Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2022

The signing of the Global Methane Pledge at last year’s COP26 marks a vital step in reducing the impact of industrial activities on the environment. Originally proposed by the US and EU in September 2021, the Global Methane Pledge will see countries acting to cut methane emissions by 30 percent by 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 18, 2025

Leading supermarkets are failing to address the methane pollution in their supply chains, a new report has found, putting their own climate pledges at risk. The meat and dairy sector is responsible for around a third of atmospheric methane and accounts for a third of all supermarket emissions. and agreed by world leaders in 2021.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 26, 2020

If governments and companies stimulate clean growth, we can ensure that the positive impact that COVID-19 has unexpectedly had on our environment endures — enabling future generations to look back on 2019 as the year of peak carbon. In our view, there are five steps that should be prioritized as part of a coordinated global response.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 16, 2021

The current situation is insane: Organic waste is the single biggest input in landfills, where it produces the potent greenhouse gas methane as it decomposes. households reported lacking the resources needed to feed all members during 2019. Keep organic waste out of landfills and incinerators . The rest could be used to make compost.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 4, 2021

Only a handful of super emitters are responsible for an enormous amount of the methane pollution in the Permian basin, according to a new study. Methane is a highly potent greenhouse gas — more than 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide over a 20-year time-frame. That’s equivalent to about 5% of the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2020

This is despite the fracking revolution delivering record oil and gas production for the past decade, peaking in 2019. Tags: fracking finance LNG Exports methane shale oil associated gas Read time: 16 mins After over a decade of the much-hyped U.S. fracking miracle, the U.S.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Actionable Insights for a Decarbonizing World Missing Methane: The decarbonization risks and opportunities of financed methane emissions Financed emissions reporting by the six biggest US banks doesn’t show if they’re improving. Focusing on methane can yield results. Focusing on methane is part of the answer.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

"It is incredibly hard for investors to source, vet and execute investments across the many varied climate solution sectors," said Jan Van Dokkum, the former Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers partner who became chairman of Imperative in 2019, in a statement. "We

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

New report from the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) highlights the need to control methane slips on ships that have switched to using LNG as fuel. The researchers comes amidst predictions demand for LNG fuel for ships trading within the European Union could triple between 2019 and 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2021

From devastating wildfires to rising methane emissions, Earth’s vital signs are continuing to deteriorate, scientists warn. Many of those metrics have worsened since the group originally declared a climate emergency in 2019. trillion between 2015 and 2019. Australia, the U.K., Forests cleared in Brazil for agriculture.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In 2019, University of Utah atmospheric scientists, the Environmental Defense Fund and other partners added a new tool to their quiver of air quality monitors: two Google Street View cars, Salt Lake Valley’s roving sentinels that would detect hyper-local air pollution hotspots. from dust or ash; and methane, primarily from the landfill.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The sensors “outperformed competing techniques in sensitivity” when used to detect methane and ethane, said Manvendra Dubey, the lead Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist and coauthor of the new study, in comments made to the publication Phys.org. And the system’s neural network can work with any kind of sensor.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The study found that an alternative method of quantifying the impact of methane emissions has led to a raft of industry-friendly findings that the livestock sector seems to be using to claim climate neutrality as they continue to pollute. That’s why some experts have proposed an alternative approach called GWP* for talking about methane.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Actionable Insights for a Decarbonizing World Dairy Methane Accounting A guide for disaggregating dairy methane emissions from existing corporate greenhouse gas inventories, with a foreword from the International Dairy Federation. To act on methane, dairy companies must first understand their total dairy-related methane emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 29, 2021

Read time: 7 mins In 2019 and 2020, the Environmental Defense Fund ( EDF ) conducted three helicopter surveys over the oil fields of West Texas. Flying over flare stacks at more than three hundred oil and gas drilling sites, EDF staff used infrared cameras to document unlit flares whose methane pollution is invisible to the naked eye.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

New IEA analysis reveals methane emissions from the energy sector are 70 per cent higher than official reports, but could high gas prices finally prompt operators to tackle the problem. It is one of the biggest and most worrying mysteries in the field of climate science: where are all the methane emissions coming from?

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

For example, in 2019, the BBC found that compostable plastics in Wales were going to landfills rather than being composted because almost all local councils were unable to deal with them. In addition, some bioplastics produce methane gas when they decompose, a compound with a global warming potential 25 times that of CO2.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

Image credit: © 2019 Barbara Mair, Universität Wien Georg Winkler working on a setup used to characterise the high-performance mirrors under vacuum conditions. in December 2019. M anufactured in a new process based on crystalline materials, these low-loss mirrors hold forth the promise of completely new application areas.

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Grist

MARCH 17, 2021

Measured by their planet-warming power, methane-filled livestock belches are the equivalent of 850 coal plants burning year-round. But scientists have found that spicing up cattle feed with a little seaweed can dramatically reduce the methane they produce, according to a new study out Tuesday. How scary are cow burps exactly?

