DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Read time: 7 mins Delaware, the home state of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, announced on Thursday , September 10 that it is taking dozens of major oil and gas companies including BP , Chevron, and ExxonMobil to court over the rising costs of climate impacts such as sea level rise and coastal flooding. Like other U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2019

Read time: 3 mins By Kelly Roache, crossposted with permission from Energy and Policy Institute. Both US Attorney General William Barr and the state Attorneys General have close financial ties to the utility – including through a GOP group that funneled millions to one key proponent. Tags: Dominion William Barr

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 24, 2020

government may be harming the nation’s youth through its fossil fuel-based energy policy, but that courts cannot stop that harm. United States. United States youth climate activism climate liability Trump Administration robert brulle fossil fuel lobby Tags: Juliana v.

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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. .

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

Koch money funds individual courses, professorships, fellowships, and even energy research and policy programs, like the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and the Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 7, 2021

While 17 states and territories have adopted clean electricity standards in an effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions, inadequate energy efficiency standards could lead to higher costs and produce less-equitable outcomes, according to a new report. Follow @EngelsAngle. trillion budget bill to be cut in half.

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Charged

JUNE 30, 2023

Utility Dive reports that the CPUC’s preliminary research indicates that upgrading the grid across the territories of the state’s three investor-owned utilities could cost between $15 billion and $20 billion by 2035. The Public Advocates Office plans to complete its study by August.

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Front And Centered

MARCH 30, 2023

Front and Centered has so many insightful, powerful, and brilliant women in our coalition, and we’re so grateful to learn about and share with you the experience and expertise that shapes our coalition, state, and global community. Take action to cut US military funding to the Philippines and defend land defenders from state repression.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Duke’s 2020 integrated resource plan (IRP), filed Tuesday with state regulators, lays out six scenarios for reaching its challenging goals of halving its emissions by 2030 and hitting net-zero carbon by 2050. Duke operates utilities in six states and is one of the country’s largest independent renewable energy developers.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Even before the western United States became a regional inferno, even before the Midwest U.S. Even before the western United States became a regional inferno, even before the Midwest U.S. Even before all that, we’d been watching the real-world risks of climate change looming and growing across the United States and around the world.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

to the growing list of state and local governments pushing for oil and gas majors to be held accountable in court. Chicago is suing as similar cases across the country move toward trial in state court. Many victims of that heat wave were elderly, low-income, and Black, residing in apartments without air conditioning.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Read time: 6 mins As California continues to battle the Trump administration over the state’s authority to set stricter greenhouse gas emissions standards for vehicles, a coalition of East Coast states is facing a potential battle of its own, with opposition emerging to the states’ plan to tackle transportation emissions. .

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Front And Centered

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In spring of 2021, Front and Centered worked with Statewide Poverty Action Network and the People’s Economy Lab to create the Just Futures project with the aim of creating a community vision, measures, and strategies for state accountability in the economic recovery from COVID-19. Phase One: A Statewide Collaboration.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 24, 2020

One of those state boards is the Railroad Commission of Texas, a little-known agency that oversees oil and gas activities across the state. Tags: Ryan Sitton Texas Railroad Commission oil and gas industry texas COVID-19 coronavirus The hypothetical nation described here is in fact Texas.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

But the text was criticised by small island states, campaigners and scientists for failing to call for a rapid phase out of oil, gas and coal and being “full of loopholes”. There’s a huge leap between influencers being sent a free dress from a fast fashion company, and being paid to say ‘this nation-state is good’.” Credit: Instagram.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 18, 2020

Sephora reported that 94 percent of its products contain no high-priority chemicals laid out by its chemical policy , and 13 percent more products on its shelves release ingredient information compared to last year. And with 1,264 retail stores across 50 states , Ulta is a large contributor to this issue.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Dominion Energy, Virginia’s dominant utility, is racing to get ahead of the expanding clean-energy ambitions of state Democratic legislators. gigawatt offshore wind project as a way to bring the country’s first major offshore wind factory to the state. Pressure from the legislature.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 6, 2020

Local solar installation companies have faced a number of challenges in recent years, from the decline of state net metering policies to the Trump administration's import tariffs. Analysts say concerns about energy resilience are encouraging the pairing of solar panels and home batteries in other Southeastern states.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 1, 2020

Large environmental nonprofits can play a key role in shaping policy and regulation around cleantech. “A lot of my time is spent on outreach to federal and state government, going to public meetings, and sitting down with high level government officials and advocating for where NRDC wants them to go,” said Kennedy.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 18, 2019

2019 has seen a steady evolution of policy, regulation and business model innovation at the grid edge. The requested data includes information on coordination with state and local entities for interconnection. In the last few months, WoodMac has observed a number of policy and regulatory developments across U.S. Resiliency.

