DeSmogBlog

MARCH 29, 2021

Read time: 10 mins In December, The New York Times published a story revealing how ExxonMobil and other oil companies had paid a public relations firm named FTI to build “news” and information websites falsely suggesting grassroots support for the fossil fuel industry and its initiatives.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 24, 2020

On a busy corner in Vista Hermosa, a neighborhood just west of downtown Los Angeles, early signs of construction have begun on a 7-story, 64-unit apartment building called Firmin Court. Tags: Los Angeles Los Angeles City Oil Field affordable housing orphan wells

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

  That said, the production of green H2 using electrolyzers does require rare metals such as platinum and iridium that come with a high price tag.  Much of the high cost associated with those units is in the manufacturing of the hydrogen fuel cells themselves, not in the materials required to produce them. 

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Read time: 11 mins In 2005, Deb Evans and her husband Ron Schaaf bought a piece of property in Klamath County, Oregon, where they hoped to build a house and selectively harvest timber on the land. Tags: Jordan Cove LNG Pacific Connector Pipeline Pembina eminent domain niskanen center They saw it as a long-term investment.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

As the economy and agriculture begin to build back with the gradual easing of the COVID -19 restrictions, we need to support a recovery for farmers that puts the fight against climate change and biodiversity loss at its core.”.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Read time: 9 mins Nearly a year ago, the city of Palo Alto — home to Stanford University and the unofficial capital of Silicon Valley — joined a handful of other California cities in enacting an all-electric building mandate.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2021

Read time: 11 mins In 2014, a company named Northwest Innovation Works ( NWIW ) proposed building a multi-billion-dollar petrochemical project in Kalama, Washington, a port town roughly 40 miles north of Portland, Oregon. Tags: Kalama washington state Jay Inslee petrochemical development

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

“It is not lost on us that Allegheny Health Network is building a cancer institute directly above the cracker plant at the Beaver County Mall,” Matt Mehalik, executive director of the advocacy group Breathe Project, said at a November 6 public meeting about the Shell plastics plant, also known as an “ethane cracker.”

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

A video of the fire captured by local news station WTRF shows a raging nighttime inferno billowing out of the collapsed building. Tags: Petta Enterprises West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection oil and gas waste radioactive fracking waste

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 10, 2020

Tags: SoCalGas gas utility California Energy Commission building electrification Californians for Balanced Energy Solutions

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Charged

JULY 23, 2021

In March, Electrek reported that Tesla was building a production line at a new building near Gigafactory Nevada, which was expected to be producing five Tesla Semis per week by the end of this year. Later the production date was pushed back to 2020, then to 2021. Now it finally appears that things are starting to happen.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 3, 2021

The larger commercial vehicles — such as Class 8 trucks — are more difficult to electrify due to a lack of models from manufacturers and a higher price tag than their diesel equivalent. FedEx is working with Red Rock Biofuels, which is building a facility in Oregon. But the company is piloting ways to move these vehicles, too.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

There were no former Tesla executives and no deep-pocketed Chinese investors, and the strategy was not to build a luxury sedan, but rather a rough-and-ready electric work truck. Bollinger says it will work with an unnamed manufacturing partner to build the DELIVER-E vans and trucks in the US. Production is scheduled to begin in 2022.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The Secret Service apparently didn’t get the electric memo—its agents tagged along in the obligatory huge black gas-guzzling SUVs.) The private sector has stepped up” to build out public charging sites, Granholm told NPR, adding that the response to federal incentives has been “a blockbuster.” Source: NPR

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Read time: 5 mins Chinese giant Wanhua Chemical officially withdrew its plans to build a $1.25 Tags: cancer alley petrochemical development Wanhua Chemical billion plastics manufacturing complex in St. James, Louisiana, in the heart of the already industrialized Cancer Alley. The news bought relief to opponents of the plant. . “

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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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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 8, 2020

These indirect expenses accounted for 72 percent of the increase seen in reactor construction costs between 1976 and 1987, a period in which the amount of money needed for containment buildings rose by almost 118 percent. Containment building costs more than doubled from 1976 to 2017, for example. In the U.K.,

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Read time: 8 mins Dark Waters , the new film starring Mark Ruffalo as attorney Rob Bilott, is set in the Ohio River Valley city of Parkersburg, West Virginia — a place about 150 miles downstream from where Shell is currently building a sprawling plastics manufacturing plant, known as an “ethane cracker,” in Beaver, Pennsylvania.

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Charged

JANUARY 4, 2023

The R30, which is expected to carry a price tag around $300,000, is very much a luxury boat, but it sounds like more mass-market models are planned for the future. “To To really impact the environment, you can’t build electric boats by the dozens,” he told Electrek. “It It has to be by the thousands.”.

