GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Richmond, a diverse, industrial city where housing prices and incomes have lagged behind its Bay Area neighbors, has poor air quality and some of the highest rates of respiratory and cardiovascular disease in California. "But And in several recent years, it emitted as much or more of certain air pollutants. As the U.S.

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Planet Pulse

MARCH 17, 2022

In the hands of these experts, our satellite data is helping to power models, reveal planetary change, and deliver spatial-temporal insights across a variety of academic fields. PlanetScope has great advantages with high observation frequency and 3 meter spatial resolution compared with other MS optical satellites.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Each of these individuals is playing the long game and is in a strong position to move their companies and industries into what could be a more hopeful period of reconciliation, recovery and repair. Most support science-based targets and sit on multiple boards, collaborations and advocacy groups to further industry-level sustainability goals.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Kowalski , Energy News Network. A bill for cutting carbon emissions calls for equity in job training and transition programs, an office of energy justice, increased oversight, and curbs on utility influence over regulators. The bill would also set an energy waste reduction goal of 22% by the end of 2030. By Kathiann M.

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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. Val Verde’s success served as a replicable model enabling the oil industry to pump more oil while claiming to be helping the climate.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

The Transition Deal echoed the fossil fuel lobby by emphasising the importance of hydrogen power and carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) to the green transition. The International Energy Agency has stated that new oil and gas exploration is incompatible with net zero.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

New Frontiers in Renewable Energy and Resources will take place on November 25-26, 2019 in Rome, Italy. The theme is "Renewable Energy for a Better Future" and the it will include: Keynote talks, Plenary sessions, Discussion Panels, B2B Meetings, Poster symposia, Video Presentations, and Workshops.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 27, 2020

New research combining Planet’s high cadence satellite imagery and other innovative technologies has successfully found the sources and pathways of plastic pollution in the Caribbean Sea. The study by Kikaki et al. The study by Kikaki et al. © 2018, Planet Labs Inc.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2023

As a backdrop to the United Nations climate conference in Dubai, it’s a fitting venue for a planet-wide shift that scientists say needs to happen: The region has extensive deposits of oil and gas, but also immense, untapped potential for renewable energy. Our conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

Over the last decade, we have seen a move away from the traditional design-bid-build process and alternative delivery methods such as progressive design-build, construction management at risk (CMAR), and others became more popular in supporting the delivery of large, complex, capital projects.

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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. billion CP2 site and other LNG export facilities in the area.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2022

Even the finest particles of pollution influence the process of cloud formation and the rainfall regime, it seems. These nanoparticles of pollution [smaller than 10 nanometers] used to be overlooked in atmospheric calculations and models. We therefore compared the pollution line with nearby areas that lie outside the plume.

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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).

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

As Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen have established themselves as epicenters for high-tech investment and innovation, the Chinese government has shifted its focus to building out a competitive technology ecosystem in this cloudy inland metropolis. CEC Chair David Hochschild joins Chinese leaders at the Energy Internet Summit.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Why push for zero-emission vessels, if the marine industry is only a small part of the total problem? That is because the fuel generally used by the marine industry is the most toxic substance imaginable: Heavy Fuel Oil, commonly referred to as HFO or IFO. The marine industry contributes significantly to these numbers.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In part two of a series looking at Icelandic clean energy innovation, BusinessGreen explores mooted plans to turn emissions produced by plants across Europe into Iceland's bedrock. However, the country's ability to export the geothermal energy and green farming innovations that have resulted have always been somewhat offset by its remoteness.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

The new project will help African families to switch from unsustainable wood-based fuels to zero-emission electric cooking Ugandan social enterprise UpEnergy has announced it has issued the world's first ever carbon credits linked to emissions savings from the use of electric and clean cooking devices which will be verified by The Gold Standard.

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GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2020

At first glance, the sprawling industrial site, covering roughly 900 acres in Kingsport, Tennessee, appears to be just another chemical manufacturing facility. There are hundreds of buildings and countless miles of pipes, conveyors, distillers, cooling towers, valves, pumps, compressors and controls. Joel Makower.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 20, 2021

With the marijuana industry expanding to new audiences, what do eco-conscious people need to know about this plant and its demands on the environment? From water usage to pollution , growing cannabis may have a larger footprint than you’d think. Energy consumption How does energy use factor into growing cannabis?

