DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

states have passed laws designed to prevent towns, cities, and other local governments from crafting new natural gas bans or enforcing those laws, according to the report. states with new laws preventing natural gas bans, many didnt have any local natural gas restrictions to begin with, InfluenceMap notes.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 4, 2021

Only a handful of super emitters are responsible for an enormous amount of the methane pollution in the Permian basin, according to a new study. The solutions to this major source of pollution have been known for quite a while, said David Spence, a business professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Pritzker's desk to be signed into law, which he has indicated he plans to do. The bill is transformative far beyond the renewable energy sector, with policies around utility ethics reform, transportation electrification, and pollution reductions.". The Climate and Equitable Jobs Act heads to Gov.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2024

In Colorado, fossil fuel interests are vigorously opposing legislative bills meant to clean up the state’s heavily polluted air. But in 2023 and 2024, the F Minus report found, it employed the lobbying services of Colorado Legislative Strategies, a firm with multiple fossil fuel clients, including the Colorado Oil & Gas Association.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Cities all over California, as well as in Washington, Colorado, Massachusetts, and New York, are heeding the call and passing or considering laws that limit gas-powered heating and cooking appliances in new buildings. Making the electric grid more resilient to extreme weather is urgent, regardless of decisions about gas.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2021

per cent of voters strike down federal government’s plans to hike taxes on petrol diesel, heating oil and natural gas. Urban regions including Geneva, Basel, and Zurich voted in favour of the so-called CO2 law, believed to be the first time a carbon tax has been put to a public vote, but 51.6

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 1, 2021

Freezing temperatures caused cascading problems in the state’s natural-gas production and delivery network that restricted fuel supply to the power plants relied upon for about two-thirds of wintertime electricity supply. “In some cases, these costs are reported to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The tricky part with hydrogen is cleaning up pollution from the process of making it. Most hydrogen today is made using fossil fuels, and a few of the new hubs will continue using gas to produce hydrogen. The Biden administration has been planning for these hubs since last year.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 21, 2020

The bankrupt utility is struggling to secure its grid from causing more deadly wildfires and has been stymied in attempts to set up natural-gas-backed microgrids to power substations during fire-prevention blackouts. PG&E hadn’t planned on relying entirely on mobile generators this year.

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Front And Centered

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Our current laws enable utilities to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by transitioning away from natural gas to clean fuel sources for our home heating, hot water, and cooking appliances. From source to use, natural gas is a hazard to our health and well-being. We must stand up for ourselves.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2024

When Royal Dutch Shell lost a landmark climate lawsuit in The Netherlands, climate advocates said the Dutch court’s ruling put polluters and their financiers on notice. liquefied natural gas (LNG). That means big polluters like ING and Shell must also take responsibility.” This is the only way to limit warming to 1.5

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 28, 2023

The lonely well pad houses four natural gas wells that records show were initially drilled in 2011 but sat inactive for years after that. 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.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2020

But it’s also meant to drive economic development and reduce pollution in low-income and disadvantaged communities, with half of its funds designated for projects in those areas. Hydrogen fueling has received about $156 million in CEC funding but has seen only 44 fueling stations deployed to date.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 21, 2024

Under a newly proposed law, ads like these could be banned in the state of Pennsylvania. Any legislation that makes it harder for polluters to mislead the public will also make it easier to rapidly shift our economy towards clean energy,” Meisel said.

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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

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

DECEMBER 14, 2021

state of North Carolina, where absentee companies have been polluting for years. This community is my home, it’s where I grew up, and we have been fighting polluters for more than 25 years — a large natural gas pipeline and the nearby Enviva wood-pellet biomass production facility are just two of the most recent developments.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2024

In a little-noticed settlement , the SEC fined investment adviser WisdomTree $4 million for claiming that three of its investment funds were fossil- and tobacco-free — when in reality, they were loaded up with investments in oil, natural gas, and tobacco companies. versus 8.6%

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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. She didn’t foresee, however, the high energy bills that would result from cranking up the gas heater when her apartment would turn into an icebox in the winter. Illustration by Nico H.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 26, 2021

million MCF of natural gas in 2020. nmpol #nmleg — New Mexico Oil & Gas (@NMOilAndGas) May 12, 2021. Oil and natural gas production provide more than one-third of education funding in New Mexico. New Mexico produced 366 million barrels of oil and 1.94 billion in state revenues. Well pad near Roswell, NM.

