DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

RSG is a new term used in the natural gas industry to describe voluntary reporting initiatives, centered largely around emissions of the powerful climate pollutant methane, but which may also include other criteria such as air quality, water stewardship, land impacts, and “ community interests.” What Is RSG? Credit: WCN 24/7 , CC BY-NC 2.0.

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Clean Energy Canada

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Requiring oil and gas companies to reduce methane emissions by at least 75% below 2012 levels by 2030. Capping oil and gas sector emissions at current levels and introducing five-year targets starting in 2025 to reduce emissions in line with a net-zero 2050.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 27, 2020

The company has announced or added more than 6,500 megawatts of renewable capacity since 2012, including Georgia Power’s solar portfolio, the largest utility-owned solar fleet in the country. It’s also unclear how Southern Company will account for the greenhouse gas impacts of its natural gas business.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Requiring oil and gas companies to reduce methane emissions by at least 75% below 2012 levels by 2030. Capping oil and gas sector emissions at current levels and introducing five-year targets starting in 2025 to reduce emissions in line with a net-zero 2050.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

’ The latter are produced through chemical restructuring of methane-based gas and become ‘blue’ when emissions are under control. Bourakébougou in Mali represents a pioneering chapter in natural hydrogen extraction, delivering electricity to villagers from a steady flow of nearly pure hydrogen since 2012.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

In 2012, he co-founded Boston Electrometallurgical (a.k.a. Hydrogen doesn’t emit greenhouse gases when burned and can be made by using renewable electricity to bust up water molecules (although most hydrogen today is made with natural gas, through a process called steam methane reforming).

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

Kingsbury, who was awarded a CBE in 2018, was the first CEO of the UK Green Investment Bank plc (GIB) and led the state-backed bank from its formation in 2012 to its £2.3bn sale to Macquarie in 2017. He is also the chairman of CNG Fuels , a leading provider of bio-methane for HGV vehicles. "I

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Grist

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The long-frozen soil beneath the Arctic could rapidly thaw and release vast amounts of carbon dioxide and methane stored within it, heating up the atmosphere even more in a feedback loop.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Drax has received state subsidies worth more than £7 billion since 2012, and the government is currently considering whether to extend this financial assistance to 2027 so the firm can build facilities to capture and store carbon emissions. Drax disputes this claim.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

He filed 21 internal complaints in 2012, then bumped them up to the Oregon Public Utility Commission (OPUC), the group that regulates utilities in the state, later that year. In late 2012, several months after Dye took his complaints to OPUC, NW Natural fired him. Systemic Failures of Oversight.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 12, 2023

natural gas, which is primarily composed of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. In 2012, the Bayou Corne salt dome collapsed, creating a sinkhole more than 300 feet across. Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing later created a surplus in U.S. But Tritico pointed out that salt domes in south Louisiana have collapsed before.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

In 2012, there were only 24 EfW plants in England. In fact, the strategy predicts an additional two million tonnes of EfW capacity will come on-stream by 2020. Incineration growth. The use of incineration has grown exponentially in recent years. Today, we have almost double that number.

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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. Drax disputes this claim.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Requiring oil and gas companies to reduce methane emissions by at least 75% below 2012 levels by 2030. Capping oil and gas sector emissions at current levels and introducing five-year targets starting in 2025 to reduce emissions in line with a net-zero 2050.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

In October, she invited a university researcher onto the property and discovered that several wells were leaking methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide. This increases the risk of methane seeping into the air and oil migrating into the surrounding groundwater. Jenex then acquired the leases.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

In October, she invited a university researcher onto the property and discovered that several wells were leaking methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide. This increases the risk of methane seeping into the air and oil migrating into the surrounding groundwater. Jenex then acquired the leases.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

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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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). This annual report looks at where we are compared to where we need to be in terms of GHGs (see previous reports 2012 , 2018 and 2019 ).

