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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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2023

The Power-to-X unit being demonstrated. Soletair Power (Finland) has developed a seemingly unique solution for extracting carbon dioxide (CO2) from building ventilation systems to help achieve carbon net zero and even carbon negative building projects. Why capture CO2 from buildings? Petri Laakso of Soletair.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2021

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

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The only climate trend more powerful for global financial institutions than the drive to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 is the momentum to exit oil and gas. According to the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), more than 50 globally significant financial institutions have put in place an oil and gas exit policy.

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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. Credit: ©2020 Justin Hamel. Reeves County, Texas.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

By Faye Bowser, Head of Energy Solutions, Siemens plc. How do we find the energy and ideas now to put in place the changes needed to sustain our collective trajectory to 2050, and also identify the next set of ‘big wins’ for industry? The halfway mark has now passed between 1990, the year that countries who signed the U.N.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

A little over a decade ago, Gary Dye, then a gas measurement engineer at NW Natural, Oregon’s largest gas utility, lost faith in his employer to responsibly deal with what he believed to be systematic inaccuracies among the company’s hundreds of thousands of gas meters. Faulty Meters Raise Questions About Profits.

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Elemental Excelerator

MAY 20, 2020

On May 14, we hosted our 7th annual Interactive event bringing together the two of the most important groups in the Elemental ecosystem — the entrepreneurs building companies to overcome our most urgent environmental challenges and the investors, experts, customers, and other partners who are critical for their success. Equity & Climate.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 28, 2022

Following a 10-year analysis of the scale of methane leakage at almost 1,000 AD plants across the UK and Europe, Tim Elsome, General Manager of biogas specialists FM BioEnergy, outlines why now is the ideal time to tackle unidentified biogas leaks – and how to protect your plant, profits and the planet. The risks of doing nothing.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Underpinning the effort to comply with marine emissions regulations is the monitoring of these exhaust gases, and instrumentation seems an indispensable support for marine operators under pressure to make good decisions with respect to things like fuel selection and the specification of scrubber systems. Specifying measurement.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

China burns about half the coal used globally while at the same time it is the leading market for solar panels, wind turbines and electric vehicles. This duality is evident in Shanxi, which is both China's coal mining region and the location of some of the country's largest solar and wind power projects.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2024

This summer, just seven months after the fire ripped through Dark Horse, the EPA approved a key “monitoring, reporting, and verification” plan for the project — a key step in enabling the company to claim carbon capture tax credits that could be worth over a quarter of a billion dollars. So far, that’s not what’s happening.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Tackling methane from oil and gas operations among 'best near-term opportunities’ for combatting climate change, IEA argues. Methane, which is largely released from abandoned coal mines, oil and gas operations, and farming, has a far greater global warming potential than CO2.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Photos I shot in 2022 for DeSmog capture damage from extreme weather events and the continued expansion of the fossil fuel industry — the dominant industry causing global warming. Industries reliant on methane gas continue to expand their footprint, despite bipartisan discussions about the need to develop climate solutions.

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Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

For example, according to the UN FAO , COVID-19 may have pushed as many as 132 million people into chronic hunger in 2020, making it all the harder to meet the goal of SDG 2. To do so, they look to build more resilient systems with tight information feedback loops.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 12, 2021

But, as the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis’ energy finance analyst Bruce Robertson told DeSmog, even they “haven’t been able to get it right”. . A project capturing emissions from coal production at the Petra Nova plant in Texas was shuttered in 2020 following numerous problems and missed targets. .

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 23, 2021

These startups have played a huge role in building and shaping Greentown’s supportive community of climatetech entrepreneurs, and now they’re making climate action at scale a reality. Joined Greentown in 2018 + became an alumni member in 2020. Joined Greentown in 2013 + became an alumni member in 2020. Sean Grundy CEO of Bevi.

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 20, 2021

This month, we’re spotlighting our annual DEMO Day event, which in 2020 evolved into the Greentown Labs Climatetech Summit. In 2020, we took DEMO Day to the next level. Curtatone , Massachusetts Clean Energy Center then-CEO Alicia Barton , EnerNOC CEO Tim Healy , and Greentown CEO Emily Reichert. in Somerville, MA!

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This story is part of the series Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia , which explores the path to low-carbon energy for British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. And, in the United States, political gridlock chopped the heart out of Congress’ most ambitious clean energy plan. . Worried about the climate crisis? If not sooner.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2022

Even as the overall VC market slows during the second half of 2022, investments in climate tech - particularly technologies that could enable green hydrogen to help decarbonize heavy industry and other big emitters - continue to add up. Its electrolysis process runs on renewable power, the hallmark of so-called green hydrogen technologies.

