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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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Sean Hackett EDF+Business Senior Manager, Energy Transition By Sean Hackett With the dire need to slash greenhouse gas and methane emissions from the global oil and gas sector, more and more investors are advocating for stronger climate policies that accelerate the energy transition and mitigate risks.

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Green Market Oracle

APRIL 20, 2020

Taylor Energy liquidated its oil and gas assets and ceased production and drilling in 2008. 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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DeSmogBlog

JULY 8, 2021

EU officials have said they are eager to avoid repeating the same mistakes made during the 2008 financial crisis, when billions of euros of public money was used to bail out fossil fuel companies.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 26, 2020

OGCI claims mobile carbon capture technologies aboard ships could help the global shipping sector reach its current climate target to cut emissions by 50 percent by 2050, from a 2008 baseline — a goal that has faced criticism from green groups for lacking ambition. It surpasses its target to cut methane intensity to 0.25 percent. .

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 26, 2020

OGCI claims mobile carbon capture technologies aboard ships could help the global shipping sector reach its current climate target to cut emissions by 50 percent by 2050, from a 2008 baseline — a goal that has faced criticism from green groups for lacking ambition. It surpasses its target to cut methane intensity to 0.25 percent. .

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Grist

MARCH 8, 2021

The IMO aims to reduce total shipping emissions by at least 50 percent from 2008 levels by 2050, and to completely decarbonize ships by the end of this century. The policy is accelerating efforts to test, pilot, and scale up more sustainable fuels. “A

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

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%. To exemplify the sin of fibbing we’ll use Shell’s Tar Sands project initiated back in 2008.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

Another ad features miniature power plants to promote “cleaner electricity” from natural gas, whose methane emissions are a major driver of rising global temperatures. billion on advertising and PR between 2008 and 2017. Algae might just be the future of biofuels,” the ad says. presidents. Chamber of Commerce ranked second.

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Grist

JANUARY 10, 2023

As you cruise through this tiny world, you pass more than 400,000 nitrogen molecules, 100,000 oxygen molecules, 219 carbon dioxide molecules, before you find what you’re looking for: a single molecule of methane. Methane is one of the most powerful yet misunderstood greenhouse gasses on Earth. methane emissions.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

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%. To exemplify the sin of fibbing we’ll use Shell’s Tar Sands project initiated back in 2008.

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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

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In addition, vast quantities of carbon and methane pollution are released into the atmosphere. Between 2002 and 2008 both populations exhibited similar hospitalization trends. But research continues to show that, after accounting for methane, gas is no better than coal. That pollution finds its way to people who live nearby.

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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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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2022

On November 29, Coterra Energy and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) signed a consent order allowing the operator, one of the largest natural gas producers in the state, to drill laterally beneath an area that has been mostly fracking-free since 19 households found methane in their water in 2008 and 2009.

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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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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2022

The report notes that the UK has over-achieved against both its first and second carbon budgets, which covered the periods of 2008-2012 and 2013-2017, respectively, and was on track to deliver on its third, which spans the years between 2018-2022.

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Grist

JUNE 4, 2021

That sounds small, but one year stood out: 2008, when a single zombie fire was actually responsible for charring 38 percent of the total burned area. While 2008 was a notably bad year, it was no fluke. This is what they think happened in 2008 and in other years with frequent zombie fires.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 12, 2022

It has been estimated that green ammonia will cost two to four times more to produce than conventional ammonia (steam reformation of methane in natural gas). These include power generators, shipping and heavy transport vehicles such as buses. The use of ammonia as a marine fuel is therefore being vigorously investigated by the sector.

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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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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. Apparently, the sky’s the limit. The problem?

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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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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. Will this be our last chance for one final elfstedentocht in the Netherlands? +

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 14, 2020

Methane may be less visible than oil spills but it is another serious corollary of fossil fuel extraction. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change. According to a 2020 special report by Reuters , millions of abandoned wells are leaking methane. kilotons of methane in 2018. Across the U.S.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Another example is the Carbon Neutral Government British Columbia program (formerly Pacific Carbon Trust), which reported 2016 reduction cost performance of $25 CDN / tCO2e following a report after the program’s first seven years (2008-2014) of 4.5 million tCO2e of in-province offset programs for $53.4 million ($12 CDN/ tCO2e).

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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. Exports of higher sulfur diesel especially spiked from 2006 to 2008 as the ULSD went into effect. butane) up through hydrocarbons with around 12 carbons.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Lab-grown meat dramatically cuts back on carbon emissions , methane emissions, water consumption and land use. This was a antiobesity drug that was first approved in Europe in 2006 but was withdrawn worldwide in 2008 due to serious psychiatric side effects. What if we could genetically enhance cows to not emit methane anymore?

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Don’t Call It Methane, It’s ‘Natural’ Gas. Methane is an even more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, yet it has received far less attention. One reason is that the oil and gas industry has positioned methane — which marketing experts cleverly labeled “natural gas” — as the future of the energy economy.

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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. The biggest winners in the bill were renewable energy companies, but there were also some provisions that helped large oil and gas companies that can afford to invest in new carbon and methane capture technologies.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 27, 2023

When you look back on 2008—when U.S. I hadn’t, but one of the chatbots suggested the following as one of the year’s top stories: “The potential of baby kangaroo poo to reduce methane emissions from cows, illustrating creative solutions to climate challenges.” ” In a closely related story, the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Fracking’s fiercest front man, McClendon spent his career championing methane molecules (the primary component of natural gas), as he ran Chesapeake Energy through wild booms and at least one staggering bust. Shale gas could change all that, McClendon argued, by making methane supplies abundant.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2024

That premise has begun to fall apart as research on methane has piled up in recent years, examinations that consistently point to an industry-wide problem that is much worse and much more widespread than previously thought. As Gas Outlook reported last year, the LNG terminals themselves are leaking methane that is going unrecorded.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

He died in 2008. Our membership is part of how we learn from others and share our knowledge; for example, industry associations play an important role in developing and implementing technical, safety and environmental standards and regulations, such as those relating to methane emissions and water management.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 25, 2024

By Joshua Bledsoe , Kevin Homrighausen , and John Detrich On December 2, 2023, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a final report that substantially increases estimates of the social cost of greenhouse gases (GHG), including carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide (collectively, SC-GHG). 3d 1172 (9th Cir. 2016), [link].

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Sleipner and Snøhvit Projects Operator: Equinor (Statoil), 1996-present; Snøhvit since 2008 Location: Offshore (North Sea Sleipner West field), Norway Stated maximum capacity: Sleipner 1 million tonnes of CO2/year Stated maximum capacity: Snøhvit 0.7 government’s Clean Coal Power Initiative, receiving $407 million in federal subsidies.

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

Its self-help projects, which include reducing methane leaks and improving energy efficiency, would have amounted to a reduction of 11 million metric tons per year—less than 10% of Exxon’s current direct emissions. It may seem ironic that President Trump, famous for boosting coal and doubting climate change, supported something similar.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

Whether it is smart grids, green hydrogen production, carbon capture, tackling methane emissions, electric vehicles, renewables, green aviation and shipping R&D or myriad other areas, the past five years has seen thousands of businesses sign up to countless cross sector programmes and initiatives.

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