DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

A new database cataloging the world’s oil and gas reserves reveals extensive data on the global fossil fuel industry for the first time. The Global Registry of Fossil Fuels, launched by Carbon Tracker and Global Energy Monitor, is the first public and free-to-use database of fossil fuel production, reserves, and emissions.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Tackling methane from oil and gas operations among 'best near-term opportunities’ for combatting climate change, IEA argues. Methane, which is largely released from abandoned coal mines, oil and gas operations, and farming, has a far greater global warming potential than CO2.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

While the focus is usually on fossil fuel emissions as the main climate change culprit, a new analysis by the nonprofit Energy Vision concludes that reducing emissions from organic waste would more steeply reduce methane. announced their commitment to cutting methane emissions by 30% by 2030, as compared with 2020 levels.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Flying 10,000 feet above the Gulf of Mexico, in a plane outfitted with infrared imaging equipment, researchers could see methane gas bubbling under water, likely from an undetected pipeline leak. Still, researchers emphasize that the high rate of methane leakage underscores the major climate impact that reducing those leaks could have.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Photos I shot in 2022 for DeSmog capture damage from extreme weather events and the continued expansion of the fossil fuel industry — the dominant industry causing global warming. Industries reliant on methane gas continue to expand their footprint, despite bipartisan discussions about the need to develop climate solutions.

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Energy Central

MAY 9, 2023

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 3, 2024

Exploring the world of carbon capture technology opens up a pathway to understanding how advanced science is being utilized to combat the pressing issue of climate change. Post-combustion capture The core principle of carbon capture technology is simple yet incredibly sophisticated.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Could green hydrogen be key to a carbon-free economy? The Saudis are going big on something called green hydrogen — a carbon-free fuel made from water by using renewably produced electricity to split hydrogen molecules from oxygen molecules. is California’s aggressive push toward a carbon-neutral future. Jim Robbins.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 16, 2023

Even if we completely eliminated fossil fuel emissions today, global food system emissions would cause us to exceed our 1.5 The global dairy company Danone is taking a big step forward by pledging to work with its farmer suppliers to reduce methane emissions from its fresh milk supply chain by 30% by 2030. .

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The UK government’s Hydrogen Strategy , launched in August, promises to develop a “thriving low carbon hydrogen sector” as a “key plank” of its climate plans, and the fuel was given pride of place at a “Hydrogen Transition Summit” hosted in Glasgow during the recent UN climate talks. Credit: Gaia Lamperti. Hydrogen Europe.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Fracking operations at a site in Blackpool, UK, have caused an unintended release of methane gas into the atmosphere to the equivalent environmental cost of 142 trans-Atlantic flights according to new research. Three different methods were used to estimate the methane release rate. km deep shale gas well. km deep shale gas well.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

leads the world in reducing carbon emissions. Some suggested this was only true for per capita emissions, or that it isn’t true if you consider methane leaks. has experienced the largest decline in carbon dioxide equivalent emissions of any country. reduced carbon emissions by 879 million metric tons, or 14%.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Read time: 9 mins While carbon dioxide — deservedly — gets a bad rap when it comes to climate change, about 40 percent of global warming actually can be attributed to the powerful greenhouse gas methane, according to the 2013 IPCC report. Tags: methane fracking venting emissions Dr. Robert Howarth American Petroleum Institute

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 8, 2021

Over €8 billion is being invested in hydrogen and “renewable gas” projects in southern Europe using EU Covid-19 recovery funds, thanks to extensive lobbying by the fossil fuel industry, a new report has found. . The over-emphasis on hydrogen as a result of lobbying could lock Europe into decades more of fossil fuels.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2022

Fossil fuel companies confirm plan to review collective methane targets for 2025 and onwards in light of new goal. They have also pointed out that methane's relatively short atmospheric lifetime means action taken now would have a far more rapid impact than action on carbon.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2021

Methane update reveals that reduced demand for oil and gas during the pandemic's shutdown of industry and travel saw methane emissions drop 10 per cent in 2020. Companies have also touted sizeable new investment programmes to detect and fix methane leaks.

