Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Beyond the issue of pollution, the production of virgin hydrocarbon-based polymers is carbon-intensive due to the extraction and refining of crude oil. For the plastics that do not end up recycled or as pollution, the incineration process also emits a lot of carbon. The environmental impact of plastics is widely documented.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 18, 2023

A comparison of federal support for EGS and hydrogen – two technologies that could each be important enablers of the clean energy transition – shows how support to EGS could be improved. And the manufacturing of “clean” green hydrogen releases greenhouse gases unless it is made with a fully renewable grid. Recent U.S. Recent U.S.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

India boosts green hydrogen ambitions, World Bank eyes new climate focus, France curbs domestic flights, and all the top green business news from around the world this week. India prepares $2.2bn boost for local green hydrogen industry. Reuters notes that green hydrogen currently costs around 300-400 rupees per kilogram - or $3.60-4.80/kg

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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.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

This comes as major polluters are increasingly deploying digital tactics to detract from negative headlines about their record profits and decades-long contribution to climate change. On Instagram , Campbell encouraged his followers to watch his “Hydrogen powered adventure!” percent of total energy consumption in 2050.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The European Commission has adopted two final pillars under its Fit for 55 legislative package, setting in place legally binding climate targets across sectors and prioritising the shift away from polluting vehicles as soon as possible. The pillars include a revised Renewable Energy Directive and the REFuelEU Aviation Regulation.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 15, 2021

Lew Milford founded CEG in 1998, after working over several years on clean energy and utility restructuring dockets in New England while with the Conservation Law Foundation. After graduation from Georgetown Law, he first worked for the federal government to enforce civil rights laws among government contractors.

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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. Greece climate law aims to ditch lignite coal by 2028. Iberdrola and H2 Green Steel plot 1GW green hydrogen plant in Spain.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 5, 2022

This will involve a substantial reduction in fossil fuel use, widespread electrification, improved energy efficiency and use of alternative fuels, such as hydrogen. An increasing range of policies and laws have enhanced energy efficiency, reduced rates of deforestation and accelerated renewable energy deployment. “We

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Grist

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Cities all over California, as well as in Washington, Colorado, Massachusetts, and New York, are heeding the call and passing or considering laws that limit gas-powered heating and cooking appliances in new buildings. the gas industry is actively fighting laws that promote electrification with calls to “preserve energy choice.”

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Energy Innovation

JUNE 16, 2022

Under the state’s landmark AB 32 climate law, CARB is required to evaluate the state’s progress toward its goals and make recommendations every five years. The Committed Policy Scenario includes executive orders or specific proposals not yet fully backed by established in law or regulation. Top Emissions Reducing Policies.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2020

But while the Climate Law focused largely on governance measures, the new Industrial Strategy offers a framework for private sector companies and investors to drive low carbon investment and green growth in line with the Commission's aim to become the world's first 'carbon neutral' continent.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Within 100 days, the Commission will present a new Climate Law designed to lock in the continent’s commitment to net-zero emissions by 2050. Carbon capture, utilization and sequestration, hydrogen infrastructure and energy storage will also receive support to reach commercialization.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 18, 2022

Major car and airline companies are using adverts that greenwash their business while continuing to push highly polluting products that put the world’s climate goals at risk, DeSmog can reveal. DeSmog’s analysis also found that a significant minority of adverts were dedicated to promoting highly polluting vehicles. SUVs Booming.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The fossil fuel industry was first warned about climate change back in 1959 by famed physicist Edward Teller, known as “the father of the hydrogen bomb.” The substance of the report is that there is still time to save the world’s peoples from the catastrophic consequence of pollution, but time is running out,” Ikard said.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

At a heated April meeting of this program’s oversight commission , Commissioner David Levy demanded to know why the Freshwater City disposal well was plugged before actively polluting oil and gas wells. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law signed this past November set aside $4.7 A Trip to Freshwater City. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

After generations of wildly elevated rates of childhood asthma and cancer in the community that many believe were a result of the toxic pollution overhead, a group of Diamond residents living within a few blocks campaigned for Shell to buy their contaminated properties. is one of the facilities undergoing a significant public reimagining.

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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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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 25, 2021

The powerful climate pollutant methane is leaking out of dozens of oil and gas wells, pipelines, and storage tanks in Romania, adding to a growing body of evidence that methane leaks are widespread and pervasive in Europe. The companies respond that they are aware but aren’t violating any laws. “‘We Banks said.

