Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Wastewater from overburdened urban septic systems and air pollution from burning fossil fuels contribute to nitrogen pollution, but often runoff of the synthetic fertilizers used in industrialized agriculture is the primary culprit. Seaweed's potential as a solution to this crisis is two-fold, scientists and environmentalists say.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

All of these stories echo what environmental justice advocates ( and CEG ) have been shouting for months: hydrogen is not a viable fuel for power generation, and it certainly shouldn’t be used as a reason to extend the life of polluting power plants. This methane does not diffuse out of the metal and cracks the steel.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Moving away from UAVs and ships and back to dry land, ET is pleased to have supplied two leading UK cities (Liverpool and Cardiff) with ‘reference method’ air quality monitoring stations in 2020. An AQM Station at Castle St, Cardiff. as well as a T200 NOx analyser has now been installed in pride of place, right outside Cardiff Castle.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2022

To top it all off, funding for the Canadian Energy Centre comes directly from the province’s tax on industrial polluters. The province earlier set aside a budget of $80 million for the Canadian Energy Centre in its 2019 Budget, paid for by climate taxes on the province’s biggest polluters.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The companies changed an online version of the ad to read “the least polluting fossil fuel.”. It references the meta-analysis stating there is “quantitative evidence that, in children, gas cooking increases the risk of asthma.”. More Facebook ads included in the complaint. Source: CAPE.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2023

As Louisiana attempts to spew less climate-warming pollution, which disproportionately comes from industry, fossil-fuel companies have convinced lawmakers to jump onto the bandwagon of carbon capture and storage (CCS), a controversial and unproven method of addressing the issue. Environmental Protection Agency guidance.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

’ The latter are produced through chemical restructuring of methane-based gas and become ‘blue’ when emissions are under control. Natural hydrogen or gold hydrogen, can be renewable, non-polluting and often offers lower costs than its industrial counterpart. FAQs About Gold Hydrogen What is gold hydrogen?

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 4, 2021

Only a handful of super emitters are responsible for an enormous amount of the methane pollution in the Permian basin, according to a new study. Methane is a highly potent greenhouse gas — more than 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide over a 20-year time-frame. That’s equivalent to about 5% of the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2021

Blue hydrogen is made from natural gas, which is mostly methane, using electricity generated by burning more gas, and hydrogen is considered “blue” (rather than “gray”) when its carbon emissions are sequestered. What’s the pollution?’” It’s fracked methane.”. But where does it come from? It’s dirty energy at [the] source.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 19, 2024

Nearly half of diet-related greenhouse gas emissions in the UK come from meat and dairy due to emissions of methane, an extremely potent greenhouse gas, in livestock farming. Defra declined to comment on the content or funding of the adverts, referring DeSmog to the AHDB. The AHDB did not respond to DeSmog’s request for comment.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

I covered developments related to the rapidly expanding petrochemical and LNG export industries, like new facilities that came online this year and rely on fracking new wells to supply the growing demand for natural gas, which is mostly methane. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The curbing of emissions to reduce the concentration of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane in the environment. This refers to the global energy sector's shift from energy consumption and production based on fossil fuels to low carbon sources. It is the first to explicitly reference reduction of unabated coal usage.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 24, 2021

Leaking methane from oil and gas infrastructure is widespread across the European continent, reveals an investigation of more than 150 sites in seven countries. More than 60 percent of the sites analyzed by researchers using state-of-the-art technology were releasing large volumes of methane – a powerful greenhouse gas – into the atmosphere.

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EDF + Business

JULY 19, 2019

For example: Methane, the primary component of natural gas, is a potent greenhouse gas responsible for 25% of the warming we’re experiencing today. The largest source of industrial emissions is the oil and gas industry, which loses $30 billion worth of methane each year from operations. Technology improves efficiency. Looking ahead.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Widely known as “laughing gas”, used for its anesthetic effects, nitrous oxide (N2O) is also regarded as the third most important long-lived greenhouse gas, after carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane. This is particularly relevant in regions like East Asia, where nitrogen fertilizer could be used more efficiently without reducing crop yields.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The initiative, also known as the “Protect Washington Act”, imposes a steadily increasing carbon pollution fee on most fossil fuel uses and directs revenue toward projects to reduce carbon emissions, as well as investments in forests, water, community preparedness, and support to displaced workers and people with lower incomes.

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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.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Greenpeace Italy and Re:Common have alleged in their climate lawsuit — Italy’s first — that despite knowing at least as early as 1970 that burning fossil fuels posed a serious climate risk, Eni went on to promote “natural” –- or methane – gas as a safe energy source for decades. the spokesperson stated.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This shaped federal regulation of both indoor and outdoor air pollution. We sat down with Rebecca John, the researcher and author of CIC’s report, to talk through the key documents that informed the investigation; all of the documents referred to in the report are publicly available on DocumentCloud. The science has also grown.

