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Global Power Sector Embracing Renewables but Ditching Fossil Fuels Too Slowly

GreenTechMedia

A new study of 3,000 power companies across the globe has found that only a handful have been cutting their fossil fuel capacity over the last two decades. Much of the new renewable capacity being built around the world is being offset by new coal and gas capacity, leaving the global generation mix more or less how it was in 2000.

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The Fracking Industry's Methane Problem Is a Climate Problem

DeSmogBlog

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.

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Italy’s Eni Faces Lawsuit Alleging Early Knowledge Of Climate Change

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But the groups have unearthed a 1970 report by Eni’s Isvet research centre that warned of the “catastrophic” risk the build-up of carbon dioxide (CO2) caused by burning fossil fuels could pose to the climate. Methane is the clean energy of the future,” ran a 1986 promotion in Eni’s company magazine Ecos.

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In Their Own Words: The Dirty Dozen Documents of Big Oil’s Secret Climate Knowledge

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s investigative journalism arm, and the British Channel 4 News this summer exposing how the oil giant and lobby groups such as the American Petroleum Institute seed doubt about climate change and undermine legislation to stop global warming. This conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity. Document 1: 1959.

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A decidedly impartial review of Mark Jacobson’s 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything

Renewable Energy World

Based on his work there, he created the world’s first global air quality model in which air pollution affected the weather and the weather affected air pollution, thus forging his hybrid science career. In 2000, he began using models to unlock renewable energy solutions. The fossil fuel divestment movement led by Bill McKibben’s 350.org

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Pump up the volume: Hydrogen hits the big time

Hydrogen Fuel News

For this reason, the hydrogen market today is dominated by steam reformation of natural gas, it’s essentially a fossil fuel. The site has so far been known particularly to produce hydrogen-capable gas turbines. The new production line occupies some 2000 m2.

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5 Major US Utilities That Haven’t Promised to Fully Decarbonize

GreenTechMedia

A few exceptions do remain, though — holdouts that have not promised to eliminate their greenhouse gas emissions. Some have promised to lower emissions intensity, which allows them to keep burning fossil fuels as long as they also build zero-emission plants. Others haven’t even promised that. NextEra Energy.