DeSmogBlog

JUNE 11, 2024

The world’s 60 biggest banks funded fossil fuels to the tune of $6.9 That’s the conclusion of the 15th annual “Banking on Climate Chaos” report, which was published on May 13, and also found that the financial institutions lavished $705 billion on oil, gas, and coal in 2023—the hottest year on record.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 22, 2021

Former UK Energy Minister and original COP26 President Claire O’Neill has been cleared to take up a role at a business consultancy known for running “astroturf” campaigns for fossil fuel companies, despite warnings from the body that approves such appointments. Oil and Gas Industry Groups.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

The campaigns have been deployed across a number of social media platforms and are part of a global effort to give “millennials a reason to connect emotionally” with oil and gas firms, and to tackle their perception as “the bad guys”. In 2016, he presented the social media coverage of the company’s Make the Future London festival.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 15, 2023

This estimate considers factors such as the expected decline in importance of fossil fuel generation and the advent of nuclear supply from the Hinckley Point C power station currently under construction. 2016-2021). It also considers the potential for net imports or exports of energy through interconnectors.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 25, 2024

As a result, this environmentally friendly fuel requires less energy and space than traditional fuels, natural gas, or other methods of producing H2. Uses less space and energy than natural gas, fossil fuel, and existing hydrogen production methods.  Whitaker Irvin, Jr. While the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruled on Wednesday 18 December that the advert had misled consumers by promoting what the bank was doing internally to reduce its climate impact but failing to mention its contributions to climate change by financing fossil fuel projects.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 20, 2020

Back in 2016, First Solar proved in a California pilot project that utility-scale solar farms can provide critical transmission grid services. First Solar’s 2016 project with California grid operator CAISO and the U.S. Four years later, the leading U.S.-based How it works: Staying ahead of the curve.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

It continues to refine its drilling technology to make residential drilling and heat pump installation easier and more competitive with incumbent fossil fuels. He joined when Opower had about 30 employees, then served as chief marketing officer as the company went public in 2014 and was acquired by Oracle in 2016.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 21, 2024

Marked “confidential,” the presentation introduced “Scenario D,” where the price of carbon is high, fossil fuel production and consumption had significantly declined, and economic growth had started to contract. Credit: U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget An internal document released by the U.S. Released by the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 22, 2024

The BBC has produced dozens of films and articles for oil and gas companies, agricultural giants, fossil fuel states, and high-emission transport firms in recent years, DeSmog can reveal. Fossil fuels are not only poisoning our planet – they’re toxic for your brand,” he said.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2024

Now, the Dutch NGO that successfully sued Shell over its climate plans is taking those financial backers to court in a case that could help reverse the global banking sector’s support of fossil fuel firms and their activities. liquefied natural gas (LNG). ING headquarters in Amsterdam, Netherlands. billion to the sector.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Today, the Consumer Energy Alliance ( CEA ) — an organization funded by oil and gas producers — released their own report that presents a different narrative about energy production and air quality in Pennsylvania, a state that’s become one of the nation’s largest producers of fossil fuels.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 23, 2020

Fossil-fueled combined-heat-and-power systems will continue to take a back seat to distributed solar and energy storage for behind-the-meter generation — although resilience against wildfires, hurricanes and other extreme weather events will drive adoption of both. market by 2025, according to Maze-Rothstein.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Exelon’s generation fleet includes 18,700 megawatts of nuclear generation capacity and another 12,300 megawatts of natural gas, hydroelectric, solar and wind energy. In July, Dominion Energy agreed to sell its competitive natural gas businesses to Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway for $9.7

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

But the newly adopted measures, which were announced last week, leave the London-based multinational with plenty of flexibility to continue financing fossil fuel extraction — and some critics say they don’t go far enough. Publicly, Barclays has signaled an intent to pivot away from fossil fuels and help power the rise of green energy.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

Panelists, who included representatives from the energy banking industry and advisors to energy companies seeking financing, also expressed strong commitment to continue working to fund the expansion of fossil fuels. Bankers Plan to Fund Fossil Fuels As Long As It Pays. Lending Issues Due to Failed Economics, Not ESG.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 10, 2021

A UK-Canada event last week praised 26 “exceptional individuals actively working to move Canada to net-zero emissions”, five of whom work for companies and investors involved in the fossil fuel industry, including the Canadian oil sands. TAG), the largest natural gas transporter in Brazil.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 28, 2020

microgrid market since 2016, with only 58 megawatts of projects on the books, according to WoodMac’s survey of projects of at least 100 kilowatts in size. The coronavirus pandemic has thrown a wrench into U.S. The first half of 2020 was the slowest for the U.S.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Its mission: to offer products that "promote the harmonious relationship of the individual with oneself, with others and with nature.". Working under group CEO Roberto Marquez, João Paulo Ferreira’s Latin America CEO position has overseen the heart of the original business since 2016.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2024

