DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

Unlike natural gas, which is comprised mostly of methane, a powerful climate pollutant, hydrogen does not emit planet-warming carbon dioxide (CO2) when burned. Hydrogen accelerates the energy transition and secures our prosperity,” read the blurb of a magazine published by DVGW, a German trade association for gas and water.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

The government went one step further and in April, set the world’s most ambitious climate change target into law: to reduce emissions by 78% by 2035 compared to 1990 levels. Launched in March this year, the drive to decarbonise industry forms a major part of the UK’s journey to 2050 net zero.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

“Even the advocates of direct air capture technology acknowledge that they don’t anticipate that it would be at a scale to make any meaningful reduction in atmospheric CO2 levels until 2060, 2070 and beyond,” said Carroll Muffett, president of the environmental law nonprofit Center for International Environmental Law.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

The impact of poor air quality The release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere is well known to contribute to climate change, with carbon dioxide and methane being the subject of many global and national mitigation strategies that aim to break the vicious cycle of global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 25, 2022

The groups are represented by lawyers from Earthjustice and the Green Energy Institute at Lewis & Clark Law School. PUCs can approve rate recovery for safety-related advertising that utilities are required by law to communicate to the public. NW Natural claims its school booklets are aimed at improving public safety awareness.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Ardern is being watched closely : Her administration has been criticized for being lenient on reducing biogenic methane from agricultural production — notably dairy cattle and sheep — which accounts for almost half of New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions and roughly 6.6 percent of its GDP.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

So I started looking in old gas-industry magazines for potential leads. A few months later, the New York Times reported on the study, bringing national attention to the issue, and an op-ed in the Yale Law Journal described indoor air pollution, as a “menace” that required “comprehensive federal legislation.” The science has also grown.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

based Center for International Environmental Law has reported. Climate change was starting to become a commonplace scientific concern, as evidenced by the January 1973 edition of the UNESCO Courier, a monthly magazine published by the Paris-based UN scientific and cultural organization UNESCO.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Braverman’s Head of Communications David Scullion is deputy political editor of The Critic magazine, which regularly publishes articles attacking climate action by Craig Mackinlay , a Conservative backbencher who runs the NZSG with Baker. Speaking to MPs on the Scottish Affairs Committee, he clarified he was “not a hard right extremist”.

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