DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

This takes some stress off your shoulders and you’re like, all you really need in life is a pair of blue jeans and a good book.”. In October, she invited a university researcher onto the property and discovered that several wells were leaking methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide. There is no Starbucks.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Lab-Grown Meat, Fake Meat & 3D Printed Pizzas Book Summary - There are currently several technologies in development that have the potential to provide the sustainable food of the future. This is a summary of the book ‘Kweekvlees, Fake Vlees & Pizza’s uit de Printer’ from Sebastiaan van de Water. In particular protein.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 8, 2024

Much of it is methane, which is especially potent for the twelve years it lingers in the atmosphere with a warming potential 28 times that of carbon dioxide. Reducing methane is seen by experts as a quick climate win, and both the food system and energy sector have been called on by UN climate body the IPCC to curb emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In 19 articles that became a widely read book, History of the Standard Oil Company , published in 1904, she exposed its unsavory practices. That didn’t come until the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring. Don’t Call It Methane, It’s ‘Natural’ Gas. Except that methane gas isn’t clean.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

These included Shell-produced content such as the Time For Energy film, and a book called Energy published the same year. In 1962, Shell’s chief geologist, Houston-based Marion King Hubbert, produced a book-length report on energy for the U.S. based Center for International Environmental Law has reported.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Unplugged wells frequently continue to emit methane , a greenhouse gas with a warming impact many times that of CO2. California’s laws are failing to hold polluters accountable,” the nonprofit writes in a blog post disputing industry criticism of its report. An idle well in Santa Barbara County, California.

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

Its self-help projects, which include reducing methane leaks and improving energy efficiency, would have amounted to a reduction of 11 million metric tons per year—less than 10% of Exxon’s current direct emissions. Trump signed it into law. That likely helped persuade Exxon to be more ambitious about LaBarge.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Previously an avowed free marketeer, having written the controversial “Britannia Unchained” book with Liz Truss and others, colleagues say he “underwent a conversion at BEIS, becoming convinced of the need for intervention and the potential for clean energy”, according to the Guardian.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

When InvestigateWest launched the Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia series in January 2021, the latest official data showed that emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases had risen steadily from 2012 to 2018, and the region wasn’t on track to make big cuts this decade. “We Stepping off the gas.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Ardern is being watched closely : Her administration has been criticized for being lenient on reducing biogenic methane from agricultural production — notably dairy cattle and sheep — which accounts for almost half of New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions and roughly 6.6 percent of its GDP.

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Charged

MAY 18, 2021

Oge led the team that authored the 2010-2025 Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards, and described the process in her 2016 book, Driving the Future. We used our existing laws to set standards that were complementary. What this man has done, single-handed…he’s going to go down in the history books.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

A report from Columbia University’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law identified nearly 230 local measures across 35 states that have been enacted to restrict renewable energy development. IN THEIR BOOK Merchants of Doubt , historians Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. But at the local level, challenges are mounting.

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Andrew Winston

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Simon & Schuster Cancels Plans for Senator Hawley’s Book… here. MLB moving 2021 All-Star Game from Atlanta over Georgia voting law… here. Cargill will sell cow face masks to catch burps full of methane… here. Walmart now offering free college tuition and books to its 1.5 million U.S.

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