DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 14, 2025

Norway, not an EU member, is home to almost all of Europes operational carbon capture capacity, which is comprised of Sleipner and a similar project also operated by Equinor at its Snhvit gas field in the Barents Sea. Credit: Sabrina Bedford. million tonnes of CO2 at the site. In August, chief executive Anders Opedal announced up to $6.7

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 9, 2020

Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson recently signed a law establishing a mandatory Building Energy Performance Standard in the city, which is the second-largest in Missouri. The standard will be set to ensure that 65 percent of the buildings in each property type will have to save energy to comply with the law. and Washington state.

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Business Green

MARCH 27, 2020

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) yesterday announced it was suspending its enforcement of environmental laws in response to the crisis, informing companies they would not be pursued for environmental infractions during the outbreak. California to double 2030 clean energy goal, as New York closes its last coal plant.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 1, 2020

For the past nine years, Chicago-based utility ComEd has earned excessive profits from a regulatory structure set in place by a 2011 state law whose passage has been linked to a bribery scandal that’s embroiled key state lawmakers and ComEd’s former CEO. The workings of the 2011 Energy Infrastructure Modernization Act.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Although the UK Government’s latest legislation solidifies their commitment to the smart meter rollout in the country, there are yet a number of issues with consumer perception and the performance of the technology that need to be ironed out, explains Michael Jary of Sense. billion ($7.1 7 million will lose functionality.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The UK was the first major industrialised nation to set Net Zero into law – now we have policy plans to get us there. Ministers have made the big decisions – to decarbonise the power sector by 2035, to phase out petrol and diesel vehicles, to back heat pumps for homes. And they have proposed policies to do it.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 11, 2023

That’s like half a million dump trucks worth of electric toothbrushes, ugly holiday sweaters adorned with LEDs, drones, and other small electronics. Hoarding the devices at home isn’t ideal, either. billion in materials — primarily iron, copper, and gold — that could have been recovered in 2019 alone, according to WEEE Forum.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Contributed by Saverio Grosso, Edison Energy. Under the Act, passed in 2019, most buildings over 25,000 square feet—roughly 50,000 residential and commercial properties across the city—must meet new energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) reductions by 2024, and stricter limits in 2030. Last month, the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The circumstances surrounding his termination are documented among thousands of pages of public records and internal company documents that provide a penetrating look into the multi-billion dollar stakes of negotiations between governments and state-sanctioned monopolies that are shaping the future of energy systems in Oregon and beyond.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2021

Legislation providing a right to repair electronic and electrical goods is long overdue in the UK, but lockdown trends have already accelerated consumer interest, writes CDSL CEO Andrew Sharp. The UN said in 2019 that the average person in Britain discards more electrical items each year than anywhere else in the world, other than Norway.

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Clean Energy Trust

MAY 21, 2020

From mobile phones to computers to electric vehicles, the convenience of on-demand power is driving demand for batteries of all shapes and sizes. Some battery systems for utility-scale energy storage are becoming so large that they need their own buildings for space. Batteries have become ubiquitous in our daily lives.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

“There’s a void underneath the houses that is filled with water — like a complete lake over there,” said Howard Brunet on August 24, just before his uncle Chris Brunet was about to sign the final paperwork on a new home. Chris Brunet, with his niece Juliette and nephew Howard at the closing of his new home on August 24.

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Grist

JANUARY 31, 2024

.” — a passage from “ Cabbage Koora ,” by Sanjana Sekhar The spotlight Nearly 4 in 5 people support doing “whatever it takes” to mitigate climate change, according to a survey published late last year by the firm Potential Energy. But support for specific policies is somewhat of a different story. .

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The global electric racing championship Formula E has been a huge success by any measure. Automakers like Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, Nissan, and Jaguar have embraced the series, which is surely the world’s most prominent showcase for electric vehicle performance. You need to manage your energy in order to be efficient.

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2020

A quarter of respondents in the latest survey said they thought climate change was affecting people in the UK as a whole 'a great deal', while 53 per cent said it was having an affect 'to some extent', compared to 14 per cent and 59 per cent respectively in March 2019.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

BASF’s wine tasting is just one example of many such pandemic-style lobbying efforts by the European agriculture industry since the EU has attempted to pass sweeping new policies to combat climate change through measures included in its “Green Deal,” first presented in December 2019. These groups spent at least a combined €45.9

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ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Heating and cooling buildings accounts for about a third of the final energy consumption globally and 30% of energy-related CO 2 emissions. Celsius Energy aims to contribute to solving this energy dilemma by providing shallow geothermal heating and cooling systems, thus reducing the carbon footprint of buildings.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

They soon discovered that static electricity had caused entrapped methane from the flatulence and manure of 90 dairy cows to explode. The need to rein in methane emissions is especially urgent in Cali­fornia, home to 1.8 One day in January 2014, police rushed to a farm in Rasdorf, Germany, after flames burst from a barn.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

DECEMBER 5, 2022

We’re closely monitoring offshore wind activities in the Gulf of Maine. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) of the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) is responsible for the development of offshore renewable energy in federal waters. Interested in learning about state-led offshore wind efforts in Maine?

