EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

EDF+Business program staff participated in meetings and panel presentations, including: Victoria Mills, director of corporate climate policy leadership; Elizabeth Sturcken, director of net zero acceleration; Katie Anderson, manager of supply chain and agricultural methane. An urgent new warning from the U.N. manufacturing. $28

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

China is now the world's second largest economy and the largest carbon emitter. Their coal powered economic growth has unleashed a carbon bomb. Overall the country's carbon output tripled between 2000 and 2018, and its CO2 emissions now represents almost one third of the global total.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Brausch for The Verge Homeowners who want to reduce their carbon footprint by getting rid of polluting appliances have the US government’s full support. The pollution from using a gas heater was also a major concern. Illustration by Nico H. Not so with apartment dwellers. It was a great work-from-home spot,” Spears said.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Industry figures used the panels, attended by DeSmog, to promote hydrogen as a catch-all solution to the UK’s low-carbon transition. They contend that gas companies, which have lobbied hard for hydrogen, are prioritizing their profits over cutting greenhouse gas pollution. Hydrogen Zone.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 20, 2023

As governments roll out their climate policies, deployment of renewable energy has been rapidly increasing , while the costs of power from these sources and battery storage decrease. To anyone paying attention to global oil and gas demand future forecasts, even under existing policies , the COP28 agreement should not be a surprise.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

150 million Americans regularly breathe unhealthy, polluted air. But recently announced targets to achieve 100 percent clean power by the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis and Joe Biden’s presidential campaign would eliminate all air pollution from power plants. By Sonia Aggarwal, Mike O’Boyle, and Amol Phadke.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2020

Available in two models (pump or diffusion) and battery powered with onboard datalogging, the YESAIR instruments have been designed for intermittent or continuous indoor air quality monitoring of temperature, RH, particulates and up to 5 gases. These facilities can present a variety of potential hazards to human health.

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Energy Innovation

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Top five carbon-cutting policies bring the U.S. The five policies are: clean electricity standards, zero-emission vehicle standards, clean building equipment standards, industrial efficiency and emissions standards, and standards for methane detection, capture, and destruction. sulfur oxides, and nitrogen oxides.

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Energy Innovation

AUGUST 13, 2020

150 million Americans regularly breathe unhealthy, polluted air. But recently announced targets to achieve 100 percent clean power by the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis and Joe Biden’s presidential campaign would eliminate all air pollution from power plants. Public health benefits of reaching 100% zero carbon energy.

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Unsustainable

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

It is the human share of carbon dioxide which is changing and damaging the environment. Carbon dioxide is the most obvious threat as it represents approximately three-quarters of all emissions. Then, there are also methane, nitrous oxide, and other industrial gasses, about which we seldom hear. But was it?

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

CNG Fuels' biomethane compressed natural gas - Bio-CNG - is currently 100 per cent sourced from waste feedstocks such as food waste and it claims the fuel is both cheaper and less-carbon intensive than traditional diesel. per cent of UK carbon emissions, with road transport as a whole now the UK's highest emitting sector of the economy.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 6, 2021

As the second-largest coal-producing and -consuming country on earth and the third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, India’s transition from carbon-intensive resources is a critical front in the global climate change fight. “They also have a massive air pollution problem, so they want to reduce the air pollution issues.

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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

JANUARY 21, 2022

Rio Tinto's $2.4bn Jadar mining project would have made the Anglo Australian firm one of the world's top producers of lithium, which has found itself in increasing global demand as a key raw material for EV batteries and other clean tech products. Shell takes flak over Canada carbon capture project.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This story is part of the series Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia , which explores the path to low-carbon energy for British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. The economics of carbon-free living have fallen into place. The key will be making low-carbon fuels without creating new problems. Worried about the climate crisis?

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2022

He also promised action to slash air pollution, plant 140 million trees, close 50 large open-air landfills, and reform regulations to ensure corporate bonuses are linked to environmental performance. In addition, he pledged to build 50 offshore wind farms by 2030 and six new nuclear reactors.

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Elemental Excelerator

MAY 20, 2020

. “ Ricardo (Caco) Gilead Baibich, CTO of Kando , explained how his company’s wastewater surveillance technology, which traces pollution to its source, can also help track COVID-19 infections through sewage. Joan Salwen, CEO of Blue Ocean Barns , explained that feeding seaweed to cattle can help slash methane emissions.

