DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2021

In 2016, DeSmog reported from the annual Energy Information Administration (EIA) conference that countries in Southeast Asia expected a “doubling of electricity demand by 2030, dominated by coal.” . . coal power has been replaced with gas power (methane/natural gas). In the U.S.,

Energy Monitor 95

Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Climate change Natural gas 95

Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

They soon discovered that static electricity had caused entrapped methane from the flatulence and manure of 90 dairy cows to explode. According to the United Nations , reducing methane emissions from cows could be one of the quickest ways to slow climate change. Headline writers had a field day. million dairy cows.

Methane 75

Methane Energy Monitor Ocean acidification Home Energy Monitoring 75

Envirotec Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Untreated screenings are also a source of methane emissions, a greenhouse gas that is 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Moreover, spent biochar can be used to enhance the quality of biosolids, an organic fertiliser that many treatment plants produce, and which is applied to soils where it sequesters carbon for centuries.

Patents 130

Patents Waste Waste Europe 130

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

The assertions also lack detail, face technical problems, ignore leaking methane emissions, and depend on government subsidies for funding. To complicate matters further, new research suggests that fugitive methane emissions from fracking operations are far higher than official data indicates. November 2016. November 2016.

Carbon-neutral 98

Carbon-neutral Methane Building Energy Monitoring Carbon 98

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2022

IATP found that JBS’s emissions rose from 280 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO2e) in 2016 to 421.6 The number of cattle in JBS’s supply chain has increased by 54 percent since 2016, while the number of pigs increased by 67 percent, and chickens by 40 percent, according to an IATP tally of company data.

Methane 98

Methane Agriculture Carbon Climate change 98

Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

In the period between 2014 and 2016 China canceled many coal plants and installed scrubbers on 80 percent of existing plants to reduce sulfur dioxide, nitrous oxide and other hazardous emissions. This has improved air quality but these scrubbers do not reduce climate change causing greenhouse gas emissions like carbon and methane.

Energy Monitor 94

Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Climate change 94

AGreenLiving

JULY 23, 2020

For the first time, scientists have confirmed that methane leaking is from Antarctica’s sea bed. They say the methane is likely escaping into the atmosphere. According to the EPA, in 2018, methane accounted for about 10% of U.S. Usually, microbes consume undersea methane before it reaches the atmosphere.

Methane 28

Methane Global warming Climate change 28

DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

A report from Rainforest Action Network found that Barclays was the European Union’s largest funder of oil and gas projects between 2016 and 2022. But activist groups focused on greening the financial sector portray Barclays as a holdout that has slow-walked its climate commitments, especially when compared to other European banks.

Fossil fuels 127

Fossil fuels Natural gas Methane Policy 127

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 historic 2016 verdict ruled in favor of the Dimock residents and ordered Cabot to pay $4.24 He was also able to light water coming out of his faucet on fire.

Methane 98

Methane Law Lithium Pollution 98

Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2020

ExxonMobil has unveiled several short term targets to tackle its carbon intensity, methane emissions, and flaring activity in a new climate plan it claims is "projected to be consistent with the goals of the Paris Agreement", despite the oil and gas giant's continuing refusal to set a long-term net zero emissions goal.

Methane 99

Methane Demand Carbon-negative Climate change 99

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.

Climate change 124

Climate change Ozone Methane Asia 124

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The average American spends $2,392 per year on food while the average Kenyan spends $543 per year on food (World Economic Forum, 2016). One juicy hamburger for you equates to (about) 600 gallons of water consumed, 0.126 pounds of methane released, 13.5 Au contraire, it is the reverse.

Health 526

Health Sustainability Agriculture Organic 526

Greentown Labs

JUNE 23, 2021

Joined Greentown in 2016 + became an alumni member in 2019. Kuva Systems offers a solution for the oil and gas industry to continuously monitor and quantify methane and VOC emissions with low-cost IoT cameras, providing actionable alerts with no false-positive readings. ” Shreya Dave CEO of Via Separations. Kuva Systems.

Building Energy Monitoring 97

Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Startups Incubators 97

Grist

JULY 18, 2024

One study published in 2016 found that instituting the cap on sulfur emissions in 2020 would prevent at least 570,000 premature deaths over the following five years. Luckily, when combined, the greenhouse gases methane and ground-level ozone warm the planet as much as aerosols cool it. And they don’t last nearly as long as CO2 does.

Pollution 115

Pollution Cooling Ozone Methane 115

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The problem for multinational oil companies seeking to extract that oil is whats mixed in with it: trillions of cubic feet of methane, often referred to as natural gas. In Guyana, ExxonMobil had pledged since 2016 to avoid routine flaring entirely. By some estimates, there might be 2.4 In May, the U.S.

Natural gas 115

Natural gas Fossil fuels South America Methane 115

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Fossil Fuel Lock-in The meat and dairy industry’s high methane emissions are increasingly well known. In the United States alone, the fossil fuel industry planned investments of over $164 billion in petrochemicals between 2016 and 2023.

Fossil fuels 140

Fossil fuels Natural gas Plastics Agriculture 140

Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The bank also set out its intentionto take action on its methane emissions by aligning itself with the Global Gas Flaring Reduction Partnership (GGFR) and endorsing the World Bank's Zero Routine Flaring by 2030 initiative. The IEA has warned that no new exploration should take place if the world is to hold tempreatures at 1.5C.

