DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Mountaintop removal coal mining — one of the most notoriously destructive forms of mining — has torn through over 500 mountains across Appalachia, even as coal’s dominance over American energy supplies has faded in recent years. The paper suggests that all of this might have happened in violation of federal law. The diamond darter.

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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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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

Far from delivering reported savings of £1.5bn, for example, the 2010-2015 Coalition Government's 'red-tape cutting' initiatives have increased regulatory burdens on business by at least £3.1bn, the report estimates. It also gives numerous examples of the damaging side-effects of the push to deregulate planning.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

If we find there has been, we will use all of our powers to hold companies to account.". In the new letter, Ofwat asks companies to explain how they monitor compliance with their environmental permits, including their system of management, the role boards play in scrutinising actions and how non-compliance is identified and resolved.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

If you take Shell’s word for it, the oil giant’s growing petrochemical operations are indicative of its “commitment” to a cleaner energy future. Credit: Anne Rolfes In 2021, Shell launched its “Powering Progress” strategy outlining how it plans to “transform into a net-zero emissions energy business.”

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Thus far we have made investments towards reducing the climate impact of our food, industrial production, and energy systems, and we are eager to make more. Saildrone (Series B | $86M | $260M): wind- and solar-powered autonomous sailing drones collecting and relaying real-time ocean data. Overstory (Seed | $1.8M Applications.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2021

In March 2020, for example, China’s State Council announced four national requirements for VOC content in adhesives, coatings, inks and cleaning agents widely used in the electronics and electrical industry; the stringency and implementation of these mandates may have a significant impact on production and business risk moving forward.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2021

In March 2020, for example, China’s State Council announced four national requirements for VOC content in adhesives, coatings, inks and cleaning agents widely used in the electronics and electrical industry; the stringency and implementation of these mandates may have a significant impact on production and business risk moving forward.

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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. The following year, in 2010, the climate summit took place in Cancún, Mexico. That paragraph, in article 2, paragraph 2.a.,

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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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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

An initial air monitoring reading detected benzene , a known carcinogen, in the air, according to an LDEQ field interview document from the incident. Air monitor readings taken with a handheld gas monitor between 7:30 a.m. Air monitor readings taken with a handheld gas monitor between 7:30 a.m. By 11:06 p.m.,

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

billion “Clean Energy Complex” to manufacture blue hydrogen and an accompanying carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) project, that would be operational by 2026. More broadly, backers of hydrogen energy and CCS tend to see environmental advocates as obstacles to these technologies. Lake Maurepas at sunrise.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

The minimum wage is not enough to meet the basic needs of employees – to cover housing, energy, food, and childcare costs. Monitor and evaluate the plan. Monitor and evaluate the policy to ensure it’s meeting the needs of your employees and your business. Monitor participation rates, and assess employee feedback.

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Mearth

JANUARY 30, 2021

Winning the award for Best Software in The International Gaming Awards 2010, Entwine Tech was founded in 2004 and provides products to more than 50 licensees all over the world. Please verify the wagering laws in your jurisdiction as they range from state to state, province to province and nation to nation. Mobilebetting.co.nz

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

An organization run by former Obama-era Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, with the backing of the AFL-CIO, a federation of 56 labor unions, has created a policy “blueprint” to build a nationwide pipeline network capable of carrying a gigaton of captured carbon dioxide (CO2).

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Planet Pulse

JULY 7, 2021

Planet’s proprietary data powers a high growth subscription business with over $100 million in revenue in FY2021 from over 600 customers across many verticals. Governmental organizations use Planet’s data to increase global security and transparency by monitoring threats, responding to emergencies, and enforcing local permitting.

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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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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 1, 2022

The program’s original target was to reduce the carbon intensity (CI) of transportation fuel used in California by 2020 at least 10% from a 2010 baseline. 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

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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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. government’s Clean Coal Power Initiative, receiving $407 million in federal subsidies.

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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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Grist

JULY 7, 2021

Nori, the carbon-market broker Garrett began working with last year, allows farmers to make money for carbon-sequestering practices, like avoiding the plow, they started anytime after 2010. This particular power station was supposed to be special — a carbon-neutral facility.

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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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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

States, cities, businesses, and organizations across the country are taking increasingly large steps to reduce emissions — and those efforts are aided by the falling costs of renewable energy and other decarbonizing technologies. Both Hawaiʻi and Guam have committed to using 100 percent renewable energy by 2045. Some go even further.

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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

JULY 1, 2021

In June, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) narrowly approved the construction of a new 42” diameter gas pipeline that will connect shale wells in Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Ohio to a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on the Gulf Coast, carrying over a billion cubic feet of fracked gas to be transported overseas every day.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2021

It was Thursday, October 22, 2020, when the crew aboard the Transocean Deepwater Asgard, an ultra-deepwater rig in the Gulf of Mexico, started monitoring a weather disturbance in the nearby Caribbean Sea that bore the tell-tale signs of a forming hurricane. Credit: © 2010 Julie Dermansky. “No consumes in a day. At roughly 9:40 a.m.

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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.” In that same 2010 article , Mark Schulze, vice president of safety, training, and operations support for BNSF, said, “ECP is still the right idea, but we have a couple of major hurdles before we can implement it.”

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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. In fact, from 2010 to 2021 , when Fish and Game was actively shooting wolves, fewer caribou survived. Their shadows crisscrossed the lowland tundra, where thousands of caribou had gathered to calve. In 2022, the 9th U.S.

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Grist

AUGUST 26, 2020

“Very many of us were alarmed and held expectations about his tenure lower than the Mariana Trench,” recalled John Walke, director of the Natural Resources Defense Council’s clean air, climate, and clean energy program. But to his surprise, the agency declined to provide those documents, citing exemptions in Texas public records law.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 11, 2024

He also claimed that, in the West, we are “dismantling our energy systems while our geopolitical rivals are doing no such thing”. In reality, clean energy was China’s top driver of economic growth in 2023, with the country’s $890 billion investment being almost as large as global investments in fossil fuel supply during the year.

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