DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Read time: 10 mins A new report from advocacy group Food and Water Watch argues that fracking and continued reliance on natural gas is detrimental to addressing climate change. Tags: American Petroleum Institute American Gas Association Natural Gas Bridge Fuel green new deal Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 25, 2020

Read time: 6 mins Two Louisiana environmental activists, Anne Rolfes and Kate McIntosh, were taken in handcuffs and leg irons from a Baton Rouge police station to jail after they voluntarily surrendered themselves on felony charges after months' earlier delivering plastic pollution pulled from Texas waters to fossil fuel lobbyists' homes.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Read time: 8 mins Dark Waters , the new film starring Mark Ruffalo as attorney Rob Bilott, is set in the Ohio River Valley city of Parkersburg, West Virginia — a place about 150 miles downstream from where Shell is currently building a sprawling plastics manufacturing plant, known as an “ethane cracker,” in Beaver, Pennsylvania.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2021

But the Asgard, which was drilling an oil well in the waters about 225 miles south of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, had other pressing matters to deal with. That same day, the oil well it was drilling more than a mile below the water’s surface experienced a kick — an eruption of oil, gas, or other fluids from deep underground up the drill pipe.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Hydrogen fuel cells generate electrical power while producing only water vapor and warmth as emissions.   That said, the production of green H2 using electrolyzers does require rare metals such as platinum and iridium that come with a high price tag.  Understanding where the expense comes from involves knowing how they work.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 18, 2020

James Parish air and water pollution Tags: Formosa texas plastics St. The group of volunteers had assembled that day to check whether the plant was still discharging these raw materials of plastics manufacturing. .

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Raging wildfires and worsening storms are destroying homes, decimating communities, and polluting the air and water, all during a pandemic which disproportionately affects those living in polluted areas. Tags: oil bailout CARES Act Whiting Petroleum COVID-19 U.S. Even amid the pandemic, the U.S. Federal Reserve

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Forbes Green Tech

AUGUST 15, 2019

A bottled water company and national recycling nonprofit are promoting an Instagram hotline to help people figure out what can and can't be recycled, including plastic bottles. Use hashtag #NotTrash and tag @PolandSpringWtr.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 19, 2019

Read time: 15 mins In July 2015 workers at the Garden Creek I Gas Processing Plant, in Watford City, North Dakota, noticed a leak in a pipeline and reported a spill to the North Dakota Department of Health that remains officially listed as 10 gallons, the size of two bottled water delivery jugs.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 20, 2020

Over 25 percent of the families here live in poverty , and many lack access to basic services like water, sewer and primary health care. Tags: environmental racism flaring Eagle Ford Shale public health This large rural region near the U.S.-Mexico Mexico border is known for its persistent poverty. shale play , producing more than 1.2

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2020

The air above our cities was filthy, and the water in our lakes and streams was gross. Tags: Bill McKibben Earth Day U.S. (February was a simpler time too, but for a moment let’s think outside the pandemic bubble.). Simpler because our environmental troubles could be easily seen. There was nothing subtle about it.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 15, 2020

A DeSmog investigation found that Falcon’s construction has struggled with drilling problems and has continued even while one key water-crossing for the pipeline lacked state or federal permits. Tags: falcon pipeline Shell Oil Company COVID-19 NWP 12 Permit Keystone XL Shell Pipeline Co.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 2, 2019

has contributed to record levels of fossil fuel production, a critical part of that story also involves water. In addition, once the oil and gas industry is finished with the water involved in pumping out fossil fuels, disposing of or treating that toxic wastewater, known as produced water, becomes yet another problem.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 11, 2020

By most accounts, the translucent plastic pellets are considered pollution, but government bureaucracy and regulatory technicalities are making accountability for removing these bits of plastic from the river’s banks and waters surprisingly challenging. Tags: plastic production Mississippi River Formosa RISE St.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 22, 2019

The company is proposing to swap propane into the industry standard mix that usually calls for water. Tags: lpg fracking new york hydraulic fracturing propane fracking fracking bans new york state department of environmental conservation

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 23, 2021

The order comprises a mix of seven 6×4 rigids and seven 8×4 tridems for use exclusively on the company’s contract transporting sludge for Yorkshire Water. Mark Scott, Fleet Engineer at Suttons Tankers, says: “We’ve run Volvo for many years, but this is the first time we’ve opted for FMX rigids.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 10, 2020

They love to talk about how dependent African economic growth is on fossil fuels, never about how they've destroyed water sources and wetlands and murdered protesters there). They claim that it risks leaving marginalized communities out in the cold and stalls development in Africa.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

Environmental DNA: HIFI is optimising molecular techniques that detect DNA left behind in river water by resident fish. Here, I and the REDEEM project team briefly describe some of the key questions our research is trying to answer for the flood and water level management sector. Of the acoustic tagged eels, 80.8%

