R-Squared Energy

APRIL 10, 2021

” Quoting from my book Power Plays : “The group’s work culminated in the release of the National Energy Policy (NEP) in May of 2001. The Bush Administration passed a number of laws aimed at accelerating the development of fracking. oil and gas production. oil and natural gas production, a dramatic drop in U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

There, he met with OPUC staff in person and exchanged emails with Lori Koho, then OPUC’s senior official overseeing natural gas utilities. He hoped that his list of complaints would show “how the unethical culture [at NW Natural] goes all the way to the top,” as one of his emails to Koho explains.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Found in the book “ Energy and Man: A Symposium ” Provenance: Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware. THACKER: One of the most important predictions is that burning coal, oil, and natural gas is adding so much carbon dioxide to the Earth’s atmosphere that it will cause changes in the climate by the year 2000.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

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.”. Sewell, a 48-year-old businessman based in Midland, Texas, founded 7S Oil and Gas LLC in 2014. One 2015 law required a special bond to be posted for wells that have been inactive for longer than two years.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

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.”. Sewell, a 48-year-old businessman based in Midland, Texas, founded 7S Oil and Gas LLC in 2014. One 2015 law required a special bond to be posted for wells that have been inactive for longer than two years.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2022

These definitions, coupled with new anti-greenwashing laws , are meant to help suss out bad actors. Examples of companies that claim to produce (or are developing) carbon negative products include Germany-based Made of Air , renewable natural gas company Brightmark and Brooks Running.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Detailing them all would require a book, if not several, to explain and goes beyond the scope of this blog. Although heavy fuel oil is conventionally used in the shipping industry, Sleipnir operates on Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) with Marine Gas Oil (MGO) as pilot fuel and as a back-up.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

James, with the help of Tulane’s law clinic, fought to protect their constitutional right to protest in Gramercy. It also walked back restrictive rules on its books related to marches. The law is on our side,” Lavigne told me. A few days later, RISE St. Now citizens and groups like RISE St. John and the Sierra Club.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 16, 2024

The current Haber Bosch process relies on fossil fuels (~ 70% natural gas, 30% coal) and emits 2.4 Direct use in turbines: Japanese firm IHI and GE are retrofitting liquid natural gas power plant turbines to run on ammonia. Our favorite data vis wizard Hannah Ritchie’s new book is Not the end of the world. 

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Raised in Pittsburgh and one of the youngest multinational leaders, Narasimhan is fond of sharing books that inspire him on Twitter. ” Consumers Energy CEO since 2016, she was praised for preventing a bigger emergency two subzero Januarys ago, after a fire at a natural gas compressor threatened energy transmission.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The fishers in Gulf of Mexico waters off Cameron Parish, Louisiana, estimate their catch has fallen catastrophically from 1 million tons a season to 150,000 tons since the first liquefied natural gas terminal in the parish began operating eight years ago. Currently there are just a handful of offshore CCS projects in the world.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 2, 2024

Norwegian oil giant Equinor booked 14 campaigns, including three that appeared in 2022-2023 while the government was considering whether to approve its North Sea oilfield Rosebank. The project has since been approved and described by environmental law firm ClientEarth as a “carbon bomb”. James Park tube stations.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

North Carolina utility law requires energy planning and ratemaking that results in the “least-cost mix of generation and demand-reduction measures” achievable. An analysis by Research Triangle Park-based think tank RTI shows the expenditures helped avoid over $4 billion in natural gas-fired electricity.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

If passed into law, the bill would be a valuable step toward limiting misinformation about fossil fuels and countering greenwashing.” “The Spokesperson Kaitlin Power told CBC that the government would carefully review Angus’ proposal. Emilia Belliveau, energy transition program manager with Environmental Defense, applauded the bill. “If

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EDF + Business

MARCH 1, 2021

Leisure activities: Biking, Board Games, Traveling, Hiking, Brewing(coffee and beers), and Books (science and philosophy). Prior to this role, Hartmann was an Associate Partner with McKinsey and Company and leader in McKinsey’s Electric Power and Natural Gas practice in Australia where he led engagements focused on strategy and operations.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

Elizondo abandoned his plan for a career in the public sector and booked a one-way ticket to San Francisco, with no job and nowhere to live. . Goksenin Ozturkeri’s interest in renewable energy dates back to his childhood in Turkey, a country that has long depended on natural gas imports, primarily from Russia, for much of its electricity.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Lia was also instrumental in developing and overseeing passage of NYCs Climate Mobilization Act, including Local Law 97, a groundbreaking policy that requires 50,000 large buildings to slash their emissions beginning in 2024. The law is expected to eliminate 6 million tons of annual greenhouse gas emissions the equivalent of taking 1.3

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Over the past year, many professional services organizations that previously had little to say publicly about their climate change strategy — from law firms to management consultants to ad agencies — found themselves under closer scrutiny not just for their own footprint but for supporting some of the biggest climate deniers around.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 6, 2022

a 6 April Facebook post by the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association (NMOGA), asked. They are powered by oil and natural gas!”. But the tides may be turning for the fossil fuel industry as officials grapple with the need to halve greenhouse gas emissions this decade. What do all of these have in common?”

