Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In the latest addition to its 'green recovery' package, the European Commission yesterday unveiled a flurry of crucial green strategies, targets, and policies, ranging from new green building and renewable energy programmes, to tighter rules governing chemical use and methane emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 22, 2024

You need to remove policy hurdles such as in the Renewable Energy Directive, so that you can faster scale the hydrogen economy in Europe, and use that to build out the infrastructure”, Simon Herbert, ExxonMobil’s vice-president of low carbon solutions, told the World Hydrogen 2024 conference in Rotterdam last week.

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The Verge: Energy

JANUARY 26, 2024

So-called natural gas is primarily methane, an even more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide that routinely escapes from gas infrastructure. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the US has ramped up LNG exports to Europe as much of the Western world tried to wean itself off Russian gas reserves.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 4, 2023

Piles of decomposing cow manure emit methane and nitrous oxide, in addition to polluting water and contaminating soil. While the demand is primarily in Europe and Asia currently, Lignium Energy’s team says that the United States is expected to meaningfully shift from relying on coal to utilizing biomass. “We

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 24, 2021

Leaking methane from oil and gas infrastructure is widespread across the European continent, reveals an investigation of more than 150 sites in seven countries. More than 60 percent of the sites analyzed by researchers using state-of-the-art technology were releasing large volumes of methane – a powerful greenhouse gas – into the atmosphere.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

As co-founder of the community group Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living, Mayfield has spent years fighting to protect her majority Black and low-income city from the pollution spewed by the nearby Covanta waste-to-energy facility — the country’s largest waste incinerator. LNG companies shipped to Europe at soaring premiums.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Wastewater from overburdened urban septic systems and air pollution from burning fossil fuels contribute to nitrogen pollution, but often runoff of the synthetic fertilizers used in industrialized agriculture is the primary culprit. Seaweed's potential as a solution to this crisis is two-fold, scientists and environmentalists say.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2023

Public outrage has long been mounting over the scale of sewage dumped into Britain's water ways, with the UK consistently ranked as one of the worst countries in Europe for water quality. But observers were quick to criticise the plans as underpowered, arguing the strategy would fail to stop water companies pumping sewage into rivers.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period. Scientists say that unless swift action is taken, methane from agriculture alone will take us beyond a 1.5C Just seven percent are based in Africa.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2021

A wide-ranging package of legislative measures designed to curb emissions from the gas industry unveiled by the European Commission has come under fire from campaigners and energy analysts, who have warned they could 'lock in' fossil gas infrastructure across Europe for the years to come.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Trucks powered by liquified natural gas (LNG) may be no better for the climate than diesel lorries and could be guilty of polluting the air far more than claimed by manufacturers, according to a new study from Transport & Environment (T&E). per cent less methane than the former. It found the latter emitted only 7.5

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2021

Blue hydrogen is made from natural gas, which is mostly methane, using electricity generated by burning more gas, and hydrogen is considered “blue” (rather than “gray”) when its carbon emissions are sequestered. What’s the pollution?’” It’s fracked methane.”. But where does it come from? It’s dirty energy at [the] source.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Greenpeace Italy and Re:Common have alleged in their climate lawsuit — Italy’s first — that despite knowing at least as early as 1970 that burning fossil fuels posed a serious climate risk, Eni went on to promote “natural” –- or methane – gas as a safe energy source for decades. the spokesperson stated.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

billion m3 methane – enough to provide electricity for up to 158 million households, or 474 million to 632 million people, assuming an average of three to four persons per household. The difference is explained by per capita generation of wastewater: Europe 124 cubic meters; North America 231 cubic meters).

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Experts dispute this climate-friendly branding, however, given the problem of methane leakages through the production and transportation process, and doubts about the efficacy of CCS. When taking into account methane its climate footprint is “more than 20 percent greater than burning natural gas or coal for heat”, they found.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Civil society and courts in Europe are pushing back. JBS, the world’s largest meat company — whose methane emissions exceed the combined livestock methane emissions of France, Germany, Canada and New Zealand — has also claimed to be on a net zero pathway based on offsets. The airline has pulled certain ads from the market.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The gas crunch gripping Europe is directly caused by volatile international gas markets that expose the UK to demand surges in Asia and political manipulation by Putin. It's simply not tenable for the UK to promote shale gas, particularly given the rising international concern over methane leakage. On track to net zero.

