DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2021

This story is part of a collaboration between DeSmog and Public Health Watch. It was an update about a new, giant plastics plant built on the line between two small Texas cities just northeast of Corpus Christi: Portland and Gregory. The ground flare at the Exxon-SABIC plant lit up the sky and was visible for miles.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

The friends, all engineers by training, had designed a machine that could turn agricultural waste, like almond shells, into renewable hydrogen fuel. They’d even found a partner, the owner of a fueling station for hydrogen-powered cars, who wanted them to build a pilot plant at his facility. It felt like their boat was leaking.

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Grist

JULY 15, 2021

— These Onerous Obstacles Make Undoing Carbonization Hard. You have to make a drain so that the water, or CO2 in this metaphor, can go somewhere, and carbon removal is the means to do that.”. Dear Umbra, Most people get that we have to stop emitting so much CO2. It’s hard to imagine that there’s more still to do.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 3, 2023

As energy demands increase for heavier and longer-distance transport, the energy efficiency equation for fossil based-fuels becomes harder to displace. As energy demands increase for heavier and longer-distance transport, the energy efficiency equation for fossil based-fuels becomes harder to displace.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

As some of the biggest companies – in particular meat and dairy firms – grow more concerned about their climate-villain images, they are turning to greenwashing techniques: well-known tactics deployed by oil and gas industries to shift the debate away from meaningful action. The agriculture industry has a lot to be worried about.

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Grist

JANUARY 28, 2020

This story was published in partnership with the Center for Public Integrity and The World. Ohio officials know how to stop Lake Erie from turning toxic, but no one will do it. The Ace of Trade trawler motored toward Dean Blanchard’s dock early last summer in southern Louisiana, its skipper slowly winching its nets into storage.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. Often working from home themselves, they empathized with employees and other stakeholders, some refusing to issue layoffs. 20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2020

Where the electricity sector is breaking records every quarter in lowering its emissions / deploying renewables, and 2020 is forecasted to be the year of EVs , it is a different story for manufacturers. The TCR is the wrong policy at the wrong time, argues MakeUK's Frank Aaskov. Foundation industries. Foundation industries (i.e.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

These jobs would likely be concentrated in the production of electric vehicle (EV) powertrain components, charge points, fuel cell powertrain components, and autonomous vehicle hardware and software, it argues, generating significant additional employment upstream and downstream of component production, in for example chemical production.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

By the late 1970s, the petroleum industry had spent about two decades collecting information from their own scientists and outside experts and knew that burning fossil fuels would create catastrophic climate change. And how were humans causing this change? Legislation to reduce fossil fuel use was predicted by the late 1980s.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

Summary - Over 20% of all Dutch emissions are coming from the Port of Rotterdam, of which the production of grey hydrogen from fossil feedstock is one of the main culprits. The end goal is to create circular fuel for the maritime industry in Rotterdam. Are you currently a vessel owner and operate from Rotterdam?

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

Summary - Over 20% of all Dutch emissions are coming from the Port of Rotterdam, of which the production of grey hydrogen from fossil feedstock is one of the main culprits. If we want to create synthetic fuel for the marine industry and use hydrogen as a feedstock, we could end up needing in excess of 50GW.

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Mr. Sustainability

MAY 5, 2021

Carbon insetting is offsetting carbon inside the shipping sector, transferring savings from one vessel to another Summary - Reducing carbon emissions in the shipping sector can be hard and expensive. This is not a story about carbon offsetting Nor is this a story about planting trees or cookstoves. Are you a shipowner?

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2023

Sustainable farming advocates have criticised the content for favouring industrial agriculture, which is heavily dependent on chemical pesticides and fertilisers. Corteva has previously said that it supports removing harmful pesticides from the market when necessary. billion in 2021.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Julia Rosen Wed, 12/16/2020 – 01:30 Growing up in North Richmond, California, Denny Khamphanthong didn’t think much of the siren that wailed once a month at 11 a.m. The overall “cap” lowers every year, forcing polluters to reduce their emissions or purchase allowances from others who do. every first Wednesday.

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Mr. Sustainability

MAY 5, 2021

Carbon insetting is offsetting carbon inside the shipping sector, transferring emission savings from one vessel to another Summary - Reducing carbon emissions in the shipping sector can be hard and expensive. This is not a story about carbon offsetting Nor is this a story about planting trees or cookstoves.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

Wood energy succored Homo sapiens and its ancestors for millions of years, the argument goes, and only during the last couple of centuries was it replaced with fossil fuels like coal. In 2020, the CEOs of dozens of forestry businesses announced “an agreement of principles” stipulating that logged forests are beneficial for the climate.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The top 2020 trends in sustainability, according to GreenBiz readers Holly Secon Mon, 12/28/2020 – 01:30 At GreenBiz, we’ve been reporting on the world of sustainable business for over two decades, but this year has been unlike any other. But there were many valuable lessons learned over the past 12 months.

