GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The impacts of global warming are deeply regressive, disproportionately hurting our poorest and most vulnerable communities. Black and Hispanic Americans are exposed to 63 percent and 56 percent more pollution than they create. In 2001’s Whitman v. trillion in CARES Act funding approved within two weeks, $2.4

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2023

Hydrogen produced from water via electrolysis represents only a tiny fraction of the industry , and technology aiming to capture carbon emitted in the methane-to-hydrogen production process remains largely unproven. This is misleading for several reasons,” said Mark Z.

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Energy Innovation

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The EPS allows users to model numerous policies that affect energy use and emissions including a renewable portfolio standard, fuel economy standards for vehicles, industry methane standards, incentives for clean energy technologies like we see in the Inflation Reduction Act, and accelerated R&D advancement of various technologies.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 5, 2021

As the United States moves toward decarbonization, cities and states must use all means available to reduce climate pollution, and natural gas utilities should be at the forefront of this rapid energy transition. By Erin Murphy and Christie Hicks , EDF. Christie Hicks is Lead Counsel, Energy Markets & Utility Regulation at EDF.

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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. Headline writers had a field day. million dairy cows.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

According to the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), carbon offset programs can be grouped into the following broad categories: Renewable energy, energy efficiency, methane abatement, reforestation and conservation, fuel switching, and community projects. They generate and use electricity plus additional heat energy.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Coal’s grip on the global electricity sector is loosening as more utilities and companies invest in renewable energy. As a result, the industry accounts for roughly 8 percent of annual carbon dioxide emissions, as well as a toxic soup of air pollutants. Doing so is essential to limiting global warming to 1.5

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 23, 2020

Methane digesters: In the agriculture and food industry, waste is generated daily from the production of food to its processing, distribution, and consumption. Without thoughtful management, organic waste can emit methane gas as they decompose. In other words, biogas can be used to reduce or eliminate electric bills.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

All the top green business news from around the world this week, including fresh WHO air pollution guidelines and global coal, methane and HFC commitments. World Health Organisation unveils tighter air pollution guidelines. More countries join global methane and coal power pledges.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 12, 2021

And as the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) noted , emissions pathways that limit global warming to 2°C or below generally assume that some form of carbon dioxide removal, such as CCS, is necessary, alongside reducing emissions.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2022

A new league table has highlighted how the global electric vehicle market is continuing to rapidly expand, with China seeing sales of zero emission models top three million units last year. The new analysis from electric vehicle subscription service Elmo confirms that China remains the largest EV market by sales, with nearly 3.4

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Imagine you woke up in 2030 to find that Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia had done little to slow the global warming that cooked the Cascadia region this year. We have not kept pace with the scope of the crisis,” Oregon Global Warming Commission Chair Catherine Macdonald wrote to legislators that month.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Greenhouse gas ( GHG ) emissions cause heat to be trapped in the atmosphere which is warming the globe and driving climate change. Emissions include carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O) and (commonly measured through what is known as carbon dioxide equivalents or CO2e). Emissions have grown by an average 1.4

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This is the global temperature rise above pre-industrial levels targeted by the 2015 Paris Agreement. The hope is that limiting global warming to 1. The curbing of emissions to reduce the concentration of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane in the environment. Short-lived Climate Pollutants (SLCPs).

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Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 4, 2021

In 1988, when the changing climate was referred to as global warming , it seemed obvious that the main issue with a changing climate was that the planet was getting hotter. The only way to slow down a warming planet is to stop adding pollution to the atmosphere. How will businesses operate without electricity?

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

It is significantly larger than the clean tech focused stimulus package the Obama administration passed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, which played such a big role in accelerating US renewables and electric vehicle deployment. The US is set to get its first ever carbon equivalent tax - on methane. of global warming by 2050.

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2022

Plus EU beats renewables target, Shell faces CCS concerns, New Zealand's first electric ferry and all the top green business news from around the world this week. Southern Hemisphere's first fully-electric ferry to set sail in New Zealand. Rio Tinto lithium mining license revoked in Serbia.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

The science could not be more clear: We must eliminate carbon pollution as soon as possible — nearly 50% this decade, and fully by 2050. They study glaciers and global temperature changes, climate solutions and adaptation, the oceans and the human influence on global warming. presidents.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In either case, this wasn’t on our bingo card… In the news, the British government passed new reforms to speed up interconnection, Colombia launched a $1B biodiversity fund, the US released $6B in funding for climate resiliency, and the US and China made modest progress on methane reduction at APEC.  SPAC valuation ).

