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 estimates from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, if food waste were a nation, it would rank third in terms of greenhouse gas emissions after the US and China. The Need for Sustainability.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 7, 2022

It is relatively common knowledge at this point that large organizations and corporations are responsible for the vast majority of carbon emissions. Understandably, the larger a company is, the more waste it produces, the more resources it uses, and the more energy it consumes. In 2019 alone, the U.S. You get the picture.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2021

The scheme will then offer tariffs with a 15-year lifetime to fund the development of grid-connected anaerobic digestion (AD) facilities, which break down organic matter such as food and animal waste to produce biogas and biofertiliser. a year for an average domestic consumers by 2028.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

BASF’s wine tasting is just one example of many such pandemic-style lobbying efforts by the European agriculture industry since the EU has attempted to pass sweeping new policies to combat climate change through measures included in its “Green Deal,” first presented in December 2019. These groups spent at least a combined €45.9

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The circumstances surrounding his termination are documented among thousands of pages of public records and internal company documents that provide a penetrating look into the multi-billion dollar stakes of negotiations between governments and state-sanctioned monopolies that are shaping the future of energy systems in Oregon and beyond.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

James Parish town of Gramercy and its mayor, Steve Nosacka, an outspoken supporter of the oil and gas industry. James was planning to hold a protest march in Gramercy in an effort to stop an industry-friendly ballot initiative. James after a two-year legal battle against the St. Back in the fall of 2020, RISE. Two days before RISE St.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Organizations will pump more money and time to promote themselves as environmentally friendly, relative to the actual time and money spent on minimizing their environmental impact. For instance, four waves of surveys, from 2014 to 2019 by Glocalities , compiled the answers from 189,996 respondents. In 2019, this figure rose to 77%.

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Grist

AUGUST 11, 2022

It’s packed with energy; per unit of weight, at least 60 times as much as the lithium-ion batteries used to propel electric cars. In the presence of the sun’s rays, nitrogen molecules set of a chain of reactions that produce ozone and destroy free-floating atmospheric methane. It’s also terrible for the climate. Others warm it.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Sailing through ice faster than ever before On a sparkling day in May, the nearly 300-meter-long tanker Christophe de Margerie set sail from the northern Russian port of Sabetta. On the long winter days, Agatha Christie-style murder mystery games are organized to kill the hours. Petersburg, Russia on April 9, 2019.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Organizations will pump more money and time to promote themselves as environmentally friendly, relative to the actual time and money spent on minimizing their environmental impact. For instance, four waves of surveys, from 2014 to 2019 by Glocalities , compiled the answers from 189,996 respondents. In 2019, this figure rose to 77%.

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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. For a while things had been looking up for Charm Industrial. Courtesy of Charm Industrial.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Larry Fink’s 2020 Letter to CEOs , where he explicitly named climate risk as a “defining factor in companies’ long-term prospects,” was followed by an avalanche of climate commitments across industries throughout the year (see Microsoft , Shell , Unilever , and on ). What is ‘Climate Intelligence’? Silviaterra ).

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

The industrial revolution – despite its many benefits – sounded a death knell for air quality, increasing coal-generated smog levels 50-fold in many large cities. Instrumentation expert Thermo Fisher Scientific summarises the problem and its history, with discussion of the latest generation of measurement systems and their potential impact.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Carbon accounting – also known as a carbon or greenhouse gas inventory – is the process of measuring the amount of carbon dioxide, or other greenhouse gases (GHG), an organization emits. The process helps organizations highlight and target high GHG emitting operations with emission reduction strategies.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 25, 2022

Greenhouse gas (GHG) levels in the atmosphere are at an all-time high due to human activity, especially that of industry. While carbon dioxide (CO2) tends to be the most commonly discussed and recognized GHG, there are numerous other greenhouse gasses including methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, and hydrofluorocarbons.

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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. Ranking Louisiana’s Orphan Wells. Credit: Julie Dermansky. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The first generation of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), including herbicide-resistant soy and corn, continues to divide opinion: dominant on big U.S. In 2019, Calyxt, another U.S. As a recent report noted , there are multiple possibilities, including rice varieties that emit less methane. Did the news pass you by?

