EDF + Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Our team at Environmental Defense Fund was beginning to study methane emissions and collaborate with companies to solve the problem. A company representative explained that natural gas, or methane, was being burned on the spot rather than sent on for productive use in the economy. Outside the van windows, flares dotted the landscape.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 30, 2020

BS EN 12619:2013 specifies the flame ionisation detector (FID) method, and is intended for use as a SRM for the measurement of the mass concentration of gaseous and vaporous organic substances in stationary source emissions up to 1,000 mg/m³.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

In 2015, the NPPC, which claims only 3 percent of pig farmers as members, joined NCBA in lobbying to repeal a law that went into effect in 2013 allowing beef and pork producers to put “Made in the USA” labels on their product. NPPC did not respond to a request for comment. The NCBA has also faced legal scrutiny over its use of Checkoff funds.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

The report today - the IPCC's first of its kind since 2013 - may not make for joyful reading on the state of the only habitable home humans have, but coming just weeks before the crucial COP26 Climate Summit its core conclusions could not be more essential to every business on the planet. And today the IPCC concluded the 1.5C

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

On the pipeline front, "hydrogen embrittlement” can weaken metal or polyethylene pipes and increase leakage risks, particularly in high-pressure pipes, according to a 2013 study from the U.S. ” Hydrogen is also about three times less energy-dense than methane. Green hydrogen versus building electrification.

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2021

In 2013, the so-called fifth assessment report painted a dark picture of our future if we were to continue down the same track. Strong, rapid and sustained reductions in [methane] emissions would also limit the warming effect resulting from declining aerosol pollution and would improve air quality.". It is the new normal.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 14, 2022

You’ll understand what products and processes emit g reenhouse gases (GHGs), including the carbon-containing gases carbon dioxide and methane. Carbon dioxide equivalent” is a standard unit for counting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions regardless of whether they’re from carbon dioxide or another gas, such as methane.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

methane) from animal and land management and land-use change, which make the biggest warming contributions in the agricultural sector.”. These come from deforestation, changes in soil carbon, methane emissions, emissions from fertilisers, manure, farm machinery, and animal feed production.

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 20, 2021

We held our first DEMO Day in 2013, two years after Greentown’s founding. Check out DEMO Day and the Climatetech Summit throughout the years: 2013 Nov. Green Gas USA , which captures agricultural methane through an anaerobic digester and converts it to fuel. Register for the Greentown Labs Climatetech Summit 2021 here!

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Grist

APRIL 23, 2020

As a result, this global network of staffed observatories, mountain stations, and remote sampling sites that collect and record atmospheric concentrations of key greenhouse gases including CO2, methane, and nitrous oxide, is up and running despite the pandemic.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2022

In early March, oil giant ExxonMobil signed up to meet the World Bank’s “zero routine flaring by 2030” goal (a plan that — when you look just a bit closer — doesn’t entirely eliminate flaring but instead reduces “absolute flaring and methane emissions” by 60 to 70 percent.). How does ExxonMobil plan to reach that goal?

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Business Green

MAY 4, 2021

Between 2013 and 2015, an extensive United Nations review process determined that limiting warming to 2C this century cannot avoid dangerous climate change. the extent to which non-CO2 greenhouse emissions such as methane are reduced. The were backed by other climate-vulnerable nations and a coalition of high-ambition countries.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

A 2013 study found there were 25 MWIs able to produce energy operating in the UK. The spectre of landfill and its attendant methane production is something that makes some Edmonton residents reluctant supporters of the plan. Subsequently, the number of MWIs in the UK mushroomed.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

It’s unclear how much of that total is invested in coal, oil, or methane gas. Census Bureau, there are more than 4500 public pension systems in the United States, with close to $5.5 trillion in cash and investments. Divestment Movement’s Roots The climate-focused divestment movement has picked up on past activist successes.

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2023

In 2013, the first hamburger patty was grown from animal cells. warming unless urgent action is taken to tackle methane-intensive foods, such as red meat. The report defines a cultivated meat as one which has been produced using tissue engineering techniques that have been pioneered in regenerative medicine.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 1, 2021

Fracking in the Haynesville Shale near Shreveport, Louisiana, 2013. Gulf Run is just one piece of an overall strategy to try to revive the flailing shale gas drilling industry — particularly Louisiana’s Haynesville shale, near the Gulf Coast — by connecting the methane gas from fracked wells in the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Southern Company’s Kemper County coal plant with carbon capture system under construction in 2013. During his time at DOE, Moniz continued to push natural gas as a way to curb the country’s CO2 emissions, despite growing evidence that the fossil fuel’s methane leaks are very damaging to the climate.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

In a 2013 demo, for instance, scientists showed off a lab-grown burger that cost $325,000. This week, Future Meat Technologies, an Israeli startup, announced it can produce a cultured chicken breast for $7.50. It was an “odd demonstration of one view of the future of food,” the New York Times wrote at the time.

