The Environmental Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

However, the most important one is waste management and recycling. According to Statista, worldwide municipal solid waste generation is expected to grow by 70% to 3.4 As per OECD, 22% of plastic waste is mismanaged, and only 9% is recycled globally. Only a fraction of the waste is actually reused, and the rest is incinerated.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

New Methane Action and Response System hailed as major boost for efforts to tackle methane emissions. The UN has today announced the launch of a new satellite-based methane detection system designed to help governments and businesses identify major sources of the second most abundant greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

A cleaner energy source than any other off-grid fossil fuel, companies switching to Flogas Bio-LNG can benefit from major carbon savings of more than 80%.[1]. It is produced during the anaerobic digestion (AD) process, which breaks down organic matter (such as food, sewage sludge or animal waste) to produce methane-rich biogas.

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Business Green

MAY 25, 2022

Methane is a blow torch that’s cooking the planet,' scientists warn, as new study argues near term action could play a critical role in curbing global warming. Our study shows that phasing out fossil fuels is essential but must be paired with targeted action now on methane, black carbon soot, HFCs, and smog.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JUNE 7, 2024

Researchers used the sun and agricultural waste to produce H2 with far less required energy Scientists from the University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC) have announced that they’ve developed a new process using a form of agricultural waste called biochar to produce hydrogen fuel using substantially less energy.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Nearly two thirds of social media posts put out by six major European fossil fuel and energy companies since the end of 2019 present a “green” image of the company, despite the majority of their business activity remaining in fossil fuels, reveals new analysis by Desmog.

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Business Green

JANUARY 7, 2022

Waste-to-energy firm Hydrogen Utopia has raised £3m in an initial public offering (IPO) on the Aquis Stock Exchange (AQSE) on Thursday, which valued the London-based business at approximately £28.8m. Fresh funding provides boost to UK firm's plans to build Europe’s first plastic to hydrogen plant.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 24, 2023

Natural gas is not cleaner than other fossil fuels and using it instead of coal or oil risks achieving little or no reduction in greenhouse gas effects, says science advisory group the European Academies’ Science Advisory Council (EASAC) in a new report “Future of Gas”. We can’t argue our way out of drastic changes.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 27, 2020

Biodigesters are an effective way to reduce the carbon footprint of a business, easily manage food waste, and save money. Biodigesters are a closed system; therefore, it gives off no odor from food waste; this will eliminate flies and rodents from the facility, increasing hygiene. is from fossil fuels.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 18, 2024

Hydrogen economy: Status vs ambition Currently, over 98% of global hydrogen originates from fossil fuel-based grey and black hydrogen, produced using steam methane reforming and coal gasification. The most prevalent is steam methane reforming (SMR). (Above) Overview of the future hydrogen value chain. Source: IDTechEx.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

This sustainable alternative for fossil natural gas will supply gas which is equivalent to the gas needs of approximately 700 households. By the end of this year, says Grolsch, more than two-thirds of its heat demand will be met by sustainable heat from waste management company Twence , delivered through a new underground pipeline.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Adding the new pretreatment step improves the anaerobic conversion of sewage sludge at the wastewater treatment facility from the current less-than-50% conversion rate, and they produced 98% more methane overall compared to current practice. The approach was detailed in the journal Waste Management. “It

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The Environmental Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Farmers who work on irrigation efficiency can reduce fossil consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. Renewable energy : Shifting away from fossil fuels is the best thing to do. Reduce methane emissions : Agriculture is one of the top reasons methane exists in the atmosphere. Not everything is a lost cause.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 28, 2021

Hazer Group produces fuel-cell grade hydrogen from methane, with high-quality graphite as a by-product rather than CO2. Green hydrogen – and how the water sector can engage with this ‘green, clean fuel source’ – was the focus of a recent webinar hosted by water technology firm Isle on 20 May. Capturing carbon.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Future use of the hydrogen could include both replacing the use of fossil fuel on the gas grid and alternative zero carbon fuel for commercial vehicles. For many years, methane gas has been used to heat homes and businesses, and used in power stations to generate electricity.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

Methane emissions reduction could significantly reduce rates of global warming at a relatively low cost, major research warns. As such, the report emphasises that methane mitigation is "one of the best ways of limiting warming in this and subsequent decades".

