DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

In the summer of 2022, faced with a very real opportunity to confront the fossil fuel industry, potentially forcing the facility to halt oil train shipments entirely, the city instead chose to strike a compromise that allows the oil facility to continue to operate. Downtown Portland with oil and liquid fuel tanks in foreground.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

Many local people are furious at the damage done to their forests by logging corporations ripping out whole trees with Star-Wars machinery that first churns up and then compacts the soil. In any case, why send wood pellets to Europe to substitute for coal, when North Americans burn more fossil fuels than Europeans do?

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Commonly known as soot, it is formed from wildfires and fossil fuel consumption and contributes to climate change. This refers to the global energy sector's shift from energy consumption and production based on fossil fuels to low carbon sources. It is also referred to as the Paris Accords. Biodiversity.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 12, 2021

that term historically referred to systems necessary for society to function, such as power plants and communication lines.). But in Louisiana, the fossil fuel industry has a history of getting its way. . In the U.S., In Louisiana, prosecutors have four years to decide whether they will press charges.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

We need the animal agriculture equivalent of ‘keep it in the ground’ for fossil fuels,” she adds. “It’s Several of these arguments reference the idea that grazing livestock can help maintain healthy soils which can store carbon. It’s really about production at the end of the day.”

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Grist

APRIL 14, 2021

Connecting all of this is a walking route, a physical course through the landscape, variously referred to as a heritage trail, or a Dreaming track, or a songline. Company executives laid the blame on falling gas prices, but many of their joint venture partners — fossil fuel goliaths like Chevron and Shell — had already pulled out.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In news this week, COP28 wraps up with a landmark agreement on transitioning away from fossil fuels, DOE announces a new office focused on AI, and over 2M Teslas were recalled.  And below we start the week off with a walk down memory lane of the year’s top CTVC headlines.

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The Environmental Blog

JUNE 25, 2020

Many of the built materials, such as steel and plastic , rely on the fossil fuel industry, making them incredibly carbon-intensive. One of the biggest problems with construction is sediment — fine silt that comes from loose soil — that pollutes waterways and damages aquatic habitats. Consider the resources that are required.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

To prevent the most devastating effects of climate change, it’s essential to cut greenhouse gas emissions by phasing out fossil fuel use. The term refers to actively pulling carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and storing it in soils, plants, rocks, and within the Earth’s crust. That’s where carbon removal comes in.

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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

As they walled off rivers and created dry islands from what was previously soggy marsh, they discovered incredibly rich soil. No one foresaw that this very bounty — soil rich with organic material — would, over time, become a curse of sorts. Fossil fuels, you might say, are an aged form of blue carbon.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 30, 2024

It also adds to a growing body of evidence that decision-makers of the 1960s were concerned about potential climate change caused by the burning of fossil fuels, much earlier than previously thought. government — the President. is continuing, as a Panel to consider a series of questions related to Environmental Pollution.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

These come from deforestation, changes in soil carbon, methane emissions, emissions from fertilisers, manure, farm machinery, and animal feed production. A study published in Science found that “even if fossil fuel emissions were immediately halted, current trends in global food systems would prevent the achievement of the 1.5°C

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 28, 2020

Ultimately the scale of NET deployment needed is reduced to near zero if policies are adopted that aggressively drive the reduction of fossil fuel emissions while simultaneously ramping up efficiency and clean energy technologies such as wind and solar. References. GtCO 2 for afforestation and reforestation, 0.5–2

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Andrew Winston

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Besides some increase in agricultural and forestry production, most natural systems that support us — like rich soil carbon and pollinator health (i.e., The prime examples of the latter are “ regenerative agriculture ” and “ holistic grazing ” which use farming and cattle to improve soil quality and sequester carbon from the atmosphere.

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Andrew Winston

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Besides some increase in agricultural and forestry production, most natural systems that support us — like rich soil carbon and pollinator health (i.e., The prime examples of the latter are “ regenerative agriculture ” and “ holistic grazing ” which use farming and cattle to improve soil quality and sequester carbon from the atmosphere.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 16, 2021

This includes using renewable energy to replace fossil fuels, improvements to energy efficiency, or capturing carbon at an industrial site or from the atmosphere and injecting it into an underground reservoir for permanent storage. REFERENCES. Thamo, T. & & Pannell, D. Climate Policy 16 , 973–992 (2016). Richards, K.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Just like with fossil fuels, which are essentially ancient biomass sources from millions of years ago. This is referred to often as the ‘food, feed, fiber first’ principle, which is the idea that these types of applications of biomass are favored over the use of biomass for energy purposes. How much energy does biomass contain?

