DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

A little over a decade ago, Gary Dye, then a gas measurement engineer at NW Natural, Oregon’s largest gas utility, lost faith in his employer to responsibly deal with what he believed to be systematic inaccuracies among the company’s hundreds of thousands of gas meters. Faulty Meters Raise Questions About Profits.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MAY 15, 2024

” The new law, which came into effect on the 13th of May, provides the regulatory framework for geothermal exploration and development permitting. The Minister also reiterated Taiwan’s ambitious goals of building 20 MW of installed geothermal power capacity by 2025 and scaling this up to 200 MW by 2030 and 2 GW by 2040.

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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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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an "enterprise à mission," a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law. And by definition, a commodity has no value or very limited value. Cecilia Keating. Mon, 07/20/2020 - 00:30. You showed evidence that finance can change the world.

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Charged

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law includes reliability requirements for federally funded projects. It’s not clear whether the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation, which oversees federal EV charging funding, has the authority to require anything beyond “uptime” as currently defined.

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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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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

PJM and its market monitor never agree, but they agree on the topic of treating SOO Green as an external capacity. Projects like SOO Green are a quick fix for FERC because they are inter-regional, use existing right-of-way, and meet the renewable energy demand. FERC should approve this SOO Green line. Courtesy: SOO Green.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 27, 2021

On Thursday the 19 th of August, the Climate Council in partnership with the law firm Shearman & Sterling, hosted an intriguing panel to discuss a major topic in the energy industry: Will low-carbon hydrogen be the silver bullet in APAC? But the question remained, “how low carbon is low-carbon hydrogen?”

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Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The Point Tupper project is set up to be compliant with the CertifyHy™ requirements for RFNBOs According to the European Renewable Energy Directive (RED II), the report concluded that Everwind’s Phase I project design for Point Tupper is set up to be compliant with the CertifyHy™’ requirements for RFNBOs.

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Charged

MAY 8, 2023

In recent testimony, Nuvve CEO Gregory Poilasne told the lawmakers that bidirectional charging can reduce the total cost of EV ownership, and that it’s essential for integrating more renewable energy into the grid. Going bi adds several nifty new benefits to driving electric. What did you tell the folks in Sacramento? That’s one way.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MAY 2, 2024

Karg , Phil Sandick , Jacqueline Zhang , Bruce Johnson , and Samuel Wallace-Perdomo This post is the second in a series on four key power plant rules that the Environmental Protection Agency recently released. It discusses the rule on requirements governing disposal of coal combustion residuals at inactive power plants.

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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. Drivers must get a fair price at the pump.” Cox continues to spread such views.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 1, 2020

In a landmark move, California regulators last year redirected the Self-Generation Incentive Program (SGIP), the state’s main support mechanism for behind-the-meter batteries, to focus more than half of its $1.2 billion budget through 2024 on providing backup power to protect its most vulnerable populations.

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Charged

JANUARY 6, 2020

Electric SUVs are starting to appear at the high end of the market, but so far no one has built a viable electric pickup. Ford also plans to partner with the startup to build a new EV. And in September, Amazon changed the game for Rivian by announcing a history-making order of 100,000 electric delivery vans.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Build your own! I use an idea on energy-independence services to show how I would shape my own business, starting with the why (purpose) all the way to the how (non-negotiables) and the what (organization). I will be improving on the same principles and ideas of a previous article of mine called Building Enduring Businesses.

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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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Business Green

JULY 31, 2020

The climate impact of artificial intelligence - both in terms of power consumption and all the electronic waste that gadgets create - is a growing concern. What's more, the climate impact of AI - both in terms of power consumption and all the electronic waste that gadgets create - is a legitimate, growing concern.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Some sustainability initiatives – such as transitioning to an electric fleet or investing in renewable energy – can require costly investments up front but making both large investments or small adjustments over time will lead to significant financial and environmental benefits. Gaining the Upper Hand.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MARCH 3, 2025

In this context, the Commission also announced its new Clean Industrial Deal on the same day as the Omnibus. The Clean Industrial Deal aims to connect climate and competitiveness under one overarching growth strategy. The Commission also proposes to adopt a reporting standard for voluntary use by means of a delegated act.

