Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

of the global fertilizer nutrient demand could be supplemented by full nutrient recovery from wastewater. of global agricultural demand for them. billion m3 methane – enough to provide electricity for up to 158 million households, or 474 million to 632 million people, assuming an average of three to four persons per household.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

A BloombergNEF report found that of the 385,000 electric buses in the world in 2017, almost all of them were in China. This has improved air quality but these scrubbers do not reduce climate change causing greenhouse gas emissions like carbon and methane. China is also an unparalleled world leader in electric buses.

Energy Monitor 94

Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Climate change 94

Smart Energy International

AUGUST 5, 2022

With widespread commitments made to reducing CO 2 emissions, attention is turning to other greenhouse gases, specifically methane and nitrous oxide as the next largest contributors. This in turn demands the latest technologies and innovations across the system, even if the full benefits in the longer term are significantly reduced upfront.

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Business Green

JULY 16, 2020

The target covers both carbon dioxide and methane emissions from OGCI member companies' operated upstream oil and gas exploration and production activities, as well as emissions from associated imports of electricity and steam. So it's for this reason that we welcome attempts to reduce emissions, for example flaring and methane leakage.

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Carbon Methane Fossil fuels Natural gas 67

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. The union has provided White with more than $87,000 in donations since 2017, according to campaign finance data from Transparency USA. even as EU demand for the fuel declines. Credit: Edward Donnelly.

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EDF + Business

DECEMBER 17, 2020

In 2017 alone the US experienced multiple climate disasters which had a cumulative cost of over $300B. Customers, especially the next generation of consumers , are demanding companies be environmentally and socially responsible. Here’s why. Businesses accept the reality – and the risks – of climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Indigenous delegates said they had been amazed at the “wilful ignorance” they encountered when demanding global banks cease financing new fossil fuel projects on their ancestral lands in what is today North America. With the world’s 60 largest private banks extending $4.6

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Fossil fuels North America Pollution Natural gas 94

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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

John at a protest the group held near the Fifth Ward Elementary School on October 18, 2017. The current push to expand the petrochemical industry and increase LNG exports would lock in an increased demand for natural gas at a time of worsening climate change. John putting up a protest sign in Reserve, Louisiana, on July 17, 2017.

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Building Energy Monitoring Health Law Home Energy Monitoring 98

Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

IEA warns that methane emissions from the global energy sector fell only fractionally last year, despite projects to cut methane leaks providing hugely attractive returns on investment By rights methane emissions from the fossil fuel industry should be one of the easiest climate problems to fix. This is a significant problem.

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Methane Fossil fuels Global warming Policy 36

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.

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Agriculture Climate change Methane Soil 91

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

But leakage of methane — a powerful climate pollutant — during operations to frack, transport and store the gas means that importing LNG can generate up to 10 times the carbon emissions as an equivalent quantity of pipeline gas, according to analysis by Norwegian research company Rystad Energy. on March 29.

Building Energy Monitoring 84

Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Fossil fuels 84

Business Green

MAY 11, 2021

Population growth means the world will need to produce 45 per cent more food in 2050 than it produced in 2017, even if people eat less meat and dairy and demand for biofuels for transport and industry is limited, the report states. This carbon sequestration potential would cover the majority of the projected 4.4

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Agriculture Carbon-neutral Carbon-negative Carbon 39

DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

But TC Energy, the Canadian owner of a major regional gas pipeline, has asked federal regulators to approve a plan that would dramatically expand the line’s capacity, flooding the region for decades with new supplies of methane gas – even as demand dwindles. percent a year on average through 2050.

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Natural gas Methane Demand Pollution 97

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

There is an additional challenge coming down the line: Emissions limits set by the Environment Agency will inevitably become even more demanding, reflecting tighter EU rules. This will help make sure that plants remain within their permitted emission limits and the conditions set by performance warranties, as their feedstock fluctuates.

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Waste Waste Plastics Recycling 133

Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2022

The report notes that the UK has over-achieved against both its first and second carbon budgets, which covered the periods of 2008-2012 and 2013-2017, respectively, and was on track to deliver on its third, which spans the years between 2018-2022.

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Climate change Government Carbon Policy 36

Grist

MAY 18, 2021

Strange as it may sound, demand for this service — a form of what’s called “ carbon removal ” — was just beginning to grow. The potential to expand them is limited by demand for land; the risk of fire, pests, deforestation, and other disturbances; and a lack of robust standards for measuring and monitoring the CO2 they remove.

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Climate change Startups Building Energy Monitoring Carbon-negative 125

AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 25, 2019

Still, UN evidence shows the number of hungry people in the world is growing, reaching 821 million in 2017 — one in every nine people — according to The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2018. One report by Deutsche Bank sees the earth’s population peaking at 8.7 Livestock genomics and regen ag left in the dirt.

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Sustainability Agriculture Methane Soil 52

Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 7, 2024

Many have doubted that there would ever be adequate natural H2 to make any meaningful difference in meeting clean energy demands. Suspicions grew that the odorless gas might be white hydrogen when explosions occurred in 2011, 2017, and again in 2023.    The gas also contained much smaller amounts of methane and nitrogen.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

At the very least, utilities will need plans that can get them most of the way there, while rushing ahead with next-generation technologies: long-duration energy storage, small modular nuclear reactors or green hydrogen and methane to fuel natural gas peaker plants. Here's a look at the five largest U.S.

