DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Meat emits around a third of global emissions of methane, and action to cut this greenhouse gas has been identified by the UN and world leaders as the quickest route to slowing global heating. All these methods work to improve the soil, reduce air and water pollution, cut emissions, and boost biodiversity.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The decision has outraged residents who’ve lived with the pollution tied to Coterra Energy’s previous fracking activity and endured over a decade in which they’ve lacked access to clean water for their homes. in 2021 — to household water pollution, banning the company from drilling new natural gas wells in the area entirely.

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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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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. Between 1969 and 2019, global seaweed production increased to 35.8 million metric tons from 2.2

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

A coalition of environmental and social justice organizations have filed a petition with state regulators to halt a hydrogen project by Oregon’s largest gas utility, alleging that the project poses health, safety, environmental dangers to residents already living with polluting industries. ” Industry in West Eugene.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2022

To top it all off, funding for the Canadian Energy Centre comes directly from the province’s tax on industrial polluters. The province earlier set aside a budget of $80 million for the Canadian Energy Centre in its 2019 Budget, paid for by climate taxes on the province’s biggest polluters.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 16, 2022

It has now been fitted to the PTO-operated Mulag SB600 suction mower that Halifax-based GVA has been using since 2019. There’s another potential environmental benefit too, in that grass that’s been cut and collected in late summer and then left to die away over the winter releases methane.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 19, 2024

Nearly half of diet-related greenhouse gas emissions in the UK come from meat and dairy due to emissions of methane, an extremely potent greenhouse gas, in livestock farming. The campaign has been the subject of ongoing controversies since its launch in 2019, and was subject to a complaint in 2021 over claims its advertising was “misleading”.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 4, 2021

Only a handful of super emitters are responsible for an enormous amount of the methane pollution in the Permian basin, according to a new study. Methane is a highly potent greenhouse gas — more than 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide over a 20-year time-frame. That’s equivalent to about 5% of the U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 5, 2021

As the United States moves toward decarbonization, cities and states must use all means available to reduce climate pollution, and natural gas utilities should be at the forefront of this rapid energy transition. By Erin Murphy and Christie Hicks , EDF.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

They soon discovered that static electricity had caused entrapped methane from the flatulence and manure of 90 dairy cows to explode. According to the United Nations , reducing methane emissions from cows could be one of the quickest ways to slow climate change. Headline writers had a field day. million dairy cows.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

But an impending flood of liquefied natural gas exports from western Canada to Asia could make it harder for countries there to achieve their national climate targets and contribute to tens of thousands of additional deaths due to air pollution. This could have dire health impacts. Gas releases less emissions when burned than coal.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 24, 2023

When it evaporates, it’s methane. You can’t breathe methane. Scientist Ivor van Heerden stands next to the Bayou Bridge pipeline on the west side of the Atchafalaya Basin in 2019. If it’s flooded, it could then pollute the surrounding wetlands, he added. It will kill you.” The opposite has proven to be true.

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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. Credit: Edward Donnelly. natural gas.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

This electrification effort is being driven by the nation's war on pollution. This has improved air quality but these scrubbers do not reduce climate change causing greenhouse gas emissions like carbon and methane. However, China's emissions have been dramatically slowed by the Corona virus.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

per cent in the decade to 2021, with a corresponding rise in water pollution and declines in air quality caused by an increase in nitrogen fertiliser use. The IFA has worked closely with controversial California-based air quality scientist, Frank Mitloehner, to argue against the need to sharply curtail methane emissions from livestock.

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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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Cleantech East

MAY 15, 2019

A team of Year 9’s from Springwood Highschool and a team of Year 7’s from Framingham Earl High were this year’s winners of Cleantech East’s annual Cleantech Challenge, and were awarded their prizes – brand new state-of-the-art 3D Printers – at Hethel Engineering Centre on 3 rd May 2019. The Cleantech Challenge will run again in Autumn 2019.

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Front And Centered

JANUARY 14, 2021

Instead of focusing on the category of gases that cause climate change, we should work to reduce and eliminate the pollutants that cause immediate health impacts. Pivoting our focus to the pollutants that cause the most harm to health — particulate matter, lead, nitrogen oxides (NOx), sulfur oxides (SOx), and others — won’t change that.

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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). According to a 2019 study there is currently more CO2 in the atmosphere than there has been in at least 3 million years. The impacts of GHGs are being felt here and now.

