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Why We Need Carbon Capture and Sequestration

Green Market Oracle

Carbon capture and sequestration have often been considered technologies of last resort. As emissions keep rising and global carbon budgets decline, it is becoming increasingly apparent that if we are to stave off the worst of climate change we must deploy and scale these desperate remedies as quickly as possible.

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The Meat Industry Is Advertising Like Big Oil

DeSmogBlog

He believes that Checkoff dollars are empowering groups like NCBA and NPPC to take policy positions that hurt small producers. On March 29, more than 130 independent producer groups signed onto a letter to Congress requesting that the upcoming Farm Bill bans Checkoff funds from going to trade associations that lobby on agriculture policy.

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Anybody can have a climate plan, but what makes for an effective one?

Clean Energy Canada

Here are five questions that Canadians should ask when evaluating whether the party platforms provide the responsible, effective climate policies Canada needs: Does it cut carbon pollution—in Canada—in line with our Paris target? of global climate pollution, the fact is every tonne of pollution matters.

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Exxon Holds Back on CCS

Mr. Sustainability

The largest carbon capture and storage project in the world has been delayed indefinitely due to Covid-19 Summary - Exxon has postponed development of the ‘LaBarge Carbon Capture and Storage’ project in Wyoming due to Covid-19. It contains natural gas, helium, and carbon dioxide.

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How the Electric Utilities Industry Created One of the ‘Largest’ Propaganda Campaigns in U.S. History

DeSmogBlog

Conway, authors of the classic 2010 book Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming , have released a new book placing that doubt machine into a longer arc of U.S. politics further and further toward right-wing, corporate-created policy solutions.

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Methane Emissions Spiked in 2020. Scientists Fear Feedback Loops

DeSmogBlog

And despite a dip in polluting activities due to the pandemic, concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere rose to its highest level in 3.6 The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said that global methane concentrations shot up by 14.67 Globally averaged, monthly mean atmospheric methane abundance.

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Methane Emissions Spiked in 2020. Scientists Fear Feedback Loops

DeSmogBlog

And despite a dip in polluting activities due to the pandemic, concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere rose to its highest level in 3.6 The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said that global methane concentrations shot up by 14.67 Globally averaged, monthly mean atmospheric methane abundance.

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