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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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A Vibrant Cleantech Startup Ecosystem Takes Root in India

GreenTechMedia

Several floors below the firm’s balcony, power lines crisscross over piles of garbage, a fleet of rickshaws and cow patties on a rooftop, being dried for cooking fuel. ” Rapid growth in India’s renewable energy sector is driving demand for new technologies to modernize the country’s power sector.

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Montana’s renewable energy city coalition grows

Renewable Energy World

For this episode of our Voices of 100% series of the Local Energy Rules Podcast , host John Farrell talks with Helena Sustainability Coordinator Patrick Judge and Citizens Conservation Commission Member Mark Juedeman. Judge and Juedeman supported Helena as the city committed to 100% renewable energy. ” Mark Juedeman.

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Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South

GreenBiz

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. . As the Northeast Organizer for Clean Water for North Carolina , she’d met with residents of a small, majority Black town called Ahoskie, 40 miles from her home.

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Will New York City’s largest buildings meet emissions reduction limits by 2024?

Renewable Energy World

Contributed by Saverio Grosso, Edison Energy. Under the Act, passed in 2019, most buildings over 25,000 square feet—roughly 50,000 residential and commercial properties across the city—must meet new energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) reductions by 2024, and stricter limits in 2030. Last month, the U.S.

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Phantom Gas and Missing Documents Reveal Gaps in Utility Oversight

DeSmogBlog

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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Greentown Labs and Vineyard Wind Announce Offshore Wind Challenge Startup Participants

Greentown Labs

Startups will participate in accelerator program to develop data monitoring technologies focused on protecting marine mammals. The startups will focus on innovations in marine mammal monitoring through data collection, real-time transmission, and analysis. Somerville, Mass., million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually.