DeSmogBlog

MARCH 8, 2024

Much of it is methane, which is especially potent for the twelve years it lingers in the atmosphere with a warming potential 28 times that of carbon dioxide. Reducing methane is seen by experts as a quick climate win, and both the food system and energy sector have been called on by UN climate body the IPCC to curb emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Meat and dairy producers in particular are coming under increasing scrutiny due to increasing pollution from cattle and sheep, which emit around a third of the global output of methane. Farming also drives deforestation and relies on synthetic fertilisers that are both fossil-fuel-based and emit greenhouse gases. and at climate summits.

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Terra Infirma

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Desperate to get up to speed on the topic, I chanced on the book Material Concerns by Tim Jackson which set out the principles of Sustainability in very clear terms. Cleaner Production/Design: this was the revolutionary concept at the time I read the book: design the pollutants out of the system before they are ever created.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2023

A hydrogen industry lobby group has produced a comic book aimed at high schoolers that suggests solar and wind power are incapable of fueling decarbonization goals, and that only hydrogen fuel cells provide sufficient energy to eliminate fossil fuels. This is misleading for several reasons,” said Mark Z.

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Energy Central

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Thus, it needs to use ‘green’ hydrogen and air-captured CO2 as feedstocks, or to use 100% bio-sourced methane. There is an accelerating order book for methanol-enabled.

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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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Grist

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Matt Simon, a science journalist for Wired, details the danger in his forthcoming book on microplastics, A Poison Like No Other. Matt Simon’s book, A Poison Like No Other, details the many dangers of microplastics. In a final step, zooplankton excrete the carbon as part of “fecal pellets” that sink down the water column.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Take the best-selling book, The Uninhabitable Earth. If the Arctic permafrost melts away, releasing all its stored methane, and if the global thermostat turns out to be especially sensitive to greenhouse gases, the world could warm to RCP 8.5 Are we safe or are we doomed?

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

One juicy hamburger for you equates to (about) 600 gallons of water consumed, 0.126 pounds of methane released, 13.5 We have access to myriad documentaries and books aimed at increasing awareness. The chief impediment is that the gain is private, yet the cost is public.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 28, 2024

If the price you paid [to buy into National gas] was driven by hydrogen for space heating, then this will end up as one for the history books — and not in a good way,” snarked back Bloomberg New Energy Finance founder Michael Liebreich, in an early February LinkedIn post aimed at Price.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 13, 2024

Days earlier she had received an email: “ Dangerously high methane in water,” the subject line read. An environmental microbiologist at Duquesne University, John Stolz, had found enough methane to pose a “risk of ignition.” Tim spent nearly $10,000 to install a reverse osmosis system, but his water is still carbonated with methane.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 11, 2022

DeSmog previously reported on NW Natural’s rate request, which would saddle Oregonians with a 12 percent increase in their gas bills, in part to cover the costs of misleading advertising that promotes gas use, millions of dollars to shareholders and executives , and the campaign to promote gas in kids activity books in Oregon schools.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2024

The science behind the hockey stick graph has been continuously upheld as accurate, and is among key findings that prove burning oil, coal, and methane gas is the primary driver of the climate crisis. Oreskes, author of the books “Why Trust Science?” Science is not about individuals, it’s about process,” Oreskes testified.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2022

Bonus points if you sell your existing furniture rather than send it to the landfill (where it otherwise releases uber-potent methane for years). Some examples of functional pieces are candles, books, mason jars (which can be used as vases), and of course, live plants, which can help purify the air. – Goodside.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Indeed, at 42 inches in diameter and 303 miles long, the MVP is the largest methane gas pipeline currently under construction in the U.S. In 1988, he wrote The End of Nature, the first book for a common audience about global warming. However, it is no less dangerous to the planet than other fossil fuel pipelines.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Today, Carson’s work is widely considered the most important environmental book of the 20th century. Burger King committed the sin of lesser two evils in July 2020, with their advertised “reduced methane beef”. The commercial explained that by changing a cow’s diet, Burger King was able to reduce their methane emissions by 33%.

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Grist

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The long-frozen soil beneath the Arctic could rapidly thaw and release vast amounts of carbon dioxide and methane stored within it, heating up the atmosphere even more in a feedback loop. Tipping points are not, as a way of looking at the world, some inherent property of the world, Kopp said. It’s a choice to use that framing.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

This takes some stress off your shoulders and you’re like, all you really need in life is a pair of blue jeans and a good book.”. In October, she invited a university researcher onto the property and discovered that several wells were leaking methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide. There is no Starbucks.

