Grist

JANUARY 28, 2020

The Ace of Trade trawler motored toward Dean Blanchard’s dock early last summer in southern Louisiana, its skipper slowly winching its nets into storage. He testified in Congress and appeared on national news shows to lobby for his industry. This story was published in partnership with the Center for Public Integrity and The World.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Experiencing impacts from climate change is a normal part of life for me, since I am based in Southern Louisiana. The suit made the one-mile trek from where the helicopter let us off to the penguin colony more strenuous than it otherwise would have been. Many grumbled that the wetsuits were causing them to overheat.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Proving its potential in geothermal and oil & gas alike The geothermal operator drilled two test wells with the insulated, coated drillpipe, one in New Mexico and another in Utah at the US Department of Energy’s FORGE geothermal research project.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Echoing those unrealized book chapters, last year Kivalina joined forces with several Louisiana tribes that were impacted by Hurricane Katrina. government has failed to protect their human rights by failing to “engage, consult, acknowledge and promote the self-determination” of Kivalina and the Louisiana tribes. “By Early Influences.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 28, 2021

Lieutenant General Russel Honoré held a press conference in Lake Charles, Louisiana in a parking lot across from the Capital One Tower — which remains shuttered a year after Hurricane Laura knocked out many of the building’s mirrored glass windows. John Bel Edwards warned at a Saturday afternoon news conference.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Where the Tickfaw River leads into Lake Maurepas in South Louisiana, a coffin containing a plastic skeleton is fastened to pilings rising out of the water. The project was announced at a joint press conference held by Louisiana’s Gov. Proposed site in Ascension Parish for Air Products’ “Louisiana Clean Energy Complex.”

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The Guardian: Energy

JANUARY 12, 2024

Water shortages disrupt the Plaquemines parish as millions of gallons are used to construct Venture Global’s LNG terminal Katie Mazarac just wanted to give her daughter a bath. It was late summer evening, and the small Louisiana fishing community where she and her then 18-month-old live had been plagued by water issues for months.

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PV Tech

MARCH 14, 2024

Solar developer Lightsource bp has secured a US$140 million tax equity deal with Barclays for a 180MW PV project in Louisiana.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Why wholesale markets matter to big power buyers Adam Aston Thu, 11/05/2020 – 01:30 When a big brand such as Google, General Motors or Walmart unveils an eye-popping commitment to use more renewable energy, the news usually gets attention. REBA’s goal is to catalyze 60 GW of new renewable energy projects over the next five years.

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The Guardian: Energy

JANUARY 24, 2024

The project, Calcasieu Pass 2, or CP2, would be positioned near the rapidly eroding Louisiana shoreline and be the biggest such export terminal in the US and part of a huge expansion of new gas infrastructure along the Gulf of Mexico. Continue reading.

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PV Tech

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Solar developer Recurrent Energy has secured US$160 million in project financing for its 127MW PV project in Louisiana, US.

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PV Tech

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Spanish independent power producer Opdenergy has secured US$252 million for two solar projects with a combined capacity of 260MWdc.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

“It really instills in us long term thinking.” Archeological evidence shows that people used the springs here for thousands of years, and early inhabitants considered them a neutral ground and a place of healing. Rain from ancient Egyptian times now comes out of the hots springs 4,000 years later, Waymouth said.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 17, 2023

Also, this 😭 Back to our original programming… Exxon bought the largest CO2 pipeline network in the US last week. Meanwhile, we’re already becoming numb to new heat records. But the deal does give us a peek inside the mind of an O&G giant angling to position itself amid the broader energy transition.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 14, 2023

The Biden administration awards the first $1B+ for US DAC hubs and researchers replicate a nuclear fusion breakthrough. Transition , a London, UK-based venture capital firm, launched their new fund backing startups that work within planetary boundaries. Share new deals and announcements with us at hello@ctvc.co

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 29, 2022

US cost of green hydrogen down to $2/kg by 2023. Mixing green hydrogen into the fuel supply of gas power plants does reduce carbon emissions, but those reductions are small; using blue hydrogen instead would likely result in 20 percent higher methane emissions than just burning gas directly for heat, according to a 2021 study.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

It is welcome news to CO2 pipeline opponents, however, which have included a wide spectrum of interest groups united in their concerns over pipeline safety. “I The post Local Governments and Grassroots Activists Stop Spate of US Carbon Capture Pipelines appeared first on DeSmog.

