DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 22, 2024

In recent months, the BBC has created content for a number of oil and gas companies, including the French fossil fuel company Engie, which owns a number of coal-fired power plants and relies heavily on gas for its energy production. However, Engie chose to sell these assets rather than close them down.

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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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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 30, 2020

Law firm Haynes and Boone recently released its updated Energy Bankruptcy Reports. These reports cover North American oil and gas producers, oilfield services and midstream bankruptcies from the beginning of 2015 through 2019. As oil prices recovered somewhat after 2016, the number of filings declined to 24 in 2017 and 28 in 2018.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2024

liquefied natural gas (LNG). In a letter addressed to ING CEO Steven van Rijswijk and the first step in litigation, Milieudefensie says it believes the bank is in breach of its “duty of care” obligation under Dutch law. ING’s climate policy is miles away from what is necessary to achieve the 1.5°C billion to the sector.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

It was also modified to include a focus on projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, consistent with the state’s evolving climate mandates, and in 2016, the program was revised to allocate 75 percent of the budget to energy storage projects.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

Under growing pressure to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, developers of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are turning to questionable claims about “carbon neutrality,” “net-zero,” or “green LNG,” in order to pass muster with governments, investors, and society, who are becoming increasingly anxious about the climate crisis.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

And its ambitions are grand, with a mandate for 100 percent carbon-free energy by 2045 matched by an impressive quiver of policies supporting DER growth, from laws requiring solar on all new homes starting next year to multi-billion dollar EV charging infrastructure investments.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Among hundreds of oil and gas industry internal documents released by a U.S. Senate investigation into climate disinformation in May, an email chain revealed that ExxonMobil executives met with BBDO in 2016 to discuss a proposed package of ads highlighting CCS and low-carbon fuels. Additional reporting by TJ Jordan and Kathryn Clare.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

In Texas, property rights are split into two categories: the land on the surface and everything underground, including oil and natural gas. One 2015 law required a special bond to be posted for wells that have been inactive for longer than two years. The Railroad Commission would not confirm this.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

In Texas, property rights are split into two categories: the land on the surface and everything underground, including oil and natural gas. One 2015 law required a special bond to be posted for wells that have been inactive for longer than two years. The Railroad Commission would not confirm this.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2022

The company's homepage states that it produces "Sustainable Cannabis Powered by Solar," but the story inside reveals that the company "burns natural gas and captures heat to circulate into the HVAC system." Between 2016 and 2020, he said, the number of growers cultivating primarily indoors fell from 80 per cent to 60 per cent.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

In 2016, he presented the social media coverage of the company’s Make the Future London festival. Few of the posts flagged that they were paid adverts (something that wasn’t required under Indian law until this year ), though they all used a similar format and included Shell corporate hashtags. million views.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The 2016 AQMP analyzes existing and potential regulatory control options and seeks to achieve multiple goals in partnership with other entities promoting reductions in greenhouse gases (GHGs) and toxic risk, as well as efficiencies in energy use, transportation, and goods movement. Facility-Based Mobile Source Measures.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The 2016 AQMP analyzes existing and potential regulatory control options and seeks to achieve multiple goals in partnership with other entities promoting reductions in greenhouse gases (GHGs) and toxic risk, as well as efficiencies in energy use, transportation, and goods movement. Facility-Based Mobile Source Measures.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

These documents show how companies worked to erode public acceptance of climate science over the years — including Exxon corporate reports from the late 1970s, revealed by DeSmog in 2016, which stated “There is no doubt” that CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels was a growing “problem.”. View on DocumentCloud.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

As of 2016, the use of mineral fertilizers, which includes nitrogen-based fertilizers produced from natural gas, accounted for 39 percent of the agriculture sector’s emissions in Europe. The main ingredient in fertilizers is ammonia, which is produced from natural gas.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 13, 2020

The first amendment places a price cap on all LCFS credit transfers at $200 in 2016 US dollars, adjusted for inflation. The amendments include six key changes to the LCFS program: Maximum Tradable Price for LCFS Credits. This cap extends the existing price cap on credit transfers in the CCM to the sale of credits in the bilateral market.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 13, 2020

The first amendment places a price cap on all LCFS credit transfers at $200 in 2016 US dollars, adjusted for inflation. The amendments include six key changes to the LCFS program: Maximum Tradable Price for LCFS Credits. This cap extends the existing price cap on credit transfers in the CCM to the sale of credits in the bilateral market.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Regardless of the current price of oil, natural gas, or coal, with a carbon tax in place biofuels and renewable energy are more cost competitive with than without a carbon tax. The failed 2016 revenue neutral carbon tax , Initiative 732 , was a pure pricing mechanism. The change is required by law.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Badalian received an environmental law degree from Lewis & Clark Law School, which helped shape his policy work, he says. Most recently, Barudin led a tribal task force with the nonprofit group Vote Solar to support New Mexico's new law enabling tribes and pueblos to access community solar programs. Marta Misiulaityt?

