DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Greenpeace Italy and Re:Common have alleged in their climate lawsuit — Italy’s first — that despite knowing at least as early as 1970 that burning fossil fuels posed a serious climate risk, Eni went on to promote “natural” –- or methane – gas as a safe energy source for decades. the spokesperson stated. the spokesperson stated.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 3, 2023

As energy demands increase for heavier and longer-distance transport, the energy efficiency equation for fossil based-fuels becomes harder to displace. Price sensitivity is high for fuels in tight-margin industries such as shipping and travel. Engines are optimized for fossil fuels.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Look forward to 2024 predictions from many of your favorite clairvoyant climate voices. In news this week, COP28 wraps up with a landmark agreement on transitioning away from fossil fuels, DOE announces a new office focused on AI, and over 2M Teslas were recalled. Key market supply and demand indicators ended the year down.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 13, 2021

Part of a combined heat and power system, the digester mixed cow manure with heat and bacteria to produce biogas that fueled a generator. The digester, and another the dairy installed a few years later, reduced the size of open lagoons of manure that release methane into the atmosphere. It was a novel experiment at the time.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In fact, many of us are flying more – air travel over Thanksgiving week in the US was the busiest ever , and annual demand for flights is growing rapidly in markets like India and China. Disadvantages: The technology is still being commercialized, with first of a kind facilities expected to start coming online in 2024.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 8, 2024

Photos I shot last year in South Louisiana illustrate the Gulf Coast’s rapidly expanding fossil fuel industry, and the groundswell of frontline community members, environmental advocates, and activists fighting to stop it. While “green” hydrogen fuel can be produced with renewable energy, that process is cost prohibitive for now.

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Business Green

AUGUST 1, 2022

There is potential to create a more circular economy that ensures these crucial raw materials are re-used multiple times, but there is no credible path to net zero emissions that does not require a significant increase in demand for multiple mining commodities, even as demand for fossil fuels plummets.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 17, 2023

With the growth of e-commerce and demand for faster shipping (which means burning more fuel), maritime emissions increased nearly 5% between 2020 and 2021. Therefore, freight owners are a critical demand lever for pulling decarbonization forward. - Bunkering companies supply fuel to ships. Maersk, MSC, Evergreen).

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2023

The partnership, which was confirmed on the sidelines of the Davos Summit, is the first of a series being initiated by the Forum's Ocean Action Agenda to help meet the rapidly increasing demand for high-quality blue carbon credits and projects around the world.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

At the very least, utilities will need plans that can get them most of the way there, while rushing ahead with next-generation technologies: long-duration energy storage, small modular nuclear reactors or green hydrogen and methane to fuel natural gas peaker plants. Here's a look at the five largest U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

State of Montana that the state’s ongoing support for and promotion of fossil fuel development — including directing state regulators not to consider a project’s climate impacts during the permitting process — violated Montana’s constitutional guarantee of the right to a clean and healthful environment, which extends to a stable climate.

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Grist

MARCH 6, 2024

Natural gas is 70 to 90 percent methane, a greenhouse gas that’s about 30 times more potent than carbon dioxide in the short term. “We don’t have existing fossil fuel refineries here. Do you know an organizer standing up to the fossil fuel industry on behalf of their community (like Bekah Hinojosa)?

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Business Green

MARCH 14, 2021

Amid depressed prices and slumping demand for fossil fuels, firms have embraced cloud computing and data services that allow them to make their operations more efficient and reduce overheads. The oil and gas sector is in the midst of a digital transformation. We see it as a demonstration project," he says.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

This article explores the current situation in Rotterdam, how many refineries there are, the fuel and hydrogen demand, the basic technological requirements for a synthetic fuel refinery and the costs involved. Why focus on creating sustainable marine fuels? We however are not interested in replacing all fuels.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

This article explores the current situation in Rotterdam, how many refineries there are, the fuel and hydrogen demand, the basic technological requirements for a synthetic fuel refinery and the costs involved. Why focus on creating sustainable marine fuels? > > Cheap electricity for fuel conversion (€7+ per mT).

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) was high on the agenda at New York Climate Week last week, where critics of the technology raised concerns it would be used to extend the life of the fossil fuel industry. Data on subsidies was provided by Oil Change International , which plans to launch a database of government support for CCS in 2024.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2024

John Allaire, a former environmental engineer in the oil industry, photographed with fossil fuel infrastructure behind. 29th, 2024, U.S. The oil and gas industry, and many Republicans in Congress, demanded the Biden administration immediately lift the pause, and some even threatened legal action.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 11, 2024

Reflecting Larry Fink’s statement “climate risk is investment risk”, the SEC’s ruling addresses growing investor demand for disclosing and pricing-in climate-related risks.   MethaneSAT, a methane-tracking satellite, was launched this week and will be operated by a subsidiary of the Environmental Defense Fund.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2022

If approved by the EU's 27 member states, the coal ban would mark the first coordinated embargo from the bloc to tackle Russia's fossil fuel exports. Methane emissions soar to record high. They have also set out draft reforms for Germany's clean energy law and legislation that could speed up grid development.

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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. Last year, I committed to work with our Congress to quadruple our climate finance to provide $11bn annually by 2024, including $3bn for adaptation," he said.

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Business Green

AUGUST 6, 2021

The Trump administration had moved to water down US auto emissions standards, but the new order proposes a strengthening of the rules so that the EPA would require a 10 per cent year-over-year strengthening of emissions standards for model year 2023, followed by five per cent increases each year from 2024 through to 2026.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In either case, this wasn’t on our bingo card… In the news, the British government passed new reforms to speed up interconnection, Colombia launched a $1B biodiversity fund, the US released $6B in funding for climate resiliency, and the US and China made modest progress on methane reduction at APEC.  SPAC valuation ).

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2021

In March, the UK government ignored campaigners’ calls to end the issuance of offshore oil and gas licences and reverse its policy of maximising economic recovery of fossil fuels in the North Sea, leaving the door open for more privately-owned and less-transparent companies to purchase and profit from North Sea assets.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 22, 2023

And because we can’t help ourselves, we then attempted to extrapolate the straight line between these divergent views of what’s to come for climate tech in 2024. Andrew Beebe , Obvious Ventures : Yes, 2024 will beat both 2023 and 2022. Potentially a fair number will go under in 2024, again as a lagging indicator.

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2021

As a fossil fuel industry lobbyists told the New York Times this week , "I underestimated the level of seriousness that these guys had about this.". Some of the biggest challenges will come from his own side, as he seeks to balance the demands of coal-state Senators with those of the young activists who demand radical reforms.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

The landmark legislation's climate provisions could unlock billions of dollars of low carbon investment and millions of green jobs - but it also paves the way for new fossil fuel infrastructure. cents per kWh of electricity produced at facilities placed into service after 2024 that produce zero or negative emissions.

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CleanTechnica

MARCH 19, 2024

CERAWeek 2024 featured an address by Aramco CEO Amin Nasser in which he called a transition away from fossil fuels "a fantasy.": The post Aramco CEO Blasts Energy Transition “Fantasy” At CERAWeek 2024 appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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