The Guardian: Energy

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Since then progress has been made on mending the ozone layer and stopping acid rain but few are now pretending that environmental issues are non-partisan. Campaigners agreed everyone wanted to leave their children as good a planet as they inherited.

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Ozone Politics Climate change Fossil fuels 56

Sunrun

AUGUST 23, 2019

Solar Controls Energy Costs 1. If you can use energy in the morning or during the day, you’ll probably pay less.3 Excess energy is stored in your home battery and you can use it when you need it the most. Net Energy Metering (NEM) can work for you. Renewable energy helps others in times of need.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

CFCs were destroying the ozone layer high in the Earth’s atmosphere, which is essential for protecting life from the Sun’s harmful ultraviolet radiation. It sounds almost miraculous – heat pumps use energy to take heat out of a cold place and dump it in a warm place. Some of this radiant energy warms the climate.

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Ozone Cooling Global warming Fossil fuels 71

Sustainability Consulting

MARCH 31, 2021

Steiner argues that humanity has achieved many radical things like closing a giant hole in the ozone layer, ending nuclear proliferation and smallpox, but we have also taken the Earth to the brink. We spend more on subsidizing the fossil fuel industry than we do on all renewable energy.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 16, 2020

New York utility Con Edison has signed its biggest energy storage contract to date, a 100-megawatt/400-megawatt-hour lithium-ion battery project that will help balance a grid facing rising levels of offshore wind and other renewable power in the years to come. MWh system developed near Albany by Key Capture Energy.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 1, 2022

Being more energy-efficient, reducing waste – through recycling, reuse, and reducing regimes -, and curbing scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) from the daily commute, all help your company save money. Use energy-efficient versions of devices when available to reduce energy consumption.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 8, 2022

By recycling, less raw material, energy, water, and chemicals are used to produce new products. Tip #2: Reduce energy consumption on-site. Firstly, make sure you’re supporting the renewable energy market by switching to a green tariff, or by purchasing a Renewable Energy Certificate.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Air pollution could soar this winter as gas boilers are cranked up at homes across the country by the UK's expanded army of home workers, the Energy and Climate Change Intelligence Unit (ECIU) has today warned. The way we heat our homes needs to change if we are to get to net zero emissions by 2050," she said.

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Pollution Health Fossil fuels Ozone 41

Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

The gas, which is released by a range of anthropogenic and natural sources, is ten times more powerful than carbon dioxide at warming the atmosphere and is responsible for more than half a million deaths annually, in addition to the death of ecosystems and crops, because it creates toxic ground-level ozone.

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Methane Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Carbon-negative 67

Green Business Bureau

MARCH 14, 2022

A business can then consider all the aspects of their business that produce carbon, including fossil fuels , land clearance and the production and consumption of food, manufactured goods, materials, wood, roads, buildings, transportation and other services. Your carbon footprint can then be managed once understood.

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Carbon Global warming Carbon-neutral Organic 78

Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

If we are serious, we can reduce the accelerating global warming by doing simple proven things in agriculture, energy and waste sectors.". "Methane is the cheapest and fastest way to slow down global warming in the years ahead," said Timmermans. "If

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Methane Global warming Pollution Ozone 42

Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

Made with renewable energy. A company that uses fossil fuel-based energy shouldn't make this claim unless it buys renewable energy credits (RECs), the FTC says. Don't make a broad 'made with renewable energy' claim unless that's true for the vast majority of the processes that go into making a product.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

James plans to keep pursuing environmental justice in the courts if regulators continue to put the needs of the fossil fuel industry above the needs of fenceline communities in Cancer Alley. James Parish would violate the EPA’s standards for soot and ozone-forming nitrogen dioxide. The law is on our side,” Lavigne told me.

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Building Energy Monitoring Health Law Home Energy Monitoring 98

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

By the late 1970s, the petroleum industry had spent about two decades collecting information from their own scientists and outside experts and knew that burning fossil fuels would create catastrophic climate change. Man’s use of fossil fuels and exploitation of the land,” federal scientists concluded. Document 7: 1981.

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Fossil fuels Global warming Building Energy Monitoring Climate change 97

AGreenLiving

APRIL 20, 2021

Energy consumption How does energy use factor into growing cannabis? Growing cannabis indoors requires a significant amount of energy. Some research estimates that the energy consumed by the indoor grow industry accounts for 1% of the total annual electricity used in the U.S.

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Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Pollution 28

Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 25, 2022

The primary cause of greenhouse gas emissions is the burning of fossil fuels, which is occurring at a current rate at which the environment’s natural reuptake and stabilization cannot keep up. The three major greenhouse gases are carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O). Carbon Dioxide (CO2).

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Carbon Methane Global warming Business Energy Monitoring 148

Business Green

JULY 6, 2020

This will get us to 100 per cent renewable energy as fast as technologically possible, not by distant dates of 2050, 2040 or 2030. It's like a covid-19 pandemic every single year, and is enough reason to require 100 per cent electrification of transport and energy generation. Wind and solar are now cheaper than all fossil fuels.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In addition, in 2019 the UK introduced the Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR) standard which makes it mandatory for large companies operating in the UK to annually report their energy and carbon emissions. By energy purchased, we’re referring to electrical energy.

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Carbon Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 78

Grist

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The guidelines also create new standards for peak season ozone — which occurs during the summer months when afternoon light mixes with ground-level volatile compounds — and carbon monoxide, caused by vehicles and machinery. and PM10 — but loosening the standard for sulfur dioxide. Clayton Aldern / Grist.

