DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

For instance, the company’s just-published “ Energy Transition Progress report ” references chemicals right alongside “low carbon energy” and “renewable natural gas” as examples of the company’s stated commitment to lowering emissions. Town sign for Norco, Louisiana. Shell US did not respond to a request for comment from DeSmog. Shell Norco.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Carbon capture and sequestration have often been considered technologies of last resort. As emissions keep rising and global carbon budgets decline, it is becoming increasingly apparent that if we are to stave off the worst of climate change we must deploy and scale these desperate remedies as quickly as possible. Welch, 2019).

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Dolphins and sharks are just two other marine species that could be negatively affected by seismic surveys through behavioral changes to get away from the noise. In its defense, the oil giant claimed communities had been consulted in 2014, at the time Impact Africa was granted the license. In 2009 the company paid out $15.5

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 11, 2023

Records show that the company has lobbied during the past three years on California’s climate strategy, toxicity provisions, low carbon fuel standards, as well as its oil and gas production policies. Of the states WSPA represents, California produces the most crude oil by far.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Release of report expected to call for major shift away from fossil fuels has been delayed by several hours after government officials wrestled over headline conclusions for policymakers. It is the first such report published by the UN body since the Paris Agreement was signed, with the fifth assessment cycle wrapping in 2014.

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Business Green

AUGUST 2, 2022

It said it will take action to slash its emissions and neutralise any remaining emissions with "additional, quantifiable, real, permanent, and socially beneficial offsets" in order to achieve net zero annual carbon emissions by 2040, which is 10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement targets of 2050.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The study comes as the EU Commission is also facing criticism this week from green groups for including carbon sinks in its updated 55 per cent emissions reduction target for 2030 - raising fears it could undermine the effectiveness of moves to strengthen the bloc's medium term emissions targets.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In this Low Carbon Prosperity Institute (LCPI) analysis, we explore scenarios of carbon reduction investment performance based on the revenue allocation described in Initiative 1631. The measure is intended, but not required, to reduce carbon emissions in 2035 to 25% below 1990 levels, consistent with the state’s legislated target.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Climate change is already negatively impacting the health of Canadians, impacts that will become more severe in relation to the extent of warming that occurs. The link between airborne pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels and respiratory health is well-known. London (UK): Cambridge University Press; 2014.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Economics are a primary concern in a well-designed strategy to reduce carbon. The potential ways to reduce carbon emissions vary dramatically on an economic basis. The amount of carbon abatement that a given method can accomplish also has limits in scale. Some items are shown as negative cost. Intro to MAC Curves.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2022

Just over 800 cases were filed between 1986 and 2014, but more than 1,000 have been brought before the courts since then. Fossil fuel companies have lost court rulings in California, Colorado , Maryland and Massachusetts. But it's not just the fossil fuel folks.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2021

There is a generation of Millennials around the globe who have written off fossil fuels,” Chris Romer, co-founder of Project Canary, told the oil and gas industry trade publication Rigzone this month. “We “And then we’re going to create a carbon offset by plugging and abandoning that well, so it never leaks methane again.”

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Secondly, with regard to production, plastic bags contribute to global warming by releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Showcasing the extent of this pollution, the first oceanographic study conducted in 2014 examined the amount of near-surface plastic debris. The carbon footprint of plastic is ~ 6kg CO2 per kg.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

By Joshua Bledsoe , Winston Stromberg , Brian McCall , and Samantha Yeager Environmental groups and a biofuel trade association are challenging the California Air Resources Boards (CARBs) November 2024 amendments to the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard Program (LCFS or the Program).

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Although there is unlimited supply of the fossil fuels, we should go for the use of renewable energy as it is not only safe for the environment, eco-friendly but also less prone to pollutants if any. the world, there are many power plants still use fossil fuels to boil water for steam. Green Diesel, Biogas.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 16, 2021

And now, as Reuters reports, many are trying to sell-off “dozens of oil and gas fields and refineries worth more than $110 billion to curb both their ballooning debt and their carbon footprints.”. BP gets to tell investors it's reducing carbon impact. Industry’s Clean Getaway On Land.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 16, 2021

And now, as Reuters reports, many are trying to sell-off “dozens of oil and gas fields and refineries worth more than $110 billion to curb both their ballooning debt and their carbon footprints.”. BP gets to tell investors it's reducing carbon impact. Industry’s Clean Getaway On Land.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

This technique of using statements that are technically true but omit crucial information and therefore are misleading, is called paltering — and it’s an old favorite of the fossil fuel industry. In fact, it’s not the only tactic the NCBA has borrowed from Big Oil. The NCBA has also faced legal scrutiny over its use of Checkoff funds.