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Business Green

AUGUST 1, 2022

The chief of the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM), the joint sustainability initiative backed by the world's biggest miners, is confident Europe's drive to shore up mineral security and deliver on climate goals could result in a cleaner and greener future for the global mining industry. "I

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

The scramble by German, French and other European buyers helped inject new momentum into long-standing plans to build a series of heavily-polluting new LNG export terminals and expansion projects from Texas to Pennsylvania , prompting outcry among residents. This is a climate disaster,” said Constantin Zerger of Environmental Action Germany.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Microsoft, EY, and the Corporate Leaders Group Europe are among 20 leading organisations which have today launched a joint drive to develop a universal carbon accounting system in a bid to improve the transparency and reliability of greenhouse gas emissions data. "To

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Widely known as “laughing gas”, used for its anesthetic effects, nitrous oxide (N2O) is also regarded as the third most important long-lived greenhouse gas, after carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

This story is part of a DeSmog series on the influence wielded by the gas lobby in Europe BERLIN, Germany — Germany’s push to achieve climate neutrality by 2045 could, by some projections , soon turn the vast network of natural gas pipelines powering the country’s homes and industry into one of Europe’s biggest stranded assets.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

“The EU bank has been Europe’s climate bank for many years. Natural gas may burn with less carbon and with fewer pollutants than coal but Browne said that could prove insufficient. Both the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development have stopped backing coal projects, but still support gas.

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Business Green

AUGUST 20, 2020

Manure is also rich in nitrogen, it points out, but intensive farming models which separate livestock from crops - for example, the reliance on soy from South America as feed for cattle in Europe - make it impractical to use natural manure as a primary source of nitrogen, leading to greater reliance on synthetic products.

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Business Green

JULY 16, 2020

The target covers both carbon dioxide and methane emissions from OGCI member companies' operated upstream oil and gas exploration and production activities, as well as emissions from associated imports of electricity and steam. Having some targets to reduce carbon pollution is better than none," he said.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

But recent investigations by DeSmog have exposed the industry’s promotion of “false solutions” (such as high-tech plans to lower the methane quotient of cow burps), which have been championed by the U.S.-led Growing Pressure from Polluters.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2022

The far-right is a climate-sceptic project, a project that wants to leave Europe's climate ambitions, that wants to destroy windmills.". He also promised action to slash air pollution, plant 140 million trees, close 50 large open-air landfills, and reform regulations to ensure corporate bonuses are linked to environmental performance.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The use of these chemicals also damages the environment in other ways; much of the fertilizer used in the world today is the product of methane gas, a fossil fuel, while the wide-scale use of pesticides has been linked to the damage of ecosystems and vital populations of pollinators. COPA-COGECA, has however, criticized the EU’s July study.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

As a result, the industry accounts for roughly 8 percent of annual carbon dioxide emissions, as well as a toxic soup of air pollutants. Companies are piloting systems across Europe that use hydrogen in furnaces in lieu of coal. The furnaces that melt iron ore to make steel consume vast amounts of coal.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Industry voice: Emissions from transport are growing, but innovative companies can help Europe meet its climate targets, according to Schroders. Road travel makes up around 70 per cent of Europe's total greenhouse gas emissions from transport. Greenhouse gas emissions in the EU fell by 3.8 EVs to help decarbonise road transport.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 16, 2023

fossil fuel firms are pushing to build more than 2,900 miles of natural gas pipelines to feed liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facilities in Louisiana, Texas, and Alaska, in a bid to send more of the fuel to Asia and Europe, a new analysis by Global Energy Monitor shows. A 2021 study published in GeoHealth found that U.S.

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Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 4, 2021

southwest, extreme rainfall and flash floods causing widespread damage to towns in Western Europe , and wildfires burning in typically cold places like Alaska and Siberia , there can be no doubt that a hotter planet can have devasting effects on people and communities. With scorching temperatures hitting the U.S.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 26, 2022

Kerry applauded the pledge made by countries that make up 65% of the global GDP to align policies with the Paris Climate Change Agreement and the 109 countries that committed to reducing methane emissions by 30% which, according to the International Energy Agency, would be equivalent to operating every truck, vehicle, plane, and ship at net-zero.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

India Gate, New Delhi: Residents of the city face pollution levels with a health impact estimated to be equivalent to smoking more than two packs of cigarettes a day (image credit: Amit kg / Shutterstock.com). Centuries on, sources of airborne pollution are only becoming more numerous and wide ranging.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Heatwaves in Europe. Tasneem Essop, executive director at the Climate Action Network - a global network of over 1,500 green NGOs in more than 130 countries - called on governments at COP27 to agree a fairer funding system to ensure polluting countries ramp up support for the most climate vulnerable communities worldwide.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

The two new stations - one in Warrington, which it claims is the largest in Europe, and another in Northampton - are together capable of refuelling over 1,000 trucks a day, more than doubling the firm's existing renewable biomethane refuelling capacity in the UK.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Over the last decade, Bloomberg Philanthropies has helped shut down two-thirds of coal-fired power plants in the US and half in Europe - and that work continues. Just as we have been succeeding in the US and Europe, with the help of strong partners on the ground, we are determined to succeed globally.".

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