DeSmogBlog

JUNE 21, 2021

Fossil Fuel plant in Venice, Louisiana, where sea level rise is a constant threat. Two days before the public comment period closed on the EIS statement, I attended a June 1 CPRA public meeting in Buras, Louisiana, a small town reliant on the seafood industry near the tip of Plaquemines Parish. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2022

I also think we'll see a ton of growth in the plant-based seafood market," she said, alluding to the plant-based crab cakes Akua is planning to launch this summer. It is primarily the wealthy that own our coastlines," Seafood expert Jennifer Bushman said. Not in my ocean view.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

While we don’t expect final, precise details until January, the Roadmap’s five major objectives, with high-level preliminary strategies shared under each, are likely to include: Harness Abundant Renewable Energy to Reduce Long-term Costs, Reliance on Fossil Fuels, and Fight Climate Change.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

These critics worry whether the ships doing this mining will dump back into the sea the huge amounts of toxic-waste and sediments produced by grinding up and pumping the rocks to the surface, impacting larger fish further up the food chain such as tunas and contaminating the global seafood supply chain. .

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 28, 2023

In the news this week, $7T for fossil fuel subsidies, the summer brings more tropical storms, and Equinor opens the world’s largest floating wind farm… to power oil drilling. In the News Fossil fuels were subsidized to a record $7T across the globe in 2022, the IMF reports. Building batteries in the sand.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The lake provides both seafood and storm surge protection. It is fair to be skeptical of this nascent technology especially in the hands of fossil fuel companies, Suarez said. At about 93 square miles in size and 10 feet deep, Lake Maurepas is located on the western side of the larger Lake Pontchartrain.

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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. Currently, the hydrogen fuel market is small.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

It also described how the company provided guidance on behalf of the firm’s clients — which include CPRA and several fossil fuel companies — to Congress and federal agencies to influence legislation, including the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The company has a history of trying to steamroll opposition.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 26, 2022

Fossil fuels are demanded throughout the entire food supply chain and consume 30% of the world’s available energy. Replacing fossil fuels with biofuels is a key climate change mitigation strategy. Our food supply chain demands an extravagant amount of energy. Energy and food are intrinsically linked together.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2022

Anne Rolfes, founder of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade questioned what the project would do to the seafood industry. Wendy Walker Harrington, a self-described daughter of Cameron Parish, countered Rolfes’ concerns about the seafood by stating she doesn’t glow in the dark though she ate shrimp the night before. “Why presser now.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

However, critics say that funding in both proposals will let the fossil fuel industry off the hook and allow it to create new infrastructure that is incompatible with meaningful climate action. Kornell Davis checking out the damages to Saint Paul Missionary Baptist Church in Ironton. Climate Leadership?

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 15, 2023

Credit: Julie Dermansky Despite climate scientists warning of the need to curtail the use of fossil fuels to prevent global temperatures hitting a tipping point, several other proposed LNG export facilities along Louisiana’s coast might soon join the three facilities in the state’s southwest and Venture Global’s Plaquemines Parish site. .

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2024

John Allaire, a former environmental engineer in the oil industry, photographed with fossil fuel infrastructure behind. Ultimately, climate experts overwhelmingly conclude that fossil fuel infrastructure needs to be phased out — and governments agreed to that goal at COP28 in Dubai late last year.

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

  In other news, China hopes to woo back foreign investment with new ESG requirements, Singapore mandates at least some SAFs in the mix for all flights from 2026, and the UK follows European peers in walking out on a treaty often used by fossil fuel companies to sue against climate reforms. 

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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. While microgrids have come a long way, those that are being deployed at commercial sites are mainly powered by fossil fuels – either by diesel or natural gas.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Like many other banks, HSBC has pledged to step away from its funding of fossil-fuels interests and other high-carbon industrial activities with a pledge to achieving net-zero financed emissions across its customer portfolio by 2050. (It It aims to reach net-zero for its own operations and supply chain by 2030.)

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