DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Read time: 9 mins Nearly a year ago, the city of Palo Alto — home to Stanford University and the unofficial capital of Silicon Valley — joined a handful of other California cities in enacting an all-electric building mandate.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

An estimated 250,000 strikers marched in New York City from Foley Square to Battery Park. . The global climate strikes took place before the United Nations Climate Summit in New York City. Tags: climate strikes climatestrike Greta Thunberg The opening session of the summit is on Sept.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 28, 2020

Read time: 21 mins Just over a year ago, the city of Berkeley, California, passed into law a first-in-the-nation ordinance prohibiting natural gas hookups in new buildings, a move that alarmed the gas industry.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Read time: 12 mins Deep in the heart of Texas, by far the nation's top oil producer , the city of San Antonio is starting to grapple with its reliance on fossil fuels. Tags: San Antonio natural gas CPS Energy American Gas Association American Public Gas Association Sierra Club Gas Lobby

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The city of Hoboken today filed a case against major oil and gas companies and the American Petroleum Institute ( API ) , a powerful industry trade group which has played a major role in promoting “uncertainty” about climate science.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 17, 2020

coastal cities , barring efforts to mitigate climate change and reduce sea level rise. Tags: sea level rise coastal flooding #ExxonKnew ExxonMobil shell #ShellKnew climate lawsuits One such study published April 16 in the journal Scientific Reports projects an exponential increase in the frequency of coastal flooding from rising seas.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

What he found, two days later, would eventually confirm his fears and frustrations surrounding an environmental and public health risk haunting the City of Angels. Tags: Los Angeles orphan wells Hydrogen sulfide air pollution DOGGR california Aliso Canyon

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 7, 2020

That threat to bus in hundreds of protesters, “potentially adding to this pandemic,” apparently worked as San Luis Obispo city officials have postponed the April 7 vote on its Clean Energy Choice Program indefinitely.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Tags: Los Angeles Los Angeles City Oil Field affordable housing orphan wells At a time where affordable housing ranks as a top concern for Angelenos, many see projects like these as signs of progress.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 28, 2019

The city of Phoenix dealt a decisive blow to a Koch Brothers-backed measure on Tuesday when voters rejected a proposition that would have banned any expansion of the city's light rail system. Tags: Phoenix David Koch Koch brothers americans for prosperity (AFP) public transportation

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Read time: 13 mins Residents of Weymouth, Massachusetts, are raising questions about a deal made between the city and multi-billion dollar Canadian energy pipeline company Enbridge, Inc., Tags: Weymouth compressor station Enbridge Atlantic Bridge PHMSA conflict of interest FRRACS

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 17, 2020

A federal disaster response expert, Honoré coordinated military relief efforts in New Orleans and across the Gulf Coast following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and is credited with restoring order to the city. Russel Honoré Louisiana John Bel Edwards cancer alley COVID-19

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 19, 2019

Read time: 15 mins In July 2015 workers at the Garden Creek I Gas Processing Plant, in Watford City, North Dakota, noticed a leak in a pipeline and reported a spill to the North Dakota Department of Health that remains officially listed as 10 gallons, the size of two bottled water delivery jugs.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Read time: 9 mins September saw a flurry of new lawsuits filed by cities and states against major fossil fuel companies over the climate crisis and the resulting impacts that are already being felt. Tags: climate lawsuits ExxonMobil chevron Baltimore Supreme Court American Petroleum Institute ExxonKnew

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2020

The air above our cities was filthy, and the water in our lakes and streams was gross. Tags: Bill McKibben Earth Day U.S. (February was a simpler time too, but for a moment let’s think outside the pandemic bubble.). Simpler because our environmental troubles could be easily seen. There was nothing subtle about it.

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GreenBiz

MAY 3, 2021

Akamai awarded points for actions completed during the month, and allowed offices and employees to tag and challenge each other through the online platform to encourage higher levels of participation. cities with more than 50,000 residents using a combination of sociological and economic data including local income and raise.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Read time: 8 mins Dark Waters , the new film starring Mark Ruffalo as attorney Rob Bilott, is set in the Ohio River Valley city of Parkersburg, West Virginia — a place about 150 miles downstream from where Shell is currently building a sprawling plastics manufacturing plant, known as an “ethane cracker,” in Beaver, Pennsylvania.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Read time: 6 mins On Saturday, November 16, 29 people were arrested in a rally at a massive natural gas-fired power plant, the Cricket Valley Energy Center, that is being constructed in a picturesque rural valley of farms and forests near the New York-Connecticut border, about 80 miles north of New York City.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Last week, in a historic first, the former CEO of a major oil company took the witness stand in a New York City courtroom and spent four hours defending his company against charges that it misled investors about the potential impact of global warming on its viability as a business. . Read time: 12 mins By Dan Zegart.

