Climate Deniers on Front Line of Battle Over Pennsylvania Joining Cap-and-Trade Program to Slash Carbon Pollution
DeSmogBlog
AUGUST 26, 2020
Participating states have then used that revenue to invest in energy efficiency and clean energy programs.
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Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm takes an EV road trip, deals with charging challenges
Charged
SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
Imagine how big clean energy industries will be in 13 years. How many good-paying jobs we’re going to create.” The Secret Service apparently didn’t get the electric memo—its agents tagged along in the obligatory huge black gas-guzzling SUVs.) Granholm addressed audiences at town hall stops along her road trip.
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Media Brief: Canada’s Clean Electricity Regulations
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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What’s It Like to Be a Lawyer at an Environmental Nonprofit?
GreenTechMedia
MAY 1, 2020
In this Greentech Media series, we’re asking people with jobs in cleantech — from installing solar panels, to permitting wind projects, to promoting building energy efficiency software — to tell us what they really do all day. Chinyere Osuala is a senior associate attorney for the clean energy program at Earthjustice.
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Reports: Treasury shelves £30bn plan to electrify UK railways over cost concerns
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.
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How Dominion Energy Plans to Launch an Offshore Wind Empire
GreenTechMedia
MAY 20, 2020
With two turbines, the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind pilot is tiny; and with a price tag of $300 million, it’s very expensive for a generation facility of its size. Eventually it awarded the EPC job to two vendors without competing bids: Ørsted is handling offshore construction, and L.E. offshore wind market.
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Sensing evolution
Envirotec Magazine
SEPTEMBER 5, 2022
as well as a wider range of applications including clean rooms and HVAC systems. With its sub-$500 price tag, Alphasense’s OPC-N3 and OPC-R2 devices qualified to participate in their own right. These can be displayed in histograms showing the particle counts for each ‘bin’. up to 2,000 ?g/m3 g/m3 of PM2.5)
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89 groups endorse the Healthy Environment for All (HEAL) Act
Front And Centered
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
Front and Centered and HEAL Act endorsers representing doctors, faith leaders, environmental justice advocates, labor unions, farmworkers, scientists, family, immigrant and civil rights leaders and anti-poverty groups believe that everyone deserves clean air and healthy water. Think lawmakers should pass the HEAL Act?
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Is this it? Are we at risk of over-estimating the neo-climate sceptics?
Business Green
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
It promises good green jobs, regional development, ultimately lower energy bills and enhanced energy security, and improved health and well-being, even before you get to the whole habitable biosphere stuff. However, there is still no room for complacency amongst those who want to see the net zero transition accelerate.
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Labour draws green dividing lines with promise of net zero emission power by 2030
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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How investing 1.3 per cent of GDP could decarbonise the global economy - and unlock massive financial savings
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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What should public transit look like post-pandemic? Clean, comfy and electric
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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Unfriend: Why is Facebook restricting climate-related ad campaigns from green businesses?
Business Green
NOVEMBER 1, 2020
"It is is not an advocacy post, it's a corporate post about jobs in the green economy, so it was frustrating it was being flagged as a social issue, when you are talking about the facts of climate change," Fidler argued. Fidler's experience does not appear to be unique. That lack of recognition - it's a hurdle we shouldn't have to face.".
A Peek At The Efforts Of Two American Lithium Companies
R-Squared Energy
JANUARY 31, 2022
Further, CATL presently has eight factories under construction at a price tag of over $14 billion, underscoring the investments China is making toward securing continued market control. It also creates and supports American jobs. But there are other efforts underway in the U.S. The Road Ahead. 2) Government investment in DLE.
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Revealed: Fossil Fuel Giants Are Using British Influencers to go Viral
DeSmogBlog
JULY 27, 2023
but did not tag Shell, nor mention his commercial relationship with the brand. The company [Shell] tasked Edelman with the job of giving millennials a reason to connect emotionally with Shell’s commitment to a sustainable future,” the Edelman website says. “We This was also not the first time that Campbell had partnered with Shell.
