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Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice?

GreenBiz

The system works by setting a limit on the total amount of greenhouse gases released by refineries, power plants and other large emitters, and requires polluters to obtain permits to cover their share. It also dramatically has increased the volume of gas flared off as waste — another source of harmful compounds.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

Often working from home themselves, they empathized with employees and other stakeholders, some refusing to issue layoffs. In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. As electric vehicles drive toward the mainstream, General Motors has come full circle as well. and globally by 2040.

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Making the Impossible Possible

Mr. Sustainability

Key technologies include electrification, on-board batteries, solar panels, synthetic fuels, carbon capture and storage and possibly hydrogen. In 2017 alone, there were about 93,161 vessels in existence. The largest crane vessel is Sleipnir, which has an installed power generation capacity of 98MW.

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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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Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice?

AGreenLiving

The system works by setting a limit on the total amount of greenhouse gases released by refineries, power plants and other large emitters, and requires polluters to obtain permits to cover their share. It also dramatically has increased the volume of gas flared off as waste — another source of harmful compounds.

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Fossil Fuel Plant Run by William Koch at Heart of EPA Investigation into Racism in Texas’s Environmental Oversight

DeSmogBlog

Hydrogen sulfide’s smell is often compared to rotten eggs, he added — and sulfur dioxide is produced when you burn hydrogen sulfide. Oxbow refers to its operations as “recycling” refinery and natural gas byproducts, saying that the so-called “calcined petroleum coke” it produces is largely consumed by makers of aluminum and steel.

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Could COP26 be the 'beginning of the end' for oil and gas?

Business Green

While coalitions of countries dedicated to phasing out coal power have existed for several years - the Powering Past Coal Alliance was launched in 2017 - the BOGA is believed to be the first time governments have collectively come out to pledge to phase out oil and gas production. depends on new oil, gas or coal projects.