DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

The study , published in International Journal of Epidemiology in December 2021, looked at nearly 3 million births in the state of Texas over the course of 13 years between 1996 and 2009. million mother-infant pairs living in Texas between 1996 and 2009. That study looked at the same sample of people — roughly 2.8

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

But his wife began experiencing nausea and skin blotches, and testing showed that the Ely’s water was contaminated with methane, according to the grand jury investigation. A water well of another Dimock resident, Norma Fiorentino, exploded in January 2009. When Ely held a lighter up to a jug containing his tap water, it lit on fire.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2024

The scientist also responded to questions from his lawyer about “ Climategate ,” a 2009 global media frenzy touched off by the release of hacked emails from climate scientists at the University of East Anglia, not long before that year’s United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2022

Ostensibly a project linked to the Independent Petroleum Association of America, EID — which promotes fracking, attacks climate scientists and environmental activists, and plays up the benefits of fossil fuels — was jointly launched with FTI back in 2009. The website wasn’t just a project of small and medium-sized independent oil producers.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 was the first piece of legislation signed into law by President Obama. Ledbetter’s claim… rested not on one particular paycheck, but on ‘the cumulative effect of individual acts.’”. Because the court got it wrong, Congress was inspired to step up and get it right.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

Properly plugging and abandoning oil and gas wells is vital to protect the environment and stop methane leaks – but for decades, oil operators have often slipped away without paying to clean up, leaving millions of deteriorating abandoned wells across the U.S. and regulators in different drilling regions face different issues.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Widely known as “laughing gas”, used for its anesthetic effects, nitrous oxide (N2O) is also regarded as the third most important long-lived greenhouse gas, after carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 13, 2021

The digester, and another the dairy installed a few years later, reduced the size of open lagoons of manure that release methane into the atmosphere. The California Air Resources Board adopted the Low Carbon Fuel Standard in 2009. It was a novel experiment at the time.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

New spending on gas infrastructure tripled from 2009 to 2017, rising to $14.9 While oil is still used for heat in many Northeastern states, and propane is used in rural areas around the country, gas produces the majority of direct building emissions in the U.S. Gas Infrastructure Spending Is Rising Rapidly.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

Since 1990, methane emissions from agriculture have increased nearly 17 percent , largely because of the way manure is managed on large farms. The “latest science-based information” to which the Pork Board is referring includes Mitloehner’s campaign to downplay the impact of methane emissions from the livestock industry.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

But she has also championed development of Alaska’s substantial oil, coal, and methane gas deposits. We saw this happen starting in Copenhagen,” she said, referring to the 2009 climate talks. Civil society and the general public have been blocked out of these meetings.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Much of the focus naturally centred around industrialised countries failure to meet their 2009 promise to deliver on a $100bn a year goalby 2020, with an earlier version of the text amended to explicitly acknowledge richer nation's failure in this regard and the text calling on richer nations to find $500bn for the period between 2020 and 2025.

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Grist

JUNE 4, 2021

For example, the particularly active fire years of 2009 and 2015 in Alaska, and 2014 in the Northwest Territories, generated multiple overwintering fires the following spring. But when peat smolders, it produces mostly methane, a far more potent greenhouse gas. Zombie fires are also terrible for the planet.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

In October, she invited a university researcher onto the property and discovered that several wells were leaking methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide. This increases the risk of methane seeping into the air and oil migrating into the surrounding groundwater.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2022

On November 29, Coterra Energy and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) signed a consent order allowing the operator, one of the largest natural gas producers in the state, to drill laterally beneath an area that has been mostly fracking-free since 19 households found methane in their water in 2008 and 2009.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

In October, she invited a university researcher onto the property and discovered that several wells were leaking methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide. This increases the risk of methane seeping into the air and oil migrating into the surrounding groundwater.

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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. Inside the Great Plains Synfuel Plant in 2009.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2020

My biggest career regret is the momentum that was lost on the low carbon agenda after the global financial crisis in 2009. That we have left things too late and our emission reduction efforts are overwhelmed by accelerating deforestation and the release of methane from melting permafrost. And what is your biggest career regret?

