Grist

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Matt Simon, a science journalist for Wired, details the danger in his forthcoming book on microplastics, A Poison Like No Other. Matt Simon’s book, A Poison Like No Other, details the many dangers of microplastics. In a final step, zooplankton excrete the carbon as part of “fecal pellets” that sink down the water column.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2024

The science behind the hockey stick graph has been continuously upheld as accurate, and is among key findings that prove burning oil, coal, and methane gas is the primary driver of the climate crisis. Oreskes, author of the books “Why Trust Science?” Science is not about individuals, it’s about process,” Oreskes testified.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The entire amount of greenhouse gasses (such as carbon dioxide and methane) produced by human actions is known as a carbon footprint. We can all make a change by making minor adjustments to our behavior, such as eating less meat, booking fewer connecting flights, and line-drying our clothing. Reduce Your Carbon Footprint.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 11, 2022

DeSmog previously reported on NW Natural’s rate request, which would saddle Oregonians with a 12 percent increase in their gas bills, in part to cover the costs of misleading advertising that promotes gas use, millions of dollars to shareholders and executives , and the campaign to promote gas in kids activity books in Oregon schools.

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Terra Infirma

MARCH 1, 2021

So, where does Bill Gates sit in all this with his new book? Mann goes on to point out that the Arctic methane bomb theory upon which many high profile doomsayers predicate their musings is not accepted in scientific circles. Investment in those unproven options would crowd out investment in better solutions.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Indeed, at 42 inches in diameter and 303 miles long, the MVP is the largest methane gas pipeline currently under construction in the U.S. In 1988, he wrote The End of Nature, the first book for a common audience about global warming. However, it is no less dangerous to the planet than other fossil fuel pipelines.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Take the best-selling book, The Uninhabitable Earth. If the Arctic permafrost melts away, releasing all its stored methane, and if the global thermostat turns out to be especially sensitive to greenhouse gases, the world could warm to RCP 8.5 Are we safe or are we doomed?

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2022

Bonus points if you sell your existing furniture rather than send it to the landfill (where it otherwise releases uber-potent methane for years). Some examples of functional pieces are candles, books, mason jars (which can be used as vases), and of course, live plants, which can help purify the air. – Goodside.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Today, Carson’s work is widely considered the most important environmental book of the 20th century. Burger King committed the sin of lesser two evils in July 2020, with their advertised “reduced methane beef”. The commercial explained that by changing a cow’s diet, Burger King was able to reduce their methane emissions by 33%.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 12, 2020

When JP Morgan, the world’s largest oil and gas financier, commits to achieve a Paris-aligned lending book , you know it’s no ordinary year. With company after company in sector after sector committing to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 or sooner, the business imperative to lead on climate is clear.

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R-Squared Energy

APRIL 10, 2021

” Quoting from my book Power Plays : “The group’s work culminated in the release of the National Energy Policy (NEP) in May of 2001. The report warned that in the years ahead, America would face the most serious energy shortages since the 1973 oil embargo. ” Treating an Addiction.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

It also walked back restrictive rules on its books related to marches. Every stage of natural gas production and distribution releases methane pollution, a powerful greenhouse gas. Because of those methane leaks, consuming more natural gas spurs ever-faster and more dramatic climate changes. Now citizens and groups like RISE St.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Today, Carson’s work is widely considered the most important environmental book of the 20th century. Burger King committed the sin of lesser two evils in July 2020, with their advertised “reduced methane beef”. The commercial explained that by changing a cow’s diet, Burger King was able to reduce their methane emissions by 33%.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 25, 2020

That relatively routine journey has now entered the record books: the earliest date a cargo ship took what’s usually an ice-blocked route. Scientists from the University of Colorado measure how fast the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane move between the atmosphere and the ocean, on Nov. and the Yukon territories in Canada.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

One juicy hamburger for you equates to (about) 600 gallons of water consumed, 0.126 pounds of methane released, 13.5 We have access to myriad documentaries and books aimed at increasing awareness. The chief impediment is that the gain is private, yet the cost is public.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