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

1 With agriculture estimated to have been the source of 48% of the UK’s methane emissions in 2020 – an increase of 1.3% on 2019 2 – the trend towards on-farm AD is set to continue. Not least because, unlike other renewable energy technologies, biogas offers multiple additional benefits beyond simply green power.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 25, 2022

While carbon dioxide (CO2) tends to be the most commonly discussed and recognized GHG, there are numerous other greenhouse gasses including methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, and hydrofluorocarbons. The three major greenhouse gases are carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O). Methane (CH4).

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 30, 2021

“By mapping out how AD and biogas could help countries to dramatically cut their greenhouse gas emissions, especially methane, over the next decade and beyond, this report aims to put humanity back on track to deliver on the ambitions of both the Paris Agreement and UN Sustainable Development Goals.” Read the Executive Summary.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The UN climate talks hosted in Dubai this month will shine a bright light on the pivotal role national oil companies, like UAE’s Abu Dhabi National Company (ADNOC), can and ultimately must play in the fight against climate change – particularly the urgent need to reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas supply chain.

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Grist

DECEMBER 20, 2024

billion tons of fossil carbon in human-made objects that were in use for at least a year between 1995 and 2019. But unfortunately, the authors acknowledge, these sites often leach chemicals , burp out methane , or shed microplastics into the environment. Their research looked at the 8.4

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

For example, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and SoCalGas launched a new bioreactor in 2019 that turns renewable power into renewable methane. Power-to-gas involves using excess renewable power to manufacture carbon-neutral synthetic methane.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

EDF recently hosted a virtual summit for private equity firms Quantum Energy Partners and EIG Global Energy Partners to engage their portfolio companies, which include more than 50 producer and midstream companies on the business importance of methane mitigation. Andrew: Divestment of oil and gas is gaining momentum. Sean: It’s very simple.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Scientists have known for a while now that hydropower facilities release greenhouse gases — mostly methane, but also CO2 and nitrous oxide. But the way they’ve historically calculated a facility’s climate impact has obscured methane’s heat-trapping potency.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 31, 2020

per share, compared to a gain of $54 million or 5 cents per share for the same quarter in 2019. Dominion’s natural gas utilities are also investing in emissions reductions work expected to reduce methane leakage from their operations by 65 percent by 2030 and 85 percent by 2040, Fanning said. billion, or $1.41

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The potential of methane and market mechanisms. This year, it focuses on methane and market mechanisms. Reduction of methane emissions from the fossil fuel, waste and agriculture sectors can contribute to closing the emissions gap and reduce warming in the short term. per cent in 2020.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Furthermore, because it is consistently produced through natural reactions, hydrogen avoids the greenhouse gas emissions associated with energy-intensive hydrogen production methods like steam methane reforming. Based in Nebraska, this company drilled its first hydrogen borehole in 2019 to explore the Midcontinent Rift.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 16, 2022

It has now been fitted to the PTO-operated Mulag SB600 suction mower that Halifax-based GVA has been using since 2019. There’s another potential environmental benefit too, in that grass that’s been cut and collected in late summer and then left to die away over the winter releases methane.

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Energy Central

MARCH 20, 2024

By EDF Blogs By Andrew Baxter “Very soon nobody is going to be able to hide from methane leakage,” Chevron CEO Mike Wirth said back in 2019. Now, the convergence of new satellites, new climate commitments and new market demands means that day is here. Some companies have been girding for it; others are lagging.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2021

Boom and Bust: Tracking the Global Coal Plant Pipeline , a new report from Global Energy Monitor, found that “China commissioned 76 percent of the world’s new coal plants in 2020, up from 64 percent in 2019, driving a 12.5 coal power has been replaced with gas power (methane/natural gas). Can Coal Replace Natural Gas? In the U.S.,

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Grist

JULY 24, 2019

But before that happens, leaks from across the natural gas supply chain — from the drilling process to gas stoves — can unintentionally vent methane into the atmosphere. That’s especially bad news, since methane is roughly 25 times more potent a greenhouse gas than CO2. In some ways, the methane findings are a good thing.

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CleanTX

MARCH 20, 2019

Joint effort focuses on developing technologies and management practices to accelerate reductions of methane emissions across the global oil and gas industry. The agreement enables joint collaboration on projects that test technologies and emerging strategies to continue to improve methane management. BP took such a step today.”.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Our advanced gasification process uses waste products to generate low-carbon syngas – a mix of hydrogen, methane and carbon dioxide and monoxide. His innovative efforts were recognized in 2019 when he received an Energy Catalyst Innovate award for an off-grid gasification project in Malawi.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2024

The Caieiras landfill has a biogas-fueled thermal power plant, where methane (CH 4 ) from decomposing organic matter drives electricity generators. In 2019, when the study was conducted, these two landfills had installed capacities of 8 megawatts (MW) and 29 MW respectively. “That would correspond to between 4.9 million and 57.2

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