DeSmogBlog

APRIL 24, 2024

Radium, they warned, was “a potent source of radiation exposure, both internal and external,” while the radioactive gas radon and its polonium daughters “deliver significant population and occupational exposures.” Radon is America’s second leading cause of lung cancer deaths and naturally contaminates natural gas.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JUNE 26, 2019

By way of background, two class action lawsuits filed in the District of Massachusetts alleged that Eversource and Avangrid systematically abused their influence in the natural gas transmission market in violation of federal and state antitrust laws. 27, 2018). Breiding v. Eversource Energy , 44 F.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 15, 2020

Specifically, it puts Pacific Gas & Electric and Southern California Edison in charge of managing “local RA,” or resources needed for grid reliability in the Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay Area regions. ” The CPUC first ordered CCAs to take up their own RA procurement in 2018.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 21, 2020

Pacific Gas & Electric is turning to a decidedly low-tech solution to keep its customers’ lights on for this year’s coming fire season: mobile diesel generators. Another 40 megawatts of generators were deployed to back up critical facilities such as hospitals and water treatment plants.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Jerry Brown in 2018. The funds are already allocated from state laws passed in 2007 and 2013, making them available for competitive funding solicitations or direct funding agreements over the next three years. Hydrogen fueling has received about $156 million in CEC funding but has seen only 44 fueling stations deployed to date.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The Clean Peak standard jumped from policy proposal to law of the land in Massachusetts in just a couple years. Charlie Baker originally proposed it to tackle the disproportionate costs to utility customers from just a few peak hours: as of 2018, the top 10 percent of hours drove 40 percent of the energy costs for customers in Massachusetts.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

electric sector reduced its carbon emissions by 26 percent from 2005 to 2018. Preliminary estimates for 2019 indicate that this trend is accelerating, with another 10 percent drop just from 2018 to 2019. gas system each year. The Majority of Direct Building Emissions Are Coming From Burning Natural Gas.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Climate activists say the state’s progress on reducing building emissions has been far too slow given the pace of the climate crisis, and that it needs to end incentives for energy-efficient natural gas heating. million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emitted in Connecticut in 2018 was up 2.7% for natural gas and 6.6%

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 16, 2024

An oil and gas funded group had the most registered meetings with government ministers among all think tanks last year, DeSmog can reveal. Since its launch in 2018 it has gone through a meteoric rise, quickly becoming one of Westminster’s most influential think tanks.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The CPUC’s proposed decision, set for a vote in January, also takes steps toward enabling community and third-party operated microgrids, as required under 2018 state law SB 1339. Natural gas generators would be a more effective solution, he said. Image credit: Enchanted Rock).

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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. By the end of 2023, we had reduced our greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 13.5

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2022

In 2018, when the special report was released, holding warming to 1.5 It doesn’t contradict the laws of chemistry and physics to get to 1.5 Now, previously impossible policies — like phasing out the use of natural gas or halting the construction of new fossil fuel infrastructure — seem not only possible but necessary.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Seven of the 10 most destructive wildfires in the state’s history have occurred since 2013, and 2018 was the deadliest year ever, including the Camp Fire in Butte County that claimed 86 lives. California faces unprecedented risks from wildfires.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 14, 2020

To recap, the carbon footprint of hydrogen production from natural gas in a steam methane reformer (SMR) is higher than from directly burning the natural gas. However, the laws of thermodynamics require that it always takes more energy to split water into hydrogen and oxygen than you can obtain from the hydrogen.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

Further research by DeSmog has shown that Eni’s company magazine Ecos made repeated references to climate change during the late 1980s and 1990s — while running advertising campaigns promoting natural gas, which is mostly comprised of planet-warming methane, as a “clean” fuel. Welcome friend methane!”

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

It’s also developing another solar-only project in Nevada that was utility NV Energy’s largest when announced in 2018. The city of Los Angeles, which LADWP serves, plans to meet 100 percent renewable energy by 2045 under its Green New Deal, meaning it will have to wean itself off of natural gas.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 6, 2020

PG&E’s preparedness for wildfire mitigation was brought further into doubt in last week’s order from Judge Alsup, who oversees the utility’s criminal probation for convictions related to the deadly 2010 San Bruno natural gas pipeline explosion. Transmission line concerns could widen de-energization impacts.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Louisiana is the third state to receive this delegation of regulatory authority from the EPA, following North Dakota in 2018 and Wyoming in 2020. Both senators have emphasized the importance of CCS technology for creating high-paying jobs, reducing emissions, and maintaining reliable power generation from coal and natural gas.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

