DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

“I see this campaign as undermining access to justice and a warning off to anyone who dares stand up and fight for the level of transformation needed in Irish agriculture,” Attracta Uí Bhroin , environmental law officer with the Irish Environmental Network told DeSmog. “As From 2000 to 2010, Irish agricultural emissions had reduced steadily.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

However, when counting the combined CO2 produced by its dedicated gas turbine; the upstream CO2 and methane leaks from fossil gas production; as well as the downstream carbon emissions incurred by shipping CO2 for EOR production, Stanford University professor Mark Z. Department of Energy states it captured only approximately 3.9

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

based Center for International Environmental Law has reported. A graph projecting that the concentration of CO2 would reach 380 parts per million (ppm) by 2000 proved to be broadly accurate — the actual value that would be recorded at the turn of the century was close to 370 ppm. In 1980, Wilson used it to lobby U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 1, 2023

Close inspection of the historic arguments used by the fossil fuel industry and its partners to justify their ongoing pollution of the earth’s atmosphere — whether it be by sulfur oxides, CO2, or methane — reveals the same delay-based messaging each time they have faced the prospect of regulation.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

For BP, an important part of this strategy appears to be leveraging its academic partnerships, including Princeton’s Carbon Mitigation Initiative, which the company has directly funded and sponsored since its inception in 2000. A methane flare at an oil and gas site in the Permian Basin of West Texas.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Shortly after starting his job at NW Natural in 2000, Dye discovered that the company was losing less gas than it assumed, partly because of inaccuracies in how the utility accounted for variations in temperature and pressure across its service territory. Dye oversaw the accuracy of NW Natural’s more than 700,000 meters from 2000 until 2012.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

A growing group of environmentalists, politicians, communities, and even the industry’s own workers have become increasingly critical of the fossil fuel industry, and see room for action under the Biden administration, though most attention has been placed on hot-button topics like climate change and methane emissions.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

It is estimated that over 2000 species of insects are eaten by over 2 billion people worldwide. Lab-grown meat dramatically cuts back on carbon emissions , methane emissions, water consumption and land use. The rules are so strict, that some cheeses that we have been eating for centuries would have been banned under these laws.

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