DeSmogBlog

JUNE 30, 2021

What it really means is that while some greenhouse gas emissions will be cut, fossil fuels will continue to be burnt but will be ‘balanced’ or ‘offset’ with an ‘equivalent’ amount of so-called ‘carbon removal’. Big Polluters. What’s more these false solutions keep lining the pockets of Big Polluters.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 12, 2021

For instance, roughly 16 percent of recovery spending could bring positive air pollution impacts, but 16.4 percent is likely to increase net air pollution. billion on hydrogen, the latter boosted substantially by major investment programs by France and Germany. billion has been spent on low-carbon transport, $28.9

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

” “As an engineer, it really concerns me because the only problem with conventional power is that they're polluting the environment; it's a very, very big negative. The EU’s proposed carbon border tax also shuts down the go-to loophole for some sectors.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Though the focus is on its zero carbon emissions into the air, it reduces other forms of pollution. The pollution reduction from the use of H2 can extend beyond what is released into the air. It is the reverse process of electrolysis, one of the methods of producing the H2 for use in hydrogen fuel cells in the first place.

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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.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

As a result, the industry accounts for roughly 8 percent of annual carbon dioxide emissions, as well as a toxic soup of air pollutants. But in order to curb steel’s carbon emissions, the sector will have to transform how the material is traditionally made. Doing so is essential to limiting global warming to 1.5

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

The friends, all engineers by training, had designed a machine that could turn agricultural waste, like almond shells, into renewable hydrogen fuel. They’d even found a partner, the owner of a fueling station for hydrogen-powered cars, who wanted them to build a pilot plant at his facility. That’s where carbon removal comes in.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 3, 2021

The authors of the report also showed that carbon emissions fell by 16% compared to figures from 2019. By late Spring, we were receiving reports that the UK’s coal-powered energy had fallen to ‘ pre-industrial revolution levels ’, and by the summer, that pollution levels had dropped by half. Covid19 created a fall in generation demand.

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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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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Analysis of the government’s latest transparency data shows ministers at the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) held 130 one-on-one meetings with energy producers between July 22 2019 and March 18 2021, of which nearly half (63) were with producers of high carbon energy. Drax Access.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

This comes as major polluters are increasingly deploying digital tactics to detract from negative headlines about their record profits and decades-long contribution to climate change. On Instagram , Campbell encouraged his followers to watch his “Hydrogen powered adventure!” percent of total energy consumption in 2050.

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Business Green

AUGUST 10, 2021

The UK is committed to achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050 and this year's edition of National Grid ESO's 'Future Energy Scenarios' shows that a 2035 clean power sector driven by a massive expansion of renewables is now the benchmark for the UK if it is to reach this goal. Zero carbon power by 2035. Credit: Ember.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

government has a new goal to make it much cheaper to suck carbon dioxide out of the air. The Carbon Negative Shot is the third program in the Earthshots series. The Department of Energy announced a Hydrogen Shot , a program to make clean hydrogen fuel 80 percent cheaper than it is today, in June.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The reason it’s considered a solution is that plants suck up carbon from the air while they grow. When we turn them into fuels and burn them, no new carbon is added to the atmosphere —the whole cycle is considered “carbon neutral.” But critics say biofuels’ carbon-neutrality is a mirage. The case for negative emissions.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 29, 2021

It proposes to make Europe the first continent to reach carbon neutrality by 2050 and the first to deliver a climate law with binding emissions targets. 3) It’s funding big polluters. Corporate beneficiaries of this programme include Repsol, Airbus, BMW, Total Capital, E.ON, and Shell – some of the biggest polluters on the continent.

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Fairsnape

MARCH 11, 2021

On which CNBC reported this week: “Cement giant turn to green hydrogen and carbon capture in efforts to curb emissions” A subsidiary of multinational building materials firm HeidelbergCement is working with researchers from Swansea University to install and operate a green hydrogen fuelled concrete production demonstration unit at a site in the UK.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

When one thinks about carbon emissions, images of spewing smokestacks or tailpipes likely come to mind. But there is a pollution problem hidden in the built environment around us, from the buildings we live in to the roads we drive on. Cement and concrete can be made with lower-carbon fuels. million gas-fuelled cars.

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Business Green

JULY 29, 2021

National Infrastructure Commission urges government to act quickly to drive development of first wave of BECCS and DACS plants, arguing carbon removals will be a cornerstone of the UK's future economy. Calls for the UK to start scaling up negative emissions technology are becoming shriller.