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Business Green

AUGUST 1, 2022

BusinessGreen sits down with CEO of the International Council of Mining and Minerals to discuss the battery gold rush and the potential for a European sustainable mining boom. The mining industry is an enormous enabler of economic growth that is sustainable, that is environmentally positive," he contends.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 17, 2023

Despite fears about cost increases and low-sulfur fuel availability, the change was a success in terms of decreasing pollution that contributes to ocean acidification and harms the health of humans and marine life. IMO will assign a CII rating, with A being the best, least carbon-intensive and E being the worst, most carbon-intensive.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 10, 2023

New standards for the voluntary carbon market (VCM) released last month are intended to help investors assess the soundness of companies' claims about their contribution to climate goals. The framework and a partnership between two organizations focused on carbon offset integrity aim to combat credibility issues in the VCM.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

THE INFLATION REDUCTION ACT REDUCES ENERGY WASTE THROUGH THE METHANE EMISSIONS REDUCTION ACTION PLAN The Methane Emissions Reduction Action Plan will aim to reduce leaks from natural gas production and distribution, streamlining operations and energy use while also reducing harmful emissions of potent greenhouse gas.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2022

As Carbon Brief's Simon Evans has repeatedly pointed out, 95 per cent of the projected increase in average domestic energy bills seen over the past year are a direct result of soaring wholesale gas prices. More broadly, the soaring price of gas means the net cost of the net zero transition has become smaller still.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2021

For example, the analysis calculates the market for wind turbines, solar panels, batteries, fuel cells, and electrolysers could hit well over $1tr a year by 2050 - a market opportunity roughly the size of the current oil market. Net zero scenario planning is the new normal.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2023

WTO boss calls for urgent carbon pricing reforms Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director-general at the World Trade Organisation (WTO), this week called on delegates at the Davos Summit to overhaul trade agreements and pursue a global price on carbon or risk seeing efforts to deliver on global climate goals falter.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 28, 2022

Comparatively, poor waste management contributes to air pollution, exacerbates climate change, contaminates ecological habitats, and is harmful to wildlife and human health. How can you reduce waste and prevent pollution? For instance, thinking about climate change, solid waste-related emissions are anticipated to increase to 2.38

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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 22, 2023

. | Photo by Elizabeth Flores/Star Tribune via Getty Images The Biden administration proposed new tax guidelines today aimed at making it cheaper to produce hydrogen as a less-polluting alternative to fossil fuels. Hydrogen combustion releases water vapor, rather than planet-heating carbon dioxide emissions.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Another option - particularly for heavier vehicles like trucks and buses where batteries are not practical - is hydrogen fuel cells. Most hydrogen is currently produced from natural gas, which is highly polluting, but if renewable energy is used then hydrogen can essentially be made CO2-free. Rail on track for sustainable future.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

ACES will provide up to 150,000 megawatt-hours of energy storage capacity, a scale that dwarfs the lithium-ion battery capacity being installed in California and across the Intermountain West. Mitsubishi also makes lithium-ion batteries for the rapidly growing global market, said Paul Browning, CEO of Mitsubishi Power America.

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Business Green

AUGUST 6, 2020

Facilities management firm Mitie has launched a comprehensive new net zero City Landscaping Service intended to help its environmentally conscious customers reduce their emissions impact in cities and other pollution hotspots.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Created as a solution to the worldwide problem of air pollution and the ubiquity of plastics, the design exercise proposes a greener alternative to gas-powered vehicles. The vast majority of hydrogen today is produced by the high-carbon process of steam methane reforming. Original post:Â .

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

Rotterdam refineries are among the biggest polluters in Europe Rotterdam has the dubious title of being the absolute leader in the throughput and storage of crude oil in northwest Europe. It should be noted that there are countless ways to reshape the current carbon-intense industry, this article suggest merely one of many possibilities.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

This might be the quickest and cheapest way for you to become carbon neutral, without retrofitting your vessels at all. Rotterdam refineries are among the biggest polluters in Europe Rotterdam has the dubious title of being the absolute leader in the throughput and storage of crude oil in northwest Europe.

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Energy Innovation

MAY 9, 2022

Residents in disproportionately burdened communities—frequently lower-income communities of color—endure greater air, water, and soil pollution, as well as other environmental harms. The connected ground-source heat pumps eliminate methane emissions from gas combustion and offer a low-carbon heating and cooling option.

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Because the price of keeping the status quo grows steeper every year, from the human and economic toll of climate-related disasters, fires, heatwaves, and other environmental stresses to the jobs left on the table by not accelerating towards a carbon-free, regenerative economy. Carbon negative materials. Why do we love them?

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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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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. Construction was set to begin over the summer.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Last February, ExxonMobil announced it would further expand its only active carbon capture and storage (CCS) operation in the United States, located at a gas processing facility in LaBarge, Wyoming. The official launch of the Boundary Dam carbon capture and storage facility at a coal power plant in Canada on Oct.

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