DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

Further research by DeSmog has shown that Eni’s company magazine Ecos made repeated references to climate change during the late 1980s and 1990s — while running advertising campaigns promoting natural gas, which is mostly comprised of planet-warming methane, as a “clean” fuel. ‘Friend Methane! ‘Friend Methane!

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Energy Innovation

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The EPS allows users to model numerous policies that affect energy use and emissions including a renewable portfolio standard, fuel economy standards for vehicles, industry methane standards, incentives for clean energy technologies like we see in the Inflation Reduction Act, and accelerated R&D advancement of various technologies.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Photos I shot in 2022 for DeSmog capture damage from extreme weather events and the continued expansion of the fossil fuel industry — the dominant industry causing global warming. Industries reliant on methane gas continue to expand their footprint, despite bipartisan discussions about the need to develop climate solutions.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 5, 2021

As the United States moves toward decarbonization, cities and states must use all means available to reduce climate pollution, and natural gas utilities should be at the forefront of this rapid energy transition. By Erin Murphy and Christie Hicks , EDF.

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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. Doing so is essential to limiting global warming to 1.5 Companies are piloting systems across Europe that use hydrogen in furnaces in lieu of coal.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 19, 2021

Related: Researchers develop hydrogen paste that could fuel vehicles According to the study, using untapped energy in food waste to generate sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) will provide an avenue to deal with two types of pollution at the same time.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This is the global temperature rise above pre-industrial levels targeted by the 2015 Paris Agreement. The hope is that limiting global warming to 1. The curbing of emissions to reduce the concentration of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane in the environment. Short-lived Climate Pollutants (SLCPs).

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2022

The Jadar mine was regarded as one of Serbia's biggest foreign investment projects, but environmental groups criticised the plan, claiming it risked polluting land and water in the area. It is not a hydrogen production facility. Global Witness are comparing apples with pears.". by the end of the century are to be kept alive.

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Unsustainable

AUGUST 20, 2019

In an undated article by the Department of Health (New York State), it was stated that “Methane and Carbon Dioxide make up 90 to 98% of landfill gas. vi I think this reason alone is enough to warrant the use of recycled paper more extensively. vi I think this reason alone is enough to warrant the use of recycled paper more extensively.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The simple fact is that they are not reducing their polluting activities by the significant amount required to limit the worst impacts of global warming.”. The company also had the largest share of promos focussing on hydrogen, which made up 11 percent of its total output.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2022

The demonstrable reality is that burning an expensive and polluting source of energy costs more than generating power through clean and lower cost technologies. It is fair to say there are industries where decarbonisation remains technically challenging and eye-wateringly expensive.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Climate Lawsuits Historical evidence of what oil majors knew about climate change is taking on new significance in the courtroom as lawyers seek to hold big polluters to account for the accelerating devastation caused by the climate crisis. based Center for International Environmental Law has reported.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Rees-Mogg was also the first cabinet minister to endorse the campaign to reverse the UK’s ban on fracking, spearheaded by the backbench Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG), the parliamentary wing of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

All the top green business news from around the world this week, including fresh WHO air pollution guidelines and global coal, methane and HFC commitments. World Health Organisation unveils tighter air pollution guidelines. More countries join global methane and coal power pledges.

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

It is the biggest LaBarge, as the gas operation is known, would have become one of the world’s foremost examples of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), a technology most climate-modeling experts view as essential to slowing down global warming and, eventually, reversing it. Construction was set to begin over the summer.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Imagine you woke up in 2030 to find that Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia had done little to slow the global warming that cooked the Cascadia region this year. We have not kept pace with the scope of the crisis,” Oregon Global Warming Commission Chair Catherine Macdonald wrote to legislators that month.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In either case, this wasn’t on our bingo card… In the news, the British government passed new reforms to speed up interconnection, Colombia launched a $1B biodiversity fund, the US released $6B in funding for climate resiliency, and the US and China made modest progress on methane reduction at APEC.  SPAC valuation ).

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

The US is set to get its first ever carbon equivalent tax - on methane. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas with a global warming potential many times higher than that of CO2. of global warming by 2050. temperature goal is to be kept alive. Is the US poised to get it first federal green bank?

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2021

Steve Brown, Orcadian’s founder, regularly shared posts on social media from his recently-deleted Twitter account that cast doubt on climate policy and modelling, including content from the Global Warming Policy Foundation , the UK’s principal climate science denying group. Labour Violations, Pollution, and Alleged Abuses.

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