DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Like a pandemic, climate change is an inevitable threat that we must address before it is too late,” reads a June 2020 statement. “As Tags: Bayer BASF Corteva FMC Syngenta Monsanto Dow Chemical DuPont US Farmers and Ranchers in Action US Right to Know precision agriculture regenerative agriculture

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 21, 2020

and the group’s members have shown up prominently at recent protests related to both pandemic response measures and police brutality. Tags: Three Percenters Threepers Bakken militia ONEOK terrorism Matt Marshall Clay Higgens North Dakota FBI U.S. armed protests, hate speech, and ?threatening threatening behavior across the U.S.,

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 25, 2020

Surgeons General, recently filed supporting briefs backing a youth climate lawsuit against the federal government because, like the current coronavirus pandemic, the climate crisis poses “unprecedented threats to public health and safety.”. Tags: public health Juliana v. United States air pollution COVID-19 coronavirus

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 25, 2020

Read time: 6 mins “ Our people aren’t prepared for a pandemic,” Robert Taylor, executive director of the Concerned Citizens of St. Tags: cancer alley COVID-19 Denka John The Baptist Parish, told me a couple of days before the governor of Louisiana issued a stay-at-home order due to the rapid spread of COVID -19 in the state.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 22, 2020

Read time: 8 mins The COVID -19 pandemic hasn’t changed life much for Chris Burnet, a lifelong resident of Isle de Jean Charles, a quickly eroding strip of land among south Louisiana’s wetlands. Tags: Isle de Jean Charles Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Tribe Isle de Jean Charles Louisiana COVID-19

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 16, 2020

Tags: petrochemical development COVID-19 Center for International Environmental Law fracking finances oil bailout

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 9, 2020

These protests, and the many others like it around the country, are taking place in the midst of the COVID -19 pandemic, whose death toll has disproportionately affected African Americans and illuminated racial disparity in the United States. Tags: environmental racism new orleans George Floyd protests police violence COVID-19

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2020

Simultaneously surviving climate disruption and this pandemic — because they cannot be separated — will require us to grapple with two major challenges. Tags: COVID-19 coronavirus Covering Climate Now climate crisis Naomi Klein Nationalism

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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

APRIL 21, 2020

(February was a simpler time too, but for a moment let’s think outside the pandemic bubble.). Tags: Bill McKibben Earth Day U.S. Simpler because our environmental troubles could be easily seen. The air above our cities was filthy, and the water in our lakes and streams was gross. There was nothing subtle about it.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 18, 2020

Between the “ COVID -19 pandemic and the ensuing economic fallout,” the project would be crucial to restoring the state’s economy, the letter argued. The “open letter,” addressed to Gov. Kate Brown, asked her to support Jordan Cove LNG , a controversial coastal liquefied natural gas ( LNG ) export terminal.

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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. Still, progress in this area could move faster than we’ve typically seen in ESG-land, for a few reasons: .

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 7, 2020

That threat to bus in hundreds of protesters, “potentially adding to this pandemic,” apparently worked as San Luis Obispo city officials have postponed the April 7 vote on its Clean Energy Choice Program indefinitely.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 25, 2020

With the coronavirus pandemic now stalling energy demand, coal production has dropped about 26 percent in the past 12 months alone, perhaps ringing the death knell for coal as an energy source in America. “

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2020

Read time: 8 mins Aviation has been one of the sectors worst hit by the fallout from the COVID -19 pandemic. Tags: International Air Transport Association (IATA) Air Transport Action Group (ATAG) Airlines for America (A4A) Airport Operators Association IATA says $200 billion is needed globally.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 24, 2020

The clean energy industry has faced its share of crises over the years — but nothing quite like the current pandemic and economic freeze. If you have any other show topic ideas, tag The Energy Gang and The Interchange on Twitter. Both shows were designed as a forum to grapple with tough issues in an accessible, candid way.