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Sustainability Consulting

MAY 19, 2023

Garrett Wymore and Caroline Buck created their company Petaluma in 2019 after “struggling to find dog nutrition that equally prioritized their pets and the planet.” ( Forbes ) As one of the industry’s pioneers, they aim to set a new standard for pet food, one that considers the planet as a stakeholder.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Fracking was remarkably unpopular with the public, with the UK government's own surveys in 2019 finding that opposition to fracking outnumbered support by four to one. It's simply not tenable for the UK to promote shale gas, particularly given the rising international concern over methane leakage. Not under my back yard.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 12, 2021

A number of big polluters, including fossil fuel companies, support and are involved in the UK’s CCS plans. . Allwood co-authored a 2019 report titled Absolute Zero , which called for the “rapid contraction” of industries like cement and shipping rather than relying on “breakthrough technologies” like CCS.

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EDF + Business

JULY 19, 2019

By Tom Murray This week, business executives, tech entrepreneurs, and investors met in Aspen, Colorado at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech 2019 conference. For example: Methane, the primary component of natural gas, is a potent greenhouse gas responsible for 25% of the warming we’re experiencing today. Technology improves efficiency.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

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%. An example of this is provided by the McDonald’s paper straw scandal back in 2019. Since the 60s there’s been a global rise in concern for the environment.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 7, 2022

And over the years, greedy corporate practices have led to a significant increase in pollution and dwindling resources from the burning of fossil fuels, plastic waste, water usage, wasteful use of materials, and an overall detrimental carbon footprint. . In 2019 alone, the U.S. Some footprints are as large as the business itself.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

According to a 2019 study there is currently more CO2 in the atmosphere than there has been in at least 3 million years. 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 ). In 2019, total greenhouse gas emissions reached a new high of 59.1

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Progress did seem to be forthcoming on cutting methane emissions, with more than 100 countries (although not China) – committing to a 30% reduction by 2030 compared to the 2030 baseline. OECD estimates say the amount provided in 2019 fell short of $80 billion, and it was likely much less still in 2020. Carbon capture.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Widely known as “laughing gas”, used for its anesthetic effects, nitrous oxide (N2O) is also regarded as the third most important long-lived greenhouse gas, after carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane. This is particularly relevant in regions like East Asia, where nitrogen fertilizer could be used more efficiently without reducing crop yields.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Robert Taylor and Sharon Lavigne with Pat Bryant protesting in front of the Louisiana State Capitol on June 3, 2019. John the Baptist Parish have a lifetime risk of cancer from air pollution that is 800 times higher than the national average. Credit: Julie Dermansky. Credit: Julie Dermansky. John and the Sierra Club.

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Business Green

JULY 16, 2020

The target covers both carbon dioxide and methane emissions from OGCI member companies' operated upstream oil and gas exploration and production activities, as well as emissions from associated imports of electricity and steam. Having some targets to reduce carbon pollution is better than none," he said.

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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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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2021

A gigantic 931 million tonnes of food were binned in 2019 by households, retailers, restaurants, and other food services, according to new UN research designed to evaluate the sluggish progress towards meeting the UN sustainability goal of halving food waste by 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

The science could not be more clear: We must eliminate carbon pollution as soon as possible — nearly 50% this decade, and fully by 2050. In 2019 New York PR firm BBDO helped ExxonMobil spread this message in its “Miniature Science” ad campaign. To put it simply, advertising and public relations campaigns for fossil fuels must stop.”.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The study found that an alternative method of quantifying the impact of methane emissions has led to a raft of industry-friendly findings that the livestock sector seems to be using to claim climate neutrality as they continue to pollute. GWP* prioritizes the trend over the last 20 years. Credit: Matt Brown/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 9, 2022

With electricity as its own sector, Oregon’s two largest-emitting sectors in 2019 were transportation and electricity, at 35 percent and 29 percent of 2019 GHG emissions, respectively. [1] Oregon’s 2019 GHG emissions from Oregon DEQ’s GHG Sector-Based Inventory, with electricity emissions reallocated to respective demand sectors.

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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

DWR measures the CO2 and methane emissions from the wetlands it created on Sherman Island. The state establishes an upper limit on greenhouse gas pollution — the cap — and then gives polluters a certain number of allowances to emit the offending gases. The longer-term goal is to reverse them. Jonno Rattman / Bay Nature.

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