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European scientists group urges ban on new natural gas boilers

Envirotec Magazine

Natural gas is not cleaner than other fossil fuels and using it instead of coal or oil risks achieving little or no reduction in greenhouse gas effects, says science advisory group the European Academies’ Science Advisory Council (EASAC) in a new report “Future of Gas”. The climate does not make compromises.”

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Palo Alto Paying Over $20,000 Annually to Natural Gas Trade Group Fighting Climate Action

DeSmogBlog

City leaders touted the new law , which is intended to tightly restrict future use of natural gas-powered heating and cooling in new construction, as an important part of the city’s plan to slash greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2030.

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Can ACs cool the world without warming it?

Grist

Several companies, including Gradient where Romanin is CEO (which landed him on the 2021 Grist 50 list ), are developing new AC technologies and approaches that are starting to show what a more efficient, less climate-intensive approach to cooling will look like. “And that absolutely doesn’t need to be true.”

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Discover How Saving Energy Can Help The Environment

The Environmental Blog

You should also look at improving your insulation, this will reduce the amount of energy you need to use to heat or cool your home. Another 16% is created using natural gas. As the side effects from burning fossil fuels contribute to global warming, reducing the amount burned is going to help the planet.

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Clean energy is officially ‘unstoppable’ now

The Verge: Energy

Cleaning up pollution from homes, buildings, and transportation will require electrifying everything from cars to heating and cooling systems. The IEA now expects electric heat pumps outselling fossil fuel boilers globally by the end of the decade. degrees of global warming this century.

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How corporations can jump-start industrial electrification in the US

GreenBiz

greenhouse gas emissions come from industry. To achieve net-zero economy-wide emissions by 2050 and limit global warming, industrial emissions must drop while still meeting societal needs. For example, continuous cooling of plastics during injection molding can be precisely controlled using heat pumps.

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Connecticut losing ground on building emissions despite efficiency programs

Renewable Energy World

Climate activists say the state’s progress on reducing building emissions has been far too slow given the pace of the climate crisis, and that it needs to end incentives for energy-efficient natural gas heating. Connecticut’s Global Warming Solutions Act calls for a 45% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, and 80% by 2050.