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Business Green

JUNE 17, 2020

Owner of Waitrose and John Lewis reveals plans to build filling station for its growing fleet of biomethane trucks as it unveiled a fresh commitment to wean its entire transport fleet off fossil fuels by 2030. per cent and operational emissions by 6.6

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Just 50 nations worldwide now outside initiative that aims to cut methane emissions 30 per cent by 2030. First launched with just over 100 national backers at the UN Climate Summit in Glasgow a year ago, the Global Methane Pledge commits signatories to collectively reducing emissions of the gas by 30 per cent between 2020 and 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 26, 2021

Inadequate bonding requirements means there is a serious gap in available funding to properly clean up after the fossil fuel industry. Dollars spent on cleaning up the waste from the oil and gas industry, are dollars not spent on other important needs, such as rural broadband or road infrastructure, he added. Credit: BLM. (CC

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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2020

One novel spin on emerging hydrogen fuel options is "clean hydrogen" made from trash. . Today, more than 95 percent of hydrogen is fossil-based and does not rely on renewables. Hydrogen from waste is an even smaller fish than hydrogen from renewable energy. Could trash-to-energy technology feed hydrogen demand? Arlene Karidis.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

2 This led to investment in new biomethane production infrastructure, which the world critically needs to cut methane emissions from organic wastes and generate green gas, biofertilisers and bioCO2, but this will no longer be possible under the proposed new guidance. using fossil fuels); scope 2 are from the purchase of energy (e.g.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

It sidesteps the conventional reliance on fossil fuels, instead utilizing biogas derived from biomass and waste , thus promising a significant reduction in carbon emissions. Furthermore, conventional synthetic graphite production typically involves the use of coal tar pitch, a process that generates significant carbon emissions.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The platform is the fruit of an early European gasification and methanation demonstrator project, and is supported by the French electrical utility ENGIE and the French agency for ecological transition ADEME. The tests carried out using SRF show that we now know how to produce renewable gas from this type of waste.”.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The Massachusetts-based recycler uses anaerobic biodigesters to create renewable natural gas from food waste. Bacteria in the digesters consume the waste, creating methane and CO2 as byproducts. Now it's time to recycle food waste, and it's not that hard. The gas can then be used for energy purposes.

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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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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

This exploration into the realm of biomass energy untangles the complexities and delves into its multifaceted nature, uncovering the potential of plant-based and waste-derived materials as alternative sources of power. Biomass energy harnesses organic matter, including wood, agricultural crops, and waste by-products, as fuel.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 6, 2024

Levin also noted that equipping power plants with carbon capture makes fossil fuel-generated power even more expensive, while the cost of renewable energy has plummeted. Rather, natural gas is a destructive fossil fuel. “Most projects never make it off the ground,” she added. Research from Robert W.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

While the fuel is barely on the radar in the United States, around the world a green hydrogen rush is underway, and many companies, investors, governments and environmentalists believe it is an energy source that could help end the reign of fossil fuels and slow the world’s warming trajectory. "It In the U.S.,

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 29, 2021

With this in mind, the energy industry should take a hard look at natural gas to consider how it might use existing infrastructure to benefit ratepayers across the globe and ensure the fuel doesn’t inhibit decarbonization initiatives. Looking Forward.

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Elemental Excelerator

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Several ambitious pledges emerged to phase down fossil fuels, limit methane emissions, stop deforestation, and turbocharge the adoption of electric vehicles. Methane: 105 world leaders signed onto the Global Methane Pledge, a US and EU joint initiative to cut methane emissions by 30% by 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Meat emits around a third of global emissions of methane, and action to cut this greenhouse gas has been identified by the UN and world leaders as the quickest route to slowing global heating. Farming also relies on synthetic fertilisers that are both fossil-fuel-based and emit greenhouse gases, and drives deforestation.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The potential of methane and market mechanisms. This year, it focuses on methane and market mechanisms. Reduction of methane emissions from the fossil fuel, waste and agriculture sectors can contribute to closing the emissions gap and reduce warming in the short term.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 25, 2023

Hoboken is making this claim against fossil fuel companies under the state-level equivalent of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, a federal law used successfully to prosecute organized crime groups such as the Mafia starting in the 1970s and later the tobacco industry. Joseph Davis, via DVIDSHUB , CC BY 2.0

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Drillers are using ever-increasing amounts of water and sand in order to produce the same volume of gas, with a corresponding rise in the levels of solid and liquid waste created. After all, RSG programs do not transform natural gas from a fossil fuel that accelerates climate change into a renewable fuel that does not.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 3, 2024

In this method, CO2 is separated from the exhaust gases generated by burning fossil fuels. Pre-combustion capture Pre-combustion capture is another method, where fuels are converted into a synthesis gas (syngas) consisting of hydrogen and carbon dioxide.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Consisting of one nitrogen and three hydrogen atoms, the ammonia molecule (NH3) has the potential to support the hydrogen fuel economy in all three domains. Today, most hydrogen is produced from fossil fuels through steam methane reforming, generating 830 Mt of annual CO2 emissions. Making hydrogen competitive.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in her Pennsylvania hometown, she will be facing off against some of the most powerful fossil fuel interests in the United States. LNG boom threatens to release vast amounts of methane, a powerful climate pollutant that is the main component of natural gas.

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