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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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Wastewater from overburdened urban septic systems and air pollution from burning fossil fuels contribute to nitrogen pollution, but often runoff of the synthetic fertilizers used in industrialized agriculture is the primary culprit. Seaweed's potential as a solution to this crisis is two-fold, scientists and environmentalists say.

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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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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2023

Outlining the new water strategy today, Environment Secretary Therese Coffey acknowledged "things need to change", and insisted that stronger regulatory action set out by the government would help push the water sector to reduce polluting activities. "I

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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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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 electrification effort is being driven by the nation's war on pollution. China is now the world's second largest economy and the largest carbon emitter.

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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

JANUARY 11, 2022

The study did not pinpoint specific pollutants or look at what stage of the drilling process might be worse than others. You’ve got air pollution from the drilling site itself. Other hazards include light and noise pollution that can increase stress, which can contribute to gestational hypertension and eclampsia.

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Grist

MARCH 8, 2021

When shipping giant Maersk announced last month it would operate a “carbon-neutral” vessel by 2023, the Danish company committed to using a fuel that’s made from renewable sources, is free of soot-forming pollutants — and is currently in scarce supply. Yet it’s not exactly a climate win.

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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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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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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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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. . billion MVP is now $2.5

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

Properly plugging and abandoning oil and gas wells is vital to protect the environment and stop methane leaks – but for decades, oil operators have often slipped away without paying to clean up, leaving millions of deteriorating abandoned wells across the U.S. and regulators in different drilling regions face different issues.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 2, 2020

The groups argued that California utilities shouldn’t be adding new carbon and pollution-emitting resources when the state is trying to meet ambitious zero-carbon goals. Now PG&E is planning to rely on mobile diesel generators instead, at least for this year. Natural gas vs. diesel vs. solar-storage.

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Business Green

AUGUST 20, 2020

Nitrous oxide is an overlooked driver of climate change, while methane attracts all the attention," said report author Sam Packer, policy officer at the Soil Association. Unless we reduce nitrogen pollution, we will never be able to reach net zero targets.

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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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Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

For instance, methane leakage is difficult to identify and actual emissions are often much higher than either industry or government recognize – unintentional leaks can be worse for the environment than burning coal. Data is one of the most powerful tools we have in the fight against climate change.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The 2018 IPCC report stated that we have the next 12 (now 10) years to radically change course—from the top to bottom of our economy—a mobilization on the scale and magnitude of WWII. Not to mention those who live in neighborhoods where pollution from today’s energy sources impact their health and wellbeing right now.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 30, 2019

By the 1960s, the first occurrence of plastic pollution in the oceans was recorded. The National Geographic Society found that 91% of the world’s plastic was not recycled in 2018. Oil drilling, also known as fracking, wastes water, releases methane into the atmosphere, produces oil spills and generally wreaks havoc on the environment.

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In a scenario where 40% of the airline fleet would be converted to liquid hydrogen in 2050 and the rest of the fleet would use e-fuels, the resulting electricity demand would be equal to the current total worldwide electricity production and about four times the production of renewable electricity in 2018.

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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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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

But the event was overshadowed by the major polluters who didn’t attend. UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak chose the very day of the summit to announce that his government will push off the deadlines for phase-outs of methane gas-burning boilers, as well as sales of new gasoline and diesel-fueled cars.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The Adnoc LNG field and a number of others in the UAE appear to be constantly emitting and burning polluting methane despite Adnoc’s 20-year-old policy to reduce the environmentally damaging practice to zero in on day to day operations. Flaring also allows the escape of some unburned methane gas, which is a powerful greenhouse gas.

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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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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2020

per cent due to Covid-19 (CarbonBrief), whilst 2021 emissions are assumed to return to the 2018 fall of 2.9 This could include putting a carbon price on gas for heating, shipping, or fugitive methane emissions, to name a few. Sources: UK verified emissions were 129m in 2019 (EUTL). LSE suggests a whole economy price of £75 by 2030).

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EDF + Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

decoupling our climate pollution burden from economic growth. All the rulemaking we’ve been tracking regarding EPA’s emission standards for oil and gas methane, fossil fuel power plants, vehicles, and transmission are all important drivers for accelerating progress. EDF and Google are partnering on mapping methane using satellite data.

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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 28, 2023

A worker drives a Powered Industrial Truck at the Amazon fullfillment center May 3, 2018 in Aurora, Colorado. Today, most of it is made using fossil fuels, primarily through a reaction between steam and methane. Methane leaks are another problem since methane — also called natural gas — is an even more potent greenhouse gas than CO2.

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2020

Data show the opposing forces at work in this sector however, potentially along generational lines: figures from consultant AT Kearney put the global meat market at $1tr in 2018 and yet a YouGov survey revealed one in five young adults believe the future will be meat-free. A couple of facts are central to our thinking on this.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Experts dispute this climate-friendly branding, however, given the problem of methane leakages through the production and transportation process, and doubts about the efficacy of CCS. When taking into account methane its climate footprint is “more than 20 percent greater than burning natural gas or coal for heat”, they found.

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The Environmental Blog

AUGUST 7, 2022

And these human activities include but are not limited to deforestation, burning fossil fuels, pollution, and overpopulation. Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas—like methane—that traps radiation from the sun inside the Earth. In 2018, the amount of rainfall broke a record with 36.2 Severe Widespread Drought. Final Words.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

So it’s perhaps no surprise that the OPUC has a track record of trepidation in holding state-sanctioned energy monopolies accountable for the consequences of their pollution.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2021

Both EQT and Chesapeake will seek certification from outside providers, including a business called Project Canary, which touts its ability to collect data on methane emissions and pollutants from oil and gas wells and offers a certification it calls TrustWell.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

High levels of nutrients applied to land as fertilisers and manures - as well as eroded soil and pesticides, herbicides and fungicides - are polluting watercourses and damaging habitats. In 2018, Singh-Watson sold his majority stake in Riverford Organic Farms to his staff via a newly established employee trust.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

They want the biggest, heaviest-polluting nations to do something about it. 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. That’s especially true for the world’s biggest polluters, which are the US and China by far.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The second most important target for green power is replacing fossil fuel use in buildings, especially growing use of natural gas for heating; in Vancouver, British Columbia, that causes nearly 60% of the city’s carbon pollution. Electric heat pumps can replace furnaces and, despite their name, they can actually heat and cool.

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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. Meissner and Reinhardt officially formed Charm Industrial in February 2018. They can pay to destroy methane leaking from a landfill.

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