GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

New research from Rocky Mountain Institute, our organization, analyzed proposed gas plants across the U.S. Carbon emissions from gas power plants rose 59 percent from 2005 to 2017, but that’s only part of the problem. In fact, recent research found that methane leaks in major U.S. Nonetheless, the rush to gas continues.

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Grist

JUNE 5, 2024

They do so because of a growing awareness of the public health impacts of aerosols, which the World Health Organization calculates cause more than 4 million premature deaths from cancers and respiratory and cardiovascular diseases each year. But the balance is shifting as ever more countries act to reduce aerosol emissions. degrees C by 2060.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Lem is president-elect of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, an advocacy and research organization which helped organize doctors, nurses and public health advocates to make the advertising complaint. More Facebook ads included in the complaint. Source: CAPE.

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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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DeSmogBlog

MAY 23, 2024

This story was published in partnership with ExxonKnews When Susan Avery was first nominated to ExxonMobil’s board in 2017 after pressure from shareholder advocates to bring on a climate scientist, many hoped that her expertise could help steer the oil major in a new direction.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

James’ march was set to take place, Lavigne learned that the town required her organization to post a $10,000 bond to obtain a permit for the march, money the group didn’t have access to on short notice. John at a protest the group held near the Fifth Ward Elementary School on October 18, 2017. Two days before RISE St.

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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. So, instead, she organized a small protest in the parking lot alongside residents from Chester and greater Philadelphia. as well as a member of the Steamfitters Local 420 union, which supports the project.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

Coordinated with Clean Creatives, a climate campaign meant to pressure the advertising industry, and the nonprofit Union of Concerned Scientists, the letter was organized and signed by a group of leading scientists including Jason Box, Astrid Caldas, Peter Gleick, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Michael Mann, Kate Marvel, and Katharine Wilkinson.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In 2018 the International Maritime Organization (IMO) — the UN-affiliated body which oversees the global shipping sector — agreed on a draft target to cut global emissions by at least 50 percent by 2050 compared to 2008, alongside targets to cut the average carbon intensity by at least 40 percent by 2030. . percent by 2025. percent by 2025.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In 2018 the International Maritime Organization (IMO) — the UN-affiliated body which oversees the global shipping sector — agreed on a draft target to cut global emissions by at least 50 percent by 2050 compared to 2008, alongside targets to cut the average carbon intensity by at least 40 percent by 2030. . percent by 2025. percent by 2025.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2023

It fell years behind schedule and billions over budget before utility regulators pulled the plug on it in 2017. Making companies reduce their pollution — particularly the methane releases that are associated with the natural gas production of plastics and LNG — would be a better strategy, he said.

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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

No one foresaw that this very bounty — soil rich with organic material — would, over time, become a curse of sorts. River and marsh bottoms typically have low oxygen levels, which slows the decomposition of organic material that collects there. That organic material contains copious amounts of carbon. Jonno Rattman / Bay Nature.

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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.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

IFEEDER also hired branding consultants to help name the CLEAR Center — which stands for Clarity and Leadership for Environment Awareness and Research — and paid CLEAR Center director Frank Mitloehner almost $19,000 in consulting fees in 2017, two years before they worked together to establish the research institute.

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 20, 2021

The 2014 DEMO Day was hosted in partnership with Global Cleantech Meetup Week, which was organized by the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center and ACTION New England. The fourth annual DEMO Day was one of four connected events organized by Greentown and the Northeast Clean Energy Council (NECEC) on Oct. in Somerville, MA!

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CleanTech San Diego

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The program offers free business services through a consortium of regional partner organizations to help energy entrepreneurs successfully bring their innovations to market. 76 percent of SCEIN companies have C-Suite diversity.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The first generation of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), including herbicide-resistant soy and corn, continues to divide opinion: dominant on big U.S. As a recent report noted , there are multiple possibilities, including rice varieties that emit less methane. To peer into this future, we have to start by looking back.

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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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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Carbon accounting – also known as a carbon or greenhouse gas inventory – is the process of measuring the amount of carbon dioxide, or other greenhouse gases (GHG), an organization emits. The process helps organizations highlight and target high GHG emitting operations with emission reduction strategies.

