DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 14, 2025

Equinors statement that it was capturing about 1 million tonnes of CO2 each year at Sleipner alone appears to have first been published on the companys carbon capture and storage (CCS) webpage in 2022, according to archived internet data. DeSmog asked Equinor for its data on carbon capture at Sleipner in October. Credit: Sabrina Bedford.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

California has more distributed energy resources than any other state, pressuring it to find ways to integrate them into the grid. That’s the big change enabled by a Rule 21 revision entitled “conditions that allow distributed energy resources to perform while avoiding upgrades.”

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 14, 2024

We had first reported on this project in the latter half of 2022, but the plans for it had been in place since 2020. A geothermal system was not part of the initial plans for the project, but the developers chose this technology to make the building operations more sustainable. This is expected to be completed by next year.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 7, 2023

Proposed laws to curb antibiotic use on UK farms drafted after closed-door meetings with industry contain loopholes that could undermine the fight against deadly drug resistant bacteria, campaigners have warned. Civil society groups were not invited.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

The industrial revolution – despite its many benefits – sounded a death knell for air quality, increasing coal-generated smog levels 50-fold in many large cities. A 2022 report from the World Bank estimated that the global health cost of mortality and morbidity caused by exposure to fine particulate matter air pollution in 2019 was $8.1

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2024

This year’s summit, known as COP16, follows on from the last biodiversity conference held in Montréal in 2022, when negotiators struck an historic deal – the equivalent of the Paris Agreement on climate change – to “halt and reverse” nature loss. Some of these groups have lobbied against regulations to protect nature.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 15, 2021

California regulators have approved a microgrid plan directing $200 million to help communities build networks that can supply power through the state’s extended wildfire-prevention blackouts, a task expected to take years to move from planning to completing its first projects.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2024

This summer, just seven months after the fire ripped through Dark Horse, the EPA approved a key “monitoring, reporting, and verification” plan for the project — a key step in enabling the company to claim carbon capture tax credits that could be worth over a quarter of a billion dollars. So far, that’s not what’s happening.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 23, 2022

Although potentially providing significant avenues for energy savings and prosumer capability, such products attract potential data security and privacy risks. The regulation was published on 12 January 2022. And where compliance is concerned, manufacturers must observe cyber security standards and regulations as well as national laws.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

From the infamous 2022 Colonial Pipeline attack (which caused the US government to invoke emergency powers to avoid fuel shortages), to last autumn’s British Library breach and a series of attacks on NHS organisations – incidents are plentiful and painful. An intern shouldn’t have keys to the boardroom.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 10, 2022

Wi-SUN Alliance – new testing and certification partners IoT, AIoT and Industrial IoT, where is the future taking us? This includes the GDPR in Europe and various state-level laws in the US,” comments Phil Beecher, President and CEO of the Wi-SUN Alliance.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

China has also made widespread use of biometric surveillance and forcibly put Uyghurs to work in Xinjiang’s cotton fields, or in other industries around the country, according to human rights groups. With its domestic fishing industry in long-term decline , the UK imports more than 80 percent of its seafood.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The EPA said it had inspected three ADM wells in mid-June — one used for storing captured carbon dioxide and two used to monitor for leaks and other problems. The lack of transparency from EPA about this leak is alarming but unfortunately in line with a failure of federal oversight for the entire carbon capture industry.”

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

That sends a clear political message that the industry “is less powerful and trusted than before,” Nick Caleb, a climate and energy attorney with Breach Collective, told DeSmog. It may signal that fossil fuel companies do not have much of a future powering the state’s economy, Caleb said.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

The US Clean Investment Monitor published its annual report for 2023, which saw clean investment total $239bn, up 38% from 2022. Winners include manufacturing, up 133% from 2022, and emerging climate technologies that saw a whopping 10x jump to $4.3bn. Energy & industry. Happy Monday!  Manufacturing.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The veterinary medicines industry dismisses concerns that it may resist implementation of the new rules, saying it is committed to building on reductions in the use of antibiotics on farms that have already been achieved, while continuing to tackle animal disease. drug makers Elanco Animal Health Inc., Phibro Animal Health Corp.,

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 10, 2020

California regulators and utilities want to build microgrids for communities most at threat from the state’s increasingly deadly wildfires, and the widespread public safety power shutoff (PSPS) grid outages meant to prevent them. Image credit: PG&E).

