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. That number is even lower today.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

For years, academics, journalists, and activists have been unearthing documents proving that the fossil fuel industry knew about the dangers of climate change since the late 1950s. The fossil fuel industry was first warned about climate change back in 1959 by famed physicist Edward Teller, known as “the father of the hydrogen bomb.”

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Green Tech Challenge

MAY 3, 2019

This calls for consumer behaviour change, impact innovation in the business sector, policy change and law enforcement by governments. Disposing of household and industrial waste responsibly, sorting and channelling it into the right places, will prevent repeated accumulation of waste in the ocean.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Lab-Grown Meat, Fake Meat & 3D Printed Pizzas Book Summary - There are currently several technologies in development that have the potential to provide the sustainable food of the future. This is a summary of the book ‘Kweekvlees, Fake Vlees & Pizza’s uit de Printer’ from Sebastiaan van de Water. This is called photosynthesis.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

When Laura Briggs and her husband finally found their dream home in West Texas, they knew they’d be sharing space with the oil industry. This takes some stress off your shoulders and you’re like, all you really need in life is a pair of blue jeans and a good book.”. This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center.

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Low Impact

APRIL 18, 2021

And regular usage – about 2000 active traders per week. I’m from the US originally, and I came here with the Peace Corps about 12 years ago, and I’d read Bernard Lietaer’s books, and visited Berkshares and other places. A big focus is on building social work / public food / training in permaculture and agroforestry etc.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

When Laura Briggs and her husband finally found their dream home in West Texas, they knew they’d be sharing space with the oil industry. This takes some stress off your shoulders and you’re like, all you really need in life is a pair of blue jeans and a good book.”. This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 21, 2015

I started there with the expectation that real-world finance experience would be useful and that I could navigate to an area of the company that was closer to my interest in renewable energy It was important for me to have an impact and to be hands-on with renewables. It was a powerful experience. I read it through in two sittings.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Each of these individuals is playing the long game and is in a strong position to move their companies and industries into what could be a more hopeful period of reconciliation, recovery and repair. Most support science-based targets and sit on multiple boards, collaborations and advocacy groups to further industry-level sustainability goals.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 16, 2024

  Ship Orders  Yara Eyde, a joint venture between Yara Clean Ammonia and North Sea Container Line, aims to be the  world’s first clean ammonia-powered container ship. Saudi Arabian ACWA Power outlined a $4bn green hydrogen and ammonia facility in Egypt that could produce up to 600,000 tons of green ammonia per year.

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Clean Energy Trust

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

As a result, these guidelines have only been followed in about 40% of space missions , according to Dr. Alice Gorman, a space archaeologist on the executive council of the Space Industry Association of Australia. Such a massive undertaking poses a serious risk of debris creation, and constant monitoring will be necessary to avoid collisions.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Certification is shown to attract and engage top talent, increase credibility and build trust, slash costs, meet the demands of a consumer majority, and protect a company’s mission in the long term. Today, there are over 6,000 certified B Corps , in more than 8 countries and over 150 different industries.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

James Parish town of Gramercy and its mayor, Steve Nosacka, an outspoken supporter of the oil and gas industry. James was planning to hold a protest march in Gramercy in an effort to stop an industry-friendly ballot initiative. It also walked back restrictive rules on its books related to marches. Back in the fall of 2020, RISE.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

OCTOBER 27, 2020

We are looking for a Capital Solutions Associate to support the growth of our Capital Solutions business, primarily focused on underwriting and financing distributed energy assets. Key responsibilities will include: Financial modeling across distributed energy assets, including M&A and project financing.

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Grist

JULY 6, 2024

degrees Celsius warmer than the pre-industrial average, due to the vast amounts of heat-trapping carbon dioxide that humans have added to the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels. It is part of a broader university effort to become a global leader in the climate and energy space.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 26, 2024

Having tended to have a more coal-heavy generation mix than investor-owned utilities , coops have historically lacked the access to debt and capital that would allow them to shut down aging power plants or benefit from newer technologies. Have you read?

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 2, 2024

Fossil fuel advertisers including BP, Shell, and lobby group Offshore Energies UK (formerly Oil & Gas UK) specifically requested to place some ads containing political messaging at Westminster and St. The project has since been approved and described by environmental law firm ClientEarth as a “carbon bomb”.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Despite countless investigations , lawsuits , social shaming , and regulations dating back decades, the oil and gas industry remains formidable. In 19 articles that became a widely read book, History of the Standard Oil Company , published in 1904, she exposed its unsavory practices. They weren’t about clever characters.

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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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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2021

It was Thursday, October 22, 2020, when the crew aboard the Transocean Deepwater Asgard, an ultra-deepwater rig in the Gulf of Mexico, started monitoring a weather disturbance in the nearby Caribbean Sea that bore the tell-tale signs of a forming hurricane. Events out to sea on the Asgard received little or no media attention at the time.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2020

The past decade has been a wild ride for America's massive electricity sector. Cheap wind and solar have turned the industry's conventional economic wisdom on its head. NextEra Energy: America's renewables behemoth. Today, no U.S. Today, no U.S. NextEra got into the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 9, 2024

As millions sought to evacuate from Florida ahead of Hurricane Milton, reports surged from consumers and industry watchdogs that airfares on flights out of the state were spiking, with tickets that might typically cost a few hundred dollars suddenly going for much higher. They’re behaving badly because they can.”

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 8, 2023

The NTSB has no enforcement capability, so its recommendations are often ignored by the rail industry. The rail industry has frequently argued that ECP brakes don’t work and are too costly. An industry spokesperson recently said the modern brakes, “have a ‘significant’ failure rate and lengthy repair time that makes them impractical.”

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 6, 2020

In their place he has given foxes the run of the hen house hiring fossil fuel industry advocates rather than qualified individuals. Trump is trying to brand himself as the "law and order" president. Trump and Republican's support for the fossil fuel industry further undermine the health of Americans and biodiversity.

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