Fossil Fuels

Panelists Say Reducing Building Emissions an Uphill Battle
Even as the electricity sector decarbonizes and appliance efficiency improves, reducing GHG emissions from buildings will prove increasingly difficult.
BP CEO Explains Oil Co.’s ‘Net Zero’ Target
BP CEO Bernard Looney outlined the company's "net zero" pledge, which critics have questioned, at Columbia University's Global Energy Summit.
HECO, Hawaii PUC Go More Rounds over Clean Energy Plans
Recent orders show how Hawaii PUC’s frustration with Hawaiian Electric's halting progress on clean energy is accompanied by an increasingly weak hand.
Electrification Raises Concerns over Stranded Gas Assets, Customers
Successful development of low-carbon fuels could avoid stranding natural gas customers and infrastructure, a Con Ed official told the EBA.
Pa. Releases Rulemaking to Join RGGI
The Pennsylvania DEP published a rulemaking requiring fossil fuel generators to obtain emission allowances under the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
Algonquin Gas Appeals FERC Order on Weymouth Compressor
Algonquin Gas filed a petition with the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals for review of FERC's order to establish a briefing on the Weymouth Compressor.
Activists Urge Duke Shareholders to Reject Chair Lynn Good
The Duke Energy Accountability Coalition has called for shareholders to vote CEO Lynn Good off the company’s board of directors during its annual meeting.
TVA May Retire All Coal by 2035
TVA CEO Jeff Lyash hinted during the Atlantic Council’s Innovation and the Future of Energy webinar that the federal utility could cease coal use by 2035.
Court Proceedings, Treaty Could Keep Mich. Pipeline Open
Court proceedings and a 1977 treaty will likely keep the four-mile portion of Enbridge Energy’s Line 5 pipeline under the Mackinac Straits pipeline open.
Eversource’s New CEO Talks Future of Natural Gas
Eversource's incoming CEO Joe Nolan has spent 25 of years growing the company's renewable energy portfolio.

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