DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The research, conducted by the non-profit Global Energy Monitor and shared with DeSmog, found thousands of cases in which high-profile corporations engage in lobbying in state capitols, hiring the same lobbyists that do work for powerful fossil fuel companies. A future that does have humanity living in harmony with nature.”.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is seeking input on a $10.5 billion programme for smart grids and other upgrades to strengthen the country’s electricity grid. The funding, previously announced and now combined in the Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnership programme, is allocated in three parts – $2.5 Have you read?

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2020

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. The government not long ago consulted on this issue (which may have been the reason for the omission), with proposals to revise the Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES).

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The circumstances surrounding his termination are documented among thousands of pages of public records and internal company documents that provide a penetrating look into the multi-billion dollar stakes of negotiations between governments and state-sanctioned monopolies that are shaping the future of energy systems in Oregon and beyond.

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Front And Centered

MAY 17, 2019

It allowed the state to “remedy discrimination against, or under-representations of, disadvantaged groups as documented in a valid disparity study or proven court of law.” This affects not only issues like education, but the states policies and resource allocations related to issues like climate, energy and the environment.

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Business Green

JULY 31, 2021

A raft of UK supermarkets and retailers have also threatened to boycott products from Brazil over a law proposed in Brazil's parliament that environmental campaigners claim could authorise yet further destruction of the rainforest. Even before Bolsonaro came to power, fires on embargoed land were a problem.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 11, 2019

SF6 is used in GIS equipment to protect electrical power plants and distribution systems by insulating circuits and interrupting electric currents. In 2009 and 2010, CARB conducted a rulemaking to develop the regulation for monitoring and limiting SF6 emissions. Background on SF6 Gases.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 11, 2019

SF6 is used in GIS equipment to protect electrical power plants and distribution systems by insulating circuits and interrupting electric currents. In 2009 and 2010, CARB conducted a rulemaking to develop the regulation for monitoring and limiting SF6 emissions. Background on SF6 Gases.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 4, 2020

For example, the report argues that progress on improving UK water quality has been undermined by ongoing failures to adequately enforce regulations, which has resulted in a shifting of regulatory responsibility on to the private sector, the deferral of key targets, a decline in reporting frequency, and the rolling-back of monitoring programmes.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 1, 2022

The California LCFS Program was adopted in 2009 as one of the key measures to reduce GHG emissions in California under AB 32. Capacity-based crediting provides a revenue stream for fueling stations while the ZEV population and usage of the station increases. emphasis added) [4].

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Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

candidate at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who specializes in climate science, social science, policy and the law, the climate change effects that California has experienced so far are just the tip of what’s to come. Enforcing the use of masks requires monitoring by the state, for example. Food and Drug Administration.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

While officials have argued that oil prices will eventually rise, reviving inactive wells, environmental advocates and energy analysts say that the industry is in a downward spiral that will cause the number of abandoned wells to balloon. The mighty Chesapeake Energy, a publicly traded company with $8.5

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Every policy, law, regulation, study, analysis, proposal or action that has the climate crisis in mind is built on the basis of those two figures: 1.5 Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. It is 2009 and the 35th G8 Summit. At the end of 2009, the Copenhagen climate summit, COP15 , was held in Copenhagen.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

While officials have argued that oil prices will eventually rise, reviving inactive wells, environmental advocates and energy analysts say that the industry is in a downward spiral that will cause the number of abandoned wells to balloon. The mighty Chesapeake Energy, a publicly traded company with $8.5

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The series is supported by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University, and is part of their POWER project. Other wood pellet companies have flocked to the region, including Drax , a major energy utility in the UK that now manufactures wood pellets in the U.S.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The system works by setting a limit on the total amount of greenhouse gases released by refineries, power plants and other large emitters, and requires polluters to obtain permits to cover their share. In-state emissions were offset by purchasing cleaner power and carbon credits from other projects that reduced emissions elsewhere.)