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2023

Most often, climate change is associated with a decrease in groundwater, fueled by worsening drought and evaporative demand. Beneath our feet there is an invisible ocean. Within the cracks of rock slabs, sand, and soil, this water sinks, swells, and flows — sometimes just a few feet under the surface, sometimes 30,000 feet below.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

This story was originally published by Undark Magazine and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Since the first factories began manufacturing polyester from petroleum in the 1950s, humans have produced an estimated 9.1 billion tons of plastic. It rains down, in tiny flecks, on cities and national parks.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2022

It disgusts me what man is doing to the planet,” Dardar told me as I photographed flares at the recently built Venture Global Calcasieu Pass LNG export facility from his boat out in the Calcasieu Ship Channel, which empties into the Gulf of Mexico. Nobody told us what the blast zone for the plant is,” Travis said.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021 Elsa Wenzel Mon, 01/11/2021 – 02:15 The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. Many leaders in this cohort happen to have climbed the ranks at one company for decades.

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Clean Energy Trust

JUNE 14, 2021

Partnering with large chemical manufacturers, backed by the largest auto manufacturers, and with customer validation already underway, NanoGraf is poised to disrupt and accelerate the growth of the lithium-ion battery industry at large. million grant from the U.S. 2020: NanoGraf received $1.65 million in funding from the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2023

This story originally appeared in Grist and is part of Covering Climate Now , a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. They would shut down investment in the industry, “effectively making it dead on arrival.” By Emily Pontecorvo , Grist. The current emissions of the power sector is 1.5

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2022

After the flames, nipping at the night sky like lashes from a heavenly monster, came the odor, a gnarled concoction of steamed laundry and burned tires. It arrived in the form of Gulf Coast Growth Ventures (GCGV), a plant that sprawls over 16 acres between the towns of Portland and Gregory.

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

How 5 communities across the US are seeking environmental justice. Mon, 07/06/2020 - 01:00. This story originally appeared in InsideClimate News and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalistic collaboration to strengthen coverage of the climate story. That is the story. she said. "I

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Clean Energy Trust

AUGUST 5, 2020

July 2020 Cleantech Roundup: Electric Vehicles Go Public | Energy Policy Scandals | SunRun Acquires Vivint Solar Clean Energy Trust’s cleantech roundup highlights interesting cleantech news and perspective, across industry, technology, policy, and investing. It is hard to overstate how bizarre this all is. Hint: it is not sales.

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GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2020

Mon, 05/11/2020 - 00:44. At first glance, the sprawling industrial site, covering roughly 900 acres in Kingsport, Tennessee, appears to be just another chemical manufacturing facility. Chemical reaction. Joel Makower. It doesn’t exactly look or feel particularly noteworthy. Kodak" was a made-up word he appended to his last name.)

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

In the United States, they hail from 15 cities, from Albuquerque, New Mexico to New York City — and several emigrated to the U.S. In five years, he has moved up from an internship to lead the company’s global product sustainability strategy. Still others are driving sustainability at nonprofit organizations and consultancies.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Natural gas’s notorious price volatility has been making a comeback — in a big way. prices could multiply again, hitting $40 per thousand cubic feet (mcf), up from about $5 now. prices could multiply again, hitting $40 per thousand cubic feet (mcf), up from about $5 now. In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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Grist

JANUARY 30, 2020

If you want to clean up the largest pollution spill in the country, one unaltered by decades of work and billions of dollars, you need to spend a lot of time making tiny measurements. Most of them will only confirm the depressing trend: More and more contaminants are winding their way from farms into rivers and streams.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

VERGE Energy Conference (VERGE 20) will take place on October 26-30, 2020. This online event can be attended from anywhere, The central theme at VERGE 20 will focus on how energy systems can be decarbonized, decentralized, digitized and democratized. 400+ sessions.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2020

How 5 communities across the US are seeking environmental justice Kristoffer Tigue Mon, 07/06/2020 – 01:00 This story originally appeared in InsideClimate News and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalistic collaboration to strengthen coverage of the climate story. ” she said.

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Grist

APRIL 24, 2020

Over a century ago, the city of San Diego offered Charles Hatfield the equivalent of $250,000 in today’s money to rescue it from a drought that had depleted the Morena Reservoir, which provided its drinking water. He claimed those puffs could squeeze rain from the stingy clouds above and fill the reservoir anew.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

In the United States, they hail from 15 cities, from Albuquerque, New Mexico to New York City — and several emigrated to the U.S. In five years, he has moved up from an internship to lead the company’s global product sustainability strategy. Still others are driving sustainability at nonprofit organizations and consultancies.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

When it comes to those shaping the corporate climate movement — either from within companies or as part of NGOs and policy organizations that recognize the critical role businesses must play in addressing the climate emergency — I’m grateful to say it’s becoming easier to find women with a seat at the decision-making table.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In deals this week, green hydrogen electrolyzers attract a hot $380M, electric sea gliders raise $60M, and plant-based meat brings in $32M. 1 spot Less-than-stellar Q3 results from Tesla mean BYD is in a position to overtake the automaker as the world’s top seller of EVs.  Thanks for reading! Not a subscriber yet?

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