Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Since just about everything we do creates greenhouse gases, we chose activities that might not be covered in other categories such as waste, energy, water, or purchasing. If you must travel individually, use a less carbon-intensive mode of transportation such as a bicycle, fuel-efficient or hybrid or electric car. Business Air Travel.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Since just about everything we do creates greenhouse gases, we chose activities that might not be covered in other categories such as waste, energy, water, or purchasing. If you must travel individually, use a less carbon-intensive mode of transportation such as a bicycle, fuel-efficient or hybrid or electric car.

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Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 158

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Since just about everything we do creates greenhouse gases, we chose activities that might not be covered in other categories such as waste, energy, water, or purchasing. If you must travel individually, use a less carbon-intensive mode of transportation such as a bicycle, fuel-efficient or hybrid or electric car.

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Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 78

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

I covered developments related to the rapidly expanding petrochemical and LNG export industries, like new facilities that came online this year and rely on fracking new wells to supply the growing demand for natural gas, which is mostly methane. For instance, Air Products claims that its proposed $4.5

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

DZ Bank said via a spokesperson that it did not finance oil and gas production “by means of fracking or from oil shale and oil sands”, and added that it was an “important financing partner for the energy transition in Germany and a contributor to net zero emissions.” German power companies RWE and Uniper have also struck U.S.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2021

energy sector pathway". The document, unveiled by UN high-level champions for climate action Nigel Topping and Gonzalo Muñoz this morning, notes that hydrogen has the potential to play a "pivotal role in supporting deep decarbonisation goals". It's high time for a principled approach to the energy transition," he said.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

Diverse compounds are emitted by everything from motor vehicles to power plants, and include both greenhouse gases and short-lived climate pollutants – which are known to fuel global warming – as well as a host of volatile organic compounds that can lead to short- and long-term health problems in humans.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Pollution Health 213

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

To identify the powerful actors most actively lobbying against these key EU regulations and policies, DeSmog analysed corporate reports, lobbying records, official position papers, responses to public EU consultations, media events, and meetings held with various EU bodies over the past two years. Meet the Industry Trade Groups.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

And what energy product will be used both to power this city and sell to the world? The Saudis are going big on something called green hydrogen — a carbon-free fuel made from water by using renewably produced electricity to split hydrogen molecules from oxygen molecules. This summer, a large U.S. This summer, a large U.S.

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Business Green

MAY 15, 2022

That plant - dubbed H2H Saltend - is aiming to supply low carbon fuel to the park's various industrial businesses, as well as to the Saltend Power Station, which has powered the vast manufacturing site since the late 1990s. We are decarbonising energy and we are decarbonising products.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

A number of leading carbon capture and storage (CCS) and carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) projects are underperforming, according to a new report by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), which argues that under current circumstances the technology does not qualify as "a climate solution".

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Every stage of natural gas production and distribution releases methane pollution, a powerful greenhouse gas. Because of those methane leaks, consuming more natural gas spurs ever-faster and more dramatic climate changes. On November 16, Chevron Phillips Chemical and Qatar Energy announced plans to build an $8.5-billion

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2023

However, one legal expert argued that the government's headline pledge to dole out "unlimited fines" on water companies that breach pollution regulations would need to be backed up by additional powers and funding enforcement and monitoring, following swingeing budget cuts over the past decade. "An

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Pollution Energy Monitor Plastics Government 36

Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Thus far we have made investments towards reducing the climate impact of our food, industrial production, and energy systems, and we are eager to make more. It is well documented and well remembered by the investment community. Why Climate Intelligence? Some of you may recall the boom-and-bust cycle of clean tech from 2006–2011.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

As such, in 2022 81% of S&P 500 companies reported their own emissions (scope 1), and the emissions of the electricity they bought (scope 2). For instance, in 2007 Australia introduced the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Scheme (NGERS) to set mandatory emission reporting.

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Carbon Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 78

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 13, 2024

Days earlier she had received an email: “ Dangerously high methane in water,” the subject line read. An environmental microbiologist at Duquesne University, John Stolz, had found enough methane to pose a “risk of ignition.” Tim spent nearly $10,000 to install a reverse osmosis system, but his water is still carbonated with methane.

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Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Methane Building Energy Monitoring 86

Grist

MAY 18, 2021

It had been about a year and a half since he left his job at an aerospace company to found a clean energy startup in San Francisco with three of his friends, but the path to success he’d once envisioned had crumbled. Charm would use the same technology, but instead of turning plants into a useful energy product, it would offer a service.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

Properly plugging and abandoning oil and gas wells is vital to protect the environment and stop methane leaks – but for decades, oil operators have often slipped away without paying to clean up, leaving millions of deteriorating abandoned wells across the U.S. “This is taxpayer money that was expended on a false document.

