DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2020

But the key player in implementing the Alamo City’s energy transition — the local energy utility CPS Energy — remains committed to carbon-based fuels like coal and natural gas, even while it begins to invest more in renewable alternatives.

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GreenBiz

MAY 3, 2021

Over the past several years, Common Energy has developed and refined a Clean Energy Benefits program, through which a company’s employees can enroll in community solar projects as a way of addressing their personal carbon footprint — at no cost to either it or its employees. .

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2019

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 24, 2020

Tags: Dentons EJM Associates AFL-CIO IBEW International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers U.S. Unlike those calling for a Green New Deal, though, this alliance supports increased fracking for oil and gas, as well as other controversial technologies that critics say prop up fossil fuels.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Clean transport advocates point out £30bn price tag for railway electrification is in the same ball park as budget for road building. The budget for road building is £34bn so spending more to make the climate emergency worse is better than spending less to reduce carbon.". Not a surprise," he wrote on Twitter.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 8, 2023

Through media briefs, we aim to provide useful factual and contextual information related to Canada’s clean energy transition. The federal government has released a new paper, Powering Canada Forward , which lays out the federal government’s vision for a 100% clean power grid by 2035.

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The Environmental Blog

JANUARY 21, 2022

Instead, it is often blended with diesel and tagged based on the amount of diesel it’s mixed with. According to the research conducted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) , biodiesel emits 11 percent less carbon monoxide and 10 percent less particulate matter than diesel. billion gallons in 2013. It is almost 1.5

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2021

The previous date touted by the government for ending installations of new gas boilers was 2035, and advocates of the less stretching 2040 timeline claim it would give more time for the clean heating technologies to reduce in price, newspapers suggest. Clearly carbon cheques are the answer, but HMT vetoed it," a Whitehall source told The Sun.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Using renewable energy can significantly lower your company’s carbon footprint, depending on the dominant power source in your region. However, investing in renewable energy such as solar, wind or geothermal can come with a steep price tag and these technologies aren’t effective in every region. Globally, approximately 3.8%

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 10, 2021

The climate champions who attended were recognised for their individual efforts towards moving Canada to net-zero carbon emissions.”. TAG), the largest natural gas transporter in Brazil. British Commonwealth] government’s Climate Solutions and Clean Growth Advisory Council.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Duke Energy has detailed the various paths its utilities in the Carolinas could take over the next 15 years, a choice that will determine how quickly Duke cuts its carbon footprint and how much it will cost. gigawatts under its carbon policy case — and up to 16.4 ” Looking at the price tags.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

With attempts to deny the seriousness of the climate crisis and discredit the feasibility of clean technologies overwhelmed by observable reality those opposed to climate action have increasingly turned to questioning the cost of decarbonisation. Moreover, this price tag is for capital investments, not costs. warming pathway by 2030.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Sharing the findings on Twitter , BNEF's head of sustainable materials Julia Attwood described the estimated $278bn price tag for decarbonising a sector responsible for some seven per cent of global emissions was a "bargain". Meanwhile, 45 per cent of the steel market would be produced in electric furnaces from recycled scrap.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 1, 2020

Kit Kennedy, senior director of the climate and clean energy program at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), spends her time promoting renewable and sustainable solutions to problems that face the public. Chinyere Osuala is a senior associate attorney for the clean energy program at Earthjustice. offshore project.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 11, 2023

The tag “forever chemicals” is clearly very appropriate for a class of synthetic compounds whose unusual molecular structure, including the carbon-fluorine (C-F) bond (considered one of the strongest found in organic chemistry), appears to offer little scope for any thermal or other degradation at all, so they endure permanently.

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

It argues the costs of removing emissions from the power system are likely to rise over the coming years as policymakers plot how to deliver firm and flexible low carbon generation capacity that can oust unabated fossil fuel power from the grid.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 31, 2020

Second, spurred by this success, many utility companies, states and nations are upping their targets for clean energy. These policies typically give prime billing to the clean energy sources, but they just as well could be considered market creation tools for the long duration storage asset class.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Barely a week now seems to go by now without another major automotive or energy firm significantly scaling up its targets for electric vehicle or clean energy production in the 2020s. The great EV armament has begun. To deliver its new targets, Nissan said it would need to hire 3,000 more staff. global warming trajectory.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Barely a week now seems to go by now without another major automotive or energy firm significantly scaling up its targets for electric vehicle or clean energy production in the 2020s. The great EV armament has begun. To deliver its new targets, Nissan said it would need to hire 3,000 more staff. global warming trajectory.

