Vanguard takes a baby step on climate change — finally
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
The $7 trillion silent member of the Big Three tags coal as a concern years behind other investors.
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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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Politicians Try to Rally Support for Coal Despite Economics and Biden Presidential Win
DeSmogBlog
NOVEMBER 12, 2020
However, in the days since the results were announced November 7, two senators from both parties are finding common ground in a familiar space: opposition to the Green New Deal and support for a dying coal industry. Tags: coal Bankruptcy Peabody Joe Manchin mitt romney joe biden green new deal
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EU Plans to Measure True Climate Impacts of LNG Imports From US Fracked Gas
DeSmogBlog
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
Read time: 5 mins With growing evidence that the climate impacts of natural gas are comparable to coal, the European Commission is planning to study ways to reduce methane emissions across the life cycle of natural gas production and consumption, with potential implications for fracked gas producers in the U.S.
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Delayed Senate Energy Bill Promotes LNG Exports, 'Clean Coal' and Geoengineering
DeSmogBlog
MARCH 11, 2020
Read time: 7 mins The huge bipartisan energy bill currently stalled in the Senate would fast-track exports of fracked gas , offer over a billion dollars in subsidies to “clean coal” efforts and make available hundreds of millions in tax dollars for a geoengineering pilot project.
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Replacing Coal with Renewables Could Save Energy Customers $8 Billion a Year, Financial Analysts Find
DeSmogBlog
JANUARY 14, 2020
Analysts at Morgan Stanley and Moody’s Investors Service expect that more electric utilities will accelerate their transition away from coal, with major financial benefits for both ratepayers and shareholders. coal plants over the next decade.
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'The Fossil Fuel Industry Is Terrified': Gas Company Sues to Destroy Small Town's Rights of Nature Law
DeSmogBlog
DECEMBER 16, 2020
In a clear signal of how the fossil fuel industry feels about efforts to enact Rights of Nature protections that safeguard communities and the environment from the impacts of coal, gas, and oil development, an energy company has — yet again — filed a federal lawsuit challenging a local law in Grant Township, Pennsylvania.
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Exposed: West Virginia and Other States Relying on ‘House of Cards’ to Pay for Coal Mine Cleanup
DeSmogBlog
JUNE 25, 2020
Read time: 15 mins For more than a century-and-a-half, the forests, streams, and hollows of the Appalachian Mountains have been scraped and gashed to unearth their heart of rich black coal. Nothing really to cheer about in the coal industry these days.”. Hit with another wave of bankruptcies, King Coal is on its deathbed.
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FirstEnergy Scandal is Latest Example of Utility Corruption, Deceit
DeSmogBlog
JULY 26, 2020
in exchange for passing a law that bailed out that company’s nuclear and coal plants. . Tags: electric utilities FirstEnergy Southern Company Entergy Corp exelon
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With Coal’s Decline, Pennsylvania Communities Watch the Rise of Natural Gas-fueled Plastics
DeSmogBlog
NOVEMBER 22, 2019
Read time: 9 mins For Beaver County, just northwest of Pittsburgh, the construction of Royal Dutch Shell’s towering new plastics factory overshadows the closure of the Bruce Mansfield Power Plant, the state’s largest coal power station, located along the same stretch of Ohio River in western Pennsylvania. .
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Stanford Study Says Renewable Power Eliminates Argument for Using Carbon Capture with Fossil Fuels
DeSmogBlog
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
Replacing a coal plant with wind turbines, on the other hand, always decreases local air pollution and doesn't come with the associated cost of running a carbon capture system, says Jacobson. Tags: carbon capture ccs clean coal renewable energy Mark Jacobson
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Since Paris Agreement, Global Financial Firms Have Sunk $745 Billion into New Coal Plant Development
DeSmogBlog
DECEMBER 10, 2019
Read time: 3 mins BlackRock, Vanguard, Citigroup, and JPM organ Chase are among the top global financers of new coal development, according to new research presented during the United Nations climate summit in Madrid.
