R-Squared Energy

JUNE 16, 2020

The fossil fuel industry has faced serious headwinds for several years, but the rise of renewables combined with the fall in consumption as a consequence of the global corona crisis is pushing it over the edge and into “terminal decline”. The fossil fuel industry has faced an oversupply problem, as well as a public relations problem.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Those and other provisions in Virginia’s sweeping Clean Economy Act now face political uncertainty, though policy experts predict that much of the 2020 law will be able to withstand a partisan challenge thanks to Democrats’ narrow control of the state Senate. That would be my prediction.”. That doesn’t mean Republicans won’t try.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

1’s directors for voting against two recent proposals to set greenhouse gas targets that would account for the pollution caused by the fossil fuels ExxonMobil sells, and to produce a report on low-carbon business plans. billion worth of fossil fuel investments that the bill would require them to shed. 1-sponsored ETFs.”.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 4, 2020

If FERC approves the petition, it “could create chaos at the state level,” Ari Peskoe, director of the Electricity Law Initiative at Harvard University, said in a Thursday interview. In 2013, the trade group wrote a memo stating that distributed solar could “ directly threaten the centralized utility model.".

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 6, 2024

It’s a scandal that Labour is allowing Graham Stringer to stand again,” said Carys Boughton of the Fossil Free Parliament campaign group. “To But it can’t do both,” said Jolyon Maugham, director of the Good Law Project. Or it can select as an MP a candidate who is on the board of a Tufton Street climate science denial think tank.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

In Australia, a student filed a consumer complaint with Ad Standards against the financial services organization HSBC for claiming to support the protection of the Great Barrier Reef despite its links to fossil fuel operations. Between 1986, when the first climate lawsuit was filed, and 2014, approximately 800 cases were brought.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

Rishi Sunak has confirmed that a fossil fuel-funded think tank helped to draft his government’s laws targeting climate protests. Sunak’s statement yesterday appears to confirm openDemocracy’s allegation that sections of the 2022 law were ‘directly inspired’ by Policy Exchange’s report. million to the party since 2014.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. Natura, which issues a regular environmental profit-and-loss statement , went carbon-neutral in 2007 and became the first public B Corporation in 2014. The company has since whipsawed between its wholesale-energy legacy of fossil fuels and greener horizons.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

Montana has hired a climate scientist turned climate contrarian to be an expert witness in an upcoming trial challenging the state’s promotion of fossil fuels. Olson is the executive director of the nonprofit law firm Our Children’s Trust, which has spearheaded youth climate change lawsuits across the United States.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

And as a trove of industry documents reveals, Exxon is far from the only fossil fuel company selling carbon capture as its golden ticket to continue pumping its products, despite internal concerns about the technology’s feasibility. For more than three decades, our LaBarge facility in Wyoming has been a center for #carboncapture.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The bill aims to level the playing field for renewables to compete against fossil fuels. Among other things, it would fix the property line setbacks for wind farm turbines that were tripled in 2014. Indeed, most of the rhetoric around fossil fuels has focused on job protection, she noted. “I

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

billion invested in fossil fuels firms, including oil and gas majors Chevron, Shell, and Equinor, as of June 2023. private equity firm KKR, also has a large fossil fuel portfolio , including 188 assets in oil, gas, and coal. DeSmog also revealed that Marshall Wace – Paul Marshall’s hedge fund – had £1.8

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

based Atlas member think tank Policy Exchange put out a report in 2019 called “Extremist Rebellion,” describing Extinction Rebellion, an organization famous for shutting down parts of London to call for aggressive climate action, as “an extremist organization seeking the breakdown of liberal democracy and the rule of law.”

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Charged

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Governments often use selective law enforcement to blunt the effects of unwanted policies instituted by previous administrations. TIGTA says that, of the 239,422 EV tax credits claimed between 2014 and 2018, it has identified 16,510 as potentially erroneous. Is this what’s going on with an audit of federal EV tax credit claims?

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The Ohio Power Siting Board last month had 7,783 MW of solar projects in its regulatory pipeline , almost all of which had applications pending before the effective date of a new siting law that is expected to complicate future projects. That plan was reversed after Ohio lawmakers passed House Bill 6 , the state’s nuclear bailout law.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2021

Screenshot of court document published by law firm Baum Hedlund. While the work FTI Consulting did for Monsanto got a bit of attention after the court documents were released, major media outlets failed to highlight and explain the broader connection with FTI’s work on climate denial for the fossil fuel industry.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

It’s an apt welcome to a place where the realities of everyday life seem to be in stark contrast to the green illusion marketed by the fossil fuel and petrochemical industries. James Parish, a region that has become a build-out hub for the petrochemical and fossil fuel industry. Town sign for Norco, Louisiana.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

In 2014, Minneapolis used the expiration of its franchise agreement with Xcel Energy to press the utility on clean energy. When state regulators consider utility plans for new generation, for example, Orfield said, cities are increasingly using those proceedings to put pressure on utilities to transition more quickly from fossil fuels.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Continuing to subsidize polluting fossil fuels defies logic,” said Shannon Laun, a staff attorney for the Conservation Law Foundation, in a statement. “If Between 2014 and 2018, transportation emissions rose by 3%, the report said. While she said she agrees that fossil fuel incentives should be removed, “it’s complicated.”

