DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 24, 2023
In 1971, Eni set up a new company in Rome to study pollution problems called Tecneco. Eni’s prediction was quite accurate: Global warming in the year 2000 was exactly 0.5 ° C and CO2 concentrations were around 370 ppm. Eni also understood the need to limit fossil fuel pollution decades ago, according to the report.
GreenTechMedia
AUGUST 26, 2020
The process will compensate shuttering lignite, or "brown coal," plants, which are the most heavily polluting, via a flat rate. Hard coal plants, or those burning more carbon-dense and less-polluting types of coal, by contrast, will be closed via least-cost tenders. power in Q1 2020 compared to 39 percent in Q1 2000.
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DeSmogBlog
MAY 9, 2023
Secretary, given the increased use of [fossil fuels], has increased over the last century by an average of 10 percent worldwide; around the year 2000 this increase could reach 25 percent, with ‘catastrophic’ consequences on climate.” “ [C]arbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to a recent report by the U.N. ‘Friend Methane!
DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
In the late 1960s, as the complaint details, the Stanford Research Institute issued reports that accurately predicted the atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration in 2000. The “Make Polluters Pay” campaign billboard in New York’s Time Square on September 18, 2023. They’re important.”
DeSmogBlog
MAY 13, 2022
billion respectively in fossil fuel investments that would need to be divested if the law went into effect. Before it’s enacted, SB-1173 has to survive what California lawmakers call “suspense,” where the fiscal impacts of the law are considered — and it’s become known in the state as the place where bills “are killed without public debate.”
DeSmogBlog
OCTOBER 29, 2021
At the American Petroleum Institute’s annual meeting, president Frank Ikard announces to industry leaders that President Lyndon Johnson’s council of scientific advisors has found that continued fossil fuel use would cause climate change by the year 2000, resulting in serious global impacts. And they considered CO2 a pollutant back then.
GreenTechMedia
SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
Out of habit, I will say, ‘3000 psi — pounds per square inch — concrete,’ when I really only need 2000. About half of the pollution from cement comes from the fuel to heat the ovens. Increasingly, this may be the law. Cement is created by roasting limestone in a kiln at 2600º F.
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