Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

In just ten years, Jacobson has harnessed passion, determination and science to re-frame the way renewable energy is seen and, ultimately, accepted as a viable solution to climate change and air pollution. If this soup of pollution was hurting me after only a few minutes, I imagined the damage it caused people who lived in it.”

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2024

Canada’s advertising regulator has determined that ads claiming liquified natural gas (LNG) will lower emissions are inaccurate, misleading, and distort scientific data. Canada Action further argued that, at its end use, gas emitted 50 percent less carbon than coal.

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Sunrun

AUGUST 23, 2019

But ground-level ozone and other pollutants from cars, power plants, industrial boilers, refineries and chemical plants can kill. Pollution is so bad in some parts of the world that people are instructed to stay indoors. The Environmental Defense Fund states that pollution is responsible for the deaths of 6.4 The best thing?

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

For instance, the company’s just-published “ Energy Transition Progress report ” references chemicals right alongside “low carbon energy” and “renewable natural gas” as examples of the company’s stated commitment to lowering emissions. Gail LeBoeuf, co-founder of Inclusive Louisiana and Cancer Alley resident, speaks to reporters.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 9, 2022

Oregon EPS findings also show public health benefits due to reductions in air pollution from burning fossil fuels, with approximately 200 avoided asthma attacks annually by 2050. Oregon’s new Climate Protection Program (CPP) mandates an emissions cap for covered natural gas and transportation fuels rather than specific policy actions.

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

In 1992 carbon emission hit a 20-year low due to three factors: A mild winter, reduced demand for gasoline and, most significantly, a drop in coal-fired electricity generation because of historically low natural gas prices. In 2010 atmospheric CO2 rose to 389.6

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

The Whitetail facility is expected to harness the Allam-Fetvedt Cycle (AFC), pioneered by NET Power and 8 Rivers Capital, which combusts natural gas with oxygen, rather than air, and uses supercritical carbon dioxide as a working fluid to drive a turbine instead of steam.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2021

percent of its investment in new projects going to low carbon sources between 2010 and 2018. Despite its claims to focus on clean energy, 80 percent of the company’s energy still comes from non-renewable sources, mostly highly-polluting brown coal, hard coal and gas. ExxonMobil – “Powering Progress”.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2021

The first 11 months of 2020 were the hottest on record in the Northern Hemisphere, Europe experienced its warmest autumn ever, and the Arctic sea ice coverage was 16% lower than the 1981-2010 average. In the same year, the world experienced the COVID-19 pandemic and realized how inextricably intertwined our collective actions are.

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GreenBiz

JULY 2, 2021

When extreme weather strikes — from the heat dome in the Pacific Northwest to the cold snap in Texas — many areas fire up natural gas-burning peaker plants. With the cost of batteries falling (they’ve gotten 89 percent cheaper since 2010), some battery storage systems projects are already in the works.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The simple fact is that they are not reducing their polluting activities by the significant amount required to limit the worst impacts of global warming.”. In a blow to the industry, the world’s leading energy analysts recently warned the use of natural gas must be drastically curtailed to meet climate goals.

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Earth Gratitude

MAY 4, 2016

I drive about 15% of what I did in 2010 (when the BP Oil Spill erupted), and “fill up” about once a month. limiting the gasoline and pollution from trucking food from far away. All of this carbon pollution is generated to satisfy my needs and those of my fellow developed world denizens. Most Americans are using 1.6

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2021

The first 11 months of 2020 were the hottest on record in the Northern Hemisphere, Europe experienced its warmest autumn ever, and the Arctic sea ice coverage was 16% lower than the 1981-2010 average. In the same year, the world experienced the COVID-19 pandemic and realized how inextricably intertwined our collective actions are.

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Andrew Winston

JUNE 11, 2018

in 2010, and has a couple thousand hybrids or EVs on the road now. And at UPS, about 9,000 of its roughly 112,000 vehicles already have some environmental advantage (most are powered by natural gas, but 1,000 are electric hybrids or pure electric). These aren’t the first “alternative” vehicles in the delivery space.

