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The quest for cleaner air

Envirotec Magazine

Diverse compounds are emitted by everything from motor vehicles to power plants, and include both greenhouse gases and short-lived climate pollutants – which are known to fuel global warming – as well as a host of volatile organic compounds that can lead to short- and long-term health problems in humans.

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Beyond emissions: The life of a carbon molecule

GreenBiz

But carbon is also moving constantly through the global economy, which historically has been powered by burning fossil fuels for energy. As the most prevalent of the greenhouse gases (GHGs), CO2 plays an outsize role in global climate change — for example, it accounted for 81 percent of U.S. emissions in 2018.

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Methane release from UK shale gas site equivalent to 142 trans-Atlantic flights, says research group

Envirotec Magazine

tonnes of methane gas to atmosphere that was detected at a nearby monitoring station installed by researchers from The University of Manchester. Elevated methane (CH4) concentrations in the air were measured at an atmospheric monitoring station near the Preston New Road (PNR) shale gas site over a one-week period in January 2019.

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Global e-waste has risen 21% in five years, says UN

Envirotec Magazine

million tonnes (Mt) of e-waste was produced globally in 2019, the weight of 350 cruise ships the size of the Queen Mary 2; $57 billion in gold and other components discarded – mostly dumped or burned. per cent of 2019’s e-waste was collected and recycled. per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

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Global Coal Use is Falling But Not Fast Enough to Tackle Climate Change

DeSmogBlog

Despite drops in energy usage during the pandemic, coal power use only declined by four percent in 2020, according to a new report. While coal used for power generation dropped 20 percent in both the U.S. GW (gigawatt) increase in the global coal fleet in 2020.”. electricity consumption was 2.5 degrees.” .

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Exclusive: Norway’s Equinor Forced to Withdraw Key Carbon Capture Claim

DeSmogBlog

Broken Equipment Equinor had previously acknowledged that faulty monitoring equipment at Sleipner caused it to over-estimate the amount of CO2 it was capturing at the field for several years, as DeSmog reported in October. Credit: Sabrina Bedford. million tonnes of CO2 at the site. In August, chief executive Anders Opedal announced up to $6.7

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Innovative Breakthrough in Green Hydrogen Production by Independent Researcher

Hydrogen Fuel News

Energy Solutions with Green Hydrogen and Independent Innovation Over two decades ago, an independent researcher embarked on a journey to explore hydrogen production, investing scarce resources into this critical field. A few weeks ago, a groundbreaking discovery was made: the production of green hydrogen using solar energy.