Grist

JANUARY 31, 2024

But support for specific policies is somewhat of a different story. 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.) “On the other hand, you know, it’s 2024 now.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Most H2 is produced using fossil fuels like natural gas, but can the right methods make that green? The primary issue at the moment is that the vast majority of H2 is made using methods involving fossil fuels, such as natural gas or even coal. Another major barrier is the lack of regulatory clarity and political support.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Under this concept, the EU by 2030 would have in place 40 gigawatts of domestic renewable hydrogen electrolyzer capacity and import a further 40 GW from electrolyzers in neighboring areas, among them the deserts of North Africa, via revamped versions of the natural-gas pipelines that already connect to Europe.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Energy policy will be a major focus at the October conferences of both major parties, which fall weeks after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak dramatically announced plans to water down the UK’s green targets. The website makes no mention of gas, though gas companies make up half of its clients featured in the ‘Hydrogen Zone’.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

In November, he instructed his province’s public utilities, SaskPower and SaskEnergy, to stop collecting carbon taxes on natural gas as of January 1, 2024, if the federal government didn’t extend the same carbon price carve out to his province. The most extreme reaction was from Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe.

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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. Both had to wrestle with outside factors that affected emissions, such as the Great Recession and California’s other climate policies.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 24, 2020

Lyft's 100% EV strategy requires a policy blitz. So essentially Lyft has to act as a catalyst — using policy, economic and industry tools — to spur the broader transportation ecosystem to more rapidly adopt zero-emission vehicles. Katie Fehrenbacher. Wed, 06/24/2020 - 02:00. Arons said Lyft was able to work with Colorado Gov.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Ultimately, the challenge faced by California and Germany with high-level penetrations of renewables is one that many federal and local governments must grapple with as they pursue policies in an attempt to mitigate the most dangerous impacts of climate change. and even more so for the myriad targets that have been adopted globally.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

And, in the United States, political gridlock chopped the heart out of Congress’ most ambitious clean energy plan. . In British Columbia, Premier John Horgan’s government detailed policies to nearly double climate-protection efforts. Renewable solar and wind power now typically costs less than fossil-fuel alternatives.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

He expects blue hydrogen made from natural gas via steam reforming to meet around 80 percent of the 5 GW target, with HyNet alone planning for 3.5 Promoting walking, cycling and public transport with £5 billion ($6.6 Plan welcomed, but stakeholders want more policy details soon. GW of blue hydrogen capacity by 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

“Blue” hydrogen is also derived from natural gas but combined with the use of carbon capture and storage (CCS), and is being heavily promoted by the gas industry as a “bridge” fuel to a low-emission future. billion had been made available for hydrogen and renewable gas projects across Italy, France, Spain and Portugal alone.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

That’s not just unfair to the state’s most vulnerable residents, the report argues — it could also make it more expensive to electrify transportation and building heating with carbon-free power. But the problem with California’s rising rates extends beyond rooftop solar policy, he said.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Isn’t it true that RGGI GHG reduction stalled during the Great Recession because need for energy declined and there was no political will to reduce the cap which would have been necessary to reduce emissions? Webinar Q&A: Introduction to Cap & Invest in Washington State. Shorter answer. 1] Brian C. Murray and Peter T.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Now, the city is at the forefront of the country’s dash to break its dependence on Russian gas. On Saturday, a newly built jetty is due to welcome the Norwegian-flagged Höegh Esperanza, a 280-metre vessel capable of offloading cargoes of natural gas supercooled into liquid form, then shipped across the ocean in specialised tankers.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The IEA's preliminary estimates for 2022 showed that oil subsidies increased around 85 per cent over the year, while support for natural gas and electricity consumption more than doubled. Meanwhile, many European economies moved to cap energy prices to limit consumer exposure to the full impact of spiralling natural gas prices.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

Increasingly, the stars are aligning for industrial emissions to take center stage, for three key reasons: demand for clean solutions is growing; technologies are maturing; and the conditions for policy solutions are ripe. Robust policy support will be key to rapidly scaling the transition.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

An emergency decision to approve two new gas import terminals, and the virtual absence of discussion of climate policy on the campaign trail, have raised the risk that energy companies will leave Italy hooked on planet-warming fossil gas for decades to come, campaigners say.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

There, he met with OPUC staff in person and exchanged emails with Lori Koho, then OPUC’s senior official overseeing natural gas utilities. He hoped that his list of complaints would show “how the unethical culture [at NW Natural] goes all the way to the top,” as one of his emails to Koho explains.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

