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 electrification effort is being driven by the nation's war on pollution. This has improved air quality but these scrubbers do not reduce climate change causing greenhouse gas emissions like carbon and methane.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2023

As Louisiana attempts to spew less climate-warming pollution, which disproportionately comes from industry, fossil-fuel companies have convinced lawmakers to jump onto the bandwagon of carbon capture and storage (CCS), a controversial and unproven method of addressing the issue. CCS is also an energy-intensive process.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 19, 2024

Nearly half of diet-related greenhouse gas emissions in the UK come from meat and dairy due to emissions of methane, an extremely potent greenhouse gas, in livestock farming. In 2023, DeSmog found that over 100 influencers had been paid to promote fossil fuel firms since 2017, reaching billions of people.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

As co-founder of the community group Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living, Mayfield has spent years fighting to protect her majority Black and low-income city from the pollution spewed by the nearby Covanta waste-to-energy facility — the country’s largest waste incinerator. natural gas.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Christopher Basaldú, a member of the Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe, said he had been appalled at the lack of awareness of the pollution caused by fracking — a high-pressure drilling technique that has revolutionised America’s energy industry, but caused huge environmental damage. “I I had to give a fracking 101 lesson to this bank official.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

John the Baptist Parish have a lifetime risk of cancer from air pollution that is 800 times higher than the national average. John at a protest the group held near the Fifth Ward Elementary School on October 18, 2017. Every stage of natural gas production and distribution releases methane pollution, a powerful greenhouse gas.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The initiative, also known as the “Protect Washington Act”, imposes a steadily increasing carbon pollution fee on most fossil fuel uses and directs revenue toward projects to reduce carbon emissions, as well as investments in forests, water, community preparedness, and support to displaced workers and people with lower incomes.

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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. Having some targets to reduce carbon pollution is better than none," he said.

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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. Despite the encouraging trend of companies committing to net zero by 2050, setting goals is not enough to bend the curve on climate pollution. Here’s why. Businesses accept the reality – and the risks – of climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

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 many findings: The energy value in 380 billion m3 of wastewater is estimated to be 53.2 and potassium 18.6%. billion globally: $9.0

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Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring North America Agriculture 260

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

The scramble by German, French and other European buyers helped inject new momentum into long-standing plans to build a series of heavily-polluting new LNG export terminals and expansion projects from Texas to Pennsylvania , prompting outcry among residents. on March 29. “We

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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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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

DWR measures the CO2 and methane emissions from the wetlands it created on Sherman Island. The state establishes an upper limit on greenhouse gas pollution — the cap — and then gives polluters a certain number of allowances to emit the offending gases. The longer-term goal is to reverse them. Jonno Rattman / Bay Nature.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

The company has seen demand for biomethane compressed natural gas (Bio-CNG) derived from waste sources soar by 800 per cent since 2017, and it now expects demand to more than double in 2020. When approached by BusinessGreen , the company was unable to provide details of the potential air pollution impact of Bio-CNG.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

The science could not be more clear: We must eliminate carbon pollution as soon as possible — nearly 50% this decade, and fully by 2050. Another ad features miniature power plants to promote “cleaner electricity” from natural gas, whose methane emissions are a major driver of rising global temperatures. presidents.

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Fossil fuels Natural gas Climate change Organic 98

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Pollutants and plastic. In EfW plants, the main pollutants relevant to hydrated lime are the acidic pollutants: hydrogen chloride (HCl), sulphur dioxide (SO2) and hydrogen fluoride (HFl). These, in turn, will potentially require new techniques and reagents to reduce unwanted emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Campaigns run by the AAA and Danish Crown are just two examples of the way in which the meat industry is increasingly turning to a playbook long used by other polluting sectors such as Big Oil and pesticide manufacturers , with the campaigns ultimately causing “confusion and delay,” NYU’s Jacquet argues. Meat Industry Playbook.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

That target was comfortably exceeded, as growing competition from clean energy sources saw the US retire half its coal fleet by 2017. Since Bloomberg Philanthropies' initial commitment, the 'Beyond Coal' campaign has helped retire 65 per cent of US coal plants , leading to a 43 per cent drop in coal emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

California, Oregon, and Washington have all passed laws and enacted policies that require utilities to dramatically cut carbon pollution over the next decade. Cascade Natural Gas, a utility with customers in Washington and Oregon, says it expects that regional demand for methane gas will grow by between 0.4 Credit: Rogue Climate.

