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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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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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

MARCH 12, 2024

The donation comes on the heels of the Conservative government issuing hundreds of new oil and gas licences in 2023, and writing annual licensing rounds into law. Offshore gas fields worldwide are major sources of emissions of methane, a powerful, short-lived greenhouse gas. degree-warmed world.

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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

MAY 6, 2021

If you live in Oregon, it’s likely you’ve been bombarded with misleading PR from the local utility company, Northwest Natural, about the potential for what the industry is calling renewable natural gas (RNG) — methane captured from places like landfills and repurposed into energy for homes.

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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

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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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

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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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

JANUARY 17, 2024

Some of these cases have been brought under consumer fraud or protection laws that penalise companies for misrepresenting their products to the public. “The increase in CO2 and methane has corresponded with increasing industrialisation, use of fossil fuels, intensification of agriculture and deforestation. The Washington D.C.-based

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

During a landmark congressional hearing in October 2021, Democratic Rep. In early 2021, API produced a draft one-pager on CCS as part of an internal review of the lobby group’s position and initiatives on climate change. According to a 2021 Government Accountability Office study , the U.S. Internal documents from the U.S.

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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

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

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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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

APRIL 29, 2021

The number of orphaned wells in oil and gas producing states nationwide continues to increase, as does the amount of planet warming methane emissions leaking from them. In fact, methane is up to 86 times more potent than carbon dioxide in the first 20 years after entering the atmosphere. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 29, 2022

Blue hydrogen’s supporters have argued that the world needs the gas-dependent fuel until it could scale up affordable clean hydrogen (known as “green hydrogen,” which uses renewable energy and does not produce any carbon dioxide or methane emissions). But the bill, which was overseen by the fossil fuel-friendly Sen. Department of Energy.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

Earlier this year , a campaign NCBA began in 2021 called “ Beefing up Sustainability ,” and a corresponding campaign targeted to kids , advanced to the final round. Screenshot of an ad that ran in the New York Times on Sunday, August 8, 2021. Screenshot of an ad that ran in the New York Times on Sunday, August 8, 2021.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

California, Oregon, and Washington have all passed laws and enacted policies that require utilities to dramatically cut carbon pollution over the next decade. Out of 425 gas project proposals FERC considered between 2000 and 2021, the agency has rejected only two. percent a year on average through 2050. Credit: Rogue Climate.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In 2021, the mothballed carbon capture unit was demolished. However, when counting the combined CO2 produced by its dedicated gas turbine; the upstream CO2 and methane leaks from fossil gas production; as well as the downstream carbon emissions incurred by shipping CO2 for EOR production, Stanford University professor Mark Z.

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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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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 17, 2023

With the growth of e-commerce and demand for faster shipping (which means burning more fuel), maritime emissions increased nearly 5% between 2020 and 2021. Further, many of the largest businesses are state- or family-owned, beholden not just to the laws of the free market, but political dynamics to boot. What’s new?

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

Lotus LLC office and truck yard in Andrews, Texas, in April 2021. Credit: Justin Hamel ©2021. Credit: Justin Hamel ©2021. Accordingly, we will seek restitution under the law for personal and financial injury caused by any misrepresentation caused by this.”.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Multnomah, Oregon, has added NW Natural — Oregon’s oldest and largest supplier of “natural” gas, also known as fossil or methane gas — to the list of defendants in a lawsuit that seeks to make fossil fuel companies pay $52 billion for their role in the deadly 2021 Pacific Northwest heat dome.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The purpose of the Index is to compare the hydrogen commitments made at national governmental level in the UK and sixteen other countries in 2021 and summer 2023. The seventeen countries were scored across their hydrogen commitments in national strategy and supporting measures for hydrogen supply, infrastructure, demand, and standards.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

36% of small business owners have seen their energy bills spike in 2021; with one in five experiencing a 15% surge, and one in ten reporting a hike of 20%. is President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), passed into law in August 2022. And leading this transition in the U.S. meet net-zero goals.

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