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Four Oil and Gas Spills that are Worse than we Thought

Green Market Oracle

Taylor Spill A 2019 report states that a spill that began in 2004 may rival the Deepwater Horizon. In May 2019, the US Coast Guard installed a containment system and in September 2018 a NOAA research vessel was spotted at a Taylor Energy production site in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Revealed: How Big Dairy Is Milking Net Zero

DeSmogBlog

Cows produce methane, a greenhouse gas that absorbs more atmospheric heat than carbon and is currently responsible for 25 percent of all global warming today. Livestock methane emissions are also rising in some of these countries. Livestock methane emissions are also rising in some of these countries.

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Where Does All The Radioactive Fracking Waste Go?

DeSmogBlog

And since 1997 about one million barrels worth of oilfield waste has been brought to Lotus’s disposal site, situated off a dusty desert road located 19 miles west of Andrews, Texas (and just several miles from a massive solar array financed by Facebook and which provides energy to Shell’s fracking operations).

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Can a tiger change its stripes? Meet the pulp and paper giant bankrolling a huge Sumatran rainforest reserve

Business Green

Most notably, Indonesia also became the latest major emerging economy to agree a multi-billion dollar Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) deal with industrialised economies and private financiers to support projects that can wean the country off coal power. Alongside restoration, research is also a major pillar of the RER project.