DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

Greenpeace Italy and Italian advocacy group ReCommon aim to build on a similar case targeting Anglo-Dutch oil major Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands to force Eni to slash its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Eni has set a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050. In 2022, Eni reported a profit of $14.12

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 12, 2020

But the metrics that fleet managers care about — total cost of ownership — are becoming more competitive for these lower-carbon vehicles, the GNA report found. Natural gas trucks are big but slowing: There are already 53,000 registered natural gas vehicles in the U.S.,

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Environment Program's Emissions Gap Report 2022. "We While companies should be trying to phase out carbon to achieve these net-zero commitments, Sick noted that life doesn't work without carbon. There's a reason why carbon is all around. How companies can reach net zero carbon and avoid greenwashing.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

From 2047 onwards, the energy system could then become net negative, absorbing more emissions than it produces through a mix of carbon capture technologies and solutions, which operate on both a standalone basis and while attached to power stations. Systems thinking is critical to delivering a low-carbon economy.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

gas export projects since the beginning of 2022, a sharp increase on the 1.86 Rolfes was speaking during a visit last month to the German port of Wilhelmshaven, site of a new terminal to unload liquefied natural gas (LNG) — natural gas supercooled for shipping on specialized tankers. German banks lent 2.17

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Increased federal incentives for “carbon management” technologies are catalyzing a surge in proposed carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects in the United States, from the Gulf Coast to the Midwest to California. use the captured carbon to drill for more oil in a process called enhanced oil recovery.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Unlike a carbon tax, the cap is carried out in four-year windows known as compliance periods rather than as payment due in close alignment with consumption or delivery of fuel. Diverse and innovative approaches help meet emission reduction targets at a net cost lower than a direct carbon tax. Why is this? cent increase in prices.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Unlike a carbon tax, the cap is carried out in four-year windows known as compliance periods rather than as payment due in close alignment with consumption or delivery of fuel. Diverse and innovative approaches help meet emission reduction targets at a net cost lower than a direct carbon tax. Why is this? cent increase in prices.

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Grist

JANUARY 31, 2024

Another aspect of that future is limiting carbon-intensive forms of travel. Is this a realistic version of how we might address the carbon intensity of air travel? Earlier this month, a federal appeals court upheld a ruling that struck down a ban on natural gas in new buildings in Berkeley, California.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

An energy trade association that represents and promotes gas boilers and manufacturers is behind a barrage of negative press attacking heat pumps, DeSmog has learned. The House of Commons’ Science and Technology Select Committee has determined that low carbon hydrogen will at best have a limited role in heating homes.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 26, 2020

Hard coal plants, or those burning more carbon-dense and less-polluting types of coal, by contrast, will be closed via least-cost tenders. In other words, a €40 billion policy's future at least partly relies on accurate natural-gas forecasting 18 years into the future. RWE is set to receive €2.6 France and the U.K.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 6, 2022

to a carbon free economy by 2050, experts at Bloomberg and Princeton estimate that the US will have to build enough solar and wind farms to fill an area roughly five times the size of South Dakota. In the near-term, the conflict is exerting negative impacts on climate emissions. For example, to fully transition the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

But the British grid, which ran on 27 percent renewable energy last winter, is performing well compared to others in Europe when it comes to outages, according to a 2022 report from the Council of European Energy Regulators (CEER). “It

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The group joined others in criticizing the Farm to Fork strategy, claiming that the policy would negatively impact farmers’ livelihoods and trade. As of 2016, the use of mineral fertilizers, which includes nitrogen-based fertilizers produced from natural gas, accounted for 39 percent of the agriculture sector’s emissions in Europe.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

This comes as major polluters are increasingly deploying digital tactics to detract from negative headlines about their record profits and decades-long contribution to climate change. In 2022, a Harvard University paper found that a “green innovation” narrative was one of the key social media tactics deployed by fossil fuel companies.

