Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

The report expounds the need to slow ever-rising methane levels, noting that atmospheric concentrations of the gas have more than doubled since pre-industrial levels and are increasing faster now than they have at any point since the 1980s.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2021

There has been an estimated 6% drop in carbon emissions due to altered lifestyles in COVID-19. Top Carbon Emission Contributors. Two examples of this are carbon capture , trapping CO2 before it is emitted and storing it elsewhere, and carbon credits/cap and trade programs , permits that allow a company to emit a certain amount of GHGs.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Responding to DeSmog’s findings, Natacha Cingotti, senior health and chemicals policy officer at Brussels-based policy and advocacy group, Health and Environmental Alliance (HEAL), said: “[W]hen working on chemicals- and pesticides-related policies, the imbalance of stakeholders in favour of industry interests is striking.”.

Building Energy Monitoring 98

Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 98

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2021

The group is calling for tobacco-style advertising bans and health warnings to counter fossil fuel companies’ “deceptive” marketing. But while the ad shows Exxon scientists hard at work developing “ algae farms ” and technology designed to suck carbon dioxide from the air, its business activities tell a different story.

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

So, this is very much a health intervention. LPG is produced because they want something else, whether that’s natural gas, with over 60 percent of LPG is coming as a result of natural gas processing. You can argue that carbon dioxide actually is not dirty. Nobody produces LPG because they want LPG.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Increased federal incentives for “carbon management” technologies are catalyzing a surge in proposed carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects in the United States, from the Gulf Coast to the Midwest to California. use the captured carbon to drill for more oil in a process called enhanced oil recovery.

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Carbon Carbon-negative Pollution Transportation 105

Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Gasification Gasification involves subjecting biomass to high temperatures in an environment with controlled oxygen, which converts the material into a mixture of gases including hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and methane, collectively known as syngas. Equally important is the consideration of air quality.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 94

Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

A group of exciting start-ups are exploring whether the world's trash mountains could become a valuable source of low carbon hydrogen fuels. Still, there is potential for clean - low- or zero-carbon - hydrogen to take off, energy experts believe. And it could be cheaper than producing hydrogen from natural gas.

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Hydrogen Demand Technology Energy 69

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 2, 2021

It follows five years of campaigning at a local level to shut down the twin ethylene and liquid natural gas (LNG) plants at Mossmorran. However, two separate boiler explosions in 2019, in addition to pending Health and Safety Executive prosecutions over the release of hydrocarbons , has provoked yet more concern amongst residents. “I

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

Rolfes was speaking during a visit last month to the German port of Wilhelmshaven, site of a new terminal to unload liquefied natural gas (LNG) — natural gas supercooled for shipping on specialized tankers. German banks like Deutsche Bank are funding this export of gas from the United States,” Rolfes told DeSmog.

Building Energy Monitoring 87

Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Fossil fuels 87

GreenTechMedia

JUNE 5, 2020

And they consume fossil fuels such as natural gas or propane to power furnaces, boilers, and water heaters. In the United States, buildings account for roughly 40 percent of the country’s energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, and nearly half of homes rely on natural gas as their primary heating fuel.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Available figures compiled from various public corporate reports suggest that on average 80 percent of the businesses’ operations remain in oil and gas and, in one case, coal. It also had the highest share of posts on carbon capture and storage technologies, with these making up one in five of the promos put out by the company.

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Fossil fuels Carbon-neutral Carbon-negative Carbon 98

Living Green Technology

APRIL 9, 2020

Professor Vogt is an expert on carbon and nutrient cycles at the ecosystem level and has worked around the world. She is particularly intrigued by the role that human and natural disturbances play in controlling processes in ecosystems such as species diversity, land-use activities, social resilience and ecosystem sustainability.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

The National Grid aims to switch the UK securely and efficiently to a 100 percent low-carbon grid led by wind and solar energy by 2035, and expects to have stints of fully carbon-free UK electricity as early as 2025.

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Fossil fuels Global warming Climate change Demand 97

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

For instance, the company’s just-published “ Energy Transition Progress report ” references chemicals right alongside “low carbon energy” and “renewable natural gas” as examples of the company’s stated commitment to lowering emissions. Shell Norco Manufacturing Complex.

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Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Fossil fuels 97

Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Multi-year initiative seeks carbon-to-value startups and welcomes first Carbontech Leadership Council members. The C2V Initiative is a unique, multi-year program driving the creation of a thriving innovation ecosystem for the commercialization of carbontech—technologies that capture and convert carbon dioxide (CO?) New York City, N.Y.,

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Business Energy Monitoring Carbon Building Energy Monitoring Startups 57

Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 17, 2024

By embedding this technology into various facets of air transportation, the industry takes a significant leap towards carbon neutrality, aligning with global sustainability objectives. The implications extend beyond commercial aviation into realms such as cargo transport, air ambulances, and eventually personal airborne vehicles.

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Aviation Hydrogen Transportation Sustainability 58

The Environmental Blog

JUNE 24, 2022

This is vital since half of the US population lives in places where air pollution levels are so high that they can negatively impact public health. Green hydrogen is generated from low-carbon power or renewable energy. This is mostly because it is a clean fuel that produces only water.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year. billion U.S.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 15, 2020

Early pioneers of these hydrogen-from-waste technologies such as Ways2H, SGH2 Energy (SGH2) and Standard Hydrogen say not only are they making carbon-free, energy-rich fuel, their approaches also will divert mountains of trash from landfills and waterways, cutting greenhouse gas emissions. There are other ways to make hydrogen.

