CleanTX

MARCH 20, 2019

Joint effort focuses on developing technologies and management practices to accelerate reductions of methane emissions across the global oil and gas industry. The agreement enables joint collaboration on projects that test technologies and emerging strategies to continue to improve methane management. BP took such a step today.”.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In the latest addition to its 'green recovery' package, the European Commission yesterday unveiled a flurry of crucial green strategies, targets, and policies, ranging from new green building and renewable energy programmes, to tighter rules governing chemical use and methane emissions.

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EDF + Business

JUNE 20, 2023

Plugging the Leaks: An Investor Guide to Oil and Gas Methane Risk THE BURNING QUESTION: How to Fix Flaring Methane Action at National Oil Companies Joint Action: NOJV Methane Reduction Sign up for updates from ESG By EDF Sign Up

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Grist

APRIL 5, 2021

Amy Townsend-Small has been chasing methane her entire professional life. When fracking took off around 2010, Townsend-Small shifted her focus to a new and growing problem: methane leaks from oil and gas activity. Natural gas, which is primarily composed of methane, was pitched as a fuel that could transition the U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 4, 2021

However, still some 2.3Mt of household-produced food waste goes to either landfill or sewer, where it emits harmful methane gas as it breaks down. The Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA) calls for funding to be provided without delay to make this possible.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

Further research by DeSmog has shown that Eni’s company magazine Ecos made repeated references to climate change during the late 1980s and 1990s — while running advertising campaigns promoting natural gas, which is mostly comprised of planet-warming methane, as a “clean” fuel. ‘Friend Methane! ‘Friend Methane!

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period. Scientists say that unless swift action is taken, methane from agriculture alone will take us beyond a 1.5C

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2022

Large amounts of organic matter are removed during treatment processes to meet environmental standards, and as a result, significant amounts of GHGs such as methane are released into the atmosphere. They found that the amount of methane released from the treatment of recalcitrant organic matters in 2018 could have been as high as 38.22

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

In addition, some bioplastics produce methane gas when they decompose, a compound with a global warming potential 25 times that of CO2. For example, in 2019, the BBC found that compostable plastics in Wales were going to landfills rather than being composted because almost all local councils were unable to deal with them.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

In 2018, Waste-to-Energy plants supplied electricity to 18 million EU citizens and heat to 15 million EU citizens. Indeed, the sector’s GHG impact is not limited to direct CO2 emissions: it includes other factors, such as methane emissions from landfills, energy savings through recycling, and GHG offset by energy recovery”.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

As the oil and gas industry achieves success in pushing the world towards widespread adoption of methane-based blue hydrogen, some unexpected voices are calling out the industry on its deception of selling blue hydrogen as an affordable and clean source of energy. . I mage: Slide from Zapantis presentation. Carbon Capture Hasn’t Worked.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 6, 2024

Howarth, a professor of ecology and environmental biology at Cornell University, shows that methane emissions from natural gas is on par with coal’s. Altius filed the claim in 2018 , and it was rejected by the Court of Appeal of Alberta in April. Rather, natural gas is a destructive fossil fuel. Research from Robert W.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2022

Deforestation to create pastures and feed for livestock releases CO2; methane is emitted from animals and their manure; and fossil fuels are used to transport animals and power the globalized meat supply chain. In 2021 alone, JBS processed 26.8 million cattle, 46.7 million pigs and 4.9 billion chickens. . Behind the Numbers.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MAY 21, 2023

” [link] “New data on Washington’s greenhouse gas emissions show emissions rose almost 7% in 2019 from 2018, reaching 102.1 Transportation remains the largest contributor of greenhouse gas emissions in Washington showing a slight increase from 2018 to 2019 of less than 3%, or 4.8 MMT CO2e in 2018 to 21.9

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 2, 2020

million metric tons (Mt) of hydrogen were used for oil refining in 2018 and another 31.5 One way to get around these is to convert the highly volatile and flammable gas into a slightly more malleable fuel such as ammonia or methane. Based on International Energy Agency figures, 38.2 Mt went towards ammonia production.

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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). 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 in 2018.

