Renew Economy

MARCH 23, 2023

Report says methane emissions from fossil fuel facilities will make up about 70% of total emissions budget covered under Safeguard Mechanism, raising new questions over its integrity. The post “Criminally irresponsible:” Report finds methane bomb buried in Safeguard design appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 12, 2024

Billed by the fossil fuel industry as a climate solution, dozens of planned blue hydrogen projects in Europe could consume more natural gas each year than France, and produce emissions on a par with Denmark, a DeSmog analysis has found. Credit: Sabrina Bedford. “We should be very cautious with blue hydrogen. .

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

An open-access Methane Map will be launched at COP28 in a bid to accelerate abatement of this greenhouse gas, considered second only to CO2 as a cause of global warming. Environmental intelligence company Kayrros will launch the live map, which draws insights from its flagship Methane Watch product. Doing so would have a huge impact.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 5, 2025

percent of the years global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels, the report adds. For the first time, instead of attributing the build-up of industrial carbon dioxide and methane emissions to each of the worlds nations, Heede managed to trace those emissions to 90 specific carbon major companies.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 7, 2025

By Paasha Mahdavi and Andrew Howell At the UNs annual climate conference, held last month in Azerbaijan, world leaders took the stage to promise a bold transition away from fossil fuels. But theres at least one thing oil exporters and climate advocates can agree on the need to slash methane emissions.

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The research itself is also likely to provoke renewed criticism of the OCGI's priorities, given it focuses on CCS technologies that would in effect prolong the use of fossil fuels to power ships, rather than on alternative, low or zero carbon shipping fuels that could transition the sector away from fossil fuels altogether.

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Renew Economy

MARCH 25, 2023

There is no technically feasible way to draw down methane from the atmosphere, and no “like for like” offsetting is possible. The post Methane from fossil fuels is a climate wrecker. Don’t let it wreck the safeguard mechanism, too appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Food systems are responsible for at least 15 percent of all global fossil fuel consumption, according to a major report launched ahead of the COP28 climate summit. Its authors found that even if governments delivered on their 2030 climate pledges, by 2037 food-related fossil fuel use alone would blow the remaining portion of the 1.5C

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 15, 2025

Why Manure-to-Hydrogen Conversion Matters Cow manure emits large amounts of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that has a significant impact on climate change. Utilizing this manure to produce hydrogen fuel serves a dual purpose. First, it lowers methane emissions by capturing the gas during processing.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

A cleaner energy source than any other off-grid fossil fuel, companies switching to Flogas Bio-LNG can benefit from major carbon savings of more than 80%.[1]. It is produced during the anaerobic digestion (AD) process, which breaks down organic matter (such as food, sewage sludge or animal waste) to produce methane-rich biogas.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 24, 2022

According to the European Commission and the European Environment Agency, the top 10 largest methane emitting coal mines in Europe are in Poland. Collectively, these mines released around 282,300 tonnes of methane into the atmosphere in 2020.

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The Verge: Energy

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A rendering of MethaneSat | Image courtesy of Google Google announced a partnership with the nonprofit Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) today to map methane pollution and oil and gas infrastructure from space. Landfills and livestock are also big sources of methane pollution. The timing really matters.

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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. OEUK is the “leading representative body” for the country’s oil and gas industry, while its members include some of the world’s largest fossil fuel companies, such as Shell, ExxonMobil, and Equinor.

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Grist

AUGUST 13, 2021

Most of the time carbon dioxide gets all the attention as the most villainous of greenhouse gasses, and the industries that pollute the atmosphere with methane would like to keep it that way. As you can see in the graph below, carbon dioxide is the primary problem, but methane has played a big role. It seeps from landfills.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The UK government’s move to award £22 billion in subsidies to carbon capture projects followed a sharp increase in lobbying by the fossil fuel industry, DeSmog can reveal. Meanwhile, lobby group the Carbon Capture and Storage Association (CCSA) — which represents dozens of fossil fuel companies — attended 20 meetings, and Equinor 16.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Fracking operations at a site in Blackpool, UK, have caused an unintended release of methane gas into the atmosphere to the equivalent environmental cost of 142 trans-Atlantic flights according to new research. Three different methods were used to estimate the methane release rate. km deep shale gas well. km deep shale gas well.

