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Exclusive: Norway’s Equinor Forced to Withdraw Key Carbon Capture Claim

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Broken Equipment Equinor had previously acknowledged that faulty monitoring equipment at Sleipner caused it to over-estimate the amount of CO2 it was capturing at the field for several years, as DeSmog reported in October. Credit: Sabrina Bedford. million tonnes of CO2 at the site. In August, chief executive Anders Opedal announced up to $6.7

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UK Net Zero Secretary Claire Coutinho Meets And Praises Climate Science Denier Reform Candidate

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The UK government’s most senior climate minister has publicly celebrated a petrol campaigner who wants to “scrap net zero” and claims “man is not responsible for global warming”. Coutinho, who was photographed smiling with Cox, hailed his ‘PumpWatch’ campaign to monitor the price of petrol and diesel.

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Bernadette Del Chiaro Wants to Make California Solar a Force of Nature

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solar industry. The state leads the country by housing about half of the nation’s total installed solar capacity, according to the latest data from the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). Concern that the Golden State’s solar industry could weaken is heavily rooted in the murky future of solar policy.

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GIS Owners in California Must Comply With SF6 Regulation

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

CARB’s SF6 Regulation applies to all entities that own GIS, including many entities that do not otherwise emit and report greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions such as wind farms, solar parks, and geothermal plants. For comparison, carbon dioxide has a global warming potential of 1. Background on SF6 Gases.

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GIS Owners in California Must Comply With SF6 Regulation

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

CARB’s SF6 Regulation applies to all entities that own GIS, including many entities that do not otherwise emit and report greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions such as wind farms, solar parks, and geothermal plants. For comparison, carbon dioxide has a global warming potential of 1. Background on SF6 Gases.

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How 4 Top US Utilities Are Grappling With the Energy Transition (or Not)

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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. NextEra Energy: America's renewables behemoth. Today, no U.S. Today, no U.S.

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The Economic Case for ‘Blue Hydrogen’ Is Getting Worse. Cue the Lobbyists.

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The push to sell “blue hydrogen” as a clean energy fuel — which experts have called a misleading rebrand of fossil fuels — hit another setback this month. Climate provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 are bringing new economic headwinds to the gas-derived hydrogen fuel’s prospects.