R-Squared Energy

JUNE 7, 2020

natural gas production between 2005 and 2020. Just as natural gas production surged, propane production jumped from 182 million barrels in 2005 to nearly 600 million barrels in 2019. Over 95% of the world’s hydrogen is produced using steam methane reformers (SMR). NATURAL GAS DRIVES CARBON EMISSIONS LOWER. HYDROGEN PRODUCTION.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Meat and dairy firms in particular are coming under increasing scrutiny due to pollution from livestock, which emits around a third of the global output of methane, a short-lived greenhouse gas identified as the quickest route to slowing global heating. They are running way ahead of us,” reflects small farmer Gonçalves David.

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Grist

MARCH 17, 2021

Measured by their planet-warming power, methane-filled livestock belches are the equivalent of 850 coal plants burning year-round. But scientists have found that spicing up cattle feed with a little seaweed can dramatically reduce the methane they produce, according to a new study out Tuesday. How scary are cow burps exactly?

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 19, 2021

The federal budget also sets aside funding to strengthen Canada’s vehicle and methane emissions regulations, as well as to finalize Canada’s Clean Fuel Standard. The budget positions Canada to reduce emissions by about 36% below 2005 levels by 2030, achieving reductions beyond Canada’s current target of 30%.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Widely known as “laughing gas”, used for its anesthetic effects, nitrous oxide (N2O) is also regarded as the third most important long-lived greenhouse gas, after carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane. TgN y-1 (approximately 10% of the global total) between 2000–2005 and 2010–2015.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

California's new decarbonisation plan, Austria's windfall tax, and global methane reduction efforts. The plan builds on India's previous goals to slash emissions intensity of its GDP by 45 per cent against 2005 levels by 2030 and deliver 50 per cent of its power from non-fossil fuel based sources by the same date.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

electric sector reduced its carbon emissions by 26 percent from 2005 to 2018. Thanks to the rapid decline of coal generation and the growth of wind and solar power, the electric grid is quickly getting cleaner. As a result, the U.S. Building-sector emissions, on the other hand, remain largely unchanged despite energy efficiency gains.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2022

At last year's COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow a new accord between the US and China saw the two countries promise to work together to accelerate clean tech deployment and tackle methane emissions and deforestation. Global Methane Hub and Beyond Oil & Gas Alliance announce $1.5m emissions reduction push.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The agency has not updated its mid-century goal - to halve aviation's emission by 2050 on 2005 levels - for 12 years, despite growing numbers of airlines adopting new net zero emissions targets.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Canada also re-committed to phasing out international fossil fuel financing by 2023 and reducing oil and gas methane emissions by 75% by 2030. Modelling by think tank Clean Prosperity also suggests that these policies could get Canada close to the lower end of its 2030 climate target (40-45% below 2005 levels).

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

More recently, the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released in August highlights the urgent need to tackle one particular livestock-related gas: methane. About 44 percent of livestock emissions are methane, the FAO has found. Reducing livestock numbers could, however, threaten the profits of HfA members.

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R-Squared Energy

APRIL 10, 2021

The Energy Policy Act of 2005 gave us the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), which mandated that an increasing amount of ethanol had to be blended into the fuel supply. One area in which the group made specific recommendations was in the use of renewable and alternative energy. ” Treating an Addiction. .” dependence on foreign oil.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2022

FTI’s presentation highlighted its work, through Energy In Depth, at “debunking” peer-reviewed studies that link fracking to water contamination, as well as providing “facts” to media about how methane emissions from oil and gas were in decline. A screenshot from FTI Consulting’s 2015 presentation.

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Front And Centered

AUGUST 29, 2022

This includes a 15% corporate minimum tax, a stock buyback tax, and a methane leakage tax. The other bright spot—which is not traditionally considered climate policy but does make up a key part of the Just Transition—is that the IRA contains baby steps to curbing the systemic advantage of large corporations.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MAY 21, 2023

Quebec’s emissions have declined 10% since 1990 and 12% since 2005. MW ], and the seventh-largest hydroelectric power plant in the world.

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Natural gas Electric vehicle Transportation Electricity 52

EDF + Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

emissions were 17% below 2005 levels in 2023. is still unlikely to meet its Paris Agreement commitment of 50%-52% reductions below 2005 levels by 2030. Companies can avoid paying the methane emissions charge by complying with EPA’s recent methane standards and reducing their emissions in line with industry’s own targets.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

THE INFLATION REDUCTION ACT REDUCES ENERGY WASTE THROUGH THE METHANE EMISSIONS REDUCTION ACTION PLAN The Methane Emissions Reduction Action Plan will aim to reduce leaks from natural gas production and distribution, streamlining operations and energy use while also reducing harmful emissions of potent greenhouse gas.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 28, 2023

This pad appears to be the first of its kind in Pennsylvania to go through a formal permitting process for the practice, which is gaining prominence throughout the Keystone State, home to hundreds of thousands of abandoned wells and rich methane stores.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The uptick in emissions has come as beef and pork exports from the UK have increased 10 per cent between 2005 and 2018, and poultry emissions soared 38 per cent over the period, leading to a "steady increase in meat and dairy production and emissions", according to IATP, despite growing levels of vegetarianism among the domestic population.

