Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2024 00:41:12 +0000
Big Oil could be in big trouble if Kamala Harris gets elected. She pursued them vigorously as the attorney general of California.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2024 18:00:54 +0000
Instead of getting more natural gas from elsewhere in the US, New Jersey is growing its own offshore wind industry and a new clean hydrogen hub, too.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2024 16:05:28 +0000
In my regularly iterated Short List of Climate Actions That Will Work, there’s a big broom: Price Carbon Aggressively. In the maritime shipping world, it would be a big trawler net that scoops up emissions regardless of technology, allowing the market to figure out the cheapest way to achieve decarbonization. … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2024 19:44:02 +0000
Joe Manchin has made a pretty good living from the coal industry. For decades, he has reaped enormous profits from a company he founded that sells gob — a particularly dirty kind of coal left over from mining operations — to the very few thermal generating plants that still burn … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: US Energy Information Administration| Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2024 23:45:45 +0000
Editor’s note: Unfortunately, we’re already seeing examples of global heating leading to the burning of more fossil fuels, which of course is creating more global heating. It’s a vicious cycle. Here’s the latest example. U.S. power plant operators generated 6.9 million megawatthours (MWh) of electricity from natural gas on a … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2024 14:44:09 +0000
Recently I sat down virtually with energy policy expert Jan Rosenow of RAP on my podcast “Redefining Energy — Tech” to discuss how residential and commercial building heat solutions. In the theme of providing transcripts of presentations I’m giving in various places for people who prefer the written word, this … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2024 02:28:52 +0000
Japan’s largest utility said it will start the first of three units at a new natural gas-fired power plant near Tokyo in an effort to provide more electricity during the […]
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Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2024 18:52:44 +0000
Former U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), who is now a senior policy advisor for the law firm Van Ness Feldman and co-chair of the Natural Allies Leadership Council, is keen […]
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Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2024 16:25:28 +0000
Freight logistics are going to be transforming over the coming years, and electrification is the primary wedge. It’s not only climate-friendly, but ports that take this path sooner rather than later will end up more competitive as global shipping declines. Electrification is a path to being a winning port in … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2024 12:55:21 +0000
Four years ago, things looked bleak for federal action in the industrial sector. Biden and Harris’ current plan is light on specific climate action for industry as well. The committed Kigali Amendment and Paris Accord ratifications will have flow-down impacts of course. There are research dollars for low-carbon concrete and … [continued]
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