The Environmental Blog

MARCH 21, 2024

Flue gas cleaning removes contaminants like sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx), carbon monoxide, VOCs, heavy metals, and particulate matter from flue gas. Climate Change Carbon dioxide and methane contribute to global warming. Flue gas cleaning solutions are just as important as their production.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 13, 2023

While visiting Philadelphia today, he’s expected to name seven locations selected for funding through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The alternative to electrolysis is a process called steam-methane reforming. The Biden administration has been planning for these hubs since last year.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

To put this number into perspective, carbon dioxide emissions alone are expected to reach 33 gigatonnes in 2021. Eleven targets are enshrined in law, covering 12 per cent of global emissions. The potential of methane and market mechanisms. This year, it focuses on methane and market mechanisms.

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CleanTX

MARCH 20, 2019

Joint effort focuses on developing technologies and management practices to accelerate reductions of methane emissions across the global oil and gas industry. The agreement enables joint collaboration on projects that test technologies and emerging strategies to continue to improve methane management. BP took such a step today.”.

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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. Methane is the clean energy of the future,” ran a 1986 promotion in Eni’s company magazine Ecos.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 20, 2021

Food left rotting in landfills generates planet-warming greenhouse gases like methane and carbon dioxide, accounting for the third-largest source of human-related methane emissions in the U.S. While scraps and leftovers may seem harmless, food waste actually has a significant impact on the planet. A Tech-Driven Circular Economy.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 29, 2024

While two dozen carbon capture projects are proposed in Louisiana, figuring out exactly where companies plan to inject carbon dioxide underground for storage is a bit of a mystery. He suspected that Exxon asked the state to clean up the well site in preparation for a carbon capture project in the parish.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Leveraging the ocean's carbon removal potential. Achieving this not only will require reducing existing emissions, but also removing carbon dioxide already in the air. Achieving this not only will require reducing existing emissions, but also removing carbon dioxide already in the air. Katie Lebling. Wed, 11/11/2020 - 00:30.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Canadian pipeline company TC Energy is aiming to expand the volume of methane gas that it ships through a long distance pipeline in the Pacific Northwest, potentially locking in higher gas use despite laws in western states that chart a path away from fossil fuels in the years ahead.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 22, 2021

One of the prevalent narratives by environmental groups is that electrification is the only path towards zero carbon emissions. RNG is created by capturing methane from existing sources of waste – such as animal manure, garbage or wastewater – which is then processed and repurposed as a clean energy source. They also want reliability.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

As of last year, more than a third of the world’s largest publicly traded companies had set targets to reach net zero carbon emissions, up from a fifth in December 2020. Under the law , the U.S. The FTC is not the only federal agency with authority to rein in carbon offsets. Civil society and courts in Europe are pushing back.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

EDF+Business program staff participated in meetings and panel presentations, including: Victoria Mills, director of corporate climate policy leadership; Elizabeth Sturcken, director of net zero acceleration; Katie Anderson, manager of supply chain and agricultural methane. An urgent new warning from the U.N. manufacturing. $28

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Front And Centered

AUGUST 29, 2022

This includes a 15% corporate minimum tax, a stock buyback tax, and a methane leakage tax. The law takes a flawed approach of subsidizing energy corporations as its main thrust instead of investing in energy justice for consumers. Sunny Spots. The Act also empowers the federal government to negotiate drug prices. Gaping Gaps.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The platform is the fruit of an early European gasification and methanation demonstrator project, and is supported by the French electrical utility ENGIE and the French agency for ecological transition ADEME. The post Gasification platform demonstrates renewable gas production from SRF first appeared on Envirotec.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2022

Three campaign groups - Friends of the Earth, ClientEarth, and the Good Law Project - mounted separate challenges questioning the legality of the strategy in January. The Secretary of State is legally required to meet our upcoming carbon budgets.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

They soon discovered that static electricity had caused entrapped methane from the flatulence and manure of 90 dairy cows to explode. According to the United Nations , reducing methane emissions from cows could be one of the quickest ways to slow climate change. It can reverse ocean acidification by absorbing carbon dioxide.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Greenpeace Italy and Re:Common have alleged in their climate lawsuit — Italy’s first — that despite knowing at least as early as 1970 that burning fossil fuels posed a serious climate risk, Eni went on to promote “natural” –- or methane – gas as a safe energy source for decades. the spokesperson stated.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Brausch for The Verge Homeowners who want to reduce their carbon footprint by getting rid of polluting appliances have the US government’s full support. The US government has pledged to cut its carbon pollution in half by 2030 to prevent the planet from further overheating. Illustration by Nico H. Not so with apartment dwellers.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2021

However, one kernel of hope highlighted in the report is the prospect of the wave of net zero pledges from countries over the past two years soon making their way into law, and then in turn being translated into effective on-the-ground policies to slash emissions.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

A useful way to think about the effort and timescales required is to consider the " Carbon Law ," which was coined by my friend Johan Rockström. Despite the name, this isn’t a physical "law" of the universe but rather a set of recommendations. So, what does the Carbon Law say? That’s not all.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

This is because aerosols reflect the sun’s rays, rather than trapping its heat like carbon. The passage of clean air laws, which removed these aerosols from the atmosphere, ironically unleashed a trend of worsening floods. This creates a tricky paradox, which renowned climate scientist James Hansen has called a “Faustian bargain.”