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

The government went one step further and in April, set the world’s most ambitious climate change target into law: to reduce emissions by 78% by 2035 compared to 1990 levels. Between 1990 and 2014, small incremental changes over time, in improved energy efficiency helped the UK avoid building the equivalent of 14 new power stations.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2023

So, “we still have parts of HB 6 on the books that have been shown by a court of law to not only have been moved forward illegally — but that remain in place because of the party in power — which are harming human health,” Leppla said. Ohio also remains embroiled in a corruption scandal relating to House Bill 6.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Here, in South Africa, activists are battling not just oil companies but their own government, which supports the project because it believes fossil fuel exploration will boost the country’s energy security and would bring new jobs that would aid economic development of this remote region. In 2009 the company paid out $15.5

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

Previous reports indicate that Tufton Street groups have received substantial funds from organisations that support climate science denial in the past decade, with some donations provided directly by fossil fuel firms. Every single one of its members was given the lowest transparency rating – E – by openDemocracy’s ‘ Who Funds You?

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 28, 2023

The ban does not currently affect motorcycles, but the government has held a public consultation , which concluded in September, on extending this ban to new fossil fuel bikes and mopeds. Our leaders should block out this noise and focus their precious time on ending our addiction to fossil fuels before it’s too late”.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

He has also expressed doubts about climate science, tweeting in 2014: “I miss all those crazy articles about why we should fear climate change (burning too much) and peak oil (not enough to burn).”. In 2016, he blamed high energy prices on solar and wind power, saying on Twitter: “This is how UK climate policy works.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

All three of Garrison Strategys partners worked at CAPP during the same period of time between 2014 and 2022. McMillan served as CAPPs president and CEO from 2014 to 2022. If the ads could be connected to a specific political campaign, the Star-Phoenix noted they likely would have violated certain election spending laws.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

While they can substantially decrease a home’s fossil fuel use, it generally won’t drop to zero. The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, a quasi-public agency that runs incentive programs for clean energy technology, ran a ground-source heat pump incentive program from late 2014 through 2020.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 26, 2024

regulators are looking for ways to force fossil fuel companies to foot the bill — and Colorado is supposed to have the answer. The law was passed, in part, to hold fossil fuels companies accountable for their plugging obligation. A fracking drill rig in Weld County, Colorado, in the Denver-Julesburg Basin in 2014.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

To turn her love of nature from a hobby into a career, Adams joined MetLife as a sustainability intern in 2014. In 2017, she founded Kinetic Communities Consulting, a B Corp that helps frontline New Yorkers transition away from fossil fuels through social services, energy efficiency and technical solutions.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

However, while on the surface it may appear to be a positive shift towards lowering the greenhouse gas impact of their projects, the rhetoric about carbon-neutral LNG is mostly hollow, in another attempt to greenwash new fossil fuel projects into existence. government spent more on fossil fuel subsidies (C$1.3

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) was high on the agenda at New York Climate Week last week, where critics of the technology raised concerns it would be used to extend the life of the fossil fuel industry. The data showed us that their carbon capture plans are not working at scale.” Based upon Val Verde, since the 1970s, U.S.

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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. Law and disorder.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2021

Moreover, as energy and transport firms pivot away from fossil fuels and the global middle-class expands, the petrochemicals industry is set to become the world's biggest driver of global oil demand , according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).

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AGreenLiving

JULY 8, 2020

The United States Environmental Protection Agency defines environmental justice as “the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies.”

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2022

During this period the Environment Act - soon to be underpinned by environmental improvement targets - came into law and a host of critical strategies were published, such as the Net Zero Strategy , Heat and Buildings Strategy , Transport Decarbonisation Plan , Waste Prevention Programme and the Green Finance Roadmap.

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Business Green

APRIL 27, 2022

West Cumbria Mining, backed by venture capital company EMR, first proposed the mine in 2014, and was backed by Cumbria County Council. After the UK parliament passed more stringent carbon targets in 2019, setting in law the goal of net-zero emissions by 2050, questions about the climate effects of the mine mounted.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Stakeholders should anticipate potential delays and market impacts amid the ongoing legal challenges and the Office of Administrative Laws recent disapproval. We also provide our initial insights, especially in light of the Office of Administrative Laws (OALs) decision to disapprove the amendments on February 18, 2025.

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