Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 20, 2024

A lot of the methane simply dissolved in the surrounding water of the southern Baltic Sea following the September 2022 explosion, according to measurements taken by the University of Gothenburg, and reported in Nature Scientific Reports. But much of the methane never reached the surface and dissolved in the water instead.

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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

JUNE 11, 2024

The world’s 60 biggest banks funded fossil fuels to the tune of $6.9 “Financiers and investors of fossil fuels continue to light the flame of the climate crisis,” Tom BK Goldtooth, report co-author and executive director of the Indigenous Environmental Network, said in a statement. billion, $396.3

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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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Energy Transition

JUNE 22, 2023

In response to Russia’s invasion and brutal war of aggression against Ukraine in 2022, many European nations, particularly Germany, have banned Russian fossil fuels imports. However, LNG, which is mainly cooled and compressed methane.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Fossil fuels get named and shamed. For the first time in 25 years of UN climate talks, coal and fossil fuel subsidies have been singled out in an official document. Methane faces a reckoning. Campaigners and energy experts have long dubbed methane emissions as the 'low hanging fruit' of climate action.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

It is expected that the biomethane can be delivered to the gas grid from the third quarter of 2022. In a few efficient steps, the membranes separate the methane from the CO2 and other components. The methane content of the biogas is brought to the desired level, after which biomethane is the end-result. Regional collaboration.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

But the groups have unearthed a 1970 report by Eni’s Isvet research centre that warned of the “catastrophic” risk the build-up of carbon dioxide (CO2) caused by burning fossil fuels could pose to the climate. Methane is the clean energy of the future,” ran a 1986 promotion in Eni’s company magazine Ecos.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

IEA warns that methane emissions from the global energy sector fell only fractionally last year, despite projects to cut methane leaks providing hugely attractive returns on investment By rights methane emissions from the fossil fuel industry should be one of the easiest climate problems to fix.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The message behind the sponsored content is a common refrain among fossil fuel companies: don’t blame private industry for a lack of climate progress, because we are all responsible.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 22, 2024

The BBC has produced dozens of films and articles for oil and gas companies, agricultural giants, fossil fuel states, and high-emission transport firms in recent years, DeSmog can reveal. Fossil fuels are not only poisoning our planet – they’re toxic for your brand,” he said.

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Some suggested this was only true for per capita emissions, or that it isn’t true if you consider methane leaks. Largest Declines in Carbon Emissions 2007-2022. Largest Increases in Carbon Emissions 2007-2022. Coal, Natural Gas, and Renewables Consumption 2007 to 2022. Following my previous story on the pause in U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Multnomah, Oregon, has added NW Natural — Oregon’s oldest and largest supplier of “natural” gas, also known as fossil or methane gas — to the list of defendants in a lawsuit that seeks to make fossil fuel companies pay $52 billion for their role in the deadly 2021 Pacific Northwest heat dome.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2024

Banks that are serious about delivering their net zero commitments must also stop supporting companies developing new fossil fuel facilities, including LNG.” 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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The Verge: Energy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Unlike fossil fuels, hydrogen fuel doesn’t create planet heating carbon dioxide pollution when burned. The caveat is that most hydrogen today is made through a process called steam methane reforming , which still leads to greenhouse gas emissions. And in 1900, coal met more than 95 percent of the UK’s energy demand.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In the latest addition to its 'green recovery' package, the European Commission yesterday unveiled a flurry of crucial green strategies, targets, and policies, ranging from new green building and renewable energy programmes, to tighter rules governing chemical use and methane emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Scientists say livestock contribute 28 percent of Brazil’s total – as cattle herds emit methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, and forests are cleared for ranching. It’s similar to choosing between investing in clean energy or fossil fuels. percent compared to 2022, largely due to cattle herd growth.

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Eco-Business

OCTOBER 22, 2023

The low-carbon investments in 2022 equaled 5 per cent of net income of the group of large oil and gas firms, whose fossil fuel production has stayed relatively constant. Greenpeace said the figures amounted to “business as usual”.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

But the newly adopted measures, which were announced last week, leave the London-based multinational with plenty of flexibility to continue financing fossil fuel extraction — and some critics say they don’t go far enough. Publicly, Barclays has signaled an intent to pivot away from fossil fuels and help power the rise of green energy.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2023

He also suggested that the UK and UAE could collaborate more closely on the development of nuclear small modular reactors, and hydrogen – which critics say is being heavily pushed by the fossil fuel industry. Rees-Mogg held the meeting on 17 October 2022, during the short-lived tenure of former Prime Minister Liz Truss.

