GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

This article originally was published on Yale Environment 360. 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. California officials also see green hydrogen as an alternative to fossil fuels for diesel vehicles.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

More recently, the transport sector began to move away from fossil fuels. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article. I was chatting recently with a veteran strategy wonk about the world’s stuttering progress toward decarbonization. Food Systems. Innovation.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

In the previous article , I discussed the growing importance of Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) for companies. After all, a substantial fraction of global carbon emissions arise from the production, transportation, and consumption of fossil fuels. Energy companies have tackled this issue in several ways.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 28, 2024

This article by The Energy Mix is published here as part of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now. This is a complex issue, but fundamentally it’s a marketing play by the fossil fuel industry,” ETCRC co-chair Jacob Komar told The Energy Mix Monday. “We

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Green Business Bureau

MAY 11, 2022

To explain scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions further, we’ll take a quote from our previous article Scope 1 2 3 Emissions Explained: Understanding the GHG Protocol’s Emission Classification System : Scope 1 emissions are GHGs released directly from a business. These are fossil fuels burnt on site. Fossil fuels (e.g.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Meat emits around a third of global emissions of methane, and action to cut this greenhouse gas has been identified by the UN and world leaders as the quickest route to slowing global heating. Farming also relies on synthetic fertilisers that are both fossil-fuel-based and emit greenhouse gases, and drives deforestation.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

We tend to blame cows’ methane-filled burps for these gases, but around a quarter of livestock emissions come from fertilizer used to grow animal feed. That’s around a decade of global fossil-fuel emissions. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article.

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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. Go Deeper Check out this LinkedIn post and article on key Farm Bill programs. What’s new with the IRA?

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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. Who Writes the Bills That Become Law?

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GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

This article originally appeared on the author's personal blog, and was written in that capacity. To me, this would include halting climate-destructive practices such as tropical deforestation, flaring and fugitive emissions of methane, and "black carbon" emissions from biomass burning, dirty cookstoves and other sources.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Many articles in the mainstream media, however, ignore the controversy—for example, a recent article in the New York Times depicts hydrogen fuel cells as a proven technology that only needs to be scaled up to be a viable alternative to internal combustion. One major source is the fossil fuel industry.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

The world’s kilns, reactors, chillers and furnaces are powered mostly by fossil fuels. . High-temperature industrial heat, over 932 degrees F, poses a particular challenge because that’s the point at which fuels beyond electricity become the mainstay. Sponsored Article. Making natural gas renewable . Energy & Climate.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

Thinking about this, this Green Business Bureau article details how you should go about purchasing carbon offsets while listing 6 certified and vetted carbon offset options for you to choose from. Carbon offset program #3: Methane abatement. Some carbon offset projects focus on the combustion and containment of methane.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Today, one-third of all Americans live in a jurisdiction committed to 100 percent clean electricity, six million people live in cities committed to all-electric new building construction, and two-thirds of Americans support a 100 percent clean economy by 2050, a carbon tax, and stronger fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks.

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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. Edmund Muskie (D-ME).

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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 2, 2024

  In this article, we will explain the best practices to optimize the efficiency of hydrogen as a fuel.  Steam-methane reforming and electrolysis are the two most common methods used. Industrial businesses can switch to hydrogen as a fuel to improve efficiency and reduce reliance on fossil fuels.

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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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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

This article is published as part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of news outlets strengthening coverage of the climate story. In 19 articles that became a widely read book, History of the Standard Oil Company , published in 1904, she exposed its unsavory practices. Don’t Call It Methane, It’s ‘Natural’ Gas.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 19, 2024

Nearly half of diet-related greenhouse gas emissions in the UK come from meat and dairy due to emissions of methane, an extremely potent greenhouse gas, in livestock farming. Veronica Wignall from campaign group Ad Free Cities said the promotion of meat and dairy to Gen Z resembled “a playbook strategy from the fossil fuel industry”.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 16, 2023

fossil fuel firms are pushing to build more than 2,900 miles of natural gas pipelines to feed liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facilities in Louisiana, Texas, and Alaska, in a bid to send more of the fuel to Asia and Europe, a new analysis by Global Energy Monitor shows. “All of this money sunk into it is kind of lost.”

