DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

Policy Exchange, one of Westminster’s most prominent think tanks, engaged in a high-level influencing campaign over the UK’s North Sea oil and gas policies while being funded by fossil fuel interests, DeSmog can reveal. The International Energy Agency has stated that new oil and gas exploration is incompatible with net zero.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The series is supported by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University, and is part of their POWER project. . South, where companies find ample forests, lax business regulations, and ports along the Atlantic coast. South to burn them overseas in its power plants.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 12, 2023

The Conservative Party received a £2 million donation in March from a petrochemicals executive whose business interests include a Russian textiles plant, DeSmog can reveal. Labour Leader Keir Starmer has said that his party would reduce fossil fuel imports by investing in domestic renewable energy.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 2, 2021

With the ban of new petrol and diesel cars in place in the UK by 2030, sales of electric cars are expected to surge. Plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles accounted for more than 1 in 10 vehicle registrations in 2020, up from 1 in 30 in 2019, according to data published by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. Challenges.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

While California already has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 13 percent since their peak in 2004, many residents still suffer from high levels of air pollution — much of it produced by fossil fuels. And they have suffered collateral damage from the harmful pollutants produced by using fossil fuels. As the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 22, 2024

The BBC has produced dozens of films and articles for oil and gas companies, agricultural giants, fossil fuel states, and high-emission transport firms in recent years, DeSmog can reveal.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The pair of California leaders were there to discuss the lawsuit the state had recently filed against Big Oil on behalf of the people of California to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for the effects of climate change. But California is the first fossil-fuel-producing state to do so. History in the making….

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 22, 2022

With continued advances in energy efficiency, green technology and design, houses built today operate more sustainably than they did several decades ago. Energy efficiency. Home renewable energy systems. Philips offers an online energy calculator for consumers to figure out just how much energy they use.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

ClientEarth’s Climate Snapshot 2019 finds that: Three in five people believe that financial institutions and banks should no longer invest in fossil fuels (59%) and that they should be legally accountable if they choose to do so (60%). Too many banks, pension funds and insurers are propping up fossil fuel giants.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

When we think about innovation in renewable energy, it’s easy to assume that the materials and breakthroughs of human design hold the greatest potential to power the green revolution. This way of thinking about geothermal energy sounds like something from science fiction, and until recently it may as well have been.

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The Guardian: Energy

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Fintan Slye, head of the new grid operator Neso, is aware that critics are sceptical about achieving ‘clean power by 2030’. From this unassuming office block in the Berkshire countryside, home to National Grid’s control centre, the UK’s shift away from fossil fuels has been monitored for more than 30 years.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 2, 2021

By Shelley Robbins, Clean Energy Group. In those states, where clean energy is now gaining a stronger foothold, valuable lessons can be found. Actions by these states to change the direction of energy policy are a powerful confirmation that clean energy is a viable, cost-effective alternative to fossil fuels.

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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. An ADM spokesperson said drinking water supplies in the Decatur area were not impacted and the monitoring well in question was plugged. “We The total tab came to $414.4

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2023

Not only do pesticides directly contribute to the climate crisis, but a changing climate is likely to intensify pressure from agricultural pests and decrease plant resiliency, resulting in greater pesticide usage and therefore further greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

When you’ve followed the evolving research of a leading clean energy expert and become a supporter of his vision for a global clean energy transition, it should come as no surprise that I was eager to crack open Mark Jacobson’s 2021 book release, 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything. Jacobson’s Early Story.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

BusinessGreen brings you an overview of the key business takeaways from the Glasgow Climate Summit. Forward-thinking businesses and financiers are set to be agents of change as governments look for ways to turn ambition into action - a role that is clearly not lost on the many business leaders represented at the SEC Centre in Glasgow.