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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. Farming also relies on synthetic fertilisers that are both fossil-fuel-based and emit greenhouse gases, and drives deforestation.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The final wording of the COP28 agreement – which required consensus among all nations and the chair – codified a commitment to transition away from fossil fuels in energy systems. Adding to the problem is that the fossil-fuel sector is Canada’s fastest-growing source of emissions. But all was not lost.

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Charged

JANUARY 17, 2023

The EV Metals Group acquired the battery materials and technology business of Johnson Matthey in 2022. EVM’s gas allocation is equivalent to a daily amount of 6,240,000 cubic feet of methane gas. Now subsidiary EV Metals Arabia has advanced its plans to build a battery material processing plant in Saudi Arabia.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The report, which looks to a 2030 energy system in which clean tech plays a significantly greater role than today, states how sheltering consumers from volatile fuel prices in 2022 cost governments $900 billion in emergency support. ” The energy world will look very different by 2030, even under today's policy settings ?

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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 2, 2024

As of April 2022, 131 countries responsible for 88% of greenhouse emissions had committed to net zero emissions.    The adoption of hydrogen as a fuel is a key aspect of the net zero initiative. Steam-methane reforming and electrolysis are the two most common methods used. °C, which shows the gravity of the issue.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

A session called Funding the New Energy Paradigm: Innovative Financing Mechanisms & Clever Capital Structures will be presented during the POWERGEN Leadership Summi t in Dallas, Texas on January 28, 2022. . The push and pull of supply and demand. of total global emissions. Conclusion.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in her Pennsylvania hometown, she will be facing off against some of the most powerful fossil fuel interests in the United States. LNG boom threatens to release vast amounts of methane, a powerful climate pollutant that is the main component of natural gas.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

of warming if national emissions goals for 2030 are met, global emissions rose again last year and further uptick of around one per cent expected in 2022. But at the same time they have also rushed to boost supplies of fossil gas, approving billions of dollars of investment in new fossil fuel infrastructure.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2024

“It’s really a huge scam,” concluded Molly Anderson, a member of the International Panel of Experts on Food (IPES Food), who co-authored an earlier report on regenerative agriculture in 2022. “It’s Nestlé has emissions three times the size of its home country Switzerland, for example, due to methane from its dairy supply chain.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

In 2022 Shell spent around 220 million euros ($240 million) on this type of advertising, according to AdWeek. This individual added that the dour economic climate and recent layoffs in the advertising and PR sector have made workers fearful of speaking out about working with the fossil fuel sector.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 28, 2023

The pad is owned by a fossil fuel operator that’s come under fire in recent years for purchasing tens of thousands of low-producing oil and gas wells without a clear business motive and for making unrealistic budget projections that minimize the true cost of plugging , critics say.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

On Wednesday, a group of more than 450 scientists called on advertising agencies to cut off their fossil fuel clients and to end their ties with an ongoing misinformation campaign that has time and again killed progress on addressing the climate crisis. LeakForPlanet — Christine Arena (@ChristineArena) January 20, 2022.

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Grist

MAY 22, 2024

Instead of locking in fossil fuels for decades to come — and reducing the incentive for people to electrify their homes — why not make it easier to switch to electric heating instead? The choice many see is between propane and natural gas, because that’s how DTE presented the project. To him, the solution is clear. “It’s

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

gas export projects since the beginning of 2022, a sharp increase on the 1.86 LNG export boom — raising questions about a commitment Germany made to phase out international public finance for fossil fuel projects at the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow in 2021. German banks lent 2.17 billion euros to U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 16, 2023

fossil fuel firms are pushing to build more than 2,900 miles of natural gas pipelines to feed liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facilities in Louisiana, Texas, and Alaska, in a bid to send more of the fuel to Asia and Europe, a new analysis by Global Energy Monitor shows. “All of this money sunk into it is kind of lost.”

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Progress did seem to be forthcoming on cutting methane emissions, with more than 100 countries (although not China) – committing to a 30% reduction by 2030 compared to the 2030 baseline. One of the most significant sign-ups, Poland, later confirmed it intended to carry on burning coal for at least another 25 years.

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