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 20, 2020

Four years after the Block Island project first put wind turbines in American waters, the second U.S. With two turbines, the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind pilot is tiny; and with a price tag of $300 million, it’s very expensive for a generation facility of its size. A tiny project in a market obsessed with scale.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 10, 2019

Mining is Chile’s biggest industry and is intensive in terms of its water, energy and associated carbon emissions. . Tags: COP25 UNFCCC

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 31, 2020

This gravity-based concept physically moves water from a low to a high reservoir, from which the water descends, when needed, to generate electricity. Canadian company Hydrostor took a different approach : pumping compressed air into purpose-built caves or existing ones, like abandoned mine shafts, and using water to maintain pressure.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

This project poses a risk to Santiago’s fresh water supply and wilderness areas,” Ezio Costa, the Executive Director of Chilean environmental justice NGO FIMA , told DeSmog about Los Bronces Underground ( LBU ) expansion project. Tags: Anglo American Chile COP25 Carolina Schmidt

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 11, 2023

The tag “forever chemicals” is clearly very appropriate for a class of synthetic compounds whose unusual molecular structure, including the carbon-fluorine (C-F) bond (considered one of the strongest found in organic chemistry), appears to offer little scope for any thermal or other degradation at all, so they endure permanently.

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Grist

JUNE 2, 2023

One of his many duties was to help oversee the municipal drinking water supply, a responsibility he took seriously. The state had identified a class of chemicals linked to cancer called per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, also known as PFAS or “forever chemicals,” in Stuart’s drinking water supply. The rest came very quickly.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

There is a universe in which Hurricane Sandy didn’t create quite so much devastation back in 2012; where the waters, which surged deep into subway tunnels and left parts of New York City in the dark for days, left some parts of the tri-state area unscathed. And that universe, according to scientists, is one without climate change.

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 31, 2022

Further, CATL presently has eight factories under construction at a price tag of over $14 billion, underscoring the investments China is making toward securing continued market control. They drill through the salt, and then pump the underlying water into evaporation ponds. His background is in geology and water chemistry.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Dominion is unique in being the only major utility to exclusively hold the rights to a large offshore wind zone in federal waters near its own service territory. The project will, however, face regulatory scrutiny in Virginia, where the $300 million price tag for Dominion’s 12-megawatt pilot project has raised eyebrows.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Only General Electric's BWR-4 boiling water reactor managed to get cheaper after the first plant. Labor productivity in recent plants, for example, is up to 13 times lower than industry expectations, which goes a long way to explaining why the price tag for the Vogtle project in Georgia has more than doubled, rising to around $25 billion.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2024

Research into water flow and fish passage through dams in the US suggests new options for meeting energy and environmental needs, writes Alexandra Freibott for the US Dept of Energy and Pacific Northwest Laboratory. Adjusting the amount of water spilling over a dam can help fish successfully navigate dams. Deed license.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Knowing how toxic the textile industry is to the planet and workers, he created a smart tag that allows tracking of the product through every stage of material sourcing, manufacturing and transport. This information allows PaperTale to calculate an environmental footprint of the product that shows water usage and carbon emissions.

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Green Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Offer to provide a water or HVAC system assessment. And as a bonus, customers love knowing that less water and energy consumption equals less money owed on home utility bills. Many of these advances and new technologies offer sustainable advantages and minimize energy and water consumption. Did you know?

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Business Green

MAY 26, 2022

Research by Inside Housing has put a price tag of £104bn on decarbonising all the UK's homes, with an upper estimate of £250bn - equivalent to just under a quarter of the government's total projected spending for 2022-23. Backing down now would leave the net zero agenda dead in the water.

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Econaur

AUGUST 30, 2021

This week we present the Flashback story of Dholavira, the archaeological site of a Harappan-era city, whi ch received the UNESCO world heritage site tag on Tuesday. Dholavira site. The IVC acropolis is located on a hillock near present-day Dholavira village in Kutch district, from which it gets its name.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Install Water-Saving Fixtures. Limiting your office’s water use is another area where cost-savings and sustainability go hand-in-hand. You can conserve water in the office by installing WaterSense faucets and toilets in bathrooms and rain-sensing sprinkler systems in the green space outside your office.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The COP27 Presidency has today launched a new global plan that aims to mobilise state and non-state actors behind a shared set of climate adaptation goals for 2030 that span food and agriculture, water and nature, coasts and oceans, infrastructure, and human livelihoods.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

It’s a great advertising tag line, but there are no free rides; someone always pays somewhere. The transition from coal steam trains to diesel electric ones in the 1940s and 1950s saw many fundamental shifts in infrastructure, with trains no longer needing water and coal refill stops. Free delivery."

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Vineyard's win adds another huge project to the pipeline underway in waters in the northeastern U.S., ” Vineyard Wind, which competed against rival development groups backed by Ørsted and Shell in the solicitation, will now have the opportunity to negotiate a final contract with Connecticut’s two electric utilities.

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