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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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Grist

AUGUST 5, 2022

The sudden spike in oil and gas drilling came with a nearly 60 percent increase in light pollution at the observatory, threatening the work McDonald has been conducting for nearly a century. But on land, more than 80 percent of the planet’s population lives under light-polluted skies. million birds between 2010 and 2016.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

Hydrogen can be made in a number of ways – some of which are more polluting than others. Foster, who represented the constituency of Worcester from 1997 to 2010, is quoted in dozens of trade and national media titles criticising the technology.

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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. Bcf/d,” NatGasWeather said,” trade publication Natural Gas Intelligence reported on Friday.

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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. Both are reliant on a steady stream of cheap natural gas.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Today, the Consumer Energy Alliance ( CEA ) — an organization funded by oil and gas producers — released their own report that presents a different narrative about energy production and air quality in Pennsylvania, a state that’s become one of the nation’s largest producers of fossil fuels.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 2, 2021

During this time, wind ranked as the highest investment outranking solar for the first time since 2010. Green Business Bureau has over 400 to choose from including initiatives related to efficiency, renewable energy, waste management, green procurement, vehicle emissions, water conservation, and pollution reduction.

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Energy Innovation

MAY 9, 2022

Residents in disproportionately burdened communities—frequently lower-income communities of color—endure greater air, water, and soil pollution, as well as other environmental harms. compared existing rooftop solar policies and solar adopter income from 2010 to 2018 in more than 70 percent of the U.S. Last year, Shaughnessy et al.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The first carbon-focused MAC curves date to the early 1990s, while similar curves for energy savings and other air pollutants appeared in the early 1980s ( Kesicki and Ekins ). Oregon values are for 2022-2035, cost adjusted from the original study (USD, 2010) to USD, 2020. Washington State Deep Decarbonization Study.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Proponents of carbon capture, usage, and sequestration (CCUS) often highlight ways that it could be used for sectors like steel and cement whose carbon pollution is generally considered “hard to abate.” The pipeline network would be twice the size of the current U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Public Health Watch also analyzed more recent TCEQ pollution data and found that Channelview’s benzene problem has only worsened over the years. A Public Health Watch analysis of TCEQ pollution data shows that between 2019 and 2021, annual readings soared as high as 2.1 ppb, exceeding even today’s weakened TCEQ guidelines by 50%.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

For more on the climate implications of CCS, see DeSmog’s accompanying news analysis: How Carbon Capture And Storage Projects Are Driving New Oil and Gas Extraction Globally. Terrell Natural Gas Processing Plant (“Val Verde”) Operator: Occidental Petroleum, 1972-present Location: Southeast of Ft. What CCS Projects Promise.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 1, 2021

In June, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) narrowly approved the construction of a new 42” diameter gas pipeline that will connect shale wells in Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Ohio to a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on the Gulf Coast, carrying over a billion cubic feet of fracked gas to be transported overseas every day.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

We now know that Cascadia’s greenhouse gas pollution went on increasing in 2019, according to state and provincial data assembled and analyzed by InvestigateWest for this report. Josh Jacobs expresses similar confidence for Seattle-based Puget Sound Energy, which distributes both natural gas and electricity.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The dark, often viscous liquid is the single biggest contributor to the world’s energy mix, at 34 per cent of consumption, followed by coal at 27 per cent and natural gas at 24 per cent. Figueres, who was the UN’s top climate change official between 2010 and 2016, remains relentlessly positive. They consume approximately 14.5%

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

After a career as a consultant, Cheung joined S&P in 2010 and has led diverse strategic initiatives and titles including vice president of operations, chief strategy officer and head of risk services. The Ellen MacArthur Foundation (EMF) was created in 2010 to inspire next-generation business leaders to rethink and redesign their approaches.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2021

As larger players like BP and Shell offload these aging assets, a new set of oil and gas producers – nearly a third of which are private companies – are taking hold of the UK’s energy ‘crown jewel’. The deal disappointed campaigners, with Greenpeace claiming the deal props up a “volatile and polluting sector”.

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