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Business Green

MAY 25, 2022

Methane is a blow torch that’s cooking the planet,' scientists warn, as new study argues near term action could play a critical role in curbing global warming. Slashing emissions of carbon dioxide emissions alone will not be enough to prevent global temperatures reaching an "irreversible tipping point", new research has this week warned.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Nearly two thirds of social media posts put out by six major European fossil fuel and energy companies since the end of 2019 present a “green” image of the company, despite the majority of their business activity remaining in fossil fuels, reveals new analysis by Desmog.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

New Methane Action and Response System hailed as major boost for efforts to tackle methane emissions. The UN has today announced the launch of a new satellite-based methane detection system designed to help governments and businesses identify major sources of the second most abundant greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Transitioning from a fossil fuel economy to a renewable one undoubtedly presents challenges. Moreover, there is no “silver bullet” that can deliver a zero carbon society overnight. In these processes, the CO 2 and carbon monoxide generated during the hydrogen production process are not recaptured.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2021

As global efforts to ramp up the hydrogen industry gain support with big government subsidies, new research casts increasing doubt on the climate credentials of the main recipient of that support, so-called “blue” hydrogen, which is extracted from natural gas and paired with carbon capture technology. billion in funding.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The boss of the Environment Agency has declared that coal and oil are "no longer safe bets" for investors, warning that banks that failed to divest from fossil fuels would be left behind by the market. He said investors that continued to invest in fossil fuels were exposing themselves to major financial risks.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 18, 2024

A cohesive value chain is essential for realizing hydrogen’s potential, encompassing low-carbon hydrogen production, storage, and distribution infrastructure, which align with end-user demand. The energy transition necessitates new low-carbon hydrogen facilities. For instance, the UK targets 10GW of low-carbon hydrogen by 2030 (2.5

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Indigenous delegates said they had been amazed at the “wilful ignorance” they encountered when demanding global banks cease financing new fossil fuel projects on their ancestral lands in what is today North America. Lazcano is fighting TransCanada’s project to build the Tuxpan-Tula pipeline to import gas to central Mexico from Texas.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 24, 2023

Natural gas is not cleaner than other fossil fuels and using it instead of coal or oil risks achieving little or no reduction in greenhouse gas effects, says science advisory group the European Academies’ Science Advisory Council (EASAC) in a new report “Future of Gas”. We can’t argue our way out of drastic changes.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 25, 2023

This pipeline is a symbol of the ongoing controversies that already divide the Navajo Nation — and New Mexico — over fossil fuel development. On the Navajo Nation, climate change and fossil fuel development aren’t mental exercises. I walk out of those meetings and I have to check my tires,” she says. New Mexico Gov.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

The voluntary carbon offset market is rocketing, with the Ecosystem Marketplace reporting an annual market value of ~$1 billion in 2021, which was an all-time high. This can make things difficult for business leaders like you, looking to reduce their carbon footprint through purchasing offsets. The rules of carbon offsetting.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 8, 2024

A climate compatibility checkpoint to assess potential new licences, drawn up with the government in 2021, is now set to be replaced by further weakened measures, experts say, based on cherry-picked data that greenwashes new fossil fuel development.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

This carbon challenge is bigger than cars, aviation and shipping combined. 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.

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Energy Central

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Sequestering captured carbon is the fossil fuel industry’s answer to having its cake and eating it too. Harvesting the coal, oil, and gas stored by nature hundreds of millions of years ago is the raison d’etre of fossil fuel operations.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2021

In an apparent UK first, Veolia is now managing projects which incorporate electrolyser technology to derive hydrogen from water, and powering these using the low carbon electricity from its Energy Recovery Facilities (ERF). But when methane burns it still releases carbon, which contributes to climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The European Union has clearly laid out its position: Climate neutrality, the Council of the EU stated last month, will require “a global phase-out of unabated fossil fuels and a peak in their consumption in this decade.” But more stands between COP28 and concrete steps forward for our climate.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Scientists in France found a deposit of natural H2 earlier this year, but will it solve zero-carbon challenges? As climate change plans roll into place worldwide, H2 has been making major headlines as a low- or zero-carbon option to replace fossil fuels. This reduces their environmental impact significantly.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

New IEA analysis reveals methane emissions from the energy sector are 70 per cent higher than official reports, but could high gas prices finally prompt operators to tackle the problem. It is one of the biggest and most worrying mysteries in the field of climate science: where are all the methane emissions coming from?

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The Environmental Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Farmers who work on irrigation efficiency can reduce fossil consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. Renewable energy : Shifting away from fossil fuels is the best thing to do. Reduce methane emissions : Agriculture is one of the top reasons methane exists in the atmosphere. Not everything is a lost cause.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2023

As Louisiana attempts to spew less climate-warming pollution, which disproportionately comes from industry, fossil-fuel companies have convinced lawmakers to jump onto the bandwagon of carbon capture and storage (CCS), a controversial and unproven method of addressing the issue.

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