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Duke Energy Lays Out Its Long-Term Clean Energy Pathways — and Price Tags

GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The two most moderate scenarios include a “base case” that assumes no price is put on carbon pollution and a “carbon policy” case that assumes a price is implemented. gigawatts under its carbon policy case — and up to 16.4 ” Looking at the price tags.

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Koch Industries Ramps Up Lobbying Against Clean Car Policies

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Read time: 4 mins Koch Industries, the second largest privately held company in the United States, has significantly increased its lobbying spending this year, including efforts to influence policy on key climate and transportation issues and legislation. Tags: koch industries kochvsclean lobbying John Barrasso

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Net zero legal threats, cheaper heat pumps, and PM defends green policy rollback: BusinessGreen's most read stories of the week

Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2023

BusinessGreen rounds up the most widely read stories on the site this week OVO to offer heat pumps at lower cost than gas boilers Energy supplier touts new offer promising heat pumps at cheaper price tag and running costs than conventional gas boilers. -

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SoCalGas, Nation’s Largest Gas Utility, Sues California Over Climate Policy for not 'Maximizing the Benefits' of Gas

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 10, 2020

Read time: 5 mins As California works to shift away from fossil fuels to meet its climate goals , one of the state's largest suppliers of fossil energy is fighting tooth-and-nail against this energy transition, even to the point of taking California to court over its energy policy.

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Leader of Gas Industry Front Group Used Public Health Threat to Cancel Climate Policy Vote in California

DeSmogBlog

MAY 7, 2020

Tags: Southern California Gas Company San Luis Obispo Gas Industry fossil fuel front groups climate policy Californians for Balanced Energy Solutions

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‘Energy Policy Advocates’ and the Fossil Fuel Boosters Attacking Legal Efforts to Hold Climate Polluters Accountable

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 30, 2020

Tags: ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) chris horner Energy Policy Advocates climate liability ExxonMobil has itself argued that attorneys general and municipal officials that have sued the company are engaged in a conspiracy to take down Big Oil.

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Photos of the Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley in 2020

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Calls for dealing with climate change and environmental justice were elevated by president-elect Biden, who spoke about endangered communities in the last presidential debate and on his campaign website, calling for environmental justice and “rooting out the systemic racism in our laws, policies, institutions, and hearts.”.

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Peers sought to build urban resilience platform

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

It is against this background that Isle set up its Urban Resilience Technology Approval Group (UR TAG) in 2019. Urban Resilience TAG meetings are an opportunity to pool project experiences, share best practice and collaborate. Technology pilots. Best practice.

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Record Amounts Of Clean Energy Installed As Costs Continue To Fall

Forbes Green Tech

JUNE 19, 2020

“If governments take advantage of the ever-falling price tag of renewables to put clean energy at the heart of COVID-19 economic recovery, they can take a big step towards a healthy natural world, which is the best insurance policy against global pandemics.”.

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Koch Academic Influence Returns to Massachusetts With New Tufts University Think Tank

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 20, 2020

Read time: 3 mins When a new Massachusetts think tank housed at Tufts University launched earlier this year , Boston-based media described it as a “ CBO -like center” (referring to the Congressional Budget Office) that would offer an “independent analysis” of proposed state policy and legislation.

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Groups Funded by Oil Industry Bash Plan to Reduce Northeast's Dependence on Oil

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2020

Tags: tci transportation and climate initiative Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy State Policy Network Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance Americans for Prosperity Yankee Institute for Public Policy Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy

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'Net zero is a no regret policy': How climate action could boost UK GDP by 9.1 per cent

Business Green

MAY 29, 2022

Furthermore, climate mitigation policies bring additional benefits, for example by improving health and invigorating of the economy through investment, equivalent to an increase of 6.1 per cent loss in GDP under current policies. per cent in GDP by the end of this century.". per cent of GDP. per 100.000 people, it calculates.

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Analysis: Fossil Fuel Tax Programs to Cut Emissions Lead to Lots of Industry Profit, Little Climate Action

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2021

Read time: 12 mins The fossil fuel industry and its investors have financially benefited from tax policies and subsidies designed to reduce the emissions from oil, gas, and coal — sometimes without taking the action required to tackle climate change.

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Climate Deniers Are Claiming EVs Are Bad for the Environment — Again. Here’s Why They’re Wrong.

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Climate and energy policy experts say electrifying vehicles is necessary to mitigate these emissions. Tags: electric vehicles Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) climate science denial ExxonMobil Koch Union of Concerned Scientists Energy and Policy Institute In the U.S.,

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Fossil Fuel Industry and Koch Network Fighting Pennsylvania's Move to Join Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Tags: pennsylvania regional greenhouse gas initiative rggi Americans for Prosperity Koch Network State Policy Network transportation and climate initiative

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Carbon Capture Will Require Large Public Subsidies to Support Coal and Gas Power

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 15, 2020

Read time: 9 mins In April, the Center for Global Energy Policy ( CGEP ) at Columbia University released a report concluding that, without major new subsidies from the American public, technologies for capturing heat-trapping carbon dioxide from coal and natural gas-fired power plants will remain uneconomical.

