DeSmogBlog

APRIL 30, 2021

The report , which draws from government data, raises concerns about the potential health effects on those living near the refineries and the federal enforcement that the high levels of this cancer-causing air pollutant should trigger. Pollution Persists Near Shuttered Philadelphia Refinery.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Rio Tinto says it will invest $98 million in a 34-megawatt PV array and 12-megawatt-hour lithium-ion battery system to help power its Koodaideri mine in Pilbara, Western Australia. Anglo American has also installed an 84-kilowatt floating solar array at its tailings pond at Los Bronces, a first for the industry, Martinez said.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

After generations of wildly elevated rates of childhood asthma and cancer in the community that many believe were a result of the toxic pollution overhead, a group of Diamond residents living within a few blocks campaigned for Shell to buy their contaminated properties. Town sign for Norco, Louisiana. Shell Norco.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Researchers point to a few different factors, including the loss of aerosols, tiny particles of pollution which slightly cooled the planet and protected it from further warming. Now, in conjunction with accelerating climate change, El Niño means a wide array of exacerbated hazards may be coming down the pike.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

If so, SBSP could become a vital part of the world’s transition away from fossil fuels to green energy. These reflect the sunlight into an array of solar panels. While the electricity produced is fully green, the impact of the pollution from hundreds of heavy-lift launches is difficult to predict.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

But in the intervening decades, the region’s rivers were dammed or channeled and the fossil fuel era dawned across Appalachia. Their goal was to find out more about the impact mountaintop removal mining has had on those water pollution levels. Mountaintop Mining. The new research highlights how, even as the U.S.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Biomass energy harnesses organic matter, including wood, agricultural crops, and waste by-products, as fuel. As we seek alternatives to fossil fuels, biomass holds significant potential due to its sustainability. Circulates money within the local economy and can decrease overall energy costs compared to traditional fossil fuels.

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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. Platinum Gas. and parts of Canada.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2020

circular – of all the minerals, fossil fuels, metals and biomass that enter it each year just 8.6% This third report sparks an alarm for all governments; we need to deploy all the array of policies to really catalyze this transformation.”. The Circularity Gap Report 2020 finds that the world’s economy is now only 8.6%

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The Argentine government, with the cooperation of an array of global institutions, has the country locked in an “oil and gas trap,” mortgaging the country’s future on fracking even as the financial risks continue to grow, the report warns. As investments in fossil fuel infrastructure continue to rise, so too do the risks.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Continuing to subsidize polluting fossil fuels defies logic,” said Shannon Laun, a staff attorney for the Conservation Law Foundation, in a statement. “If Activists representing about 20 environmental and clean energy groups submitted a letter to Dykes last month calling on her to remove all fossil fuel subsidies from the plan.

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Energy Innovation

JUNE 16, 2022

The Business As Usual (BAU) Scenario represents California’s existing climate policies, including building efficiency improvements, new building electrification, electric vehicle (EV) adoption, carbon pricing, a reduction in short-lived climate pollutants, and a clean electricity standard. . billion higher than business-as-usual in 2045. .

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Grist

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

A recent review of the state of CO2 removal estimates that conventional land management techniques, like reforestation, take up about 2 gigatons of carbon dioxide per year, or roughly 5 percent of global fossil fuel emissions in 2021. Polluting companies often buy carbon offsets derived from these relatively short term solutions.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2022

Upfront investments in low carbon infrastructure deliver much faster paybacks than they did a year ago, because the fossil fuels they displace are orders of magnitude more expensive. per cent gain, almost entirely as a result of higher fossil fuel prices. per cent loss of GDP to a 0.5

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2022

French President ramps up green offering, as EU accelerates efforts to tackle fossil fuel imports. He also promised action to slash air pollution, plant 140 million trees, close 50 large open-air landfills, and reform regulations to ensure corporate bonuses are linked to environmental performance.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 23, 2019

But what about those wind turbines, those solar arrays, those hydro dams? This electrification of industry, buildings and transportation will help displace fossil fuels and cut pollution. Coal phaseouts result in sudden and dramatic decreases in carbon pollution. million cars off the road.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 9, 2021

In recent years, this lag in utility recognition has become increasingly problematic, risking the health, environmental, and financial impacts of over-investment in large fossil fuel power plants. When the first solar arrays were installed at homes, it made electric meters — as unprepared as the utility that owned them — run backward.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Crystal-clear liquid flows from the array into big plastic drums, which chemists wheel toward a tall metal still. The resulting product has been blended into jet fuel and spun into synthetic fibers. LanzaTech plans to launch a demonstration line of “recycled pollution” clothing early next year.

