Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The platform is the fruit of an early European gasification and methanation demonstrator project, and is supported by the French electrical utility ENGIE and the French agency for ecological transition ADEME.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

According to the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), carbon offset programs can be grouped into the following broad categories: Renewable energy, energy efficiency, methane abatement, reforestation and conservation, fuel switching, and community projects. Carbon offset program #3: Methane abatement.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

But his wife began experiencing nausea and skin blotches, and testing showed that the Ely’s water was contaminated with methane, according to the grand jury investigation. A 2016 federal report confirmed that the water was unsafe to drink, showing worrying levels of chemicals such as arsenic and lithium, as well methane, metals, and salts.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

As a result of this rapid expansion, overall emissions from Ireland’s agricultural sector, which had been declining slowly up until around 2010, rose by a massive 19.3 An analyst with Rabobank described the atmosphere in the dairy sector at the time as being “like the night before Christmas”.

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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. TgN y-1 (approximately 10% of the global total) between 2000–2005 and 2010–2015.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Most hydrogen produced today is made by splitting it from methane gas, generating carbon dioxide as a byproduct. Only 252 megawatts of electrolyzers were in operation worldwide between 2010-2019, according to WoodMac. The project received £7.5 million in funding. Green hydrogen uses renewable power to create H2 via electrolysis.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The growing engagement by oil and gas companies has sharpened concerns among climate advocates that industry is skewing the UK’s carbon capture strategy to justify building new gas-fired power plants — prolonging demand for natural gas, a source of planet-heating carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

The sector has also sought to downplay the likely impacts of climate change, and to dismiss the role of ruminant methane emissions. From 2000 to 2010, Irish agricultural emissions had reduced steadily. However, this reversed with the decision to rapidly expand the dairy sector as milk quotas were lifted.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2024

The science behind the hockey stick graph has been continuously upheld as accurate, and is among key findings that prove burning oil, coal, and methane gas is the primary driver of the climate crisis. Mann and other scientists have steadily pointed out that climate deniers took the emails out of context. —

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

GW of capacity since 2010, Good said. Duke added a new net-zero by 2050 goal for the natural gas business that includes "upstream methane and carbon emissions related to purchased gas and downstream carbon emissions from customers' consumption.". Duke has retired 56 coal units for a total of 7.5

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

The sector has also sought to downplay the likely impacts of climate change, and to dismiss the role of ruminant methane emissions. From 2000 to 2010, Irish agricultural emissions had reduced steadily. However, this reversed with the decision to rapidly expand the dairy sector as milk quotas were lifted.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2024

In their response to Ad Standards, Canada Action argued that transitioning from coal to gas prevented 500 million tonnes of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere since 2010. Canada’s underreported methane leak problem has been described as a “planetary superheater.”

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

BP’s 2010 Deepwater Horizon Disaster illustrates this point. Burger King committed the sin of lesser two evils in July 2020, with their advertised “reduced methane beef”. The commercial explained that by changing a cow’s diet, Burger King was able to reduce their methane emissions by 33%.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 16, 2021

Food waste is a global issue, releasing toxic ammonia-filled leachate and planet-warming methane into the environment. cities had increased more than 55% since 2010. Minimize Food Waste. Hotel owners looking to minimize the impact of food waste should consider launching a food waste reduction program.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

methane) from animal and land management and land-use change, which make the biggest warming contributions in the agricultural sector.”. These come from deforestation, changes in soil carbon, methane emissions, emissions from fertilisers, manure, farm machinery, and animal feed production.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

He added that “peer-reviewed scientific research states that the rapid [global] warming is substantially due to the methane, nitrous oxide, and fossil fuel emissions we produce.” Food and water security are affected, as is national security,” Gove said. Gove and Marshall have a long association.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 10, 2024

Currently, the vast majority of hydrogen (96 percent) made globally is “grey” – created from methane, a highly potent planet-warming greenhouse gas, responsible for nearly a third of global heating. The use of other types of hydrogen is also controversial.