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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2021

Political and business leaders have certainly talked a good game in the wake of the coronavirus crisis. This morning sees the publication of the International Energy Agency's (IEA) influential Global Energy Review 2021 and it makes for sobering reading. Global carbon emissions are set to jump by 1.5

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

The coronavirus crisis gripping the global economy has forced clean energy analyst BloombergNEF (BNEF) to downgrade its expectations for the solar, battery, and electric vehicle (EV) markets, in one of the first signals that the escalating pandemic could undermine urgent efforts to combat climate change.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

The coronavirus crisis gripping the global economy has forced clean energy analyst BloombergNEF (BNEF) to downgrade its expectations for the solar, battery, and electric vehicle (EV) markets, in one of the first signals that the escalating pandemic could undermine urgent efforts to combat climate change.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Incentivizing Green Hydrogen: The CBAM could incentivize the production of green hydrogen , which is produced using renewable energy sources and emits no carbon dioxide. This could lead to breakthroughs in areas such as electrolysis efficiency, carbon capture, and storage, or the use of alternative energy sources for hydrogen production.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

After several delays spanning at least a year, the government has finally unveiled vision for a future net zero energy system - here are the eight things you need to know about the long-awaited Energy White Paper. To describe autumn 2020 as a busy period for green economy policy in the UK would be an understatement.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

” With more than $6 trillion of investments under management and influence in boardrooms of nearly 1,800 companies, what BlackRock says carries big weight across the corporate and political world. Coal miner Peabody Energy, for one, has seen its backing from BlackRock dwindle. In 2018 BlackRock held around 6.3

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Biomass power generation would have seemed impossible to the engineers who began building Drax Power Station in 1967. But the unique nature of Drax presents a more powerful opportunity for its future: negative emissions. The energy sector, however was beginning to change. Drax before biomass and the origin of the idea.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2021

The Future Homes Standard, which was published yesterday following public consultation, sets out plans to phase out fossil fuel heating systems from new homes, in addition to improving energy efficiency standards for new and existing homes and commercial buildings.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

Pacific Gas & Electric is on the verge of escaping from its 18-month bankruptcy , only to begin a years-long effort to prevent a repeat of the disasters that pushed it into insolvency in the first place. PG&E must keep up with the state’s ambitious clean energy, environmental and electrification goals.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

These revelations quickly spurred calls for Congress to investigate Exxon’s and other fossil fuel companies’ efforts to obstruct climate action. 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.

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The Guardian: Energy

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Is this method of preventing carbon emissions from entering the atmosphere a silver-bullet solution for the climate crisis?

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 21, 2023

As lawsuits mount against the fossil fuel sector for decades of sowing climate disinformation, the PR and ad agencies , banks , institutional investors , and law firms that work with the industry are also facing increased scrutiny. This overlap raises conflict of interest concerns, experts say.

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Business Green

AUGUST 6, 2020

This weekend will see the anniversary of the UK's first major power cut for over a decade. The systemic failings seen on August 9 2019 led to trains stuck on lines, nearly a million people without power and, of course, quick finger-pointing in a bid to make political points. Over-sensitive.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2022

The government has today placed a wide-ranging new Energy Bill at the heart of a legislative agenda that it said would prioritise growing and strengthening the economy while helping to "ease the cost of living for families". He added that the legislation "will build on the success of the COP26 Summit in Glasgow last year".

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

At the start of 2020, business and investor attention to climate change and ESG performance was surging at last. Leading the transition to net zero GHG by 2050 is the new business imperative. Tom Murray, Vice President, EDF+Business. According to a new report from Ceres , “every major U.S. Companies are in the spotlight.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Carbon accounting is a must for any becoming business today. Such businesses better meet the demands of the regulatory environment while coming into alignment with investor, consumer, and employee preferences. And to do that, this Green Business Bureau is your guide. The aim is to help the entity understand its climatic impact.

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2023

From clean energy and nature investments to phasing down fossil fuels, We Mean Business Coalition's Maria Mendiluce offers her take on what corporate climate leadership should look like over the coming year. However, it was a missed opportunity to be bolder and propose to phase out all fossil fuels.

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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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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2021

"Backed by more than £1bn investment, today's plans will make a considerable dent in the amount of carbon emissions emitting from our economy and put us on the path to eliminate our contribution to climate change by 2050," said Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng.

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Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2022

The price cap is set by Ofgem every three months and sets the maximum tariff that domestic energy suppliers can charge most households. The cause of the rise in wholesale energy costs is the price of gas. The cap applies to households on default or variable tariffs, covering about 80 per cent of homes.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Like many corporations, the global COVID-19 pandemic and lack of usual in-person events meant they had to get creative about how to shape the political debate and find new allies to support their agendas. The MEPs invited were spoiled for choice, as BASF generously delivered six small bottles of fine wines for their enjoyment.

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