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. billion (9 billion euros) from 2021. ‘Friend Methane!

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Greenpeace Italy and Re:Common have alleged in their climate lawsuit — Italy’s first — that despite knowing at least as early as 1970 that burning fossil fuels posed a serious climate risk, Eni went on to promote “natural” –- or methane – gas as a safe energy source for decades. the spokesperson stated.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 3, 2020

It expects the transactions involved to begin in the fourth quarter of 2020 and to be completed sometime in 2021, CEO Ralph Izzo said in a Friday second-quarter earnings conference call. PSEG plans to file applications this fall to seek a second round of zero-carbon subsidies and expects a decision in mid-2021. gigawatts and 2.4

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 29, 2024

That’s because a state law passed in 2021 regulating carbon capture includes a provision allowing companies to claim a wide range of project information — including location — as trade secrets. Levy was selected to sit on Louisiana’s Oilfield Site Restoration Commission in 2021 because of his knowledge of the oil and gas industry.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

The impact of poor air quality The release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere is well known to contribute to climate change, with carbon dioxide and methane being the subject of many global and national mitigation strategies that aim to break the vicious cycle of global warming. Air Pollution: A Case for Action Beyond 2021.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Its chair, Marie Donnelly, last night expressed concern at the “problematic” sectoral targets, which she described as “not consistent” with the objectives of Ireland’s climate laws. per cent in the decade to 2021, with a corresponding rise in water pollution and declines in air quality caused by an increase in nitrogen fertiliser use.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

The assertions also lack detail, face technical problems, ignore leaking methane emissions, and depend on government subsidies for funding. To complicate matters further, new research suggests that fugitive methane emissions from fracking operations are far higher than official data indicates. And that is from just one project.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

While the pandemic initially provoked a swift and immediate short-term reaction, the vaccine’s rollout can now afford key legislators the chance to plan for the ‘next normal’, with 2021 assuming extra significance as the UK hosts the UN’s COP26 in Glasgow later this year. So where does this put us?

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Such reductions require massive infrastructural changes, especially in our homes, where water and food are often warmed with what is known as “natural gas” but is better understood as methane gas, a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change. This money is not enough, but these are the beginnings of these programs,” she said.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2021

However, one kernel of hope highlighted in the report is the prospect of the wave of net zero pledges from countries over the past two years soon making their way into law, and then in turn being translated into effective on-the-ground policies to slash emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 28, 2023

Though it has applied for them, the company behind this operation has yet to receive the permits it is required by law to construct or operate the engines to power a cryptocurrency mine. The company is required by law to obtain a plan approval from DEP prior to installation and operation of the air contamination sources,” Decker said.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 26, 2021

link] via @ABC — NM State Land Office (@NMLandOffice) May 20, 2021. nmpol #nmleg — New Mexico Oil & Gas (@NMOilAndGas) May 12, 2021. See how much your county receives: [link] #nmpol #nmleg pic.twitter.com/VYYgQsiGFY — New Mexico Oil & Gas (@NMOilAndGas) May 11, 2021. Well pad near Roswell, NM.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 22, 2024

The BBC is committed to science-led climate reporting and in 2021 signed the Climate Content Pledge, promising to do “more and better climate story-telling on screen across all genres.” Even relatively small methane leaks during the process of extracting, shipping, and processing natural gas contribute significantly to global emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Under the law , the U.S. JBS, the world’s largest meat company — whose methane emissions exceed the combined livestock methane emissions of France, Germany, Canada and New Zealand — has also claimed to be on a net zero pathway based on offsets. The airline has pulled certain ads from the market.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 28, 2022

Eight years after allowing a shale gas company to drill beneath Deer Lakes County Park for methane gas, the Pennsylvania county home to Pittsburgh has banned all industrial activity in the area’s eight other parks — despite a veto from the county executive. Taken March 2021. Credit: Tim Resciniti.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 25, 2023

Hoboken is making this claim against fossil fuel companies under the state-level equivalent of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, a federal law used successfully to prosecute organized crime groups such as the Mafia starting in the 1970s and later the tobacco industry. Credit: U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 4, 2021

So much attention, in fact, new SPACs were viewed as coming to the public market at a “frenzied” pace, with more proceeds raised in SPAC IPOs from July 1, 2020 through April 1, 2021 than in the preceding 10 years. generating RNG production facilities that could be the subject of a roll?up About the Author.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

GB News has been the UK’s leading climate science denial media outlet since it launched in June 2021. He added that “peer-reviewed scientific research states that the rapid [global] warming is substantially due to the methane, nitrous oxide, and fossil fuel emissions we produce.”

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak chose the very day of the summit to announce that his government will push off the deadlines for phase-outs of methane gas-burning boilers, as well as sales of new gasoline and diesel-fueled cars. While not a silver bullet solution, she told DeSmog, litigation is certainly “part of the answer.”