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Charged

DECEMBER 21, 2022

To figure out how to make electric trucks work in practice, the manufacturer, the state of California, and a wide array of partners—more than a dozen all told—launched the Volvo LIGHTS (Low Impact Green Heavy Transport Solutions) project in 2019 to test its first electric Class 8 tractors with multiple Southern California operators.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

A study published in Science last year found that even if emissions from fossil fuels ceased right away, projected eating habits would make it impossible to keep global average temperature rises to 1.5C. Huang’s speech points to an industry nervous about its role in a carbon-constrained future. Meat Industry Playbook.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Veteran sustainable food and farming experts welcomed the strategy as one that just might have a genuine shot at transforming the agriculture sector and result in better public health, contribute to ending the vertiginous decline of biodiversity, and lower greenhouse gas pollution.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Local authority decision-makers are faced with a bewildering array of potential options to achieve decarbonisation, so it's important to understand which are the most effective and which could help to spark a wider adoption of low-carbon technologies across the region.

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GreenBiz

JULY 19, 2021

In looking across the broad array of business, environmental, social, technological and political topics that cross my screen and engage me in daily conversation, there is a temptation to allocate a growing share of mind for pessimism. Reasons for cautious hope in a sea of gloom. Mon, 07/19/2021 - 02:00. Innovation marches forward.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 3, 2021

Tucked into a proposal from Xcel Energy, the state’s largest electric company, was a comparison of two proposed solar projects: one, a giant solar array on the site of a closing coal plant; the other, a small collection of rooftop solar projects to serve low-income residents. The rebates for transit vehicles are even better.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

In our interactive Routes to Influence Map below, DeSmog has plotted the extent of the opportunities open to the world’s most powerful and polluting food and farming companies and lobby groups to influence debates at COP28. Major pesticide and fertiliser producers such as Bayer and Nutrien, who attended last year, will be back. “A

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 4, 2021

All would support near-universal access to solar and wind, challenging some ingrained business models. “There is a tension between the transition away from fossil fuels and issues of social justice,” Baker said, describing work among indigenous Mexican communities who were fighting displacement and pollution from a planned wind project.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2021

More real estate owners, operators, developers and investment firms see the appeal of future-proofing properties from climate shocks such as floods and fires; from market shocks such as high prices for scarce fossil fuels; and from policy shocks such as any future laws requiring climate disclosures or that tax or penalize greenhouse gas emissions.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

"They are choking our planet, based on their vested interests and historic investments in fossil fuels, when cheaper, renewable solutions provide green jobs, energy security, and greater price stability. But the truly dangerous radicals are the countries that are increasing the production of fossil fuels.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The company has long argued that 100 per cent renewable tariffs where the power supplied comes from fossil fuels but suppliers have acquired low cost renewable energy certificates known as REGOs are misleading for customers. "We

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 23, 2023

The two corporations investing billions to build three new factories just outside Columbus, Ohio, have said that the facilities will be carbon neutral — despite Ohio’s near-total reliance on electricity from fossil fuels. Dvorkin agreed.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 15, 2021

This year’s Goldman honorees have claimed a wide array of environmental victories worldwide. Humanitarian Enterprise of Loving People) and started learning more about the pollution problems in St. Kimiko Hirata, 50, fought coal plant construction in Japan following the 2011 meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 15, 2021

megawatt solar array and 8.8-megawatt-hour Fossil fuels vs. renewables, centralized vs. distributed power. Meanwhile, the CPUC and clean energy groups agree that PG&E shouldn’t be allowed to use mobile diesel generators to back up communities for any longer than absolutely necessary, given their air pollution impacts.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 19, 2021

Yosie Mon, 07/19/2021 – 02:00 In looking across the broad array of business, environmental, social, technological and political topics that cross my screen and engage me in daily conversation, there is a temptation to allocate a growing share of mind for pessimism. Reasons for cautious hope in a sea of gloom Terry F.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

I have been calling the carbon capture CO2 pipeline buildout plan a “publicly-funded sewer system for the fossil fuel industry” for some time. They are aimed at the cheapest solution, the least-cost, shortest distance between two points the pollution source and the dump. A reality check is in order.

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

This array of species and surfaces reduces fire intensity and promotes biodiversity. Wildfires now account for nearly half of the fine-particle pollution in the West. The runoff can pollute watersheds with ash and harm water-treatment facilities. The implications extend nationwide. Between 2001 and 2019, the U.S.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

The costs for such a refinery would be in the billions, with fuel prices ranging from €900 to €3,000 per metric ton. 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. Download Hydrogen Cost Tool.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

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. Why focus on creating sustainable marine fuels? We however are not interested in replacing all fuels. What about CO2 taxes?

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