Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

As an alternative to landfill, which is due to be phased out, the GAYA chain is positioned as the channel of reference for making use of non-recyclable waste to produce a storable renewable gas, which can substitute for natural gas and as such has multiple end uses, in sectors such as sustainable mobility, industry and the tertiary sector.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 25, 2023

Hoboken is making this claim against fossil fuel companies under the state-level equivalent of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, a federal law used successfully to prosecute organized crime groups such as the Mafia starting in the 1970s and later the tobacco industry. Credit: U.S.

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Fossil fuels Global warming Climate change Law 98

The Verge: Energy

MARCH 4, 2024

After all, so-called natural gas is mostly just methane. Orbiting Earth in 95 minutes, it’ll have eyes on oil and gas fields that account for roughly 80 percent of global production It’s all that leaking gas that the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) plans to tackle with MethaneSAT.

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Energy Monitor Methane Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 95

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The fracked natural gas industry has never been the most responsible or efficient consumer of resources. Drillers are using ever-increasing amounts of water and sand in order to produce the same volume of gas, with a corresponding rise in the levels of solid and liquid waste created. But what does RSG really mean? What Is RSG?

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Natural gas Waste Waste Methane 90

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2022

consulting and PR firm, with a long history of waging influence campaigns for fossil fuel corporations, is under scrutiny by a congressional committee as part of a broader investigation into the decades-long efforts by the oil industry and its allies to block action on the climate crisis. A powerful Washington, D.C.,

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Fossil fuels Climate change Energy Energy 96

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

When Gary Dye, a former engineer with Oregon’s largest gas utility, began blowing the whistle on alleged unethical behavior by his employer, he never dreamed his nearly two-dozen complaints would amount to nothing. In late 2012, several months after Dye took his complaints to OPUC, NW Natural fired him.

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Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 78

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

gas export projects since the beginning of 2022, a sharp increase on the 1.86 The banks also underwrote 610 million euros of bonds for the projects from 2012-2021, the data showed. “I German companies are not only shopping for gas worldwide, they are also directly funding export projects.” German banks lent 2.17

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Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Fossil fuels 83

GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2019

But these tools proved unexpectedly useful when the Aliso Canyon natural-gas leak jeopardized fuel supplies for Southern California power plants. Hawaii also faces unusually high fuel costs because fossil fuels must be shipped there; solar-plus-storage beat incumbent power sooner there than on the mainland.

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Energy Energy Batteries Solar Power 246

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Porter states in her Twitter bio that she works with “businesses with projects across the electricity, gas and oil industries”, though these professional links to fossil fuel interests were not identified on the Today programme. In more recent blog posts, Porter has defended fossil fuel companies and criticised renewable energy.

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Fossil fuels Global warming Climate change Demand 95

GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Henrik Poulsen took over as CEO at Ørsted in 2012, when it was still known as Danish Oil and Natural Gas. Dong produced just short of 200,000 barrels a day in 2012. Looney expects it to remain in the oil and gas business for some time with it "likely" they'll still be producing hydrocarbons in 2050.

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Carbon Fossil fuels Carbon-neutral Hydrogen 130

Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 23, 2019

However, without a fossil-fuel economy, the world would be several steps back from where are today. Since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, manufacturing – while dramatically innovating and changing how we live and interact – has taken a bad rap for pollution and the environment.

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Innovation Pollution Fossil fuels Natural gas 98

Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 23, 2019

Since 2008, the carbon price has substantially reduced the consumption and demand for fossil fuels including: Reducing demand for gasoline by between7% and 17% by 2011. Decreasing residential natural gas consumption between 6.9% drivers to purchase more fuel-efficient vehicles.

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Carbon Fossil fuels Natural gas Pollution 44

Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2020

At present home heating - the bulk of which is provided by the fossil fuel gas grid - accounts for 13 per cent of UK emissions. But the use of natural gas in homes needs to be nearly completely phased out in order to reach the country's statutory 2050 net zero emissions target. per cent from 2018, UKERC said.

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Carbon-negative Fossil fuels Government Carbon 76

Green Business Bureau

MARCH 25, 2021

Indoor air pollution from combustible fuel use for household energy caused 4.3 million deaths in 2012 with women and girls accounting for 6 out of every 10. There is an additional focus on providing access to clean and safe cooking fuels to improve emissions, health, and quality of life. The private sector is responsible for ?

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Energy Energy Fossil fuels Climate change 88

Green Business Bureau

MARCH 25, 2021

Indoor air pollution from combustible fuel use for household energy caused 4.3 million deaths in 2012 with women and girls accounting for 6 out of every 10. There is an additional focus on providing access to clean and safe cooking fuels to improve emissions, health, and quality of life. The private sector is responsible for ?

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Energy Energy Fossil fuels Climate change 78

GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

One accident there — a 2012 fire — sent a cloud of black smoke billowing over San Francisco Bay and left thousands of local residents struggling to breathe. And they have suffered collateral damage from the harmful pollutants produced by using fossil fuels. As the U.S.

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Pollution Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Policy 427

Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

It includes rebuilding the nation’s electricity grid, adding 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations, investing billions of dollars in WWS expansion, the removal of fossil fuel subsidies, and the requirement that 40% of the new clean energy economy jobs be directed to people living in disadvantaged communities.

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Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 101

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 20, 2023

On my lastest flight surveying fossil fuel industry sites in southwest Louisiana at the end of September, I photographed liquified natural gas (LNG) export facilities, signs of drought, fire-scarred stretches of marsh, and a salt dome site at risk of collapsing. He pointed out that the U.S.’s

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Construction Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Methane 115

GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

At the very least, utilities will need plans that can get them most of the way there, while rushing ahead with next-generation technologies: long-duration energy storage, small modular nuclear reactors or green hydrogen and methane to fuel natural gas peaker plants. Here's a look at the five largest U.S. Dominion Energy.