There, he met with OPUC staff in person and exchanged emails with Lori Koho, then OPUC’s senior official overseeing natural gas utilities. He hoped that his list of complaints would show “how the unethical culture [at NW Natural] goes all the way to the top,” as one of his emails to Koho explains.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

Shell last year advertised for a new staff member to manage its TikTok campaigns, while oil and gas giant ExxonMobil has been the highest advertising spender on Facebook and Instagram in the last five years, shelling out $23.1 million since June 2018. As the study also pointed out, however, these firms invested just 1.7

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

DECEMBER 20, 2018

In a published opinion issued on October 23, 2018, Save Lafayette Trees v. City filed a demurrer, claiming that the petition was time-barred under the 90-day limitations period applicable to zoning and planning decisions under state law. City of Lafayette , Case No. Petitioners appealed. Background for Appeal.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

DECEMBER 20, 2018

In a published opinion issued on October 23, 2018, Save Lafayette Trees v. City filed a demurrer, claiming that the petition was time-barred under the 90-day limitations period applicable to zoning and planning decisions under state law. City of Lafayette , Case No. Petitioners appealed. Background for Appeal.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

“In my entire time working on these campaigns I never heard mention of oil and gas companies.” Documents made public by the Senate investigation, however, show that Exxon knew in 2018 that capturing carbon might be hard, and modelled a much smaller deployment of carbon capture under a low-emissions scenario than rival Shell.

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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.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Ecolab says it helped its customers save enough water in 2018 equivalent to the needs of 600 million people. Yet about six months in as president and COO at Starbucks, she was terrified in 2018 to hear that two Black men had been arrested needlessly at one of its Philadelphia stores. I felt like it happened under my watch.".

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2022

Mills, an organic vegetable gardener and self-described energy geek who prefers gin and tonics to ganja, spent 40 years at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab before retiring in 2018 as a senior scientist, although he remains an affiliate there. As an example, Mills told me about the Solar Cannabis Co.

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CleanTX

MARCH 20, 2019

“BP’s commitment to push the next frontier of methane technology and practice is important to prove out solutions that oil and gas companies can use to accelerate emission reductions. The Principles are aimed at continuously reducing methane emissions across the natural gas value chain. BP took such a step today.”.

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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. There are situations where subsides make sense; and not just because they are easier to pass into law than pricing mechanisms.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

As of April 2018, the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) region, which encompasses the Basin, was home to approximately 34,000 warehouses with 1.17 For example, the majority of natural gas-powered trucks operating in California today are running on renewable natural gas that can have a negative carbon intensity.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

As of April 2018, the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) region, which encompasses the Basin, was home to approximately 34,000 warehouses with 1.17 For example, the majority of natural gas-powered trucks operating in California today are running on renewable natural gas that can have a negative carbon intensity.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 18, 2020

It’s aiming to be the first shipbuilder to deliver a cargo ship for ocean operation that runs entirely on fuel cells powered by natural gas. In 2018, the International Maritime Organization set the goal to halve emissions for commercial ships from 2008 levels by 2050. And the goalposts are high.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 13, 2020

One study estimated that in 2018, the LCFS program resulted in consumers paying an extra 12¢ per gallon of gasoline. Similarly, consumers may appreciate the effect that the credit price cap will have on the cost of traditional fuels, as LCFS compliance costs generally have been passed through to the pump.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 13, 2020

One study estimated that in 2018, the LCFS program resulted in consumers paying an extra 12¢ per gallon of gasoline. Similarly, consumers may appreciate the effect that the credit price cap will have on the cost of traditional fuels, as LCFS compliance costs generally have been passed through to the pump.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

For example, state records suggest that the Chevron Richmond Refinery, one of California’s largest emitters, released more greenhouse gases in 2017 and 2018 — the last years for which data are publicly available — than it has since 2008. And in several recent years, it emitted as much or more of certain air pollutants.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Shell, which was identified as the second worst offender in the study, currently channels 90 percent of its long-term investments into fossil fuels, according to recent analysis, and between 2010 and 2018, it was reported to have dedicated just 1 percent of its investments to sources of low-carbon energy such as wind and solar.

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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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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 26, 2020

In 2018, Germany appointed a commission drawn from industry, government and civil society to find a broadly acceptable way to close the nation’s substantial coal mining and power plant infrastructure. There are also compensation packages for workers in mines and power plants who lose their job as a result of the coal exit laws.

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