Grist

JANUARY 28, 2025

And what’s turning the tap more open, making the warming pick up speed, is an increase in greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane which are both still rising, largely from the fossil fuel industry, he said. There are other factors turning up the heat. The El Nio pattern that began in 2023 added around 0.1

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 24, 2021

Leaking methane from oil and gas infrastructure is widespread across the European continent, reveals an investigation of more than 150 sites in seven countries. More than 60 percent of the sites analyzed by researchers using state-of-the-art technology were releasing large volumes of methane – a powerful greenhouse gas – into the atmosphere.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 5, 2025

percent of the worlds carbon dioxide pollution alone in 2023, the report found. For the first time, instead of attributing the build-up of industrial carbon dioxide and methane emissions to each of the worlds nations, Heede managed to trace those emissions to 90 specific carbon major companies.

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Grist

JULY 18, 2024

Michael Diamond thought he’d have to wait until this year, at least, to have enough data to understand how a shipping regulation aimed at curbing pollution affected the clouds that deck the ocean. When industries around the world emit fewer of these pollutants, clouds darken. “They’re so variable. percent to 0.5

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Grist

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Efforts like these took aim at pollutants like the group of chemicals known as aerosols, which include sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, and other compounds that are harmful to human health. Some studies estimate that, without aerosol pollution, the world might have already warmed by another half a degree Celsius. Clean Air Act.

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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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GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

Historically, greenhouse gas emissions rose from about 27 Gigatons-CO2equivalent/year in 1970 to about 50 Gt-CO2e/yr in 2020. We have already squandered decades debating and denying climate change — a form of " predatory delay " that benefitted big polluters. Historical Greenhouse Gas Emissions. That means no more waiting.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 6, 2021

Looking back, however, 2020 proved to be a decisive year for clean energy in India. But while the renewable energy industry endured a turbulent 2020, coal remains the dominant player in India’s electricity mix. During the 2019/2020 fiscal year, the average coal-fired power plant ran just 55.5 Businesses closed.

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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. GWP* prioritizes the trend over the last 20 years. Credit: Matt Brown/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

In fact, in 2020, during the middle of a global pandemic and its associated recession, these policies were announced once every month. That means midstream and downstream infrastructure like pipelines, liquefied natural gas terminals and a wave of ethane crackers driving a global plastic pollution crisis.

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Business Green

MAY 25, 2022

Methane is a blow torch that’s cooking the planet,' scientists warn, as new study argues near term action could play a critical role in curbing global warming. Our study shows that phasing out fossil fuels is essential but must be paired with targeted action now on methane, black carbon soot, HFCs, and smog. by 2035 and 2C by 2050.

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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 report calculatres that switching to LNG could deliver carbon emissions savings, but these could be partially offset by increased methane emissions.

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Grist

JUNE 5, 2024

Xiaotong Zheng, a meteorologist at the Ocean University of China, and international colleagues argue that this extraordinary heating is the result of a dramatic cleanup of Chinese air pollution. The idea that cleaning up air pollution can worsen atmospheric warming sounds counterintuitive. In 2020, the U.N.’s percent to 0.5

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2024

Venture Global’s terminal in Cameron Parish exceeded its air pollution limits most days during its first year of operation, according to a report by the Louisiana Bucket Brigade. Grüneberg clarified that the EU-wide methane regulation finalized in May will result in a methane transparency database where U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 29, 2024

Intense lobbying from the meat and dairy industry since 2020 has helped weaken and stall crucial climate policies in the European Union, according to a new report from InfluenceMap.

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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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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Even if they perform as hoped, the power plants would likely burn imported liquified natural gas (LNG) from the United States, Qatar, and other suppliers — a fuel source that emits high levels of climate-heating methane when it’s being extracted, transported and stored. An LNG tanker loads in Freeport, Texas Credit: ©Edward Donnelly.

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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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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Meat emits around a third of global emissions of methane, and action to cut this greenhouse gas has been identified by the UN and world leaders as the quickest route to slowing global heating. All these methods work to improve the soil, reduce air and water pollution, cut emissions, and boost biodiversity.

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Elemental Excelerator

MAY 20, 2020

. “ Ricardo (Caco) Gilead Baibich, CTO of Kando , explained how his company’s wastewater surveillance technology, which traces pollution to its source, can also help track COVID-19 infections through sewage. Joan Salwen, CEO of Blue Ocean Barns , explained that feeding seaweed to cattle can help slash methane emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The decision has outraged residents who’ve lived with the pollution tied to Coterra Energy’s previous fracking activity and endured over a decade in which they’ve lacked access to clean water for their homes. in 2021 — to household water pollution, banning the company from drilling new natural gas wells in the area entirely.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 23, 2021

. ” Transport is the most polluting sector and its GHG emissions levels have not changed over the past decade. At time when the pollution levels exceed WHO guidelines on 97% of UK roads, we can not afford to wait 15-20 years for electricity or hydrogen solutions to become ready.”