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

LNG boom threatens to release vast amounts of methane, a powerful climate pollutant that is the main component of natural gas. Yaw to discuss the Chester terminal, Michał Kurtyka, who served as Polish environment minister between 2019 and 2021, joined by video to speak in favor of the plan. Credit: Edward Donnelly.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2024

Not only does our project provide a comprehensive solution for sequestering CO 2 and H 2 S,” Piñon Midstream co-founder Steven Green said as construction of the plant kicked off in April 2021, “it also substantially reduces flaring and greenhouse gas emissions in southeast New Mexico.”

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Grist

JUNE 5, 2024

The last IPCC assessment of climate science, published in 2021, calculated that greenhouse gases were producing a warming effect of around 1.5 Europe and North America have had clean air laws in place for almost half a century. Burning fossil fuels produces both planet-warming carbon dioxide and aerosols that mask much of the warming.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

A recently published chapter of the Harvard Law Review argues that “While utility companies have been building and profiting off fossil fuels without internalizing the down-stream consequences and costs for decades, their regulators—state agency leaders—have approved their actions at every step of the way.”.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The analysis , however, found that 63 percent of the more than 3,000 online posts and videos posted on YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook by Royal Dutch Shell, TotalEnergies, Repsol, Eni, Fortum and Preem between December 2019 and April 2021 presented the energy companies as “green”. New challenges need new solutions.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2022

billion over the next nine years to plug inactive oil and gas wells whose owners can’t be found, under the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, dispensed in grants to state oil and gas regulators. The federal government intends to spend $4.7 Historic redlining and the siting of oil and gas wells in the United States.”

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 10, 2024

Labour plans to overhaul planning laws, and massively expand the grid to transport electricity in pylons across the country from dozens of new solar and wind farms. McCarthy was the shadow environment and farming secretary from 2015 to 2016, and the shadow minister for green transport from 2020-2021.

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Business Green

JANUARY 15, 2021

China is aiming to promote large-scale carbon capture projects and to track methane emissions from coal, oil, and gas extractions, as part of a new set of green policy guidelines unveiled by its Ministry of Ecology and Environment on Wednesday. — liu.hongqiao (@LHongqiao) January 13, 2021. hours are available.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In February 2021, German agribusiness giant BASF hosted a virtual wine tasting, a seemingly cozy affair swirling glasses of Portugal’s finest in front of a webcam debating the future of EU agricultural policies. Invited to the event was a small group of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs).

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38 North Solutions

JULY 30, 2022

The House of Representatives and Senate worked on their own climate proposals throughout 2020 and 2021, independent of one another. Methane and Superfund. -$15 Should this bill become law, from 2022-2024, these credits are extended and restored to their full value. 100 billion. . . Total Spending. -$485 485 billion.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

According to DeSmog’s analysis of two different sets of company data from 2019 and 2019 through July 2021 , approximately 95 percent of all excessively inaccurate meters ran “fast,” meaning they record overestimates of gas usage that translate to higher monthly bills. What informed our analysis?

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

You’ve got plenty of company after the events of 2021: Heat waves, hurricanes, fires, and floods hit new and deadly extremes. Sachs’ view was backed in a July 2021 study from the San Francisco-based think tank Energy Innovation, which pulled together eight research efforts by universities and other experts. That’s begun in Cascadia.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MARCH 11, 2021

On March 1, 2021, the TCI released draft Model Rules for public review. For each ton of emissions above the number of allowances in the State Fuel Supplier’s compliance account at the compliance deadline, three allowances must be submitted, plus any other penalties under state law.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The curbing of emissions to reduce the concentration of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane in the environment. The name for the agreement reached at the 2021 UN climate conference in Glasgow, COP26. SLCPs include black carbon, methane, and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). Anthropogenic. Resulting from human beings.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 1, 2021

In stopping climate change, time is as important as tech Jonathan Foley Mon, 03/01/2021 – 01:30 This article originally appeared on the author’s personal blog, and was written in that capacity. Despite the name, this isn’t a physical “law” of the universe but rather a set of recommendations. That’s it.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

based Center for International Environmental Law has reported. In May 2021, a Dutch court ruled that the company must slash its emissions by 45 percent by 2030, compared to 2019 figures after a case brought by environmental organisation Milieudefensie.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The Looming Crisis and Awakening Opportunity 2020 was a brutal year and 2021 has been off to a rough start. The trend only looks to be intensifying in 2021 with Larry reinforcing his message and companies like General Motors , the largest US automaker, planning to phase out vehicles with internal combustion engines by 2035. million.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

“It may provide something of a roadmap for future cases,” Jennifer Rushlow, dean of the Maverick Lloyd School for the Environment, professor of law, and faculty director of the Environmental Law Center at Vermont Law School, told DeSmog. In Norway, a climate lawsuit trial got underway during the same week as the Belgium ruling.

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