Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) punched a hole in the fossil fuel industry’s hydrogen hype bubble when they denied a Title V Air Permit to NRG Energy’s Astoria Gas Turbine Power Plant last Wednesday. This methane does not diffuse out of the metal and cracks the steel.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Melissa Lem was shocked when she saw an advertisement from a major Canadian fossil fuel lobby group showing young parents and their two children happily cooking a meal over a brand new gas stove. The companies changed an online version of the ad to read “the least polluting fossil fuel.”. And all fossil fuels are bad.”.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

.” The surging interest in hydrogen as both a fuel and an industrial cornerstone, especially for vital processes like ammonia fabrication for fertilizers, has so far gravitated towards types dubbed ‘blue’ and ‘grey hydrogen.’ FAQs About Gold Hydrogen What is gold hydrogen? Where has gold hydrogen been found?

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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 It’s really about production at the end of the day.”

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

A year after successfully producing biomethane from forest biomass, the GAYA platform has seemingly achieved a world first with the production of its first cubic metres of renewable gas from Solid Recovered Fuel (SRF). In addition, the multi-energy process will allow production of 45 GWh of renewable heat to meet urban and industrial needs.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

We had huge celebrations around achieving B-Corp status,” said the second insider, referring to Havas London’s attainment of a significant ethical business certification, and company leaders “constantly sent around all staff emails about new sustainability initiatives and carbon tracking programs.”

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 19, 2024

Nearly half of diet-related greenhouse gas emissions in the UK come from meat and dairy due to emissions of methane, an extremely potent greenhouse gas, in livestock farming. Defra declined to comment on the content or funding of the adverts, referring DeSmog to the AHDB. The AHDB did not respond to DeSmog’s request for comment.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2022

consulting and PR firm, with a long history of waging influence campaigns for fossil fuel corporations, is under scrutiny by a congressional committee as part of a broader investigation into the decades-long efforts by the oil industry and its allies to block action on the climate crisis. A powerful Washington, D.C.,

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 30, 2020

It applies to testing based on techniques specified by a standard reference method (SRM) or an alternative method. Similarly, combustion processes give rise to VOC emissions, particularly where combustion involves the use of an organic fuel. This includes fossil fuels such as petrol, diesel and oil, as well as wastes and biofuels.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Food systems are responsible for at least 15 percent of all global fossil fuel consumption, according to a major report launched ahead of the COP28 climate summit. Its authors found that even if governments delivered on their 2030 climate pledges, by 2037 food-related fossil fuel use alone would blow the remaining portion of the 1.5C

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

On the plus side, the pact reaffirmed the central importance of 1.5C (our best chance to avoid the worst impacts of climate change), mentions coal and fossil fuels for the first time, and calls for countries to “revisit and strengthen” 2030 climate pledges by the end of 2022 instead of waiting another five years. of warming.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Draft text published this morning requests countries update their NDCs next year and retains calls to tackle fossil fuels, but negotiations over climate finance and other areas still unresolved. It also retains references to tackling emissions from fossil fuels, albeit with caveats.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 17, 2022

As Russian forces advanced towards Kyiv, Canada’s oil and gas industry and its supporters responded with a self-serving narrative: the Ukraine crisis means Canada must accelerate its production of fossil fuels. Methane stays in the atmosphere less time than carbon dioxide, but its warming power is 25 times higher. is up to 2.2

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The curbing of emissions to reduce the concentration of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane in the environment. Commonly known as soot, it is formed from wildfires and fossil fuel consumption and contributes to climate change. It is the first to explicitly reference reduction of unabated coal usage.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

From tackling deforestation to curbing methane emissions, the various multilateral commitments are focused on areas where they can have real impact. The fossil fuel problem is being named.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2023

As Louisiana attempts to spew less climate-warming pollution, which disproportionately comes from industry, fossil-fuel companies have convinced lawmakers to jump onto the bandwagon of carbon capture and storage (CCS), a controversial and unproven method of addressing the issue.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Jeremy Coller, Chair, FAIRR Initiative, said: "The COP26 announcements on methane and deforestation are to be congratulated. At COP26, more than 100 countries commit to reducing methane emissions. We cannot phase out food, like we can fossil fuels, but we can adopt nature-positive practices which deliver net-zero emissions.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 4, 2021

After the IPO is complete, and assuming a suitable acquisition target is identified, the SPAC seeks to combine with the target in what is referred to as a “de?SPAC” As the recent experience at ExxonMobile has shown, investors are eager to invest in, and accelerate the migration toward, energy production that does not rely on fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2024

