GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Transportation accounts for about two-fifths of California’s carbon emissions, and vehicles are harder to decarbonize than electricity generation or using fossil fuels for heating buildings. Hydrogen fueling has received about $156 million in CEC funding but has seen only 44 fueling stations deployed to date.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2024

In Colorado, fossil fuel interests are vigorously opposing legislative bills meant to clean up the state’s heavily polluted air. Instead, several have retained fossil fuel lobbyists to work on their behalf. Weld County also employs Capitol Solutions, a lobbying firm it shares with the Kiewit Corp.,

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

liquefied natural gas exports, some readers had a hard time believing that the U.S. Largest Declines in Carbon Emissions 2007-2022. Largest Increases in Carbon Emissions 2007-2022. Coal produces more than double the amount of carbon dioxide per unit of power production than natural gas ( source ).

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 27, 2020

Previous articles covered overall energy consumption , petroleum supply and demand, and natural gas. Coal is often called the dirtiest fossil fuel. Fossil fuels are composed of carbon and hydrogen. Coal contains a higher percentage of carbon than does oil or natural gas.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2022

She also called on highly profitable fossil fuel companies to offer a crisis contribution, because, as she says, ‘profits must be shared and channelled to those who need it the most.’. Add this all up, and we’re seeing a perfect storm of high energy prices for years to come – unless Russian gas supplies resume. Source: IEA).

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2021

Can Coal Replace Natural Gas? coal power has been replaced with gas power (methane/natural gas). Switching to natural gas from coal results in some reduction in carbon emissions but it also contributes greatly to methane emissions, a powerful greenhouse gas that helps drive climate change. .

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

However, while the Shell deal may be the biggest Havas has ever had with an oil and gas client, it is by no means the first. Further, these are far from being the Bolloré Group’s only connections to the fossil fuel sector. billion euros (around $2.49 subsidiary headquartered in New York City.

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 1, 2020

The primary culprits that add carbon dioxide to the atmosphere are the coal, oil, and natural gas — the fossil fuels — we consume for energy. coal consumption has dropped by 44% since 2007. There are two drivers behind coal’s decline: Natural gas and renewables. Consider coal, for example. In the U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 13, 2021

The proportion of global power generation represented by VRE, such as wind and solar power, has been rising rapidly since 2007. And according to IEA’ Renewables 2020, Launch Presentation from November 10, 2020, global wind and solar PV’s combined installed capacity will surpass that of natural gas in 2023 and coal in 2024.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The findings raise concerns over a potential pervasive conflict of interest on the boards at a time when the international insurance sector is under pressure to halt its support for the fossil fuel industry. “When insurers underwrite fossil fuels, they actually are underwriting climate change.”

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 2, 2021

As states and the federal government take steps to transition away from fossil fuel generation, it is important to pay attention to recent clean energy developments in states where energy legislation has historically been less proactive, and the traditional integrated utility monopoly model has held influence over the policymaking process.

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 23, 2024

as the world’s top liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporter, this week the Energy Information Administration reported that the U.S. From 2004 through 2007, U.S. Fresh on the heels of a new U.S. oil production record and establishment of the U.S. exported a record amount of crude oil in 2023. Notably, in 2023, U.S. million BPD.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 23, 2019

Since 2008, the carbon price has substantially reduced the consumption and demand for fossil fuels including: Reducing demand for gasoline by between7% and 17% by 2011. Decreasing residential natural gas consumption between 6.9% drivers to purchase more fuel-efficient vehicles.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 28, 2021

For nearly four years, Piedmont Natural Gas — one of Duke’s wholly owned subsidiaries — and the state’s other major gas distribution company have stymied incentives for new high-efficiency homes, claiming with scant evidence that the rebate scheme will lose them customers. Builders in the territory, covering 1.4

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

Under growing pressure to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, developers of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are turning to questionable claims about “carbon neutrality,” “net-zero,” or “green LNG,” in order to pass muster with governments, investors, and society, who are becoming increasingly anxious about the climate crisis.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2022

The municipality, which is home to roughly 75,000 residents, was among the earliest adopters of a climate target, pledging to achieve carbon neutrality way back in 2007 - long before climate targets were fashionable, and well before Paris Agreement triggered a deluge of net zero goals from governments and companies around the world.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 23, 2019

This electrification of industry, buildings and transportation will help displace fossil fuels and cut pollution. Similarly, Ontario reduced its coal-fired power generation from 25 per cent in 2007 to zero seven years later and saw a pollution cut equal to taking seven million cars off the road. million cars off the road.

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Clean Energy Canada

OCTOBER 14, 2020

And a Bank of America analyst even compared the investment opportunity in the sector to that of smartphones before 2007. While previous estimates found Canada to already be a top-10 global hydrogen producer, supplying some three-million tonnes annually for industrial use, most of this hydrogen is made using fossil fuels.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 11, 2019

GIS containing SF6 gases are typically found in most if not all substations and at many power generating facilities, including natural gas plants, wind farms, solar parks, and geothermal plants. Regulation of SF6 Gases in California.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 11, 2019

GIS containing SF6 gases are typically found in most if not all substations and at many power generating facilities, including natural gas plants, wind farms, solar parks, and geothermal plants. Regulation of SF6 Gases in California.