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The curbing of emissions to reduce the concentration of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane in the environment. Following years of delays, at COP21 last year countries agreed on rules for the implementation of international carbon market mechanisms. Black carbon. Carbon market (including carbon offsets).

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 3, 2020

The move to exit merchant generation while retaining its three nuclear power plants “could reduce overall business risk and earnings volatility, improve our credit profile, and enhance an already compelling ESG position driven by pending clean energy investments, methane reduction and zero-carbon generation,” Izzo said.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Compared to the States, these issues are amplified by the UK's higher population density - as noted by Kwasi Kwarteng in recent days - and landowners have less involvement because our mineral laws give the government the rights over gas exploration. On track to net zero.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 13, 2021

The digester, and another the dairy installed a few years later, reduced the size of open lagoons of manure that release methane into the atmosphere. The California Air Resources Board adopted the Low Carbon Fuel Standard in 2009. carbon intensity value of natural gas vehicles below zero for the first time in history.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Can carbon-free hydrogen augment, or even replace, the fossil natural gas running through pipelines to fuel furnaces, boilers, stoves and other building applications today? ” Hydrogen is also about three times less energy-dense than methane. ” U.S. green hydrogen pilots and proposals.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Its chair, Marie Donnelly, last night expressed concern at the “problematic” sectoral targets, which she described as “not consistent” with the objectives of Ireland’s climate laws. per cent of total national emissions, despite the sector contributing only around one percent to GDP. Steep Cuts for Other Sectors.

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Energy Innovation

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Only existing state laws and regulations as of January 2023 are included in the model. Top five carbon-cutting policies bring the U.S. Standards for Methane Emissions require methane leaks—primarily from fossil fuel extraction and transport, agriculture, and landfills—to be identified and captured.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

LNG fuel - which is essentially natural gas cooled down into liquid form - has been touted by some firms as a lower carbon alternative to conventional diesel and petrol, as it produces lower levels of CO2, nitrogen dioxide, and sulphur emissions. per cent less methane than the former. It found the latter emitted only 7.5

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 7, 2022

This necessity is highlighted in the mandate letter for energy, mines and low carbon innovation, which recognizes that B.C. While targets represent important waypoints on the road to fighting climate change, enshrining them into law is key to integrating them into decision-making across all ministries.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

LNG boom threatens to release vast amounts of methane, a powerful climate pollutant that is the main component of natural gas. LNG as cheap, reliable, and the best bet of any energy source to meet Germany’s 2045 target for carbon neutrality. Credit: Edward Donnelly Environmental groups on both sides of the Atlantic warn that the U.S.

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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

That organic material contains copious amounts of carbon. The reasoning is that once wet, the land will stop losing carbon and the sinking will come to a halt. And over the long term, marsh plants may, through photosynthesis, capture enough carbon from the atmosphere that the ground begins rising again.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 25, 2023

Hoboken is making this claim against fossil fuel companies under the state-level equivalent of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, a federal law used successfully to prosecute organized crime groups such as the Mafia starting in the 1970s and later the tobacco industry. Credit: U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

electric sector reduced its carbon emissions by 26 percent from 2005 to 2018. To meet the targets laid out in the state’s ambitious new climate change law, RMI analysis estimates that New York will have to decarbonize 1,600 commercial buildings and 67,000 residential units per year between now and 2030. As a result, the U.S.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 18, 2023

funding initiatives for EGS include $44 million for DOE’s Frontier Observatory for Geothermal Energy Research (FORGE), up to $165 million to transfer best practices from oil and gas to advance geothermal (EGS and conventional), and $84 million of support from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for four pilot EGS demonstration projects.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 24, 2021

Leaking methane from oil and gas infrastructure is widespread across the European continent, reveals an investigation of more than 150 sites in seven countries. More than 60 percent of the sites analyzed by researchers using state-of-the-art technology were releasing large volumes of methane – a powerful greenhouse gas – into the atmosphere.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 4, 2021

The development and implementation of methane capture and carbon sequestration technologies meet a large, current need for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. The energy department recently announced a new program to reduce the costs of carbon free hydrogen by 80% by the end of this decade. About the Author.

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