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Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice?

GreenBiz

Richmond, a diverse, industrial city where housing prices and incomes have lagged behind its Bay Area neighbors, has poor air quality and some of the highest rates of respiratory and cardiovascular disease in California. It also dramatically has increased the volume of gas flared off as waste — another source of harmful compounds.

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Defective Meters and Whistleblower Complaints Raise Questions About Gas Utility’s Profits

DeSmogBlog

A little over a decade ago, Gary Dye, then a gas measurement engineer at NW Natural, Oregon’s largest gas utility, lost faith in his employer to responsibly deal with what he believed to be systematic inaccuracies among the company’s hundreds of thousands of gas meters. Faulty Meters Raise Questions About Profits.

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Greentown Labs, Saint-Gobain, and MassCEC Announce the Healthy Buildings Challenge Startup Participants

Greentown Labs

The latest iteration of the Greentown Launch corporate partnerships accelerator, the Healthy Buildings Challenge is focused on solutions that optimize for the health of people and the climate and aims to foster collaboration between Saint-Gobain and the participating startups, with support from MassCEC. Somerville, Mass.,

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EDC celebrates 40th anniversary of Tongonan geothermal field, Philippines

ThinkGeoEnergy

The Energy Development Corporation (EDC) recently celebrated the 40th year anniversary of the Tongonan geothermal power plant in the Leyte geothermal field of the Philippines. After several years of intensive exploration and development work, the Tongonan-1 geothermal power plant was inaugurated on July 02, 1983.

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Only sweeping UK reform holds the key to net zero buildings

Business Green

Buildings must become far more energy efficient to deliver the UK's net zero target, but progress remains frustratingly slow, argues Rob Martin of LGIM Real Assets. This proposed that rented properties in England and Wales should have to meet Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) band 'C' or 'B' by 2030.

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Interview – Exploring new frontiers of magma energy with KMT

ThinkGeoEnergy

This will serve as both a research facility and a demonstration facility for producing geothermal energy close to a magma body. I guess you are referring to the IDD-1 project and the drilling into magma in 2009. We are drilling two wells: KMT-1, a monitoring and volcanic research well, and KMT-2, an energy research well.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

Each of these individuals is playing the long game and is in a strong position to move their companies and industries into what could be a more hopeful period of reconciliation, recovery and repair. Most support science-based targets and sit on multiple boards, collaborations and advocacy groups to further industry-level sustainability goals.