Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

IEA warns that methane emissions from the global energy sector fell only fractionally last year, despite projects to cut methane leaks providing hugely attractive returns on investment By rights methane emissions from the fossil fuel industry should be one of the easiest climate problems to fix. This is a significant problem.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MAY 29, 2024

Lawmakers are demanding that the Department of Energy back emissions improvements claims. However, the rules haven’t been strict enough to stop natural gas (methane) and other fossil fuels from being considered, despite the pollution that they still emit. They were first announced in 2021 but were finalized last year. 

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 12, 2021

At the start of 2021, leading investors openly recognize that climate change presents a massive systemic risk and a multi-trillion dollar opportunity. With increasing public, government, and shareholder attention on climate, here are three ways that sustainable finance leaders will emerge in 2021. Integrate climate into core business.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2021

As 2021 comes to a close, we look back on a year that was full of climate chaos, relentless oil industry propaganda, and frustrating progress on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. But 2021 also saw a significant number of victories against the expansion of the fossil fuel industry in the U.S. Credit: New Jersey LCV (CC BY 2.0).

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Business Green

JULY 5, 2021

Growing demand for natural gas will start to be curbed in the coming years, but more needs to be done to meet net zero goals, IEA report warns. Natural gas demand is expected to rise by 3.6 The annual increase in global demand for natural gas is teh expected to hit an average of 1.7

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2022

A Chinese study published in December aims to quantify the role of Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) – and its predominance as a way of measuring organic pollution – in causing unnecessary GHG emissions. COD is widely used as an indicator of organic pollution in wastewater. Measurement methods compared.

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Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

This exquisite instrument will act as the “eye” of the satellite, allowing us to detect, pinpoint, and quantify point source emissions of methane and carbon dioxide. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Detecting methane from space An engineer prepares the imaging spectrometer instrument for testing in a thermal vacuum chamber at JPL.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

Mon, 03/01/2021 - 01:00. This article originally appeared in the State of Green Business 2021. Increasingly, the stars are aligning for industrial emissions to take center stage, for three key reasons: demand for clean solutions is growing; technologies are maturing; and the conditions for policy solutions are ripe. Biomethane.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

From President Biden to methane pledges, BusinessGreen explores the biggest developments on the fifth full day of the pivotal climate talks in Sharm EL Sheikh. Biden's address also set out his administration's plans to crackdown on methane leaks in the US' fossil fuel industry.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 30, 2021

By 2021, Shell in Germany will provide 10 MW of green hydrogen. A less direct way to reduce GHG is by cleaning up methane leaks from wells, pipelines, and processing facilities. However, methane emissions are only 10% of all GHG emissions in the US, and less than half are due to methane leaks. The appetite of legacy U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

But TC Energy, the Canadian owner of a major regional gas pipeline, has asked federal regulators to approve a plan that would dramatically expand the line’s capacity, flooding the region for decades with new supplies of methane gas – even as demand dwindles. percent a year on average through 2050.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2022

China tops EV market league table, as global demand continues to surge. California unveils new Methane Accountability Program. California Governor Gavin Newsom has this week unvailed wide-ranging new plans to crackdown on methane emissions in the world's fifth largest economy. The bland was broadly welcomed by green groups. "We

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 5, 2024

Less than six months later, Virginia Natural Gas boasted that it was supplying “NextGen Gas,” or gas “produced with lower greenhouse gas emissions,” to satisfy up to half of the energy demands of its 300,000 customers. One major certifier claims that the practice reduces methane emissions by more than 50 percent.

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EDF + Business

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Despite all odds, 2020 has been a milestone year for corporate climate leadership , and it has positioned the private sector to raise the bar even further in 2021 – especially when it comes to turning commitments into action and results. Here’s why. Businesses accept the reality – and the risks – of climate change.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 25, 2021

How Wall Street can win on climate In 2021 Ben Ratner Mon, 01/25/2021 – 01:00 This year, financial institutions must make a significant leap forward on climate — from pledges to progress. With increasing public, government and shareholder attention on climate, here are three ways sustainable finance leaders will emerge in 2021.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

The annual demand could reach 19,120,458,891 tons by then, representing a tenfold increase from 2015 to 2050. Combined with a push for decarbonization, these economics could drive demand, project energy experts. locations in 2021. And it could be cheaper than producing hydrogen from natural gas.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

36% of small business owners have seen their energy bills spike in 2021; with one in five experiencing a 15% surge, and one in ten reporting a hike of 20%. Below you’ll learn what subsidies and incentives are available to help your business transition to clean energy and cut fossil-fuel energy demand and the costs associated.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Green Hydrogen is the trendiest clean energy source around, touted for its ‘simple’ ability to turn water into a highly combustible energy source capable of replacing our demand for oil and gas. Foremost, the quantity of supply developed will be predicated on where demand may be secured. The push and pull of supply and demand.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2021