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Green Technology

JUNE 21, 2023

Green Technology’s Leadership Awards aim to recognize and honor individuals, organizations, and institutions that have made significant contributions to advancing sustainability efforts and reducing carbon footprints in various sectors. The award was accepted by Joel Griffith, DGS and the O Street team.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

For instance, the company’s just-published “ Energy Transition Progress report ” references chemicals right alongside “low carbon energy” and “renewable natural gas” as examples of the company’s stated commitment to lowering emissions.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2021

To that end, Ofgem yesterday announced a fresh package of measures aimed at boosting financial resilience in the sector, including new stress testing all suppliers from January 2022 to measure their resilience against a range of scenarios. In the meantime, we need a pragmatic approach to energy security.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Venture Global’s Calcasieu Pass liquid natural gas (LNG) export terminal is in the longest ever commissioning period for a plant of its kind. About 16 months later, in March 2022 , Venture Global’s Calcasieu Pass terminal exported its first load of LNG overseas, which was delivered to the Netherlands and France.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year. billion U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Despite the region’s shrinking wetlands, the government continues to permit new LNG export facilities on the Gulf Coast , and is encouraging hydrogen and carbon capture sequestration developments , though they too will lead to further land loss. Trandahl’s salary and compensation in 2022 exceeded $1.5

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

This article was originally published by Gas Outlook. The negative impacts of hydraulic fracturing on public health, the environment, and the climate are “intractable and not fixable,” according to a newly published report. In addition, vast quantities of carbon and methane pollution are released into the atmosphere.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 17, 2023

acquisition is the largest single carbon-management investment since the passage of the IRA and has implications for the carbon capture, utilization, and storage ecosystem. Regulators miss another deadline on deep-sea mining rules, and the US is digging into the carbon removal benefits of regenerative agriculture.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2022

Travis Dardar, an indigenous fisherman in Cameron, Louisiana, has a front-row view of the expansion of the liquified natural gas (LNG) industry’s export capacity on the Gulf Coast — and it isn’t pretty. “It If approved, the permit would allow a massive natural gas liquefaction and export facility to emit 3.5

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Economics are a primary concern in a well-designed strategy to reduce carbon. The potential ways to reduce carbon emissions vary dramatically on an economic basis. The amount of carbon abatement that a given method can accomplish also has limits in scale. Some items are shown as negative cost. Intro to MAC Curves.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Italy announces ban on new petrol and diesel cars, EU carbon prices hit record levels, and all the green business news from around the world this week. RUSAL opens new low carbon aluminium smelter. Our smelter in Taishet will help to address the high global demand for low carbon aluminium.".

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

While Alok Sharma and his colleagues at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) had favoured the ETS, the Chancellor Rishi Sunak and his team at the Treasury had reportedly preferred some form of new carbon tax. The UK is to deliver the 'world's first' net zero emissions trading scheme.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2022

He is author of several landmark studies of the industry going back to 2012, when he wrote a paper on the carbon footprint of indoor cannabis production. That jibes with a recent United Nations finding that the carbon footprint of indoor cannabis cultivation is "16 to 100 times larger" than that of outdoor cultivation.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 31, 2021

Carbon negative technologies, such as modifying plants to have deeper roots so they can store more carbon or turning CO2 into a solid or working to make the oceans more alkaline, all need to be developed, he said. In 2030 and 2040, we see the need for more technologies that are baseload and low carbon.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The average price of fossil fuel energy – oil, natural gas, and coal – has increased since 1976 , with a very recent surge in gasoline prices hitting record highs in 2022. This cost-of-living crisis is negatively impacting the amount of disposable income available in the consumer market.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year. billion U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2021

The EPA’s advice brings hope to opponents of the pipeline who are growing increasingly confident that the 303-mile natural gas pipeline, which has been under construction for over three years, will never come online. And the negative impacts associated with constructing a pipeline across waterways has caught the attention of the EPA.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Overall, it was more positives than negatives. Even the negatives — the politicization of ESG investing and reporting, the economic downturn, the energy crisis created by the Russian invasion of Ukraine — are temporal phenomena, part of the regular ebbs and flows of economics and policy. Here are five trends worth noting.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

It will specifically explore systemic solutions to the climate crisis focusing on clean energy, electrified, transportation, the circular economy, carbon removal and sustainable food systems. Protein is being sourced from an increasingly long list of plants, synthesized from carbon dioxide sucked from the air, and extracted from insects.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

"I just remember being super mad about knowing that the way society was operating could ruin something that should be so beautiful and fun," he says of his first encounter with the idea that human activities negatively affect the environment. And that’s his hope for the apparel and footwear industry as a whole. Myisha Majumder.

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

The largest carbon capture and storage project in the world has been delayed indefinitely due to Covid-19 Summary - Exxon has postponed development of the ‘LaBarge Carbon Capture and Storage’ project in Wyoming due to Covid-19. It contains natural gas, helium, and carbon dioxide.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The reports said the accident released about 3,000 pounds of xylene, which can cause headaches and irritate the eyes, nose and throat, and 240 pounds of carbon monoxide, which can cause fatigue and confusion. The process also released benzene and other naturally occurring compounds into the air and water. ppb, according to the TCEQ.

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