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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. Welcome friend methane!”

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Climate activists say the state’s progress on reducing building emissions has been far too slow given the pace of the climate crisis, and that it needs to end incentives for energy-efficient natural gas heating. rise in emissions from natural gas. for natural gas and 6.6% for fuel oil. It’s complicated’.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The ‘sustainability marketplace’ is just beginning to blossom with opportunity as nature’s threat reveals itself worldwide. Consumers need new options for less wasteful and less pollutive products, packaging, transportation, and energy. Clean Energy. Here are some companies making supply chains more sustainable and efficient.

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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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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 28, 2021

For nearly four years, Piedmont Natural Gas — one of Duke’s wholly owned subsidiaries — and the state’s other major gas distribution company have stymied incentives for new high-efficiency homes, claiming with scant evidence that the rebate scheme will lose them customers. Musser questioned.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JULY 27, 2020

Just over a year ago, the city of Berkeley, California, became the first City in the United States to ban natural gas hookups in new buildings. In November 2019, Brookline, Massachusetts, approved a by-law that would prohibit the installation of oil and gas heating systems in new construction starting in 2021.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Last month, ExxonMobil sued two of its “activist investors” — groups that try to use shareholder resolutions to pressure companies into taking action on social and environmental problems — in an attempt to block a proposal for the oil giant to limit its climate pollution from coming to a vote at an upcoming shareholder meeting.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The policy will see the UK end all taxpayer support for new overseas crude oil, natural gas, or thermal coal projects, with "very limited exceptions". The ban will apply to all UK public finance, including export finance, aid funding, and trade promotions, the government said. Friends of the Earth campaigner Rachel Kennerley?also

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

It will also explore how complex or jargon-heavy language can be used to mislead costumers and whether companies that fail to provide all relevant information about the sustainability of a product of service - for example, whether it's non-recyclable or highly polluting - have breached consumer law.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Oil and gas isn't what it used to be. Oil companies are most famous (or infamous) for two things: profits and pollution. Many supermajors and small players worked to get a piece of the Permian Basin natural gas boom, leading to overproduction in 2019 that crashed the price of the fuel.

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Front And Centered

MAY 17, 2019

It allowed the state to “remedy discrimination against, or under-representations of, disadvantaged groups as documented in a valid disparity study or proven court of law.” By respecting communities’ ability to thrive in place, and relationships to place, we can reduce pollution and build resilience. A Regenerative Economy.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The substance of the report is that there is still time to save the world’s peoples from the catastrophic consequence of pollution, but time is running out,” Ikard said. I love how he calls greenhouse gas emissions from cars “pollution.” How long did the oil and gas pretend that CO2 isn’t pollution?

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

This comes as major polluters are increasingly deploying digital tactics to detract from negative headlines about their record profits and decades-long contribution to climate change. It also appears that major polluters have been using influential environmentalists to bolster their social media campaigns. million views.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

This article provides a primer on the three major policy building blocks available for reducing carbon pollution: pricing mechanisms, subsidies , and regulations. The same elasticity effect applies to pollution. Economists argue that Pigouvian taxes , like a carbon tax, are the most economically efficient means of reducing pollution.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

For instance, the company’s just-published “ Energy Transition Progress report ” references chemicals right alongside “low carbon energy” and “renewable natural gas” as examples of the company’s stated commitment to lowering emissions. Gail LeBoeuf, co-founder of Inclusive Louisiana and Cancer Alley resident, speaks to reporters.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 29, 2020

So far, the clean energy industry has largely embraced a "rising tide lifts all boats" approach: If renewables companies help clean up the grid, that will naturally reduce pollution for the communities of color who experience it most acutely. The clean energy industry can easily frame itself as the more virtuous answer to fossil fuels.

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