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

municipal solid waste landfills are the third largest source of human-related methane which has over 80 times the warming power of carbon dioxide. billion in tax revenues and accounted for 681,000 jobs in 2012. Effective recycling can also help reduce the amount of emissions released from landfills. According to the EPA, U.S.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

This annual report looks at where we are compared to where we need to be in terms of GHGs (see previous reports 2012 , 2018 and 2019 ). These concerns are reiterated and amplified in the 2020 Emissions Gap Report.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Between 2012 and 2017, food systems were responsible for about 16 billion tons of CO2 each year. Food production contributes to carbon emissions in many ways, including clearing land for grazing, using artificial fertilizers and emitting methane via livestock. And maybe some Tuesdays and Wednesdays for good measure.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JANUARY 12, 2022

The Kyoto Protocol focused on reducing emissions and increasing contributions from wealthier nations, setting a goal of overall emissions reductions of 5 percent below 1990 by 2012. It also encourages parties to reduce methane emissions by 2030.

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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. He has served as Labour’s shadow environment secretary since September 2023.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 25, 2023

New Jersey National Guard assisted displaced residents in Hoboken in the wake of Hurricane Sandy in 2012. That sort of conspiratorial conduct has the potential to be particularly harmful, a recognition reflected in RICO laws.” Credit: U.S. Joseph Davis, via DVIDSHUB , CC BY 2.0 More than two dozen communities across the U.S.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

million square kilometers, the second lowest in the 42-year satellite record, behind only September 2012. Lot’s of Methane. Some of you might already be aware of the ticking time bomb called methane. A summary from the NSIDC shows how bad the situation was in autumn 2020. Arctic sea ice extent averaged for September 2020 was 3.92

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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. Brack’s report caused quite a stir. and refers to extreme cases that do not represent current practice.”

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2022

FTI’s presentation highlighted its work, through Energy In Depth, at “debunking” peer-reviewed studies that link fracking to water contamination, as well as providing “facts” to media about how methane emissions from oil and gas were in decline. A screenshot from FTI Consulting’s 2015 presentation.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

From 2004 to 2012, NW Natural expanded gas infrastructure across Oregon while executives downplayed employee concerns about billing accuracy issues resulting from the incorporation of lower-quality gas into the company’s distribution system, according to internal emails obtained by DeSmog. A Sidelined Solution.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Jack "Tato" Bigio co-founded the company in 2012, along with Yehuda Pearl, founder of hummus maker Sabra, and Rany Lev, a corporate lawyer who also happens to be a pilot for El Al Israel Airlines. Bigio grew up in Lima, on the Pacific Coast of his native Peru, and spent much of his free time as a kid swimming and playing in the ocean.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

For its natural gas business, it will adopt a new net zero by 2050 goal that includes upstream methane and carbon emissions related to purchased gas and downstream carbon emissions from customers' consumption. "As Reports: New York pension fund to divest from shale projects.

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2022

The report notes that the UK has over-achieved against both its first and second carbon budgets, which covered the periods of 2008-2012 and 2013-2017, respectively, and was on track to deliver on its third, which spans the years between 2018-2022.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

Shell has been using this process in their Pearl installation since 2012. Given our lack of knowledge on this specific topic, we cannot state with confidence the energy required to create a metric ton of synthetic fuel, whether it would be methane or diesel. The reason? No surprise there. This of course is not the case.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

Shell has been using this process in their Pearl installation since 2012. Given our lack of knowledge on this specific topic, we cannot state with confidence the energy required to create a metric ton of synthetic fuel, whether it would be methane or diesel. For methane it is close, as you would need 1 C atom and 4 hydrogen atoms.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

Properly plugging and abandoning oil and gas wells is vital to protect the environment and stop methane leaks – but for decades, oil operators have often slipped away without paying to clean up, leaving millions of deteriorating abandoned wells across the U.S. and regulators in different drilling regions face different issues.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

At the very least, utilities will need plans that can get them most of the way there, while rushing ahead with next-generation technologies: long-duration energy storage, small modular nuclear reactors or green hydrogen and methane to fuel natural gas peaker plants. The latter category has grown by about 6,500 megawatts since 2012.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 20, 2023

McKibben described the expansion of the LNG export industry on the Gulf Coast as an “enormous carbon and methane bomb.” The wind will lift the flaming ashes 40 feet in the air, and flaming ash can hit spots on the site where methane could be leaking, which could lead to an issue at the site,” he said.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

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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