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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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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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.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 24, 2020

But major labor unions and President Barack Obama’s Energy Secretary have far different plans. On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, the AFL - CIO and the Energy Futures Initiative ( EFI ) — a nonprofit founded and run by former Obama Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz — launched the Labor Energy Partnership.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 13, 2020

The rail blockades targeted an entirely separate fossil fuel project — TC Energy’s Coastal GasLink pipeline, which would cross unceded Wet’suwet’en territory. The rail blockades targeted an entirely separate fossil fuel project — TC Energy’s Coastal GasLink pipeline, which would cross unceded Wet’suwet’en territory.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 19, 2019

Tags: kochdocs kochvsclean Charles Koch Richard Fink institute for energy research koch industries americans for prosperity (AFP)

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 30, 2020

Read time: 11 mins While fossil fuel companies defend against mounting climate liability lawsuits in court, their surrogates are working in parallel to target the attorneys, academics, and institutions supporting these lawsuits. Tags: ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) chris horner Energy Policy Advocates climate liability

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 8, 2020

A Massachusetts Institute of Technology team has shed light on a key challenge for the nuclear industry: the rising cost of new plants. where developers are expected to meet significantly lower strike prices for energy from additional reactors. Containment building costs more than doubled from 1976 to 2017, for example.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 10, 2020

At a House committee hearing on fossil fuel deception last year, Congressional reps from oil and gas states repeated a long-used talking point: A clean energy transition is just a big f**k-you to poor people. By Amy Westervelt. This story originally appeared in the Hot Take newsletter.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 11, 2024

The Stream service, which has emerged from a Northumbrian Water initiated project in partnership with the majority of Britain’s other water suppliers and other organisations including the Open Data Institute, is aimed to unlock the potential of open data and stimulate innovation and collaboration in the sector. Have you read?

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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. Canada’s grid is already 84% emissions free, but as the energy transition progresses, more homes, vehicles, and industries will be plugging into the grid.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The case charges BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, ConocoPhillips, and the American Petroleum Institute with conspiring together and through front groups to run “tobacco-industry-style campaigns to deceive and mislead the public about the damaging nature of their fossil fuel products.”

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 5, 2021

LED lights are by far the most efficient type of lighting on the market, using 75% less energy and lasting 25 times longer than incandescent bulbs. The Benefits of Sustainable Business Practices. A green wave is currently surging through the business world in full force, and it’s not expected to let up anytime soon. Eliminate Paper Use.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Jacko’s comments — initially made during a panel discussion at the conference and then confirmed in a separate interview — contrasted sharply with the otherwise enthusiastic tone set by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, energy minister Brian Jean, and environment minister Rebecca Schulz, who all spoke at the event.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

Major new report from Energy Transition Commission concludes bridging the net zero investment gap is a 'manageable macroeconomic challenge' How much will it cost to build a net zero emission economy? It may or may not be possible to deliver on net zero targets, they argue, but how much will it all cost? warming pathway by 2030.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2022

As interest and scrutiny involving the use of carbon credits toward net zero goals intensifies, resources from Shopify, Frontier Climate, and Ecosystem Marketplace have some answers for corporate buyers. But pioneering companies and organisations are working to standardise, educate, and define these markets for the future. 6-7, online.].

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Mosaic

MAY 18, 2021

How contractors can position financing to meet client demands for more energy-efficient upgrades. The truth is that the best, energy-efficient options tend to cost more. This approach is invaluable when guiding your clients to energy-efficient home improvements—and how to afford them with home improvement financing options.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 10, 2021

The UK government has defended its decision to celebrate representatives of companies involved in Canada’s controversial tar sands industry as “Climate Champions”, ahead of the COP26 UN climate summit it is set to host later this year.

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Bidgely

JANUARY 5, 2022

With billions of dollars on the way from the federal government to deploy the infrastructure needed to fast track transportation electrification, energy businesses need proven accurate, credible data to drive their EV charging investments. In December 2021, the Edison Electric Institute announced that 50 U.S. And for how long?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

But many green solutions and technologies remain out of reach from smaller firms, especially at a time when the rising cost of goods, rent, energy, and staffing threaten to a significant bite out of smaller businesses' revenues and profits. A net zero emission economy cannot be built without them. Such investments need not break the bank.