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Electric Utilities Are Slow to Address the Climate Crisis, Reports Indicate

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Tags: electric utilities Energy and Policy Institute Sabin Center for Climate Change Law environmental defense fund Duke Energy American Electric Power Southern Company

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European Thinktanks Repeating ‘Well-worn’ US Climate Denial Tropes

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Tags: global warming policy foundation institute of economic affairs Centre for Policy Studies Europäisches Institut für Klima und Energie Instituto Juan de Mariana Austrian Economics Centre

Global warming

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Historic Supreme Court Verdict Means Ireland's Government Must Increase Climate Ambition

DeSmogBlog

JULY 31, 2020

Read time: 4 mins The Supreme Court of Ireland has ruled in favour of an environmental group challenging the Irish government’s climate plans, finding its policies did not meet legal requirements for detailing how the country will meet emissions-reduction targets.

Government

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Former Inslee Staffers Urge Biden and House Dems to Embrace $1.2 Trillion Green Stimulus as Part of COVID-19 Recovery

DeSmogBlog

MAY 16, 2020

Jay Inslee's widely-praised climate policy during his 2020 presidential run are now calling on congressional Democrats to adopt the bold initiatives included in the plan to make a shift to a renewable energy economy within coronavirus relief legislation. Tags: Jay Inslee COVID-19 joe biden stimulus Evergreen Action

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FirstEnergy Scandal is Latest Example of Utility Corruption, Deceit

DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2020

Read time: 13 mins By Matt Kasper , originally published at Energy and Policy Institute. Tags: electric utilities FirstEnergy Southern Company Entergy Corp exelon in exchange for passing a law that bailed out that company’s nuclear and coal plants. .

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These Climate Science Deniers are Spreading Misinformation about the Australian Bushfires

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 9, 2020

Read time: 6 mins Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has doubled down on his refusal to strengthen his administration’s approach to climate policy as his country burns. Tags: infowars Newswars alex jones myron ebell patrick michaels Tony Abbott global warming policy foundation christopher monckton rupert murdoch

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In Senate Hearing, Economic Experts Warn Climate Crisis Could Spur Financial Crash Like 2008

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 12, 2020

With markets currently in turmoil due to the coronavirus pandemic, experts testified Thursday that there is high risk for an even larger economic crisis absent urgent climate policy. Tags: financial impacts of climate change Senator Sheldon Whitehouse green swan events subprime mortgage scandal

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In Break With Trump's EPA, Nevada Announces Plan to Cut Tailpipe Emissions

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 23, 2020

Read time: 4 mins Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak announced on Monday, June 22, that Nevada would be developing a policy to increase the number of zero and low-emission vehicles sold within the state. Tags: clean car standards Clean Cars Nevada Nevada zero emission vehicles Trump Administration

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Big Oil Fears Keystone XL Ruling Means End of Easy Pipeline Permits

DeSmogBlog

MAY 3, 2020

Seemingly just a ruling on Keystone XL — the subject of opposition by the climate movement for the past decade — the ruling could have far broader implications for the future of building water-crossing pipelines and utility lines.

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State Backers of Anti-Protest Bills Received Campaign Funding from Oil and Gas Industry, Report Finds

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Read time: 9 mins Politicians responsible for drafting laws criminalizing pipeline protests in Louisiana, West Virginia, and Minnesota did so after receiving significant funding from the fossil fuel industry, according to a new report by the Institute for Policy Studies , a progressive think tank based in Washington, D.C.

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Hoboken, New Jersey Sues Oil Industry for Climate Impacts From its 'Deceptive Actions'

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Like other climate liability lawsuits targeting fossil fuel companies, Hoboken's suit alleges that the oil and gas companies and their lobbying group not only knew early on about the climate harms resulting from their products, but actively engaged in campaigns of deception to undermine climate science and avoid policy responses.

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Replacing Coal with Renewables Could Save Energy Customers $8 Billion a Year, Financial Analysts Find

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 14, 2020

Read time: 6 mins By Joe Smyth, Energy and Policy Institute. This was originally posted on the Energy and Policy Institute. Replacing coal with cheaper renewable energy could save electricity customers as much as $8 billion each year, according to Morgan Stanley: Tags: Moody's Morgan Stanley america coal cost of renewable energy

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Transportation Fairness Alliance Revealed: Behind the Oil Industry's Latest Attack on Electric Cars

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 18, 2020

Like other petroleum interest front groups that have campaigned against clean transportation measures, this new coalition appears poised to counter policies designed to accelerate the transition away from petroleum-powered transportation.

