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Vast amounts of valuable energy, nutrients, water lost in world’s fast-rising wastewater streams, says study

Envirotec Magazine

Lawrence River, which drains North America’s five Great Lakes. 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. Among major nutrients, 16.6 million metric tonnes of potassium.

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The pollution paradox: How cleaning up smog drives ocean warming

Grist

“The Blob,” a long-lasting marine heat wave off the Pacific coast of North America, shown here in August 2019. Thanks to clean-air legislation intended to protect public health, aerosol emissions have been reduced in Europe and North America since the 1980s. million tons in 2013 to 2.4 million tons in 2022.

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‘Wilful Ignorance’: Indigenous Delegation Incredulous At Bankers’ Attitude to Fossil Fuel Impacts

DeSmogBlog

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. and Canadian emissions. With the world’s 60 largest private banks extending $4.6

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A win-win for the environment and water companies, EloVac®- P, vacuum degassing of digested sludge.

Envirotec Magazine

Anaerobically digested sludge releases residual methane and carbon dioxide to the atmosphere – methane emissions from sludge treatment make up 75% of the diffuse CO 2 -equivalent emissions ( Gärtner 2017 ). A pilot plant will be available in North America by end of this year. This plant will have a capacity of ca.

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#Greentown10: A Look at Greentown’s Biggest Annual Event Throughout the Years

Greentown Labs

Veolia Research & Innovation, R&I Director, North America Yann Moreau. After taking a hiatus in 2017 while Greentown’s headquarters were under construction, DEMO Day returned in 2018 and doubled as the Grand Opening of Greentown HQ! Somerville Mayor Joseph A. Greentown Labs CEO Emily Reichert. 2018 May 9, 2018.

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Spike in German Finance For Gas Export Projects Harms U.S. Gulf Coast Communities, Report Finds

DeSmogBlog

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.

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Climatetech Leadership Series: A Q&A with Trish Malarkey, Chief Innovation Officer of DSM

Greentown Labs

Fifty percent of our electricity is purchased from renewable sources—it was only 21 percent in 2017. This is an approach we’ve used in the past, and it’s resulted in innovations such as Bovaer ® , an animal food ingredient that reduces the amount of methane that comes from cows. TM: We have set goals around greenhouse gas efficiency.