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Green Market Oracle

APRIL 20, 2020

In May 2019, the US Coast Guard installed a containment system and in September 2018 a NOAA research vessel was spotted at a Taylor Energy production site in the Gulf of Mexico. Ohio fracking well Another epic spill that has turned out to be worse than originally thought is the 2016 Porter Ranch methane leak.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Overall the country's carbon output tripled between 2000 and 2018, and its CO2 emissions now represents almost one third of the global total. 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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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

electric sector reduced its carbon emissions by 26 percent from 2005 to 2018. Preliminary estimates for 2019 indicate that this trend is accelerating, with another 10 percent drop just from 2018 to 2019. Thanks to the rapid decline of coal generation and the growth of wind and solar power, the electric grid is quickly getting cleaner.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 9, 2020

In 2018, when ExxonMobil announced its intention to reduce its methane emissions and gas-burning, many welcomed and celebrated the news. If the leaked documents are anything to go by, Exxon plans to continue this trend by following through with a 2018 plan to increase carbon output. tons of CO2.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2021

From devastating wildfires to rising methane emissions, Earth’s vital signs are continuing to deteriorate, scientists warn. Both methane and carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere have reached new record highs, the study reveals. trillion between 2018 and 2020. Australia, the U.K., Credit: CIFOR. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2020

The Hywind Tampen project, in the works since 2018 , will see 11 floating turbines constructed in water as deep as 300 metres, around 150km from the shore. Norway's petroleum ministry has approved plans for an 88MW floating wind project set to power state-backed oil company Equinor's offshore operations in the North Sea.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 29, 2020

According to the nomenclature used by market research firm Wood Mackenzie , most of the gas that is already widely used as an industrial chemical is either brown, if it's made through the gasification of coal or lignite; or gray, if it is made through steam methane reformation, which typically uses natural gas as the feedstock.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

Kingsbury, who was awarded a CBE in 2018, was the first CEO of the UK Green Investment Bank plc (GIB) and led the state-backed bank from its formation in 2012 to its £2.3bn sale to Macquarie in 2017. He is also the chairman of CNG Fuels , a leading provider of bio-methane for HGV vehicles. "I

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

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. The entire amount of greenhouse gasses (such as carbon dioxide and methane) produced by human actions is known as a carbon footprint. Reduce Your Carbon Footprint.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2023

Converting captured CO2 into sustainable fuel In autumn 2018, Wärtsilä, a global leader in innovative technologies and solutions for the marine and energy industries, approached Soletair Power about using extracted CO2 to produce fuels, before coming aboard the project with a seed investment in April 2019.

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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. Credit: Edward Donnelly Environmental groups on both sides of the Atlantic warn that the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 27, 2020

The resulting portfolio mix will contain about 17,300 megawatts of carbon-neutral generation in 2023, compared to about 12,500 megawatts in 2018. Alabama Power seeking 2 gigawatts of new gas generation. It’s also unclear how Southern Company will account for the greenhouse gas impacts of its natural gas business.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 12, 2023

natural gas, which is primarily composed of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. In 2018, Sempra notified FERC that the company hadn’t gone through with the gas storage project because of unfavorable market conditions and requested to reapply for approval if market conditions improved.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2020

It comes in the wake of criticism levelled against water companies for their perceived failure to curb water waste and pollution, with Environment Agency chair Emma Howard Boyd last year calling on firms in England to clean up their act after a "simply unacceptable level of performance" in 2018.

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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 ). 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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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In 2018, Venture Global sent state regulators a feasibility assessment of CCS for its Plaquemines LNG facility now under construction about 20 miles south of New Orleans, near the Myrtle Grove community. The post LNG plant operators change their tune on carbon capture appeared first on DeSmog.

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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

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Indeed, at 42 inches in diameter and 303 miles long, the MVP is the largest methane gas pipeline currently under construction in the U.S. million in fines for environmental violations since beginning construction in 2018, and more fines are likely on the way. The harm from the MVP will mirror its massive scale. .

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Europe's biggest meat and dairy companies stand accused of operating with "impunity" over their sizeable impact on the climate, after fresh research this week calculated that the 35 largest firms in the sector accounted for almost seven per cent of total EU emissions in 2018.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2021

The investment in AGEL adds to an existing relationship between Total and Adani Group, which have worked together in the liquified natural gas market in India since 2018, when the oil major bought a one-third stake in Adani Gas, the partners said.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2022

US oil major ExxonMobil announced yesterday that it plans to achieve net zero across its "operated assets" by 2050, tapping a range measures from energy efficiency and electrification to methane mitigation and equipment upgrades to slash emissions from its own operations.

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