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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

“Blue carbon” refers to carbon momentarily trapped — or slowed down, really — in waterlogged ecosystems. DWR measures the CO2 and methane emissions from the wetlands it created on Sherman Island. Saltwater and brackish marshes don’t release nearly as much methane as freshwater wetlands, she explains. And it’s ripe now.”.

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Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 4, 2021

In 1988, when the changing climate was referred to as global warming , it seemed obvious that the main issue with a changing climate was that the planet was getting hotter. The only way to slow down a warming planet is to stop adding pollution to the atmosphere. and Canada alone. Lobby governments on behalf of climate change.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

From tackling deforestation to curbing methane emissions, the various multilateral commitments are focused on areas where they can have real impact. Despite their mealy-mouthed protestations to the contrary, they continue to cling to the polluting economic models of the 20th century, inviting the planet to burn in the process.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

McDonald’s addressed the environmental issue of plastic pollution by replacing their straws with paper alternatives. To answer that question, let’s refer to the rules of sustainability. Burger King committed the sin of lesser two evils in July 2020, with their advertised “reduced methane beef”.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

That’s what these people in these positions are paid to do”, she says, referring to trade associations such as the IMS and AAA. We just have too many animals,” Dragsdahl says, referring to Denmark’s colossal livestock population. For Jacquet, though, such promises are little more than reputation management. Meat Industry Playbook.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2022

For example, last year NW Natural paid for digital advertising that suggested that indoor air pollution from cooking occurs regardless of whether the stove is gas or electric. “No Meanwhile, NW Natural also ran an ad campaign to promote “renewable natural gas,” or RNG, which is methane captured from landfills and animal feedlots.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 8, 2023

Most of the low-emissions interventions analyzed (70 percent) utilize existing know-how and technologies: reducing deforestation, better managing manure, improving feed and breeding (which can reduce methane emissions from livestock), reducing nitrogen fertilizer overuse and runoff, and adopting renewable energy and energy efficiency.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Cows produce methane, a greenhouse gas that absorbs more atmospheric heat than carbon and is currently responsible for 25 percent of all global warming today. Livestock methane emissions are also rising in some of these countries. Livestock methane emissions are also rising in some of these countries.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

India Gate, New Delhi: Residents of the city face pollution levels with a health impact estimated to be equivalent to smoking more than two packs of cigarettes a day (image credit: Amit kg / Shutterstock.com). Centuries on, sources of airborne pollution are only becoming more numerous and wide ranging.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

But the event was overshadowed by the major polluters who didn’t attend. UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak chose the very day of the summit to announce that his government will push off the deadlines for phase-outs of methane gas-burning boilers, as well as sales of new gasoline and diesel-fueled cars.

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Financial support from governments is unjustified: the polluter should pay. As demand for electricity grows so does the risk that renewable electricity supply will not be able to match it, which will increase the risk of using non-renewable power. Grey, blue and green hydrogen.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

Methane, a greenhouse gas which is belched out in high volumes by cattle, has been identified by the UN and world leaders as the quickest route to cut global heating. While the organisation referred to the study as “independent research”, it was commissioned by Beef + Lamb NZ. The science shows that for humanity to stay below 1.5C

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

McDonald’s addressed the environmental issue of plastic pollution by replacing their straws with paper alternatives. To answer that question, let’s refer to the rules of sustainability. Burger King committed the sin of lesser two evils in July 2020, with their advertised “reduced methane beef”.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 29, 2021

Carbon dioxide is the most common GHG emitted by human activities, but the CO2e unit handily takes into account all other GHGs (like methane and nitrous oxide) as well, by putting them in terms of carbon dioxide. It doesn’t measure your use of natural resources, the waste you produce, or pollution outside of carbon.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The Adnoc LNG field and a number of others in the UAE appear to be constantly emitting and burning polluting methane despite Adnoc’s 20-year-old policy to reduce the environmentally damaging practice to zero in on day to day operations. Flaring also allows the escape of some unburned methane gas, which is a powerful greenhouse gas.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

But within hours of it being signed the pollution-loving Australian government signalled it had no intention to strengthen its disgracefully weak 2030 emissions targets. It put polluters everywhere on notice, and offered a ringing endorsement of the clean tech revolution.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Credit: Julie Dermansky Air Products plans to build a manufacturing complex near Burnside, a small town in Ascension Parish, that will transform the methane in natural gas into ammonia and blue hydrogen while using technology to capture up to 95 percent of the CO2 emissions created in the process. Howarth and Mark Z.

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The Environmental Blog

APRIL 8, 2022

E-waste generally refers to End of Life (EoL) technological products such as desktop computers, laptops, smartphones, printers and many similar appliances. High volumes of methane gas are an increasing problem, but the irresponsible disposal of e-waste is adding to the burden. Safeguarding against Toxic Pollution.

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