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EDF + Business

JUNE 15, 2023

Sean Hackett EDF+Business Senior Manager, Energy Transition By Sean Hackett The past year has seen a slew of historic climate investments and a growing focus among businesses and the finance sector on opportunities in the energy transition. As clean energy grows, risks to the oil and gas industry are evolving at a rapid pace.

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R-Squared Energy

APRIL 19, 2022

The ongoing conflict in Ukraine and the subsequent sanctions against Russia have highlighted Europe’s vulnerability when it comes to energy security. TES is a green hydrogen company that will accelerate the energy transition through its ambitious plans to develop a green hydrogen hub at Wilhelmshaven in Northern Germany.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

Gulf Coast typically receives much of the attention for the LNG rush , the Pacific Coast of Canada is home to multiple proposed LNG export projects, as energy companies scramble to export fracked gas from northeast British Columbia. Thames is a former executive at Cheniere Energy, a prominent U.S. In October 2020, B.C.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

It had been about a year and a half since he left his job at an aerospace company to found a clean energy startup in San Francisco with three of his friends, but the path to success he’d once envisioned had crumbled. For a while things had been looking up for Charm Industrial. Courtesy of Charm Industrial.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

BASF’s wine tasting is just one example of many such pandemic-style lobbying efforts by the European agriculture industry since the EU has attempted to pass sweeping new policies to combat climate change through measures included in its “Green Deal,” first presented in December 2019. These groups spent at least a combined €45.9

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EDF + Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Adopting net-zero by 2050 benchmarks will allow banks to minimize portfolio-wide climate risks and capitalize on the financial opportunities of the energy transition. Already, the EU and UK require banks to monitor their climate risk. In 2020 alone, companies from Microsoft to BP have committed to net-zero by 2050.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2021

The resulting biogas - or biomethane - offers a lower carbon alternative to fossil fuel-based methane, and can be directly injected into the existing gas grid to help reduce the emissions intensity of heating homes and businesses. The green gas tariff scheme is expected to help save 21.6 a year for an average domestic consumers by 2028.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The circumstances surrounding his termination are documented among thousands of pages of public records and internal company documents that provide a penetrating look into the multi-billion dollar stakes of negotiations between governments and state-sanctioned monopolies that are shaping the future of energy systems in Oregon and beyond.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In 2020, the European Commission ran an extensive cross-sector sweep of websites to identify instances of greenwash.They found that in 42% of cases, green claims were exaggerated, false, or deceptive. The report focuses on bisphenol A (BPA), which is an industrial chemical found in baby bottles and polycarbonate plastics. Energy Star.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

May 27, 2020. Justin Hamel ©2020. Credit: Justin Hamel ©2020. For example, a 2020 study from the University of California, Los Angeles found that living near flaring events, which burn off excess methane, or natural gas, is connected to an increased risk of preterm births.

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2023

In 2020, the world's first cell-cultured meat went on sale at Singaporean restaurant called 1880 Singapore. The industry is attracting investment as new technologies for cultivating meat are emerging and start ups edge towards commercialisation. The sector has developed rapidly over the past decade. per cent.

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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). We have observed a steady stream of record breaking warming and 2020 is expected to set another heat record. The impacts of GHGs are being felt here and now.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

When Laura Briggs and her husband finally found their dream home in West Texas, they knew they’d be sharing space with the oil industry. However, the family did see the wells leaking oil and gushing produced water — an industry byproduct that’s often imbued with hazardous chemicals. This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

When Laura Briggs and her husband finally found their dream home in West Texas, they knew they’d be sharing space with the oil industry. However, the family did see the wells leaking oil and gushing produced water — an industry byproduct that’s often imbued with hazardous chemicals. This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

If the Paris Agreement is anything to go by, the impact of the agreement is set to soon ripple through the real economy, as the private and public sector work together to bring entire industries and economies in to line with its goals. Polluters have been put on notice. temperature target stands tall.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 26, 2022

During the World Economic Forum in Davos, Philanthropist Bill Gates, the US special presidential envoy for climate John Kerry, CEO of energy firm Vattenfall Anna Borg, and Yasmine Fouad, Egypt’s Minister of Environment, discussed the key actions utilities, governments and the private sector are planning to accelerate climate action and innovation.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Last month was the warmest November on record, and 2020 is expected to be one of the hottest years on record. These concerns are reiterated and amplified in the 2020 Emissions Gap Report. The 2020 forecast suggests we are on track to exceed these limits by a considerable margin. gigatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (GtCO2e).

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