Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2020

During the last 10 years of its 37-year history, ET has become more and more involved in sourcing and suppling cutting-edge and next-generation monitoring technology into the atmospheric chemistry, Earth science and environmental science communities.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The findings underscore concerns over the role of the fossil fuel industry at the negotiations, known as COP27, which have become a focal point for deals to exploit African natural gas. billion to turn North Africa into a regional natural gas hub, and $830 million in oil projects over the next two years, the analysis found.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

All these methods work to improve the soil, reduce air and water pollution, cut emissions, and boost biodiversity. These big ag entities often link regenerative agriculture to carbon storage in the soil. Nature-based Solutions Often associated with: trees, offsets, soil sequestration, conservation, nature-positive.

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Agriculture Methane Carbon-neutral COP 144

Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Most plastic bags are made of polyethylene, which is a substance that is made from crude oil refining and natural gas processing. Oil and natural gas are non-renewable, fossil fuel-based resources, meaning that when they are extracted and produced, they emit greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

What does it cost over the course of 100 years to ensure that the tillage isn’t happening on the soil such that the carbon isn’t re-emitted into the atmosphere?” We don’t truly know what those costs are today for nature-based solutions.”. How do we ensure forests are managed to minimize risk of fires?

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 8, 2022

Contaminate water supplies and soils, making them toxic for the animals and plants that live there. Cause severe environmental accidents when it seeps down into the soil and reach drinking water aquifers. Meanwhile, different cleaning techniques have different utility usage for electricity, natural gas, and water.

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Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Sustainability Energy Monitor 148

GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

It partnered with utility Con Edison to install geothermal heat pumps in Westchester, where demand for natural gas has outstripped supply, leading to a moratorium on new hookups. Previous investors Comcast Ventures, GV, NEA and Lennar saw that progress and wanted to expand on last year's Series A.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

HiiROC's technology is used to produce so-called "turquoise" hydrogen which converts biomethane, flare gas or natural gas into hydrogen using thermal plasma. The technology can also be used with existing infrastructure where hydrogen is needed and produces hydrogen at a similar cost to steam methane, according to the company.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

But then the environmental realities came into sharper focus: air, soil, and water pollution and greenhouse gases at the smokestack. At the same time, advances in natural gas production such as fracking (controversial in their own right) have made natural gas-fired power a better economic choice than coal-generated power.

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Hydrogen Natural gas Solar Power Electricity 28

Green Business Bureau

JUNE 8, 2022

Contaminate water supplies and soils, making them toxic for the animals and plants that live there. Cause severe environmental accidents when it seeps down into the soil and reach drinking water aquifers. Meanwhile, different cleaning techniques have different utility usage for electricity, natural gas, and water.

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Energy Monitor 78

GreenTechMedia

MAY 12, 2020

Engie claims to be the world's largest independent power producer, with nearly 100 gigawatts of generating capacity globally, including substantial amounts of gas-fired and nuclear plants. Despite Henry Hub natural gas spot prices below $2 per MMBtu, Avice-Huet said Engie is not investing in new U.S. My journey in the U.S.

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North America Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 130

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

As of 2016, the use of mineral fertilizers, which includes nitrogen-based fertilizers produced from natural gas, accounted for 39 percent of the agriculture sector’s emissions in Europe. The main ingredient in fertilizers is ammonia, which is produced from natural gas.

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Sustainability 98

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 16, 2022

Before joining Li-Cycle, Ala was a Senior Project Manager at Enbridge Gas Distribution Inc., where she managed the planning, design, construction, commissioning, and transition to operations of the renewable natural gas portfolio. Jonathan Castaing has been in the environmental field for over a decade.

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Business Green

APRIL 15, 2021

Nature-based climate solutions are key to combatting emissions, it suggested, pointing to research estimating tropical forests hold more carbon than humanity has emitted over the past 30 years by burning coal, oil, and natural gas, despite ongoing deforestation.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 23, 2019

Our relatively clean grid means the things we build on Canadian soil have a lower carbon footprint than they might elsewhere. Making renewables preferable to natural gas. Essentially, new natural gas plants will have to pay a price on their emissions over a certain threshold. What does this boil down to?

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MARCH 22, 2021

Her thesis work analyzed the migration of pharmaceuticals and personal care products through soils and groundwater at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Julia also led the acquisitions for the organics to renewable natural gas (RNG). She received a Bachelor of Arts from Colorado College in Biology.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

This process yields biogas, predominantly composed of methane and carbon dioxide, which can be used as a fuel for heating, electricity generation, or as a natural gas alternative. For instance, ash resulting from combustion necessitates careful handling to prevent soil and water contamination.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 89

Solar Industry

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The solar farm, built on “raw” land, was designed to minimize disturbance to the soil and vegetation. While oil and natural gas are central to Alaska’s economy and remain Alaska’s primary energy sources, residents and state leaders alike recognize the need to diversify the state’s energy generation.

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GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2021

Griffith’s steps to "radically demystify" decarbonization start with the supply side, the 730 million tons of coal mined from 669 coal mines, and then all the layers of natural gas and gasoline infrastructure. homes have a gas meter, feeding water heaters, cooking appliances and so on. "So Next is the demand side.