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2020

Folding bike maker's new subscription service is geared at the growing number of people who have embraced cycling during the pandemic. British bike maker Brompton is set launch a subscription service next month amid a surge in the popularity of cycling during the pandemic.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Currently 12% of the total waste collected across GTR’s 800-mile network comes from Brighton; prior to the pandemic, in an average year the station produced 650 tonnes of rubbish.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2020

While activism is currently on hold during the pandemic, impacts on oil prices abound. Tags: oil by rail Bomb Trains Canadian oil by rail BNSF The latest numbers show that U.S. oil-by-rail volumes are down 11% vs. where they were a year ago, which is likely just the beginning of the decline in volumes.

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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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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2020

Tags: coronavirus COVID-19 oil and gas pipelines Dakota Access Pipeline energy transfer TigerSwan Mariner East Keystone XL

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GreenBiz

MAY 3, 2021

A perennial concern of corporate sustainability professionals — how to nurture employee buy-in for the organization’s programs and strategy — easily could have been sidelined during the COVID-19 pandemic, as companies everywhere shifted to accommodate remote workforces. .

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Grist

MAY 18, 2023

Those impacts come with a surprisingly steep price tag, according to the study, which was published in Science on Thursday. While these trillions of dollars in depressed growth are significant, they are not felt as acutely as a global pandemic. El Niño is more costly than we realized,” Christopher W.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 24, 2020

His article asks the federal government to allow oil and gas companies to behave like the OPEC cartel and limit oil production, raise prices on already suffering Americans during the COVID -19 pandemic, and continue with a status quo energy policy.

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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

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has broachedumpteen pervasive challenges on multiple fronts- health, environment and economy. 1] Due to dearth of resources, under-reporting of cases, lack of awareness, poor segregation and flawed biomedical waste management system, India has continued to face severe consequences during the pandemic. [2]

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2022

As such, it said that once EVs achieve price-tag parity with petrol and diesel vehicles, drivers would rapidly switch towards electric mobility, leaving the electric car market poised for exponential growth in the coming years. "It EV sales in the UK are now expected to double in 2022 , on the back of the record year experienced in 2021.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In the shorter term, meanwhile, Wood Mackenzie predicts EV sales in China, Europe and the US will hit seven million a year by 2025, before doubling to 15 million a year by 2030 as price tags drop due to economies of scale, cheaper battery technology, and impending bans on fossil fuel vehicle sales.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

More than 20,000 units of the fully electric Porsche Taycan were shipped last year, the newspaper reported - with a starting price tag of €80,000. Porsche has previously said it expects about half of the cars it sells by 2025 to be electric.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 20, 2020

offshore wind farm is about to rise 30 miles off Virginia Beach, and it’s happening in the middle of a pandemic. 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. offshore wind market.

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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 Treasury is facing further accusations that it is hampering the UK's net zero transition, after reports emerged over the weekend that it has blocked plans to electrify Britain's railways over cost concerns.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Some of it has been masked by the pandemic and ensuing recession, but for those who are paying attention, the indicators are hiding in plain sight. It placed the price tag at up to 10.5 So many people and stories. But lately, I’ve been following the money. The financial climate, it seems, has been as unforgiving as the atmospheric one.

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EDF + Business

JULY 10, 2020

During this pandemic, at-home shoppers are deluged with purchases arriving by cardboard box, each delivered by polluting trucks. Getting a finished product from the factory to your door, has costs beyond the price tag. More trucks are making more trips, hurting the planet, and our health.”. Follow Aileen on Twitter, @aileennow.

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Greenability Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2020

If the packaging material is Kraft paper, you can use it to wrap gifts or make gift tags. This year, the holiday parties may be very small or non-existent to keep everyone safer during the COVID-19 pandemic. Gather with zero waste.

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Business Green

JULY 5, 2020

Iggy Bassi, founder and chief executive of Cervest, said: "Our findings show that businesses are unclear of the risks that climate presents to them, and the potential price tag that goes with that. Bearing the brunt of this current pandemic will be an immediate focus for many companies.

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2021

As we all look to the hopeful end of the global Covid-19 pandemic and make plans to return to the 'new normal', many countries are struggling to fund the relief and recovery packages needed to get their economies back on track. Difficulties around resource intensive budget tagging and project identification could also be avoided.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 26, 2020

Before the pandemic, transit — and transit buses especially — were in the midst of a transformation. As battery costs continue to fall and electric buses are produced on a larger scale, their price tags will become increasingly competitive. The post What should public transit look like post-pandemic?

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