Of the 64 total board members at Omnicom Group , WPP , Interpublic Group (IPG), Publicis Groupe , Dentsu and Havas , 32 have significant experience in carbon-heavy sectors such as fossil fuels, fossil fuel financing, plastics, utilities, and aviation. Twenty-two are still serving in roles at such companies.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 12, 2023

In an effort to gain federal approval for a natural gas storage project in south Louisiana, Sempra LNG lobbyists crafted letters for Louisiana elected officials to send to federal regulators in support of the project. billion cubic feet of natural gas. billion cubic feet of natural gas. Mike Reese and Rep.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

In 2022 the Quest project, which converts fossil fuels into hydrogen, was revealed to have emitted more carbon dioxide than had been sequestered. I have to operate in the world of affordability and reliability, and natural gas is going to be an essential part of that to be able to mitigate against emissions.”

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

billion acquisition of Florida utilities Gulf Power and Florida City Gas from previous owner Southern Company, it has so far been unsuccessful in that pursuit. In 2016, NextEra’s $4.3 But beyond last year’s $6.4 Amid this welter of mergers and acquisitions proposed or consummated, U.S. And Exelon Corp.,

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

natural gas production comes from federal leases in the Gulf of Mexico, according to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. gas is produced, have been surprised to find that about 4 percent of the natural gas they pulled from the ground was leaking into the atmosphere. oil production and 1 percent of U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 13, 2024

But behind the plant’s shiny facade is a worrying reality — experts say that CCS’s success in mitigating climate change is still unproven and could, in fact, harm regional decarbonization while continuing fossil fuel use. We can’t rely so much on unproven technologies.” The campaign has worked. said Sisilia Dewi, 350.org

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

In this respect, they can emulate or replace natural gas-fired peakers and help address distribution network bottlenecks—but usually without the same capital outlay. Microgrids (and minigrids) also often involve a mix of distributed renewables, storage, flexible demand and fossil-fuel plants.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2021

In 2016, DeSmog reported from the annual Energy Information Administration (EIA) conference that countries in Southeast Asia expected a “doubling of electricity demand by 2030, dominated by coal.” . Can Coal Replace Natural Gas? coal power has been replaced with gas power (methane/natural gas).

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in her Pennsylvania hometown, she will be facing off against some of the most powerful fossil fuel interests in the United States. LNG boom threatens to release vast amounts of methane, a powerful climate pollutant that is the main component of natural gas.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 14, 2020

Currently, Exelon's nuclear plants participate in the capacity market overseen by mid-Atlantic grid operator PJM, which is dominated by natural-gas-fired generators. billion a year for capacity in Illinois, and that overwhelmingly goes to fossil fuel. “Right now, we’re spending [up to] $1.8

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This ad, created by New York-based agency BBDO , barely mentions fossil fuels, even though it was paid for by one of the world’s biggest oil and gas companies. Among hundreds of oil and gas industry internal documents released by a U.S. These kinds of ad campaigns are popping up all over.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 14, 2020

Mexico's first three clean energy auctions, held in 2016-2017, were seen as an unqualified success, bringing major new solar and wind developers into the market and delivering stunningly low prices. AMLO focused on the energy sector as soon as he came to power. COVID-19 impacting Mexican renewables.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 12, 2020

With a long history in fossil fuels and nuclear energy, Engie has pivoted dramatically toward renewables over the past few years — a strategy that included the U.S. Despite Henry Hub natural gas spot prices below $2 per MMBtu, Avice-Huet said Engie is not investing in new U.S. It hasn’t always gone smoothly.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 13, 2020

2020: Fossil fuels are dead, long live the sun Hunter Lovins Thu, 08/13/2020 – 00:15 We’re female entrepreneurs and environmentalists. In this strangest of all years, as the death toll mounts from a disease caused by human incursions into once intact ecosystems, we’re observing another death — the demise of fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2022

Indigenous leaders have called on Citigroup to stop financing oil and gas projects in the Amazon, saying the bank’s activities contradict its climate pledges by putting the threatened ecosystem at greater risk. Second Largest Fossil Fuel Funder. Between 2016 and 2020, Citigroup provided an estimated $43.8

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

In November, he instructed his province’s public utilities, SaskPower and SaskEnergy, to stop collecting carbon taxes on natural gas as of January 1, 2024, if the federal government didn’t extend the same carbon price carve out to his province. The most extreme reaction was from Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2022

consulting and PR firm, with a long history of waging influence campaigns for fossil fuel corporations, is under scrutiny by a congressional committee as part of a broader investigation into the decades-long efforts by the oil industry and its allies to block action on the climate crisis. A powerful Washington, D.C.,

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Like Hurricane Katrina and numerous storms before it, Hurricane Ida demolished Louisiana’s outdated, fossil-fuel-dependent energy system. Fossil-Fuel Failures. Instead, state and local government, as well as the electric utility, Entergy, continue to fight tooth and nail for more fossil-fuel-powered energy infrastructure.

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