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Chamber of Commerce’s Energy Members Silent After Group Opposed Using Wartime Law to Produce Medical Supplies

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 6 mins By Dave Anderson , Energy and Policy Institute. Originally posted on Energy and Policy Institute. Some of those same energy companies, and their trade associations, have for years lobbied for the use of the Defense Production Act to bail out struggling coal plants.

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Advocates Call on EPA to Expand Air Pollution Monitoring of Refineries After 10 Found Emitting High Benzene Levels

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Russel Honoré oil refineries Philadelphia Energy Solutions benzene air pollution clean air act General Russel Honoré, founder of Louisiana’s Green Army, a grassroots anti-pollution coalition, hailed the report as a great tool for communities that live near refineries to press for the monitoring of additional toxic chemicals. .

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Community solar, urban trees and the digitization of employee engagement

GreenBiz

"Many employees want to live out their personal values at work and are asking for these programs," said Richard Keiser, CEO and founder of community solar company Common Energy, during the GreenBiz webcast last week about engaging employees in sustainability. One of Common Energy community solar projects. Common Energy.

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Chevron’s #BlackLivesMatter Hypocrisy

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Read time: 7 mins The oil giant funds both civil rights groups and police, saying “Black Lives Matter” while committing acts of environmental racism all over the world. By Amy Westervelt. This story originally appeared in the Hot Take newsletter.

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U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Utilizes Planet Data to Monitor Endangered Species Populations and Their Critical Habitat

Planet Pulse

The Missouri River Basin supports an abundance of wildlife, including the least tern and piping plover —shorebirds that are federally listed under the Endangered Species Act. Each depends on the Missouri River for a nesting habitat. As part of their Missouri River Operations Mission, the U.S. For more than 20 years, the USACE and U.

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How Dominion Energy Plans to Launch an Offshore Wind Empire

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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. Virginia’s recently passed Clean Economy Act , which requires more than 5 gigawatts of offshore wind by the mid-2030s, strengthened the case for that future.

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Could Flex Services Draw New Players to Energy Sector?

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A tie-up between Vodafone and Energy Web is evidence that an emerging flexibility services opportunity is luring new players to the energy sector, insiders believe. The endgame is to give an even wider range of devices access to future flexibility services markets, said Energy Web chief executive officer Walter Kok. In the U.K.,