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2020

An Air Quality Monitoring (AQM) Station installed in Liverpool City Centre in 2020. Despite the bleak, unprecedented Covid-19 cloud that descended upon us all in 2020, Enviro Technology Services (ET) has had a memorable and positive year with some fantastic and interesting projects.

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Grist

APRIL 5, 2021

Amy Townsend-Small has been chasing methane her entire professional life. When fracking took off around 2010, Townsend-Small shifted her focus to a new and growing problem: methane leaks from oil and gas activity. Natural gas, which is primarily composed of methane, was pitched as a fuel that could transition the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

In 2020, the company ran a large-scale campaign across TV, radio, newspapers, and billboards, insisting that its pigs were “more climate-friendly than you think.” In a video released in 2020, Vion’s CEO Ronald Lotgerink stated that “in 2050, we have to feed 10 billion mouths. Meat Industry Playbook.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Just 50 nations worldwide now outside initiative that aims to cut methane emissions 30 per cent by 2030. First launched with just over 100 national backers at the UN Climate Summit in Glasgow a year ago, the Global Methane Pledge commits signatories to collectively reducing emissions of the gas by 30 per cent between 2020 and 2030.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Mon, 10/26/2020 - 01:30. Over the past two months, I reached outside my usual network to discuss this topic via email with six fellow honorees from the 2020 GreenBiz 30 Under 30 , to which I was named in June. One juicy hamburger for you equates to (about) 600 gallons of water consumed, 0.126 pounds of methane released, 13.5

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EDF + Business

JUNE 15, 2023

Natural gas pipelines are ubiquitous throughout the United States and pipeline leaks are a safety risk, a waste of a valuable energy resource, and a source of methane pollution that accelerates climate change. Methane emissions pose urgent and material risks to oil and gas companies, the financial sector, and capital markets.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 20, 2024

French power company Engie canceled talks for a $7 billion contract in 2020 over concerns from the French government, a major shareholder in Engie, about the potent greenhouse gas methane. If and when it comes online, it will be the largest polluter in the Rio Grande Valley.” Circuit Court just held in its Aug.

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EDF + Business

DECEMBER 17, 2020

I’ve been working in the corporate sustainability space for nearly 25 years, and during that fateful week of March 9 th , 2020 (when the world as we know it forever changed), I couldn’t help but worry about the possibility of decades of climate progress slipping away. In addition, we must do all we can to protect current carbon stocks.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Meat and dairy firms in particular are coming under increasing scrutiny due to pollution from livestock, which emits around a third of the global output of methane, a short-lived greenhouse gas identified as the quickest route to slowing global heating. kg per year – in 2020, the average person in the U.S. One is the UAE and U.S-led

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

Further research by DeSmog has shown that Eni’s company magazine Ecos made repeated references to climate change during the late 1980s and 1990s — while running advertising campaigns promoting natural gas, which is mostly comprised of planet-warming methane, as a “clean” fuel. ‘Friend Methane! ‘Friend Methane!

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 5, 2021

As the United States moves toward decarbonization, cities and states must use all means available to reduce climate pollution, and natural gas utilities should be at the forefront of this rapid energy transition. In 2020, the commission launched a proceeding to modernize the natural gas planning process.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Cows produce methane, a greenhouse gas that absorbs more atmospheric heat than carbon and is currently responsible for 25 percent of all global warming today. A large majority are large, for-profit food corporations – including Starbucks and Coca Cola (which took full control of a milk brand, Fairlife, in 2020).

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

May 27, 2020. Justin Hamel ©2020. The study did not pinpoint specific pollutants or look at what stage of the drilling process might be worse than others. You’ve got air pollution from the drilling site itself. Credit: Justin Hamel ©2020. New houses for sale next to an oilfield in Midland, Texas.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

While the focus is usually on fossil fuel emissions as the main climate change culprit, a new analysis by the nonprofit Energy Vision concludes that reducing emissions from organic waste would more steeply reduce methane. announced their commitment to cutting methane emissions by 30% by 2030, as compared with 2020 levels.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

This electrification effort is being driven by the nation's war on pollution. This has improved air quality but these scrubbers do not reduce climate change causing greenhouse gas emissions like carbon and methane. However, China's emissions have been dramatically slowed by the Corona virus. Subscribe in a reader

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