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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. From 2005 to 2015, dairy’s gaseous output increased by 18 percent. Livestock methane emissions are also rising in some of these countries.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

“Our interstate storage business, which has newly added capacity, remains a growth opportunity we expect to add significantly to our bottom line in the future,” wrote former NW Natural CEO Mark Dodson in a 2005 annual letter to shareholders. asked Doug Tilgner, a manager at NW Natural, in a 2005 internal email. “I’d

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 6, 2021

“India has reduced its emission intensity by 21 percent over 2005 levels,” he said at the virtual event, which marked five years since the adoption of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. ” “Oh, and by the way, it doesn't emit carbon dioxide or methane,” he added.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

But this doesn’t include the fossil carbon emitted in the form of methane through the mining and distribution of fossil fuels, which globally is more than the volume of methane emitted by livestock. At Drax woodpellets emit 12 percent more carbon per kilowatt hour generated than coal. Ibid, Table A 47.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

Since 1990, methane emissions from agriculture have increased nearly 17 percent , largely because of the way manure is managed on large farms. The “latest science-based information” to which the Pork Board is referring includes Mitloehner’s campaign to downplay the impact of methane emissions from the livestock industry.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

That’s potentially very bad news for the climate: The huge amount of methane that leaks during the production, transport and storage of LNG means that the carbon emissions associated with importing the fuel could be up to ten times higher than for the equivalent amount of Russian pipeline gas, researchers say. Credit: DeSmog.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

In a separate complaint, Dye also urged OPUC staff to follow up on alleged deficiencies in NW Natural’s gas meter testing practices the agency previously overlooked when it investigated the company’s meter testing program in 2005.

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38 North Solutions

JULY 30, 2022

Methane and Superfund. -$15 The Rhodium Group released preliminary analysis of the bill finding that the Inflation Reduction Act would cut US net greenhouse gas emissions down to 31% to 44% below 2005 levels in 2030 compared to 24% to 35% under current policy. . -$100 billion. . . Total Spending. -$485 485 billion. 470 billion.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 19, 2021

In August, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told colleagues in a letter that President Biden's goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 50% compared to 2005 levels is within reach, in large part due to the proposed CEEP. Analysis of the program found that it would create nearly 8 million jobs by 2031.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 28, 2021

Honoré led the Defense Department’s Joint Task Force Katrina in 2005. He explained if a climate emergency was declared, the federal government could act on the nationwide issue of methane emissions, including leaks from abandoned oil and gas wells and from deliberate flaring at industrial sites. It’s the rest of the world.”.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2022

Meanwhile, the US and EU sought to build on the Global Methane Pledge announced in Glasgow last autumn by announcing that they had established a new "global methane pledge pathway" which calls for the elimination of routine flaring at oil and gas plants as soon as possible, and no later than 2030.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Better fuel efficiency has helped curb aviation emissions in recent years; the amount of fuel burned per passenger dropped 24 per cent between 2005 and 2017. But that's not a long-term solution either as LNG produces significant amounts of methane. Aviation demand offsets efficiency gains.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Hydrocarbons are made from carbon and hydrogen and range from methane — the simplest hydrocarbon — to complex, long-chain hydrocarbons that are solids are room temperature. You can see in the chart that in the decade before 2005, gasoline traded at a small premium to diesel. butane) up through hydrocarbons with around 12 carbons.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

But as DeSmog has previously reported , what the industry calls “renewable natural gas” — methane gas captured from landfills and industrial agriculture and repurposed for consumers to use — can’t fairly be considered a solution. Participation in a gas front group risks tarnishing the renewables-friendly image Xcel has cultivated.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has lunch with a group of Wake Forest law students in the Worrell Professional Center on Wednesday, September 28, 2005. Sponsored Article. Photo by Wake Forest University School of Law/Flickr.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 6, 2020

pledged to reduce emissions 26 to 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025. But average national reductions since 2005 haven’t exceeded 1 percent, according to researchers. Taken together, the U.S. from the agreement. As part of the landmark pact negotiated in 2015, the U.S. To meet Paris goals, Rhodium said the U.S. But if the U.S.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The Liberal Party: reduce emissions by 40% to 45% from 2005 levels. The Conservative Party: reduce emissions by 30% from 2005 levels (backtracking on our current Paris target). The New Democratic Party: reduce emissions by 50% from 2005 levels. The Green Party: reduce emissions by 60% from 2005 levels. 2030 Targets.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 28, 2021

Across the globe, working from home and remote locations has grown by 159% since 2005. the consumption of microplastics by marine wildlife) and indirectly (landfill sites provide ideal conditions for methane-producing bacteria). The pandemic has accelerated this growing trend. Excessive waste harms biodiversity both directly (e.g.

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