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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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 14, 2023

Microbes convert materials into soluble substances, which are then transformed into gases like methane. It’s used to treat waste, reduce landfill emissions, and generate renewable energy through biogas. For example, more waste can be turned into valuable forms of energy and transportation can be reduced.”

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Planet Pulse

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Since the signing of the Paris Climate Agreement six years ago, the nations of the world have slowly begun to bend the curve on emissions, due largely to spectacular advances in renewable energy. Our technologies are designed to monitor and classify changes everywhere on Earth, every day, in high resolution. All Rights Reserved.

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Planet Pulse

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Because of this, Grau Galofre has to take multiple flights aboard a series of commercial jets and Twin Otter propeller-powered airplanes, which can amount to costs of thousands of dollars. In some cases, grave infrastructure problems have affected entire Arctic communities due to their homes sinking into the ground.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2022

Thanks to myriad technologies - hydrogen hydride batteries, EV batteries, home solar power, and other renewables - the UK energy grid could look very different in 2030, writes Plextek's Laurence Weir. Energy generation in the UK will have to look dramatically different if we are to meet our promised carbon targets by 2030.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2021

Government confirms plans for levy on gas suppliers to help fund grid-connected anaerobic digestion (AD) plants around Britain. Heating is currently responsible for around a third of the UK's total greenhouse gas emissions, due to the overwhelming majority of homes and businesses being heated by fossil fuel gas.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

This decade alone, the industry must: Increase low carbon electricity generation by approximately 50 per cent from sources such as wind or solar power. million homes. Develop carbon capture usage and storage (CCUS) technology and develop hydrogen networks. Championing ultra-fast electric vehicle charging points.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The Global Registry of Fossil Fuels, launched by Carbon Tracker and Global Energy Monitor, is the first public and free-to-use database of fossil fuel production, reserves, and emissions. Qatar Energy leads the pack with 7.4 billion tons of CO2e, followed by Gazprom with 6.3 billion CO2e. billion CO2e and TotalEnergies at 2.5

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 16, 2023

fossil fuel firms are pushing to build more than 2,900 miles of natural gas pipelines to feed liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facilities in Louisiana, Texas, and Alaska, in a bid to send more of the fuel to Asia and Europe, a new analysis by Global Energy Monitor shows. The pipelines would cost billions of dollars to build.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The circumstances surrounding his termination are documented among thousands of pages of public records and internal company documents that provide a penetrating look into the multi-billion dollar stakes of negotiations between governments and state-sanctioned monopolies that are shaping the future of energy systems in Oregon and beyond.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Homes generate approximately 61% of this waste, 26% by food service, and 13% by retail. All of this amounts to a waste of the energy, water, and land needed to produce food. Of course, not all of this waste is the fault of particular homes. Monitoring the storage temperatures of stored goods requires the use of technologies.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

They soon discovered that static electricity had caused entrapped methane from the flatulence and manure of 90 dairy cows to explode. According to the United Nations , reducing methane emissions from cows could be one of the quickest ways to slow climate change. Headline writers had a field day. million dairy cows.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

California's new decarbonisation plan, Austria's windfall tax, and global methane reduction efforts. The agency said the strategy represened an unprecedented effort to drastically slash pollution and accelerate the transition to clean energy. "No California Air Resources Board publishes sweeping net zero strategy.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

I am here to sound the alarm alongside my German colleagues: This is destruction masked as economic development, and we will do everything we can to protect our homes and to stop it,” said Anne Rolfes, director of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade , a New Orleans nonprofit working with communities affected by the fossil fuel industry.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This story is part of the series Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia , which explores the path to low-carbon energy for British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. And, in the United States, political gridlock chopped the heart out of Congress’ most ambitious clean energy plan. . Worried about the climate crisis? If not sooner.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 4, 2020

has moved one step closer towards its net-zero carbon target by unveiling a plan to test 100% green hydrogen for cooking and heating in 300 Scottish homes, making Scotland the first country to do so. ’s energy regulator, announced this plan on Monday. considers hydrogen a viable energy alternative for the 85% of the U.K.

