DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 9, 2021

They joined in song , protesting a controversial tar sands oil pipeline called Line 3 , which is currently being constructed through northern Minnesota and traditional Anishinaabe lands. Tags: Line 3 Enbridge Enbridge Line 3 Minnesota Winona LaDuke tar sands

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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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DeSmogBlog

JULY 28, 2020

This alarm has since boiled over into a full-fledged opposition campaign to counter the rising tide of similar measures meant to restrict gas in favor of constructing all-electric buildings and cutting carbon pollution.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

billion petrochemical complex under construction in St. Tags: Formosa RISE St. This week, a key federal permit for a $9.4 James Parish Louisiana U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2020

To meet those goals, any new gas infrastructure constructed now and in the future would have to be retired well before the end of its useful life, becoming stranded assets. Tags: new york stranded assets Con Ed natural gas methane

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Read time: 5 mins Citing design changes, Shell Chemical Appalachia has asked Pennsylvania’s state regulators to issue air permits that would allow the company’s massive plastics manufacturing plant under construction outside Pittsburgh to emit significantly more climate and other air pollution.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 15, 2020

Read time: 17 mins Over the past few months, amid the COVID -19 pandemic and stay-at-home orders, Shell Pipeline Company has pressed onward with the construction of a 97-mile pipeline running through Ohio and western Pennsylvania. Tags: falcon pipeline Shell Oil Company COVID-19 NWP 12 Permit Keystone XL Shell Pipeline Co.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 17, 2020

Read time: 4 mins A Louisiana state appeals court has ruled that the Bayou Bridge Pipeline Company illegally “trampled” on the rights of landowners by starting pipeline construction without the landowners’ permission. Tags: Bayou Bridge pipeline Louisiana landowners eminent domain Atchafalaya Basin energy transfer Well, we did.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 9, 2020

Read time: 3 mins A Louisiana appeals court heard oral arguments Wednesday, January 8 in a case brought by Louisiana landowners against the Bayou Bridge Pipeline Company that illegally trespassed and began pipeline construction without landowners’ consent.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Concerns about air quality, which has already begun declining nationally since 2016 , are growing rapidly for those living in the shadow of Shell’s $6 billion plastics plant under construction along the Ohio River in western Pennsylvania’s Beaver County. There is a certain degree of sick irony about that.”.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Protesters during a demonstration outside the town hall on November 6 accused the mayor of “colluding” with Enbridge by signing a $10 million settlement agreement dropping the town's official opposition and legal fights against a newly constructed natural gas compressor station in town.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 7, 2020

Word spread today about the approvals, which pave the way for the project’s construction, opposed by local and national environmental advocates. Tags: cancer alley Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) Formosa plastics petrochemical development James Parish. James Parish, cried when she heard the news.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2020

City leaders touted the new law , which is intended to tightly restrict future use of natural gas-powered heating and cooling in new construction, as an important part of the city’s plan to slash greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2020

Tags: pennsylvania rggi CO2 Coalition Clean Air Council marc morano Caleb Rossiter Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT)

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 19, 2020

James, a community group fighting petrochemical plant construction in St. Tags: Formosa petrochemical development RISE St. Read time: 7 mins “I feel like our ancestors are shouting and rejoicing in heaven about what we did for them today,” Sharon Lavigne, founder of RISE St. We did not forget them on Juneteenth.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 30, 2019

But with the arrival of Shell and its $6 billion plastics manufacturing plant, currently under construction in Beaver County, the conservation district assumed more serious responsibilities than throwing a maple syrup festival — including permitting the fossil fuel pipelines feeding the massive plastics complex.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Read time: 6 mins On Saturday, November 16, 29 people were arrested in a rally at a massive natural gas-fired power plant, the Cricket Valley Energy Center, that is being constructed in a picturesque rural valley of farms and forests near the New York-Connecticut border, about 80 miles north of New York City.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 23, 2023

For example, digital links accessible through a unique product identifier will need to be added to the products themselves rather than outer packaging or tags. Interested parties should be able to access information relating to raw materials, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and recycling options.

