Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

One day in January 2014, police rushed to a farm in Rasdorf, Germany, after flames burst from a barn. They soon discovered that static electricity had caused entrapped methane from the flatulence and manure of 90 dairy cows to explode. The need to rein in methane emissions is especially urgent in Cali­fornia, home to 1.8

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

In 2015, the NPPC, which claims only 3 percent of pig farmers as members, joined NCBA in lobbying to repeal a law that went into effect in 2013 allowing beef and pork producers to put “Made in the USA” labels on their product. It’s your own Checkoff working against [you],” Meyer told DeSmog.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Back in 2014, Rees-Mogg said: “I would like my constituents to have cheap energy rather more than I would like them to have windmills.”. Labour criticised her for claiming that “the ice caps aren’t melting after all” and that “global warming isn’t actually happening”. Jacob Rees-Mogg – Business and Energy Secretary.

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

Photo Credit: REUTERS While some politicians and citizens continue to deny the existence of man-made global warming, the evidence supporting it continues to grow. Between just 1987 and 2014 it was about the same mass: 743 billion tons. Featured Photo: Harrison (coal-fired) Power Station, Haywood, West Virginia.

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

It is the biggest LaBarge, as the gas operation is known, would have become one of the world’s foremost examples of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), a technology most climate-modeling experts view as essential to slowing down global warming and, eventually, reversing it. Trump signed it into law. But there was more CO?

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 18, 2022

Even as standards have tightened over time, the actual sales-adjusted fuel economy rating of new vehicles has been unchanged at around 25 miles per gallon since 2014,” the Wall Street Journal reported in January. “No vehicles are among the least efficient globally.”. No wonder U.S. mile-per-gallon gain to 25.4 MPG, “a record high.”

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

.” That apparent conservation activist was, in fact, an infamous climate change disinformation artist : Marc Morano, who’s done more than perhaps any other person to manufacture doubt about global warming. million advertising blitz in favor of another disastrous energy law. In 2019, Ohioans weathered a $9.5

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