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

Gulf Coast typically receives much of the attention for the LNG rush , the Pacific Coast of Canada is home to multiple proposed LNG export projects, as energy companies scramble to export fracked gas from northeast British Columbia. based grassroots organization opposing LNG, told DeSmog. “By August 29, 2019. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Coast Guard for floating LNG projects off Grande Isle, Louisiana , were moderated by third-party contractors who offer permit expediting services for industry. LSU Center for River Studies on April 22, 2019, where the CPRA showed guests how it uses its a 3D scale model of the lower Mississippi River to make projections about the MBSD.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 11, 2020

Irish Water’s framework design and build contractor for the Limerick and Tipperary area is Glan Agua. Over the last decade, chemical-free UV has become the process of choice for the control of chlorine resistant organisms, and is particularly effective against protozoans like Cryptosporidium and Giardia.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 20, 2022

Proposed by New Fortress Energy (NFE), the planned facility will be a floating offshore export terminal that would treat, liquefy, and store methane gas before loading it onto ships headed abroad. If realized, the terminal could export up to the equivalent of 145 billion cubic feet of the fossil fuel per year.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

An ice-free Arctic might be a boon for the shipping industry in the short term, but comes at potential catastrophic cost to our economy in the form of environmental disaster and political upheaval. This is considerably higher compared to 2019, when the 4+ year old ice extent stood at 55,000 square kilometers. How is the Arctic doing?

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

When Laura Briggs and her husband finally found their dream home in West Texas, they knew they’d be sharing space with the oil industry. However, the family did see the wells leaking oil and gushing produced water — an industry byproduct that’s often imbued with hazardous chemicals. This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

These technologies include the use of insects, ‘fake meat’ made from plants, lab-grown meat, vertical farming, genetic modification (GMO), micro-organisms (such as algae) and 3D printing of food in general. Carbs are our fuel, protein and fat are the building blocks of our cells. This is called photosynthesis. In particular protein.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

When Laura Briggs and her husband finally found their dream home in West Texas, they knew they’d be sharing space with the oil industry. However, the family did see the wells leaking oil and gushing produced water — an industry byproduct that’s often imbued with hazardous chemicals. This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center.

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 5, 2020

“We’re looking forward to partnering deeply with Cohort 9 companies and their community partners to help improve existing water, food, circular economy, energy and mobility systems.” ” And finally, the twin threats of a pandemic and economic calamity made this a year unlike any other in memory. Why do we love them?

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 17, 2022

The carbon footprint of a business is the total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions released by an organization. To become a committed green business, organizations must take responsibility and work to lower their overall GHG emissions. . According to the EPA, the largest source of GHG emissions in the United States is electricity and heat.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 17, 2022

The carbon footprint of a business is the total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions released by an organization. To become a committed green business, organizations must take responsibility and work to lower their overall GHG emissions. . According to the EPA, the largest source of GHG emissions in the United States is electricity and heat.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The first generation of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), including herbicide-resistant soy and corn, continues to divide opinion: dominant on big U.S. In 2019, Calyxt, another U.S. As a recent report noted , there are multiple possibilities, including rice varieties that emit less methane. Did the news pass you by?

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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. The law’s current implementation also offers no assurances that the new jobs promised for oil and gas industry workers will materialize, although it is a stated goal of the law.

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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

JULY 14, 2022

The complex contains a circuit board of pipes and steel tanks that cough out steam, flames and toxic substances as it creates the building blocks for plastic from natural gas liquids. The plant is the first joint venture in the Americas between Saudi Basic Industries Corp.,

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 24, 2023

A breakthrough in next-generation geothermal, industry approval for emissions-free cement, and the start of construction on a first commercial sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) plant illustrate progress and put the focus on execution moving forward.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Polluting packaging agents build up to foul habitats and ecological systems, creating unstable environments which threaten human well-being and security. E.g. a recent study by Plymouth University estimated that a staggering 700 marine species are threatened with extinction due to the build-up of plastic trash. Waste generated.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

VERGE Energy Conference (VERGE 20) will take place on October 26-30, 2020. This online event can be attended from anywhere, The central theme at VERGE 20 will focus on how energy systems can be decarbonized, decentralized, digitized and democratized. Climate change is the most significant global threat we face today.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Environmental advocates pressing for a faster transition to renewable energy were among those arrested on Thursday. That included a few scientists, such as Sandra Steingraber, a biologist and author famous for bringing to light the health impacts of living near fracking industry sites. Credit: Julie Dermansky. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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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: SaskPower , CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

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