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Climate Policy News You Can Use — February 2024

EDF + Business

in 2023 compared to 2022 while GDP expanded 2.4%—decoupling decoupling our climate pollution burden from economic growth. 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.

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Climate Policy News You Can Use — December 2023

EDF + Business

Dear Colleagues, The EDF team recently returned from COP28 , which brought important progress including a pledge by 50 oil and gas companies to cut methane emissions up to 80-90% (see EDF’s statement ) and the launch of the Dairy Methane Action Alliance. Methane rules are here! Methane rules are here! See EDF’s statement.

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The Business Benefits of Better Waste Management & Recycling

The Environmental Blog

In this blog post, we’ll explain why managing your company’s waste is essential, how you can do it without breaking the bank, and what benefits you can expect from doing so. By reducing how much raw material you need to produce new products and packaging materials, you can also reduce how much air pollution your business produces.

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Climate News You Can Use — July & August 2023

EDF + Business

Dear Colleagues, This summer’s record-shattering temperatures make abundantly clear why we need to act fast to cut climate pollution. Read our blog summary and full report. Then support the EPA’s proposed carbon pollution standards for fossil fuel power plants. electric power sector in 2022. Don’t miss out!

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How the Oil Industry Indefinitely Delays Cleaning up Oil and Gas Wells in California

DeSmogBlog

“If not properly plugged and abandoned, these wells and facilities can contaminate waterways and soil, serve as a source of climate and air pollutants, and can present physical hazards to people and wildlife,” CalGEM writes in a 2023 legislative report. billion in global profit in 2022. billion each.

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How Climate-Friendly is Liz Truss’s Cabinet?

DeSmogBlog

She has also spoken favourably about electric vehicles and said in May that recent months had “highlighted the need to accelerate our journey as a global community away from hydrocarbons” and “decisively turn our backs on the era of dependence on polluting fuels”. He has strongly supported the government’s net zero target.

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How to build a green hydrogen refinery for the maritime industry in Rotterdam

Mr. Sustainability

Rotterdam refineries are among the biggest polluters in Europe Rotterdam has the dubious title of being the absolute leader in the throughput and storage of crude oil in northwest Europe. The potential for floating solar has been explored in one of a previous blog back in 2019. The are many things we oversimplified in this blog.