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38 North Solutions

JULY 30, 2022

Methane and Superfund. -$15 Reestablishes Clean Energy Manufacturing Investment Tax Credit (originally created as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and expired in 2013). . -$100 billion. . . Total Spending. -$485 485 billion. 470 billion. 15% Corporate Minimum Tax. 315 billion. IRS Enforcement. 125 billion.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

In a February 2013 email, then-Assistant Attorney General Michael Weirich noted that the OPUC had continued to receive requests from Dye for information about agency action related to his whistleblower complaints. “I never did find out the results of my complaints to the OPUC about NW Natural,” he wrote. Any information you can give me?”.

Home Energy Monitoring 75

Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 75

Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The pact also features a push for Parties "to consider further actions to reduce by 2030 non-carbon dioxide greenhouse gas emissions, including methane", piling on further pressure on oil and gas companies to tackle leaks and flaring, and perhaps even agricultural firms to deal with their methane impact.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

A 2013 report by Greenpeace went so far as to proclaim that "Tanoto, through his business empire, carries the dubious distinction of being the single largest driver of deforestation in the world". After a raft of complaints from environmental groups over its alleged deforestation activities, APRIL severed its ties with FSC in 2013.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 15, 2023

September 3, 2013, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. Residents in those parishes, also impacted by Ida, spearheaded the fight against the company’s CCS hub, which, if realized, will release globe-warming methane and put the region’s drinking water at risk. Travis Dardar on his shrimp boat temporarily docked at the Isle de Jean Charles.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The use of these chemicals also damages the environment in other ways; much of the fertilizer used in the world today is the product of methane gas, a fossil fuel, while the wide-scale use of pesticides has been linked to the damage of ecosystems and vital populations of pollinators. Credit: greensefa.

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2022

The report notes that the UK has over-achieved against both its first and second carbon budgets, which covered the periods of 2008-2012 and 2013-2017, respectively, and was on track to deliver on its third, which spans the years between 2018-2022.

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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. Joe Manchin (D-WV) at a 2013 event.

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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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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

According to recent reports, VCs invested $60B in climate tech between 2013–2019 with an 84% CAGR in capital deployed, with no signs of slowing in 2020 (see below). As always, the venture community is eager to participate in the blooming opportunity this demand represents. First Street Foundation (Nonprofit): flood risk data provider.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In 2013, she criticised solar farms and both offshore and onshore wind energy, claiming that developments were “blighting” her rural constituency. His opposition had faltered by 2013 when he voiced his support for the development in a Conservative Home article.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Instead of proceeding with the replacement of a group of 71,000 inaccurate meters the company has identified, the program would adjust customer bills to make up for the inaccuracies of those meters, thus avoiding 142,000 cubic feet of methane emissions in addition to other emissions associated with meter technician vehicle travel.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

The first hamburger from lab-grown meat was created by Mark Post from the Maatsricht University back in 2013. Lab-grown meat dramatically cuts back on carbon emissions , methane emissions, water consumption and land use. What if we could genetically enhance cows to not emit methane anymore? Absolutely.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

Whether it is smart grids, green hydrogen production, carbon capture, tackling methane emissions, electric vehicles, renewables, green aviation and shipping R&D or myriad other areas, the past five years has seen thousands of businesses sign up to countless cross sector programmes and initiatives.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

The Complicated Potential of RNG (Panel Discussion): It seems that everyone wants a piece of the nascent renewable natural gas market.RNG, which is created through capturing methane that otherwise would be released into the atmosphere, is attractive to every sector looking to decarbonize, since the emissions are considered to be carbon negative.

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CleanTechnica

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

There are three fossil fuels we must stop burning if we are to save our planet: coal, oil, and methane (aka “natural”) gas. Scientists think we hit peak coal in 2013, and American use of coal has fallen by over 50% in the last 10 years (though, we need to quickly […]. Coal is declining precipitously.

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