Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 6, 2023

For that project, greenhouse gas emissions were cited as the most significant factor for refusing permission in Ellesmere Port, with the Secretary of State stating that ‘every tonne of carbon contributes to climate change’. When it came to Dunsfold, the Secretary of State reached a different decision. The decision will be reserved.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 5, 2025

Half of the worlds carbon dioxide emissions in 2023 came from just three dozen companies, according to a new report released today by the Carbon Majors project, with the list dominated by coal, cement, and oil producers. percent of the worlds carbon dioxide pollution alone in 2023, the report found.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 13, 2020

supported $1.316 trillion in transactions for the fossil fuel industry. received $37 million in compensation for fossil fuel industry lobbying. Climate lobbying" in the report is defined as efforts "to delay, control or block policies to tackle climate change.". Policy & Politics. Follow the money, indeed.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Modern Hydrogen Secures $25 Million to Propel Clean Energy Efforts Woodinville-based cleantech startup Modern Hydrogen has raised $25 million in its latest funding round, further advancing its mission to revolutionize hydrogen production and reduce carbon emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2024

This story is the third part of a DeSmog series on carbon capture and was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe and published in partnership with the Guardian. But that might create a risk whereby these companies unduly influence policy and roll-out in a way that benefits them.”

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Waste Heat Recovery Technology Poised to Redefine Energy Efficiency As global efforts to reduce carbon emissions intensify, waste heat recovery is emerging as a critical technology with profound implications for energy efficiency and climate action. Importantly, heat capture complements renewable energy systems.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 31, 2022

Mark Kemp, the new President of the Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning & Transport (ADEPT), has launched the group’s new Climate Change and Green Growth policy position. Climate change and green growth must be the key drivers across these policy areas.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 20, 2021

The push to quickly transition carbon-intensive activities away from fossil fuels while meeting the world’s growing energy needs has put electricity producers and consumers squarely in the forefront of the emerging clean economy. Manufacturing is going electric, too, as companies ratchet up their net-zero-carbon goals.

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Planet Pulse

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Tanager-1 is made possible by the Carbon Mapper Coalition , a philanthropically-funded effort to develop and deploy satellites designed to detect and track methane and CO2 super-emitters at a level of granularity needed to support direct mitigation action.

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Renew Economy

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Scientists including Australia's CSIRO warn that there is a 50% chance the world's "carbon budget" will be exceeded in six years. The post Stubborn fossil fuel emissions threaten to blow global carbon budget appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 15, 2023

An apocalyptic “meh” seemed to greet the government’s bumper package of energy- and climate-related policy announcements and documents released on 30 March, which appeared short on new ideas and sources of funding. A central plank was the policy paper “Powering Up Britain” , which presented plans for tackling energy security and net zero.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Thanks to converging forces — including supportive policies, dropping battery costs and aggressive climate goals — transportation leaders at large and small organizations are increasingly turning to new zero-emission and low-carbon options that decarbonize fleets and in some cases save money. Media Authorship. Anheuser-Busch.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Previous work established the carbon negative position of the business and this paper now sets out the additional greenhouse gas savings that could arise from future activities. Bath University’s research not only validates those efforts but reinforces our vision to improve our already fantastic carbon credentials.”.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 3, 2025

Meanwhile, natural gas facilities can access the incentives if they implement carbon capture and storage solutions and address methane leakage, using the yet-to-be-released GREET climate model. Hydrogen can replace fossil fuels in combustion-heavy industries or power fuel cell vehicles without tailpipe emissions.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

This carbon challenge is bigger than cars, aviation and shipping combined. The world’s kilns, reactors, chillers and furnaces are powered mostly by fossil fuels. . High-temperature industrial heat, over 932 degrees F, poses a particular challenge because that’s the point at which fuels beyond electricity become the mainstay.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

These include the controversial energy company Drax , the fossil fuel lobby group Offshore Energies UK , and the gas company Cadent. The firm’s plant in Selby, Yorkshire, which burns wood pellets to generate electricity, is the single biggest source of carbon dioxide emissions in the country according to the climate think tank Ember.

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GreenBiz

JULY 9, 2020

The Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) is banking on banks to get us over the carbon-neutral finish line by 2050. . Its goal is to integrate the financial sector’s attempts at going green, including green business investments, exclusionary policies for certain fossil fuels and the industry’s ESG policies, into one complete strategy. .

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2024

Since then, the Conservative government has made a series of U-turns on its own net zero policies, attacked Labour’s green spending plans, and doubled down on its support for new fossil fuel projects, approving more than 100 new North Sea oil and gas licences. This comes as DeSmog and Democracy for Sale reveal that £6.8

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TechCrunch: Climate

JANUARY 3, 2025

Hydrogen startups are widely seen as a promising way to eliminate fossil fuels from heavy industry and long-haul transportation. But they have been stuck in limbo for the last couple years, waiting for official guidance from the U.S. Treasury on lucrative tax credits.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 31, 2020

Despite the temporary decline in greenhouse gas emissions, carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere hit an all-time high in May. A new blueprint from Ceres, the Blueprint for Responsible Policy Engagement on Climate Change , lays out a science-based action agenda for companies in the U.S. that comes down to two basic steps. .