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Grist

JANUARY 13, 2020

Without Tony Bowdoin’s grandfather, Georgia Power might never have come to the quiet town of Juliette. By the late 1960s, Georgia Power had started planning to build the Robert W. Scherer Power Plant. Tony Bowdoin had also heard whispers about pollution over the years. million households.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

If you take Shell’s word for it, the oil giant’s growing petrochemical operations are indicative of its “commitment” to a cleaner energy future. It’s an apt welcome to a place where the realities of everyday life seem to be in stark contrast to the green illusion marketed by the fossil fuel and petrochemical industries.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Only 3 percent of the Wyoming project’s CO2 has been geologically stored in the same formation from which the original gas was extracted, according to estimates from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). C and with the net-zero energy transition. Credit: SaskPower , CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

Water utilities are steadily replacing legacy IT systems with software-as-a-service applications as confidence in data security builds, says a technology firm working in this domain, Ovarro. One area where legacy systems can be an issue for water companies is the control room, where a 24/7 response team monitors alarms on the network.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 11, 2023

The WSPA’s description of its dinner says that “nothing is off the table” — adding that “we want to hear from you and answer any questions you may have about the oil and gas industry’s role in the energy transition.” To get there, industries need to lead the way with innovative technologies and solutions.”

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution we have been steadily increasing climate warming GHGs. The wanton burning of fossil fuels, new agricultural methods, chemical manufacturing and production processes have all contributed to unprecedented pollution that are poisoning our air and our water. In the U.S. million people in 2015.

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Business Green

APRIL 15, 2020

Which countries could be the green economic powers of the future? The current havoc being wrought by price wars and the coronavirus crisis on the oil industry could even serve to further hasten a shift of capital away from high carbon industries. The same logic stands for individual businesses, Teytelboym argues.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The initiative, also known as the “Protect Washington Act”, imposes a steadily increasing carbon pollution fee on most fossil fuel uses and directs revenue toward projects to reduce carbon emissions, as well as investments in forests, water, community preparedness, and support to displaced workers and people with lower incomes.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2021

EQT’s move comes on the heels of a similar announcement from Chesapeake Energy, one of the pioneers of fracking which recently emerged from bankruptcy. Industry advisors are increasingly offering up new ideas about how oil and gas companies can use the language of ESG to market their fossil fuel as different from the competition’s.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 1, 2022

The chair of a campaign by backbench Tory MPs against climate action runs a parliamentary group with a lobbyist who has an undeclared interest in the continued use of fossil fuel-powered vehicles, DeSmog can reveal. Mr Cox’s personal business interests are clearly skewing the climate sceptic, anti-electric car stance of the group.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 19, 2019

In order to drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions and protect our planet, we will need to creatively redesign and reinvent our underlying energy, agriculture, water, mobility, and economic systems. And as the first state to set a 100% renewable energy goal, our work here can serve as the beacon for other states and countries to follow.

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Business Green

AUGUST 14, 2020

The Trump administration stepped up its pre-election effort to roll back environmental regulations this week, confirming plans to axe methane emissions standards for the oil and gas industry and signalling further such moves are on the cards ahead of polling day in November. You want to wash your hands, the water doesn't come out.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

For instance, four waves of surveys, from 2014 to 2019 by Glocalities , compiled the answers from 189,996 respondents. In 2014, 71% of respondents were worried about the damage humans had caused to our planet. McDonald’s addressed the environmental issue of plastic pollution by replacing their straws with paper alternatives.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The C2V Initiative is supported by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority ( NYSERDA ) and the Consulate General of Canada in New York. The CLC’s corporate leaders will represent diverse industries that have made formal commitments to reducing carbon emissions in their core businesses and beyond.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution we have been steadily increasing climate warming GHGs. The wanton burning of fossil fuels, new agricultural methods, chemical manufacturing and production processes have all contributed to unprecedented pollution that is poisoning our air and our water. In the U.S. million people in 2015.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

Gulf Coast typically receives much of the attention for the LNG rush , the Pacific Coast of Canada is home to multiple proposed LNG export projects, as energy companies scramble to export fracked gas from northeast British Columbia. By investing in LNG now, we are going to be locking in climate pollution for 25 to 40 years.”.

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Defend Our Future

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

There are numerous refineries, other toxic facilities, and Superfund sites in the Houston area that flooded, carrying pollution through the neighborhoods. The environmental movement has had a long history of excluding a lot of people but now is the time to build an inclusive movement. We’ve seen this change. You mentioned Michigan.

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2020

Then the scientists: like the analysts you see at sporting events monitoring players' heartbeats and movement - warning in the 2018 UN IPCC climate science report the game for the planet is winnable - but slipping out of reach. It's slow, because the opposition is exceptionally well-funded, connected, with deep roots to power.

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