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Front And Centered

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Eighty-nine groups in our state agree: lawmakers should pass Senate Bill (SB) 5489, the HEAL Act. If Washington wants to stand as a national leader on environmental policy and climate action, its lawmakers must do better to protect all of its people and the health conditions of where we live and work. Join us by endorsing today!

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

During the same year that Last Generation was blocking roads in Germany, farmers used the exact same tactic , blocking roads with their tractors to protest a renewable energy policy that they don’t feel provides enough incentives for biogas. Not a single farmer was punched in the face or dragged off the road by their hair.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 1, 2021

trillion price tag. When you add Administrative actions being planned by the Biden Administration and many states - like New York, California, and Hawaii - we will hit our 50 percent target by 2030,” Schumer said in the letter, according to The Hill. trillion budget reconciliation package -- less than half of the original proposal.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Making solar panel recycling more commonplace will require a mix of technological advances, economic incentives and smart policies at the state and federal levels. Making solar panel recycling more commonplace will require a mix of technological advances, economic incentives and smart policies at the state and federal levels.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 18, 2023

There is wide recognition that this will take monumental effort in terms of technology advancement, financing, and policy. This is inherently wasteful and it comes with a price tag of emissions. In the state of Nevada in the USA, we have solar plants beside our geothermal plants.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Tuesday’s requests for proposals from East Bay Community Energy (EBCE), Peninsula Clean Energy, Silicon Valley Clean Energy and municipal utility Silicon Valley Power are the latest step taken by state and local authorities to bolster solar-storage systems as a solution to the wildfire and power outage conundrum.

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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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Grist

JUNE 21, 2021

That didn’t raise eyebrows until years later, when state researchers looked at these numbers next to weather data. Detecting the fingerprints of climate change on local weather events is tricky, but dire climate predictions are motivating similar drinking water studies in other states that are getting wetter.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Last February, ExxonMobil announced it would further expand its only active carbon capture and storage (CCS) operation in the United States, located at a gas processing facility in LaBarge, Wyoming. Shute Creek is the world’s largest CCS project and has been operational for over 30 years. Internal documents from the U.S.

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Terra Infirma

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In 2010, the Secretary of State Eric Pickles claimed ‘It’s a basic right for every English man and woman to be able to put the remnants of their chicken tikka masala in their bin without having to wait a fortnight for it to be collected.’ The weekly bin collection policy was ditched by his Government the following year.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Indeed, bioenergy is causing the clearcutting of some of our planet’s most important forests, including never-been-touched forests in Canada, protected nature reserves in Estonia, and an internationally-designated biodiversity hotspot in the United States. They also sequester one-third of the earth’s anthropogenic emissions.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2020

But several major new reports in recent days have stressed that longer-term policy stability, incentive programmes, and reforms crafted and enacted by the UK government over the coming weeks and months could prove just as important - if not more important - to the country reaching its 2050 climate goal that the much-debated stimulus packages. "The

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

Moreover, this price tag is for capital investments, not costs. But the question of how to mobilise the frontloaded investment required to build a net zero emission economy remains, and it is here that the ETC insists bold government policy interventions are essential. by 2035 at the latest)," it states.

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Business Green

MAY 26, 2022

Research by Inside Housing has put a price tag of £104bn on decarbonising all the UK's homes, with an upper estimate of £250bn - equivalent to just under a quarter of the government's total projected spending for 2022-23. Backing down now would leave the net zero agenda dead in the water.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

It would have placed time limits on environmental reviews, shortened the window for legal challenges, curtailed the ability of states to use the Clean Water Act to reject projects, and created a list of vital energy projects in the national interest that would be prioritized. The original price tag was $3.7

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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 1, 2020

Green businesses contend the social media giant's policies are treating their adverts in the same way as campaigns from 'dark money' funded lobbyists, undermining the timeliness and effectiveness of their marketing messages in the process. Climate change is real," the company stated.

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