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2024

In a post from her official X account on Tuesday, Claire Coutinho, Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), endorsed the “persistence” of Howard Cox , director of the FairFuelUK lobby group that campaigns against charges on motorists. FairFuelUK was funded by the Road Haulage Association (RHA) until October 2022.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

These aging turbines have their rotors swapped out, their blades replaced, and key components like the generator upgraded in order to enhance the machines’ ability to produce electricity from wind. Technicians examine a wind turbine in Tianjin, China, in 2022. This process is known as “repowering.”

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Although the proposed ‘all-source’ procurement would allow existing natural gas-fired peaker plants to compete, it could also open a massive new market for renewable energy, energy storage, demand response and other preferred alternatives to fossil fuels. Fitch wrote in Thursday’s proposed decision.

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Front And Centered

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Washington passed 100% clean electricity into law earlier this year, and with public input government agencies are currently drafting rules to guide utilities on how to comply with the law by phasing out fossil fuel emissions and integrating equity in their service models. 100% Clean Energy by 2045 is now the law in Washington!

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Representatives of business and industry groups more than doubled at the UN’s latest biodiversity summit, DeSmog has found, sparking fears over the growing influence of powerful private sector bodies. The rise in industry delegates was proportionally higher than the increase in overall attendees, which rose by 46 percent.

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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. Last year was the warmest year since global records began in 1850.

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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. For these reasons, the building heating and cooling sector is one that urgently needs to be decarbonized. Heating and cooling buildings is 80% of that energy used.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 26, 2024

That’s according to a new report published Thursday by the Carbon Tracker Initiative, an energy-focused think tank. Unless properly decommissioned, unplugged oil and gas wells can continue to leak cancer-causing chemicals and the powerful climate pollutant methane. The bonding isn’t enough.

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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. Medeiros told us.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2022

On offer were a raft of clean tech innovations, from the latest smart home gizmos through to the world's most powerful e-bikes and e-scooters. Bladder-power underwater energy storage.

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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. Meet the Industry Trade Groups.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Although the communications industry has mostly sidestepped the kind of scrutiny traditionally reserved for oil and gas companies, the investors’ concerns show calls for climate accountability in the sector are getting louder. million project for an oil and gas lobby called the Canadian Energy Centre.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

AUGUST 11, 2022

5060 ), titled An Act Driving Clean Energy and Offshore Wind, into law on Thursday August 11, 2022. The law keeps the required procurement total at 5.6 Other provisions include a ban on incentives and rebates from Mass Save related to fossil fuel powered systems, except as backup for electric heat pumps.

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Business Green

AUGUST 1, 2022

Developers in three west London boroughs are being told to limit new building because the grid is full to capacity. Property developers in three west London boroughs have been told of limitations on new building because the local electricity infrastructure cannot cope, with part of the blame being placed on data centres.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 6, 2024

A wave of farmers protests in Europe earlier this year were jumped on by populist politicians, resulting in the watering down of measures including a law to restore nature – ignoring that many of the farmers’ concerns were unrelated to green rules. In its 2024 manifesto, PVV says it plans to “overhaul” European climate and energy policies.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

If you take Shell’s word for it, the oil giant’s growing petrochemical operations are indicative of its “commitment” to a cleaner energy future. It’s an apt welcome to a place where the realities of everyday life seem to be in stark contrast to the green illusion marketed by the fossil fuel and petrochemical industries.

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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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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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