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As Fracking Companies Face Bankruptcy, US Regulators Enable Firms to Duck Cleanup Costs
DeSmogBlog
DECEMBER 20, 2019
Expect these companies to try reducing their debt through the process of bankruptcy and, like the coal industry , attempting to get out of environmental and employee-related financial obligations. . This trend of failing finances has the potential for the U.S.
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Cheap Renewables Could Make 90% of Proposed Gas Power Plants — and Many Pipelines — Obsolete by 2035
DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 13, 2019
Read time: 12 mins There’s one big reason that analysts say America’s electrical power should soon run on clean energy sources like wind and solar rather than fossil fuels like coal and natural gas: your power bill. Tags: Natural Gas Power Plants natural gas pipelines federal energy regulatory commission (FERC)
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Australian Teens Bring Class Action Climate Lawsuit to Stop Coal Mine Expansion
DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 11, 2020
Read time: 6 mins This week, a group of eight Australian teens has brought a groundbreaking new climate change lawsuit against Australia’s Federal Minister for the Environment in an effort to stop a proposed coal mine expansion in the state of New South Wales, roughly 267 miles north of Sydney.
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Utilities Don’t Want Peabody Energy’s 'Clean Coal' Awards Anymore
DeSmogBlog
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
coal industry’s declining ability to compete in the power sector, Peabody Energy is now struggling to find electric utility companies who are willing to accept a “clean coal” award that it presents annually. Tags: clean coal Peabody Energy electric utilities Kemper In the latest sign of the U.S.
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'Like Handing Out Blankets Affected With Smallpox': US Called to End Oil Exports to Thwart Climate Crisis
DeSmogBlog
JANUARY 28, 2020
crude oil export ban Congress lifted in 2015 would slash global carbon emissions by up to 181 million tons of CO2 -equivalent each year — a reduction comparable to shuttering dozens of coal-fired power plants. Tags: oil change international greenpeace crude oil export ban Crude Oil Exports
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New Paper Reveals Rail Industry Was Leader in Climate Denial Efforts
DeSmogBlog
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
Tags: Association of American Railroads climate denial In the paper, Networks of Opposition: A Structural Analysis of U.S. In conjunction with their allied trade associations, these coalitions have served as a central coordination mechanism in efforts opposed to mandatory limits on carbon emissions.”.
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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
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. Tags: coronavirus COVID-19 us chamber of commerce american coalition for clean coal electricity (ACCCE) national mining association
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North Dakota’s Carbon Capture Project Tundra Another “Expensive Greenwashing” Attempt to Bail Out Coal Power
DeSmogBlog
MARCH 21, 2020
So why is a proposal to retrofit an aging coal-powered plant in North Dakota with smokestack scrubbers receiving millions of federal taxpayer dollars? . Tags: Project Tundra carbon capture greenwashing Ask Senator John Hoeven (R- ND ), who has directed more than $30 million in Department of Energy funding to Project Tundra.
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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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Pennsylvania Communities Grow Wary of Worsening Air Pollution as Petrochemical Industry Arrives
DeSmogBlog
NOVEMBER 27, 2019
Read time: 9 mins While the Ohio River Valley, long home to the coal and steel industries, is no stranger to air pollution, the region’s natural gas boom and burgeoning petrochemical industry threaten to erase the gains of recent decades. There is a certain degree of sick irony about that.”.
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San Antonio's City-Owned Energy Utility Is Paying a Quarter Million Dollars a Year to Gas Industry Groups
DeSmogBlog
DECEMBER 17, 2020
But the key player in implementing the Alamo City’s energy transition — the local energy utility CPS Energy — remains committed to carbon-based fuels like coal and natural gas, even while it begins to invest more in renewable alternatives.
