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Occidental Petroleum and Chevron invest in direct air carbon capture and synthetic fuels company Carbon Engineering

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(CE) has received equity investment from two global energy companies: Oxy Low Carbon Ventures, LLC (OLCV), a subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum Corporation; and Chevron Technology Ventures (CTV), the venture capital arm of Chevron Corporation.

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@MayorOfLA Is Ready! Garcetti Comes Out Gunning For Gas – Scattergood, Haynes & Harbor Power Plants To Stop Shoving Pollution Down Citizens Throats, Calls For Shutdown Of Aliso Canyon. #MerchantsOfDoubt In Fossil Fuel Industry Argue For More Climate Destruction

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City Council, board members of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Commission and long term colleagues from the climate justice action community to be part of a historic announcement. Playa Del Rey’s other big customer is Chevron. Just like the damage they’ve done to our livable climate.

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When You See Something, Say Something: Climate Emergency Alarm Bells Ringing While Local Electeds Pretend Not To Hear

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Just four months ago, in October, the UN’s IPCC Climate Report gave us, at best, 12 years to take bold and drastic action in cutting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions if we want to limit the level of already baked-in climate catastrophe. In 2019 alone more easy-to-connect climate crisis dots have made worldwide news: .

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I’ve Done The Math – Now I’m Doing Something About It

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And so it is that I resigned from my position as Director of Strategic Partnerships and Public Affairs for CBS EcoMedia effective the first of this month and I will now be devoting my full time to working on climate change response with the South Bay 350 Climate Action Group, the South Bay Bicycle Coalition and 350.org.

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DOE awarding $72M to 27 projects to develop and advance carbon capture technologies, including direct air capture

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Chevron Natural Gas Carbon Capture Technology Testing Project. Chevron USA. Engineering-Scale Test of a Water-Lean Solvent for Post-Combustion Capture. aims to demonstrate the performance of a novel water-lean solvent for post-combustion removal of CO 2 from coal- and natural gas-derived flue gas.

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UT Austin team and partners report on extensive measurements of methane emissions during natural gas production

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The UT-led field study was a cooperative effort involving experts from the Environmental Defense Fund; Anadarko Petroleum Corporation; BG Group plc; Chevron; Encana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc.; —Mark Brownstein, associate vice president and chief counsel of the US Climate and Energy Program, Environmental Defense Fund.

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The View From Here Today

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I contributed the following to the World Wildlife Climate Witness site last week and it was published this morning. Meanwhile our long term drought, now its its third year with no end in sight, means less available water to fight the fires with. c) 2009 by Joe Galliani - This afternoon's view from my studio's patio.