Fossil fuels 101

Fossil fuels Methane Sustainability Climate change 101

Business Green

AUGUST 27, 2020

The guidance chimes with the advice of the world's climate bodies , which warn that - due to a range of factors including changes to land use, methane emissions, and resource inefficiency - it is unsustainable for people to continue eating the quantity of meat they currently do in the world's richest countries.

Carbon 96

Carbon Medicine Health Seafood 96

Grist

OCTOBER 17, 2022

In a 2016 paper he published in Environmental Science & Technology, he documented a 2.25-fold Once ingested, microplastics get incorporated into zooplankton poop and can cause fecal pellets to sink “way, way more slowly,” said Matthew Cole, a senior marine ecologist and ecotoxicologist at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory in the U.K.

Plastics 145

Plastics Climate change Microplastics Carbon 145

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. cropland and help the U.S.

Agriculture 98

Agriculture Climate change Methane Soil 98

Green Market Oracle

APRIL 20, 2020

Ohio fracking well Another epic spill that has turned out to be worse than originally thought is the 2016 Porter Ranch methane leak. At the time some had hoped that the spill would be a catalyst for change, instead we have come to realize that there may be even more devastating methane leaks that have not been reported.

Methane 52

Methane Energy Monitor Fossil fuels Building Energy Monitoring 52

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.

Methane 98

Methane Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 98

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. McCarthy was the shadow environment and farming secretary from 2015 to 2016, and the shadow minister for green transport from 2020-2021.

Climate change 140

Climate change Hydrogen Government Transportation 140

Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2023

Soletair Power, founded in 2016, uncovered the potential for technology to reduce a building’s carbon emissions by capturing CO2 from its ventilation system and using it in the production of fuel or concrete, for example.

Building Energy Monitoring 130

Building Energy Monitoring Carbon Technology Energy Monitor 130

Business Green

APRIL 7, 2020

Van Beurden highlighted how the company was continuing to work towards delivering on its Net Carbon Footprint ambition to cut the intensity of the greenhouse gas emissions from the energy products it sells by around 50 per cent by 2050, and 20 per cent by 2035 compared to 2016 levels.

Carbon 60

Carbon Carbon-neutral Ethics Climate change 60

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.

Methane 96

Methane Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 96

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

And now 2016-2020 is set to be the warmest five-year period on record.". Analysis from the WMO and UK Met Office concludes that the average global temperature for 2016-20 is expected to be the warmest on record, about 1.1C ppm and 410.04 ppm respectively, up from 411.74 ppm and 407.83 ppm in July 2019. billion.

Carbon 69

Carbon Climate change Global warming Fossil fuels 69

Greentown Labs

AUGUST 20, 2021

At the 2016 DEMO Day, we added popcorn pitches for the first time—an element we’ve kept ever since! Zipcar and InTeahouse were the 2016 DEMO Day event partners. Green Gas USA , which captures agricultural methane through an anaerobic digester and converts it to fuel. Grove CEO Gabe Blanchet (a Greentown alum). 2018 May 9, 2018.

Building Energy Monitoring 98

Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 98

Grist

APRIL 20, 2022

Combined with a $40,000 laser he dragged behind him on a plastic sled he’d nicknamed “The Coffin,” Hasson is able to link surface methane emissions to the ice disappearing underground. For instance, recent studies have found that emissions of carbon and methane released by thawing permafrost have been drastically underestimated.

Soil 145

Soil Methane Climate change Government 145

DeSmogBlog

MAY 12, 2023

natural gas, which is primarily composed of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. The oil and gas industry searched for a market for the fossil fuel, using it as a main ingredient in synthetic fertilizers , amping up plastic production , and, beginning in 2016 , exporting it overseas.

Natural gas 90

Natural gas Fossil fuels Methane Ethics 90

Grist

JULY 23, 2024

That’s roughly as much CO2 as cement production worldwide emitted in 2016, and as much as forests globally removed from the atmosphere last year. The same kinds of sensors already used in landfills can be installed to monitor data like oxygen, moisture, and methane levels over time. billion metric tons.

Logging 144

Logging Soil Carbon Energy Monitor 144

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

LNG boom threatens to release vast amounts of methane, a powerful climate pollutant that is the main component of natural gas. Credit: Edward Donnelly Environmental groups on both sides of the Atlantic warn that the U.S.

Natural gas 98

Natural gas Fossil fuels Energy Energy 98

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

More recently, the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released in August highlights the urgent need to tackle one particular livestock-related gas: methane. About 44 percent of livestock emissions are methane, the FAO has found. Reducing livestock numbers could, however, threaten the profits of HfA members.

Medicine 98

Medicine Climate change Health Policy 98

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.

Law 95

Law Fossil fuels Methane Politics 95

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 10, 2021

A methane flare at an oil and gas site in the Permian Basin of West Texas. Over in the Midland basin, an oil-rich area in West Texas, Exxon was much more active, drilling over 630 wells between 2016 and 2020, the third most of any company in the region over that period. Credit: ©2020 Justin Hamel.

Methane 98

Methane Sustainability Energy Energy 98

Unsustainable

AUGUST 20, 2019

In an undated article by the Department of Health (New York State), it was stated that “Methane and Carbon Dioxide make up 90 to 98% of landfill gas. vi I think this reason alone is enough to warrant the use of recycled paper more extensively. vi I think this reason alone is enough to warrant the use of recycled paper more extensively.

Recycling 40

Recycling Recycling Methane Health 40

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.” In 2016, Marshall donated more than £13,000 to Gove’s short-lived campaign to become Conservative Party leader.

Climate change 112

Climate change Fossil fuels Global warming Carbon-neutral 112