DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 12, 2021

Developing carbon capture and storage (CCS) capacity is a key feature of the UK’s strategy to reduce emissions and hit its climate targets. A number of big polluters, including fossil fuel companies, support and are involved in the UK’s CCS plans. . oil major Chevron, in partnership with other fossil fuel giants.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 13, 2022

Fossil fuels accounted for 82% of primary energy use last year, essentially the same as in 2020, but down from 83% in 2019 and 85% five years ago. Global carbon dioxide emissions rebounded from 2020 levels, growing by 5.9% Natural Gas. After falling in 2020, global natural gas consumption grew by 5.3%

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Over the course of several flights in 2021, they spotted frequent gas plumes from platforms, storage tanks, and pipelines offshore, leading the team to believe that the 151 platforms near the Louisiana coast had a much higher methane leak rate than what’s been measured for onshore oil and gas production. “I oil and 15 percent of U.S.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 26, 2021

Small declines were also reported in coal, natural gas, and nuclear consumption, while renewables and hydropower recorded gains. The remainder of global energy consumption came from coal (27.2%), natural gas (24.7%), hydropower (6.9%), renewables (5.7%), and nuclear power (4.3%). Natural Gas. ” Oil.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 31, 2022

The project will generate renewable natural gas from dairy manure biogas, which can be used as a substitute for natural gas generated from fossil fuels to reduce carbon emissions. Lawrence-FDR Power Project.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 23, 2019

Carbon pricing is a regular feature of Canadian headlines, as parties and governments clash over the right to impose a price on pollution across Canada. Many of these discussions are centred around whether carbon pricing is genuinely effective at reducing emissions. Decreasing residential natural gas consumption between 6.9%

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Iowa’s most populous city passed a resolution last month calling for a transition to 100% carbon-free electricity community-wide by 2035. However, it continues to burn coal and natural gas for baseload power and has not announced plans to phase out those power plants. The full power of that demand is not being felt.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Wärtsilä defines the goal of 100 percent decarbonization as a carbon-neutral power grid with a combination of generation resources — the vast majority of which would be wind and solar — as well as ample amounts of battery storage, demand response and flexible gas power, which will ultimately run on carbon-free renewable fuels.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 23, 2020

gigawatts of new resources by 2023 to help make up for the capacity to be lost from the pending closure of natural-gas-fired power plants along Southern California’s coast. In the long term, California will need a massive amount of new energy storage to meet its goal of 100 percent carbon-free energy by 2045.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Each of these statistics points to different solutions for reducing buildings’ carbon footprint. Shifting heating from fossil fuels to electricity can cut direct emissions. A new report from the Rocky Mountain Institute finds all-electric homes cost less to build and power and emit less carbon than mixed-fuel homes.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Climate activists say the state’s progress on reducing building emissions has been far too slow given the pace of the climate crisis, and that it needs to end incentives for energy-efficient natural gas heating. million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emitted in Connecticut in 2018 was up 2.7% for natural gas and 6.6%

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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.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2021

This month, EQT, the nation’s largest natural gas producer, plans to launch a pilot project that will certify it to start selling not just natural gas, but something it calls “responsibly sourced natural gas.”. Platinum Gas. We need to address the brand problem.”.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

While California already has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 13 percent since their peak in 2004, many residents still suffer from high levels of air pollution — much of it produced by fossil fuels. And they have suffered collateral damage from the harmful pollutants produced by using fossil fuels. As the U.S.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

DECEMBER 2, 2022

On December 1, 2022, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) proposed a sweeping new rule for the Renewable Fuel Standards (“RFS”) Program, the federal government’s flagship program for facilitating the production of renewable transportation fuels to offset fossil fuels. The proposed rule is significant in many ways.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The findings raise concerns over a potential pervasive conflict of interest on the boards at a time when the international insurance sector is under pressure to halt its support for the fossil fuel industry. “When insurers underwrite fossil fuels, they actually are underwriting climate change.”