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The Guardian: Energy

MAY 1, 2024

Use of enclosed combustors leaves regulators heavily reliant on oil and gas companies’ own flaring data Oil and gas equipment intended to cut methane emissions is preventing scientists from accurately detecting greenhouse gases and pollutants, a satellite image investigation has revealed.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

The event aims to bring together policymakers and liquified natural gas (LNG), natural gas, and hydrogen players to explore new avenues for fossil fuel expansion. It’s methane gas, which is 80 times more warming in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. But there’s nothing natural about it,” she said. “It’s

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 12, 2024

Robert Noyes, a campaigner at Fossil Free Parliament warned against “cosy dinners and the easy access they buy”. He told DeSmog: “What the fossil fuel lobby wants, the fossil fuel lobby gets.” Offshore gas fields worldwide are major sources of emissions of methane, a powerful, short-lived greenhouse gas.

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Energy Central

MAY 9, 2023

Emissions of the potent.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 16, 2024

CCP leverages thermal energy to break methane (CH) into its constituent moleculeshydrogen and carbon. Hydrogen produced through this method burns cleanly, emitting only water vapor as a byproduct, making it ideal for industrial processes, energy production, and fuel cells.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2025

AD offers an environmental-friendly alternative to landfill and energy-from-waste incineration, so cutting CO and methane emissions. Energy Minister Miatta Fahnbulleh MP also recently commented that: Anaerobic digestion and biomethane allows us to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels. Charlie Clay, CEO of Dark Green Group.

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Renew Economy

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

SuperPower Institute says Australia has little idea of the extent of its fossil fuel emissions and wants to create a state-of-the-art data network. The post Australia in the dark on its own fossil fuel emissions, says Superpower Institute appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

A new database cataloging the world’s oil and gas reserves reveals extensive data on the global fossil fuel industry for the first time. The Global Registry of Fossil Fuels, launched by Carbon Tracker and Global Energy Monitor, is the first public and free-to-use database of fossil fuel production, reserves, and emissions.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

While the fuel is barely on the radar in the United States, around the world a green hydrogen rush is underway, and many companies, investors, governments and environmentalists believe it is an energy source that could help end the reign of fossil fuels and slow the world’s warming trajectory. "It In the U.S.,

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 5, 2022

Talk to fossil fuel execs, government ministers, and industry reps these days and they’ll all tell a similar story: Blue hydrogen is the clean fuel of the future that will help Canada and the world get to net-zero emissions. The only argument for blue hydrogen is, ‘let’s keep the fossil fuel industry in business,’” said Mark Z.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Norwegian state-owned oil and gas company Equinor, the North Sea’s largest fossil fuel producer, is positioning itself to play a key role in plans to turn Britain into a world leader in capturing carbon. Currently, this policy would lock the UK into using fossil fuel-based energy generation to well past 2050.”

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Financial Times: Energy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Baku list of priorities focuses on batteries and the grid rather than the phaseout of oil and gas and coal consumption

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EDF + Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

By Leanna Tang and Andrew Howell, CFA Methane emissions have recently come into focus as a major contributor to global warming. Significant advances in methane measurement and abatement could serve as useful tools as we turn our sights to the second largest source of methane from the energy sector: coal.

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The Verge: Energy

MARCH 4, 2024

Image: MethaneSAT via EDF A mission to map and track global methane pollution, a powerful greenhouse gas, is scheduled to launch today after years of collaboration between some of the biggest names in tech. After all, so-called natural gas is mostly just methane. The group has documented massive amounts of leaking methane already.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 27, 2020

Food scraps and other organic materials decaying in landfills release methane and carbon dioxide contributing to climate change. Diverting food scraps and other organic materials from landfills, methane, and carbon dioxide can be captured and used efficiently. is from fossil fuels.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

By leveraging Modern Hydrogen’s methane pyrolysis technology, the two entities seek to reduce carbon emissions for industries such as steel production, cement manufacturing, and pulp-and-paper facilities. How Methane Pyrolysis Works and Why It Matters Modern Hydrogens methane pyrolysis technology is at the heart of this partnership.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Photos I shot in 2022 for DeSmog capture damage from extreme weather events and the continued expansion of the fossil fuel industry — the dominant industry causing global warming. Industries reliant on methane gas continue to expand their footprint, despite bipartisan discussions about the need to develop climate solutions.

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Financial Times: Energy

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Methane, renewable and nuclear pledges made at COP28 in Dubai

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The government strongly stimulates the production of biomethane and there is a great need for alternatives to fossil fuels” “Part of the Dutch government’s plans include mandatory blending targets for gas suppliers to add renewable gas to their supply, but we also see a strong increase in demand internationally on all continents.

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EDF + Business

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Put simply, the ESFR is the ratio of a bank’s financing of low-carbon energy production to its financing of fossil fuel energy production. Banks need to designate financing activities as low carbon or fossil fuel, which can result in judgement calls. Focusing on methane can yield results.

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