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. Fossil fuels are not only poisoning our planet – they’re toxic for your brand,” he said.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Fossil fuels, primarily gas, are a fixture in millions of American homes and businesses, but the building sector’s climate impact hasn’t received the same scrutiny as coal and gas in the power sector or oil in the transportation sector. Fortunately, that’s changing. Gas Infrastructure Spending Is Rising Rapidly.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

A year after successfully producing biomethane from forest biomass, the GAYA platform has seemingly achieved a world first with the production of its first cubic metres of renewable gas from Solid Recovered Fuel (SRF).

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 25, 2023

Hoboken is making this claim against fossil fuel companies under the state-level equivalent of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, a federal law used successfully to prosecute organized crime groups such as the Mafia starting in the 1970s and later the tobacco industry. Credit: U.S.

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Charged

JUNE 28, 2022

However, many may be surprised to learn that a substantial amount of this grant money has been used to subsidize fossil fuel-burning vehicles, in preference to EVs, and to promote the consumption of natural gas. If you look at [South Coast], we’ve never reached attainment for national ambient air quality standards, ever.

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Front And Centered

AUGUST 29, 2022

This includes a 15% corporate minimum tax, a stock buyback tax, and a methane leakage tax. The law takes a flawed approach of subsidizing energy corporations as its main thrust instead of investing in energy justice for consumers. The Act also empowers the federal government to negotiate drug prices. Gaping Gaps.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Canadian pipeline company TC Energy is aiming to expand the volume of methane gas that it ships through a long distance pipeline in the Pacific Northwest, potentially locking in higher gas use despite laws in western states that chart a path away from fossil fuels in the years ahead.

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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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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

“Pipeline injection is a national hydrogen strategy for the Netherlands, for Germany, for France, for Australia , for South Korea, for Japan,” said Mona Dajani, head of the renewable energy and green hydrogen practice of law firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman. ” U.S. green hydrogen pilots and proposals.

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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. But I grow anxious just thinking about it.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Vague ethics laws, lack of enforcement, and a campaign finance system soaked in fossil fuel cash all combine to make the Texas Railroad Commission a “captive agency,” argue Commission Shift and Texans for Public Justice, two watchdog groups, in their new report. The laws are vaguely defined and that is being exploited.”.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

These seven members of the public serve on the Virginia State Water Control Board, an independent regulatory body tasked with administering the state’s water laws. However, it is no less dangerous to the planet than other fossil fuel pipelines. The harm from the MVP will mirror its massive scale. . The MVP has received over $2.5

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

billion invested in fossil fuels firms, including oil and gas majors Chevron, Shell, and Equinor, as of June 2023. private equity firm KKR, also has a large fossil fuel portfolio , including 188 assets in oil, gas, and coal. DeSmog also revealed that Marshall Wace – Paul Marshall’s hedge fund – had £1.8

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2024

Tax credits for Piñon would be another way that CCS incentives are being used by the oil and gas industry to fuel fossil fuel development. The EPA’s 712-page approval makes no mention of the plant’s safety record, the fire, or its causes. When contacted by DeSmog, Piñon Midstream declined to comment.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Under the current plan, ships travelling within the EU will be required to pay for 100 per cent of their carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrogen dioxide emissions for journeys within the bloc, and 50 per cent of emissions of journeys to or from a non-EU destination.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

The government went one step further and in April, set the world’s most ambitious climate change target into law: to reduce emissions by 78% by 2035 compared to 1990 levels. Launched in March this year, the drive to decarbonise industry forms a major part of the UK’s journey to 2050 net zero.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2024

Weatherford, a lawyer from the corporate law firm Baker Hostetler, stated in opening arguments that Mann was so disliked that “even his own family won’t come to court to defend him.” Separate investigations by Penn State and the National Science Foundation cleared Mann of any wrongdoing.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 4, 2021

As the recent experience at ExxonMobile has shown, investors are eager to invest in, and accelerate the migration toward, energy production that does not rely on fossil fuels. Steve Carman is a Kansas City-based partner with the law firm Husch Blackwell LLP and leads the firm’s Energy & Natural Resources industry team.

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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. Some sections included safety information and tips on energy conservation, but many others promote natural gas, describe its benefits, or position gas as a clean alternative to dirtier fuels.

