Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2022

A Chinese study published in December aims to quantify the role of Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) – and its predominance as a way of measuring organic pollution – in causing unnecessary GHG emissions. COD is widely used as an indicator of organic pollution in wastewater. Measurement methods compared.

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Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

This exquisite instrument will act as the “eye” of the satellite, allowing us to detect, pinpoint, and quantify point source emissions of methane and carbon dioxide. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Detecting methane from space An engineer prepares the imaging spectrometer instrument for testing in a thermal vacuum chamber at JPL.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 12, 2024

However, industry has yet to provide the kind of comprehensive data needed to estimate how far any possible climate benefits from switching to blue hydrogen produced by the planned projects may offset the residual CO2 emissions and methane leaks associated with making it. Credit: Sabrina Bedford.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2022

China tops EV market league table, as global demand continues to surge. California unveils new Methane Accountability Program. California Governor Gavin Newsom has this week unvailed wide-ranging new plans to crackdown on methane emissions in the world's fifth largest economy. The bland was broadly welcomed by green groups. "We

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EDF + Business

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Despite all odds, 2020 has been a milestone year for corporate climate leadership , and it has positioned the private sector to raise the bar even further in 2021 – especially when it comes to turning commitments into action and results. Here’s why. Businesses accept the reality – and the risks – of climate change.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

The annual demand could reach 19,120,458,891 tons by then, representing a tenfold increase from 2015 to 2050. Combined with a push for decarbonization, these economics could drive demand, project energy experts. locations in 2021. And it could be cheaper than producing hydrogen from natural gas.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2021

F), according to the 2021 Global Electricity Review by think tank Ember. . Part of the reason behind China’s coal expansion is it’s growing demand for power. higher in the fourth quarter of 2020 than it was in late 2019, @IEA reports: [link] pic.twitter.com/l7MX4YnpSF — brad plumer (@bradplumer) March 24, 2021.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

How Wall Street can win on climate In 2021. Mon, 01/25/2021 - 01:00. At the start of 2021, leading investors openly recognize that climate change presents a massive systemic risk and a multi-trillion-dollar opportunity. Asset owners will demand no less of asset managers. Ben Ratner. Integrate climate into core business.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Green Hydrogen is the trendiest clean energy source around, touted for its ‘simple’ ability to turn water into a highly combustible energy source capable of replacing our demand for oil and gas. Foremost, the quantity of supply developed will be predicated on where demand may be secured. The push and pull of supply and demand.

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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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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

Green gas specialist CNG Fuels has opened two further refuelling stations for heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) in the UK this week, in anticipation of surging demand for renewable biomethane over the next year and beyond.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

Methane, a greenhouse gas which is belched out in high volumes by cattle, has been identified by the UN and world leaders as the quickest route to cut global heating. It underplays climate impacts, stating that “research has shown that cows do not produce as much methane gas as was once believed”.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

When Pathways to Dairy Net Zero (P2DNZ) made its debut ahead of the United Nations Food Systems Summit in 2021, it looked like the kind of group that could meet an important but largely neglected area of global climate response. Livestock methane emissions are also rising in some of these countries.

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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. “Nobody has run a dispatchable power plant with CCS before.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

With methane emissions driving near-term warming at an alarming rate, it is critical that oil and gas transactions incorporate ambitious standards for CO2 and methane management to ensure effective environmental stewardship in line with climate science. In Q3 of 2021 alone, US oil and gas mergers and acquisitions activity totaled $18.5

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

The voluntary carbon offset market is rocketing, with the Ecosystem Marketplace reporting an annual market value of ~$1 billion in 2021, which was an all-time high. Since these standards were developed, the demand for carbon offsets has increased over the years. 6 best carbon offsetting programs (with carbon offset examples).

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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. These include feed additives to reduce methane in cow burps and “biogas digesters” to capture and burn methane from lagoons of liquid manure.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 28, 2022

The MOU also provides for collaboration to potentially reduce methane emissions upstream of Sempra Infrastructure facilities. It would use electric compression, equivalent to adding around 300 MW of demand to the Entergy Louisiana system, Sempra Infrastructure said. . Sempra Infrastructure owns a 50.2%

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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.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2021

Blue hydrogen is made from natural gas, which is mostly methane, using electricity generated by burning more gas, and hydrogen is considered “blue” (rather than “gray”) when its carbon emissions are sequestered. It’s fracked methane.”. What’s the pollution?’” But where does it come from? It’s dirty energy at [the] source.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

RSG is a new term used in the natural gas industry to describe voluntary reporting initiatives, centered largely around emissions of the powerful climate pollutant methane, but which may also include other criteria such as air quality, water stewardship, land impacts, and “ community interests.” What Is RSG?

