DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 14, 2019

Read time: 8 mins Climate-changing pollution reached unprecedented levels in 2018. Pollution of the powerful but short-lived greenhouse gas methane also climbed in 2018, showing an increase “higher than the average growth rate over the past decade,” the report adds. and around the world. and around the world.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In 2018 the International Maritime Organization (IMO) — the UN-affiliated body which oversees the global shipping sector — agreed on a draft target to cut global emissions by at least 50 percent by 2050 compared to 2008, alongside targets to cut the average carbon intensity by at least 40 percent by 2030. percent by 2025.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2020

Read time: 13 mins On February 15, 2018, a fracked natural gas well owned by ExxonMobil's XTO Energy and located in southeast Ohio experienced a well blowout, causing it to gush the potent greenhouse gas methane for nearly three weeks. The obscure accident ultimately resulted in one of the biggest methane leaks in U.S.

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EDF + Business

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

A “better, faster, cheaper” methane leak detection solution used to be an elusive unicorn of the oil and gas industry. Yet, since EDF commenced its methane innovation work in 2014, there has been a mass proliferation of innovative methane detection companies, big and small. By Isabel Mogstad. borders as well.

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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 28, 2023

A worker drives a Powered Industrial Truck at the Amazon fullfillment center May 3, 2018 in Aurora, Colorado. Today, most of it is made using fossil fuels, primarily through a reaction between steam and methane. Methane leaks are another problem since methane — also called natural gas — is an even more potent greenhouse gas than CO2.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The study, which was published in the journal Nature Communications, shows that 135 gigatons — or 135 billion metric tons — of carbon would need to be returned to soils to balance out the amount of methane emitted annually by ruminants like cattle, sheep, bison, and goats. Estimates suggest there are 1.5

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 18, 2020

Now, the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) has loosened standards governing how much methane oil and gas facilities can release into the atmosphere. Methane is a serious threat to the environment because the gas is so good at absorbing heat, making it 84 times more potent than carbon dioxide, according to the Environmental Defense Fund.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 23, 2020

For the first time, scientists have confirmed that methane leaking is from Antarctica’s sea bed. They say the methane is likely escaping into the atmosphere. According to the EPA, in 2018, methane accounted for about 10% of U.S. Usually, microbes consume undersea methane before it reaches the atmosphere.

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CleanTX

MARCH 20, 2019

Joint effort focuses on developing technologies and management practices to accelerate reductions of methane emissions across the global oil and gas industry. The agreement enables joint collaboration on projects that test technologies and emerging strategies to continue to improve methane management. BP took such a step today.”.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 5, 2024

Utilities in at least nine states have begun purchasing so-called “certified” or “responsible” gas, which the firms certifying it say delivers fewer methane emissions and other environmental impacts compared to the typical natural gas flowing into a furnace or stove. A methane flare at an oil and gas site in the Permian Basin of West Texas.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In the latest addition to its 'green recovery' package, the European Commission yesterday unveiled a flurry of crucial green strategies, targets, and policies, ranging from new green building and renewable energy programmes, to tighter rules governing chemical use and methane emissions.

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EDF + Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

All the rulemaking we’ve been tracking regarding EPA’s emission standards for oil and gas methane, fossil fuel power plants, vehicles, and transmission are all important drivers for accelerating progress. EDF and Google are partnering on mapping methane using satellite data. Key programs now expire on September 30, 2024.

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EDF + Business

JUNE 20, 2023

Plugging the Leaks: An Investor Guide to Oil and Gas Methane Risk THE BURNING QUESTION: How to Fix Flaring Methane Action at National Oil Companies Joint Action: NOJV Methane Reduction Sign up for updates from ESG By EDF Sign Up

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Three major economies — the United States, Australia, and Canada — provided less than half their share of the financial effort in 2018, based on objective indicators such as the size of their economies and their greenhouse gas emissions," WRI authors wrote. The president announced in September that the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The Adnoc LNG field and a number of others in the UAE appear to be constantly emitting and burning polluting methane despite Adnoc’s 20-year-old policy to reduce the environmentally damaging practice to zero in on day to day operations. Flaring also allows the escape of some unburned methane gas, which is a powerful greenhouse gas.

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Grist

APRIL 5, 2021

Amy Townsend-Small has been chasing methane her entire professional life. When fracking took off around 2010, Townsend-Small shifted her focus to a new and growing problem: methane leaks from oil and gas activity. Natural gas, which is primarily composed of methane, was pitched as a fuel that could transition the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 29, 2021

The number of orphaned wells in oil and gas producing states nationwide continues to increase, as does the amount of planet warming methane emissions leaking from them. In fact, methane is up to 86 times more potent than carbon dioxide in the first 20 years after entering the atmosphere.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

billion tons of CO 2 in 2018. One interesting application is adding certain seaweeds to feed for ruminant farm animals, which significantly could reduce their methane emissions. Methane has especially high climate warming potential, and methane emissions from ruminants contribute roughly 120 MtCO1e per year in the United States.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 4, 2021

However, still some 2.3Mt of household-produced food waste goes to either landfill or sewer, where it emits harmful methane gas as it breaks down. The Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA) calls for funding to be provided without delay to make this possible.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

billion package to cap orphaned oil and gas wells as a move to tackle “super-polluting methane emissions,” saying it will combat the climate crisis and create jobs. So Biven is determined to make sure her “Methane Memo,” which lays out a plan to safeguard the funds, makes its way to him. Methane Without Measure.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

Further research by DeSmog has shown that Eni’s company magazine Ecos made repeated references to climate change during the late 1980s and 1990s — while running advertising campaigns promoting natural gas, which is mostly comprised of planet-warming methane, as a “clean” fuel. ‘Friend Methane! ‘Friend Methane!

