DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In addition, vast quantities of carbon and methane pollution are released into the atmosphere. But in late 2014, New York announced that it was permanently banning fracking, with state officials citing “significant public health risks.” “It 2014 was a year of just so many publications that I could hardly keep track anymore.”

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 25, 2024

By Joshua Bledsoe , Kevin Homrighausen , and John Detrich On December 2, 2023, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a final report that substantially increases estimates of the social cost of greenhouse gases (GHG), including carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide (collectively, SC-GHG). 2014), [link]. [14]

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 20, 2023

McKibben described the expansion of the LNG export industry on the Gulf Coast as an “enormous carbon and methane bomb.” The wind will lift the flaming ashes 40 feet in the air, and flaming ash can hit spots on the site where methane could be leaking, which could lead to an issue at the site,” he said.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

For example, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and SoCalGas launched a new bioreactor in 2019 that turns renewable power into renewable methane. Power-to-gas involves using excess renewable power to manufacture carbon-neutral synthetic methane.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

One day in January 2014, police rushed to a farm in Rasdorf, Germany, after flames burst from a barn. They soon discovered that static electricity had caused entrapped methane from the flatulence and manure of 90 dairy cows to explode. The need to rein in methane emissions is especially urgent in Cali­fornia, home to 1.8

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

In the period between 2014 and 2016 China canceled many coal plants and installed scrubbers on 80 percent of existing plants to reduce sulfur dioxide, nitrous oxide and other hazardous emissions. This has improved air quality but these scrubbers do not reduce climate change causing greenhouse gas emissions like carbon and methane.

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Unsustainable

AUGUST 20, 2019

In an undated article by the Department of Health (New York State), it was stated that “Methane and Carbon Dioxide make up 90 to 98% of landfill gas. by paper on the rocks (undated) v Paper comes from Trees… by TheWorldCounts, 13 May 2014 vi Why Recycled Paper? And how can we rebalance our friendship with trees?)

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

The assertions also lack detail, face technical problems, ignore leaking methane emissions, and depend on government subsidies for funding. To complicate matters further, new research suggests that fugitive methane emissions from fracking operations are far higher than official data indicates. In October 2020, B.C. fall apart.

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Grist

MARCH 4, 2022

The increase took place despite commitments to slow deforestation, such as the New York Declaration on Forests in 2014, which aimed to halve deforestation rates by 2020. Satellite monitoring is playing an increasingly important role in tracking greenhouse gasses on Earth, such as those monitoring methane emissions.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 15, 2021

That’s equivalent to roughly 10 years’ worth of China’s annual emissions as of 2014 — an amount that far surpasses the 90 billion ton avoidance potential of Drawdown’s top-ranked solution, refrigerant management. By empowering women and girls globally, Project Drawdown calculated that we could avoid 120 billion tons of emissions by 2050.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

Between 1990 and 2014, small incremental changes over time, in improved energy efficiency helped the UK avoid building the equivalent of 14 new power stations. This point shows that it’s not about a ‘silver bullet’ moment where you suddenly change tack and deliver on your promises.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 12, 2021

according to a 2014 study. The Aliso Canyon disaster is a dramatic example of what can happen when they fail at storage sites: After a corroded well lining led to a leak at the Californian natural gas underground repository in 2015, over 97,000 metric tons of stored methane escaped into the atmosphere. percent and 75 percent.,

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

For instance, four waves of surveys, from 2014 to 2019 by Glocalities , compiled the answers from 189,996 respondents. In 2014, 71% of respondents were worried about the damage humans had caused to our planet. Burger King committed the sin of lesser two evils in July 2020, with their advertised “reduced methane beef”.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Cast your mind back to 2014. 2014 was also the year of peak frack - the year that Westminster went mad for fracking and all it could bring to the UK energy system. Well, with a whopping 392 mentions last year, hydrogen received more Parliamentary attention in 2020 than fracking in 2014. A different time. But we are anti-hype.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2021

Both EQT and Chesapeake will seek certification from outside providers, including a business called Project Canary, which touts its ability to collect data on methane emissions and pollutants from oil and gas wells and offers a certification it calls TrustWell. But meanwhile, the industry’s methane emissions have continued to rapidly rise.