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

That is the stark consensus of the world's leading climate scientists in a landmark UN report today, which offers the clearest picture yet of both the scale of global warming already being experienced and the likely impacts of further temperature rises that are set to play out over the coming decades.

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Unsustainable

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Then, there are also methane, nitrous oxide, and other industrial gasses, about which we seldom hear. Methane and nitrous oxide do not persist in the atmosphere as long as CO 2. Methane is a component of natural gas. We may be able to improve our living conditions, but escaping from polluted air is virtually impossible.

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

Photo Credit: REUTERS While some politicians and citizens continue to deny the existence of man-made global warming, the evidence supporting it continues to grow. The UCSUSA points out that “Consequences of global warming include drought, sea level rise, flooding, extreme weather, and species loss.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

What was truly surprising was Trump's tepid admission that anthropogenic GHGs are driving global warming. Chris Wallace: You believe that human pollution, gas, greenhouse gas emissions contributes to the global warming of this planet. And I’m okay with electric cars too. I think I’m all for electric cars.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Biden's victory is seen as being of monumental importance for global efforts to avoid catastrophic levels global warming and will be widely regarded as vindication for a campaign that prioritised climate action as a central plank in its platform. — Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) November 7, 2020.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 16, 2020

In one exchange Biden said the president calls global warming a "joke" but "I think it's jobs". He also supports investments and research into electric vehicles. That leadership is evident in Biden's approach to the most serious problems of the day including things like tax reforms, race relations, and policing.

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Business Green

JANUARY 7, 2021

It also predicts that Biden will introduce new rules to target methane leaks from oil and gas operations, curb pollutants such as hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) and gas from landfills, and strengthen climate risk reporting requirements for all corporates.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The impacts of global warming are deeply regressive, disproportionately hurting our poorest and most vulnerable communities. Black and Hispanic Americans are exposed to 63 percent and 56 percent more pollution than they create. In 2001’s Whitman v. trillion in CARES Act funding approved within two weeks, $2.4

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

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.”. “There is a yawning gap between the marketing claims of fossil fuel companies and the reality of their businesses,” said Jonathan White, a lawyer at ClientEarth.

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Michael Grossman

AUGUST 9, 2019

I get that cow emanation are a significant source of methane emissions, but the average age of people who want to hear about cow burps and farts are seven-years-old (or viewers of South Park). ”, our counter-argument is NOT that more people should drive electric vehicles. Not exactly a massive voter demographic.

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Business Green

JANUARY 15, 2021

It forms part of Saudi Arabia's $500bn Neom project, a planned 'fully-automated' city powered by renewable energy and served by electric driverless cars, with the country seeking to plan for a future beyond oil, which currently makes up the bulk of its economy. "By 90 per cent of people breathe polluted air.". Bin Salman continued.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2021

He also plans to re-impose Obama-era methane pollution limits for new and existing oil and gas operations which were scrapped by Trump, and ban permits for new oil and gas exploration on public lands and waters, including in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 1, 2021

It says to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius, as outlined in the Paris Accords, we need to severely restrict the total, cumulative amount of greenhouse gases we release into the atmosphere moving forward. Data from IPCC and the Global Carbon Project. So, what does the Carbon Law say?

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2022

The demonstrable reality is that burning an expensive and polluting source of energy costs more than generating power through clean and lower cost technologies. The UK would be in a lot better position from an energy cost and security perspective if it had more renewables and electric vehicles, not less.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Rees-Mogg was also the first cabinet minister to endorse the campaign to reverse the UK’s ban on fracking, spearheaded by the backbench Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG), the parliamentary wing of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The impacts of global warming are deeply regressive, disproportionately hurting our poorest and most vulnerable communities. Black and Hispanic Americans are exposed to 63 percent and 56 percent more pollution than they create. In 2001’s Whitman v. trillion in CARES Act funding approved within two weeks, $2.4

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2021

And he plans to re-impose Obama-era methane pollution limits for new and existing oil and gas operations which were scrapped by Trump, and ban permits for new oil and gas exploration on public lands and waters, including in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

It is the biggest LaBarge, as the gas operation is known, would have become one of the world’s foremost examples of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), a technology most climate-modeling experts view as essential to slowing down global warming and, eventually, reversing it. Construction was set to begin over the summer.

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