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Today’s Energy Crisis Is Very Different from the Energy Crisis of 2005

Energy Central

” World growth in energy consumption per capita was rising at 2.3% per year in the 2001 to 2005 period. China had been added to the World Trade Organization in December 2001, ramping up its demand for all kinds of fossil fuels. Back in 2005, the world economy was “humming along.”

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CONNECTICUT CLEAN HYDROGEN ROADMAP

Energy Central

Over the past few years, the state has established ambitious greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets: • 45% below 2001 levels by 2030 as mandated.

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5 Negative Impacts from Wildfires

Energy Central

From 2001 to 2023 the areas burned has increased by over 5% per year. Over the last 20 years the frequency of wildfires has doubled globally. CarbonBrief data indicates that over the past 15 years, 14 of the 20 largest wildfires on record have occurred in California.

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Fast Wildfires

Energy Central

This was from a huge study regarding wildfires in the US from 2001 to 2020. Recently, I read a really important research article in Science.

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How the Oil & Gas Industry is Helping Reduce Emissions

Energy Transfer

As a result of the increased use of natural gas to generate electricity, the air we breathe is cleaner today than it has been since the 1990s , and energy costs for the average U.S. Our Dual-Drive natural gas compression system, in use since 2001, features patented technology that involves both a natural gas engine and an electric motor.

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2023 Begins With Increased (or Unlimited) Liability for Vessel Owners

The Energy Law

Those limits were last increased in 2018 to $137,659,500 by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. [12] 438, 446 (2001). [14] 2001) (paragraph numbers omitted from quote) 11] The Coast Guard is not responsible for adjusting OPA limits for offshore facilities (other than deepwater ports). Lewis & Clark Marine, Inc. ,

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Oil Spill Liability: OPA 90 v. the IMO’S CLC

The Energy Law

1 Most nations who have adopted the CLC as law have also adopted the 2001 International Convention on Civil Liability for Bunker Oil Pollution Damages. 4 As mentioned in note 1, the 2001 International Convention on Civil Liability for Bunker Oil Pollution Damage helps to bridge this gap in liability in the CLC.

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