Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This story is part of the series Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia , which explores the path to low-carbon energy for British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. And, in the United States, political gridlock chopped the heart out of Congress’ most ambitious clean energy plan. . Worried about the climate crisis? If not sooner.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Emissions include carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O) and (commonly measured through what is known as carbon dioxide equivalents or CO2e). GHGs are caused directly and indirectly by human activity especially energy (73%). billion tons of CO2e in 2018. The impacts of GHGs are being felt here and now.

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Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The coordinated effort will bring together governments, philanthropists, environmental groups, and technology companies to use satellite technologies to monitor greenhouse gas emissions and turn satellite data into actionable information. The initiative was unveiled at the third annual Bloomberg Global Business Forum.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

All of this amounts to a waste of the energy, water, and land needed to produce food. According to a 2018 survey, roughly a third of our fruit and vegetables are rejected because they are the wrong size or form before they ever make it to the shop shelf. However, there has been a rapid rise in household food waste recently.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

This annual report looks at where we are compared to where we need to be in terms of GHGs (see previous reports 2012 , 2018 and 2019 ). GHGs are caused directly and indirectly by human activity especially energy (73%). Fossil fuel use is a major contributor of GHGs and coal powered power plants especially harmful.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 5, 2021

Sickened by the losses people sustained in the 2018 Camp Fire, California’s deadliest wildfire, Honary turned his attention to how to mitigate future disasters. I started thinking about how the power of technology can be used to solve many environmental problems such as wildfires. I had been reading about the predictive powers of AI.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

To identify the powerful actors most actively lobbying against these key EU regulations and policies, DeSmog analysed corporate reports, lobbying records, official position papers, responses to public EU consultations, media events, and meetings held with various EU bodies over the past two years. Meet the Industry Trade Groups.

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Business Green

MAY 15, 2022

That plant - dubbed H2H Saltend - is aiming to supply low carbon fuel to the park's various industrial businesses, as well as to the Saltend Power Station, which has powered the vast manufacturing site since the late 1990s. We are decarbonising energy and we are decarbonising products.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Carbon accounting is a must for any becoming business today. Such businesses better meet the demands of the regulatory environment while coming into alignment with investor, consumer, and employee preferences. And to do that, this Green Business Bureau is your guide. The aim is to help the entity understand its climatic impact.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2022

Unveiling its new name this morning, the group said it was set to play a growing role in the UK's energy transition, through licensing and permitting carbon storage projects, monitoring the industry's emissions, testing the climate compatibility of new developments, and stewarding domestic production.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

It had been about a year and a half since he left his job at an aerospace company to found a clean energy startup in San Francisco with three of his friends, but the path to success he’d once envisioned had crumbled. Charm would use the same technology, but instead of turning plants into a useful energy product, it would offer a service.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

For example, a 2020 study from the University of California, Los Angeles found that living near flaring events, which burn off excess methane, or natural gas, is connected to an increased risk of preterm births. There are no federal standards that require drillers to place operations at a safe setback distance from homes or businesses.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2023

However, one legal expert argued that the government's headline pledge to dole out "unlimited fines" on water companies that breach pollution regulations would need to be backed up by additional powers and funding enforcement and monitoring, following swingeing budget cuts over the past decade. "An

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

While 70% of total expenditures are directed toward “Clean Energy & Clean Air” investments, additional claims on those funds may diminish the amount made available for direct emission reduction activities. 3 Less coverage generally lowers price signal impacts, unless the changes for those sectors require a much higher price signal.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

You might not think that throwing that empty cardboard box in the bin holds much power, but collectively, recycling in the office can yield many benefits for your business and beyond. Being aware of your waste and making an effort to manage it responsibly reflects your consideration for the world outside of your business.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Biomethane from sewage, renewable power, peatland restoration, and tree planting feature heavily in Water UK's sweeping new decarbonisation roadmap. The new plan envisages the development of up to 3GW of new onsite solar and wind generation capacity in order to meet around 80 per cent of the industry's power demand.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2021

EQT’s move comes on the heels of a similar announcement from Chesapeake Energy, one of the pioneers of fracking which recently emerged from bankruptcy. These latest branding efforts arrive amid a broad ESG investment wave that emphasizes the ways businesses approach environmental, societal, and corporate governance issues.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

billion tons of CO 2 in 2018. Approaches such as investing in offshore energy production, conserving coastal ecosystems and increasing consumption of sustainable ocean-based protein offer opportunities to reduce emissions. Unlike chemical approaches, electrochemical approaches do so by running electric currents through seawater.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

billion tons of CO 2 in 2018. Approaches such as investing in offshore energy production, conserving coastal ecosystems and increasing consumption of sustainable ocean-based protein offer opportunities to reduce emissions. Unlike chemical approaches, electrochemical approaches do so by running electric currents through seawater.

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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).

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

And since 1997 about one million barrels worth of oilfield waste has been brought to Lotus’s disposal site, situated off a dusty desert road located 19 miles west of Andrews, Texas (and just several miles from a massive solar array financed by Facebook and which provides energy to Shell’s fracking operations). Credit: Justin Hamel ©2021.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 28, 2022

In this Green Business Bureau eco friendly retail packaging guide, we explore sustainable packaging solutions for 6 of the most common types of packaging materials used. We explain our current waste crisis in detail, before defining an effective business waste management strategy to reduce packaging waste.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2024

The power lines had been replaced four times in the past two decades. “It Department of Energy (DOE) revises its review process. America’s Gas Export Boom In order for an LNG project to constructed, it needs to obtain authorisation from the Department of Energy to export to countries that don’t have a free-trade agreement with the U.S.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Needless to say, with the bulk of RGE's business rooted in the production of wood pulp or palm oil, its various subsidiaries have faced plenty of criticism over the years for their records on deforestation, land disputes, and drainage of carbon-rich peatland habitats. We need to develop a proper policy and strategy starting from now."

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

SDG17's vision of a sustainable future driven by cross-border partnerships has been under siege for the past four years, but is a change coming in the way governments and businesses tackle global challenges? Meanwhile, a fightback is gathering momentum.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 5, 2024

Less than six months later, Virginia Natural Gas boasted that it was supplying “NextGen Gas,” or gas “produced with lower greenhouse gas emissions,” to satisfy up to half of the energy demands of its 300,000 customers. One major certifier claims that the practice reduces methane emissions by more than 50 percent.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 1, 2021

In June, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) narrowly approved the construction of a new 42” diameter gas pipeline that will connect shale wells in Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Ohio to a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on the Gulf Coast, carrying over a billion cubic feet of fracked gas to be transported overseas every day.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Only 3 percent of the Wyoming project’s CO2 has been geologically stored in the same formation from which the original gas was extracted, according to estimates from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). C and with the net-zero energy transition. Credit: NET Power , CC BY-SA 4.0

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Elemental Excelerator

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

They’re looking around corners to build a better way forward for our energy, water, mobility, and food systems. As this cohort came into focus, a few trends emerged: Unlike the energy sector, which is increasingly distributed, water infrastructure remains highly centralized. As water crises increase both in the U.S.

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Sustainability Consulting

MAY 5, 2021

With the world’s focus on cutting CO2 emissions to slow global warming, cutting methane emissions is often overlooked. But with more potential to warm the planet in the short-term, it’s time to tackle methane gas emissions. Why Focus on Methane? Sources of Methane Where do methane gas emissions come from?

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