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The Battle to Stop Air Products’ Carbon Capture Project at Lake Maurepas Grows

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Credit: Julie Dermansky Air Products plans to build a manufacturing complex near Burnside, a small town in Ascension Parish, that will transform the methane in natural gas into ammonia and blue hydrogen while using technology to capture up to 95 percent of the CO2 emissions created in the process. Howarth and Mark Z.

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A Push to Expedite Permits Fueled by Disaster Capitalism Threatens to Fastrack the Climate Crisis

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Edwards speaking at the groundbreaking event for the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion project on August 10, 2023. at a ceremony on August 27, 2023, commemorating the 18th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. Where the river’s polluted water enters the Gulf there is rapid land loss and a growing dead zone.

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? Credibility for carbon credit claims #157

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ICYMI, our H1 2023 funding report dropped at the end of June. ⚡ Turn2x , a Munich, Germany-based RNG from methanation producer, raised $5M in Seed funding from LEA Partners, Verve Ventures, and First Momentum Ventures. Happy Monday!

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? Back-to-school checklist #164

Climate Tech VC

And cow-burp reduction tech is back to tackle methane emissions with a $29M round. Developed by BlueGreen Alliance GHG Reduction Fund : Details announced July 2023 outlining grant priorities for the $27B GHG Reduction Fund. Deals include big checks for recycling. We’ve updated our NY climate week events tracker !

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The Uncertain Future of Gas Exports on Louisiana’s Vanishing Coastline

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has gone from exporting no LNG at all to becoming the largest exporter of LNG in the world, shipping out 88 million metric tonnes 2023. For instance, research shows that upstream methane leaks in the Permian basin — the region supplying gas to many Gulf Coast LNG terminals — are several times higher than federal government estimates.

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Global Briefing: Irish government backs net zero climate bill

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The study forecasts that plant-based meats will match regular meat on price by 2023 and that nine out of 10 of the world's favourite dishes will have realistic alternatives by 2035. The report predicts the annual market for alternative meat, eggs, dairy, and seafood products is on course to reach at least $290bn by 2035.