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

It contains natural gas, helium, and carbon dioxide. Once separated from carbon dioxide, natural gas is used for heating and cooking in homes and sold to power plants to generate electricity. The shale boom also sent prices for natural gas into free fall. Trump signed it into law.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

And they’ve influenced climate negotiations and climate policy for 30 years to such an extent that even climate leaders believed that constraining production, stopping infrastructure, pipelines, new [Liquefied Natural Gas] terminals, was not a climate issue.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 1, 2021

Supreme Court this week ruled in favor of a natural gas pipeline taking state land for the project’s construction. Gas wells in North Central Pennsylvania. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit resulted in the court shooting down a FERC permit for a natural gas pipeline that would run from Illinois to Missouri.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

‘Twisted Symbiotic Relationship’ One example of Peterson’s amplifying effect is his interview with Judith Curry, a former Georgia Institute of Technology climatologist who now does consulting work for clients including petroleum companies and natural gas traders. That interview has since been viewed more than 1.1 million times.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

More recently, with fracking, the United States has become the world’s largest gas producer and a major exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG). It wants to muscle in on Europe’s huge market, displacing Russian gas. With the decommissioning of coal and nuclear power stations, utilities turned to natural gas.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In 19 articles that became a widely read book, History of the Standard Oil Company , published in 1904, she exposed its unsavory practices. At the time, the public (and even many scientists) didn’t appreciate the deadly nature of DDT. That didn’t come until the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Washington Governor Jay Inslee acknowledged a shortfall during a press conference last month: “Even with our best-in-the-nation laws, and even with federal action, we don’t have enough on the books today to actually reduce carbon at the pace we need to.”. Legislators in Washington state and Oregon approved long-stymied climate bills.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2021

On the Asgard, instead of allowing some of the crew to leave, new crew members were sent out to the rig as Zeta drew nearer , according to the law firm Arnold & Itkin. That law firm now is representing at least eight aboard the Asgard, who have filed suit alleging that management left the crew in harm’s way. A Double-Whammy.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2023

So, “we still have parts of HB 6 on the books that have been shown by a court of law to not only have been moved forward illegally — but that remain in place because of the party in power — which are harming human health,” Leppla said. “If The group has also promoted state and local legislation labeling natural gas as “ green energy.”

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2024

My Administration is setting a new standard for Pennsylvania natural gas to be produced in a responsible, sustainable way, Shapiro stated in April , in discussing a collaboration with oil and gas operator CNX, a notorious polluter in the state. She figured it was just another one for carrying natural gas out of the region.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2020

Last year saw major carbon-free targets set by utilities like Duke Energy and Xcel Energy ; this week, Arizona's APS made its own carbon-free pledge in a state without big climate legislation on the books. Dominion's generation fleet centers around nuclear and gas.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

A report from Columbia University’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law identified nearly 230 local measures across 35 states that have been enacted to restrict renewable energy development. IN THEIR BOOK Merchants of Doubt , historians Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. But at the local level, challenges are mounting.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 4, 2023

Now, they say, fossil fuel use in the power sector has likely peaked, wind and solar are adding more capacity to the grid annually than natural gas has in any previous year, renewables as a source of energy will pass coal by 2025 , and total fossil fuel use across the economy will peak in the 2030s.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2025

ARC describes itself as an “international movement”that rejects “ the inevitability of decline ” and brings together an “alliance covering business, technology, culture, law, academic, the arts, and more” to “re-lay the foundations of our civilisation.”

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Add to that a growing revival of old-school climate denial, surging oil and gas production, high level calls for PR firms to cut their ties to fossil fuels, emboldened hard-right farming groups , and new anti-greenwashing laws. Canadian oil sands companies even blamed the new law for delayed sustainability reports.

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Mosaic

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The great majority of them are heated with natural gas or oil, and parked in their garages and driveways or on nearby streets are some two hundred and ninety million vehicles, an estimated ninety-nine per cent of which, as of August, run on gasoline. There are going to be some consumer horror stories that get shared.”.

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The Verge: Energy

JANUARY 20, 2025

percent from the prior year, according to Kelley Blue Book and Cox Automotive. EV sales have slowed down over the last few years, but EVs remain popular among shoppers. In 2024, US consumers bought 1.3 million EVs , an increase of 7.3 The figures do not include hybrids. EV market share was 8.1

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

But in April, Wheeler left government and joined the law firm Holland & Hart, which touted the benefits Wheeler could bring for its “energy and natural resources clients.” She also authored Y’all Fired , a forthcoming book proposing to reshape federal oversight using mass layoffs. Glenn Youngkin. And that’s not all.

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