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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

JULY 28, 2022

Eight years after allowing a shale gas company to drill beneath Deer Lakes County Park for methane gas, the Pennsylvania county home to Pittsburgh has banned all industrial activity in the area’s eight other parks — despite a veto from the county executive. That just doesn’t match up with the facts.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Progress did seem to be forthcoming on cutting methane emissions, with more than 100 countries (although not China) – committing to a 30% reduction by 2030 compared to the 2030 baseline. One of the most significant sign-ups, Poland, later confirmed it intended to carry on burning coal for at least another 25 years.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

One of the key proposals here is a switch to hydrogen, which is cleaner than the methane predominantly used at present, but we need to be able to produce it at scale and adapt our current infrastructure. These projects are crucial if we are to deliver low carbon energy, reliably and safely to all consumers. Set up a zero-carbon zone.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

policy on climate,” said Alan Yu, director of international climate policy at the Center for American Progress, who served as the Department of Energy’s director of Asian affairs from 2014 to 2018. Oil companies did not support Trump’s rollback of methane regulations. As the U.S.

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Defend Our Future

MARCH 17, 2023

A s partners in C limate A ction C ampaign ’s Solutions for Pollution campaign , Defend worked to generate public comment s for the EPA’s methane and soot rules. He also helped bring Defend Our Future to Central College back in 2014! Defend has generated over 1,90 0 comments – and counting! from our network!

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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

MARCH 16, 2024

Between 1998 and 2014, ExxonMobil and its foundation gave more than half a million dollars to the committee, which did not respond to a request for comment. ” A mostly rural area outside of Columbus, Knox County happens to be home to the Ariel Corporation, a major manufacturer of methane gas compressors.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 5, 2022

With widespread commitments made to reducing CO 2 emissions, attention is turning to other greenhouse gases, specifically methane and nitrous oxide as the next largest contributors. Another driver of new alternatives in Europe at least is the proposal to regulate SF 6 in the EU rules on fluorinated greenhouse gases, currently under review.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

Sewell, a 48-year-old businessman based in Midland, Texas, founded 7S Oil and Gas LLC in 2014. 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. Then William “Gilligan” Sewell came along.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

For instance, four waves of surveys, from 2014 to 2019 by Glocalities , compiled the answers from 189,996 respondents. In 2014, 71% of respondents were worried about the damage humans had caused to our planet. Burger King committed the sin of lesser two evils in July 2020, with their advertised “reduced methane beef”.

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 20, 2021

The 2014 DEMO Day was hosted in partnership with Global Cleantech Meetup Week, which was organized by the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center and ACTION New England. Green Gas USA , which captures agricultural methane through an anaerobic digester and converts it to fuel. The speaker lineup included Somerville Mayor Joseph A.

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2020

Research by Energy Networks Association shows that investment in replacing old iron mains gas mains pipes with new hydrogen and biomethane-ready pipes will have taken the equivalent of nearly 530,000 cars off the road since 2014, as a result of reduced methane natural gas emissions.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Canada can rightly consider itself a leader in this respect, with Ontario closing its last coal power plant in 2014 and other provinces ahead of schedule in meeting a national 2030 phaseout target. Canada also re-committed to phasing out international fossil fuel financing by 2023 and reducing oil and gas methane emissions by 75% by 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

Sewell, a 48-year-old businessman based in Midland, Texas, founded 7S Oil and Gas LLC in 2014. 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. Then William “Gilligan” Sewell came along.

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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

JUNE 10, 2021

A methane flare at an oil and gas site in the Permian Basin of West Texas. billion since 2014, dragging down company-wide earnings. The Delaware basin is a subset of the Permian basin, stretching across West Texas and southeastern New Mexico. Credit: ©2020 Justin Hamel. But Exxon has produced a decade of poor returns for its U.S.

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Business Green

AUGUST 6, 2021

However, that ban was scheduled to expire in 2014 before it was later extended until 2050. Ethiopia's plan focuses on the need to curb emissions from agriculture and bolster climate resilience, setting out plans to encourage a shift from cattle to chicken production in order to help tackle rising methane emissions.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 25, 2020

A 2014 research paper from Kyoto University estimates that if navigation in the Northern Sea Route is extended to around 225 days per year, it may be economically viable to use the Arctic link during that entire period (with the Suez Canal used the remainder of the year). That may be conservative. and the Yukon territories in Canada.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

The following year, Cornell professors Robert Howarth, Renee Santoro, and Anthony Ingraffea published their landmark paper showing that natural gas-fired electricity may be twice as climate-altering as coal-fired electricity — or worse, depending on just how much climate-warming methane escapes from the nation’s gas infrastructure.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 28, 2021

On the 11th of June 2014, London grounded to a standstill. the consumption of microplastics by marine wildlife) and indirectly (landfill sites provide ideal conditions for methane-producing bacteria). A classic win/win, a win for your business and a win for the planet. Industries Change Fast, Businesses Must Adapt.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2022

FTI’s presentation highlighted its work, through Energy In Depth, at “debunking” peer-reviewed studies that link fracking to water contamination, as well as providing “facts” to media about how methane emissions from oil and gas were in decline. A screenshot from FTI Consulting’s 2015 presentation.

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