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Lot’s of Methane. Some of you might already be aware of the ticking time bomb called methane. In 2008, scientists found that a giant amount of methane (about 50 gigatons) is trapped in the form of permafrost in Arctic regions. Will this be our last chance for one final elfstedentocht in the Netherlands? + Further Viewing.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

From his perch at Climate Depot , the blog he’s run since 2009, Morano has elevated fake climate experts, encouraged the harassment of real climate scientists , and promoted the myth of “global cooling.” In 2019, the board approved a controversial methane gas pipeline over the protest of communities in its path.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2021

In the communique posted at the close of the G20 Summit this afternoon, the influential nations also for the first time acknowledged the "significant contribution" of methane emissions to rising temperatures, and pledged to take action to "significantly" reduce releases of the powerful greenhouse gas.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

During his stint as vice president, Biden oversaw the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 , which allocated $90 billion toward clean energy. At that time, he called fighting climate change “the single most important thing” the executive team could do while in the White House.

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Greentown Labs

JULY 12, 2022

Carbonova Corp (Calgary, Canada) utilizes CO2 and methane as a feedstock to produce carbon nanofibers (CNF) that may be used in various fields such as transportation and buildings. Founded in 2009, the Urban Future Lab at NYU Tandon School of Engineering is New York City’s longest running cleantech startup incubator.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Fracking’s fiercest front man, McClendon spent his career championing methane molecules (the primary component of natural gas), as he ran Chesapeake Energy through wild booms and at least one staggering bust. Shale gas could change all that, McClendon argued, by making methane supplies abundant.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

This dynamic, according to a review of two decades of electric utility rate changes published by scholars in 2009 , creates “a bias toward the status quo or an ‘ossification’ of agency rulemaking as the expected benefits of a new policy may be outweighed by the costs of affecting the change.”. .”

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Hydrogen derived from methane — usually from natural gas, but also coal and biomass — was pioneered in World War II by Germany, which has no petroleum deposits. But CO2 is emitted in manufacturing hydrogen from methane and so it’s not climate friendly; hydrogen manufactured this way is known as gray hydrogen.

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Charged

MAY 18, 2021

So that was the basis for the EPA, under President Obama in 2009, setting the first federal greenhouse gas standard for cars. So that’s the loose relationship between the two, but regulating CO 2 doesn’t do anything for the other greenhouse gases that EPA regulates [fluorinated gases, methane and nitrous oxide].

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

President Joe Biden said he would double US climate finance for developing nations, to $11.4bn a year, a salve after rich nations have lagged a 2009 pledge of $100bn a year by 2020.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Ardern is being watched closely : Her administration has been criticized for being lenient on reducing biogenic methane from agricultural production — notably dairy cattle and sheep — which accounts for almost half of New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions and roughly 6.6 percent of its GDP. Since that time, EMF, based in Cowes, U.K.,

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 was the first piece of legislation signed into law by President Obama. Ledbetter’s claim… rested not on one particular paycheck, but on ‘the cumulative effect of individual acts.’” Because the court got it wrong, Congress was inspired to step up and get it right.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Department of Energy spent more than $1 billion on carbon capture demonstration projects since 2009 with “varying levels of success” — eight out of the 11 projects, most of them coal plants, ultimately failed. A methane flare at an oil and gas site in the Permian Basin of West Texas.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 was the first piece of legislation signed into law by President Obama. Ledbetter’s claim… rested not on one particular paycheck, but on ‘the cumulative effect of individual acts.’” Because the court got it wrong, Congress was inspired to step up and get it right.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

One of Dye’s complaints alleges that several NW Natural employees manipulated meter test data to obscure the installation of a batch of defective meters in 2009 — which remained in the field for seven years. Furthermore, SDG&E estimates their program will save customers about $7 million to $9 million over two years.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Much later, the unit would be embroiled in the manufactured “ ClimateGate ” scandal, after an unknown hacker published a cache of emails from its scientists in November, 2009. Shell explained at the time that it wanted to prepare itself to deal as “effectively as possible” with seasonal fluctuations in demand for oil.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

And in December, he said North Sea gas was needed to produce “blue hydrogen” – a fuel touted as low-carbon despite methane leakage from the gas extraction process and doubts about the carbon capture technology involved. On the first day of the COP26 climate talks last year, he said the controversial Cambo oilfield should “100% open”.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

RGGI took effect in 2009 and was recently extended another decade. Another example is the Carbon Neutral Government British Columbia program (formerly Pacific Carbon Trust), which reported 2016 reduction cost performance of $25 CDN / tCO2e following a report after the program’s first seven years (2008-2014) of 4.5 million ($12 CDN/ tCO2e).

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