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

OCTOBER 25, 2024

This approach includes streamlining regulations in areas such as clean energy, advanced manufacturing, and digital technologies to foster faster development and deployment of innovative solutions. Latham & Watkins will continue to monitor developments related to the UK Industrial Strategy.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

Furthermore, it says, the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has made "significant improvements" when it comes to measuring and monitoring waste, in particular within the commercial and industrial sector. WRAP now works with companies on an individual project basis to try and tackle the electrical waste mountain.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 25, 2022

.” The Ohio and Pennsylvania advocacy groups sent the Austin Master samples to Marco Kaltofen, a nuclear forensics scientist in Massachusetts who has extensive experience examining radioactive waste from the nuclear weapons, nuclear power generation, and oil and gas industries.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

Collectively, the 22 traders wield enough power to trigger large-scale, transformative change across the soy industry, WWF said, yet too little is being done to curtail soy-linked deforestation. Soy expansion is increasingly encroaching on African savannahs and native grasslands in Central Asia, as well, the report warned.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2022

Planned legislation covering energy, transport, and a clamp down on environmental protests was unveiled in today's Queen Speech. Energy Security Bill.

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EDF + Business

MARCH 1, 2021

He/Him/His) Energy & Sustainability Consultant, Cumming Corporation Los Angeles, CA, USA Shorenstein Realty Services (‘15). As an Assistant Project Manager, Trevor Anderson supports his Energy and Sustainability team and their clients on a variety of sustainability consulting services. Ian Champ. (He/Him/His)

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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 After a series of working group meetings on FBMSM in general and warehouses in particular, the SCAQMD released Proposed Rule 2305 in discussion draft form on November 13, 2019.

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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 After a series of working group meetings on FBMSM in general and warehouses in particular, the SCAQMD released Proposed Rule 2305 in discussion draft form on November 13, 2019.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

Furthermore, it says, the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has made "significant improvements" when it comes to measuring and monitoring waste, in particular within the commercial and industrial sector. WRAP now works with companies on an individual project basis to try and tackle the electrical waste mountain.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

APRIL 26, 2019

IWM currently has several vacancies across two sections: Residential Services and Business & Civic Services. Residential Services oversees the Recycle Plus program, which provides curbside garbage and recycling, yard trimmings, and junk pick up to approximately 210,000 single-family and 96,000 multi-family households.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

APRIL 26, 2019

IWM currently has several vacancies across two sections: Residential Services and Business & Civic Services. Residential Services oversees the Recycle Plus program, which provides curbside garbage and recycling, yard trimmings, and junk pick up to approximately 210,000 single-family and 96,000 multi-family households.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 8, 2019

The issue of whether a discussion in an EIR is sufficient is a mixed question of law and fact subject to de novo review, though underlying factual determinations in an EIR are subject to a more deferential standard. Construction would occur in five phases over 10 years.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 8, 2019

The issue of whether a discussion in an EIR is sufficient is a mixed question of law and fact subject to de novo review, though underlying factual determinations in an EIR are subject to a more deferential standard. Construction would occur in five phases over 10 years.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

And if the heat pump proves itself this winter, it could one day make its way into virtually every room in every home in the city’s public housing system. And that could just be the start for the future of home heating. Heat pumps can both heat and cool a home. This one is novel because it’s simple.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

For the past several years, Georgia Power has gone to great lengths to skirt the federal rule requiring coal-fired power plants to safely dispose of massive amounts of toxic waste they produced. This story was originally published by ProPublica. Environmental Protection Agency itself.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The system works by setting a limit on the total amount of greenhouse gases released by refineries, power plants and other large emitters, and requires polluters to obtain permits to cover their share. In-state emissions were offset by purchasing cleaner power and carbon credits from other projects that reduced emissions elsewhere.)

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2020

The past decade has been a wild ride for America's massive electricity sector. utility can be said to be close to that vision — or not outside a few fortuitously supplied and forward-thinking outliers like Vermont’s Green Mountain Power. NextEra Energy: America's renewables behemoth. Today, no U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 29, 2022

The push to sell “blue hydrogen” as a clean energy fuel — which experts have called a misleading rebrand of fossil fuels — hit another setback this month. Climate provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 are bringing new economic headwinds to the gas-derived hydrogen fuel’s prospects.

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