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

governments at all levels are prioritizing climate action and setting intense carbon-reduction goals. In fact, carbon emissions in the U.S. But successfully achieving these deep carbon reductions will require further reductions in energy use as well as the replacement of existing fossil generation with zero-carbon technologies.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

billion) in fossil fuel firms. This includes companies that specialise in extracting, refining, transporting and distributing fossil fuels. million) shareholding in the oil and gas supermajor Chevron, as well as stakes in Shell, Equinor, and 109 other fossil fuel companies. billion (£1.8

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 23, 2023

. | Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi / Bloomberg via Getty Images More than 130 companies, including Volvo Cars, Ikea, Unilever, Nestlé, and AstraZeneca, signed a letter calling on governments to adopt a global plan to phase out fossil fuels without carbon capture during upcoming international climate negotiations.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Nigel Farage ’s Reform party received £135,000 this year from donors linked to climate science denial and fossil fuels, DeSmog can reveal. Reform UK , formerly the Brexit Party, is a vocal critic of climate action, and last year called for a referendum on the UK’s net zero policies. billion invested in fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

All six have made public commitments to reduce their carbon emissions, and regularly publicise their involvement in sustainability-focused PR and advertising campaigns. Of 38 automotive industry clients, none support policies that align with Paris goals. degrees Centigrade (3.6 Holder’s analysis found that just 8 percent of U.S.-based

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

ExxonMobil Baytown Low-Carbon Hydrogen and Ammonia Project: A New Milestone in Clean Energy ExxonMobil, one of the worlds leading energy companies, is progressing with plans for a cutting-edge low-carbon hydrogen and ammonia facility in Baytown, Texas. This ambitious project, expected to produce up to 28.3 Gulf Coast.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Darren Woods, the CEO of Exxon, celebrates the potential of carbon capture to dramatically reduce global emissions. According to Saudi Aramco’s podcast, the fossil fuel industry is innovating new climate solutions, and BP’s podcast proclaims more of the same. and Europe.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The self-styled PopCons included politicians critical of climate policies and science, including Lord Frost, who is a director of the climate science denial Global Warming Policy Foundation , as well as Conservative MP Lee Anderson and Reform party president Nigel Farage. The policy was ditched by her successor Rishi Sunak.)

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2024

Fossil fuel giants BP and Shell were given “ample opportunity” to privately influence proposals for taxing oil and gas companies that were later backed by the government, new documents reveal. The think tank was commissioned to produce a report on carbon pricing by the Climate Leadership Council (CLC), a controversial U.S.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 31, 2021

Those processes use a lot of energy and largely come from fossil fuels; one-third of U.S. A key route to industrial emissions reductions is electrification (replacing industrial fossil fuels with electric alternatives). Pursue policies, regulations and RD&D to stimulate the market. Start with heat.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Global advertising and public relations company WPP has more contracts with fossil fuel clients than any of its rivals, despite the group’s pledge to reach net zero emissions by 2030, according to a report by campaign group Clean Creatives. Omnicom followed with 39 contracts; Interpublic Group had 25; and Publicis Groupe had 11. “The

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 4, 2024

The firm is owned by Terence Mordaunt , a director and former chair of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s leading climate science denial group. The GWPF has in the past expressed the view that carbon dioxide has been mis-characterised as pollution, when in fact it is a “benefit to the planet”. It’s plant food”.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 26, 2025

Germanys 5 Billion Hydrogen Subsidy Scheme Marks a Milestone in Green Energy Transition The European Union has given the green light to Germanys 5 billion subsidy scheme aimed at decarbonizing industrial production processes through hydrogen, carbon capture , and electrification.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Seasoned observers fear that growing calls for a bolder and more ambitious global policy framework are continuing to founder on the rocks of vested interests and short-term cost concerns. . It is not the job of the United Nations to protect vested fossil fuel interests," they wrote in a letter seen by BusinessGreen. "It

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 2, 2025

and $3 per kilogram of hydrogen, depending on the carbon intensity of the production process, as outlined in draft regulations from December 2023. Hydrogen from Nuclear Power : By using electricity from nuclear reactors, hydrogen producers can achieve near-zero carbon emissions. These credits could range between $0.60

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The vast majority of corporate advocacy promoting carbon capture and storage is misaligned with climate science, new research shows. The study shows that IPCC recognizes a role exists for carbon capture technologies. Celsius or well-below 2°C – the targets established by the Paris Agreement.

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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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