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Business Green

JUNE 9, 2020

The government must now address the market for all the low carbon energy technologies of the future, including hydrogen and CCUS, argues Siemens UK & Ireland CEO Steve Scrimshaw. The public want to see the government take even bolder steps to move the UK towards net zero carbon.

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Business Green

APRIL 26, 2022

With wind and solar costs significantly lower than all forms of polluting generation in most parts of the world, and concerns about the security of gas supplies painfully and tragically obvious, the logical course of action is to build a lot more renewables capacity ASAP. What happens when the wind blows?

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Among its many provisions, the Green Deal will include: A "Just Transition Fund" to make sure vulnerable sectors and regions are not negatively impacted by the changes. Carbon capture, utilization and sequestration, hydrogen infrastructure and energy storage will also receive support to reach commercialization.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

150 million Americans regularly breathe unhealthy, polluted air. But recently announced targets to achieve 100 percent clean power by the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis and Joe Biden’s presidential campaign would eliminate all air pollution from power plants. By Sonia Aggarwal, Mike O’Boyle, and Amol Phadke.

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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 Innovation

JUNE 16, 2022

This year’s Draft Scoping Plan proposes a pathway to achieve the state’s target of 40 percent emissions below 1990 levels and economy-wide carbon neutrality by 2045. . This scenario includes BAU policies as well as a higher carbon price, vehicle electrification, and mode shifting (shifting from vehicle to active and public transportation). .

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

CNG Fuels' biomethane compressed natural gas - Bio-CNG - is currently 100 per cent sourced from waste feedstocks such as food waste and it claims the fuel is both cheaper and less-carbon intensive than traditional diesel. per cent of UK carbon emissions, with road transport as a whole now the UK's highest emitting sector of the economy.

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2020

But with private car use shooting up as people avoid taking public transport over fears of contracting the virus, the Covid-19 crisis risks spurring a longer-term health and environmental crisis in driven by higher air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, warned Greener Journeys. per cent increase in social deprivation, the study notes.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

Greenpeace Italy and Italian advocacy group ReCommon aim to build on a similar case targeting Anglo-Dutch oil major Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands to force Eni to slash its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Eni has set a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050. “Eni took a bath of green paint,” Abbate said.

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Energy Innovation

AUGUST 13, 2020

150 million Americans regularly breathe unhealthy, polluted air. But recently announced targets to achieve 100 percent clean power by the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis and Joe Biden’s presidential campaign would eliminate all air pollution from power plants. Public health benefits of reaching 100% zero carbon energy.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The remaining 20 percent represents investments outside of fossil fuels, in areas such as renewables, carbon capture and storage, and research into new green technologies. . The simple fact is that they are not reducing their polluting activities by the significant amount required to limit the worst impacts of global warming.”.

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The Environmental Blog

JUNE 24, 2022

About 77% of the citizens agree that a more important energy priority should be developing alternative energy resources like wind and solar power and hydrogen technology instead of increasing fossil fuel production. The main causes are nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons but hydrogen-powered vehicles emit none of these but only H2O and warm air.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The global chemicals industry has a huge opportunity to transform itself from a major polluter into a "planet-positive force" that could drive decarbonisation across the wider economy over the coming decades, while doubling in size and creating 29 million new jobs in the process.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Below he discusses the issue of water pollution in the fashion industry. Startlingly, the fashion industry is now the second largest generator of pollution on Earth after the oil industry, which is driven by the snowballing effect of ‘fast fashion’. The Citaram river in Indonesia is the most polluted river in the world.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

It’s vodka, made without any potatoes or grains, and the key ingredients are hydrogen and captured carbon dioxide. Last year, global carbon emissions hit an all-time high of 40.9 But all that carbon doesn’t have to wind up in the atmosphere. They pour in the product and, when it’s ready a few hours later, take a sip.

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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 agreed to fund their relocation in 2002 — but Hawkins’ family was one of the few who decided to stay.

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Business Green

MAY 17, 2022

On one side governments and the aviation industry proselytise the virtues of techno-optimism, sketching out a vision whereby a combination of sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs), electrification, hydrogen, efficiency gains, and negative emissions technologies allow the sector to decarbonise even as it expands.

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2021

For instance, roughly 16 per cent of recovery spending could bring positive air pollution impacts, but 16.4 per cent is likely to increase net air pollution. The report also notes how where green spending programmes have been announced they have been disproportionately focused on industrialised nations.

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Business Green

JANUARY 28, 2021

Taskforce on Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets unveils recommendations on how to scale up investment in emission reduction programmes, but environmental campaigners remain unimpressed. And it stresses that global emissions targets are likely to be missed without a fresh approach for driving investment in negative emissions projects.

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