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2021

The Capacity Market was introduced in 2014 to reduce the risk of future blackouts as the grid becomes more reliant on intermittent renewable power sources such as wind and solar. The auction cleared at £18/kW, meaning new gas power is subsidised with public money at the rate of £18 per installed kW per year, Ember said.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 15, 2024

  🧪 Emvolon , a Boston, MA-based waste to carbon-negative fuels platform, raised $10m in funding.    🌱 forward earth , a Berlin, Germany-based automated carbon management, raised $5m in Seed funding from Revent and Speedinvest. 

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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). Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data from 2019.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Porter states in her Twitter bio that she works with “businesses with projects across the electricity, gas and oil industries”, though these professional links to fossil fuel interests were not identified on the Today programme.

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Greentown Labs

JULY 16, 2020

Leading climatetech innovation organizations launch multi-year initiative to accelerate the trillion-dollar carbon-to-value market. More than 100 gigatons of carbon, in the form of carbon dioxide, must be removed from the atmosphere by 2050. Newswise — New York City, N.Y., and Somerville, Mass., July 16, 2020.

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Energy Innovation

AUGUST 6, 2021

One such critical tipping point is the potential transformation of the world’s largest tropical forests from carbon sinks into net sources of carbon emissions. Currently, carbon emissions that result from deforestation and forest degradation (often referred to as land-use change) are offset, in part, by new reforestation and regrowth.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 15, 2021

That’s equivalent to roughly 10 years’ worth of China’s annual emissions as of 2014 — an amount that far surpasses the 90 billion ton avoidance potential of Drawdown’s top-ranked solution, refrigerant management. Carbon removal. From classrooms to boardrooms. 47 — Bioplastics. 36 — Alternative Cement. 43 — Aviation.

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GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2020

Last year, the company announced two major initiatives: Carbon renewal technology , or CRT, which breaks down waste plastic feedstocks to the molecular level before using them as building blocks to produce a wide range of materials and packaging. We knew that the circular economy and being a lot more efficient with carbon was a good idea.".

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Several weeks earlier, the foundation had also published a report containing the bombshell warning that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuels could have considerable long-term consequences for “ civilization.” Alongside dozens of other newly obtained documents, the memo shows that 1950s L.A. ’s smog problem.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

A sudden collapse of the industry - called a carbon crunch - could lead to economic disaster of epic proportions. The time is therefore now to plan an orderly wind-down of fossil fuel assets and manage the impact on the global economy rather than try to sustain the unsustainable. This may prove to be terminal. Money is gone.

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Business Green

MAY 15, 2020

Last year, the company announced two major initiatives: Carbon renewal technology , or CRT, which breaks down waste plastic feedstocks to the molecular level before using them as building blocks to produce a wide range of materials and packaging. We knew that the circular economy and being a lot more efficient with carbon was a good idea.".

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Unsustainable

MAY 7, 2020

By Jeanne Yacoubou, MS In 2014, the United States Department of Defense, the world’s biggest polluter and one of the largest sources of carbon emissions on Earth, called climate change “ a threat multiplier.” A couple of months ago, humans were using huge amounts of fossil fuels in their daily lives. It should know.

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

The largest carbon capture and storage project in the world has been delayed indefinitely due to Covid-19 Summary - Exxon has postponed development of the ‘LaBarge Carbon Capture and Storage’ project in Wyoming due to Covid-19. It contains natural gas, helium, and carbon dioxide.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Jordan Cove LNG was a colossal fossil fuel project that would have been the state’s largest single source of greenhouse gas emissions if it had been built. In September 2014, Hoyle received a $5,000 donation from Don Althoff, the CEO of Veresen, the previous owner of Jordan Cove before Pembina took over the company.

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