DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2022

The organization that paid for the ad, and dozens of similar Facebook ads so far in 2022, was set up to spread pro-oil propaganda on behalf of the Alberta government. The Alberta government budgeted an estimated $159 million for the Canadian Energy Centre, along with “deficit and debt reduction,” in its 2022 Fiscal Plan.

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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. In 2022, Eni reported a profit of $14.12 billion (13.3

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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. million from polluting interests in 2022.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Unplugged wells frequently continue to emit methane , a greenhouse gas with a warming impact many times that of CO2. billion in global profit in 2022. The second largest holder is Aera Energy, which was owned by Shell and ExxonMobil until 2022, and which retains 8,948 idle wells. billion each.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Roy Cooper on Wednesday signed into law a bipartisan mandate that will require the state to reduce carbon emissions by 70% by 2030 and reach carbon neutrality by 2050. Charlotte, North Carolina-based Duke is working to comply with a bipartisan clean energy and emissions mandate signed into law by North Carolina Gov.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

But his wife began experiencing nausea and skin blotches, and testing showed that the Ely’s water was contaminated with methane, according to the grand jury investigation. A 2016 federal report confirmed that the water was unsafe to drink, showing worrying levels of chemicals such as arsenic and lithium, as well methane, metals, and salts.

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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. In the US, 36 percent of households rent, according to the Pew Research Center.

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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. July 19, 2022. A “Watershed in Pennsylvania’s Narrative Around Fracking”.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 26, 2024

Unless properly decommissioned, unplugged oil and gas wells can continue to leak cancer-causing chemicals and the powerful climate pollutant methane. The law was passed, in part, to hold fossil fuels companies accountable for their plugging obligation. The rest of the country needs to do it now, too.” That number is even lower today.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

EDF+Business program staff participated in meetings and panel presentations, including: Victoria Mills, director of corporate climate policy leadership; Elizabeth Sturcken, director of net zero acceleration; Katie Anderson, manager of supply chain and agricultural methane. VERGE 2022 Conference. VERGE 2022 Conference.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

A DeSmog investigation last year found that one in three GB News hosts had broadcast climate science denial in 2022, while nearly half had attacked the UK’s net zero emissions targets. GB News has been the UK’s leading climate science denial media outlet since it launched in June 2021. However, Gove’s climate record is not unblemished.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 25, 2022

The groups are represented by lawyers from Earthjustice and the Green Energy Institute at Lewis & Clark Law School. Credit: Screenshot from formal testimony to the PUC on April 22, 2022. Credit: Screenshot from formal testimony to the PUC on April 22, 2022.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2022

It wound up producing notorious “redlining” maps that explicitly discriminated against people of color based on their race — a practice PBS dubbed “the Jim Crow laws of the North.”. González (@davidJXgonzalez) April 13, 2022. Historic redlining and the siting of oil and gas wells in the United States.”

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Investors are taking action as it is not only permitted by law but is in many cases required to ensure their ability to generate returns in the long-term as a core fiduciary duty and benefit from the opportunities associated with the shift to a net-zero emissions economy. "We ahead of the upcoming COP27 Climate Summit.

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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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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MARCH 11, 2021

Each participating jurisdiction will set a “cap” of allowable emissions that declines each year, and auctions for allowances that represent these capped emissions will start in 2022. Each signatory state will sell allowances at single-round, sealed-bid auctions, held quarterly or as often as practical.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 14, 2021

California state law (SB 1383) takes effect January 1, 2022, requiring the majority of homes and businesses in the area to recycle all food and yard waste in their yard debris carts. Some experts estimate as much as 40% of landfill mass is made up of food waste.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JANUARY 12, 2022

It also encourages parties to reduce methane emissions by 2030. COP27 is currently scheduled for November 2022 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, where these conversations will no doubt continue. Mitigation : The Pact reaffirmed the goal of keeping temperature increases below 2°C and to pursue efforts to hold the increase to 1.5°

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

In December 2022, when a peer-reviewed study estimated that “ nearly 13 percent of childhood asthma cases in the United States can be linked to having a gas stove in the home,” AGA paid the consulting firm Gradient Corporation to criticize the data. This gas industry influence campaign continues to the present day. The science has also grown.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

API’s publicly released Climate Action Framework does not state that it is intended to promote natural gas,” explains a December 9, 2022 memorandum from the House Oversight Committee, a document which discusses key insights from its investigation and the subpoenaed documents.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2023

The Plan for Water , released by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) this morning, outlines the government's intention to change the law to increase penalties on water companies that break environmental law, and make it easier for regulators to impose fines on firms without lengthy court processes.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The use of these chemicals also damages the environment in other ways; much of the fertilizer used in the world today is the product of methane gas, a fossil fuel, while the wide-scale use of pesticides has been linked to the damage of ecosystems and vital populations of pollinators.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 29, 2022

Climate provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 are bringing new economic headwinds to the gas-derived hydrogen fuel’s prospects. explains: pic.twitter.com/kEJZVXxBRY — ExxonMobil (@exxonmobil) August 3, 2022. pic.twitter.com/e4RPxbM3Y9 — Shanu Mathew (@ShanuMathew93) August 16, 2022.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

In 2015, the NPPC, which claims only 3 percent of pig farmers as members, joined NCBA in lobbying to repeal a law that went into effect in 2013 allowing beef and pork producers to put “Made in the USA” labels on their product. In 2022, the Beef Checkoff granted $8.1 on how beef is sustainably raised today.”

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 17, 2023

More than 100,000 ships over 100 gross tons sailed the seven seas in 2022. 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. Dual fuel: In 2022 almost 60% of all newbuild orders by tonnage were for dual-fuel vessels.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

million tonnes of CO2/year Note: The industry-backed Global CCS Institute says five million tonnes of CO2/ year, which was the plant’s actual operating capacity in 2022. By the company’s own accounting , the plant is on track to capture 750,000 tonnes of CO2 in 2023, matching similar results from 2022.

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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. Cascade Natural Gas, a utility with customers in Washington and Oregon, says it expects that regional demand for methane gas will grow by between 0.4 Credit: Rogue Climate.

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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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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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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 22, 2024

Between 2016 and 2022, the firm sold 16 of its coal plants – a 60 percent reduction in its coal capacity. Even relatively small methane leaks during the process of extracting, shipping, and processing natural gas contribute significantly to global emissions. However, Engie chose to sell these assets rather than close them down.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Mainly, it is attributed to the resolute dedication to growing its hydrogen economy, most notably through a visionary commitment of up to $7 billion in funding from the US Department of Energy (DoE) through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Critics argue the process is unsustainable and resource heavy.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

is President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), passed into law in August 2022. Fossil fuel operations generate over one-third of all methane emissions from human activity. Fossil fuel operations generate over one-third of all methane emissions from human activity. And leading this transition in the U.S.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

When InvestigateWest launched the Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia series in January 2021, the latest official data showed that emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases had risen steadily from 2012 to 2018, and the region wasn’t on track to make big cuts this decade. “We

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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. While the U.S. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.)

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 18, 2022

[link] — No North Brooklyn Pipeline (@nonbkpipeline) August 18, 2022. pic.twitter.com/XEBj4tj8uV — Alex Beauchamp (@AlexAtFWW) August 18, 2022. greenhouse gas emissions by 42 percent by 2040 “debatable, given questionable methane accounting.” ” – Laura Shindell. ” Rep.

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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

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. Under Keir Starmer, she was appointed the shadow minister for climate change in June 2022 and has retained that role in the new Labour government.

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