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 17, 2021

All of the zero-carbon fuel it produces will be shipped to international buyers in the form of ammonia. The task of turning a patch of desert the size of Belgium into a metropolis powered by renewable energy falls to Peter Terium, the former chief executive officer of RWE AG , Germany’s biggest utility, and clean-energy spinoff Innogy SE.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The moves to support the transition to EVs are also set to be accompanied by sweeping new plans to accelerate the development of clean energy capacity, energy efficiency programmes, carbon capture and storage and hydrogen projects, and nature protection initiatives.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 26, 2020

To help find ways to overcome them, Clean Energy Canada went right to the source — we asked transit agencies across the country what barriers they see ahead and what solutions are needed. As battery costs continue to fall and electric buses are produced on a larger scale, their price tags will become increasingly competitive.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2023

Not so long ago, the development of the many critical green technologies that could provide viable alternatives to high carbon incumbents and deliver a net zero transition was regarded more in hope than anticipation. Not bad for an industry that was still widely regarded as 'hard to abate' just a few years ago.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

but did not tag Shell, nor mention his commercial relationship with the brand. percent of their annual capital expenditures in low carbon technologies between 2010 and 2018. The claim of ‘carbon neutral’ engine oil is ludicrous,” said Professor Trencher. This was also not the first time that Campbell had partnered with Shell.

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Business Green

MAY 24, 2021

Fresh analysis warns plans for UK's largest BECCS facility in North Yorkshire could prove more expensive for billpayers than Hinkley Point C, but developer Drax rejects calculations and insists carbon capture technology is likely to prove a crucial component of the net zero transition.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

That would for the first time put the price tag for a Tesla electric car at a similar level to conventional fossil fuel cars in the US, said Musk, opening up the mass market for electrified cars, while the new batteries could also offer a 16 per cent increase in driving range compared current models.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Labour's Party Conference kicked off yesterday, with the new tag line 'A Fairer, Greener Future' on prominent display, and the opening policy announcement coming in the form of a commitment to deliver a net zero emissions power system by 2030, a full five years earlier than the government's current 2035 target date.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The benefits of personal care and caring for the planet often overlap — drinking water instead of manufactured beverages, buying clothing made from natural fibers and using clean, cruelty-free beauty products. With a high value on clean ingredients, Sparitual caters to the self-care consumer interested in investing in the ‘slow life’.

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Business Green

APRIL 25, 2022

If high carbon products are regarded as dangerous and socially undesirable, why should they be advertised? Veronica Wignall of the Badvertising campaign added that without bolder action to tackle the promotion of high carbon products wider efforts to decarbonise risked being undermined. "It

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AGreenLiving

MAY 4, 2021

Aether takes carbon dioxide pollution in the atmosphere and turns it into beautiful, precious stones. Workers synthesize the captured carbon into a usable hydrocarbon raw material that is suitable for growing diamonds in reactors. As carbon atoms align into crystalline form, the diamonds grow one fractal at a time.

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Planet Pulse

JANUARY 11, 2024

All of yesterday’s growth and fun came with a steep price tag. Any conversation about the topic is bound to make the environmentalists mad, the industrialists defensive, the ethicists dumbfounded, and your everyday consumer more confused than someone trying to understand what “ clean coal ” even means.

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EDF + Business

JULY 10, 2020

In fact, Amazon’s carbon emissions climbed 15% in the last year alone — even before coronavirus — due to increased sales. Getting a finished product from the factory to your door, has costs beyond the price tag. The post Why companies need to invest in clean delivery amid pandemic online shopping appeared first on EDF+Business.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

In fact, their only genuinely successful campaign of the past decade was the one that helped push David Cameron to cut energy efficiency funding schemes and shelve zero carbon home standards. It's quite the track record. However, there is still no room for complacency amongst those who want to see the net zero transition accelerate.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2021

4] The application can track the life cycle of debris right from collection, segregation and transportation to incineration by geo-tagging every process and submitting details on a common platform wherein all waste generators, transporters and those handling treatment facilities will be asked to register themselves. [5]

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 17, 2021

All of the zero-carbon fuel it produces will be shipped to international buyers in the form of ammonia. The task of turning a patch of desert the size of Belgium into a metropolis powered by renewable energy falls to Peter Terium, the former chief executive officer of RWE AG , Germany’s biggest utility, and clean-energy spinoff Innogy SE.

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EDF + Business

JULY 30, 2019

The data then needs to be visually accessible for decision makers – which helps them to identify policies for improving access to clean water, reducing toxic air, or reducing emissions from traffic. To better understand this, we modeled the most carbon-intensive urban sectors in energy, transportation, and buildings.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 12, 2022

In recent months, Cheniere Energy, the largest LNG exporter in the United States, has begun providing emissions data , which it calls “carbon emissions tags,” or CE tags, for its gas. The tags quantify the greenhouse gas emissions of a given LNG cargo, with the aim of easing buyers’ concerns.

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