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 ). billion tons of CO2e were dumped into the atmosphere in 2018 and coal power spewed a record breaking 10 billion tons of carbon into the air in 2019. gigatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (GtCO2e).

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Business Green

AUGUST 20, 2020

Urgent efforts are needed to curb the damaging impacts of nitrogen used in agriculture on the UK's environment, according to research by the Soil Association, which warns there has been a "historical underestimation of its true contribution to global warming".

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Soil Climate change Agriculture South America 79

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The simple fact is that they are not reducing their polluting activities by the significant amount required to limit the worst impacts of global warming.”. There are several ways to produce hydrogen , but almost all of it currently in production uses methane as the feedstock, with non-renewable energy powering that production.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

They want the biggest, heaviest-polluting nations to do something about it. That set a goal of limiting global average temperatures to close to 1.5 A major United Nations report from 2018 charted out what it would take to reach that goal: reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. And what about that oil executive?

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Fossil fuels Climate change Pollution Government 86

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 29, 2021

The number of orphaned wells in oil and gas producing states nationwide continues to increase, as does the amount of planet warming methane emissions leaking from them. In fact, methane is up to 86 times more potent than carbon dioxide in the first 20 years after entering the atmosphere.

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Methane Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Fossil fuels 98

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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Methane Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Law 98

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Climate Lawsuits Historical evidence of what oil majors knew about climate change is taking on new significance in the courtroom as lawyers seek to hold big polluters to account for the accelerating devastation caused by the climate crisis. This fast-evolving legal strategy has placed a premium on new archival research.

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Climate change Fossil fuels Pollution Carbon-negative 98

Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 3, 2020

Both men have dismissed calls for climate action while their people suffer from savage wildfires induced by global warming. As reported by GMO , Trump was called an "idiot" when he blamed the victims for California's wildfires in 2018. and Australia rank among the world's worst carbon polluters in the world.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Global warming Methane 98

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Rees-Mogg was also the first cabinet minister to endorse the campaign to reverse the UK’s ban on fracking, spearheaded by the backbench Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG), the parliamentary wing of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).

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Climate change Fossil fuels Government Policy 93

Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

It is the biggest LaBarge, as the gas operation is known, would have become one of the world’s foremost examples of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), a technology most climate-modeling experts view as essential to slowing down global warming and, eventually, reversing it. Construction was set to begin over the summer.

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Carbon-negative Carbon Fossil fuels Technology 78

Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Imagine you woke up in 2030 to find that Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia had done little to slow the global warming that cooked the Cascadia region this year. We have not kept pace with the scope of the crisis,” Oregon Global Warming Commission Chair Catherine Macdonald wrote to legislators that month.

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Fossil fuels Natural gas Policy Law 90

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The oil industry has launched an all-out pressure campaign to kill an attempt by Congressional Democrats to tax methane – an extremely powerful greenhouse gas – for the first time. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, which is considering the methane fee as part of the $3.5 Congress Eyes Methane Fee.

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Methane Pollution Fossil fuels Law 98

DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2021

Steve Brown, Orcadian’s founder, regularly shared posts on social media from his recently-deleted Twitter account that cast doubt on climate policy and modelling, including content from the Global Warming Policy Foundation , the UK’s principal climate science denying group. Labour Violations, Pollution, and Alleged Abuses.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Government Policy 98