Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

They soon discovered that static electricity had caused entrapped methane from the flatulence and manure of 90 dairy cows to explode. According to the United Nations , reducing methane emissions from cows could be one of the quickest ways to slow climate change. Headline writers had a field day. million dairy cows.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

In the period between 2014 and 2016 China canceled many coal plants and installed scrubbers on 80 percent of existing plants to reduce sulfur dioxide, nitrous oxide and other hazardous emissions. This has improved air quality but these scrubbers do not reduce climate change causing greenhouse gas emissions like carbon and methane.

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Green Market Oracle

APRIL 20, 2020

Ohio fracking well Another epic spill that has turned out to be worse than originally thought is the 2016 Porter Ranch methane leak. At the time some had hoped that the spill would be a catalyst for change, instead we have come to realize that there may be even more devastating methane leaks that have not been reported.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2020

ExxonMobil has unveiled several short term targets to tackle its carbon intensity, methane emissions, and flaring activity in a new climate plan it claims is "projected to be consistent with the goals of the Paris Agreement", despite the oil and gas giant's continuing refusal to set a long-term net zero emissions goal.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The bank also set out its intentionto take action on its methane emissions by aligning itself with the Global Gas Flaring Reduction Partnership (GGFR) and endorsing the World Bank's Zero Routine Flaring by 2030 initiative. The IEA has warned that no new exploration should take place if the world is to hold tempreatures at 1.5C.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2023

Soletair Power, founded in 2016, uncovered the potential for technology to reduce a building’s carbon emissions by capturing CO2 from its ventilation system and using it in the production of fuel or concrete, for example.

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Unsustainable

AUGUST 20, 2019

In an undated article by the Department of Health (New York State), it was stated that “Methane and Carbon Dioxide make up 90 to 98% of landfill gas. vi I think this reason alone is enough to warrant the use of recycled paper more extensively. vi I think this reason alone is enough to warrant the use of recycled paper more extensively.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

LNG boom threatens to release vast amounts of methane, a powerful climate pollutant that is the main component of natural gas. Credit: Edward Donnelly Environmental groups on both sides of the Atlantic warn that the U.S.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2020

Van Beurden highlighted how the company was continuing to work towards delivering on its Net Carbon Footprint ambition to cut the intensity of the greenhouse gas emissions from the energy products it sells by around 50 per cent by 2050, and 20 per cent by 2035 compared to 2016 levels.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Widely known as “laughing gas”, used for its anesthetic effects, nitrous oxide (N2O) is also regarded as the third most important long-lived greenhouse gas, after carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 12, 2023

natural gas, which is primarily composed of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. The oil and gas industry searched for a market for the fossil fuel, using it as a main ingredient in synthetic fertilizers , amping up plastic production , and, beginning in 2016 , exporting it overseas.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

And now 2016-2020 is set to be the warmest five-year period on record.". Analysis from the WMO and UK Met Office concludes that the average global temperature for 2016-20 is expected to be the warmest on record, about 1.1C ppm and 410.04 ppm respectively, up from 411.74 ppm and 407.83 ppm in July 2019. billion.

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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. cropland and help the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Greenpeace Italy and Re:Common have alleged in their climate lawsuit — Italy’s first — that despite knowing at least as early as 1970 that burning fossil fuels posed a serious climate risk, Eni went on to promote “natural” –- or methane – gas as a safe energy source for decades. the spokesperson stated.

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Business Green

AUGUST 27, 2020

The guidance chimes with the advice of the world's climate bodies , which warn that - due to a range of factors including changes to land use, methane emissions, and resource inefficiency - it is unsustainable for people to continue eating the quantity of meat they currently do in the world's richest countries.

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Grist

OCTOBER 17, 2022

In a 2016 paper he published in Environmental Science & Technology, he documented a 2.25-fold Once ingested, microplastics get incorporated into zooplankton poop and can cause fecal pellets to sink “way, way more slowly,” said Matthew Cole, a senior marine ecologist and ecotoxicologist at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory in the U.K.

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Business Green

JULY 8, 2022

The New Hampshire-based company was founded in 2016 and has gone through a few acquisitions (FluroSat and Dagan) over that time to become a staple partner for big consumer food players such as General Mills and Kellogg Co. To scale regenerative agriculture, food companies and farmers need a massive monitoring effort.

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 20, 2021

At the 2016 DEMO Day, we added popcorn pitches for the first time—an element we’ve kept ever since! Zipcar and InTeahouse were the 2016 DEMO Day event partners. Green Gas USA , which captures agricultural methane through an anaerobic digester and converts it to fuel. Grove CEO Gabe Blanchet (a Greentown alum). 2018 May 9, 2018.