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

If the industry was not exempt from hazardous waste law,” said Troutman, “the characterization of their waste would be far better, the tracking would be far better, and it would be harder for companies to manipulate the system like this.”. Both tanks are marked with yellow radioactivity placards.

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AGreenLiving

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

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

After the Biden administration’s bipartisan infrastructure law was passed , the administration hailed the bill’s $4.7 billion package to cap orphaned oil and gas wells as a move to tackle “super-polluting methane emissions,” saying it will combat the climate crisis and create jobs. Who Writes the Bills That Become Law?

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

James, with the help of Tulane’s law clinic, fought to protect their constitutional right to protest in Gramercy. The law is on our side,” Lavigne told me. Taylor, a retired general contractor, was driven to form the community group in 2016 after learning that the U.S. A few days later, RISE St. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

And for 85 years, the Oxbow Calcining’s 112-acre plant has been processing oil and gas products into “petroleum coke,” which is commonly used to make steel and aluminum — all the while releasing sulfur dioxide into the air of Port Arthur. Oxbow declined to comment when asked about EPA’s investigation.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 8, 2024

While climate impacts intensify along the Gulf Coast, the Louisiana, Texas, and federal governments are poised to permit a growing number of proposed hydrogen manufacturing facilities equipped with carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technology, and liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals. Edwards and former U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 31, 2022

Austin Master receives truckloads of drill cuttings bored out of the Marcellus and Utica shale and of radioactive sludge that forms at the bottom of tanks and trucks that hold toxic liquids brought to the surface of fracked oil and gas wells.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 17, 2021

energy , including 12 percent of its natural gas, 24 percent of its oil and 43 percent of its coal. Leases managed by the Interior hit a record 1 billion barrels in 2020 — a 23 percent increase from 2016 levels. In terms of resource development, Haaland inherits a department that produces the resources for 20 percent of U.S.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

Badalian received an environmental law degree from Lewis & Clark Law School, which helped shape his policy work, he says. Most recently, Barudin led a tribal task force with the nonprofit group Vote Solar to support New Mexico’s new law enabling tribes and pueblos to access community solar programs.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 29, 2021

The oil company reported plans to at least partially pay off its remaining debts, which added up to roughly $625,000 when it filed, using proceeds it expects not from the sale of oil and gas, but from an insurance claim linked to an accidental well blowout in 2019. We don’t plan to have prohibition against this, no,” Fraser answered.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 16, 2020

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has changed the rules for a federal law that allows independent energy projects to secure utility contracts for their power. But a 2017 law shortened required fixed contract length from 15 to 10 years, along with project sizing and pricing changes that have stifled development since then.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2022

The complex contains a circuit board of pipes and steel tanks that cough out steam, flames and toxic substances as it creates the building blocks for plastic from natural gas liquids. Altogether, between 2016 and 2020 the company’s facilities in the U.S. IARC defines it as a possible human carcinogen.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The United States just enacted $500 billion clean energy industrial strategy investments within historic legislation (the Inflation Reduction Act, CHIPS Act, and Infrastructure Law) that will cut emissions by one gigaton in a decade. At 2016 prices, this would save around £6 billion per year.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

He founded his law firm in Berlin in 1992. In 1995 he established the first German linked law firm in Poznan. His law firm focuses on business law, German and Polish geothermal law and has clients from Asia and Europe who invest in Germany or Poland. billion metric tons of CO2 each year from fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

For more on the climate implications of CCS, see DeSmog’s accompanying news analysis: How Carbon Capture And Storage Projects Are Driving New Oil and Gas Extraction Globally. Terrell Natural Gas Processing Plant (“Val Verde”) Operator: Occidental Petroleum, 1972-present Location: Southeast of Ft. What CCS Projects Promise.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 16, 2022

Against this backdrop, Russia’s recent invasion of Ukraine is now dramatically altering Europe’s energy equation with some European governments pledging to accelerate their shift to renewables in a bid to break from reliance on Russian oil and natural gas. 19 February 2016. Source: Simuove, Wikimedia Commons.

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EDF + Business

MARCH 1, 2021

Prior to this role, Hartmann was an Associate Partner with McKinsey and Company and leader in McKinsey’s Electric Power and Natural Gas practice in Australia where he led engagements focused on strategy and operations. Phillip participated in the Climate Corps program in 2016 with the Jacksonville Transportation Authority.

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