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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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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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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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. These include feed additives to reduce methane in cow burps and “biogas digesters” to capture and burn methane from lagoons of liquid manure.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The “unabated” qualifier has no internationally accepted definition, Romain Ioualalen, global policy campaign manager at Oil Change International, explained. We’re going into a COP where this is going to be a big topic, and we don’t really have a definition for it.” Oil and gas companies are committing to net-zero.

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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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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 17, 2023

Biobased definition. Organic definition. Petroleum-based definition. Decomposition definition. Biodegradation definition. Biodegradable definition. In the absence of oxygen, materials are broken down to produce methane, water, and biomass. Compostable definition.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 10, 2020

Livestock raised in concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), produce more methane than cows that graze on grass. There is no clear definition. There’s an academic, philosophical definition, but there’s not a practical definition, nothing that says, ‘It includes this many species.’ What is agroforestry?"

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

Tyson told the Progressive Grocer it is “trying to be upbeat and different”, with something that speaks definitively to younger Millennial and Gen Z consumers. Methane, a greenhouse gas which is belched out in high volumes by cattle, has been identified by the UN and world leaders as the quickest route to cut global heating.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

However, these varying definitions impact everything from the costs of making the transition to the future reliability of the power system as a whole. For example, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and SoCalGas launched a new bioreactor in 2019 that turns renewable power into renewable methane.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Electric is definitely the future of cooking in the home and in commercial kitchens," said Australian chef Neil Perry. It's cleaner, it's more efficient and it's definitely more beneficial for the environment. Everything tends to be neater and cleaner without gas.".

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Grist

AUGUST 13, 2021

But a new study has found surprisingly large emissions from the production of so-called “blue” hydrogen, a variant being enthusiastically pushed by the fossil fuel industry and probably falling under the definition of clean hydrogen in the Senate bill. degrees Celsius (0.54 degrees Fahrenheit) off the increase in global temperature by 2040.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 14, 2021

Absent taxonomic data, however, we can’t say that definitively, but nothing else we’re aware of can explain this pattern,” Rose said. When oxygen levels decline, bacteria that thrive in environments without oxygen, such as those that produce methane, begin to proliferate.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 28, 2021

The aim is to advance methane abatement solutions, circular carbon approaches and development of carbon capture and storage technologies. That definitely bodes well for climate-tech entrepreneurship. The new group includes countries that represent 40 percent of global oil and gas production, among them the U.S., Climate Change.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2022

Other problematic sources of air pollution include methane, which produces hazardous ground-level ozone that is linked to health conditions such as lung damage, chest pain , and exacerbated respiratory diseases. Notably, both methane and many major forms of PM 2.5 I can tell you that the real number is definitely higher,” he said.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

RSG is a new term used in the natural gas industry to describe voluntary reporting initiatives, centered largely around emissions of the powerful climate pollutant methane, but which may also include other criteria such as air quality, water stewardship, land impacts, and “ community interests.” What Is RSG?

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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. We need to address the brand problem.”.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2020

The definition of zero waste varies widely, with various organizations defining zero waste differently, each with their own interpretation as to what it takes to get to “zero.”. Climate Emergency – There is no single definition of what that means but many local areas say they want to be carbon-neutral by 2030.

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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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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Bloomberg Philanthropies committed $25 million to create the Carbon Mapper Accelerator program to advance the deployment of emerging technologies and critical infrastructure to collect, make sense of, and distribute a rich global dataset of methane and carbon dioxide emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Planet-warming gases are emitted across the supply chain, from the carbon dioxide (CO2) produced by clearing forests for pastures and feed crops, and burning petrol and diesel to transport animals and meat, to the methane emitted from animals and their manure. . Second, it would only reduce methane emissions from the cattle.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 8, 2021

Disputed Definitions. While blue hydrogen involves carbon capture and storage technology, not all emissions are able to be captured and leaks of the powerful planet-heating gas methane are possible. “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

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

One of the core challenges facing those buying and selling nature-based carbon credits - unlike those from engineered carbon removals such as direct air capture systems - is that definitive, reliable data showing precisely how much carbon is stored in particular forests, mangroves, and peatlands isn't really available.

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Grist

AUGUST 4, 2020

While last year’s Arctic fires spanned both Alaska and Siberia, this year, Siberia is the definitive star of the show. Peat fires also emit considerable quantities of methane, a greenhouse gas with roughly 30 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide over a century.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 24, 2021

This decision to move ahead has definitely crowded out other players. However, that calculation ignores the enormous volumes of methane — a powerful greenhouse gas — leaked into the atmosphere up and down the supply chain – at drilling sites, compressor stations, pipelines, and liquefaction facilities.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

It is the very definition of a whole-of-government problem, which means every single federal agency should apply its existing powers creatively and aggressively toward the problem,” Revolving Door Project Research Director Max Moran said in a statement. Climate change threatens the basic foundations of society.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

But more Meatless Mondays are definitely in order. Food production contributes to carbon emissions in many ways, including clearing land for grazing, using artificial fertilizers and emitting methane via livestock. This doesn’t mean the whole world has to become vegan. And maybe some Tuesdays and Wednesdays for good measure.

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Clean Energy Trust

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Don’t get me wrong, we’ll definitely need a robust high-speed charging network for most vehicles to transition to electric, that’s true. Link Wither Methane? The Trump administration announced they were eliminating a regulation that required oil and gas companies to monitor and limit methane leaks. Well, yes and no.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 14, 2022

You’ll understand what products and processes emit g reenhouse gases (GHGs), including the carbon-containing gases carbon dioxide and methane. Carbon dioxide equivalent” is a standard unit for counting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions regardless of whether they’re from carbon dioxide or another gas, such as methane.

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Grist

MARCH 2, 2021

We fight food waste by getting it into the mouths of hungry people instead of going to landfills,” where it rots and emits methane, Saldaña said. We definitely are talking to and working with members of the administration,” said Josh Fryday, California’s chief service officer, who runs the state’s corps.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 25, 2023

Historically, New Mexico has not been able to police its methane leaks and abandoned wells, despite recent rules mandating that this be done. Whole fields of old, low- or no-production wells are left to rust and leak oil into waterways and methane, a potent climate warming gas, into the sky.

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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

DWR measures the CO2 and methane emissions from the wetlands it created on Sherman Island. tons per acre per year in the delta — but freshwater wetlands also emit the greenhouse gas methane, which has about 30 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide. The longer-term goal is to reverse them. Jonno Rattman / Bay Nature.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Firstly, every COP is by definition the most important COP ever, up to the point when global emissions are consistently falling at a rapid rate and the world is mobilising trillions of dollars to fully decarbonise the global economy and enhance the climate resilience of our societies.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 10, 2019

The waste is taking up tons of space in our landfills and generates methane gas that is 30 times more insulative of atmospheric heat than the carbon monoxide from our cars. This is definitely a premium product, one of the best commercial composters we’ve found, and is not cheap, starting at over $1200.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

BusinessGreen takes a look at 10 of the ways the landmark legislation could turbocharge the net zero transition - and one of the ways it definitely won't. The US is set to get its first ever carbon equivalent tax - on methane. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas with a global warming potential many times higher than that of CO2.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

And secondly, setting clear standards and definitions around what investments are in line with net zero. Canada also re-committed to phasing out international fossil fuel financing by 2023 and reducing oil and gas methane emissions by 75% by 2030. Progress is being made on both these fronts.

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Grist

APRIL 23, 2020

As a result, this global network of staffed observatories, mountain stations, and remote sampling sites that collect and record atmospheric concentrations of key greenhouse gases including CO2, methane, and nitrous oxide, is up and running despite the pandemic.

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