Greentown Labs

AUGUST 20, 2021

We held our first DEMO Day in 2013, two years after Greentown’s founding. Check out DEMO Day and the Climatetech Summit throughout the years: 2013 Nov. Green Gas USA , which captures agricultural methane through an anaerobic digester and converts it to fuel. Register for the Greentown Labs Climatetech Summit 2021 here!

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

methane) from animal and land management and land-use change, which make the biggest warming contributions in the agricultural sector.”. These come from deforestation, changes in soil carbon, methane emissions, emissions from fertilisers, manure, farm machinery, and animal feed production. gigatonnes (Gt) of CO2e and sequester 8.1

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

This technique of using statements that are technically true but omit crucial information and therefore are misleading, is called paltering — and it’s an old favorite of the fossil fuel industry. In fact, it’s not the only tactic the NCBA has borrowed from Big Oil.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The use of these chemicals also damages the environment in other ways; much of the fertilizer used in the world today is the product of methane gas, a fossil fuel, while the wide-scale use of pesticides has been linked to the damage of ecosystems and vital populations of pollinators. Credit: greensefa.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Australia, for example, has already put out a statement this week stressing that its 2030 target is "fixed" and highlighting how it has a near-unique position as an industrialised economy with huge extractive industries and fossil fuel exports. Coal and fossil fuels: An increasingly risky investment bet.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Monica Weiss attended her first fossil-fuel divestment protest on a frigid February day in 2015. Subsequently, two independent reports suggested that the funds would “face high potential risk for economic disruption from the transition to a low carbon global economy” if they continued to invest in fossil fuel.

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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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Grist

APRIL 23, 2020

As a result, this global network of staffed observatories, mountain stations, and remote sampling sites that collect and record atmospheric concentrations of key greenhouse gases including CO2, methane, and nitrous oxide, is up and running despite the pandemic. I don’t think we could have designed a better experiment for our atmosphere.”.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

A growing group of environmentalists, politicians, communities, and even the industry’s own workers have become increasingly critical of the fossil fuel industry, and see room for action under the Biden administration, though most attention has been placed on hot-button topics like climate change and methane emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Add to that a huge round of new licences for North Sea oil and gas extraction – and no further windfall taxes on energy companies making bumper profits – and it’s clear the former Shell manager has few qualms about going all-out for fossil fuels. Kemi Badenoch – Trade Secretary. Zahawi earned £1.3

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

More recently, the transport sector began to move away from fossil fuels. In a 2013 demo, for instance, scientists showed off a lab-grown burger that cost $325,000. . I was chatting recently with a veteran strategy wonk about the world’s stuttering progress toward decarbonization. Electricity generation was an early focus.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 15, 2023

September 3, 2013, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. Credit: Julie Dermansky Now, thanks to Graves, proposed projects related to the Biden administration’s push to expand the hydrogen fuel market and carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) hubs could be realized at a much fast pace, despite growing opposition to them.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 1, 2021

The FERC decision was split, with two of the five commissioners dissenting, writing that the Commission had failed to adequately examine the climate-changing pollution linked to the fossil fuel pipeline. Fracking in the Haynesville Shale near Shreveport, Louisiana, 2013. Running to the Gulf. bcf per day by 2026.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 1, 2023

Close inspection of the historic arguments used by the fossil fuel industry and its partners to justify their ongoing pollution of the earth’s atmosphere — whether it be by sulfur oxides, CO2, or methane — reveals the same delay-based messaging each time they have faced the prospect of regulation. Edmund Muskie (D-ME).

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

cities are drafting plans and testing out developing zero emission zones in downtown areas, banning fossil-fuel-burning vehicles and developing progressive pricing signals. While microgrids have come a long way, those that are being deployed at commercial sites are mainly powered by fossil fuels – either by diesel or natural gas.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

More recently, the transport sector began to move away from fossil fuels. In a 2013 demo, for instance, scientists showed off a lab-grown burger that cost $325,000. I was chatting recently with a veteran strategy wonk about the world’s stuttering progress toward decarbonization. Electricity generation was an early focus.

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CleanTechnica

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

There are three fossil fuels we must stop burning if we are to save our planet: coal, oil, and methane (aka “natural”) gas. Scientists think we hit peak coal in 2013, and American use of coal has fallen by over 50% in the last 10 years (though, we need to quickly […]. Coal is declining precipitously.

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