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Delayed Senate Energy Bill Promotes LNG Exports, 'Clean Coal' and Geoengineering

DeSmogBlog

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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Op-ed: Geoengineering Distracts From Real Climate Solutions While Giving Cover to the Fossil Fuel Industry

DeSmogBlog

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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Are ISO's Draft Guidelines on Climate Action the First Steps Toward Geoengineering?

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 5 mins In August, the French news service AFP revealed that the International Organization for Standardization ( ISO ) has been drafting new climate action guidelines for businesses that raise concerns about promoting geoengineering as a climate solution. .

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Labor Helps Obama Energy Secretary Push and Profit from 'Net Zero' Fossil Fuels

DeSmogBlog

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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? Old nuclear, new-clear #161

Climate Tech VC

Since then, the price tag for the project has since more than doubled and the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office had to step in to provide additional financing. Unintentional geoengineering and a novel approach to planetary shading—straight out of the Simpsons.

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No, Dumping Tums In The Ocean Won’t Help Climate Change & Why Is Shopify Involved?

CleanTechnica

Geoengineering raised its misshapen head today. Someone tagged me on a post on LinkedIn related to a firm that wants. continued] The post No, Dumping Tums In The Ocean Won’t Help Climate Change & Why Is Shopify Involved? appeared first on CleanTechnica.