AGreenLiving

JANUARY 29, 2020

In 2010, Geim was recognized for his pioneering work with graphene and awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. Methods of creating graphene required, as Chemical & Engineering News cited, “expensive substrates on which to grow graphene and/or reagents such as methane, acetylene and organic solids that must be purified before use.”

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Organizations will pump more money and time to promote themselves as environmentally friendly, relative to the actual time and money spent on minimizing their environmental impact. BP’s 2010 Deepwater Horizon Disaster illustrates this point. USDA Organic. We will reveal the seven sins of corporate greenwash.

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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. EQT was initially permitted for the well pad in 2010, DEP records show.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 25, 2019

Yet the material itself did feel fairly stale, taking 2010 as its benchmark year while looking forward to 2050. Current trends are sliding to a nearly 600 million-hectare “land gap,” between global agricultural land area in 2010, and expected agricultural expansion by 2050. That’s an area nearly twice the size of India.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

BusinessGreen takes a tour around Riverford Organic Farms to explore how the veg box firm is contending with worsening climate impacts. Overall, soil degradation was calculated in 2010 to cost the UK £1.2bn every year. Riverford Organic Farms founder Guy Singh-Watson | Credit: Riverford.

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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. But who is in this group and what do the various organizations backing it really want? Livestock methane emissions are also rising in some of these countries.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Then, in the late 1980s, the gas industry, this time under the direction of the Gas Research Institute (GRI), which had taken over AGA’s research program, funded another major study in partnership with the Health Effects Institute — a research organization co-funded by the EPA and 28 automobile industry companies. This study ( Samet et al.,

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

In an email chain forwarded to Friedman by Crawford in 2010, Dye and a co-worker unsuccessfully attempted to divert West Linn Paper Co. While taking a close look at boiler operations following a 2010 equipment upgrade, Hart noticed fluctuations in efficiency that could only be explained by lower-quality gas, and contacted NW Natural.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

Instead, they are required to contract with “ industry-governed organizations ” — private trade associations — to promote products. Since 1990, methane emissions from agriculture have increased nearly 17 percent , largely because of the way manure is managed on large farms. Although they are run by the U.S.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

To date, insurance and financial organizations have relied upon predictive risk models based on historical trends. To stay below the 1.5ºC warming threshold , we have to cut global emissions by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030, meaning we have just under a decade. We would love to chat!

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Credit: Julie Dermansky Air Products plans to build a manufacturing complex near Burnside, a small town in Ascension Parish, that will transform the methane in natural gas into ammonia and blue hydrogen while using technology to capture up to 95 percent of the CO2 emissions created in the process. I’d like my life back.”

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Join me on this quest in which we start by looking into how the Arctic is doing, before making an overview of predictions on ‘when everything is gone’ by various renowned organizations. million square kilometers below the 1981 to 2010 average. Lot’s of Methane. How is the Arctic doing? But what year is it?!

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 28, 2021

He went on to found the “Green Army,” a group representing environmental and social justice organizations that advocate for communities impacted by pollution and those impacted by extreme weather — all too often one and the same. Honoré led the Defense Department’s Joint Task Force Katrina in 2005. It’s the rest of the world.”.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

After the Army Corps of Engineers awarded key permits for the MBSD project on December 19, 2022 , two nonprofit organizations entrusted with funds meant to reverse environmental damage caused by the 2010 BP oil spill made funding available for the project. Federal and state trustees approved $2.26

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 16, 2021

Food waste is a global issue, releasing toxic ammonia-filled leachate and planet-warming methane into the environment. Food waste reduction programs can be organized into four steps: Conduct A Food Waste Audit. cities had increased more than 55% since 2010. Start by characterizing and quantifying waste.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

At this ag-ed powerhouse, popular courses include Food Systems and Intro to Sustainable Agriculture, and researchers are working to enhance carbon sequestration through crushed-rock soil amendments and devising seaweed-based cattle feed amendments to slash dairy cows’ methane emissions. How cool is that?

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

An organization run by former Obama-era Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, with the backing of the AFL-CIO, a federation of 56 labor unions, has created a policy “blueprint” to build a nationwide pipeline network capable of carrying a gigaton of captured carbon dioxide (CO2). percent of a one gigaton pipeline network.

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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 31, 2023

A confidential October 1989 Shell publication titled “ SCENARIOS 1989 – 2010 ” outlines a high-emissions “global mercantilism” scenario in which average global temperatures rise by “considerably more” than 1.5 degrees Celsius.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

With global methane gas prices spiking, building new gas-fired power plants would also create new economic risks. March, 2010. The federally-owned, public power corporation operates power plants in the U.S. Southeast, and has the sixth largest power generation fleet. The TVA will issue a final decision later this year. Credit: TVA. (CC

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 1, 2021

Last week, the commission established a new Office of Public Participation, which aims to allow smaller organizations and individuals access to FERC’s proceedings, which commissioners have acknowledged are complex. “This is the importance of this nomination.”. But that’s not the only major change on the horizon at FERC.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

When it comes to those shaping the corporate climate movement — either from within companies or as part of NGOs and policy organizations that recognize the critical role businesses must play in addressing the climate emergency — I’m grateful to say it’s becoming easier to find women with a seat at the decision-making table.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

When InvestigateWest launched the Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia series in January 2021, the latest official data showed that emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases had risen steadily from 2012 to 2018, and the region wasn’t on track to make big cuts this decade. “We

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Charged

MAY 18, 2021

Oge led the team that authored the 2010-2025 Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards, and described the process in her 2016 book, Driving the Future. The traditional pollutants [are] nitrogen oxides, volatile organics, and particulates. I’ll give you] a little bit of the history.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

Droz, who once worked at General Electric and describes himself as an “independent physicist,” has links to some of the key organs of the Right. ” A mostly rural area outside of Columbus, Knox County happens to be home to the Ariel Corporation, a major manufacturer of methane gas compressors.

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