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GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

This idea is called the "remaining carbon budget" and refers to how much carbon dioxide (and other gases) we can still emit before warming the planet beyond a particular target. In addition, we will have to rapidly shut down fossil fuel energy sources and deploy renewable energy systems across the planet as quickly as possible.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

A declining cap on fossil fuel consumption has a much larger set of unknowns regarding technology, resources, and other shifts that could affect the cost of compliance. These real health and environmental costs not currently included in the purchase price of fossil fuels are commonly referred to as the social cost of carbon.

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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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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

The meat industry is increasingly viewed as a sector where greenhouse gas emissions cuts can and should be made, just like the fossil fuel industry Livestock accounts for a third of total global emissions of methane, a potent gas that traps heat about 80 times more effectively than carbon dioxide but breaks up more quickly in the atmosphere.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

A study published in Science last year found that even if emissions from fossil fuels ceased right away, projected eating habits would make it impossible to keep global average temperature rises to 1.5C. That’s what these people in these positions are paid to do”, she says, referring to trade associations such as the IMS and AAA.

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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. A sign in Weyerhaeuser’s Seattle headquarters references what what business leaders see as their environmental legacy.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 16, 2021

An environmental consultant provides advice to companies and other organizations on a wide range of environmental issues such as green manufacturing, hazardous-waste remediation (disposal and cleanup), soil contamination, environmental disasters, sustainability initiatives, compliance, renewable energy and water, air, and soil quality.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 26, 2022

Additionally, conventional farming practices reduce the levels of carbon retained in the soil – an important medium for carbon sequestration. Fossil fuels are demanded throughout the entire food supply chain and consume 30% of the world’s available energy. Our food supply chain demands an extravagant amount of energy.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 16, 2021

An environmental consultant provides advice to companies and other organizations on a wide range of environmental issues such as green manufacturing, hazardous-waste remediation (disposal and cleanup), soil contamination, environmental disasters, sustainability initiatives, compliance, renewable energy and water, air, and soil quality.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

I heard someone call COP26 the "business COP" I couldn't find any official reference of that sort, but I'm inclined to agree. Moreover, many of these banks continue to finance the fossil-fuel industry, funding coal mines, backstopping debt issuance and lending directly to power producers, as the Financial Times reported.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Although there is unlimited supply of the fossil fuels, we should go for the use of renewable energy as it is not only safe for the environment, eco-friendly but also less prone to pollutants if any. the world, there are many power plants still use fossil fuels to boil water for steam. Green Diesel, Biogas.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

His speech comes just weeks before thousands of global diplomates are expected to descend on Glasgow for the crucial UN summit, which I set to be one of the largest political events ever held on British soil, and at which UK as host is under major pressure to rally countries together behind ambitious climate action.

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Energy Innovation

MAY 9, 2022

Residents in disproportionately burdened communities—frequently lower-income communities of color—endure greater air, water, and soil pollution, as well as other environmental harms. DSO refers to distribution system operator; HP refers to heat pump. Policy Interventions to Advance Energy Justice. But progress remains slow.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 20, 2021

You will likely uncover opportunities for alternative clean energy (non-fossil fuel energy sources and processes). Companies all pollute at some level, whether it is pollution in the air, water or soil. Examples include solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, wave power, nuclear and hydropower. processing plant) to local waterways.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

MARCH 14, 2023

Another holdover requirement is that any “well” must not be located less than 660 feet from the boundary of any “lease” – which refers to oil and gas leases and serves no practical or public safety purpose when applied to geothermal systems.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

By the closing credits, the viewer is left in little doubt that there is only one fuel plentiful and versatile enough to carry the world “safely” into the 21 st century: coal. Nor does it refer to a topic that was of unequivocal scientific concern at the time: The “greenhouse effect,” or what is now known as climate change.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

For more, refer to the WaBA article Understanding Carbon Reduction: Marginal Abatement Cost Curves. At the end of the building life, the wood could either decay in a landfill re-emitting the carbon it stored or it could be burned for energy to replace other fossil fuel generation with the CO2 even being captured for permanent storage.

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 5, 2020

We select a subset of companies to go through technical and financial due diligence, product evaluation, reference checks, commercial analysis, and most importantly getting to know the founding teams on a deeper level. Soil becomes degraded and exhausts its ability to sequester carbon when cattle munch the same area over and over.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 1, 2021

This idea is called the “remaining carbon budget” and refers to how much carbon dioxide (and other gases) we can still emit before warming the planet beyond a particular target. In addition, we will have to rapidly shut down fossil fuel energy sources and deploy renewable energy systems across the planet as quickly as possible.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Paying the Land by Joe Sacco, 2020 The author, an acclaimed journalist/cartoonist best known for his graphic novels about war zones, travels to a different kind of conflict: the fossil-fuel and mining industries’ destructive influence on a First Nations community in the Canadian Northwest Territories.

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