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Pollution Building Energy Monitoring Methane Home Energy Monitoring 98

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2024

This summer, just seven months after the fire ripped through Dark Horse, the EPA approved a key “monitoring, reporting, and verification” plan for the project — a key step in enabling the company to claim carbon capture tax credits that could be worth over a quarter of a billion dollars. So far, that’s not what’s happening.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The tech sector can help deliver on COP26 promises such as curbing methane, ending fossil fuel finance and reversing deforestation, explains techUK's Craig Mason. One is to accelerate commercial viability of renewable energy projects and technology. Secondly, tech will play a role improving energy efficiency during the transition.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

For the first time in 25 years of UN climate talks, coal and fossil fuel subsidies have been singled out in an official document. And it sees countries back a "phase down" of unabated coal power, after a dramatic 11th hour intervention from India on the conference floor saw the initial "phase out" phrasing weakened.

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Fossil fuels Business Energy Monitoring Methane Energy Monitor 67

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

I felt I should have been, since I signed up to get media advisories from the CPRA about it, but choose not to let that stop me from at least trying to document the historic event. As one of the few reporters to challenge the project’s feasibility , I was not surprised that I was not invited.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 28, 2022

Tip #6 – Go completely paperless : Instead of using paper documents, communicate through email, instant messenger chat, via video meetings, and save everything safely in the cloud. This is because composting facilities optimize the organic breakdown of food to reduce the amount of methane emitted. Cafeteria and food waste.

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Waste Waste Business Energy Monitoring Recycling 148

DeSmogBlog

MAY 20, 2022

Proposed by New Fortress Energy (NFE), the planned facility will be a floating offshore export terminal that would treat, liquefy, and store methane gas before loading it onto ships headed abroad. If realized, the terminal could export up to the equivalent of 145 billion cubic feet of the fossil fuel per year.

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Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Fossil fuels Natural gas 98

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 26, 2024

That’s according to a new report published Thursday by the Carbon Tracker Initiative, an energy-focused think tank. Unless properly decommissioned, unplugged oil and gas wells can continue to leak cancer-causing chemicals and the powerful climate pollutant methane. The bonding isn’t enough. That number is even lower today.

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Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Carbon 113

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 29, 2021

In his spare time, David Levy, owner of Petrotechnologies, a company that makes specialty parts for the oil and gas industry, monitors the fossil fuel industry across southwest Louisiana from the sky. Now, Levy is focusing his flights on surveying orphaned well sites to document the severity of the situation. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

In October, she invited a university researcher onto the property and discovered that several wells were leaking methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide. This increases the risk of methane seeping into the air and oil migrating into the surrounding groundwater. Experts predict the trend will continue.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

In October, she invited a university researcher onto the property and discovered that several wells were leaking methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide. This increases the risk of methane seeping into the air and oil migrating into the surrounding groundwater. Experts predict the trend will continue.

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Methane Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 89

DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

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.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2022

or SABIC, a chemical manufacturing giant tied to one of the world’s richest royal families, and Exxon Mobil, America’s biggest energy company. Indeed, the International Energy Agency predicts that by 2030 petrochemicals will account for more than a third of the growth in world oil demand, and for almost 50% of demand by 2050.

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Plastics Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 98

EDF + Business

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Backlash continues to grow against the Trump administration’s efforts to deregulate methane emissions from the oil and gas industry. 24, offers downstream energy providers a key opportunity to publicly add their voice to the broad set of stakeholders supporting federal regulation of methane in the oil and gas sector. By rvelleu.

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Methane Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 56

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

And since 1997 about one million barrels worth of oilfield waste has been brought to Lotus’s disposal site, situated off a dusty desert road located 19 miles west of Andrews, Texas (and just several miles from a massive solar array financed by Facebook and which provides energy to Shell’s fracking operations). Credit: Justin Hamel ©2021.

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Waste Waste Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 98

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

As abundant investigative reporting and academic studies have documented, the companies’ own scientists were telling their executives in the 1970s that burning more oil and other fossil fuels would overheat the planet. Don’t Call It Methane, It’s ‘Natural’ Gas. Except that methane gas isn’t clean.

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Building Energy Monitoring Fossil fuels Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor 95

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2024

The power lines had been replaced four times in the past two decades. “It Department of Energy (DOE) revises its review process. America’s Gas Export Boom In order for an LNG project to constructed, it needs to obtain authorisation from the Department of Energy to export to countries that don’t have a free-trade agreement with the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Only 3 percent of the Wyoming project’s CO2 has been geologically stored in the same formation from which the original gas was extracted, according to estimates from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). C and with the net-zero energy transition. Credit: NET Power , CC BY-SA 4.0

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Carbon Fossil fuels Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 98

Business Green

AUGUST 14, 2020

The Trump administration stepped up its pre-election effort to roll back environmental regulations this week, confirming plans to axe methane emissions standards for the oil and gas industry and signalling further such moves are on the cards ahead of polling day in November. You want to wash your hands, the water doesn't come out.

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