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Mearth

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The Law provides, amongst other issues, for the fee arrangements and payment establishments that comprise the Brazilian Payment System. The botnet Akamai analyzed makes use of the computing assets and electrical energy supply of contaminated machines to mine the Monero cryptocurrency.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. As electric vehicles drive toward the mainstream, General Motors has come full circle as well. It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. and globally by 2040. and Canadian cities.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 15, 2021

Solar — though it had already been around for decades — was so nascent that Wood Mackenzie (formerly GTM Research) doesn’t even have granular installation data prior to 2009. installations grew from about 1 gigawatt in 2009 to an expected 100 gigawatts in the first quarter of this year. electric grid.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

The wastewater well sits on land that’s owned by ExxonMobil, was drilled by ConocoPhillips, and eventually wound up run by a tiny start-up called Black Elk Energy that specialized in wringing out the last dregs of oil from aging wells. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management staffer. Those companies reported injecting at least 3.6

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 20, 2020

Solar net metering, the backbone of the U.S. A nonprofit group that’s spent years fighting clean energy legislation in New England is pressing federal regulators to approve a legal argument that could lay the groundwork for challenges to the solar net metering policies now in place in 41 states.

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Grist

JULY 6, 2024

Then there is the moral hazard argument against geoengineering: If humans began cooling the Earth with solar geoengineering, wouldn’t that give citizens a false sense of security—and companies an excuse to pump the brakes on decarbonization of energy systems and proceed with fossil-fuel-burning business as usual?

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

An historic climate summit in Nairobi last week underscored the need for drastic changes in climate finance and clean energy development. Africa is home to vast thermal, wind, solar, and hydro energy resources (some 60% of the world’s renewable energy potential ) as well as mineral deposits essential for the global energy transition.

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Grist

JULY 7, 2021

In my 15 years of experience on agricultural sustainability policy, I’ve never seen this much energy behind land sector policy,” said Chris Adamo, a lobbyist for the Paris-based food giant Danone, at a conference in May. “It This particular power station was supposed to be special — a carbon-neutral facility. I have no idea.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The EPA’s National Air Toxics Assessment tool is based on weaker monitoring data from a few years back. TCEQ continues to vigilantly evaluate benzene levels at [the Jacintoport] monitor, while encouraging efforts to reduce benzene in this area,” an agency spokesperson said in an email. That’s likely an undercount,” Hopkins said.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 24, 2020

Photos of celebrities who’d visited the zoos were flooding the internet, Joe Exotic’s power-ballads were hitting it big on Spotify and even President Donald Trump was fielding questions about the gun-toting zookeeper during press briefings. Surprisingly, only an estimated 6% of the captive tiger population in the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The data is drawn from various sources, including the Global CCS Institute; the International Energy Agency; the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis; the Geoengineering Monitor , and DeSmog research. What actually happened: Costs more than doubled from initial estimates to $7.5

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

As an adjunct professor at Columbia University and Johns Hopkins University, he finds it deeply rewarding to guide the next generation of renewable energy finance leaders. As an adjunct professor at Columbia University and Johns Hopkins University, he finds it deeply rewarding to guide the next generation of renewable energy finance leaders.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Only 3 percent of the Wyoming project’s CO2 has been geologically stored in the same formation from which the original gas was extracted, according to estimates from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). C and with the net-zero energy transition. Credit: NET Power , CC BY-SA 4.0

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 8, 2023

“[The purpose] is you get a much quicker application, you reduce that kinetic energy involved with that train.” As recently as 2009, Risch, who has 40 years of experience in the rail industry, was operating trains hauling coal. Energy Information Administration conference in Washington, D.C.,

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Grist

JANUARY 10, 2024

Pilots flew through alpine valleys, where ribs of electric green growth emerged from a blanket of snow. Paragi has for more than a decade monitored the state’s intensive wildlife management programs and believes predator control can be effective. By 2009, the moose population had almost doubled. In 2022, the 9th U.S.

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