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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. Town sign for Norco, Louisiana. Shell US did not respond to a request for comment from DeSmog.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In this Low Carbon Prosperity Institute (LCPI) analysis, we explore scenarios of carbon reduction investment performance based on the revenue allocation described in Initiative 1631. The measure is intended, but not required, to reduce carbon emissions in 2035 to 25% below 1990 levels, consistent with the state’s legislated target.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2022

Flaring — or the burning of stranded natural gas directly at an oil well — is one of the drilling industry’s most notorious problems, often condemned as a pointlessly polluting waste of billions of dollars and trillions of cubic feet of natural gas. How does ExxonMobil plan to reach that goal?

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Summary - Freaked out scientists and gleeful captains of fossil-fuel tankers are now sailing through climate history in the melting polar region. Crossing the so-called Northern Sea Route in the Arctic waters, in just under three weeks it moored at the Chinese port of Yangkou, unloading its shipment of liquefied natural gas.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

While they can substantially decrease a home’s fossil fuel use, it generally won’t drop to zero. That’s why whole-home solutions like ground-source heat pumps will be important to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Massachusetts law requires the state to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

By February 2014, Jacobson, with the help of students and colleagues, finished a draft of the roadmaps for all 50 U.S. The fossil fuel divestment movement led by Bill McKibben’s 350.org The end of Chapter 9 looks at the scenarios available for speeding the transition to renewables, including the retiring of fossil fuel plants.

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Grist

JANUARY 10, 2022

Faced with falling natural gas prices and the growth in wind and solar energy, coal plants from Illinois to New Mexico closed their doors. And as coal vanished, replaced by less carbon-intensive natural gas, U.S. greenhouse gas emissions edged down. greenhouse gas emissions edged down.

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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. He pointed out that the U.S.’s

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Last month the CPUC launched a proceeding considering emergency steps to relieve the possibility of another grid emergency next summer, with options, ranging from bolstering supply-side resources like natural gas-fired power plants or utility-scale batteries to increasing demand-side resources like behind-the-meter batteries and demand response.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

Under growing pressure to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, developers of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are turning to questionable claims about “carbon neutrality,” “net-zero,” or “green LNG,” in order to pass muster with governments, investors, and society, who are becoming increasingly anxious about the climate crisis.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

While California already has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 13 percent since their peak in 2004, many residents still suffer from high levels of air pollution — much of it produced by fossil fuels. And they have suffered collateral damage from the harmful pollutants produced by using fossil fuels. As the U.S.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Several promising carbon reduction measures are combined which are technically viable and based on matured technology, although scaling of existing technologies and cooperation with key partners is required. It originates from Heerema’s ambition to become a carbon neutral offshore contractor. Why Do We Need Zero-Emission Vessels?

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Economics are a primary concern in a well-designed strategy to reduce carbon. The potential ways to reduce carbon emissions vary dramatically on an economic basis. The amount of carbon abatement that a given method can accomplish also has limits in scale. Intro to MAC Curves. MAC curves are broken into discrete “blocks.”

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Grist

MAY 26, 2021

If these projects are successful, the Biden administration hopes that places like Gillette will go from being the powerhouses of the fossil fuel era to the foundation of a new domestic supply chain that will build tomorrow’s energy systems. Places like Gillette, at least, are ready for that breakthrough. But things change.

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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). Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data from 2019.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

They are the natural energy present in all forms ranging from sunlight, wind, waves, geothermal heat and tides. Although there is unlimited supply of the fossil fuels, we should go for the use of renewable energy as it is not only safe for the environment, eco-friendly but also less prone to pollutants if any.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2023

Tory MP for The Wrekin, Mark Pritchard, stands to earn £153,600 in the next 12 months from three jobs with companies that have an interest in fossil fuels. Linden Energy has a 50 percent stake in Bulgaria’s largest private natural gas company, Overgas, and has downplayed the impact of fossil fuels on the climate crisis.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 26, 2021

Its latest 3-year data foresee the net capacity for coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear power combined dropping by more than 14 gigawatts (GW) whereas renewables – mostly solar and wind – are forecast to grow by over 64 GW. On average, electrical generation by wind has grown by just over 10% per year since the end of 2014.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030.

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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. The data showed us that their carbon capture plans are not working at scale.” What CCS Projects Promise.

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