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Carbon Natural gas Carbon-neutral Nuclear Power 246

Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

For its electric business, the new net zero goal will include greenhouse gas emissions from the power it purchases for resale, from the procurement of fossil fuels used for generation, and from the electricity purchased for its own use. Reports: New York pension fund to divest from shale projects.

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Law Plastics Government Climate change 38

Renewable Energy World

APRIL 28, 2021

For nearly four years, Piedmont Natural Gas — one of Duke’s wholly owned subsidiaries — and the state’s other major gas distribution company have stymied incentives for new high-efficiency homes, claiming with scant evidence that the rebate scheme will lose them customers. Musser questioned.

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Electricity Natural gas Energy Energy 83

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Bloomberg's latest Power Transition Trends highlights latest milestone for global renewables industry, but warns fossil fuel emissions are continuing to rise. per cent year-on-year, which according to BNEF has put new strains on existing infrastructure and fossil fuel supply chains. per cent on 2020 levels to 9,600TWh.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Hydropower Demand 64

AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

One accident there — a 2012 fire — sent a cloud of black smoke billowing over San Francisco Bay and left thousands of local residents struggling to breathe. And they have suffered collateral damage from the harmful pollutants produced by using fossil fuels. “I forget that this isn’t normal,” he says. As the U.S.

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Pollution Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 28

GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

She came to the co-op from International Flavors & Fragrances in 2012 as supply chain and operations executive vice president and became COO several years later. The company has since whipsawed between its wholesale-energy legacy of fossil fuels and greener horizons.

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Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 518

Business Green

MARCH 26, 2020

It means generation from renewables such as bioenergy, waste, wind, solar and hydro is now 15 times that of coal, when as recently as 2012 coal output was greater. Electricity generation from natural gas fired power plants also fell back slightly by 2.2

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Aviation Carbon Climate change Transportation 101

Green Business Bureau

JUNE 2, 2021

Founded in 2012, Sintavia is an innovator in the design, additive manufacturing (“AM”), and material testing of optimized metal parts for the global Aerospace & Defense, Ground Power, Oil & Natural Gas, Space, and Automotive industries. SDG 9 Implementation Examples.

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Innovation Sustainability Resilience Investment 78

Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

Shell - Gas to liquids (GTL) | Shell Natural Gas. This is the practice where natural gas is separated into hydrogen and CO2. Why focus on creating sustainable marine fuels? > Eventually all fossil fuels are to be replaced with a sustainable alternative, hopefully some time before 2050.

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Hydrogen Carbon-neutral Carbon Fossil fuels 78

Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

This is the practice where natural gas is separated into hydrogen and CO2, where the hydrogen is used for the petrochemical industry and CO2 is simply released into the atmosphere. Why focus on creating sustainable marine fuels? We however are not interested in replacing all fuels. The reason? What about CO2 taxes?

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Hydrogen Carbon-neutral Carbon Fossil fuels 78

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

According to the 2016 AQMP, mobile sources contributed about 88% of total NO x emissions in the Basin in 2012. For example, the majority of natural gas-powered trucks operating in California today are running on renewable natural gas that can have a negative carbon intensity.

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Logistics Building Energy Monitoring Ozone Business Energy Monitoring 52

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

According to the 2016 AQMP, mobile sources contributed about 88% of total NO x emissions in the Basin in 2012. For example, the majority of natural gas-powered trucks operating in California today are running on renewable natural gas that can have a negative carbon intensity.

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Logistics Building Energy Monitoring Ozone Business Energy Monitoring 52

DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

In March, over 300 climate and environmental justice advocacy groups sent a letter to Congress, arguing that subsidizing carbon capture “could entrench the fossil economy for decades to come.”. Instead, the proposed CO2 pipeline network would be used to offer a lifeline to existing fossil fuel power plants.

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Building Energy Monitoring Carbon Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 98

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) was high on the agenda at New York Climate Week last week, where critics of the technology raised concerns it would be used to extend the life of the fossil fuel industry. Terrell Natural Gas Processing Plant (“Val Verde”) Operator: Occidental Petroleum, 1972-present Location: Southeast of Ft.

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Fossil fuels Carbon Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 145

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

In Texas, property rights are split into two categories: the land on the surface and everything underground, including oil and natural gas. Maverick had operated the wells on his property until 2012. Among them were two dozen wells on the Briggs ranch, which is just a hair bigger than New York City’s Central Park.

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Methane Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 97

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

In Texas, property rights are split into two categories: the land on the surface and everything underground, including oil and natural gas. Maverick had operated the wells on his property until 2012. Among them were two dozen wells on the Briggs ranch, which is just a hair bigger than New York City’s Central Park.

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Methane Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 84

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

She came to the co-op from International Flavors & Fragrances in 2012 as supply chain and operations executive vice president and became COO several years later. The company has since whipsawed between its wholesale-energy legacy of fossil fuels and greener horizons.

Sustainability 28

Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 28

Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Turn the existing Clean Fuels Standard into a low carbon fuel standard, based on B.C.’s, s, to achieve a 20% reduction in carbon intensity for transport fuels. Introducing a renewable natural gas mandate that requires 15% of natural gas consumption to be renewable. Working with the U.S.

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Fossil fuels Carbon Investment Batteries 122

ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Given the challenges of energy transition, Europe is optimally positioned to lead this movement by implementing political and economic policies that will incentivize oil and gas companies to leave fossil fuels behind and make the transition to deep geothermal. billion metric tons of CO2 each year from fossil fuels.

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Europe Fossil fuels Climate change Politics 105