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How a Non-Proliferation Treaty Could Save Lamu’s World Heritage Site from the Destruction of Fossil Fuels
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 19, 2020
Tags: Save Lamu Centum Gulf Energy coal plant Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty UNESCO World Heritage Site Covering Climate Now Read time: 9 mins This story is a part of Covering Climate Now’s week of coverage focused on Climate Solutions, to mark the 50th anniversary of Earth Day.
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Climate Deniers on Front Line of Battle Over Pennsylvania Joining Cap-and-Trade Program to Slash Carbon Pollution
DeSmogBlog
AUGUST 26, 2020
Environmental advocates say Pennsylvania’s participation in RGGI would be a “game-changer,” but climate science deniers and other fossil fuel allies claim it would be too costly and kill jobs in a state where the coal and fracked gas industries have long dominated the energy landscape.
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Is Natural Gas the New Coal?
DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 27, 2019
We run the risk of being demonized like that other fossil fuel out there called coal.”. Tags: methane natural gas fracking finances UN Climate Summit ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) The industry really is at a critical juncture,” Coleman said. “We
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Labor Helps Obama Energy Secretary Push and Profit from 'Net Zero' Fossil Fuels
DeSmogBlog
MAY 24, 2020
Tags: Dentons EJM Associates AFL-CIO IBEW International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers U.S. Unlike those calling for a Green New Deal, though, this alliance supports increased fracking for oil and gas, as well as other controversial technologies that critics say prop up fossil fuels.
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Adani Beware: Coal Is on the Road to Becoming Completely Uninsurable
DeSmogBlog
AUGUST 13, 2019
Read time: 6 mins By John Quiggin , The University of Queensland The announcement by Suncorp that it will no longer insure new thermal coal projects, along with a similar announcement by QBE Insurance a few months earlier, brings Australia into line with Europe where most major insurers have broken with coal.
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After a Decade of Fracking, Billions of Dollars Lost and a Climate in Crisis
DeSmogBlog
JANUARY 21, 2020
where the climate benefits of coal power plant retirements were undermined by the rise of natural gas. Tags: fracking extreme weather fracking finances climate impacts natural gas drilling A University of Sydney professor estimated the number of animals killed likely tops one billion.
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137 Commercial trucking's future is in the details
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 8, 2020
It’s a great advertising tag line, but there are no free rides; someone always pays somewhere. The transition from coal steam trains to diesel electric ones in the 1940s and 1950s saw many fundamental shifts in infrastructure, with trains no longer needing water and coal refill stops. Free delivery."
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As Asian heatwaves require burning more fossil fuels, fears of a slower transition grow
Eco-Business
MAY 30, 2023
Gas and coal demand is up in South and Southeast Asia, as governments look to get people enough power for live-saving air-conditioning. Greener solutions come with steep price tags, and policy momentum is not guaranteed, experts say.
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'Titanic pivot from coal to hydrogen': Are steelmakers prepared for the rapid net zero transformation ahead?
Business Green
DECEMBER 6, 2021
BloombergNEF warns steelmakers to prepare for major green transformation, as cost of shifting from coal to hydrogen and scrap metal could be far cheaper than previously thought. BNEF calculates that 25 per cent of steel is currently made in electric furnaces, with five per cent using DRI.
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Op-ed: Geoengineering Distracts From Real Climate Solutions While Giving Cover to the Fossil Fuel Industry
DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 17, 2019
Tags: solar geoengineering geoengineering bill gates David Keith American Enterprise Institute ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) rex tillerson Covering Climate Now 2019 I'm talking about geoengineering, and specifically solar geoengineering , which seeks to lessen global warming's greenhouse effect by reflecting sunlight, and heat, back out to space.
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Instagram Influencers Paid to Boost UAE’s Climate Credentials Over COP28
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”. The posts shared the same hashtags and tagged the same official COP28 Instagram account.
