Renewable Energy World

MARCH 5, 2021

Big name corporations Chevron and Microsoft are joining Schlumberger on a plan to develop a bioenergy project that will include carbon capture and sequestration. As a result, the energy produced would be carbon negative. The project will be located in Mendota, California and will use an idled bioenergy plant.

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Business Green

AUGUST 25, 2020

Office furniture giant Steelcase has set its sights on becoming a 'carbon negative' organisation within the next decade, yesterday unveiling plans to ramp up its use of renewable energy, slash carbon emissions, and finance carbon offset efforts that deliver "external emissions reductions with social benefits".

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Energy Central

DECEMBER 1, 2022

A new, private company, Rainforest Energy Corporation, plans to build biorefinery processing facilities in multiple sites to convert forest and agriculture waste into “clean fuels.”

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 3, 2023

We investigated allegations of workers exposed to radioactive oilfield waste , reported from the frontlines of climate-fueled extreme weather and climate migration , expanded our coverage of the climate impact of agriculture , followed the ongoing buildout of LNG , and sent a team to COP27 , among other things. Carbon Capture and Storage.

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Business Green

AUGUST 24, 2020

Pioneering beer company confirms it has secured 'carbon negative' status as it steps up efforts to slash emissions and plant new Brewdog forest. So happy that @BrewDog is now carbon negative. This means we take twice the carbon out of the air each year that we emit.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Episode 235: The value of informal waste collectors, reusable packaging prevails. It's time to value waste collectors for their pivotal role in the plastic supply chain. What is so much food still sent to landfills when it could be used for energy or to fertilize crops? Today's carbon-negative fuel. Heather Clancy.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 3, 2021

Textiles and the fashion industry account for about 20 percent of global wastewater pollution, 10 percent of global carbon emissions and 17 million tons of municipal solid waste. The largest source of textiles in municipal solid waste is discarded clothing. Close Authorship. Lizee customer environmental performance dashboard.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Renewable and alternative energy company Clean Planet Energy announced a joint venture with private equity firm Crossroads Real Estate on 15 November 15. They will fund Clean Planet Energy’s flagship ecoPlant currently under construction in Teesside, north east England.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

A research team at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has developed a system capable of converting waste from sewage, food crops, algae and other renewable carbon sources into hydrogen fuel. It has the potential to complete the energy recovery cycle.”.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

And, much like the market for carbon offsets, it’s messy. . In the same way that a company’s carbon credit may offset its U.S. Sustainability practitioners have spent the past couple of decades defining and debating the role of carbon credits in the transition to a clean economy, and plastics credits are not fundamentally different.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2022

Investors in the US start-up include Amazon's Climate Pledge Fund and Breakthrough Energy Ventures. US start-up Brimstone Energy has announced $55m of fresh investment to support development of its "carbon negative" cement making process, after a host of major backers joined its latest fundraising round.

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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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Business Green

MAY 20, 2021

Waste and recycling firm plans to invest in carbon capture technology at its waste-to-energy facilities in the UK. The lion's share of Viridor's emissions come from the energy used in its 11 EfW facilities, which process non-recyclable household to generate energy.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Using real world data from 2019, the paper sets out the opportunity for massively improving the climate benefits of recycling food waste to produce renewable energy and green fertiliser for farmers. Thomas Minter: “We already deliver carbon benefit and are now taking action to produce carbon negative fuel for lorries.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

A report from NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) seems to strengthen the case against Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS), currently a key ingredient of the UK government’s climate plan. Released on 13 October, the NRDC report summarises its latest investigation into BECCS.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

A leading UK fruit producer's goal to grow carbon negative apples, pears, cherries, and more is one step closer to reality, after the firm announced a partnership with energy services giant ENGIE to aid its transition to more sustainable methods of production.

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The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

When we are bombarded with negative news and potential threats regularly, it can take a toll on our well-being and overall happiness. Solar energy in the forest. That is why today, we will be looking at how solar companies like EVOLVsolar are working towards a happier future; a future that relies on renewable energy for our power.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

Speaking in the House of Lords yesterday, energy efficiency minister Martin Callanan brought an end to months of speculation when he announced that a plan to ramp up heat pump installation targets would go ahead as planned on April 1, despite intense lobbying. Since then, however, the government appeared to waver on the policy.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 28, 2020

It's the exciting idea that we can take something that could be considered waste, draw it out of the atmosphere and turn it into a source of revenue or economic growth. This morning, digital payments company Stripe announced a plan to let its merchant customers divert a portion of their revenue to carbon removal projects.

