GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Over the past three years, some of the country’s biggest utilities have been committing to a goal that few may have predicted they’d undertake on their own: weaning themselves off carbon-emitting generation by 2050. Utilities in many states now face mandates to move to 100 percent renewable energy or cut carbon to zero by 2050.

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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. In 2012, a group of farmers who saw the payments as a legal loophole allowing the Pork Board to cover NPPC’s lobbying expenses joined with the Humane Society to sue the USDA.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

million square kilometers, the second lowest in the 42-year satellite record, behind only September 2012. In fact, physics tells us that for every 1 degree Celsius of warming, our atmosphere can hold about seven percent more moisture. Lot’s of Methane. Some of you might already be aware of the ticking time bomb called methane.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Initiative marks a significant step up in global action on the potent greenhouse gas and could lead to a major crackdown on sources of methane globally. The US President stressed that reducing methane emissions would be critical to keeping the world on a 1.5C-aligned

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

“It is feared that a further rise in carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere could lead to a higher average surface temperature on Earth, which could have far-reaching environmental, social and economic consequences,” wrote the authors of a 1987 internal Shell publication entitled “Air Pollution: an Oil Industry Perspective.”

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Rees-Mogg was also the first cabinet minister to endorse the campaign to reverse the UK’s ban on fracking, spearheaded by the backbench Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG), the parliamentary wing of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). Anne-Marie Trevelyan – Transport Secretary.

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

The largest carbon capture and storage project in the world has been delayed indefinitely due to Covid-19 Summary - Exxon has postponed development of the ‘LaBarge Carbon Capture and Storage’ project in Wyoming due to Covid-19. It contains natural gas, helium, and carbon dioxide.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

This story is part of the series Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia , which explores the path to low-carbon energy for British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. Imagine you woke up in 2030 to find that Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia had done little to slow the global warming that cooked the Cascadia region this year.

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Sustainability Consulting

MAY 5, 2021

With the world’s focus on cutting CO2 emissions to slow global warming, cutting methane emissions is often overlooked. But with more potential to warm the planet in the short-term, it’s time to tackle methane gas emissions. Why Focus on Methane? C off the average global temperature in 2050.”

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

The landmark legislation's climate provisions could unlock billions of dollars of low carbon investment and millions of green jobs - but it also paves the way for new fossil fuel infrastructure. As Mark Carney noted this morning, this is part of a global trend. The US is set to get its first ever carbon equivalent tax - on methane.

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