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GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2021

The co-founder and chief scientist of the nonprofit Rewiring America, formed in July, has mapped out with his colleagues how to ditch fossil fuels for the billion fossil-fuel-powered machines involved in energy production and use, which he said account for 87 percent of U.S. CO2 emissions. Next is the demand side.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

A declining cap on fossil fuel consumption has a much larger set of unknowns regarding technology, resources, and other shifts that could affect the cost of compliance. These real health and environmental costs not currently included in the purchase price of fossil fuels are commonly referred to as the social cost of carbon.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2022

But, rather than continuing to inflict damage to the planet, what if the millions of tonnes of plastics used to make bottles, food packaging, carrier bags, clothes, carpets, and much more every year, were actually made from a sustainable, plant-based, fossil fuel-free polymer that was both fully recyclable and degradable?

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Eco-Business

APRIL 14, 2020

This year during the Budget 2020, Singapore also announced plans to halve 2030 peak greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, and phase out all fossil fuel vehicles within the next two decades. Pledge Campaign to address SDG 13: Climate Action. They can pledge their support at www.ecoaction.sg. Ruder Finn Asia.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Natura, which issues a regular environmental profit-and-loss statement , went carbon-neutral in 2007 and became the first public B Corporation in 2014. The company has since whipsawed between its wholesale-energy legacy of fossil fuels and greener horizons. million acres the 4.4 million acres it protects in the Amazon.

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Business Green

MAY 28, 2021

The co-founder and chief scientist of the nonprofit Rewiring America, formed in July, has mapped out with his colleagues how to ditch fossil fuels for the billion fossil-fuel-powered machines involved in energy production and use, which he said account for 87 per cent of US CO2 emissions. Next is the demand side.

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

President Biden recently announced a “temporary pause on pending approvals of liquefied natural gas exports.” Natural gas, while much cleaner than coal, still emits greenhouse gases when burned. Some have also argued that prioritizing domestic needs for natural gas should come before exporting it.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 27, 2021

The co-founder and chief scientist of the nonprofit Rewiring America, formed in July, has mapped out with his colleagues how to ditch fossil fuels for the billion fossil-fuel-powered machines involved in energy production and use, which he said account for 87 percent of U.S. CO2 emissions. Next is the demand side.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

I have been calling the carbon capture CO2 pipeline buildout plan a “publicly-funded sewer system for the fossil fuel industry” for some time. Here are the Princeton maps of what needs to be done, downplaying it as smaller than natural gas infrastructure: A Trans-Alaska Pipeline from New Jersey to Georgia?

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

Montana has hired a climate scientist turned climate contrarian to be an expert witness in an upcoming trial challenging the state’s promotion of fossil fuels. The company’s clients include electric utilities, energy traders in natural gas, and two petroleum companies, according to her deposition. climate litigation.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

These results come from a linear optimization model that uses hourly weather data from 2007 to 2013, encompassing heat waves, winter storms and other weather events that can disrupt renewable power supply, Brown noted. The big question for studies like these is how their findings might be translated into action in expanding the U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The rapidly declining costs of clean energy mean the gas plants mandated in the bill will almost certainly cost large ratepayers more than would cleaner alternatives, a reversal from a decade ago. For decades, the provision favored fossil fuel plants over more expensive wind and solar farms. New competition for natural gas.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Activists have blocked the growth of natural gas and oil at every opportunity, and it’s weakening our country, reads another. Prior to that, McMillan was elected as a Saskatchewan Party legislative representative in the 2007 election. When the activists win, you lose, reads one image. Join Energy United to fight back.

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

A Few Relevant Data Points With the advent of the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th century, humans began their dependence on the burning of fossil fuels?coal coal first and then later oil and natural gas?to This economic catch-up game using fossil fuels is, of course, highly controversial.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

And as a trove of industry documents reveals, Exxon is far from the only fossil fuel company selling carbon capture as its golden ticket to continue pumping its products, despite internal concerns about the technology’s feasibility. A natural gas demonstration plant in Texas tests carbon capture technology.

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R-Squared Energy

MAY 5, 2024

Department of Energy has finalized a rule banning fossil fuels from new and renovated federal buildings. The Clean Energy for New Federal Buildings and Major Renovations of Federal Buildings Rule, mandated by the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) of 2007, mandates a phased reduction in fossil fuel usage in these buildings.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The efforts of Indigenous peoples in North America have helped block or delay a long list of major fossil fuel projects over the past decade, successfully leading to the avoidance of a massive amount of greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report. The numbers don’t lie. November, 2016. Credit: Becker1999. (CC CC BY 2.0).

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