“This is a turning point for the industry — communications agencies who work for oil and gas clients are knowingly accelerating the global climate emergency, and their legal risks will accelerate, too,” said Duncan Meisel, executive director of Clean Creatives.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

This investment programme is going to breathe life into the UK economy - it's as much an economic policy as a climate policy, particularly over the next 10 years as we recover from the pandemic'. million heat pumps would have been sold by 2030, ahead of natural gas boilers being removed from sale entirely by 2033 at the latest.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

“Meaningful engagement and support of local communities is essential,” Sally Benson, deputy director for energy and chief strategist for the energy transition at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, told attendees of the DC Forum on Carbon Capture and Storage held in May.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Last summer, when 750,000 Californians experienced rolling blackouts as heatwaves overtook the west, some politicians in Texas took the opportunity to blame liberal policies to explain the outages. . Biden/Harris/AOC want to make CA’s failed energy policy the standard nationwide. I understand the tribalism of politics.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This mechanism serves as a protective shield for the EU’s climate policies, preventing them from being undermined by production relocation to countries with less stringent environmental standards or by the substitution of EU products with more carbon-intensive imports.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

Since it was first set up in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has been a hugely influential player in world energy politics. A 'wake-up call' for natural gas. The IEA's report should send shockwaves around fossil fuel majors and their investors worldwide.

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2021

The Strategy, although still lacking details on policy and financial support in certain areas - more of that is now expected in another related policy document next year - envisages hydrogen supporting 9,000 jobs and attracting £4bn investment by 2030, rising to 100,000 jobs by 2050 in an industry potentially worh £13bn.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The 520MW Kilroot coal-fired power station in County Antrim is not covered by the phase out, as energy policy is devolved in Northern Ireland. I'm determined that political differences will not impact on #COP26. Similarly, there was a 3.7 per cent increase in public sector emissions.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 5, 2020

And they consume fossil fuels such as natural gas or propane to power furnaces, boilers, and water heaters. In the United States, buildings account for roughly 40 percent of the country’s energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, and nearly half of homes rely on natural gas as their primary heating fuel.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2021

What's more, hydrogen-ready boilers will work in the same way as natural gas boilers with no changes required to pipework, radiators or the installation of a water tank.".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2022

But if the green agenda does not provide economic growth, it will ultimately not have political support and it will be self-defeating. The prime minister is fond of saying that she wants to 'grow the pie' of the economy," said Stuart Dossett, senior policy adviser at Green Alliance.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

I’ve long viewed Jacobson’s life — and his collaboration with researchers, cultural icons, business leaders and political leaders — as a well-written movie script. Congress; and policy pros serving President Obama. The dual papers now made it easier for policy makers to push the 100% WWS model forward. Jacobson’s Early Story.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

It's fair to say that since we last marked Green Gas Day, the whole landscape around green gases such as hydrogen and biomethane has changed in a way that many might not have expected. Our proposition for creating that grid, delivered through Energy Networks Association's Gas Goes Green programme, is simple.

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The Angry Clean Energy Guy

APRIL 16, 2015

Some, like the British Green Party , go even further, and use our needs to clean up our environment in precisely the wrong way: As an attack on economic growth as a policy goal, and therefore on jobs and wealth creation. and a political program?—?that But we don’t. Climate action is not a “long battle” at all. In fact, we already are.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 20, 2024

“We’re investing billions of dollars to reduce the carbon intensity of our natural gas. Energy Policy for Hydrogen Subsidies Exxon’s forthright demands bring into sharp relief the broader issue at play: defining the scope of federal support in America’s quest for decarbonization.

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 4, 2022

No need for Germany to rely on Russian gas. But reality is different, and when reality collides with idealistic policies, ordinary people suffer. It would have transported oil from Canada and from the Bakken Formation in the U.S. That brings me to Russia’s natural gas. Natural Gas. I doubt it).

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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. Both had to wrestle with outside factors that affected emissions, such as the Great Recession and California’s other climate policies.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 24, 2020

Lyft’s 100% EV strategy requires a policy blitz Katie Fehrenbacher Wed, 06/24/2020 – 02:00 ICYMI, ride-hailing biggie Lyft announced last week that it plans to electrify every single car offering services on its platform by 2030, including both those that Lyft owns and rents to drivers and ones that its drivers own.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

LCPI finds that one third of reductions, approximately 10 million tCO2e, should be expected from current trends and existing policies plus the price-elasticity effect of the fee if I-1631 is enacted. The measure would rely on a robust investment program to achieve the remaining 20 million tCO2e. the fee) and targeted investments.

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