DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2024

They were subpoenaed as part of a Congressional investigation into the fossil fuel industry’s decades of deceptive advertising, “Sponsored content advertising is a powerful way to reach a specific audience focused on specific issues,” BP states in the document. “We WPP did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 19, 2021

government’s recently released hydrogen strategy—a thoughtful plan to create and use clean hydrogen—contains an implicit acknowledgement: the world is moving away from fossil fuels and toward low-carbon alternatives. isn’t the only jurisdiction to see clean hydrogen as the new natural gas. s natural gas industry?

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 17, 2025

Arguments against EV mandates ignore the substantial harms that fossil-fuel-driven vehicles inflict upon the health of people across Canada, said Vipond. Gas-powered cars release a range of toxic air pollutants which impact our immediate health.

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Electric vehicle Climate change Health Fossil fuels 69

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Today, the Consumer Energy Alliance ( CEA ) — an organization funded by oil and gas producers — released their own report that presents a different narrative about energy production and air quality in Pennsylvania, a state that’s become one of the nation’s largest producers of fossil fuels.

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Health Natural gas Fossil fuels Pollution 75

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

As an alternative to landfill, which is due to be phased out, the GAYA chain is positioned as the channel of reference for making use of non-recyclable waste to produce a storable renewable gas, which can substitute for natural gas and as such has multiple end uses, in sectors such as sustainable mobility, industry and the tertiary sector.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

From 2010 until the end of last year carbon emissions from the UK's power sector fell by around two-thirds, as the industry rapidly shifted away from coal and natural gas towards renewables such as wind and solar, according to the study published today.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 26, 2021

Small declines were also reported in coal, natural gas, and nuclear consumption, while renewables and hydropower recorded gains. The remainder of global energy consumption came from coal (27.2%), natural gas (24.7%), hydropower (6.9%), renewables (5.7%), and nuclear power (4.3%). Natural Gas.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2024

Canada’s advertising regulator has determined that ads claiming liquified natural gas (LNG) will lower emissions are inaccurate, misleading, and distort scientific data. Canada Action further argued that, at its end use, gas emitted 50 percent less carbon than coal.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 13, 2022

Fossil fuels accounted for 82% of primary energy use last year, essentially the same as in 2020, but down from 83% in 2019 and 85% five years ago. Natural Gas. Natural gas has been the fastest-growing fossil fuel in recent years, with a global 2.2% For perspective, in 2010 China had a mere 2.7%

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Canadians overwhelmingly prefer solar (74 per cent), wind (67 per cent), and hydropower (67 per cent) compared to just 46 per cent who support natural gas and 18 per cent who support coal, according to a new poll from Clean Energy Canada and Abacus Data. Only a piddling 5 per cent actually oppose solar, with 7 per cent against wind.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

While CCS deployment has stagnated, renewables have surged and their costs have plummeted – and so the picture today is very different to what it was in 2010,” he told DeSmog. A number of oil and gas companies have turned their attention to carbon capture in recent years.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 28, 2023

The lonely well pad houses four natural gas wells that records show were initially drilled in 2011 but sat inactive for years after that. With a population of around 30,000, this county sits squarely in the center of the path the Marcellus Shale formation takes as it curves through the commonwealth.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2022

consulting and PR firm, with a long history of waging influence campaigns for fossil fuel corporations, is under scrutiny by a congressional committee as part of a broader investigation into the decades-long efforts by the oil industry and its allies to block action on the climate crisis. A powerful Washington, D.C.,

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Fossil fuels Climate change Energy Energy 98

R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 10, 2023

Overview The newest Review shows the world remains heavily reliant on fossil fuels for energy needs, even as renewables like solar and wind continue rapid growth. While renewable power expanded at record rates, fossil fuels maintained an 82% share of total primary energy consumption. growth in 2021.

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Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor Energy Energy 78

R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Previous topics covered were: Global carbon dioxide emissions Overall highlights Oil production and consumption Natural gas production and consumption Coal production and consumption Global nuclear power trends Today, I will cover renewable energy in detail. ROBERT RAPIER For perspective, in 2010 the world consumed 10.6

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Hydropower Solar Power Energy Energy 78

Grist

APRIL 5, 2021

Sniffing out the potent greenhouse gas, which traps 86 times as much heat as carbon dioxide after it’s emitted into the atmosphere, has required her to breathalyze cows and take chemical measurements at large manure lagoons. Natural gas, which is primarily composed of methane, was pitched as a fuel that could transition the U.S.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 26, 2021

Maintains Its Natural Gas Dominance. For perspective, in 2010 the world consumed 9.6 Increased fossil fuel consumption made up most of this growth, with every category of fossil fuels showing increased consumption over the decade (although coal’s growth was close to zero).

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Energy Energy Hydropower Fossil fuels 78

Renewable Energy World

MARCH 15, 2021

A big-time fossil fuels player is jumping into the energy transition in a bolder, more focused way. The company is one of the biggest in the oil and gas infrastructure sector, with close to 85,000 miles of pipelines and 144 terminals either under ownership or interest, according to reports. Kinder Morgan Inc.

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Energy Energy Natural gas Carbon 78

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The findings raise concerns over a potential pervasive conflict of interest on the boards at a time when the international insurance sector is under pressure to halt its support for the fossil fuel industry. “When insurers underwrite fossil fuels, they actually are underwriting climate change.”

