DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2022

Deforestation to create pastures and feed for livestock releases CO2; methane is emitted from animals and their manure; and fossil fuels are used to transport animals and power the globalized meat supply chain. million hectares in its indirect supply chain, since 2008. In 2021 alone, JBS processed 26.8 million cattle, 46.7

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Sustainability Consulting

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

With the election largely overshadowed by COVID-19 and the faltering economy, it’s no wonder discussions on environmental protections and climate change have taken a back seat. Climate Change President Trump has repeatedly questioned whether climate change caused by human actions is real.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

For a start, when all the sectoral targets are tallied up, they represent – at best – a 43 per cent reduction, according to the government’s own Climate Change Advisory Council (CCAC). After the painful financial crash of 2008/9, the political atmosphere in Ireland ahead of the lifting of quotas was febrile. Irish Agriculture.

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Green Market Oracle

APRIL 20, 2020

Fossil fuels are a leading cause of climate change and research shows that ubiquitous spills and leaks are often far worse than reported. Taylor Energy liquidated its oil and gas assets and ceased production and drilling in 2008.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Department of Energy and former EPA chief administrator Gina McCarthy as domestic "climate czar," elevating two women with strong Democratic party credentials and records on combatting climate change to play key roles in enacting the president-elect’s climate change policy agenda.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Their climate “advertorials” appeared in the op-ed page of the New York Times and were part of what scholars have called “the longest, regular (weekly) use of media to influence public and elite opinion in contemporary America.”. Controlling Climate Science. Big Oil also saw climate change coming.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

In a joint letter , the scientists say that they are “consistently faced with a major and needless challenge” of having to correct false information and rebut the fossil fuel industry’s efforts to downplay the severity of climate change. Front Groups, False Solutions, and Promotional PR. presidents.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 24, 2022

In the weeks and months after Russia’s invasion, global crude oil prices rose to levels only seen once before, in 2008. Despite its name, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) bill was widely viewed as a “climate change bill.” The bill represents the single biggest climate investment in U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

” That apparent conservation activist was, in fact, an infamous climate change disinformation artist : Marc Morano, who’s done more than perhaps any other person to manufacture doubt about global warming. In other words, climate change. ” called out a man in a black polo shirt.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Climate change threatens the basic foundations of society. Next year, the TVA will begin a review of how to replace its Kingston coal plant in Tennessee, where an infamous 2008 coal ash spill occurred. Ongoing cleanup at Kingston plant, site of 2008 coal ash spill. March, 2012. Credit: Appalachian Voices. (CC CC BY 2.0).

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2024

Credit: Nick Cunningham/Gas Outlook But the coastline is under threat from more than just climate change. Those facilities will, in turn, exacerbate the climate crisis that is ravaging the Louisiana coastline where Allaire lives. Stricter Climate Scrutiny The U.S. Then another storm washed through in 2008.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

Properly plugging and abandoning oil and gas wells is vital to protect the environment and stop methane leaks – but for decades, oil operators have often slipped away without paying to clean up, leaving millions of deteriorating abandoned wells across the U.S. and regulators in different drilling regions face different issues.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Burning that oil emits far more carbon dioxide (CO2) than what is captured, and therefore CCS doesn’t represent a viable solution to tackle climate change, critics argue. Building upon a Bush Administration program, in 2008, the Kemper CCS facility was proposed as the flagship project of the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2022

But it has been instrumental in an array of oil industry campaigns meant to sow doubt about climate change , attack climate scientists, and play up the benefits of fossil fuels. . Last year, a House committee held hearings in which members of Congress questioned oil executives on their role in peddling climate disinformation.

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2022

The UK government has this week published a report on the UK's progress on tackling and adapting to climate change both at home and abroad, fulfilling one of its key obligations as a signatory to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). We know we are already making good progress," the ministers write.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

All of a sudden sustainability is about climate change, ending poverty, and gender equality. Burger King committed the sin of lesser two evils in July 2020, with their advertised “reduced methane beef”. The commercial explained that by changing a cow’s diet, Burger King was able to reduce their methane emissions by 33%.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

As President Biden observed, the IRA "makes the largest investment ever in combatting the existential crisis of climate change". The US is set to get its first ever carbon equivalent tax - on methane. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas with a global warming potential many times higher than that of CO2.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

In October, she invited a university researcher onto the property and discovered that several wells were leaking methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide. This increases the risk of methane seeping into the air and oil migrating into the surrounding groundwater. Credit: Christopher Collins.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2020

For most of its life the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) has been plagued by a massive surplus of allowances - something we've been highlighting (under Ember's previous guise as Sandbag) since 2008. This could include putting a carbon price on gas for heating, shipping, or fugitive methane emissions, to name a few.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

In October, she invited a university researcher onto the property and discovered that several wells were leaking methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide. This increases the risk of methane seeping into the air and oil migrating into the surrounding groundwater. Credit: Christopher Collins.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

All of a sudden sustainability is about climate change, ending poverty, and gender equality. Burger King committed the sin of lesser two evils in July 2020, with their advertised “reduced methane beef”. The commercial explained that by changing a cow’s diet, Burger King was able to reduce their methane emissions by 33%.

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

Oil companies could develop a tool considered crucial by no less than the scientists with the United Nations-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Even if Exxon one day completes its plans in Wyoming, the current delay shows that urgent climate projects can sometimes become expendable in a crunch.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Lot’s of Methane. Some of you might already be aware of the ticking time bomb called methane. In 2008, scientists found that a giant amount of methane (about 50 gigatons) is trapped in the form of permafrost in Arctic regions. Global (temporary) food shortage and climate refugees. Further Viewing.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2021

The update was sparked by decades old changes in drilling technology already used in an area that gained notoriety for having one of the largest methane hot spots on the planet — because of leaking oil and gas wells. For much of the past 20 years, the basin has been a methane hot spot as the potent greenhouse gas leaks from wells.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

OCTOBER 19, 2014

The examples she gave of incubator graduates was mind-boggling: An irrigation system based on the structure of a giraffe’s neck, a way to eliminate pharmaceuticals in water, crystal nanotubes that reduce EV charging time to a couple minutes, plastics made from methane. They are the face of climate change. The problem?

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

Obama's quiet flexing of diplomatic muscles coupled with China's desire to avert a trade-damaging new Cold War had delivered a nuclear deal in Iran, the world's first universal climate change pact, and a broadly effective containment of the world's increasingly isolated authoritarian strongmen.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Introduction Climate Change. Lab-grown meat dramatically cuts back on carbon emissions , methane emissions, water consumption and land use. Bottom line; lab-grown meat might be the biggest impact on reducing or eliminating climate-change and relieving animal suffering. Deforestation. Loss of biodiversity.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

Climate change is the most significant global threat we face today. This session walks through the current best thinking on how companies are calculating the quick-changing world of physical risks associated with climate change, along with their financial impacts. What can we learn from these early implementations?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Across most metrics - be it habitat protection, species abundance, or forestry protection and peatland restoration - RER appears to be delivering impressive environmental gains, and all while gleaning potentially critical scientific knowledge for the global fight against climate change and biodiversity loss.

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