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Grist

JUNE 27, 2020

Yesterday, it arrived in Texas and Louisiana. The good news is, the dust plumes can deflate newly forming hurricanes they might encounter on the way over. The good news is, the dust plumes can deflate newly forming hurricanes they might encounter on the way over. Each plume takes about three days to cross the ocean.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

“It’s almost like the people inside the company themselves could make the same mistake that they want all of us to make when we hear these claims.”. Activists in Louisiana took exception with those statements. “If Charles Parish, Louisiana. ” Steve Lesher, Shell’s U.S. West Coast Manager of Government Relations. “The

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

How 5 communities across the US are seeking environmental justice. This story originally appeared in InsideClimate News and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalistic collaboration to strengthen coverage of the climate story. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana: 'We've already been written off'.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In headlines this week, offshore wind developers are dealing with supply chain struggles and the intricacies of US power markets. Texas fires up VPPs and the US government puts $12B toward the EV transition. Share new deals and announcements with us at hello@ctvc.co In the News The U.S. Left in the dark.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

At least 15 planned or existing LNG export or upstream gas projects globally have announced plans to add CCS, according to a tally by non-profit climate news service DeSmog. These include five in Louisiana and Texas planned by companies including NextDecade , G2 Net-Zero LNG , Venture Global , Sempra Energy , and French giant TotalEnergies.

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The Guardian: Energy

JANUARY 26, 2024

Pause on pending export permits is hailed by environmental groups, and could imperil projects along Gulf of Mexico coast Joe Biden’s administration has hit the brakes on the US’s surging exports of gas, effectively pausing a string of planned projects that have been decried by environmentalists as carbon “mega bombs” that risk pushing the world further (..)

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2022

After the deal was completed, a company news release stated that the transaction “enhances Aramco’s presence in the global petrochemicals industry, a sector expected to record the fastest growth in oil demand in the years ahead.” I didn’t want to let these big guys run all over us,” Moore said. Nor is the toxicity spread evenly.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2020

How 5 communities across the US are seeking environmental justice Kristoffer Tigue Mon, 07/06/2020 – 01:00 This story originally appeared in InsideClimate News and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalistic collaboration to strengthen coverage of the climate story. That is the narrative.

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The Guardian: Energy

AUGUST 29, 2023

It also comes the day after the Gulf cities of New Orleans and Houston saw their hottest temperatures in recorded history, and as the largest wildfire in state history ravages Louisiana. Continue reading.

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Mr. Sustainability

JUNE 27, 2020

One that can propel us to a sustainable all-time economic high. Chicago Sun-Times/Chicago Daily News collection/Chicago History Museum/Getty Images. I do believe however, that a few principles will steer us in the right direction. The stage is certainly set for a period of epic economic downfall. Hurricanes would be one answer.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

There’s good news on that front: President Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress have managed to pass historic climate measures that are expected to reduce the country’s carbon footprint between 32 and 51 percent by 2035, putting the U.S. That’s bad news for the millions of people who have bought waterfront homes over the past few decades.

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Grist

AUGUST 26, 2020

Very many of us were alarmed and held expectations about his tenure lower than the Mariana Trench,” recalled John Walke, director of the Natural Resources Defense Council’s clean air, climate, and clean energy program. Mark Black / Chicago Tribune / Tribune News Service via Getty Images.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

This Martin Luther King quote was used by Conservative peer Baroness Stroud to introduce the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC), which launched in March. ARC’s UK Architects ARC has extensive ties to UK politicians and media figures, notably sharing the same owners as startup broadcaster GB News.

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Grist

DECEMBER 10, 2020

But when Hurricane Katrina killed more than 1,800 people in 2005 and devastated majority-Black New Orleans, about 800 victims in Louisiana were white, according to researchers from the CDC and the Louisiana Office of Public Health. 24 and led the nation in cases per capita in late November. AP Photo / Charlie Neibergall.

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CleanTechnica

MARCH 23, 2020

The other day, I woke up to two news stories, one from The Advocate and one from CleanTechnica. The Advocate reported harrowing news, while CleanTechnica gave us a bit of hope. Here in Louisiana, our doctors and nurses are out of protective gear and fear they are infecting patients. Not to mention themselves.

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