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Snapshots of our World: Energy: Fossil Fuels + Iron Rivers + Current Mystery
Planet Pulse
JANUARY 11, 2024
All of yesterday’s growth and fun came with a steep price tag. SkySat • Jamnagar Refinery, Jamnagar, Gujarat, India • May 6, 2023 We’re grouping oil, gas, and coal together to keep things simple, but they’re not equal in terms of extraction methods or warming potential. But you can’t really blame them.
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Duke Energy Lays Out Its Long-Term Clean Energy Pathways — and Price Tags
GreenTechMedia
SEPTEMBER 2, 2020
Duke has already committed to doubling its 8 gigawatts of renewables by 2025 and to retiring its roughly 10,000 megawatts of coal generation by 2030. That’s how much additional capacity Duke expects to need in the next 15 years to make up for the retirement of its coal-fired power plant fleet and aging natural-gas plants.
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Ending toxic fossil fuel subsidies
Business Green
JUNE 10, 2021
In fact, the reverse is true, and often by a large margin: globally, government subsidies for fossil fuels are tagged at more than $440bn per year, according to IEA (International Energy Agency) estimates. According to initial G7 drafts, the aim is to eliminate subsidies on coal by the end of the year, then on oil and gas by 2030.
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Oil Market Collapse No Impact On Renewable Outlook
Christopher Kemper
MARCH 22, 2020
For more on Palmetto.com please visit our website and tag us at #Palmetto.com for more updates. That % is heavily skewed away from Palmetto’s reality as that % factors in and is driven up by lower kWh prices for C&I utility customers and is performed on a per kWh basis.As Have a look here?—? link] Thanks Ryan?—?Appreciate
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Oil Market Collapse No Impact On Renewable Outlook
Christopher Kemper
MARCH 22, 2020
For more on Palmetto.com please visit our website and tag us at #Palmetto.com for more updates. That % is heavily skewed away from Palmetto’s reality as that % factors in and is driven up by lower kWh prices for C&I utility customers and is performed on a per kWh basis.As Have a look here?—? link] Thanks Ryan?—?Appreciate
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Oil Market Collapse No Impact On Renewable Outlook
Christopher Kemper
MARCH 22, 2020
For more on Palmetto.com please visit our website and tag us at #Palmetto.com for more updates. That % is heavily skewed away from Palmetto’s reality as that % factors in and is driven up by lower kWh prices for C&I utility customers and is performed on a per kWh basis.As Have a look here?—? link] Thanks Ryan?—?Appreciate
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LNG Exporter Downplays Emissions to Justify Expansion
DeSmogBlog
AUGUST 12, 2022
In recent months, Cheniere Energy, the largest LNG exporter in the United States, has begun providing emissions data , which it calls “carbon emissions tags,” or CE tags, for its gas. The tags quantify the greenhouse gas emissions of a given LNG cargo, with the aim of easing buyers’ concerns. But there are problems here as well.
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How investing 1.3 per cent of GDP could decarbonise the global economy - and unlock massive financial savings
Business Green
MARCH 21, 2023
Moreover, this price tag is for capital investments, not costs. It calculates up to $50bn a year of support for coal phase out plans will be required, alongside $130bn to support zero deforestation initiatives, and around $100bn to fund carbon removals. Again, it sounds like a lot but it is equivalent to around 1.3
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EPA might water down its cleanup standards for Seattle’s only river
Grist
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
These compounds are produced from the burning of coal, oil, gas, wood, trash, and tobacco, or from cooking meat and other foods at high temperatures. percent sliver off of the whole project’s $342 million price tag.
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'Badvertising': Is the public increasingly turned off by dirty ads?
Business Green
APRIL 25, 2022
In contrast, three in 10 said they would like to see a complete ban on advertising restrictions for oil, gas and coal companies, while just over a quarter would support a ban on adverts for the most polluting cars, and about a fifth would ban adverts for air travel, petrol or diesel fuelled cars, or red meat.
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