DeSmogBlog

JULY 16, 2024

“If not properly plugged and abandoned, these wells and facilities can contaminate waterways and soil, serve as a source of climate and air pollutants, and can present physical hazards to people and wildlife,” CalGEM concluded in a 2023 legislative report. The mandate of CalGEM is to protect public health and the interests of Californians.

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Elemental Excelerator

JUNE 28, 2021

Nearly a quarter of that is beef, with environmental impacts ranging from methane emissions (aka cow burps) to land-use changes to water stresses. There’s data that shows when you manage animals in that way, it has a much more dramatic impact on the soils. It’s a labor and capital resource constraint thing.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

The term refers to actively pulling carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and storing it in soils, plants, rocks, and within the Earth’s crust. Earth is rich with existing carbon “sinks” that already draw down CO2, like forests, soils, and wetlands. They can pay to destroy methane leaking from a landfill.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 10, 2020

According to a growing body of scientific research, incorporating trees into farmland benefits everything from soil health to crop production to the climate. Livestock raised in concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), produce more methane than cows that graze on grass. There is no clear definition. A changing debate.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

While these distinctions are helpful, they’re definitely not exhaustive or absolute. Developed a remote Carbon Index to quantify soil organic carbon as a tool to help verify soil-based carbon offsets. Kettle (Seed | $4.7M | $19M): AI-powered reinsurance platform to provide accurate risk predictions to reduce loss ratios.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Soil degradation. Lab-grown meat dramatically cuts back on carbon emissions , methane emissions, water consumption and land use. The beauty of this type of agriculture, is that it does not require soil. I therefore definitely recommend this book if you are interested in the subject. Introduction Climate Change.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Society had acknowledged that it had “over-estimated” the carrying capacity of soil, water, and air so “current wisdom” would lead us to “unequivocally condemn such past practice.” Wilson saw WOCOL as a definitive study that would buoy support for coal among policymakers around the world.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Another pledge by more than 100 countries to cut methane by 30 per cent by 2030, essential for reducing this potent and prevalent greenhouse gas. While not included in the formal COP26 negotiations, there is an increasing call, globally, for standardised net-zero definitions and reporting frameworks. Standardising net zero commitments.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

A growing group of environmentalists, politicians, communities, and even the industry’s own workers have become increasingly critical of the fossil fuel industry, and see room for action under the Biden administration, though most attention has been placed on hot-button topics like climate change and methane emissions.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 10, 2020

According to a growing body of scientific research, incorporating trees into farmland benefits everything from soil health to crop production to the climate. Livestock raised in concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), produce more methane than cows that graze on grass. “There is no clear definition.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

If you took a cubic-metre sample of the soil here, around 90 per cent of the content would be water, with the rest made up of partially decayed vegetation and organic matter that contain vast amounts of carbon. In fact, peatland contains up to 50 per cent carbon content, compared to the two per cent typically found in mineral soil.

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Grist

APRIL 23, 2020

As a result, this global network of staffed observatories, mountain stations, and remote sampling sites that collect and record atmospheric concentrations of key greenhouse gases including CO2, methane, and nitrous oxide, is up and running despite the pandemic.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

In this session, leaders of the Circular Carbon Network (CCN), the organization that has assembled the sector’s definitive dataset, will present an overview of key trends: Who is investing, where those funds are going and which areas are poised for the biggest growth. That economy is now taking shape.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

BusinessGreen takes a look at 10 of the ways the landmark legislation could turbocharge the net zero transition - and one of the ways it definitely won't. The US is set to get its first ever carbon equivalent tax - on methane. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas with a global warming potential many times higher than that of CO2.

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