Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

.” The biopolymers are combined with graphene, a variant of carbon (or allotrope , to be precise) whose modern rediscovery and isolation at the University of Manchester in 2004 led to a Nobel Prize. In addition, some bioplastics produce methane gas when they decompose, a compound with a global warming potential 25 times that of CO2.

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Biodegradable Plastics Packaging Biotech 246

Green Market Oracle

APRIL 20, 2020

Taylor Spill A 2019 report states that a spill that began in 2004 may rival the Deepwater Horizon. Ohio fracking well Another epic spill that has turned out to be worse than originally thought is the 2016 Porter Ranch methane leak.

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Methane Energy Monitor Fossil fuels Building Energy Monitoring 52

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

LNG boom threatens to release vast amounts of methane, a powerful climate pollutant that is the main component of natural gas. While that blast was contained, a vapor cloud explosion at an LNG terminal in Algeria in 2004 killed 27 people. Credit: Edward Donnelly Environmental groups on both sides of the Atlantic warn that the U.S.

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Natural gas Fossil fuels Energy Energy 97

Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

When Jones Tract, a delta island, flooded in 2004, the damage cost $90 million to fix. DWR measures the CO2 and methane emissions from the wetlands it created on Sherman Island. Saltwater and brackish marshes don’t release nearly as much methane as freshwater wetlands, she explains. The longer-term goal is to reverse them.

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Soil Methane Carbon Organic 87

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

million from 2002-2004. NW Natural acknowledged these “improvements in gas measurement and estimating” in its 2004 annual report. Based on gas cost data in company SEC filings from 2002-2004, if NW Natural reported 1 percent unaccounted-for gas to the OPUC during this period, it would be overestimating its gas costs by $4.3

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Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 82

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

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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Methane Agriculture Africa Climate change 113

Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2021

Several light hydrocarbons, such as methane, ethane and propane, are VOCs. Especially methane is a potent greenhouse gas, contributing to climate change. Why VOC emissions should be reduced. VOCs are a large group of organic compounds. Due to high vapor pressure, VOCs can easily evaporate.

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