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GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

Steel Corporation had a goal to reduce its emission intensity by 20 percent by 2030, based on 2018 baseline levels. However, because hydrogen molecules are much smaller than methane molecules, today’s natural gas infrastructure is too leaky to hold or transport hydrogen. Biomethane.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period. Scientists say that unless swift action is taken, methane from agriculture alone will take us beyond a 1.5C

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2022

Large amounts of organic matter are removed during treatment processes to meet environmental standards, and as a result, significant amounts of GHGs such as methane are released into the atmosphere. They found that the amount of methane released from the treatment of recalcitrant organic matters in 2018 could have been as high as 38.22

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

In addition, some bioplastics produce methane gas when they decompose, a compound with a global warming potential 25 times that of CO2. For example, in 2019, the BBC found that compostable plastics in Wales were going to landfills rather than being composted because almost all local councils were unable to deal with them.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

In 2018, Waste-to-Energy plants supplied electricity to 18 million EU citizens and heat to 15 million EU citizens. Indeed, the sector’s GHG impact is not limited to direct CO2 emissions: it includes other factors, such as methane emissions from landfills, energy savings through recycling, and GHG offset by energy recovery”.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

As the oil and gas industry achieves success in pushing the world towards widespread adoption of methane-based blue hydrogen, some unexpected voices are calling out the industry on its deception of selling blue hydrogen as an affordable and clean source of energy. . I mage: Slide from Zapantis presentation. Carbon Capture Hasn’t Worked.

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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). 2016), [link]. [6] 11] Ibid. [12]

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2022

Deforestation to create pastures and feed for livestock releases CO2; methane is emitted from animals and their manure; and fossil fuels are used to transport animals and power the globalized meat supply chain. In 2021 alone, JBS processed 26.8 million cattle, 46.7 million pigs and 4.9 billion chickens. . Behind the Numbers.

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The Environmental Blog

AUGUST 7, 2022

Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas—like methane—that traps radiation from the sun inside the Earth. It’s also worth noting the most destructive wildfire in the history of all wildfires—the Camp Fire of 2018—which has claimed 68 lives. In 2018, the amount of rainfall broke a record with 36.2

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2024

DOE points to a 2018 economic study to justify its approval of every application that comes its way. Since 2018, there have been truly transformative changes that need to be fully incorporated in our analysis,” David Turk, deputy secretary at DOE, told a Senate panel during a Feb. 8th hearing. Stricter Climate Scrutiny The U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 19, 2023

In fact, not even two weeks ago the Trudeau government announced $3 billion (CAD) in loan guarantees for the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline , which it bought in 2018. What Smith left out are the considerable methane emissions generated by natural gas extraction , as well as the considerable methane leaks from pipelines and wells.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 6, 2024

Howarth, a professor of ecology and environmental biology at Cornell University, shows that methane emissions from natural gas is on par with coal’s. Altius filed the claim in 2018 , and it was rejected by the Court of Appeal of Alberta in April. Rather, natural gas is a destructive fossil fuel. Research from Robert W.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 24, 2024

When we returned for good in 2018, through multiple hurricanes and Covid, I became a participant in civic life, where daily conversations revolve around faltering public services: missed garbage pickups, underfunded city departments, boil water advisories, buckling streets, and a kind of permeating malaise. were quick to criticize him.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MAY 21, 2023

” [link] “New data on Washington’s greenhouse gas emissions show emissions rose almost 7% in 2019 from 2018, reaching 102.1 Transportation remains the largest contributor of greenhouse gas emissions in Washington showing a slight increase from 2018 to 2019 of less than 3%, or 4.8 MMT CO2e in 2018 to 21.9

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 2, 2020

million metric tons (Mt) of hydrogen were used for oil refining in 2018 and another 31.5 One way to get around these is to convert the highly volatile and flammable gas into a slightly more malleable fuel such as ammonia or methane. Based on International Energy Agency figures, 38.2 Mt went towards ammonia production.

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Green Market Oracle

APRIL 20, 2020

In May 2019, the US Coast Guard installed a containment system and in September 2018 a NOAA research vessel was spotted at a Taylor Energy production site in the Gulf of Mexico. Ohio fracking well Another epic spill that has turned out to be worse than originally thought is the 2016 Porter Ranch methane leak.

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