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GreenTech Gazette

JANUARY 1, 2024

Design and Build Quality: The Model J is a real looker. The build quality is top-notch, with a sturdy steel frame, high-quality welds, and a well-thought-out parts selection. But beyond the cool looks, does the Model J deliver a smooth ride and a satisfying experience? Let’s dive in.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

The TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team recently unveiled its Gen2 99X Electric racer. We focused on building a highly effective powertrain with the highest level of efficiency.”. However, the big news is that Porsche will be fielding an electric racing team.

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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. Dominion knows how to build lots of things, but offshore wind is a new chapter. "I A tiny project in a market obsessed with scale. offshore wind market.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Read time: 7 mins A plan to build a natural gas–fueled petrochemical plant in Kalama, Washington, ran into a new legal hurdle last week, as a coalition of environmental groups raised new objections to its construction. Tags: washington state methanol petrochemical development U.S. Department of Energy Fossil Fuel Subsidies

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 28, 2019

The 16-year-old has become the face of youth climate action, going from a lone child sitting outside the Swedish parliament building in mid-2018 to a symbol for climate strikers — young and old — around the world. Tags: Greta Thunberg climate youth Their actions or inactions will determine how much more vocal youth will become in 2020.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

While nature doesn’t come with a clearly labeled price tag, sustainability innovation understands that there is great economic value in preserving ecosystems, natural resources, biodiversity, and cultures and communities around the world. Container Builds. Container Builds, Inc. Ginkgo Sustainability Inc.

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Better Ventures

JANUARY 29, 2024

Who : Sarah Pinner, CEO; Celine Lightfoot, CTO; and Kate Sanner, CMO Location : San Francisco, CA, Santa Barbara, CA, and Chicago, IL, respectively Company : Beni Stage : Seed One-liner : The secondhand search engine that tags along while you shop online Introduce yourselves! What’s your biggest piece of advice for other founders?

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 16, 2019

Walking into the company's office building involved passing through security checkpoints, Leonard explains, so numerous that one investigator later told Leonard that it “reminded him of traveling to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.”. Tags: koch industries Charles Koch David Koch Jane Mayer Christopher Leonard

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Tags: British Columbia Coastal GasLink indigenous communities Wet'suwet'en RCMP

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2022

A government grant scheme offering businesses thousands of pounds off the price tag of electric vans and trucks has been extended by a further two years, in a move Ministers expect to support the purchase of tens of thousands of greener vehicles.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 2, 2019

James, is one of the plaintiffs appealing the parish council’s permit granted May 20 to Wanhua Chemical, which is planning to build a $1.25 Tags: cancer alley Louisiana Pastor Harry Joseph St. billion plastics factory on the banks of the Mississippi River.

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GreenBiz

MAY 3, 2021

This system was used during Earth Month to help manage the company’s "30 Acts for 30 Days" campaign, which challenged employees to complete individual actions aimed at building environmental awareness such as upcycling personal items, measuring their tire pressure or setting up a composting system.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 6, 2024

But – and it’s a big ‘but’ – Colle highlighted that according to EY data of predicted battery electric vehicle sales between now and 2030, only 17% will come with a under-30,000-euros price tag, which is classed as the so-called ‘economy’ vehicles. We have to build gigafactories. And that electricity needs to be ‘green’, he stressed.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Rather than developing the project and competing for an offtake deal, like most developers must, Dominion will instead be looking to build the project for its own generation needs. As part of that executive order, Northam specifically called for the “full development” of Dominion’s offshore wind zone by 2026.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 18, 2020

Ulta, like Sephora, is planning a Made Without list that will tag products free of parabens, phthalates and 25 other chemical categories. We’re going to really leverage the relationships and the influence that we have in the industry to help drive change as [Loop is] building their packaging and their supply chains," Kimball said.

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Business Green

MAY 26, 2022

Building decarbonisation is critical to delivering a net zero Britain, but neither the Treasury nor Scottish government have set out a vision for how a mass green homes retrofit programme could be funded, writes Glasgow Caledonian University’s Keith Baker. Things aren't looking any better in Scotland.

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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. The budget for road building is £34bn so spending more to make the climate emergency worse is better than spending less to reduce carbon.". Not a surprise," he wrote on Twitter.

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Terra Infirma

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

As the name suggests, an EV battery gigafactory is truly colossal with a price tag to match – we’re talking billions rather than millions. The business plan seemed to be “Demand for EV batteries will soon be huge, so we will build a huge factory to make them. Give us money, lots of it.”

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