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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. Credit: Rich Duncan. LNG projects in B.C.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

So he began looking into converting plants into something called biochar, a charcoal-like substance made by heating organic material in an environment without oxygen. They can pay to destroy methane leaking from a landfill. Studies have shown that biochar can potentially sequester carbon for hundreds of years.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

According to residential ratepayer advocates , years of foot-dragging by NW Natural and the OPUC cost customers millions by delaying the pursuit of an independent analysis in 2017 that recommended shifting a larger portion of the company’s “very substantial” — and confidential — storage-related profits back toward NW Natural’s utility customers.

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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. Laxson, 71, cares deeply about taking care of his land.

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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. Laxson, 71, cares deeply about taking care of his land.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

LCPI projects the fee will generate approximately $12 to $13 billion through 2035, in addition to $4 to $5 billion in utility retained credits (expressed in present day dollars: USD 2017). billion (USD 2017, of a total $17.4 billion (USD 2017, of a total $17.8 billion) in the reduction-peripheral scenario, to roughly $11.8

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

IMS does not make specific (quantitative) claims about emissions for meat companies or any particular organization — the main role of IMS is to promote sustainability, not certify or police it. 2016) and Nutrition and food systems (2017). International Meat Secretariat (IMS). in a process of continuous improvement.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 8, 2020

According to a 2017 study , Europeans use 36 billion disposable straws annually. However, we call biodegradable those products that decompose into organic material with the help of bacteria – and without leaving toxins behind. Straws made of polylactic acid, or PLA, a type of organic plastic, are often branded as biodegradable.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2022

Compare that to the $146m in trades that the organisation tallied in 2017, when the market reached the end of a six-year slump. If you want to reduce your organization's carbon footprint, step one is a rigorous emissions reduction plan that aligns with the Paris Agreement. A quick public-health warning before we dive in.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which represents many of the world’s biggest economies, and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) predict that global meat production will continue to rise in the coming decade as incomes increase in developing countries.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 31, 2021

“Some of the area’s refineries started shutting down operations leading up to Harvey, including ExxonMobil, Petrobras, Shell, and Chevron Phillips Chemical,” DeSmog reported in 2017. Methane from oil and gas is an accelerant for climate change and it’s causing more intense storms and weather,” Wilson added.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

billion package to cap orphaned oil and gas wells as a move to tackle “super-polluting methane emissions,” saying it will combat the climate crisis and create jobs. So Biven is determined to make sure her “Methane Memo,” which lays out a plan to safeguard the funds, makes its way to him. Who Writes the Bills That Become Law?

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

My guide on Vancouver Food Tour co-founded this vegan tour in 2017, after an explosion of new local vegan businesses. For example, the world has entirely too many methane -producing cows headed for dinner plates and that the term “veganism” was coined in 1944 by a British gent named Donald Watson.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The first generation of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), including herbicide-resistant soy and corn, continues to divide opinion: dominant on big U.S. As a recent report noted , there are multiple possibilities, including rice varieties that emit less methane. To peer into this future, we have to start by looking back.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The young people launched their lawsuit in 2020 , following several years of record-breaking heat in Portugal, as well as deadly wildfires in 2017. The Eni case came as new evidence emerged indicating Eni knew of the climate consequences of its products at least as early as the 1970s, yet continued to market methane gas as a clean fuel.

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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. pounds of volatile organic compounds may be released by the facility hourly. On clear nights, he says, he can see the flares burning, releasing a gas cocktail of carbon monoxide and methane.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

An organization run by former Obama-era Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, with the backing of the AFL-CIO, a federation of 56 labor unions, has created a policy “blueprint” to build a nationwide pipeline network capable of carrying a gigaton of captured carbon dioxide (CO2). percent of a one gigaton pipeline network.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 24, 2023

⚡ Hycamite , a Kokkola, Finland-based methane pyrolysis developer, raised $28M from Sojitz Group, Stephen Industries, Finnish Climate Fund, HAI Kapital, Holdix, and Turret. The organization reached an agreement late on Friday to move the deadline on developing regulations for mining the seabed to 2025.

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