DeSmogBlog

MAY 22, 2024

and other fossil fuel companies are urging the European Union to relax targets to boost climate-friendly “green” hydrogen, hoping to win greater support for projects to manufacture the fuel using natural gas. The target builds on a pre-existing goal of producing or importing 20 million tonnes of green hydrogen by 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The nation’s top environmental regulator doesn’t have sufficient rules to monitor leaks from carbon capture projects, according to an environmental watchdog’s new report. The agency also lets operators largely set the terms for the methods they use to monitor for leaks, as well as for the duration of the monitoring.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2021

UN backs green hydrogen as it publishes seven principles designed to guide policymakers and business leaders approach to scaling the low carbon fuel. energy sector pathway". energy sector pathway". pathways". climate scenarios, it stresses. climate scenarios, it stresses.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2021

Carbon Tracker study finds solar and wind energy potential is 100 times as much as global energy demand. As such, the analysts predict exponential growth for the solar and wind power sectors, noting that "humans specialise in extracting cheap energy, and fast". per cent of solar and 0.16 per cent of daily sunshine.".

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Charged

DECEMBER 29, 2021

How many times this week have you read that renewable energy is unreliable, and will never be able to completely replace fossil fuels on the electrical grid? The new study, published in the journal Renewable Energy , analyzed grid stability under multiple all-renewable scenarios. million permanent jobs.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Policymakers met with fossil fuel and biomass producers nine times as often as with their renewable energy counterparts, DeSmog can reveal, raising fresh concerns over the depth of the government’s commitments to reaching net zero emissions by 2050. Our record on renewable energy speaks for itself,” they said. “In

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

CBAM is a World Trade Organization (WTO) compatible measure that incentivizes global industries to adopt greener and more sustainable technologies. From this point onward, both domestic production and imports will be subject to an equivalent carbon price, encouraging industries worldwide to adopt greener technologies.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 2, 2021

With the ban of new petrol and diesel cars in place in the UK by 2030, sales of electric cars are expected to surge. Plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles accounted for more than 1 in 10 vehicle registrations in 2020, up from 1 in 30 in 2019, according to data published by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. Challenges.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

As the quest for sustainable energy intensifies, biomass emerges as a pivotal player in the arena of renewable resources. This exploration into the realm of biomass energy untangles the complexities and delves into its multifaceted nature, uncovering the potential of plant-based and waste-derived materials as alternative sources of power.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Richmond, a diverse, industrial city where housing prices and incomes have lagged behind its Bay Area neighbors, has poor air quality and some of the highest rates of respiratory and cardiovascular disease in California. "But And in several recent years, it emitted as much or more of certain air pollutants.

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Twenty-five startups joined our community in the final months of 2021, working on innovations as diverse as solar-plus-storage for blackouts, plastic and tire recycling, geothermal power generation, and construction-less dam electrification. Electricity. Fervo Energy is a next-generation geothermal power developer.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 1, 2022

Being more energy-efficient, reducing waste – through recycling, reuse, and reducing regimes -, and curbing scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) from the daily commute, all help your company save money. The initiatives given in this article will give you the foundation to then build a comprehensive green strategy.

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Business Green

JUNE 1, 2022

BEIS Minister Greg Hands said it was 'crucial that our industries reduce their reliance on fossil fuels'. is being invested in developing technologies to help shift away from carbon intensive fuels towards cleaner power sources such as hydrogen, electrification or fuel from biomass and waste products, the government said.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

An energy trade association that represents and promotes gas boilers and manufacturers is behind a barrage of negative press attacking heat pumps, DeSmog has learned. WPR’s campaign also explicitly promotes hydrogen as a viable fuel for domestic heating. The PR campaign subjects heat pumps to intense criticism.

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 21, 2023

Eighteen startups joined our community in the first months of 2023, working on innovations as diverse as an ammonia-based energy system, sneakers made from food waste, and nano-filters that reduce energy consumption in chemical separations. This system has 5x higher system-level energy densities compared to lithium batteries.

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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. And, in the United States, political gridlock chopped the heart out of Congress’ most ambitious clean energy plan. . Worried about the climate crisis? If not sooner.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

If you take Shell’s word for it, the oil giant’s growing petrochemical operations are indicative of its “commitment” to a cleaner energy future. It’s an apt welcome to a place where the realities of everyday life seem to be in stark contrast to the green illusion marketed by the fossil fuel and petrochemical industries.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

These revelations quickly spurred calls for Congress to investigate Exxon’s and other fossil fuel companies’ efforts to obstruct climate action. For years, academics, journalists, and activists have been unearthing documents proving that the fossil fuel industry knew about the dangers of climate change since the late 1950s.