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'A climate-shaped hole at its heart': The green economy reacts to the Spring Statement
Business Green
MARCH 23, 2022
These measures will help make domestic energy efficiency and clean energy projects more attractive and help lower consumer bills. This comes at a time where the UK economy faces not only a cost-of-living crisis, but also a need to create good quality jobs across the country to level up the economy.
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In the hot seat: Solar Energy UK's Chris Hewett on how solar can help deliver net zero buildings and businesses
Business Green
AUGUST 25, 2021
After one particularly deep round of cuts, around the decade's mid-point, the industry contracted in size by a third, shedding roughly 12,000 jobs. It is strange the government not latching onto this as it is one of the most effective routes for them to reach their [clean energy] targets.".
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'A poor use of public funds': Should the government subsidise biomass and carbon capture technology?
Business Green
MAY 24, 2021
It claims the project could be operational by 2027, removing millions of tonnes of energy-related carbon emissions from the atmosphere each year, supporting "tens of thousands" of jobs and saving the UK more than £4.5bn a year over the coming decade.
Interview – Harnessing the potential of geothermal to scale up by 2030
ThinkGeoEnergy
DECEMBER 18, 2023
This is inherently wasteful and it comes with a price tag of emissions. In 2013, Professor Dr. In places where you can do conventional geothermal and EGS (one of the unconventionals) in the US, you have a good chance to get a decent price for clean power. One of these has been named CO 2 Plume Geothermal (CPG).
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Who Is Going to Clean Up the Scrap Heap in the North Sea?
DeSmogBlog
AUGUST 30, 2023
This lack of capacity is an international problem, according to joint research by the Dutch investigative platform Follow the Money and the Norwegian broadcaster NRK , because there are several North Sea countries decommissioning offshore platforms, and competing for the same few shipyards and vessels that can handle the job.
'Sensible incentives' and 'plumbing reforms': Leading figures mull pathway from Covid-19 crisis to net zero economy
Business Green
MAY 18, 2020
For one, Nick Charter, professor of behavioural science at Warwick Business School, suggests the government introduced a 'carbon pound' tagged to all goods and services that would alert consumers to the environmental impact of their purchases and activities.
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'More UK gas won't bring down bills': The green economy reacts to the government's energy crisis plan
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
And she is plotting a major shake-up of the government's Contracts for Difference clean power subsidy scheme, that would essentially move all renewable and nuclear generators onto new 10-15 year CfDs at fixed prices below current soaring rates, in a move aimed at lowering their existing price contracts in order to cut bills.
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Everything you need to know about the UK's landmark Energy White Paper
Business Green
DECEMBER 14, 2020
Previous unconfirmed reports have estimated a price tag for the Sizewell project of between £16-20bn. Clean heating and greener homes are a top priority. How to get the project to a position where it can be green lit remains the subject of intense debate. There are currently around 1.7
? Big oil’s big CCS play #158
Climate Tech VC
JULY 17, 2023
💼 Find or share roles on our job board here. The majority of Denbury’s revenue comes from EOR, which involves injecting CO2 into the ground in order to extend the life of oil fields, and ~60% of the price tag likely covered the value of Denbury’s oil production rather than the CCS infrastructure.
Status Quo is Not an Option: Environmental literacy and classrooms that can save the world
Green Technology
OCTOBER 13, 2022
It’s not just our job to inspire and to serve as a catalyst, but also to provide backbone support to all the school districts for bringing environmental literacy into their school. It’s our job at county offices to respond to the state mandates and to support our districts in achieving them. Status quo will lead us to our extinction.
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How to build a green hydrogen refinery for the maritime industry in Rotterdam
Mr. Sustainability
APRIL 18, 2021
Given a lifetime of 10 years for an electrolyzer, a price tag of €632 per kW and a production of 0.5 Only 2% of this budget could cover almost the entire costs for the electrolyzers today, which could provide clean hydrogen to the entire Rotterdam area. Cleaning Rotterdam, we can do this! How much would the fuel cost?