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Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 391

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 9, 2022

Most Russian gas reaches Europe via pipeline, so getting U.S. gas to Europe will involve liquifying it and then shipping it across the Atlantic. About 40 percent of natural gas produced in the United States comes from these formations, and, according to the U.S. Radioactive Natural Gas’s Journey to Europe.

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Europe Natural gas Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 98

Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

A greenhouse gas which is impacting climate change. Composed of carbon and hydrogen, it enters the environment through livestock, leaks from natural gas systems, landfills and waste from homes and businesses. Efforts to reduce or prevent greenhouse gas emissions. Natural capital. Nature-based solutions.

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Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 40

Grist

JULY 15, 2021

There are many types of carbon removal, but they all involve taking existing carbon out of atmospheric circulation, say, by planting new trees, improving soil quality, or using technology to suck it directly out of the air and inject it into the ground. Which brings us back to carbon removal.

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Fossil fuels Carbon Climate change Technology 130

Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 25, 2022

Fossil fuels are the primary source of CO2; however, CO2 can also be emitted from direct human activities including deforestation, agricultural land clearing, and degradation of soil. . Traditionally, the ocean, soil, and forests have acted as carbon sinks, systems that absorb more carbon from the atmosphere than they release.

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Carbon Methane Global warming Business Energy Monitoring 148

Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Shell completes purchase of Nature Energy Shell Petroleum, a subsidiary of oil giant Shell plc, has this week announced it has completed the acquisition of 100 per cent of the shares of Nature Energy Biogas A/S (Nature Energy).

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 31, 2022

Radiological analysis of sludge samples taken from these boots revealed radium levels roughly 15 times EPA levels for soil at Superfund sites. Right now, more than a third of America’s natural gas supply comes from wells in Ohio, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. The boots worn by a now-former worker of Austin Master Services.

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Waste Waste Building Energy Monitoring Health 98

Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2021

According to Kurnik, hydroponics and aeroponic farming use less water and don't degrade soil like traditional farming, but for vertical farming to become environmentally sustainable on a carbon emissions level, these systems need to source electricity from renewables such as solar, wind or hydro. There's the soil degradation side.

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Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 61

Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Sustainable agriculture means farming and grazing in a way that doesn’t work the soil to death, or deforest en masse to make way for croplands. Sometimes it’s as simple as rotating crops on a plot of land to allow the soil a season or two to rest, or switching from chemical fertilizer and pesticide to compost and organic anti-pest solutions.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Natural-gas consumption is set for a sharp drop in California as the state pushes to achieve carbon neutrality by midcentury, according to utility Southern California Edison. ” Meanwhile, extensive energy efficiency gains and the transition to electric appliances will further squeeze natural-gas consumption in California.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

million heat pumps would have been sold by 2030, ahead of natural gas boilers being removed from sale entirely by 2033 at the latest.

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Carbon Policy Government Investment 86

The Environmental Blog

MARCH 16, 2021

Soiled tissues and face masks should be disposed of in garbage bins, while medical wastes used by patients and hospital workers must be sterilized before being incinerated, based on the World Health Organization’s ( WHO’s ) health guidelines. The majority of plastics are created from fossil fuels such as oil and natural gas.

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Plastics Global warming Waste Waste 195

Business Green

MAY 28, 2021

Griffith was introducing a dramatic approach to slowing climate change and creating tens of millions of new jobs on US soil. Griffith's steps to "radically demystify" decarbonization start with the supply side, the 730 million tons of coal mined from 669 coal mines, and then all the layers of natural gas and gasoline infrastructure.

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Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 54

Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Regardless of the current price of oil, natural gas, or coal, with a carbon tax in place biofuels and renewable energy are more cost competitive with than without a carbon tax. The failed 2016 revenue neutral carbon tax , Initiative 732 , was a pure pricing mechanism.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

WaterSense offers two types of water-efficient irrigation controllers: weather-based and soil moisture-based. Soil moisture-based irrigation controllers, also called Soil Moisture Sensors (SMSs) , monitor moisture levels in the surrounding soil, preventing overwatering when plants don’t need it.

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Home Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 78

Grist

APRIL 14, 2021

In the late 2000s, the fossil fuel conglomerate Woodside Energy petitioned to build a liquid natural gas processing plant 30 miles north of Broome, on a peninsula known in English as James Price Point, and to the Goolarabooloo as Walmadany. Broome residents attend a 2011 protest rally against the proposed natural gas plant.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Microsoft’s cloud architecture eventually will house Land O’Lakes’ data tools including Truterra , which tracks impacts on soil , air and water from no-till, cover crops and fertilizer management practices, as well as WinField United r7 software that uses satellite imagery and geolocated data.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 27, 2021

Saul Griffith of Electrifying America at VERGE Electrify 21 Griffith’s steps to “radically demystify” decarbonization start with the supply side, the 730 million tons of coal mined from 669 coal mines, and then all the layers of natural gas and gasoline infrastructure. Next is the demand side. Sixty-nine million U.S.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

While the decisions taken were not as impactful as hoped, these new ambitions are certain to hasten the move away from coal and in favor of more efficient production of non-renewable power like natural gas and nuclear. Biodiversity and nature-based solutions.

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