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Climate Crisis, Global Warming, Carbon Neutral, Zero Waste: Meaningful Buzzwords or Passing Fads?

Green Business Bureau

The emergence of environmental buzzwords started out with global warming, then became climate change. Global warming to climate change; climate change covers a broader term and now special interest groups can use it for any situation, as we have recently seen with the fires in Western Canada and now Australia.

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Oil Industry Wages Major Lobbying Campaign to Kill Proposed Methane Fee

DeSmogBlog

The oil industry has launched an all-out pressure campaign to kill an attempt by Congressional Democrats to tax methane – an extremely powerful greenhouse gas – for the first time. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, which is considering the methane fee as part of the $3.5 Congress Eyes Methane Fee.

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One Woman’s Quest to Safeguard Federal Funds Meant to Clean up the Oil and Gas Industry’s Mess

DeSmogBlog

billion package to cap orphaned oil and gas wells as a move to tackle “super-polluting methane emissions,” saying it will combat the climate crisis and create jobs. So Biven is determined to make sure her “Methane Memo,” which lays out a plan to safeguard the funds, makes its way to him. Who Writes the Bills That Become Law?

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A Guide to Six Greenwashing Terms Big Ag Is Bringing to COP28

DeSmogBlog

Often valid concepts in and of themselves, the problem lies in how they are touted as enviro-friendly actions while companies fail to cut their contribution to global heating. of the Paris Agreement, which would provide the structure for a global carbon credit market. The agriculture industry has a lot to be worried about.

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10 Earth Week developments that bode well for climate tech

GreenBiz

The new group includes countries that represent 40 percent of global oil and gas production, among them the U.S., The aim is to advance methane abatement solutions, circular carbon approaches and development of carbon capture and storage technologies. The so-called Global Power System Transformation (G-PST) Consortium, which the U.S.

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The Rise of the ‘Climate Friendly’ Cow

DeSmogBlog

Tyson told the Progressive Grocer it is “trying to be upbeat and different”, with something that speaks definitively to younger Millennial and Gen Z consumers. warming, we need to slash emissions dramatically – and at speed. Animal production also emits 65 percent of global nitrous oxide emissions.

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How global food production impacts the Paris Agreement

AGreenLiving

At this rate, we won’t be able to meet the Paris Agreement objective of keeping the global warming increase within 2° Celsius — or, preferably, 1.5° — of preindustrial levels by 2100. Related: UN report shows global warming could pass 1.5°C But more Meatless Mondays are definitely in order.