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Natural gas Methane Demand Pollution 98

DeSmogBlog

MAY 19, 2023

When inactive wells are not properly plugged, they can leak natural gas, which is mostly comprised of methane, a powerful climate pollutant. “We came to the conclusion that leaving the oil in place would be the right thing to do,” Duncan Manning, Shell’s asset manager for the Brent field, said in 2017.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

I think that building a monument to climate change in the form of some temple that memorializes humanity’s past sins of polluting would be really poignant,” said Meissner. They can pay to destroy methane leaking from a landfill. Meanwhile, Meissner’s friend Peter Reinhardt had also become interested in carbon removal.

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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. ’s LNG export terminals.

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Carbon-neutral Methane Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 98

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. Ten wells were just holes in the ground.

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Methane Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 98

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. Ten wells were just holes in the ground.

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Methane Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 89

Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Most hydrogen is currently produced from natural gas, which is highly polluting, but if renewable energy is used then hydrogen can essentially be made CO2-free. They solve the emissions problem but there's still air pollution caused by tyre and brake dust, plus the fact of congestion on Europe's busy road network.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 31, 2021

Refinery flares can add to air pollution in the wake of natural disasters. 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. Pickup truck driving through flood water in Norco the day after Ida hit.

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Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Carbon-negative 98

Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 8, 2020

According to a 2017 study , Europeans use 36 billion disposable straws annually. When pollution from decomposing plastic can be up to 23 times as bad on land as it is in the ocean, the switch to biodegradable alternatives can make a huge difference. Disposable plastics are posing serious problems for our planet.

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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. Methane Without Measure.

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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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Fossil fuels Law Government Climate change 106

DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Proponents of carbon capture, usage, and sequestration (CCUS) often highlight ways that it could be used for sectors like steel and cement whose carbon pollution is generally considered “hard to abate.” And while carbon might be captured with CCUS technology, there are many other pollutants released by fossil fuels.

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Building Energy Monitoring Carbon Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 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. Eight emission events in six months, according to Neal Carman, a former Texas air pollution investigator who now works for the Sierra Club, doesn’t bode well for those who live near the plant.

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Plastics Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 98

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

A number of senior Irish politicians and agri-industry interests are trying to block a legal challenge to a new cheese factory brought by environmentalists over concerns relating to pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. Between 2017-2018, its overall number of dairy cows fell by 190,000, or 11 per cent.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

A number of senior Irish politicians and agri-industry interests are trying to block a legal challenge to a new cheese factory brought by environmentalists over concerns relating to pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. Between 2017-2018, its overall number of dairy cows fell by 190,000, or 11 per cent.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

On May 8, 2017, a drum of radioactive oilfield waste from Australia arrived at a remote West Texas disposal site operated by local oil and gas environmental services company, Lotus LLC. In May 2004, Railroad Commission Assistant District Director Mike Houston visited the Lotus facility and noted , “There are still some pollution concerns.”

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

It simultaneously acted as a potential solution to the worsening greenhouse gas crisis, while still remaining the biggest source of that pollution. In 2017, carbon capture operations were suspended as ongoing problems made the venture unprofitable. and eventually other nations.

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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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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

Within hours the whims of the American Electoral College system empowered autocrats, nationalists and polluters everywhere. Bilateral ODA (overseas development assistance) to least developed countries fell by three per cent in real terms from 2017, aid to Africa fell by four per cent, and humanitarian aid fell by eight per cent," the UN said.

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