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Southern Company Commits to Net-Zero Carbon by 2050, but Seeks New Gas Plants for Now

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utilities in setting a net-zero carbon target for 2050, aiming to balance the emissions from its sizable fossil fuel-fired generation fleet and sprawling natural gas business with reductions to be gained by expanding its portfolio of renewable energy and energy efficiency. Counting on 'negative carbon' solutions.

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Fossil Fuel Lobbyists and Major Polluters to Sponsor Labour Conference Events

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The firm’s plant in Selby, Yorkshire, which burns wood pellets to generate electricity, is the single biggest source of carbon dioxide emissions in the country according to the climate think tank Ember. Drax disputes this claim.

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How steel might finally kick its coal habit

Grist

As a result, the industry accounts for roughly 8 percent of annual carbon dioxide emissions, as well as a toxic soup of air pollutants. But in order to curb steel’s carbon emissions, the sector will have to transform how the material is traditionally made. In 2012, he co-founded Boston Electrometallurgical (a.k.a.

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Spike in German Finance For Gas Export Projects Harms U.S. Gulf Coast Communities, Report Finds

DeSmogBlog

The banks also underwrote 610 million euros of bonds for the projects from 2012-2021, the data showed. “I LNG projects since 2012, the report found. Experts have warned of the potentially lethal consequences of a climate-fuelled hurricane hitting the terminal and leaking methane into nearby homes and wetlands. on March 29.

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The Meat Industry Is Advertising Like Big Oil

DeSmogBlog

Since 1990, methane emissions from agriculture have increased nearly 17 percent , largely because of the way manure is managed on large farms. In 2012, a group of farmers who saw the payments as a legal loophole allowing the Pork Board to cover NPPC’s lobbying expenses joined with the Humane Society to sue the USDA.

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A North-Pole, How Much Longer?

Mr. Sustainability

million square kilometers, the second lowest in the 42-year satellite record, behind only September 2012. Unfortunately, all kinds of positive (or negative?) This could lead to yet another negative feedback loop that could wreak havoc on the Arctic, drastically increasing the melting of not just sea ice but also Greenland's ice-sheets.

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DOE Quietly Backs Plan for Carbon Capture Network Larger Than Entire Oil Pipeline System

DeSmogBlog

An organization run by former Obama-era Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, with the backing of the AFL-CIO, a federation of 56 labor unions, has created a policy “blueprint” to build a nationwide pipeline network capable of carrying a gigaton of captured carbon dioxide (CO2). Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data from 2019.