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2021

But Ministers insist end to financial support for overseas fossil fuel energy projects, £16bn transition plan for North Sea, and climate compatibility test for new projects can put UK on track to net zero emissions. We will not leave oil and gas workers behind in the United Kingdom's irreversible shift away from fossil fuels.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2020

As nations head into a higher state of lockdown in response to rising Covid-19 infection rates, and the UK and EU head into yet another round of talks over a potential Brexit deal, the European Commission is continuing to press on with its Green Deal strategy for building a 'net zero emissions continent' by 2050.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

On Friday, at the United Nations’ climate conference, Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm announced her agency’s new “Earthshot Initiative” to bring the cost of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it securely below $100 per metric ton. We need governments to push the button of innovation here.”.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

It had been about a year and a half since he left his job at an aerospace company to found a clean energy startup in San Francisco with three of his friends, but the path to success he’d once envisioned had crumbled. For a while things had been looking up for Charm Industrial. Courtesy of Charm Industrial.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Critics, meanwhile, have been quick to point out that the plan is thin on details around how the government intends to scale up energy efficiency improvements, boost green skills, decarbonise heavy industry, and encourage people to embrace lower carbon diets. make polluters pay the most through fair carbon pricing.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The agency said the strategy represened an unprecedented effort to drastically slash pollution and accelerate the transition to clean energy. "No The plan is also expected to create four million new jobs and save Californians $200bn in health costs that result from pollution.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Industry Voice: From UNFCCC to NDCs and IPCC to 1.5°C, This is the global temperature rise above pre-industrial levels targeted by the 2015 Paris Agreement. Commonly known as soot, it is formed from wildfires and fossil fuel consumption and contributes to climate change. Energy transition. Energy transition.

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

  KoBold Metals discovered a major copper deposit, which could be the start to solving growing supply and demand imbalances brought on by copper’s fundamental role in the energy transition.    In deals, geologic hydrogen digs up $245m, $181m across six EV deals, and Brookfield’s $10bn climate transition fund.  

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

BASF’s wine tasting is just one example of many such pandemic-style lobbying efforts by the European agriculture industry since the EU has attempted to pass sweeping new policies to combat climate change through measures included in its “Green Deal,” first presented in December 2019. Meet the Industry Trade Groups.

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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. Credit: Julie Dermansky. Flight provided by Southwings. Flight provided by Southwings. In 2023, U.S.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

It it is also clear that more investment is required, particularly in clean tech R&D, and - crucially - that far more transparency is needed around net zero policies to help build public support for the agenda and spur greener consumer behaviours.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 30, 2021

A technical, environmental and economical evaluation from a shipowner’s perspective by Gilles Hagen Summary - This thesis performs a technical, economical and environmental feasibility study of dense hydrogen carriers as a fuel to power the largest semi-submersible offshore crane vessel in the world – Heerema’s Sleipnir.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 30, 2024

Keeling’s findings would lead him to conduct a separate series of experiments from the top of the Hawaiian volcano Mauna Loa resulting in the famous Keeling Curve — a visual depiction of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) caused by the burning of fossil fuels. His work underpins our understanding of manmade climate change.

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2023

But players across the green economy were quick to point out the government's package of policies and tax changes was notably bereft of focus on three other critical 'E's that are planks of a prosperous economy: environment, energy, and efficiency. We need an industrial strategy that removes barriers to investment.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

potentially affecting the ultimate fate of millions of abandoned oil industry wells. The wastewater well sits on land that’s owned by ExxonMobil, was drilled by ConocoPhillips, and eventually wound up run by a tiny start-up called Black Elk Energy that specialized in wringing out the last dregs of oil from aging wells.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The government, on top of an already bulging in-tray for 2021, is legally-required to respond to the CCC's recommendations by June next year, and many businesses leaders, politicians, experts and campaigners have called on the ministers to endorse the report as soon as possible, and to urgently get started on building a net zero emission economy.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Air Products, a global hydrogen manufacturing company, is proposing to build a $4.5 billion “Clean Energy Complex” to manufacture blue hydrogen and an accompanying carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) project, that would be operational by 2026. Water Moccasin in the wetlands next to Lake Maurepas.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Another airport investor, Spanish transport giant Ferrovial, owns a 25 percent stake in Heathrow, already the second most polluting airport in the world , despite having had its business plans approved by the Science Based Targets initiative, another UN-backed scheme. carbon budget if left unchecked.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Each of these individuals is playing the long game and is in a strong position to move their companies and industries into what could be a more hopeful period of reconciliation, recovery and repair. Most support science-based targets and sit on multiple boards, collaborations and advocacy groups to further industry-level sustainability goals.

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