Charged

JUNE 28, 2022

As regular Charged readers know, California, which suffers from some of the worst air pollution in the US, has an alphabet soup of incentive and grant programs intended to promote adoption of zero-emission or low-emission commercial vehicles. marine, construction and agricultural vehicles) doesn’t have a widely available electric alternative.

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Terra Infirma

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Jackson gives a brief history of human’s approach to pollution as follows: Foul and flee: the prehistoric, nomadic approach of “do what you want, if you deplete resources or make a mess, you move on.” I loved it.

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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

JULY 16, 2024

But a growing chorus of California legislators say that nonenforcement stance violates a groundbreaking law they fought to pass just months ago — and they, along with dozens of environmental groups, are demanding that regulators change course. They’re pointing to AB 1167, signed into law by California Gov.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

Further research by DeSmog has shown that Eni’s company magazine Ecos made repeated references to climate change during the late 1980s and 1990s — while running advertising campaigns promoting natural gas, which is mostly comprised of planet-warming methane, as a “clean” fuel. ‘Friend Methane! ‘Friend Methane!

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 29, 2024

That’s because a state law passed in 2021 regulating carbon capture includes a provision allowing companies to claim a wide range of project information — including location — as trade secrets. Fossil Economy Campaign Manager for the Center for International Environmental Law. “It So that was the cost.

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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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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

They soon discovered that static electricity had caused entrapped methane from the flatulence and manure of 90 dairy cows to explode. According to the United Nations , reducing methane emissions from cows could be one of the quickest ways to slow climate change. Headline writers had a field day. million dairy cows.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Brausch for The Verge Homeowners who want to reduce their carbon footprint by getting rid of polluting appliances have the US government’s full support. The pollution from using a gas heater was also a major concern. Illustration by Nico H. Not so with apartment dwellers. It was a great work-from-home spot,” Spears said.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

But his wife began experiencing nausea and skin blotches, and testing showed that the Ely’s water was contaminated with methane, according to the grand jury investigation. A 2016 federal report confirmed that the water was unsafe to drink, showing worrying levels of chemicals such as arsenic and lithium, as well methane, metals, and salts.

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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

DWR measures the CO2 and methane emissions from the wetlands it created on Sherman Island. Established in 2006 by the law AB32, the cap-and-trade system seeks to reduce the state’s greenhouse gas emissions by harnessing market forces. The longer-term goal is to reverse them. Jonno Rattman / Bay Nature.

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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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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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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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EDF + Business

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

According to Climate Power’s Clean Energy Boom report, the law has driven $278 billion in clean energy investments, creating over 170,000 new jobs in 44 states. Take Action: File comments by October 2 nd expressing strong support for EPA’s proposed updates to methane reporting requirements.

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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. Indeed, at 42 inches in diameter and 303 miles long, the MVP is the largest methane gas pipeline currently under construction in the U.S. billion MVP is now $2.5

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2024

The incident offers a rare window into some of the inner workings of private oil companies while also revealing how taxpayers can wind up paying enormous subsidies to carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) operations that generate far more climate-altering pollution than they prevent. So far, that’s not what’s happening.

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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

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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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2023

The Plan for Water , released by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) this morning, outlines the government's intention to change the law to increase penalties on water companies that break environmental law, and make it easier for regulators to impose fines on firms without lengthy court processes.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

EDF+Business program staff participated in meetings and panel presentations, including: Victoria Mills, director of corporate climate policy leadership; Elizabeth Sturcken, director of net zero acceleration; Katie Anderson, manager of supply chain and agricultural methane. An urgent new warning from the U.N. manufacturing. $28

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This shaped federal regulation of both indoor and outdoor air pollution. 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.”

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Business Green

OCTOBER 22, 2021

It said the 12 industry and expert figures on the Commission, which is to be chaired by University of Cambridge international law professor Lorand Bartels, would have a formal role to inform MPs and the public about how new free trade deals are consistent with UK green laws.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

He said that it was important for the government to have “interlocking policies” on “the quality of our rivers”, “marine protected areas”, “air pollution”, and “nature restoration”. Subscribe to our newsletter Stay up to date with DeSmog news and alerts Email Address What content do you want to subscribe to?

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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

MAY 26, 2021

“The answers are simple and urgent — raise royalty rates and taxes on the industry, stash away the revenues in our Permanent Fund to stabilize cash flows, and spend current budget dollars on investments to diversify our economy,” Thomas Singer, senior policy advisor at the Western Environmental Law Center, told DeSmog via email. CC BY 2.0).

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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

JUNE 26, 2024

Unless properly decommissioned, unplugged oil and gas wells can continue to leak cancer-causing chemicals and the powerful climate pollutant methane. The law was passed, in part, to hold fossil fuels companies accountable for their plugging obligation.

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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. Nowhere do the booklets mention electric buses or electric appliances, which, unlike their gas counterparts, do not emit harmful pollutants that exacerbate the climate crisis.

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Elemental Excelerator

DECEMBER 11, 2024

This approach to maritime efficiency prevents pollution from accumulating in ports, safeguarding the health of neighboring communities. including a recent California state law are driving demand for instant permitting solutions. alone, there are between 210,000 and 746,000 unidentified orphan wells leaking methane.

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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. Short-lived Climate Pollutants (SLCPs). SLCPs include black carbon, methane, and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). The hope is that limiting global warming to 1. Anthropogenic. Resulting from human beings.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 18, 2023

funding initiatives for EGS include $44 million for DOE’s Frontier Observatory for Geothermal Energy Research (FORGE), up to $165 million to transfer best practices from oil and gas to advance geothermal (EGS and conventional), and $84 million of support from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for four pilot EGS demonstration projects.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

For its natural gas business, it will adopt a new net zero by 2050 goal that includes upstream methane and carbon emissions related to purchased gas and downstream carbon emissions from customers' consumption. "As The new law also sets out a requirement to ensure any private economic initiative does not damage health or the environment.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

A recently published chapter of the Harvard Law Review argues that “While utility companies have been building and profiting off fossil fuels without internalizing the down-stream consequences and costs for decades, their regulators—state agency leaders—have approved their actions at every step of the way.”.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

NOVEMBER 14, 2015

Cynthia Christensen of Namasté Solar might agree, though she got into solar almost by accident — after a bet she made as a pre-law student with a boyfriend that they couldn’t handle each other’s classes. It was a law school lottery number for picking electives — 499 out of 500 — that led her to environmental law.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Investors are taking action as it is not only permitted by law but is in many cases required to ensure their ability to generate returns in the long-term as a core fiduciary duty and benefit from the opportunities associated with the shift to a net-zero emissions economy. "We

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 12, 2020

Many reports claim anything but safe working conditions for those harvesting the gems, with lax labor laws and many poverty-stricken areas being ruled by brutal military groups. Without oversight, mines can destroy animal habitats and cause extensive water pollution. Plus, it contributes to methane gas in the air.

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