Transportation

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Oil Industry and Allies Look to Pump Brakes on Democrats’ Plans to Move Transportation Off Petroleum

DeSmogBlog

JULY 2, 2020

House of Representatives put forward policies, including passing a $1.5 Tags: house democrats climate action plan Transportation electric vehicles zero-emission vehicles American Energy Alliance transportation fairness alliance American Petroleum Institute Read time: 8 mins This week Congressional Democrats in the U.S.

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New Emails Show Trump Admin Exploited Wildfires to Help Logging Industry

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 27, 2020

Earlier this month we discussed how during Australia’s devastating fires, conservatives tried to claim that it was green party forest management policies that were to blame. Tags: Ryan Zinke Trump Administration wildfires climate change Read time: 4 mins This is a guest post by ClimateDenierRoundup. That is, of course, wrong.

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Fossil Fuel Interests Applaud Trump Admin's Weakening of Major Environmental Law

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 10, 2020

Read time: 7 mins Industry groups including oil and gas trade associations were quick to pile on the praise following President Trump’s announcement Thursday, January 9 of major overhauls to the National Environmental Policy Act ( NEPA ).

Fossil fuels

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Newly Revealed Emails Highlight Coziness and Favors Between Local Officials, Jordan Cove LNG Backers

DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The emails , obtained via an open records request by the Energy and Policy Institute and shared with DeSmog, appear to show contacts between Pembina officials and Coos County commissioners — communications that were not disclosed during public hearings.

Ethics

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Longtime Climate Science Foe David Schnare Uses "Scare Tactics" to Bash Transportation Climate Initiative for Koch-Tied Think Tank

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 3, 2020

Tags: transportation climate initiative tci David Schnare Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy texas public policy foundation

Transportation

Transportation Policy

After Calling for Climate Action, US Chamber of Commerce Pushes Pro-Fossil Fuel Agenda

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Chamber of Commerce over its lobbying on climate change issues published a report today criticizing the pro-business lobbying and advocacy group for continuing to push for pro-fossil fuel policies despite recognizing that climate change is real. Tags: chamber of commerce Dan Brouillette James Danly Cory Gardner Paris Agreement

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COVID-19 'Liberate' Groups Are the Same Ones Pushing Climate Denial

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 20, 2020

The well-funded machinery that sowed doubt about climate is now sowing seeds of doubt over the economic and public health response to COVID -19. .

Earth Day

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

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2020

Read time: 6 mins By Dave Anderson , Energy and Policy Institute. Originally posted on Energy and Policy Institute. Tags: coronavirus COVID-19 us chamber of commerce american coalition for clean coal electricity (ACCCE) national mining association Major electric utilities and fossil fuel producers that are members of the U.S.

Law

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Trump’s Golden Era of Energy Is Turning to Lead

DeSmogBlog

JULY 25, 2020

Read time: 9 mins It was just over a year ago that President Trump announced , “The golden era of American energy is now underway,” saying that his policies focused on exploiting oil, gas, and coal were “unleashing energy dominance.” . Tags: fracking LNG coal Donald Trump Harold Hamm What a difference a year makes. oil and gas?

Fossil fuels

Fossil fuels Energy Energy Policy

COP25: Climate Science Deniers Attend on Behalf of Trump-Affiliated Lobby Group

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Organisations accredited to attend on behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which has received significant funding from oil giant ExxonMobil and the Koch family , include the UK ’s Centre for Policy Studies , the Chicago-based Heartland Institute and the European Institute for Climate and Energy.

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Utilities Don’t Want Peabody Energy’s 'Clean Coal' Awards Anymore

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Read time: 4 mins By Joe Smyth , Energy and Policy Institute. This was originally posted on the Energy and Policy Institute. Tags: clean coal Peabody Energy electric utilities Kemper In the latest sign of the U.S. In the latest sign of the U.S.

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Bernie Sanders' Plan to Phase out Nuclear Power Draws Attacks — Here's Why They're Wrong

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 30, 2019

Tags: nuclear energy Bernie Sanders action on climate change Michael Shellenberger Manhattan Institute Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy One line of attack, coming from many different sources, focuses on Sanders' plan to phase out nuclear power, but the arguments, and who is behind them, deserve a closer look.

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Membership Income Triples for UK’s Main Climate Science Denial Campaign Group

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 2, 2020

Read time: 3 mins In its latest end of year accounts, the Global Warming Policy Foundation ( GWPF ), the UK ’s most prominent climate science denial group, has reported that its total income has increased by around £75,000 over the last year – an increase of almost 20 percent.