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Business Green

MAY 15, 2022

That plant - dubbed H2H Saltend - is aiming to supply low carbon fuel to the park's various industrial businesses, as well as to the Saltend Power Station, which has powered the vast manufacturing site since the late 1990s. We are decarbonising energy and we are decarbonising products.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The $500 billion city — complete with flying taxis and robotic domestic help — is being built from scratch and will be home to a million people. And what energy product will be used both to power this city and sell to the world? The plant is powered by 4 gigawatts from wind and solar projects that sprawl across the desert.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2022

Unveiling its new name this morning, the group said it was set to play a growing role in the UK's energy transition, through licensing and permitting carbon storage projects, monitoring the industry's emissions, testing the climate compatibility of new developments, and stewarding domestic production.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

To identify the powerful actors most actively lobbying against these key EU regulations and policies, DeSmog analysed corporate reports, lobbying records, official position papers, responses to public EU consultations, media events, and meetings held with various EU bodies over the past two years. Meet the Industry Trade Groups.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The decision has outraged residents who’ve lived with the pollution tied to Coterra Energy’s previous fracking activity and endured over a decade in which they’ve lacked access to clean water for their homes. By Audrey Carleton, Capital & Main.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2021

energy sector pathway". Fossil-based hydrogen must turn to credible, independent lifecycle emissions monitoring and regulation to meet a "high burden of proof" for inclusion in 1.5C In the UK, the government is still mulling the use of low carbon hydrogen for home heating. climate scenarios, it stresses.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 29, 2022

The push to sell “blue hydrogen” as a clean energy fuel — which experts have called a misleading rebrand of fossil fuels — hit another setback this month. Climate provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 are bringing new economic headwinds to the gas-derived hydrogen fuel’s prospects.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 25, 2022

While carbon dioxide (CO2) tends to be the most commonly discussed and recognized GHG, there are numerous other greenhouse gasses including methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, and hydrofluorocarbons. The three major greenhouse gases are carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O). Methane (CH4).

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

That amendment, if passed, would have allowed manufacturers to negotiate lower tax bills with local governments, giving the already dominant petrochemical industry a way to permanently avoid paying property taxes. Robert Taylor in a trailer provided by FEMA, in front of his storm-damaged home on February 12, 2022.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 20, 2023

First, on October 19, the Louisiana Bucket Brigade called out the Federal Energy Regulatory Committee (FERC) for granting Venture Global’s request to construct its Plaquemines LNG gas export terminal on a 24/7 construction schedule. He said most people don’t understand the magnitude these fossil fuel industry sites have on the environment.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2022

A new league table has highlighted how the global electric vehicle market is continuing to rapidly expand, with China seeing sales of zero emission models top three million units last year. The new analysis from electric vehicle subscription service Elmo confirms that China remains the largest EV market by sales, with nearly 3.4

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

Under growing pressure to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, developers of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are turning to questionable claims about “carbon neutrality,” “net-zero,” or “green LNG,” in order to pass muster with governments, investors, and society, who are becoming increasingly anxious about the climate crisis. August 29, 2019.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Biomethane from sewage, renewable power, peatland restoration, and tree planting feature heavily in Water UK's sweeping new decarbonisation roadmap. The new plan envisages the development of up to 3GW of new onsite solar and wind generation capacity in order to meet around 80 per cent of the industry's power demand.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Forward-thinking businesses and financiers are set to be agents of change as governments look for ways to turn ambition into action - a role that is clearly not lost on the many business leaders represented at the SEC Centre in Glasgow. Polluters have been put on notice. temperature target stands tall.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Performance within the range is primarily dependent on the actual allocation of revenue, which is to be determined by the appointed governing boards subject to legislative appropriation. We assume carbon reductions from investments only occur from the Clean Air & Clean Energy expenditures, which includes retained credits by utilities.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

Properly plugging and abandoning oil and gas wells is vital to protect the environment and stop methane leaks – but for decades, oil operators have often slipped away without paying to clean up, leaving millions of deteriorating abandoned wells across the U.S. and regulators in different drilling regions face different issues. The result?

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 20, 2022

Proposed by New Fortress Energy (NFE), the planned facility will be a floating offshore export terminal that would treat, liquefy, and store methane gas before loading it onto ships headed abroad. If realized, the terminal could export up to the equivalent of 145 billion cubic feet of the fossil fuel per year.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Private PR companies seeking to control access to information and public debate on behalf of the government about projects as consequential as the MBSD is dangerous — and is part of a larger concerning trend. Ironically, had I been invited, I wouldn’t have been driven to write this report.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

When Laura Briggs and her husband finally found their dream home in West Texas, they knew they’d be sharing space with the oil industry. In October, she invited a university researcher onto the property and discovered that several wells were leaking methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

When Laura Briggs and her husband finally found their dream home in West Texas, they knew they’d be sharing space with the oil industry. In October, she invited a university researcher onto the property and discovered that several wells were leaking methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 8, 2024

While climate impacts intensify along the Gulf Coast, the Louisiana, Texas, and federal governments are poised to permit a growing number of proposed hydrogen manufacturing facilities equipped with carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technology, and liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals. Credit: Julie Dermansky. If the U.S.

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