Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

As a result, the industry accounts for roughly 8 percent of annual carbon dioxide emissions, as well as a toxic soup of air pollutants. But in order to curb steel’s carbon emissions, the sector will have to transform how the material is traditionally made. Doing so is essential to limiting global warming to 1.5

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Hydrogen Carbon-negative Carbon Construction 145

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

A recent Wall Street Journal investigation found that, while the market for carbon offsets is forecast to see rapid growth and reach over $1 billion this year, the “offsets” themselves can vary widely in their quality and effectiveness at actually reducing pollution. It’s a pollute now, pay later strategy, the report’s authors say.

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Carbon-negative Climate change Pollution Fossil fuels 98

Grist

MAY 18, 2021

The company would take those almond shells and other types of biomass, convert them into a carbon-rich oil, and inject the oil deep underground. Strange as it may sound, demand for this service — a form of what’s called “ carbon removal ” — was just beginning to grow. That’s where carbon removal comes in.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 10, 2022

Blue hydrogen has been marketed as a climate-friendly fuel since the production process aims to capture most of the associated carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. But climate campaigners warn the impact of methane leaks could negate any benefits from the as-yet unproven technology. Blue Hydrogen Interest.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 22, 2020

Related: Eating seaweed could reduce cows’ methane production Why is kelp a good idea for food sustainability? Kelp is also able to naturally remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, mitigating rising temperatures and climate change. ” Minimizing its carbon footprint is another crucial mission for AKUA.

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Carbon-negative Carbon Meat alternatives Health 28

Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Gasification Gasification involves subjecting biomass to high temperatures in an environment with controlled oxygen, which converts the material into a mixture of gases including hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and methane, collectively known as syngas. Equally important is the consideration of air quality.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In this Low Carbon Prosperity Institute (LCPI) analysis, we explore scenarios of carbon reduction investment performance based on the revenue allocation described in Initiative 1631. The measure is intended, but not required, to reduce carbon emissions in 2035 to 25% below 1990 levels, consistent with the state’s legislated target.

Pollution 45

Pollution Carbon Business Energy Monitoring Carbon-negative 45

Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

150 million Americans regularly breathe unhealthy, polluted air. But recently announced targets to achieve 100 percent clean power by the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis and Joe Biden’s presidential campaign would eliminate all air pollution from power plants. By Sonia Aggarwal, Mike O’Boyle, and Amol Phadke.

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Health Technology Electricity Methane 59

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

A tarnished brand reputation and negative consumer perspectives. McDonald’s addressed the environmental issue of plastic pollution by replacing their straws with paper alternatives. Burger King committed the sin of lesser two evils in July 2020, with their advertised “reduced methane beef”. Posing an investment risk.

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Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Plastics Building Energy Monitoring 148

EDF + Business

JULY 21, 2020

In these challenging times, we need bold leadership and immediate action to rebuild a better, more sustainable planet and a low-carbon economy. And they must help enact climate policy, such as a price on carbon, that will bring the rest of the world along. They must spread best practices to others.

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Climate change Carbon-negative Policy Innovation 72

Energy Innovation

AUGUST 13, 2020

150 million Americans regularly breathe unhealthy, polluted air. But recently announced targets to achieve 100 percent clean power by the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis and Joe Biden’s presidential campaign would eliminate all air pollution from power plants. Public health benefits of reaching 100% zero carbon energy.

Health 52

Health Electricity Methane Carbon-negative 52

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This shaped federal regulation of both indoor and outdoor air pollution. A few months later, the New York Times reported on the study, bringing national attention to the issue, and an op-ed in the Yale Law Journal described indoor air pollution, as a “menace” that required “comprehensive federal legislation.”

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Health Pollution Fossil fuels Medicine 119

CleanTech San Diego

JUNE 13, 2019

president of Oberon Fuels, “we plan to demonstrate rDME can reduce greenhouse gases and criteria pollutants, replace diesel fuel, maintain performance in existing engines and provide air quality and economic benefits to rural communities such as those located within Imperial Valley. With this grant,” said Rebecca Boudreaux, Ph.D.,

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EDF + Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Transform your entire business, not just your own carbon footprint. Prioritize high quality carbon credits and tropical forests. We know that carbon credits will be important on the path to net zero. High-integrity carbon credits can play a key role in making this possible.

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Carbon-negative Carbon Policy Climate change 52

Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

Eras in the Earth’s history are defined by major climactic events and distinguished through the fossil record, carbon dating, and other methods. The Holocene. The Anthropocene. The next question when determining if we have entered the Anthropocene is determining when it began.

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Resilience Building Energy Monitoring Ocean acidification Business Energy Monitoring 78

Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Limiting other greenhouse gases and air pollutants, especially methane, could have benefits both for health and the climate.". "Stabilising the climate will require strong, rapid, and sustained reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, and reaching net zero CO2 emissions," said Zhai.

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Sea level rise Ocean acidification Climate change Global warming 83

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

A tarnished brand reputation and negative consumer perspectives. McDonald’s addressed the environmental issue of plastic pollution by replacing their straws with paper alternatives. Burger King committed the sin of lesser two evils in July 2020, with their advertised “reduced methane beef”. Posing an investment risk.

Business Energy Monitoring 78

Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Plastics Building Energy Monitoring 78

Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 17, 2024

By embedding this technology into various facets of air transportation, the industry takes a significant leap towards carbon neutrality, aligning with global sustainability objectives. From an environmental perspective, hydrogen-powered flight promises significant reductions in atmospheric pollution.