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 10, 2020

Trees are cut down for pasture, fossil fuels are used as fertilizer for feed, and that feed is transported across borders, and sometimes the world, using even more fossil fuels. Livestock raised in concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), produce more methane than cows that graze on grass. Sponsored Article.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 15, 2021

And yet, as a recent Harvard Business Review article put it, the business case for more women entrepreneurs is clear. Opus 12 is addressing climate change by using carbon emissions to create products traditionally derived from fossil fuels. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere).

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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2020

Clean hydrogen could cut greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel by up to 34 percent, reported Bloomberg New Energy Finance. . Still, the process of making hydrogen fuel from any source has a way to go before it has firm footing, even in a state committed to decarbonization. . Sponsored Article. Energy & Climate.

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Charged

JUNE 28, 2022

However, many may be surprised to learn that a substantial amount of this grant money has been used to subsidize fossil fuel-burning vehicles, in preference to EVs, and to promote the consumption of natural gas. South Coast appears to be deeply entangled with a trade group that promotes natural gas vehicles in preference to EVs.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 29, 2021

In his spare time, David Levy, owner of Petrotechnologies, a company that makes specialty parts for the oil and gas industry, monitors the fossil fuel industry across southwest Louisiana from the sky. 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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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Critics argued that the agreement on transitioning away from fossil fuels was weak and riddled with loopholes, lacking concrete steps and allowing continued reliance on fossil fuels. COP president Sultan Al-Jaber, head of the UAE’s state oil company, faced accusations of using his position to promote fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

I think what the cancellation shows is that people have had enough of fossil fuel infrastructure being forced upon them,” said Lorne Stockman, research co-director with Oil Change International. “It It doesn’t surprise me that communities are standing up to these projects and occasionally winning.” Constitution’s Fifth Amendment.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

This involves reinstating some Obama-era policies that President Trump rolled back, like methane limits on oil and gas operations. Of these policies, the methane limits are even supported by many in the oil and gas industry. This is a nod to the blue collar fossil fuel workers whose jobs would disappear as the U.S.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Draft text published this morning requests countries update their NDCs next year and retains calls to tackle fossil fuels, but negotiations over climate finance and other areas still unresolved. It also retains references to tackling emissions from fossil fuels, albeit with caveats.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

While there is some question about how dirty blue hydrogen is and will be — due to its reliance on gas, a fossil fuel, and carbon capture technology to reduce emissions from its production — no one is arguing that it will ever be cleaner than green hydrogen. A Fossil Fuel Narrative.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

“Burning biomass is just another path to environmental destruction,” claims a recent article in The Ecologist. In May 2020 The Land received an unsolicited article entitled The Dangerous Bioenergy Delusion. Undeterred, De Decker responded by publishing an article on the sustainable benefits of harvesting coppice wood.

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R-Squared Energy

MAY 4, 2021

The vast majority of the world’s commercial hydrogen — over 95% by most estimates — is produced using the steam methane reforming process (SMR). As I explained in last year’s article Estimating The Carbon Footprint Of Hydrogen Production , the carbon footprint of hydrogen production via SMR is high. 50 Shades of Hydrogen.

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Business Green

AUGUST 27, 2021

Australian court cases, fossil fuel phase out alliances, and a vote of confidence in Gold Standards all feature in this week's latest round up of global green business news. The partners expect this collaboration to mark a significant step forward for Article 6.2 Colombia to host hybrid Biodiversity PreCOP.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 17, 2022

As Russian forces advanced towards Kyiv, Canada’s oil and gas industry and its supporters responded with a self-serving narrative: the Ukraine crisis means Canada must accelerate its production of fossil fuels. Methane stays in the atmosphere less time than carbon dioxide, but its warming power is 25 times higher. is up to 2.2

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Compiled by Dutch climate activist Vatan Hüzeir , and reviewed by DeSmog and Dutch investigative journalism platform Follow The Money , the documents show how Shell was actively supporting research that clearly underscored the dangers posed by burning its fossil fuel products from the mid-1970s — years earlier than previously thought.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2023

This article was originally published by The Lens and is republished with permission. When Venture Global announced its intent to use CCS, Governor John Bel Edwards applauded the move, saying that the technology would allow Louisiana to retain its ties to the fossil fuel industry, while addressing climate change. “As

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Grist

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Studies and news articles have suggested that we’re on course to filling the atmosphere with enough greenhouse gases to make that living nightmare possible — or worse over coming centuries. Remember that high-end fossil-fuel intensive scenario with no climate policy to 2100, & no climate impacts?

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