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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 made several unsuccessful attempts to get competitive bids for the engineering, procurement and construction work, according to a regulatory filing ( PDF ).

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The film, produced by CFACT , the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow , and starring Climate Depot’s Marc Morano , was originally set to be released on April 21, before the coronavirus pandemic shut down theaters and much of American life. . Tags: climate hustle marc morano CFACT

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GreenBiz

MARCH 4, 2021

Most investors and companies still don’t put a price tag on natural capital, or the cost of losing it, and biodiversity becoming a top "theme" only means people have begun talking about it. The most dependent industries: construction, agriculture and food and beverage. .

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Dominion plans to construct the project in three 880-megawatt phases from 2024 to 2026, completing one phase a year some 27 miles off the coast of Virginia Beach. The project will, however, face regulatory scrutiny in Virginia, where the $300 million price tag for Dominion’s 12-megawatt pilot project has raised eyebrows.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 28, 2020

That 2-gigawatt development was rejected by Texas regulators in August 2018 on the grounds that its $3 billion price tag and the need for a new $1.6 billion transmission line put too much financial risk on Swepco ratepayers. of Oklahoma and Swepco over its 30-year life.

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The Environmental Blog

JANUARY 21, 2022

Instead, it is often blended with diesel and tagged based on the amount of diesel it’s mixed with. It is also used in the agriculture, farming, construction, and manufacturing industry. Though it had a slow start, Edmunds found that its production has risen from 25 million gallons in 2005 to 1.7 billion gallons in 2013.

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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. Starting with a recycled structure is a big deal when it comes to building and construction.

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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. Plus, improving energy efficiency reduces the amount of energy suppliers are able to sell.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 5, 2019

On a conference call with journalists, Vineyard Wind CEO Lars Thaaning Pedersen declined to put an exact price tag on the "multi-billion dollar" Connecticut project, but he noted that Vineyard's similarly sized project in Massachusetts will cost around $3 billion. Big win for Bridgeport. Huge chunk of state's power.

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Climate 4.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

So far, Widodo has said construction will begin in 2024. An announcement in 2019 by the Indonesian President Joko Widodo about relocating its capital from overcrowded, sinking Jakarta (located on what is by far the world's most populous island) to a new location on the much larger, more centrally located, much-less-crowded island of Borneo.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 31, 2020

The problem is, it’s extremely difficult to build new pumped-hydro storage plants, due to the permitting implications of large water-based infrastructure and recent difficulty in executing massive construction projects in general. Nevertheless, a handful of such projects are inching forward.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 18, 2019

It now has 1 gigawatt of onshore wind up and running, 670 megawatts under construction plus a 2.5-gigawatt Its North America pipeline of projects in development or construction now stands at 3 gigawatts. The Danish offshore wind giant laid bare the scale of its U.S. gigawatt pipeline. For German utility RWE, 2019 was a transition year.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

In addition to its flexible, sustainable and resilient design features, the Delta shelter comes with an incredibly reasonable price tag and construction time. Each bamboo shelter starts at $8,500 and can be constructed within 28 days. EEMY Architecture and Design Images via EEMY Architecture and Design. Continued here:Â .

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

Of the acoustic tagged eels, 80.8% It is one of the first shrouded Archimedean screw pumping stations constructed in England. Specifically, pumps were only operated during daylight hours and upstream river levels were managed to maximise the amount of water sluiced on slack tides during silver migration periods.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2021

4] The application can track the life cycle of debris right from collection, segregation and transportation to incineration by geo-tagging every process and submitting details on a common platform wherein all waste generators, transporters and those handling treatment facilities will be asked to register themselves. [5]

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Terra Infirma

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

I suspect the woman had read some of the anti-wind power propaganda of the day, with all its talk of ‘blade flicker’ and other such nebulous health risks, and projected these fears onto some gusts of wind or the noise from a construction site.

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2023

The company is also aiming to offer 10 new fully-electric models by 2026, including its first EV for a price tag of less than €25,000, as part of its ambitions to offer battery models in almost every one of its product segments. The firm's Zwickau and Dresden plants have already been fully upgraded to produce EVs, it said.

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