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Green Market Oracle

JUNE 9, 2020

Melting permafrost Warming Arctic temperatures are releasing carbon and methane , the two most serious GHGs. For years scientists have observed massive quantities of methane emanating from melting ice on the sea floor in the Arctic.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

More recently, the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released in August highlights the urgent need to tackle one particular livestock-related gas: methane. About 44 percent of livestock emissions are methane, the FAO has found. Reducing livestock numbers could, however, threaten the profits of HfA members.

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Business Green

MAY 4, 2020

The first assumes rapid decarbonisation of all sectors and would see all major sectors, covering agriculture, industry, transport, buildings, avoided deforestation, and power, abate at least 30 per cent of their 2016-level carbon dioxide emissions by the end of the decade. As such, the report highlights how any 1.5C

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Grist

APRIL 20, 2022

Combined with a $40,000 laser he dragged behind him on a plastic sled he’d nicknamed “The Coffin,” Hasson is able to link surface methane emissions to the ice disappearing underground. For instance, recent studies have found that emissions of carbon and methane released by thawing permafrost have been drastically underestimated.

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CleanTech San Diego

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Cleantech San Diego launched the SCEIN program in 2016 after winning a grant from the California Energy Commission. About the Graduates: Aquacycl offers the only modular and scalable technology capable of producing direct electricity (no methane) and recycled water from wastewater and sludge.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Taylor, a retired general contractor, was driven to form the community group in 2016 after learning that the U.S. Every stage of natural gas production and distribution releases methane pollution, a powerful greenhouse gas. Because of those methane leaks, consuming more natural gas spurs ever-faster and more dramatic climate changes.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

In 2016, the Anthropocene Working Group confirmed that the Anthropocene is different from the Holocene, and it began in the year 1950 with the Great Acceleration. Permafrost and methane hydrates – Permafrost is ground soil or rock that contains ice or frozen organic material that has remained at or below 0C for at least two years.

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Business Green

MARCH 19, 2020

Nevertheless, the government does provide its own "experimental statistics" on greenhouse gas emissions related to UK consumption of goods and services - comprising CO2 as well as methane and nitrous oxide - on an annual basis, and its latest estimates covering a 20-year period were released today.

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Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 4, 2021

Many companies pledge to reduce carbon emissions while actively lobbying governments against regulating pollution like improving car emissions standards or reducing methane leaks. Companies outspent environmental interest groups 10:1 on lobbying between 2000-2016.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Oil drilling, also known as fracking, wastes water, releases methane into the atmosphere, produces oil spills and generally wreaks havoc on the environment. In 2016 the Environmental Protection Agency found that aluminum cans contain three times the amount of recycled content than plastic.

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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Today, most of it is made using fossil fuels, primarily through a reaction between steam and methane. Methane leaks are another problem since methane — also called natural gas — is an even more potent greenhouse gas than CO2. Instead of using methane, it uses electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2022

FTI’s presentation highlighted its work, through Energy In Depth, at “debunking” peer-reviewed studies that link fracking to water contamination, as well as providing “facts” to media about how methane emissions from oil and gas were in decline. A screenshot from FTI Consulting’s 2015 presentation.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

The assertions also lack detail, face technical problems, ignore leaking methane emissions, and depend on government subsidies for funding. To complicate matters further, new research suggests that fugitive methane emissions from fracking operations are far higher than official data indicates. November 2016. November 2016.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The average American spends $2,392 per year on food while the average Kenyan spends $543 per year on food (World Economic Forum, 2016). One juicy hamburger for you equates to (about) 600 gallons of water consumed, 0.126 pounds of methane released, 13.5 Au contraire, it is the reverse.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

But this doesn’t include the fossil carbon emitted in the form of methane through the mining and distribution of fossil fuels, which globally is more than the volume of methane emitted by livestock. M Jenkins, Forest Yield, Forestry Commission, 2016, [link]. The post Can burning biomass be sustainable?

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 30, 2021

In France, TotalEnergies has invested $8 billion in renewables since 2016, including $2.5 A less direct way to reduce GHG is by cleaning up methane leaks from wells, pipelines, and processing facilities. However, methane emissions are only 10% of all GHG emissions in the US, and less than half are due to methane leaks.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2021

In 2016, DeSmog reported from the annual Energy Information Administration (EIA) conference that countries in Southeast Asia expected a “doubling of electricity demand by 2030, dominated by coal.” . . coal power has been replaced with gas power (methane/natural gas). In the U.S.,

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

In 2016 researchers at the LIGO laser interferometer succeeded in the first direct observation of gravitational waves, which had originally been predicted by Albert Einstein in 1916. For example, in optical respiratory gas analysis for early cancer detection or the detection of greenhouse gases. Gravitational waves.

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2022

In a section setting out the government's projections for emissions reductions through to 2040, it argues total output of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide emissions are on track to fall by 52, 68, and 70 per cent below 1990 levels, respectively.

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