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Terra Infirma

MARCH 1, 2021

So, where does Bill Gates sit in all this with his new book? Mann goes on to point out that the Arctic methane bomb theory upon which many high profile doomsayers predicate their musings is not accepted in scientific circles. Investment in those unproven options would crowd out investment in better solutions.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

This takes some stress off your shoulders and you’re like, all you really need in life is a pair of blue jeans and a good book.”. In October, she invited a university researcher onto the property and discovered that several wells were leaking methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide. There is no Starbucks.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Food waste is one of the world’s leading causes of greenhouse gas emissions and it releases tons of methane whilst taking up massive space in our landfills. Once an event is booked, try to get an estimate on the number of bellies expected to be fed as soon as possible in order to get accurate measurements. Avoid Food Waste.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Lab-Grown Meat, Fake Meat & 3D Printed Pizzas Book Summary - There are currently several technologies in development that have the potential to provide the sustainable food of the future. This is a summary of the book ‘Kweekvlees, Fake Vlees & Pizza’s uit de Printer’ from Sebastiaan van de Water. In particular protein.

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R-Squared Energy

APRIL 10, 2021

” Quoting from my book Power Plays : “The group’s work culminated in the release of the National Energy Policy (NEP) in May of 2001. The report warned that in the years ahead, America would face the most serious energy shortages since the 1973 oil embargo. ” Treating an Addiction.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 12, 2020

When JP Morgan, the world’s largest oil and gas financier, commits to achieve a Paris-aligned lending book , you know it’s no ordinary year. With company after company in sector after sector committing to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 or sooner, the business imperative to lead on climate is clear.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Unplugged wells frequently continue to emit methane , a greenhouse gas with a warming impact many times that of CO2. Companies have spent a lot of time, energy, and money lobbying to ensure that the laws that are currently on the books are extremely lax,” said Vazin. The current ecosystem we’re working in didn’t come out of nowhere.”

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 6, 2021

” “Oh, and by the way, it doesn't emit carbon dioxide or methane,” he added. “All of these steps have really been very positive,” said Sinha, who recently published the book “ Fossil Free ,” on the drivers of India’s clean energy transition and path ahead.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Today, Carson’s work is widely considered the most important environmental book of the 20th century. Burger King committed the sin of lesser two evils in July 2020, with their advertised “reduced methane beef”. The commercial explained that by changing a cow’s diet, Burger King was able to reduce their methane emissions by 33%.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 25, 2020

That relatively routine journey has now entered the record books: the earliest date a cargo ship took what’s usually an ice-blocked route. Scientists from the University of Colorado measure how fast the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane move between the atmosphere and the ocean, on Nov. and the Yukon territories in Canada.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 26, 2024

Unless properly decommissioned, unplugged oil and gas wells can continue to leak cancer-causing chemicals and the powerful climate pollutant methane. Those companies may default before they’re fully bonded, in other words — with uncovered liabilities still on the books.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2024

Ameredev willfully ignored basic tenets of New Mexico’s Oil and Gas Act that have been on the books since 1935,” said then-New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department secretary Sarah Cottrell Propst, “not to mention the state’s nation-leading rules to prevent climate pollution that ban routine venting and flaring.”

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

These included Shell-produced content such as the Time For Energy film, and a book called Energy published the same year. In 1962, Shell’s chief geologist, Houston-based Marion King Hubbert, produced a book-length report on energy for the U.S. A parallel world of Shell-backed publications brushed such warnings aside.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

George Monbiot's latest book, Regenesis , is the latest in a string of studies to warn how essentially extractive agricultural practices are damaging soils and biodiversity to such an extent that food security is being threatened.

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Charged

MAY 31, 2022

We also have a lot of effort going towards development of the TaaS platform that manages everything from truck book to routes and charging. This would all be software-controlled, and use the same standard protocols that are currently used for the charging equipment and the vehicles. Volvo VNR Electric Class 8 truck.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Investor-owned utilities, like NW Natural, have “built up an information environment around those regulators where they produce nearly everything they read or consume,” utility watchdog David Pomerantz explains in Kate Aronoff’s book Overheated. “If

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Does he want his premiership to be remembered as pioneering and bold - or left out of the history books because he was no match for the task at hand?". Key to keeping 1.5C ‘alive' will be a marked reduction in the release of highly-potent methane emissions, which could rapidly slow temperature rise.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

For example, the world has entirely too many methane -producing cows headed for dinner plates and that the term “veganism” was coined in 1944 by a British gent named Donald Watson. Despite the recent uptick in vegan consciousness, the company gets far fewer bookings and participants on the vegan tour.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The captured CO2 is then converted into methane (CO) and blended with the hydrogen, most commonly using a technology called Reverse Water Gas Shift (RWGS), to produce syngas. CO2 is captured either from the air using direct air capture (DAC) or from flue gas produced by burning fossil fuels.

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