The science behind the hockey stick graph has been continuously upheld as accurate, and is among key findings that prove burning oil, coal, and methane gas is the primary driver of the climate crisis. Mann and other scientists have steadily pointed out that climate deniers took the emails out of context. —

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Southern Company also won’t include in its zero-carbon metrics the carbon emissions generated by customers of its natural gas distribution business burning the fuel it supplies them, although it will move to reduce methane leakage and help customers use the fuel more efficiently.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The way it’s usually described, getting to this nightmare requires taking a “business as usual” path, meaning that the world dramatically increases burning coal and other fossil fuels without worrying about the consequences. Remember that high-end fossil-fuel intensive scenario with no climate policy to 2100, & no climate impacts?

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Carbon neutral refers to a policy of not increasing carbon emissions and of achieving carbon reduction through offsets. Projects can range from local planting of trees to the funding of projects that empower families in developing countries to reduce their dependence on fossil fuels.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

as the key target for the Paris Agreement and reiterates last year's promise to deliver a "phasing down" of unabated coal power and a "phasing out" of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies. And the suggested text invites parties to "consider further actions to reduce by 2030 non-carbon dioxide greenhouse gas emissions, including methane".

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2022

Deforestation to create pastures and feed for livestock releases CO2; methane is emitted from animals and their manure; and fossil fuels are used to transport animals and power the globalized meat supply chain. Scope 2 generally refers to emissions produced to generate the electricity used by the company. .

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2021

Both EQT and Chesapeake will seek certification from outside providers, including a business called Project Canary, which touts its ability to collect data on methane emissions and pollutants from oil and gas wells and offers a certification it calls TrustWell. But meanwhile, the industry’s methane emissions have continued to rapidly rise.

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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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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

In any case, why send wood pellets to Europe to substitute for coal, when North Americans burn more fossil fuels than Europeans do? and refers to extreme cases that do not represent current practice.” ” This is true, if you examine only the moment of combustion and ignore the complete life cycle of both fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Secretary General António Guterres asked nations to arrive at the session with concrete commitments for phasing out fossil fuels, observing in his opening remarks that “humanity has opened the gates of hell.” Despite its name, ambition was largely lacking at mid-September’s Climate Ambition Summit at the United Nations in New York.

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Business Green

AUGUST 27, 2021

Australian court cases, fossil fuel phase out alliances, and a vote of confidence in Gold Standards all feature in this week's latest round up of global green business news. Colombia to host hybrid Biodiversity PreCOP.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 29, 2020

For a colorless gas, hydrogen gets referred to in very colorful terms. A purportedly cleaner option is known as blue hydrogen, where the gas is produced by steam methane reformation but the emissions are curtailed using carbon capture and storage. for production using steam methane reformation. per kilo, compared to $0.90

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 5, 2022

Talk to fossil fuel execs, government ministers, and industry reps these days and they’ll all tell a similar story: Blue hydrogen is the clean fuel of the future that will help Canada and the world get to net-zero emissions. This is often referred to as “gray hydrogen.” In 2021, Jacobson and Robert W.

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Hydrogen aircraft are part of a new economy of hydrogen aiming at replacing fossil fuels where electricity is not a possible alternative. Replace today’s grey hydrogen (produced from fossil fuels) used for industrial processes (e.g. But this is still highly hypothetical. Grey, blue and green hydrogen.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

But group of petrostates resist calls to phase down fossil fuels and accelerate decarbonisation efforts. The so-called High Ambition Coalition of nations argued the draft text should include a commitment to phase down all fossil fuels and clearer commitments to accelerate the roll out of renewables. warming target.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

VS: Traditionally, hydrogen has been industrially produced from the methane contained in natural gas, releasing carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide in the process. This hydrogen is referred to as “grey hydrogen.” GT: How might green H2 fit into the energy system?

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MAY 16, 2022

Scenario 3: Achieves carbon neutrality by 2045 by deploying a broad portfolio of existing and emerging fossil fuel alternatives and clean technologies. Scenario 2: Achieves carbon neutrality by 2035 with aggressive deployment of a full suite of technology and energy options, including CCS and other engineered carbon removal.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Fossil fuels get named and shamed. For the first time in 25 years of UN climate talks, coal and fossil fuel subsidies have been singled out in an official document. Methane faces a reckoning. Campaigners and energy experts have long dubbed methane emissions as the 'low hanging fruit' of climate action.

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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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