George Monbiot's latest book, Regenesis , is the latest in a string of studies to warn how essentially extractive agricultural practices are damaging soils and biodiversity to such an extent that food security is being threatened.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 6, 2021

” “Oh, and by the way, it doesn't emit carbon dioxide or methane,” he added. “All of these steps have really been very positive,” said Sinha, who recently published the book “ Fossil Free ,” on the drivers of India’s clean energy transition and path ahead.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

And on the side-lines of the official negotiations, scores of major commitments were also made by business leaders and financiers geared at accelerating climate action within specific sectors or around particular issues of concern, from cars and shipping through to curbing methane emissions and tackling deforestation.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The captured CO2 is then converted into methane (CO) and blended with the hydrogen, most commonly using a technology called Reverse Water Gas Shift (RWGS), to produce syngas. CO2 is captured either from the air using direct air capture (DAC) or from flue gas produced by burning fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Investor-owned utilities, like NW Natural, have “built up an information environment around those regulators where they produce nearly everything they read or consume,” utility watchdog David Pomerantz explains in Kate Aronoff’s book Overheated. “If

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

degrees of warming today, 2023 marks the hottest year on the books and greenhouse gas emissions are still rising. And during COP28, they’ll host a meeting to address methane pollution, an even more potent greenhouse gas than CO2. Now, that 1.5-degree With around 1.2 But (why is there always a but?!)

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The company is “working very hard to demonstrate” the ability to combine “blue hydrogen” production, or turning methane into hydrogen and capturing the carbon emissions, with electricity production, he said. That offers customers a set of modules to meet a variety of end needs, Sridhar said.

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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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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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Grist

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Tour, who is also a scientific advisor for a company called Universal Matter that’s trying to produce flash graphene commercially, also points out that flash graphene made from food waste has the added climate benefit of reducing emissions from methane , a potent greenhouse gas released as food rots in landfills.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

This makes it ripe for disaster capitalism, a phrase Naomi Klein coined in her book “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.” While natural gas burns cleaner than coal, the advantage of using it is negated by the methane emitted in its production.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 26, 2020

One juicy hamburger for you equates to (about) 600 gallons of water consumed, 0.126 pounds of methane released, 13.5 We have access to myriad documentaries and books aimed at increasing awareness. The chief impediment is that the gain is private, yet the cost is public.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

For example, the world has entirely too many methane -producing cows headed for dinner plates and that the term “veganism” was coined in 1944 by a British gent named Donald Watson. Despite the recent uptick in vegan consciousness, the company gets far fewer bookings and participants on the vegan tour.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Food waste is one of the world’s leading causes of greenhouse gas emissions and it releases tons of methane whilst taking up massive space in our landfills. Once an event is booked, try to get an estimate on the number of bellies expected to be fed as soon as possible in order to get accurate measurements. Avoid Food Waste.

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Charged

MAY 31, 2022

We also have a lot of effort going towards development of the TaaS platform that manages everything from truck book to routes and charging. This would all be software-controlled, and use the same standard protocols that are currently used for the charging equipment and the vehicles. Volvo VNR Electric Class 8 truck.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Does he want his premiership to be remembered as pioneering and bold - or left out of the history books because he was no match for the task at hand?". Key to keeping 1.5C ‘alive' will be a marked reduction in the release of highly-potent methane emissions, which could rapidly slow temperature rise.

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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. A parallel world of Shell-backed publications brushed such warnings aside.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2021

At the same time, negotiating teams will be wrangling with outstanding technical issues in the Paris Agreement rule book around carbon markets, transparency, common timeframes, loss and damage, and climate finance. Its stated aim is to collectively slash methane emissions across all sectors by 30 per cent between 2020 and 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2024

We’ve got a pretty sweeping statutory consumer protection on the books,” Slocum said. That premise has begun to fall apart as research on methane has piled up in recent years, examinations that consistently point to an industry-wide problem that is much worse and much more widespread than previously thought.

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