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Driven by rapid improvements in the cost and technical feasibility of clean energy, 83% of new US power capacity in 2021 came from renewables. Meeting energy demand and net-zero goals by 2050 necessitates a further global buildout of renewables infrastructure, which can increase energy availability without increasing emissions.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The report calculates if all national climate plans are delivered, fossil fuel demand will peak in 2025 and energy-related emissions will start to bend down, falling by 40 per cent by 2050. Deployments of solar, wind, and electric vehicles may be increasing, but these gains are being offset by still increasing coal, oil, and gas demand.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 31, 2020

This renewable energy growth plan includes a near-term solicitation for up to 1 gigawatt of onshore wind and solar and 250 megawatts of energy storage for delivery by 2023, with final power purchase proposals due in March 2021. gigawatt offshore wind farm in 2024.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 31, 2022

Cemvita Factory applies synthetic biology to decarbonize and reduce the environmental footprint of heavy industries in three ways: capturing CO 2 or methane for use as a feedstock, reducing emissions from energy-intensive chemical reactions, and replacing processes that use harmful chemicals. The 35-person company raised its Series A in 2021.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 15, 2020

Could trash-to-energy technology feed hydrogen demand? The annual demand could reach 19,120,458,891 tons by then, representing a tenfold increase from 2015 to 2050. Combined with a push for decarbonization, these economics could drive demand, project energy experts. locations in 2021.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

per cent in the decade to 2021, with a corresponding rise in water pollution and declines in air quality caused by an increase in nitrogen fertiliser use. The IFA has worked closely with controversial California-based air quality scientist, Frank Mitloehner, to argue against the need to sharply curtail methane emissions from livestock.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

I covered developments related to the rapidly expanding petrochemical and LNG export industries, like new facilities that came online this year and rely on fracking new wells to supply the growing demand for natural gas, which is mostly methane. A tornado knocked her home in Gretna, Louisiana, off its foundation.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 20, 2024

Air Products claims the Edmonton facility will capture over 90 percent of carbon dioxide emissions because, unlike other facilities that produce hydrogen from natural gas, the Edmonton facility will use auto-thermal reforming (ATR) technology instead of steam methane reforming (SMR). That was 70 percent below 2023 levels.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 22, 2024

Currently, more than 99 percent of hydrogen used in the EU is “grey hydrogen” made from natural gas in a process known as “steam methane reformation” that has high carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. million tonnes of greenhouse gases during the same period.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

In May 2021, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released a new report detailing the “Seven Pillars” that would be required to get the world to net?zero Demand will come from industry, refineries, power plants, and the transportation sector. zero carbon emissions (NZE) by 2050. carbon hydrogen rises from 10% in 2020 to 70% in 2030.”.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 3, 2020

It expects the transactions involved to begin in the fourth quarter of 2020 and to be completed sometime in 2021, CEO Ralph Izzo said in a Friday second-quarter earnings conference call. PSEG plans to file applications this fall to seek a second round of zero-carbon subsidies and expects a decision in mid-2021. gigawatts and 2.4

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The European Investment Bank (EIB) will stop backing fossil fuel energy projects in 2021, except those using carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology or offsets to cancel out their emissions. It's targeting €1 trillion of climate action and sustainability investments between 2021 and 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Canadian pipeline company TC Energy is aiming to expand the volume of methane gas that it ships through a long distance pipeline in the Pacific Northwest, potentially locking in higher gas use despite laws in western states that chart a path away from fossil fuels in the years ahead. That could leave out a lot of climate pollution.

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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.

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R-Squared Energy

APRIL 19, 2022

In the initial phase, 25 terawatt-hours (TWh) per year of green methane, from which more than half a million metric tons of hydrogen can be produced, will be imported into Wilhelmshaven. The Hydrogen Council estimates that hydrogen can address 18% of global energy demand and abate one-fifth of carbon emissions. million metric tons.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2022

In early March, oil giant ExxonMobil signed up to meet the World Bank’s “zero routine flaring by 2030” goal (a plan that — when you look just a bit closer — doesn’t entirely eliminate flaring but instead reduces “absolute flaring and methane emissions” by 60 to 70 percent.). How does ExxonMobil plan to reach that goal?

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