replaced with a sustainable alternative, hopefully some time before 2050.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

This is the practice where natural gas is separated into hydrogen and CO2, where the hydrogen is used for the petrochemical industry and CO2 is simply released into the atmosphere. Why focus on creating sustainable marine fuels? We however are not interested in replacing all fuels. What about CO2 taxes?

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2022

But, rather than continuing to inflict damage to the planet, what if the millions of tonnes of plastics used to make bottles, food packaging, carrier bags, clothes, carpets, and much more every year, were actually made from a sustainable, plant-based, fossil fuel-free polymer that was both fully recyclable and degradable?

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

I have been calling the carbon capture CO2 pipeline buildout plan a “publicly-funded sewer system for the fossil fuel industry” for some time. Here are the Princeton maps of what needs to be done, downplaying it as smaller than natural gas infrastructure: A Trans-Alaska Pipeline from New Jersey to Georgia?

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GreenBiz

APRIL 27, 2021

Is the current array of electricity generators and distributors prepared for this challenge? The fear of being crowded out and losing an important advantage also resides in the belief that America’s past greatness — and its future — rest upon the consumption of fossil fuels. The answer is no.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Canada has not provided a transition pathway for its fossil fuel workers to move into other industries, and as global demand for oil and gas wanes, tens of thousands of workers could lose their jobs, say the authors of a new report. But industry groups assert that oil and gas is not going anywhere.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2022

Frustration with the banking industry is gaining currency - in particular, the sector's role in financing fossil fuels. The funding was dominated by four US banks - Bank of America, Citi, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo - which together accounted for a quarter of all fossil-fuel financing since 2015.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 20, 2020

Solar PV would also face minimum prices that, while far lower than those for wind, still exceed typical clearing prices: $367 per megawatt-day for standard, fixed solar arrays, and $175 per megawatt-day for solar equipped with trackers that orient them with the sun. The silver lining in PJM's compliance plan.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The sixth largest producer of biofuels to replace fossil fuels, primarily in aviation and chemical manufacturing. Investing in an array of clean energy technologies to meet demand in the residential heat, transport, electricity, and industrial sectors and for export to Europe.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

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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Energy Innovation

MARCH 16, 2022

Countries across Europe are already deep into a generational shift away from fossil fuels and toward greater efficiency, electrification, and integration of renewables. To say that the European energy system is at a crossroads is an understatement.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2024

Still, the cheniers and the surrounding wetlands provide critical habitat for fish, shrimp, ducks, and an array of migratory birds travelling across the Gulf of Mexico. John Allaire, a former environmental engineer in the oil industry, photographed with fossil fuel infrastructure behind. benchmark prices. 8th hearing. “The

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 27, 2021

Is the current array of electricity generators and distributors prepared for this challenge? The fear of being crowded out and losing an important advantage also resides in the belief that America’s past greatness — and its future — rest upon the consumption of fossil fuels. The answer is no.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

In leading a piece of the communications strategy for one of the most dynamic companies in the sustainability space, she’s making sure the world knows about its climate work , which includes committing to buy 10,000 electric delivery vehicles, investing heavily in renewable natural gas and working toward a circular economy.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

cities are drafting plans and testing out developing zero emission zones in downtown areas, banning fossil-fuel-burning vehicles and developing progressive pricing signals. Investing in a Clean & Equitable Future (Panel Discussion): Every two minutes, a new solar array is installed in the United States.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

In leading a piece of the communications strategy for one of the most dynamic companies in the sustainability space, she’s making sure the world knows about its climate work , which includes committing to buy 10,000 electric delivery vehicles, investing heavily in renewable natural gas and working toward a circular economy.

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Mr. Sustainability

JUNE 27, 2020

With the ‘old’, I refer to the fossil-fuel based, centralized energy industries that are reliant on conservative economic models. They are sometimes referred to as Big Oil , or the Oil and Gas majors the likes of Shell, BP, Total etc. Let me explain. Divest in the Old… First, one needs to define what is the old.

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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!” One of those names is John Droz.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2021

The stakes are high for people living in the northwest corner of the state, because the plan could allow as many as 3,650 new oil and gas wells in the area, 1,650 of which would be along the southern rim of the basin, including around Chaco Culture National Historical Park and sprinkled throughout the surrounding Navajo communities.

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