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. Between 2014 and 2018, transportation emissions rose by 3%, the report said. rise in emissions from natural gas.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Proponents of carbon capture, usage, and sequestration (CCUS) often highlight ways that it could be used for sectors like steel and cement whose carbon pollution is generally considered “hard to abate.” The pipeline network would be twice the size of the current U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 5, 2021

The poll, conducted by Data for Progress for the Ohio River Valley Institute (ORVI), an Appalachian-focused think tank, shows that large majorities of voters in Pennsylvania — including from large swathes of Republicans — are concerned about pollution from fracking, oppose subsidies to the industry, and support a range of new regulations.

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Grist

DECEMBER 14, 2022

But so far, there’s been limited empirical research linking the tribe’s public health woes to its environment. Snatches of information about the chemicals companies used for fracking in the Bakken shale formation, which runs beneath part of the reservation and contains billions of barrels of oil and natural gas.

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Business Green

AUGUST 14, 2020

The Obama administration seized on a Supreme Court ruling that greenhouse gas emissions posed a danger to human health and could be regulated under the long-standing Clean Air Act to introduce a wave of emissions standards across multiple industries. In 2014 and 2015, Anheuser-Busch converted 160 diesel-fueled trucks in Houston and St.

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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

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

CCS and the related carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS), are a set of technologies designed to trap some of the carbon pollution produced from industrial facilities. A natural gas demonstration plant in Texas tests carbon capture technology. Credit: SaskPower , CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Credit: NET Power , CC BY-SA 4.0

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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.”. stock and bond capital investment according to Morningstar, up from just 1 percent in 2014.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. Natura, which issues a regular environmental profit-and-loss statement , went carbon-neutral in 2007 and became the first public B Corporation in 2014. Mary Barra, Chairman and CEO, General Motors; Detroit. LinkedIn | Company profile. million acres the 4.4

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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. Gail LeBoeuf, co-founder of Inclusive Louisiana and Cancer Alley resident, speaks to reporters.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

In just ten years, Jacobson has harnessed passion, determination and science to re-frame the way renewable energy is seen and, ultimately, accepted as a viable solution to climate change and air pollution. If this soup of pollution was hurting me after only a few minutes, I imagined the damage it caused people who lived in it.”

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Grist

MAY 26, 2021

Another problem, however, is that conventional rare earth processing produces toxic and radioactive waste, taking a severe toll on human health and the environment. Coal waste comes in a few different flavors. There’s coal ash, which is produced by coal-fired power plants. Places like Gillette, at least, are ready for that breakthrough.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Boma Brown-West, Director of Consumer Health, EDF+Business. We want to call attention to how the biggest environmental impacts and the biggest health impact of products is really due to the products themselves and the creation and the use of a product," Brown-West noted at the time. LinkedIn | Twitter.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

This follows her remark in the January 2017 post that: “it’s curious that the focus has been on CO2 and not on particulate pollution which has far more immediate negative effects on health and the environment”. Fossil fuels are responsible for the majority of greenhouse gas emissions warming the planet, according to the IPCC.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

.” Pollution, poverty and race collide in many other disadvantaged communities across California — and the country — and some argue that the state’s climate policies haven’t helped. The overall “cap” lowers every year, forcing polluters to reduce their emissions or purchase allowances from others who do. As the U.S.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

According to the World Health Organization, more than 200,000 deaths in Europe every year can be attributed to particulate matter alone. Nitrogen dioxide was responsible for around 78,000 deaths in Europe in 2014, according to the European Environment Agency. These emissions are a bigger problem than you might think.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (MCC) is a member of Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Group (MCHC Group) and advances a mission of creating innovative solutions globally based on core values of sustainability, health, and comfort—striving for the well-being of people, society, and our planet Earth.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. Natura, which issues a regular environmental profit-and-loss statement , went carbon-neutral in 2007 and became the first public B Corporation in 2014. As electric vehicles drive toward the mainstream, General Motors has come full circle as well.

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