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Engie Looking for More US Clean Energy Acquisitions: North America CEO

GreenTechMedia

where the company plans to ramp up its investments into grid-scale batteries, hybrid renewables projects and offshore wind, says North America chief Gwenaelle Avice-Huet. ” said Avice-Huet, who moved from France to Texas a year ago to oversee Engie’s 6,300-person North America division. ” No new U.S.

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New Report Highlights Pesticides’ Overlooked Climate Connection

DeSmogBlog

This “vicious cycle” of pesticide use fueling climate change, and vice versa, is examined in a report published Tuesday by the advocacy group Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA). Pesticide companies are complicit in the climate crisis, and further the agricultural sector’s dependency on fossil fuels.”.

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Why is the idea of the Anthropocene so contentious?

Grist

The geologic epoch had reigned for 11,700 years, ever since the sprawling ice sheets covering North America and Europe began melting rapidly, and Crutzen thought its time was up. Epochs are typically stretches of several million years designated by clues left in the soil, rocks, and fossils.

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Shopify orders up latest carbon removal deals

Business Green

And finally, Inplanet is set to capture over 1,000 tonnes using enhanced weathering techniques to permanently sequester carbon dioxide and regenerate tropical soils. Some experts have also questioned with the sector can deliver carbon removals at the pace and scale required if they are to play a major role in meeting global net zero goals.

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Want to sequester carbon? Save wild animals

Grist

degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels not only requires reducing fossil fuel emissions but removing around 500 gigatons of atmospheric CO₂ by 2100. That carbon is then integrated into the soil by insects. According to the study, keeping global warming below 1.5 They also manage the grasses, mitigating the risk of wildfires.

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How limited is the planet's capacity for supplying 'sustainable' biomass and biofuel?

Business Green

Left unchecked, he warned, current trends are driving unsustainable management of the planet's bioresoures that threaten to damage both the climate and the natural world, largely by driving deforestation that in turn leads to biodiversity loss and soil depletion, and reduces the natural world's ability to mitigate climate change.

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I Was Targeted Under Louisiana’s Felony Trespassing Law for Reporting on Police Working for a Pipeline Company

DeSmogBlog

But in Louisiana, the fossil fuel industry has a history of getting its way. . The Basin is the largest river swamp in North America, teeming with birds , fish, and wildlife. Work on the pipeline began in January of 2018, and during that summer, as construction moved into the Atchafalaya Basin, so did the resistance.

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