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Demand Hydrogen Technology Energy 28

Green Technology

JUNE 21, 2023

Green Technology’s Leadership Awards aim to recognize and honor individuals, organizations, and institutions that have made significant contributions to advancing sustainability efforts and reducing carbon footprints in various sectors. The kinetic nature of the building enables a more verdant and calming environment.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

This article was originally published by Gas Outlook. The negative impacts of hydraulic fracturing on public health, the environment, and the climate are “intractable and not fixable,” according to a newly published report. In addition, vast quantities of carbon and methane pollution are released into the atmosphere.

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Methane Health Carbon-negative Pollution 102

Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In this Low Carbon Prosperity Institute (LCPI) analysis, we explore scenarios of carbon reduction investment performance based on the revenue allocation described in Initiative 1631. The measure is intended, but not required, to reduce carbon emissions in 2035 to 25% below 1990 levels, consistent with the state’s legislated target.

Pollution 45

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Venture Global’s Calcasieu Pass liquid natural gas (LNG) export terminal is in the longest ever commissioning period for a plant of its kind. Still, the facility has sold more than 200 LNG cargoes , capitalizing on record-high prices in 2022 as European countries scrambled to replace Russian gas during the Russia-Ukraine War.

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Pollution Natural gas Carbon-negative Construction 96

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Despite the region’s shrinking wetlands, the government continues to permit new LNG export facilities on the Gulf Coast , and is encouraging hydrogen and carbon capture sequestration developments , though they too will lead to further land loss. Both are reliant on a steady stream of cheap natural gas.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2021

This month, EQT, the nation’s largest natural gas producer, plans to launch a pilot project that will certify it to start selling not just natural gas, but something it calls “responsibly sourced natural gas.”. “We wouldn’t be able to give them enough volume off of Platinum only,” he said.

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Fossil fuels Carbon Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 98

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2022

Travis Dardar, an indigenous fisherman in Cameron, Louisiana, has a front-row view of the expansion of the liquified natural gas (LNG) industry’s export capacity on the Gulf Coast — and it isn’t pretty. “It I’m worried about the health impacts the plant might have on my family,” Nicole told me. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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Natural gas Climate change Fossil fuels Seafood 98

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 31, 2021

This process adds to air pollution because it leads to flaring off excess toxic gases , together with natural gas and oxygen, to keep the chemicals from building up to dangerous pressures.”. Black carbon released by flares can be a powerful — if short-lived — greenhouse gas in its own right. Credit: Julie Dermansky. “To

Home Energy Monitoring 98

Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Carbon-negative 98

Business Green

JULY 22, 2022

He is author of several landmark studies of the industry going back to 2012, when he wrote a paper on the carbon footprint of indoor cannabis production. That jibes with a recent United Nations finding that the carbon footprint of indoor cannabis cultivation is "16 to 100 times larger" than that of outdoor cultivation.

Sustainability 81

Sustainability Transportation Carbon-negative Policy 81

Renewable Energy World

MARCH 31, 2021

New transmission lines, like gas pipelines, face obstacles from the public at large related to aesthetics, nimbyism, and other fears surrounding human health. In 2030 and 2040, we see the need for more technologies that are baseload and low carbon. Advanced nuclear, carbon capture, longer duration storage, and hydrogen.

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Investment Energy Energy Carbon-negative 85

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

At the SCAQMD’s March 2018, board meeting, district staff recommended development and adoption of rules targeting these indirect sources, relying on authority granted to the SCAQMD under the California Health and Safety Code Sections 40716(a)(1) and 40440(b)(3). Proposed Warehouse ISR.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

At the SCAQMD’s March 2018, board meeting, district staff recommended development and adoption of rules targeting these indirect sources, relying on authority granted to the SCAQMD under the California Health and Safety Code Sections 40716(a)(1) and 40440(b)(3). Proposed Warehouse ISR.

Logistics 52

Logistics Building Energy Monitoring Ozone Business Energy Monitoring 52

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year. billion U.S.

Sustainability 28

Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 28

Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Schools give us a glimpse into what carbon neutrality looks like. Dickinson College Score: 80.67 | Carlisle, Pennsylvania The very green Red Devils became carbon-neutral this past school year, with help from an LED lighting retrofit, the installation of a three-megawatt solar field on campus, and a campus-wide behavior change campaign.

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Cooling Carbon-neutral Carbon-negative Waste 52

Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Unfortunately, all kinds of positive (or negative?) Ice that survives for at least one year is called multi-year ice, sometimes perennial ice, which gives an indication of the health of the ice at the end of the melt season. Sea Ice extent is going down. feedback loops will cause this melting to possibly accelerate. Lot’s of Methane.

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Solar Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Methane Building Energy Monitoring 78

DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

An organization run by former Obama-era Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, with the backing of the AFL-CIO, a federation of 56 labor unions, has created a policy “blueprint” to build a nationwide pipeline network capable of carrying a gigaton of captured carbon dioxide (CO2). Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data from 2019.

Building Energy Monitoring 98

Building Energy Monitoring Carbon Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 98

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 28, 2024

Some of the slogans that have recently popped up in public facilities, billboards, and on buses and bus shelters throughout downtown Ottawa include: “Global Oil & Natural Gas Demand is Growing.” “Our As Long as the World Needs Oil & Gas, Shouldn’t it be Canadian?” Our Allies are Asking for Canadian Energy.” “As

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