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

JULY 22, 2022

He participated in the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore. The company's homepage states that it produces "Sustainable Cannabis Powered by Solar," but the story inside reveals that the company "burns natural gas and captures heat to circulate into the HVAC system."

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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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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Regardless of the current price of oil, natural gas, or coal, with a carbon tax in place biofuels and renewable energy are more cost competitive with than without a carbon tax. There are situations where subsides make sense; and not just because they are easier to pass into law than pricing mechanisms.

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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 charismatic “unboss,” as he has called his role, has been at Novartis since 2007, with a stint at Sandoz. million acres the 4.4 million acres it protects in the Amazon.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

For more on those problems, see CarbonCaptureFacts and the Center for International Environmental Law for starters. 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? Someone at Exxon had done the math 20 years ago.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

Olson is the executive director of the nonprofit law firm Our Children’s Trust, which has spearheaded youth climate change lawsuits across the United States. The company’s clients include electric utilities, energy traders in natural gas, and two petroleum companies, according to her deposition.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

North Carolina utility law requires energy planning and ratemaking that results in the “least-cost mix of generation and demand-reduction measures” achievable. To help counteract that reality, the state adopted a mandate for both renewable energy and energy efficiency in 2007. 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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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

In 2007, the TCEQ raised its annual guideline from an average of 1 ppb to 1.4 On the afternoon of April 19, 2007, however, K-Solv grabbed just about everybody’s attention. In fact, the agency rarely fines companies that violate Texas air pollution laws. It’s 22 times higher than the 8 ppb guideline California uses today.

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

coal first and then later oil and natural gas?to China currently emits more CO 2 than any other country, but by most estimates the United States has been the largest contributor when measured historically between 1850 and 2007. to power factories, heat homes and light city streets at night.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

A natural gas demonstration plant in Texas tests carbon capture technology. But this gas-as-a-guiding-star underpinning doesn’t appear in the framework itself, a point not lost on Democratic lawmakers. Credit: NET Power , CC BY-SA 4.0 There is mounting evidence, however, that CCS is ineffective.

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R-Squared Energy

MAY 5, 2024

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. This entails transitioning from gas to cleaner electricity sources like wind and solar power.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Indigenous resistance has been key in blocking at least eight major projects, including the Keystone XL pipeline, the C$20 billion Teck Frontier tar sands mine in Alberta, the Jordan Cove liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Oregon, and drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, to name a few. and Canada in 2019.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The RFS was first passed into law with the Energy Policy Act of 2005, and it was subsequently expanded in 2007 (both under President Bush). For the first time in nearly 70 years, we have become a net energy exporter, and the United States is now the number one producer of oil and natural gas on the face of the earth.”.

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Mosaic

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The great majority of them are heated with natural gas or oil, and parked in their garages and driveways or on nearby streets are some two hundred and ninety million vehicles, an estimated ninety-nine per cent of which, as of August, run on gasoline. They aim, for example, gut a $4.5-billion

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