DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

The Transition Deal echoed the fossil fuel lobby by emphasising the importance of hydrogen power and carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) to the green transition. It added that, “Hydrogen is essential to meeting our net zero commitment in the UK.” This is not the path to cheaper, cleaner energy.”

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 25, 2024

Key uncertainties include levels of methane leakage and venting along the supply chain, assumptions around the global warming potential of methane, emissions from shipping the LNG to its destination, and the extent to which LNG replaces more polluting energy sources versus clean energy.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 28, 2022

Not only does it reduce the efficiency of the AD plant (and with today’s high energy prices this can soon add up to significant lost income), but it can also pose a threat to health and safety, as well as being a significant greenhouse gas (GHG) pollutant. . C rise already experienced in global temperatures.

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Grist

APRIL 4, 2022

Nations have moved too slowly to curb climate change, and now must take swift and aggressive steps if they hope to avoid the worst impacts of global warming, the world’s top scientists warned on Monday. degrees C and potentially past 2 degrees C of warming. With immediate action, limiting global warming to 1.5

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Another $70 million will go toward hydrogen refueling infrastructure, with $25 million more for “zero- and near-zero carbon fuel production and supply” to meet the need for alternatives to battery-powered vehicles in the decades to come. This week's announcement follows on Gov. and the Netherlands.

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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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Energy Innovation

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The EPS also includes smaller components like hydrogen supply, district heat, waste management, and geoengineering. Premature mortality and 10 other health-related outcomes avoided from reduced primary and secondary particulate pollution. The composition and output of the electricity sector (e.g.,

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

The event aims to bring together policymakers and liquified natural gas (LNG), natural gas, and hydrogen players to explore new avenues for fossil fuel expansion. On the first day of the convention, attendance at strategic session speeches and those of the related hydrogen conference were so low that event organizers removed unused seating.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Harry Wilkinson, one of several climate science deniers at the Glasgow summit , suggested that the conference was relying on polluting diesel generators in an effort to highlight the supposed hypocrisy of the event. The government’s COP26 unit has said all generators on site are in fact powered by batteries, vegetable oil and solar.

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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. They claim carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) and the expansion of the so-called blue hydrogen industry are climate solutions.

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The Environmental Blog

JUNE 24, 2022

About 77% of the citizens agree that a more important energy priority should be developing alternative energy resources like wind and solar power and hydrogen technology instead of increasing fossil fuel production. The main causes are nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons but hydrogen-powered vehicles emit none of these but only H2O and warm air.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In recent years, the biggest agricultural polluters and food corporations have embraced this term, which refers to a wide range of farming techniques that improve the environment. All these methods work to improve the soil, reduce air and water pollution, cut emissions, and boost biodiversity.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

But we don’t yet have economical ways to fly airplanes, power large ships, make key materials like steel or cement, or grow food without sending planet-warming emissions into the atmosphere. . The Department of Energy announced a Hydrogen Shot , a program to make clean hydrogen fuel 80 percent cheaper than it is today, in June.

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Business Green

JUNE 9, 2020

The government must now address the market for all the low carbon energy technologies of the future, including hydrogen and CCUS, argues Siemens UK & Ireland CEO Steve Scrimshaw. They want to see more investment in wind and solar technology across the UK, and interestingly, there is also a call for investment in hydrogen too.

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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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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2022

In 2022 this has led us to stories that have unmasked all manner of trickery: from the minutiae of misleading stickers marketing “hydrogen-ready” boilers to the sinister presence of sanctioned coal barons at this year’s COP27 climate summit. It was a tough year for the green transition. Plenty for DeSmog to get stuck into, in summary.

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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

DECEMBER 3, 2021

EU carbon prices have yet again sent records tumbling, reaching an all-time high of over €80 per tonne of CO2 this week, as the cost of polluting continues to get ever more expensive. Iberdrola and H2 Green Steel plot 1GW green hydrogen plant in Spain. Greece climate law aims to ditch lignite coal by 2028.

