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Methane release from UK shale gas site equivalent to 142 trans-Atlantic flights, says research group

Envirotec Magazine

Protestors at the Preston New Road site in 2017. tonnes of methane gas to atmosphere that was detected at a nearby monitoring station installed by researchers from The University of Manchester. Operations at the Preston New Road shale gas site led to a venting of around 4.2

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Ground Flare At Mammoth New Exxon SABIC Plastics Plant Likened to A Harmless ‘Barbecue’ In Corporate Video

DeSmogBlog

The site is home to the world’s largest ethane steam cracker plant, which will feed the production of nurdles – tiny pellets that form the building blocks for plastic products. This can result in large pollution events – with the release of more greenhouse gasses and toxic emissions, further contributing to global warming.

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Part 2: The Dirty Dozen Documents of Big Oil’s Secret Climate Knowledge

DeSmogBlog

In the minds of the fossil fuel executives, this point must have been hammered home when federal scientists published a report on carbon dioxide and climate change in 1979. Exxon completes an “Atmospheric CO2 Scoping Study,” which concludes that reducing fossil fuel use through efficiency and renewable energy is the only foreseeable option.

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Wildfires are getting worse, and so is the deadly smoke they bring with them

Grist

As changing weather patterns driven by global warming have extended California’s wildfire season and increased the intensity and size of the infernos burning across the state, residents who don’t take precautions do so at their own peril. Enforcing the use of masks requires monitoring by the state, for example.

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Is There Enough Biomass to Fuel the World? Part III

Mr. Sustainability

How to divert energy flows from fossil to renewable using electricity and biomass Summary - Up to 20% of our energy needs could be met by sustainably harvested biomass, in particular food and agricultural waste, as well as manure. In part II we learned that the world needs 435 TWh of energy per day. Or is there?

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Making the Impossible Possible

Mr. Sustainability

C stated in the Paris Agreement, according to the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming and Mercator Research Institute. But it is not just about carbon emissions… According to most estimates however, international shipping worldwide is responsible for ‘only’ 2-3% of all global greenhouse gas emissions.

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Bernadette Del Chiaro Wants to Make California Solar a Force of Nature

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

The state leads the country by housing about half of the nation’s total installed solar capacity, according to the latest data from the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). We really need to work together to build the political power necessary to win. It’s no secret that California is king when it comes to the U.S.