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2022

The government's repeated failure to promote energy saving, enhance energy efficiency, and deliver more domestic energy generation is condemning the UK to an era of rolling crises. Be in no doubt, one man bears primary responsibility for the energy crisis gripping the UK and the rest of Europe.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Sharing the findings on Twitter , BNEF's head of sustainable materials Julia Attwood described the estimated $278bn price tag for decarbonising a sector responsible for some seven per cent of global emissions was a "bargain". BNEF calculates that 25 per cent of steel is currently made in electric furnaces, with five per cent using DRI.

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Business Green

AUGUST 25, 2021

The CEO of Solar Energy UK sits down with BusinessGreen to discuss the critical role the solar sector must play in the next chapter of the UK's net zero transition. 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.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 5, 2024

But let’s chit-chat about something that often tags along with investing: dividends. But let’s chit-chat about something that often tags along with investing: dividends. We’re talking renewable energy, recycling, and all that good eco-friendly stuff. Who wouldn’t enjoy a little extra money, right?

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 17, 2022

Canadian police and security forces have intensified their surveillance and harassment of Indigenous people in recent months in an effort to clear the way for the construction of two long-distance oil and gas pipelines in British Columbia, earning the condemnation of international human rights observers.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 12, 2022

But building out LNG infrastructure to address an energy crisis is at odds with governments simultaneously trying to slash emissions to address the climate emergency. But building out LNG infrastructure to address an energy crisis is at odds with governments simultaneously trying to slash emissions to address the climate emergency.

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Climate 4.0

APRIL 1, 2021

The world's citizens face a seemingly contradictory challenge: how to lighten our heavy carbon footprint while at the same time lifting the economies of the world's developing nations. By Roger Strukhoff The first part of the challenge seems existential.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2021

The Office for Budgetary Responsibility has offered some of the most detailed estimates to date on the costs and savings that would result from decarbonising the UK economy by 2050. Just how much it will cost the UK to reach net zero emissions by 2050 is the trillion-pound question at the epicentre of climate discourse at present.

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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. We all know how to budget with money," Charter explained. "So,

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Liz Truss is planning a major overhaul of the UK energy market alongside support for homes and businesses facing soaring bills this winter - here is all the top reaction frombusiness figures, politicians, campaigners and experts. Beyond the headline support package, major energy market changes are being planned too.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Carbon accounting – also known as a carbon or greenhouse gas inventory – is the process of measuring the amount of carbon dioxide, or other greenhouse gases (GHG), an organization emits. The aim is to help the entity understand its climatic impact. Carbon accounting is a must for any becoming business today.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

An EU project is attempting to lead the European electronics industry towards more sustainable materials, design, manufacturing methods, and improved circularity and energy efficiency, writes Finnish research group VTT. The 3-year project comprises nine pilots with the aim of redesigning existing devices or creating entirely new ones.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

After several delays spanning at least a year, the government has finally unveiled vision for a future net zero energy system - here are the eight things you need to know about the long-awaited Energy White Paper. To describe autumn 2020 as a busy period for green economy policy in the UK would be an understatement.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2022

Often blended with other fabrics, such as cotton, and typically accompanied with fixtures such as buttons, zippers and tags, polyester can be found in all types of apparel, sportswear and footwear. Which, incidentally, is a lot of stuff. The company expects the facility, which will recycle local plastic waste, to begin operations in 2025.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

It would require roughly 2GW of energy to replace this fully with green hydrogen, which is half the proposed IJmuiden Ver windfarm. It would require roughly 2GW of energy to replace this fully with green hydrogen, which is half the proposed IJmuiden Ver windfarm. Waterstof - Hydrogen in Rotterdam.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

Transforming this fossil feedstock and the industry behind it requires an immense amount of green hydrogen, in the very least 2GW of renewable energy coming from a windfarm like IJmuiden Ver. It would require roughly 2GW of energy to replace this fully with green hydrogen, which is half the proposed IJmuiden Ver windfarm.

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Green Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Andra Yeghoian is the Environmental Literacy Coordinator at the San Mateo County Office of Education. She provides leadership in implementing a broad Environmental Literacy Initiative across San Mateo County. Andra has over 15 years of experience in education across public and private school systems, nationally and internationally. She holds a B.A.

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