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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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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

Burning methane, the main component of natural gas, emits considerably less air pollution and CO2 than coal or oil. Favorite source: methane, which doesn’t pollute in the various stages of production, transport and distribution.” ‘Friend Methane! A still from the 1989 Eni film Good Morning Methane.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

It’s vodka, made without any potatoes or grains, and the key ingredients are hydrogen and captured carbon dioxide. Their technology combines CO2 and hydrogen using a metal catalyst to produce ethanol (ethyl alcohol), a chemical building block. They pour in the product and, when it’s ready a few hours later, take a sip.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Oil and Gas UK announces name change to account for members growing interest in blue hydrogen, offshore wind and CCS. The likes of Equinor, BP, Shell, Total, and others all now boast net zero strategies and hold significant stakes in a host of established offshore wind projects and planned carbon capture and hydrogen developments.

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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

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Major net zero blueprint for global chemicals sector argues transformation into 'planet-positive force' is technically feasible would deliver huge financial and jobs benefits. However, a decarbonisation pathway is available for the industry. The report acknowledges that $100bn annual capital investment is 2.5

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The Environmental Blog

MARCH 16, 2021

Comparing before and after photos, most people thought that reduced air pollution may have only been COVID-19 pandemic ’s redeeming quality. Plastic pollution brings a host of environmental problems, with many ending up in landfills for, possibly, eternity. Incineration = Air Pollution. Endangersthe Marine Ecosystem.

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Business Green

APRIL 3, 2023

As a food company, for instance, moves to cut its carbon pollution to avert the serve risks to its resources and assets from a heating planet, that will impact how the farmers it buys from grow their crops, the distribution companies it uses to transport its goods power their fleets, and what ends up on supermarket shelves.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The science is clear that global emissions must significantly reduce this decade to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees," said HSBC's group chief sustainability officer Dr Celine Herweijer. Our interim targets for these high emissions sectors will be embedded into business decision-making.

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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. Composed of carbon and hydrogen, it enters the environment through livestock, leaks from natural gas systems, landfills and waste from homes and businesses. Mitigation.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In interviews afterward, Shatner made a plea for the planet as TV hosts tried to steer him toward topics lighter than death and global warming. There’s an irony here: In order to gain this more-than-sky-high perspective, astronauts and space tourists have had to take an incredibly polluting journey.

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Green Living Guy

MAY 31, 2022

In a bid to meet its target of zero emissions by 2050, Australia has come up with decarbonizing actions ranging from adopting electric vehicles to developing ethanol facilities to support the chemical industry, encouraging renewable refineries for the growth of biofuels.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

With carbon capture and sequestration, switchgrass could mitigate about four times as much carbon pollution as trees can. For example, he sees hope in green hydrogen, a fuel that could be produced using electricity from renewable sources like wind and solar, as a solution for those hard-to-decarbonize sectors like airplanes and shipping.

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Unsustainable

AUGUST 20, 2019

The remaining 2 to 10% include nitrogen, oxygen, ammonia, sulfides, hydrogen and various other gases” Moreover, “though production of these gases generally reaches a peak in five to seven years, a landfill can continue to produce gases for more than 50 years” vii 3.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Yes, there's a lot to be done to halt the worst effect of global warming but let's be clear: it's absolutely achievable and there's a great deal of willingness to get there. You must only look at the light pollution across cities at night-time to see this. The power is in our hands.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 22, 2021

H2 Green Steel aims to use hydrogen and renewable power harnessed from Swedish hydroelectric and wind projects to produce steel with a carbon footprint that will be up to 95 per cent lower than that produced using coal. "Our Sourcing steel produced using hydrogen and green power can make a vital contribution to this.".

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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

JUNE 29, 2023

In fact, the International Energy Agency has said that new oil and gas projects are not compatible with keeping warming below 1.5C – an international climate goal that has been adopted by the UK government. million from fossil fuel interests, high-polluters and climate science deniers last year alone.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Yet as the global economy emerges from the Covid-19 pandemic, emissions are on the rise once again, presenting a monumental challenge over the next eight years if the world is to keep to the 1.5C global warming target countries signed up to in the Paris Agreement on the table.

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