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Energy Innovation

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Only existing state laws and regulations as of January 2023 are included in the model. The five policies are: clean electricity standards, zero-emission vehicle standards, clean building equipment standards, industrial efficiency and emissions standards, and standards for methane detection, capture, and destruction.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

In October, she invited a university researcher onto the property and discovered that several wells were leaking methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide. This increases the risk of methane seeping into the air and oil migrating into the surrounding groundwater. The Railroad Commission would not confirm this.

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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Scientists have known this in a roundabout way for a long time: After all, the coal and oil deposits that have fueled civilization since the Industrial Revolution come from ancient marsh and marine ecosystems that, after accumulating huge quantities of carbon, were buried and fossilized over millions of years.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 13, 2021

Part of a combined heat and power system, the digester mixed cow manure with heat and bacteria to produce biogas that fueled a generator. The digester, and another the dairy installed a few years later, reduced the size of open lagoons of manure that release methane into the atmosphere. It was a novel experiment at the time.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

In October, she invited a university researcher onto the property and discovered that several wells were leaking methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide. This increases the risk of methane seeping into the air and oil migrating into the surrounding groundwater. The Railroad Commission would not confirm this.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Revelations about high-level and systemic failures of oversight — both private and public — come at a time when historic federal investments in renewable energy are threatening a constellation of fossil fuel interests and political coalitions vying to preserve profits as the U.S. economy is increasingly rocked by climate chaos.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 26, 2024

regulators are looking for ways to force fossil fuel companies to foot the bill — and Colorado is supposed to have the answer. Unless properly decommissioned, unplugged oil and gas wells can continue to leak cancer-causing chemicals and the powerful climate pollutant methane. Published in partnership with The Guardian.

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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. He will be “tasked with turbocharging the shift from volatile fossil fuel markets to home-grown clean power by 2030”. The scale of the challenge is enormous.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MARCH 11, 2021

The MOU indicates that the specific entities required to comply with the TCI-P’s allowance requirement will be “State Fuel Suppliers,” which are defined as holders of “Affected Fuel” at fuel terminals. Affected Fuel” is defined as “the fossil fuel components of motor gasoline and on-road diesel fuel.”

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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.”. Towards the end of the 1930s, HOLC was given the job of mapping out the lending risks associated with neighborhoods across the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

A few months later, the New York Times reported on the study, bringing national attention to the issue, and an op-ed in the Yale Law Journal described indoor air pollution, as a “menace” that required “comprehensive federal legislation.” American Gas Association Monthly in 1982 provided insight into growing industry concern about gas stoves.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 14, 2020

In a previous article , I analyzed the carbon footprint of producing hydrogen from fossil fuels. To recap, the carbon footprint of hydrogen production from natural gas in a steam methane reformer (SMR) is higher than from directly burning the natural gas. That is how over 95% of the world’s hydrogen is currently produced.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The curbing of emissions to reduce the concentration of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane in the environment. Commonly known as soot, it is formed from wildfires and fossil fuel consumption and contributes to climate change. SLCPs include black carbon, methane, and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). Adaptation.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Nearly two thirds of social media posts put out by six major European fossil fuel and energy companies since the end of 2019 present a “green” image of the company, despite the majority of their business activity remaining in fossil fuels, reveals new analysis by Desmog.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

NOVEMBER 14, 2015

Ani Rouskova of EOS Capital Advisors believes that solar has the greatest potential to take us off fossil fuels, which many think we must do by 2050. It was a law school lottery number for picking electives — 499 out of 500 — that led her to environmental law. What’s the future of office buildings?

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Elemental Excelerator

DECEMBER 11, 2024

With a target storage capacity of 100+ hours, the Noon long-duration battery supports a resilient grid and independence from fossil fuels, particularly in distributed settings like isolated communities and remote microgrids. including a recent California state law are driving demand for instant permitting solutions.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 18, 2023

This innovative approach to geothermal energy garnered attention from both seasoned oil and gas players with drilling know-how, as well as energy transition experts focused on replacing fossil fuels as a source of always-on power across the electric grid. Recent U.S. kg CO2-ea/kg H2 in countries with the lowest-emission grids.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

above pre-industrial levels, greenhouse gas emissions must then reduce by 43 per cent by 2030, according to the scientists, with emissions of methane cut by a third. Operators will need to switch to new production processes that rely on low and zero carbon electricity, hydrogen, fuels, and carbon management. Stranded assets.

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