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Pollution Fossil fuels Climate change Aviation 98

Sunrun

AUGUST 23, 2019

Wide scale adoption of solar and other renewable energy must continue so we can address the negative societal and economic impacts of dirty fossil fuels.10 By eliminating harmful toxic emissions from fossil fuels, solar lets us breathe easier and provide healthy air for future generations.13

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Business Green

MAY 26, 2020

A previous report in Drax's Electric Insights series earlier this year noted that British power emissions had fallen by roughly two thirds between 2019 and 2010, or to 54 million tonnes from 161 million tonnes, as generators had shifted away from coal and natural gas to renewables.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Summary - The world needs 384 TWh of energy per day, of which 87% comes from fossil fuels. The entire world needs a total of 384 TWh * of energy per day, of which the majority (87%) comes from fossil fuels. These are crude oil (35%), coal (28%) and natural gas (24%).

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Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 78

GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

Many more long-term challenges await PG&E, such as adapting to large portions of its customer base being served by community choice aggregators (CCAs), or its natural gas network being rendered obsolete by the state’s zero carbon by 2045 mandate. Last month it announced contracts for 423 megawatts, or nearly 1.7

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The projections are notable in part because Ohio lawmakers have spent several years putting a thumb on the scale in favor of fossil fuels. Legislation has gutted the state’s renewable energy standards, subsidized old coal-fired power plants, and erected new hurdles for siting solar and wind projects, but not fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

For instance, the company’s just-published “ Energy Transition Progress report ” references chemicals right alongside “low carbon energy” and “renewable natural gas” as examples of the company’s stated commitment to lowering emissions. Town sign for Norco, Louisiana. Shell US did not respond to a request for comment from DeSmog.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2022

On November 29, Coterra Energy and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) signed a consent order allowing the operator, one of the largest natural gas producers in the state, to drill laterally beneath an area that has been mostly fracking-free since 19 households found methane in their water in 2008 and 2009.

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Pollution Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 94

Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2021

The first 11 months of 2020 were the hottest on record in the Northern Hemisphere, Europe experienced its warmest autumn ever, and the Arctic sea ice coverage was 16% lower than the 1981-2010 average. Reduce emissions and divest from fossil fuels. Keep the global temperature rise below 1.5°C Climate Action in Practice.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2020

It would mean emissions would fall by 54 per cent from 2010 to 2030, compared to the 45 per cent the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) identifies as necessary for the world as a whole. Energy, renewables and fossil fuels.

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Carbon Fossil fuels Policy Government 94

Energy and Cleantech Council

DECEMBER 2, 2022

On December 1, 2022, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) proposed a sweeping new rule for the Renewable Fuel Standards (“RFS”) Program, the federal government’s flagship program for facilitating the production of renewable transportation fuels to offset fossil fuels. Introducing eRINs. Other Key Points.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

I was fortunate to interview Jacobson for an Energy Boom story in 2010 about the real cost comparison between coal and wind power. Jacobson’s Greenhouse-Gas-Free (GHGFREE) Teslas run on solar power, as does his home, built by BoneStructure. The fossil fuel divestment movement led by Bill McKibben’s 350.org

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Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 101

Business Green

MAY 4, 2020

To keep temperature increases under that critical threshold, carbon emissions must be halved by the end of the decade compared to 2010 levels, according to the analysts, and all greenhouse gas emissions cut by roughly 40 per cent in the same time frame. The five broad, interconnected "shifts" that could steer the globe on to a 1.5-degree

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2021

The first 11 months of 2020 were the hottest on record in the Northern Hemisphere, Europe experienced its warmest autumn ever, and the Arctic sea ice coverage was 16% lower than the 1981-2010 average. Reduce emissions and divest from fossil fuels. Keep the global temperature rise below 1.5°C Climate Action in Practice.

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Climate change Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Resilience 78

AGreenLiving

MARCH 5, 2020

last year, bringing the total reduction to 29% since 2010. The data indicates that declines in coal use was the main factor that led to last year’s carbon emissions decrease, as both oil and natural gas usage levels remained unchanged. When viewed over the course of the past decade, U.K. First, “U.K.

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Carbon Climate change Natural gas Energy Monitor 28

DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

Heat pumps will play an essential role in reducing our fossil fuel dependence and making our homes and buildings renewables-ready.” Foster, who represented the constituency of Worcester from 1997 to 2010, is quoted in dozens of trade and national media titles criticising the technology.

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Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 76

Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

In 1992 carbon emission hit a 20-year low due to three factors: A mild winter, reduced demand for gasoline and, most significantly, a drop in coal-fired electricity generation because of historically low natural gas prices. In 2010 atmospheric CO2 rose to 389.6

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Carbon-negative Energy Monitor Fossil fuels Carbon 40

Clean Energy Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2021

NET Power is building a new type of natural gas power plant that uses oxy combustion (burning natural gas with pure oxygen) and supercritical CO2 instead of steam in its turbine. this technology could chip away at and then eventually replace industry standard combined cycle natural gas plants.

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Natural gas Electric vehicle Aviation COP 52

Andrew Winston

JUNE 11, 2018

in 2010, and has a couple thousand hybrids or EVs on the road now. And at UPS, about 9,000 of its roughly 112,000 vehicles already have some environmental advantage (most are powered by natural gas, but 1,000 are electric hybrids or pure electric). These aren’t the first “alternative” vehicles in the delivery space. you plug in.

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