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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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Business Green

MAY 4, 2021

track is feasible but would require halving global emissions by 2030 compared to 2010 and reaching net zero emissions by mid-century. the extent to which non-CO2 greenhouse emissions such as methane are reduced. The IPCC looked extensively at emission reductions required to pursue the 1.5C It found getting on a 1.5C is impossible.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Emissions include carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O) and (commonly measured through what is known as carbon dioxide equivalents or CO2e). percent per year since 2010, but in 2019 they grew by 2.6 The impacts of GHGs are being felt here and now. In 2019, total greenhouse gas emissions reached a new high of 59.1

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Green Market Oracle

JUNE 9, 2020

Melting permafrost Warming Arctic temperatures are releasing carbon and methane , the two most serious GHGs. For years scientists have observed massive quantities of methane emanating from melting ice on the sea floor in the Arctic. This was 930,000 square kilometers (359,000 square miles) below the 1981 to 2010 May average.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2022

The head of FTI’s Strategic Communications for the Americas is a man named Brian Kennedy, who was the communications strategist for drilling contractor Transocean, which owned the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig that exploded in 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico. A screenshot from FTI Consulting’s 2015 presentation.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

3 Its author is Duncan Brack, who was an adviser to Chris Huhne when he was Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change from 2010 to 2012. S Fairlie, Meat: a Benign Extravagance, Permanent Publications, 2010, pp 35-43; also “Eating the Platter Clean”, The Land 24, 2019. Brack’s report caused quite a stir.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The outdoor NO2 standard was only revised in 2010 and regulations for NO2 still stop at the doorway of U.S. So you can see just how powerful an influence these AGA-funded studies had in shifting the balance of evidence in the industry’s favor. This influence continued over subsequent decades. The science has also grown.

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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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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 25, 2019

Yet the material itself did feel fairly stale, taking 2010 as its benchmark year while looking forward to 2050. Current trends are sliding to a nearly 600 million-hectare “land gap,” between global agricultural land area in 2010, and expected agricultural expansion by 2050. That’s an area nearly twice the size of India.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The findings further fuelled the cautiously optimistic mood that has built up during the first week of talks at COP26, which has seen a raft of new net zero pledges from emerging economies and a series of global deals to increase flows of climate finance, better protect forests, accelerate clean tech deployment, and curb methane emissions.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

percent per year since 2010, to 2.6 In 2019, total greenhouse gas emissions reached a new high of 59.1 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (GtCO2e). Emissions have increased from an average 1.4 percent in 2019. A total of 33.1

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 28, 2023

This pad appears to be the first of its kind in Pennsylvania to go through a formal permitting process for the practice, which is gaining prominence throughout the Keystone State, home to hundreds of thousands of abandoned wells and rich methane stores. EQT was initially permitted for the well pad in 2010, DEP records show.

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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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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

A comprehensive review of national climate plans from the 191 countries and states signed up to the Paris Agreement - known as 'nationally determined contributions' (NDCs) in UN jargon - calculates global greenhouse gas emissions are set to rise by 16 per cent by 2030 against 2010 levels. Achieving the Paris 1.5C within reach.".

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JANUARY 12, 2022

It calls for CO 2 emissions to be reduced by 45% by 2030 relative to 2010 levels and for CO 2 emissions to reach “net zero” by “around mid-century”. It also encourages parties to reduce methane emissions by 2030.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Thereafter, as previous IPCC reports have indicated, global emissions must fall by 43 per cent by 2030, in addition to a reduction in methane emissions of around a third, from 2019 levels. Even if emissions are halved by 2030 and methane is cut by a third in the same timeframe, it is "almost inevitable" warming will rise above that 1.5C

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EDF + Business

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Since 2010, private equity firms have invested more than $1 trillion in fossil fuel assets – double the combined market value of ExxonMobil, Chevron, and Shell. In that scenario, disclosure requirement norms can keep the sector from becoming a haven for climate holdouts. Thoughtful Asset Acquisition.

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Airbus studied hydrogen aircraft in the 2000s but shelved their plans in 2010 due to technical issues that are yet to be resolved. Before it becomes a reality, many problems must be solved, especially in the field of safety, and new technologies must be developed. Financial support from governments means taxpayers pay …most of whom never fly.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

In an email chain forwarded to Friedman by Crawford in 2010, Dye and a co-worker unsuccessfully attempted to divert West Linn Paper Co. While taking a close look at boiler operations following a 2010 equipment upgrade, Hart noticed fluctuations in efficiency that could only be explained by lower-quality gas, and contacted NW Natural.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

BP’s 2010 Deepwater Horizon Disaster illustrates this point. Burger King committed the sin of lesser two evils in July 2020, with their advertised “reduced methane beef”. The commercial explained that by changing a cow’s diet, Burger King was able to reduce their methane emissions by 33%.

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