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Carbon Natural gas Carbon-neutral Nuclear Power 246

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

In October, she invited a university researcher onto the property and discovered that several wells were leaking methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide. This increases the risk of methane seeping into the air and oil migrating into the surrounding groundwater. A decade ago, the U.S. Jenex then acquired the leases.

Methane 97

Methane Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 97

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

In October, she invited a university researcher onto the property and discovered that several wells were leaking methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide. This increases the risk of methane seeping into the air and oil migrating into the surrounding groundwater. A decade ago, the U.S. Jenex then acquired the leases.

Methane 85

Methane Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 85

Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Such businesses better meet the demands of the regulatory environment while coming into alignment with investor, consumer, and employee preferences. With these political shifts comes heightened regulatory demand for businesses to measure, track and report their GHG emissions. Carbon accounting is a must for any becoming business today.

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Carbon Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 78

Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

We see opportunities for investors as demand for rail travel grows, new trains are ordered and existing fleets modernised. Aviation demand offsets efficiency gains. Better fuel efficiency has helped curb aviation emissions in recent years; the amount of fuel burned per passenger dropped 24 per cent between 2005 and 2017.

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Transportation Europe Aviation Hydrogen 87

DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

In step with rising global demand, meat production has more than quadrupled in the past sixty years. We all have to demand more than just words. Today’s meat industry is dominated by a few multinational giants, including JBS , Tyson Foods , Vion , and Danish Crown , with access to markets across the world. We need action as well.".

Pollution 98

Pollution Agriculture Carbon-negative Climate change 98

R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Hydrocarbons are made from carbon and hydrogen and range from methane — the simplest hydrocarbon — to complex, long-chain hydrocarbons that are solids are room temperature. ROBERT RAPIER I chose annual averages because diesel demand is seasonal. For those suggesting that the shift has been demand-related, EIA data show that U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Lucy Maxwell, co-director of the Urgenda Foundation’s Climate Litigation Network, told DeSmog this is only the third time any court has “order[ed] a government to close the ambition gap between its weak [greenhouse gas] target and what science demands.” In late March, the Strasbourg-based court heard two climate cases. KlimaSeniorinnen v.

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Fossil fuels Law Government Climate change 107

DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2021

MVP originally obtained permits for that portion in 2017, but a federal court tossed them out in 2018, stating that the agencies did not adequately assess the environmental impacts and simply accepted the pipeline company’s assurances. “In The project also faces a host of other obstacles that stand in the way of completion.

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Natural gas Carbon-negative Construction Methane 98

DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2022

The flares started last December, an event Errol Summerlin, a former legal-aid lawyer, and his neighbors had been bracing for since 2017. As climate concerns lead to a slow but steady decline in the demand for oil, the companies’ collaboration represents a shift by the fossil fuel industry. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

Plastics 97

Plastics Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 97

DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

What you see in that report is a demand for a colossal expansion of CO2 infrastructure,” Muffett said, “even while acknowledging that it’s fundamentally not economic to build it even with the massive federal subsidies that are already flowing into it.”. All told, the entire U.S. industrial sector emitted 822.4

Building Energy Monitoring 98

Building Energy Monitoring Carbon Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 98

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

As global oil prices fluctuated over the following years, carbon capture was paused at the plant during periods when CO2 demand for oil extraction dropped. In 2017, carbon capture operations were suspended as ongoing problems made the venture unprofitable. In 2021, the mothballed carbon capture unit was demolished.

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Fossil fuels Carbon Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 145

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 25, 2024

By Joshua Bledsoe , Kevin Homrighausen , and John Detrich On December 2, 2023, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a final report that substantially increases estimates of the social cost of greenhouse gases (GHG), including carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide (collectively, SC-GHG). 2017), [link]. [7]

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Methane Carbon Medicine Transportation 59

Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

Meanwhile, the demands on Exxon to reduce its emissions got louder, and the company began to think about a long-term solution for its excess CO?. In 2017 a bipartisan group of lawmakers more than doubled the value of the tax credit, known as 45Q, to as much as $50 per metric ton. Trump signed it into law.

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Carbon-negative Carbon Fossil fuels Technology 78

DeSmogBlog

JULY 1, 2021

That dissent in Gulf Run takes on new relevance as the term of FERC Commissioner Neil Chatterjee, appointed by Donald Trump in 2017, ended on Wednesday. LNG production and transportation releases significant amounts of methane into the atmosphere which has a more powerful warming effect in the near-term than carbon dioxide.

Construction 98

Construction Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 98

Elemental Excelerator

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

And we’re placing bets on technologies that can put a dent in methane by targeting organic waste and … cow emissions! Leap works with device manufacturers such as Nest Thermostats to participate in dynamic demand response markets, which is itself a great path to scale. The seaweed solution to livestock methane emissions.

Solar Energy Monitor 75

Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 75

GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Ardern is being watched closely : Her administration has been criticized for being lenient on reducing biogenic methane from agricultural production — notably dairy cattle and sheep — which accounts for almost half of New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions and roughly 6.6 percent of its GDP. Those who don’t just talk — who act.".

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Sustainability Plastics Organic Retail 546

Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Whether or not the move indicates a softening of China's long term support for decarbonisation is contested, but it has highlighted how the transition away from fossil fuels is likely to lead to significant price volatility and energy security concerns, as economies battle to match supply and demand.

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