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Health Ozone Pollution Climate change 113

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 20, 2021

Part 2: Goals and KPIs – This section documents your current baseline in terms of your eco profile which includes your energy usage, water usage, carbon emissions and overall eco score. Every industry and every business uses resources and energy differently. Can we use less or adopt clean alternative energy sources?

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

Wood energy succored Homo sapiens and its ancestors for millions of years, the argument goes, and only during the last couple of centuries was it replaced with fossil fuels like coal. would need to “shift away from consumption of wood products and forest biomass energy.”. communities and destroyed U.S.

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Logging Carbon-neutral Climate change Biodiversity 91

Mr. Sustainability

MAY 5, 2021

There is no compensation in trees, renewable energy or cookstoves. How can we achieve global climate goals while carrying billions of tons of cargo each year on equipment powered largely by fossil fuels? Most of the funds are spent outside the transport sector, for example on forestry, renewable energy and cookstoves.

Carbon 78

Carbon Carbon-neutral Logistics Transportation 78

Business Green

APRIL 1, 2022

Moreover, campaigners allege that none of the governments to have signed the pledge have yet set out comprehensive plans to cut emissions across all the three key sectors that drive methane emissions: agriculture, energy, and waste. trajectory. of global heating by the 2040s. It is also a call for deeper, more transformational change.".

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Methane Waste Waste Ozone 64

Mr. Sustainability

MAY 5, 2021

There is no compensation in trees, renewable energy or cookstoves. How can we achieve global climate goals while carrying billions of tons of cargo each year on equipment powered largely by fossil fuels? Most of the funds are spent outside the transport sector, for example on forestry, renewable energy and cookstoves.

Carbon 78

Carbon Blockchain Carbon-neutral Logistics 78

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

But while green hydrogen made with renewable energy is widely accepted as necessary for decarbonising heavy industry – where greenhouse gas emissions are harder to remove – it is not considered viable for heating homes. One video embedded within the survey claimed that hydrogen is a clean-burning fuel with only water as a by-product.

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Hydrogen Government Carbon Politics 82

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The Basin does not meet the state or federal ambient air quality standards for ozone and particulate matter, and existing regulations have to date proved insufficient to bring the Basin into compliance. The SCAQMD is the local agency responsible for attaining these clean air standards in the Basin. Facility-Based Mobile Source Measures.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The Basin does not meet the state or federal ambient air quality standards for ozone and particulate matter, and existing regulations have to date proved insufficient to bring the Basin into compliance. The SCAQMD is the local agency responsible for attaining these clean air standards in the Basin. Facility-Based Mobile Source Measures.

Logistics 52

Logistics Building Energy Monitoring Ozone Business Energy Monitoring 52

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

“It is for government to determine the right trade-offs for society and put in place smart policy to enable fundamental change in the way society consumes energy,” a Shell spokesperson said. a worldwide low fossil fuel strategy) or curative (i.e. and other municipalities across the country. .”

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Fossil fuels Climate change Pollution Ozone 141

AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

It’s a huge undertaking involving many partners, including the Hydrogen Accelerator at the University of Saint Andrews and engineering firm Arcola Energy. ” But not all experts are sure that hydrogen fuel cells are a clean enough power source to warrant enthusiasm. . This process releases greenhouse gases.

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Hydrogen Methane Ozone Transportation 28

Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2021

This period is marked by our industrial revolution with the discovery of fossil fuel gold and its sinister implications. From renewable energy projects to marine permaculture, this is a film showing what humanity can achieve. These choices demand self-reflection regarding our fossil fuel use and what we eat.

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Climate change Sustainability Fossil fuels Law 147

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. As climate concerns lead to a slow but steady decline in the demand for oil, the companies’ collaboration represents a shift by the fossil fuel industry.

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Plastics Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 96

Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Setting aside for a moment the fact that most Canadian voters want their government to both act on climate change and prepare Canada’s economy to compete in a world moving away from fossil fuels, there’s another reason to pay attention to the global economic transition toward a cleaner economy: self-preservation.

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Politics Carbon-neutral Ozone Government 52

Green Market Oracle

APRIL 22, 2020

We are burning less coal and this has reduced acid rain and by eliminating CFCs we are helping the ozone hole to recover. His fossil fuel powered politics is at war with nature. If we want clean air and water we need to stop relying on dirty energy. We have shown that we can make a difference. In the U.S.

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Earth Day Politics Ozone Fossil fuels 84

Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Delayed a compliance deadline for new national ozone pollution standards by one year, but later reversed course. Energy Department. Energy Department. Suspended an effort to lift restrictions on mining in Bristol Bay, Alaska. Delayed federal building efficiency standards until Sept.

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Fossil fuels Ozone Policy Climate change 98

Low Impact

AUGUST 23, 2020

Everyone was saying the right things, and to some extent doing the right things – passing legislation on water, on air, fixing the hole in the ozone layer. Talking about a Green New Deal, they’re saying that some sectors, specifically fossil fuels and adjacent industries need to degrow to nothing. Those things happened.

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Biodiversity Climate change Agriculture Sustainability 75

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

UN energy summit sees $400bn new backing committed to clean energy. National governments committed to installing an additional 8698W of clean energy from solar, wind, geothermal, hydro and renewables-based hydrogen by 2030, while businesses - particularly power utilities - pledge to install an additional 823GW by the same date.

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Energy Energy Methane Africa 46

Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

A Few Relevant Data Points With the advent of the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th century, humans began their dependence on the burning of fossil fuels?coal This economic catch-up game using fossil fuels is, of course, highly controversial. coal first and then later oil and natural gas?to In June of 1988 James E.

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