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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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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Why push for zero-emission vessels, if the marine industry is only a small part of the total problem? That is because the fuel generally used by the marine industry is the most toxic substance imaginable: Heavy Fuel Oil, commonly referred to as HFO or IFO. The marine industry contributes significantly to these numbers.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Mountaintop removal coal mining — one of the most notoriously destructive forms of mining — has torn through over 500 mountains across Appalachia, even as coal’s dominance over American energy supplies has faded in recent years. The paper suggests that all of this might have happened in violation of federal law. Image Credit: SkyTruth.

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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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Energy and Cleantech Council

JUNE 16, 2021

Projects in rural parts of the State, where it is often easier to build solar projects, are also limited in the customers they could serve. The bill also adopts a narrower definition of “community distributed generation facility,” limited only to solar photovoltaic projects that are five megawatts or less.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Green , and James Bee On 29 January 2025, the European Commission (the Commission) launched the Competitiveness Compass, a strategic initiative that builds on the work undertaken by Mario Draghi. Regulatory Simplification and the Omnibus Proposal The Competitiveness Compass emphasises the need to simplify and reduce regulatory burdens.

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2020

SDG16's vision to "promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels" obviously places much of its onus on national and regional governments. Harness the power of technology. Think global. "A

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AGreenLiving

JULY 30, 2020

AI doesn’t have to be a power hog Heather Clancy Thu, 07/30/2020 – 02:15 Plenty of prognostications, including this one from the World Economic Forum, tout the integral role artificial intelligence could play in “saving the planet.” Right now, data centers use about 2 percent of the world’s electricity.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Th announcement follows the final consultation paper that the Green Finance and Industry Taskforce released in February 2023. The Taxonomy utilises a “transition” category, acknowledging the unique challenges and needs of Asia’s shift towards a net zero economy amidst economic growth and increasing energy demands.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2020

Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an ‘entreprise à mission', a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law. And by definition, a commodity has no value or very limited value. You showed evidence that finance can change the world.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Larry Fink’s 2020 Letter to CEOs , where he explicitly named climate risk as a “defining factor in companies’ long-term prospects,” was followed by an avalanche of climate commitments across industries throughout the year (see Microsoft , Shell , Unilever , and on ). What is ‘Climate Intelligence’? Silviaterra ).

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Business Green

JANUARY 23, 2023

However, the researchers warned that barriers to installing more charge points remain, including industry uncertainty over future demand from EVs, which the report warned was acting as a drag on the roll out of new chargers. Difficulty securing permission to law new electrical cabling across land was another barrier identified by the report.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MARCH 11, 2021

In December 2018, after having successfully reduced greenhouse gas emissions from the power sector by 53.3%, a majority of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) jurisdictions announced plans to design a program to address carbon emissions from the combustion of transportation fuels. Background. Core Principles and Mechanism.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

OCD justified the change by saying the state had determined not all residents on the island identified as part of the Tribe, and that limiting the project to a specific tribe could be seen as contrary to HUD’s rules and federal anti-discrimination laws. He shares many of the chief’s concerns regarding the resettlement project. “It’s

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2022

After many years of oil and gas companies coming under fire for targeting much of their marketing budget on touting clean energy investments that make up just a tiny fraction of their business activity, the acceptability of a firm promoting its green initiatives without provide a full picture of its environmental impact is fast receding.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Food is basically a combination of energy, water and nutrients. Some plants and micro-organisms can make food ‘out of thin air’ by simply rearranging carbon, water and oxygen molecules using energy from the Sun. Carbs are our fuel, protein and fat are the building blocks of our cells. This is called photosynthesis. Literally.

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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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Grist

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

For the past several years, Georgia Power has gone to great lengths to skirt the federal rule requiring coal-fired power plants to safely dispose of massive amounts of toxic waste they produced. This story was originally published by ProPublica. Environmental Protection Agency itself.

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