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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.” Eni did not respond to a request for comment on its early knowledge of climate change.

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

  In deals, geologic hydrogen digs up $245m, $181m across six EV deals, and Brookfield’s $10bn climate transition fund.  The law that would mandate more supply chain monitoring and emissions tracking.    The EPA is cracking down on air pollution.   Thanks for reading! Not a subscriber yet?

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

.” Pollution, poverty and race collide in many other disadvantaged communities across California — and the country — and some argue that the state’s climate policies haven’t helped. The overall “cap” lowers every year, forcing polluters to reduce their emissions or purchase allowances from others who do. As the U.S.

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Business Green

MAY 19, 2020

In response, the UK has previously said it "will not agree to any obligations for our laws to be aligned with the EU's" and its institutions, putting it at odds with the EU which has continued to view a level playing field on standards as a red line for a free trade deal with such a close neighbour.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The group says that its members are “companies across the CCUS industry” including “support services in the energy sector” such as law, banking and consultancy. Carbon capture and storage, and the extension of the technology, CCUS, has been touted by major polluters as a way to cut their production emissions to meet climate targets.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Such an arrangement should neutralise long standing concerns over how attempts to accelerate emissions reduction efforts and ramp up carbon taxes in one jurisdiction will simply prompt 'carbon leakage', whereby polluting companies and investors simply relocate to countries with more lax climate regulations. So far, so positive, perhaps.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

This article provides a primer on the three major policy building blocks available for reducing carbon pollution: pricing mechanisms, subsidies , and regulations. The same elasticity effect applies to pollution. Economists argue that Pigouvian taxes , like a carbon tax, are the most economically efficient means of reducing pollution.

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2023

The regulation, which will come into force in 20 days' time, strengthens the interim 2030 emissions reduction target automakers in the EU have to meet, as well as enshrines the 2035 phase-out date into law.

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Charged

AUGUST 2, 2023

Q&A with electric truck expert Rustam Kocher Medium- and heavy-duty vehicles make up a small fraction of the vehicles on the road, but they generate a disproportionate amount of pollution. The problem is those laws are all state-based and every state has to make that change at the level of the utility commission.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The second most important target for green power is replacing fossil fuel use in buildings, especially growing use of natural gas for heating; in Vancouver, British Columbia, that causes nearly 60% of the city’s carbon pollution. Promote new technologies like hydrogen. One of the most promising is “ green hydrogen.”. and Canada.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2022

Our companies are adapting their 50 years of energy expertise to accelerate crucial green technologies like hydrogen, carbon capture, and wind," she added. org, which have backed the Paid to Pollute campaign targeting the subsidies handed to fossil fuel firms.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2022

If you do not support the current target are you proposing to change the law to shift or scrap the net zero target? How do you intend to deliver the planned wave of carbon capture, hydrogen, and nuclear projects over the coming years? Do you agree with the Environment Agency that senior executives that pollute should face prison time?

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Energy Innovation

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Only existing state laws and regulations as of January 2023 are included in the model. Industrial Emissions Standards shift fossil fuel use to a mix of electricity and hydrogen for low-temperature and medium- to high-temperature heat processes. Environmental Protection Agency, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, among others.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Putting measures to address the climate crisis at the heart of UK economic policy - and break our dependence on outdated, polluting fossil fuels - makes economic, social and environmental sense," said Katie White, executive director of advocacy and campaigns at WWF.

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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 22, 2023

. | Photo by Elizabeth Flores/Star Tribune via Getty Images The Biden administration proposed new tax guidelines today aimed at making it cheaper to produce hydrogen as a less-polluting alternative to fossil fuels. Hydrogen combustion releases water vapor, rather than planet-heating carbon dioxide emissions.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Those markets can be either regulated (reflecting laws requiring companies to secure credits in proportion to their emissions) or voluntary (where buyers choose to acquire credits generated by carbon-reducing activities). Short-lived Climate Pollutants (SLCPs). Carbon sequestration. A greenhouse gas which is impacting climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Air Products, a global hydrogen manufacturing company, is proposing to build a $4.5 billion “Clean Energy Complex” to manufacture blue hydrogen and an accompanying carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) project, that would be operational by 2026. Lake Maurepas at sunrise.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Lawyers from environmental law NGO ClientEarth have this morning accused 17 major global banks of "hypocrisy" as they wrote to the financial institutions to ask them how they squared their climate commitments with support for the firms gearing up to extract tens of millions of barrels of oil from the North Sea.

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