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How to build a green hydrogen refinery for the maritime industry in Rotterdam
Mr. Sustainability
APRIL 18, 2021
Given a lifetime of 10 years for an electrolyzer, a price tag of €632 per kW and a production of 0.5 Only 2% of this budget could cover almost the entire costs for the electrolyzers today, which could provide clean hydrogen to the entire Rotterdam area. Loosely translated it means “no more talking, cleaning”.
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'Fifteen years of anaemic growth cannot be repeated': The green economy reacts to the government's Growth Plan
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Originally trailed at a 'mini-Budget' designed to tackle the looming economic crisis facing the UK, the statement went far further than taxation and other fiscal measures, setting out broader plans to streamline planning rules with the aim of boosting investment, housebuilding, and jobs.
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'We are the good guys': IRENA's Francesco La Camera on hydrogen, nuclear, and the energy crisis
Business Green
JANUARY 24, 2022
Director-general of the clean energy agency offers his thoughts on the energy crisis, green and blue hydrogen, and why renewables must be the priority in the 2020s. Through it all, IRENA has continued to make the compelling social, environmental, and economic case for accelerating the shift to clean energy systems worldwide.
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? Spooky season for clean energy stocks #171
Climate Tech VC
OCTOBER 23, 2023
With spooky season upon us, clean energy stocks have plummeted 30% since the start of the year, driven by higher interest rates sending shocks through already fragile wind and solar supply chains. 💼 Find or share roles on our job board here. Clean energy chills 30% this year What goes up must come down.
DOE Quietly Backs Plan for Carbon Capture Network Larger Than Entire Oil Pipeline System
DeSmogBlog
JULY 18, 2021
And then there’s some significant money, billions of funding, being proposed by the President through the American Jobs Plan that Congress is deliberating right now that could be hugely, hugely important on the CCUS side,” he went on. “So He also discussed the controversial tax credits for carbon capture, known as 45Q.
? Old nuclear, new-clear #161
Climate Tech VC
AUGUST 7, 2023
💼 Find or share roles on our job board here. Since then, the price tag for the project has since more than doubled and the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office had to step in to provide additional financing. for their second clean energy fund focused on credit and hard-asset investments.
Virginia advocates seek path forward for electric school buses despite lack of state funds
Renewable Energy World
JUNE 8, 2021
And that hefty price tag became more daunting when House Bill 2118 , signed into law by Democratic Gov. trillion infrastructure package, the American Jobs Plan, into legislation. million from the Volkswagen Environmental Mitigation Trust, it designated $20 million of that to clean school buses. Ralph Northam, was left unfunded.
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Big Oil’s Been Secretly Validating Critics’ Concerns about Carbon Capture
DeSmogBlog
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
CCS Isn’t Viable Without “Additional Incentives” from the Government The House Oversight documents further reveal that the fossil fuel industry is looking increasingly to the government for help with carbon capture’s hefty price tag. However, such support may not be in the public interest.
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Trump Taps a Leading Fossil Fuel Advocate as the Justice Department's Chief Environmental Enforcer
Green Market Oracle
FEBRUARY 17, 2020
As Justice Department's chief environmental enforcer Clark is responsible for overseeing compliance with important environmental protections including the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act. His long record of opposing clean air and water does not bode well for the health and safety of Americans.
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‘I’ve quit drinking the water’: What it’s like to live next to America’s largest coal plant
Grist
JANUARY 13, 2020
Bowdoin’s grandfather, Marvin, not only helped sell the utility on Juliette, he sold Juliette on the utility’s promises of jobs, benefits, and pensions. ” A local salon was also tagged with a message accusing Georgia Power of “telling a lie” to residents about the plant’s health risks. Scherer Power Plant.
Manchin opposes Build Back Better and Biden’s climate agenda
AGreenLiving
DECEMBER 21, 2021
Related: Biden’s $2 trillion climate plan: create millions of jobs, reverse climate change The far-reaching plan included grants, tax credits and other policies to lower greenhouse gas emissions. Manchin says the plan’s price tag is too high, making him worried about inflation. Manchin’s support was critical for Build Back Better.
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