F), according to the 2021 Global Electricity Review by think tank Ember. . Part of the reason behind China’s coal expansion is it’s growing demand for power. higher in the fourth quarter of 2020 than it was in late 2019, @IEA reports: [link] pic.twitter.com/l7MX4YnpSF — brad plumer (@bradplumer) March 24, 2021.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

Methane, a greenhouse gas which is belched out in high volumes by cattle, has been identified by the UN and world leaders as the quickest route to cut global heating. It underplays climate impacts, stating that “research has shown that cows do not produce as much methane gas as was once believed”.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

When Pathways to Dairy Net Zero (P2DNZ) made its debut ahead of the United Nations Food Systems Summit in 2021, it looked like the kind of group that could meet an important but largely neglected area of global climate response. Livestock methane emissions are also rising in some of these countries.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 20, 2023

McKibben explained that an increasing number of wells will need to be fracked to produce the natural gas needed to fill the demand for LNG resulting from the growing number of export facilities. McKibben described the expansion of the LNG export industry on the Gulf Coast as an “enormous carbon and methane bomb.”

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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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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Fri, 02/05/2021 - 01:00. Using data shared by the industry, the Markets Institute at the World Wildlife Fund looked at the potential impact of emission-reductions options available to dairy farmers today, including feed additives that reduce methane-filled bovine burps and the use of digester technology to produce natural gas from manure.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

Green gas specialist CNG Fuels has opened two further refuelling stations for heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) in the UK this week, in anticipation of surging demand for renewable biomethane over the next year and beyond.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

The voluntary carbon offset market is rocketing, with the Ecosystem Marketplace reporting an annual market value of ~$1 billion in 2021, which was an all-time high. Since these standards were developed, the demand for carbon offsets has increased over the years. 6 best carbon offsetting programs (with carbon offset examples).

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

With methane emissions driving near-term warming at an alarming rate, it is critical that oil and gas transactions incorporate ambitious standards for CO2 and methane management to ensure effective environmental stewardship in line with climate science. In Q3 of 2021 alone, US oil and gas mergers and acquisitions activity totaled $18.5

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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. These include feed additives to reduce methane in cow burps and “biogas digesters” to capture and burn methane from lagoons of liquid manure.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 25, 2024

By Joshua Bledsoe , Kevin Homrighausen , and John Detrich On December 2, 2023, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a final report that substantially increases estimates of the social cost of greenhouse gases (GHG), including carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide (collectively, SC-GHG). 2021), [link]. [9]

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Other demands include cutting methane emissions by 30 per cent between 2020 and 2030, working to tackle other damaging pollutants, and taking more ambitious action to decarbonise transport such as aviation and shipping. — Nick Mabey (@Mabeytweet) November 2, 2021.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 28, 2022

The MOU also provides for collaboration to potentially reduce methane emissions upstream of Sempra Infrastructure facilities. It would use electric compression, equivalent to adding around 300 MW of demand to the Entergy Louisiana system, Sempra Infrastructure said. . Sempra Infrastructure owns a 50.2%

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2020

ExxonMobil has unveiled several short term targets to tackle its carbon intensity, methane emissions, and flaring activity in a new climate plan it claims is "projected to be consistent with the goals of the Paris Agreement", despite the oil and gas giant's continuing refusal to set a long-term net zero emissions goal.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 22, 2024

Currently, more than 99 percent of hydrogen used in the EU is “grey hydrogen” made from natural gas in a process known as “steam methane reformation” that has high carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. million tonnes of greenhouse gases during the same period.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 20, 2024

Air Products claims the Edmonton facility will capture over 90 percent of carbon dioxide emissions because, unlike other facilities that produce hydrogen from natural gas, the Edmonton facility will use auto-thermal reforming (ATR) technology instead of steam methane reforming (SMR). That was 70 percent below 2023 levels.

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Grist

AUGUST 13, 2021

But this process involves the incidental release of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, and uses a huge amount of energy to separate and then store the carbon dioxide, some of which escapes anyway. If methane, a short-lived but very powerful greenhouse gas, were cut by around half this decade, it would shave 0.3 degrees Celsius (0.54

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2021

Blue hydrogen is made from natural gas, which is mostly methane, using electricity generated by burning more gas, and hydrogen is considered “blue” (rather than “gray”) when its carbon emissions are sequestered. It’s fracked methane.”. What’s the pollution?’” But where does it come from? It’s dirty energy at [the] source.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Driven by rapid improvements in the cost and technical feasibility of clean energy, 83% of new US power capacity in 2021 came from renewables. Meeting energy demand and net-zero goals by 2050 necessitates a further global buildout of renewables infrastructure, which can increase energy availability without increasing emissions.

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