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Aviation Hydrogen Transportation Sustainability 62

Business Green

JUNE 12, 2024

Highly Commended: Carbon Limiting Technologies Highly Commended: Greengage Hospitality Firm of the Year Compass Group UK & Ireland In an all-new category for this year, Compass Group emerged victorious with the judges praising the scale and ambition of its industry-leading transition plan.

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Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 58

Business Green

MARCH 14, 2021

There is some evidence these tech interventions could help drive the carbon-intensive sector towards a greener future. Meanwhile, it is also working on sustainable aviation fuel with Shell and on a pioneering carbon capture project in Norway with a number of European oil majors.

Energy 48

Energy Energy Carbon-negative Fossil fuels 48

AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 30, 2019

By the 1960s, the first occurrence of plastic pollution in the oceans was recorded. Oil drilling, also known as fracking, wastes water, releases methane into the atmosphere, produces oil spills and generally wreaks havoc on the environment. So how can you make sure you’re not contributing to plastic or aluminum pollution?

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Plastics Recycling Recycling Recycled materials 28

DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

It’s a recurring theme that somehow the livestock sector and eating meat is detrimental to the environment, that it is a serious negative in terms of the climate change discussions,” Hsin Huang, Secretary General of the International Meat Secretariat (IMS) , told his audience. Meat Industry Playbook.

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Pollution Agriculture Carbon-negative Climate change 98

Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

Methane emissions reduction could significantly reduce rates of global warming at a relatively low cost, major research warns. As such, the report emphasises that methane mitigation is "one of the best ways of limiting warming in this and subsequent decades".

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Methane Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Carbon-negative 67

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The negative impacts of hydraulic fracturing on public health, the environment, and the climate are “intractable and not fixable,” according to a newly published report. That pollution finds its way to people who live nearby. In addition, vast quantities of carbon and methane pollution are released into the atmosphere.

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Methane Health Carbon-negative Pollution 119

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period. Scientists say that unless swift action is taken, methane from agriculture alone will take us beyond a 1.5C Past marketing drives run by the AHDB include the £3.5-million

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Agriculture Methane Climate change Government 145

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The remaining 20 percent represents investments outside of fossil fuels, in areas such as renewables, carbon capture and storage, and research into new green technologies. . The simple fact is that they are not reducing their polluting activities by the significant amount required to limit the worst impacts of global warming.”.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

The scramble by German, French and other European buyers helped inject new momentum into long-standing plans to build a series of heavily-polluting new LNG export terminals and expansion projects from Texas to Pennsylvania , prompting outcry among residents. on March 29. Calcasieu Pass supplied the first U.S.

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Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Fossil fuels Energy Monitor 94

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Climate Lawsuits Historical evidence of what oil majors knew about climate change is taking on new significance in the courtroom as lawyers seek to hold big polluters to account for the accelerating devastation caused by the climate crisis.

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Climate change Fossil fuels Pollution Carbon-negative 98

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

By Joshua Bledsoe , Winston Stromberg , Brian McCall , and Samantha Yeager Environmental groups and a biofuel trade association are challenging the California Air Resources Boards (CARBs) November 2024 amendments to the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard Program (LCFS or the Program).

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Carbon Methane Energy Monitor Carbon-negative 49

Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Without deep carbon pollution cuts now, the 1.5-degree I am asking corporate leaders to support a minimum international carbon price and align their portfolios with the Paris Agreement. We need immediate action on energy. degree goal will fall quickly out of reach. There must be no new coal plants built after 2021. "The

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Climate change Sea level rise Fossil fuels Government 83

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Despite the region’s shrinking wetlands, the government continues to permit new LNG export facilities on the Gulf Coast , and is encouraging hydrogen and carbon capture sequestration developments , though they too will lead to further land loss. Where the river’s polluted water enters the Gulf there is rapid land loss and a growing dead zone.

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Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 134

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

It’s clear that if we want to reach carbon neutrality by 2045, we have to transition away from gas. Unlike natural gas, which is comprised mostly of methane, a powerful climate pollutant, hydrogen does not emit planet-warming carbon dioxide (CO2) when burned. But we’ll need molecules, and that is the deciding factor. “In

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Hydrogen Natural gas Carbon-neutral Carbon-negative 98

Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

CNG Fuels' biomethane compressed natural gas - Bio-CNG - is currently 100 per cent sourced from waste feedstocks such as food waste and it claims the fuel is both cheaper and less-carbon intensive than traditional diesel. per cent of UK carbon emissions, with road transport as a whole now the UK's highest emitting sector of the economy.

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Demand Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Transportation 56

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 26, 2024

But discussions of natural gas’ negative aspects — namely excessive, typically underreported methane emissions that are considerably worse for the climate than carbon emissions — did not take place. Renewable carbon gases is a euphemism for biomass and hydrogen, among others.

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Natural gas Methane Fossil fuels Climate change 101

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 31, 2021

Refinery flares can add to air pollution in the wake of natural disasters. This process adds to air pollution because it leads to flaring off excess toxic gases , together with natural gas and oxygen, to keep the chemicals from building up to dangerous pressures.”. Norco’s flares light up the sky a day after Hurricane Ida hit.

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Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Carbon-negative 98

Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 4, 2021

A myriad of small businesses like restaurants and food trucks are also negatively affected. Flooding of homes, businesses, and infrastructure like airports, ports, and subways, during heavy rainstorms would have a negative effect on companies’ abilities to operate. According to the U.S. How will businesses operate without electricity?

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Climate change Carbon-negative Government Transportation 52

Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Because the price of keeping the status quo grows steeper every year, from the human and economic toll of climate-related disasters, fires, heatwaves, and other environmental stresses to the jobs left on the table by not accelerating towards a carbon-free, regenerative economy. Carbon negative materials. Why do we love them?

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