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POWER Magazine

MARCH 1, 2024

GW Drax Power Station in northeastern England—once Western Europe’s largest coal-fired power plant—is poised to pioneer bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), a negative emissions The post UK’s Drax Eyes U.S. for Bioenergy CCS Expansion Drive appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Scope 3 emissions can account for over 70% of many businesses’ carbon footprint, which means that organisations – and the world – cannot reach net-zero without taking huge strides to reduce their indirect emissions. Enabling solutions: Shrinking your digital carbon footprint. What’s next?

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 11, 2023

A trade association representing petroleum companies and a controversy-ridden waste management firm are sponsoring dinners at this year’s Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) conference, DeSmog can reveal. Veolia is a French company that operates in 58 countries worldwide, primarily in the water, waste, and energy sectors.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2022

A new technique offers a less energy-intensive way to recover lithium, cobalt, nickel and manganese from end-of-life lithium-ion batteries, and uses carbon dioxide for the process rather than the high temperatures or corrosive and hazardous chemicals traditionally associated with this activity.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Government policy should increase its focus on the well-to-wheel (WTW) greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and overall energy efficiency performance of new fuels for transport, according to a new study by Zemo Partnership (formerly LowCVP).

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 17, 2021

On its quest to develop negative carbon footprint projects, Strategic Biofuels claims to have successfully completed a carbon capture and storage test at its diesel fuel plant in Louisiana. ” Read more: Bechtel working with Drax to build biomass plants with carbon capture & storage.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 8, 2021

If you can produce the same thing in the same cost range -- but you can do so in a CO2-free or carbon-negative -- you'll reap the rewards. Now, it captures industrial waste gasses, such as CO2 and CO, and recycles them into the chemicals used to make everything from plastics to medical supplies to fabric for Lululemon.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The Massachusetts-based recycler uses anaerobic biodigesters to create renewable natural gas from food waste. Bacteria in the digesters consume the waste, creating methane and CO2 as byproducts. The gas can then be used for energy purposes. Now it's time to recycle food waste, and it's not that hard.

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GreenBiz

MAY 18, 2020

Achieve carbon-neutral computing to address climate change. Achieve carbon-neutral computing to address climate change. It will work with personal computer manufactures to create "the most sustainable and energy-efficient PC in the world — one that eliminates carbon, water and waste in its design and use." .

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Business Green

MAY 1, 2020

Swedish energy giant strikes deal to tap waste heat generated at contentious London waste-to-energy plant and pipe it to 10,500 homes. Vattenfall estimates the London heat network project could cut carbon emissions by up to 90 per cent compared to conventional gas boilers.

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Business Green

MAY 13, 2021

CNG Fuels plans to open Avonmouth refuelling station later this year to support fleet operators switching their trucks to run on biomethane made from food waste. per cent of UK carbon emissions, it said, and the Avonmouth refuelling station will enable up to 80 trucks to fill up every hour. HGVs account for 4.2

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Upcoming policy decisions on plastic, carbon trading and carbon capture could see the waste sector become a major driver of regional decarbonisation, writes Enfinium's Mike Maudsley Just over a year ago, I made a significant - and positive - career change.

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Global Renewable News

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Today (Oct 19), Kore Infrastructure announced.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 4, 2022

Carbon Positive- Business as Usual. Though we are beginning to see a shift towards greener business practices and sweeping sustainability commitments, companies are almost all still carbon positive, meaning they produce emissions greater than zero. Carbon Offsets. “Net zero” or “real zero”, what’s the difference? In the U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The directors of Powerfuel Portland – a firm aiming to deliver a proposed Energy Recovery Facility (ERF) at Portland Port on the Isle of Portland in Dorset – have provided more details about how how it will be a net-zero carbon project for its operational lifetime (up to 30 years).

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Seventeen startups joined our community in the final months of 2022, working on innovations as diverse as a smart nanocoating to keep products fresh, an autonomous waste-sorting system, and drinking water drawn from air’s humidity. Alma Energy leverages geothermal exploration to deliver scaled renewable energy production at economic levels.

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2021

Detailed and joined-up policies, behaviour change, 'whole system' infrastructure investment, and holistic energy market reform are all critical to achieving net zero emissions, report warns. Both of these scenarios would meet the UK's Sixth Carbon Budget.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Over the past few years, as companies have come under steadily increasing pressure to tackle climate change, nature-based solutions have emerged as a particularly exciting method for shrinking corporate carbon footprints. Investing in forests can be a win-win that both sequesters carbon and regenerates nature. Let’s start with costs.

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