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Charged

JANUARY 4, 2023

The company has established a manufacturing site in Pinellas Park, Florida (next door to Charged ’s home city of St Petersburg). The R30, which is expected to carry a price tag around $300,000, is very much a luxury boat, but it sounds like more mass-market models are planned for the future. “To kW of solar power for recharging.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

The Formula E electric racing championship has announced its calendar for the 2019-2020 season : 14 races in 12 cities on 4 continents, beginning in November in Ad Diriyah, Saudi Arabia and winding up in July 2020 in London. The TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team recently unveiled its Gen2 99X Electric racer.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The new unit will segregate, wash, compact, bale, weigh and electronically tag all waste from Brighton station, as well as all Southern and Thameslink trains running to and from the city, in partnership with innovative sustainability start up, The Green Block.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2019

He described worrisome conditions at the Lonesome Creek plant, in Alexander, and the Garden Creek plant, in Watford City, where DeSmog recently revealed one of the largest oil and gas industry spills in U.S. history had occurred. North Dakota is basically a Petrostate,” said Lehto, who worked at the two plants between 2015 and 2016.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Initially, these sites were lay aside from the cities to prune deleterious effects to inhabitants. Nevertheless, with the augmentation of cities , these sites now fall within city perimeters, thereby, exposing the inhabitants to health menaces and other environmental threats. Internet of Things (IoT) driven waste management.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Connecticut on Thursday selected Vineyard Wind’s 804-megawatt Park City project as the winner of its first offshore wind solicitation, setting up the seaport city of Bridgeport to become a significant hub for the emerging U.S. Big win for Bridgeport. Huge chunk of state's power.

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Econaur

AUGUST 30, 2021

This week we present the Flashback story of Dholavira, the archaeological site of a Harappan-era city, whi ch received the UNESCO world heritage site tag on Tuesday. It was excavated between 1955 and 1960 and was discovered to be an important port city of the ancient civilization, with structures made of mud bricks.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Warren, a small city in Northern Minnesota, is offering an innovative public service: images that reveal building heat loss, captured by drones. For this episode of the Local Energy Rul es Podcast, host John Farrell speaks with City Administrator Shannon Mortenson of Warren, Minnesota. Warren sets its sights on cutting edge tech.

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2022

A government grant scheme offering businesses thousands of pounds off the price tag of electric vans and trucks has been extended by a further two years, in a move Ministers expect to support the purchase of tens of thousands of greener vehicles.

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Climate 4.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

billion, high-speed rail line in Egypt to service a new capital city, financed with investment from China, is the latest indicator of a recent trend in developing nations of governments throwing their hands in the air and starting from scratch to create viable, workable administrative centers. A newly announced plan to build a $4.5

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Terra Infirma

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Last weekend we finally got to the City of Lights (by Eurostar, natch) to mark our 30th anniversay of getting together. I often argue this is the element missing from the British view of the 15 minute city, ie it is not just about how you get to your destination, but where your destination is. Use ’em or lose ’em!

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GreenTech Gazette

MAY 1, 2023

The electric motor would provide additional power to the car’s drivetrain and allow for all-electric driving in certain situations, such as low-speed city driving. It would likely be a high-performance vehicle with a premium price tag, catering to drivers who value both performance and sustainability.

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GreenTech Gazette

JANUARY 1, 2024

It’s not the most affordable e-bike on the market, but the premium build quality, unique design, and impressive features justify the price tag for riders looking for something special. Overall: The Model J is a fantastic e-bike that delivers on its promise of style, power, and performance.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

There is a universe in which Hurricane Sandy didn’t create quite so much devastation back in 2012; where the waters, which surged deep into subway tunnels and left parts of New York City in the dark for days, left some parts of the tri-state area unscathed. And that universe, according to scientists, is one without climate change.

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Terra Infirma

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

A rag tag group of self-publicists, anti-vaxxers/climate change deniers and right wing nutters marched through Oxford to protest a series of bus gates designed to encourage motorists to drive around the city centre rather than through it (ironically bringing traffic in the city centre to a halt).

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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. military alongside the state, city, and private fleets. Though it had a slow start, Edmunds found that its production has risen from 25 million gallons in 2005 to 1.7 billion gallons in 2013. Biodiesel is rarely used in its pure form.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The plates will feature a green tag or 'flash' on the left hand side of the plate to make it easy to identify zero emission models. Only fully zero emission electric and fuel cell cars will be eligible for the green plates, with hybrids and plug in hybrids deemed ineligible.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Pioneering companies like City Movers lead the charge, emphasizing sustainable and innovative packing alternatives. Alt-tag: A person sorting trash for recycling as one of the examples of ways to minimize your carbon footprint during a move. But with the spotlight on sustainability, it’s time to think outside the (cardboard) box.

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