Global warming

Global warming Policy

Delaware Just Sued 30 Fossil Fuel Companies and the American Petroleum Institute Over Climate 'Denial and Disinformation'

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Tags: climate lawsuits Delaware American Petroleum Institute Manufacturers Accountability Project Vice President Joe Biden ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) bp america (nyse: BP) Chevron (NYSE: CVX) Like other U.S.

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Your customers say there is a climate emergency and want you to act

GreenBiz

MARCH 23, 2021

The UNDP study seeks public opinion on climate change and policy solutions. The study asked about specific potential government policies, not about what individuals do in their day-to-day lives. The Care Tag saved unimaginable amounts of energy to heat water. It’s how customers use the product that matters.

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Duke Energy Lays Out Its Long-Term Clean Energy Pathways — and Price Tags

Koch Industries Ramps Up Lobbying Against Clean Car Policies

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Net zero legal threats, cheaper heat pumps, and PM defends green policy rollback: BusinessGreen's most read stories of the week

SoCalGas, Nation’s Largest Gas Utility, Sues California Over Climate Policy for not 'Maximizing the Benefits' of Gas

Leader of Gas Industry Front Group Used Public Health Threat to Cancel Climate Policy Vote in California

‘Energy Policy Advocates’ and the Fossil Fuel Boosters Attacking Legal Efforts to Hold Climate Polluters Accountable

Photos of the Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley in 2020

Peers sought to build urban resilience platform

Record Amounts Of Clean Energy Installed As Costs Continue To Fall

Koch Academic Influence Returns to Massachusetts With New Tufts University Think Tank

Groups Funded by Oil Industry Bash Plan to Reduce Northeast's Dependence on Oil

'Net zero is a no regret policy': How climate action could boost UK GDP by 9.1 per cent

Analysis: Fossil Fuel Tax Programs to Cut Emissions Lead to Lots of Industry Profit, Little Climate Action

Climate Deniers Are Claiming EVs Are Bad for the Environment — Again. Here’s Why They’re Wrong.

Fossil Fuel Industry and Koch Network Fighting Pennsylvania's Move to Join Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

Carbon Capture Will Require Large Public Subsidies to Support Coal and Gas Power

Electric Utilities Are Slow to Address the Climate Crisis, Reports Indicate

European Thinktanks Repeating ‘Well-worn’ US Climate Denial Tropes

Historic Supreme Court Verdict Means Ireland's Government Must Increase Climate Ambition

Former Inslee Staffers Urge Biden and House Dems to Embrace $1.2 Trillion Green Stimulus as Part of COVID-19 Recovery

FirstEnergy Scandal is Latest Example of Utility Corruption, Deceit

These Climate Science Deniers are Spreading Misinformation about the Australian Bushfires

In Senate Hearing, Economic Experts Warn Climate Crisis Could Spur Financial Crash Like 2008

In Break With Trump's EPA, Nevada Announces Plan to Cut Tailpipe Emissions

Big Oil Fears Keystone XL Ruling Means End of Easy Pipeline Permits

State Backers of Anti-Protest Bills Received Campaign Funding from Oil and Gas Industry, Report Finds

Hoboken, New Jersey Sues Oil Industry for Climate Impacts From its 'Deceptive Actions'

Replacing Coal with Renewables Could Save Energy Customers $8 Billion a Year, Financial Analysts Find

Transportation Fairness Alliance Revealed: Behind the Oil Industry's Latest Attack on Electric Cars

Oil Industry and Allies Look to Pump Brakes on Democrats’ Plans to Move Transportation Off Petroleum

New Emails Show Trump Admin Exploited Wildfires to Help Logging Industry

Fossil Fuel Interests Applaud Trump Admin's Weakening of Major Environmental Law

Newly Revealed Emails Highlight Coziness and Favors Between Local Officials, Jordan Cove LNG Backers

Longtime Climate Science Foe David Schnare Uses "Scare Tactics" to Bash Transportation Climate Initiative for Koch-Tied Think Tank

After Calling for Climate Action, US Chamber of Commerce Pushes Pro-Fossil Fuel Agenda

COVID-19 'Liberate' Groups Are the Same Ones Pushing Climate Denial

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

Trump’s Golden Era of Energy Is Turning to Lead

COP25: Climate Science Deniers Attend on Behalf of Trump-Affiliated Lobby Group

Utilities Don’t Want Peabody Energy’s 'Clean Coal' Awards Anymore

Bernie Sanders' Plan to Phase out Nuclear Power Draws Attacks — Here's Why They're Wrong

Membership Income Triples for UK’s Main Climate Science Denial Campaign Group

Delaware Just Sued 30 Fossil Fuel Companies and the American Petroleum Institute Over Climate 'Denial and Disinformation'

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