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2020: Fossilfuels are dead, long live the sun. In this strangest of all years, as the death toll mounts from a disease caused by human incursions into once intact ecosystems, we’re observing another death — the demise of fossilfuels. When oil and gas companies say that they’re getting out of oil and gas, shouldn’t you?
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. Fleet leaders are also facing increasing pressure.
” While heating often gets less attention than other areas of energy consumption, onsite use of fossilfuels in buildings accounts for about 15 percent of California's greenhouse gas emissions, according to an NRDC analysis. The CPUC believes heat pump water heaters meet all three criteria.
The motion recommends that the Toronto Transit Commission, more commonly known as TTC, decline any new ads from the Pathways Alliance and Canada Action , two of Canada’s most prominent fossilfuel marketing organizations. Toronto City Councillor Dianne Saxe introduced the anti-greenwashing motion on Sept.
Food systems are responsible for at least 15 percent of all global fossilfuel consumption, according to a major report launched ahead of the COP28 climate summit. The analysis shows that the production, transport, and storage of food are driving greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to those of the EU and Russia combined.
However, many may be surprised to learn that a substantial amount of this grant money has been used to subsidize fossilfuel-burning vehicles, in preference to EVs, and to promote the consumption of naturalgas. One of the agency’s biggest grant programs spent more than 90% of funds on diesel and naturalgas incentives.
But it was canceled without explanation by conference organizers several weeks before it was due to begin. The event aims to bring together policymakers and liquified naturalgas (LNG), naturalgas, and hydrogen players to explore new avenues for fossilfuel expansion. What they’re doing is violent.”
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this week fired a shot over the bow at Wall Street companies that promise to help investors avoid putting their money into fossilfuels and tobacco — but steer funds towards those companies anyway. On the other hand, there’s been political pushback from the fossilfuel industry’s backers.
After NDP member of Parliament Charlie Angus introduced a bill in February proposing to ban misleading fossilfuel advertising in Canada, the oil and gas advocate Stephen Buffalo wrote an incendiary National Post column attacking the legislation. The IRC received $250,000 from CNRL in 2022 alone.
Most buildings run on multiple fuels. And they consume fossilfuels such as naturalgas or propane to power furnaces, boilers, and water heaters. That persistent reliance on fossilfuels makes buildings one of the largest sources of planet-warming pollution. Makes sense for moderate climates.
A new report from InfluenceMap reveals the fossilfuel industry has been waging an international lobbying war to prevent cities and towns from requiring newly built homes and businesses to install climate-friendly heating and other appliances. So far, 26 U.S. So far, 26 U.S. Of the 26 U.S. In the U.S.,
Earlier this year, Pacific Gas & Electric faced pushback from environmental and solar and energy storage industry groups to a plan to deploy naturalgas generators to back up communities facing multi-day fire-prevention blackouts. Naturalgas vs. diesel vs. solar-storage.
Time to ditch fossilfuels-centric planning. Higher temperatures put more stress on traditional fossil-fired electric generators, reducing plant efficiency and output, and even caused them to temporarily shut down. REBA is organizing related sessions on clean energy markets during VERGE 20. View more information here. .
The beginning of the end for fossilfuels? This text is a step forward on our path towards phasing out fossilfuels, but is not the historic decision we hoped for.” More than 100 countries came to the table pushing for an official agreement to “phase out fossilfuels.”
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They found that they were able to convert more than 85% of the organic material to biogas, which can be used to produce electricity or upgraded to renewable naturalgas (RNG) for the naturalgas grid or for local use. They are often the largest user of electricity in a small community. “If
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According to Diageo, it should avoid more than 117,000 metric tons of annual carbon emissions by switching to renewable electricities compared to operating using a traditional naturalgas facility. . Moving away from fossilfuels for this heat production was the first step and the first big obstacle for Diageo. .
It is energy-efficient, abundant and an environmentally friendly alternative to naturalgas. Clean hydrogen could cut greenhouse gas emissions from fossilfuel by up to 34 percent, reported Bloomberg New Energy Finance. . And it could be cheaper than producing hydrogen from naturalgas.
Net zero can be achieved, first and foremost, by cutting or eliminating greenhouse gas emissions and, secondarily, by offsetting any remaining emissions through such actions as planting trees, investing in renewable energy projects that replace fossil-fuel energy, or investing in novel carbon-removal technologies such as direct air capture.
Of the six “pathways” Duke lays out for halving carbon emissions by 2030 and reaching net-zero carbon by 2050 , only one would avoid building new naturalgas plants. gigawatts of new naturalgas capacity. The rest propose between 6.1 gigawatts and 9.6 Like many of the U.S.
From the world’s biggest soccer championship to soccer training for kids , from major universities to music festivals and art galleries to — if you can name it, fossilfuel companies have probably sponsored it. Aramco has partnered with Spain’s Laguna de El Hito Nature Reserve to conserve bird species.
The findings underscore concerns over the role of the fossilfuel industry at the negotiations, known as COP27, which have become a focal point for deals to exploit African naturalgas. These talks are supposed to be about moving us away from fossilfuels, phasing them out,” Sabido told DeSmog.
A fossilfuel executive recently told Fortune , “Appalachia is the elephant in the room,” referring to the claim that demand for naturalgas is rising, while supply in Appalachia and the United States is falling. But what he gets wrong is that the future does not entail further dependence on fossilfuels.
The City of Eugene, Oregon, initiated a process on November 17 that could lead to a ban on new naturalgas hookups in residential and commercial buildings, following in the footsteps of dozens of other cities around the country. NW Natural could not be reached for comment at the time of publication.
“Voice of Energy” is a new ad campaign and website featuring photos of diverse and well-dressed young people, explainers making the case for naturalgas while downplaying its massive contribution to climate change, and videos urging viewers to join in an effort to “protect” the fossilfuel against laws restricting new gas hookups in buildings.
homes are built with air-source heat pumps instead of fossil-fuel burning systems. The next hurdle is to start electrifying buildings in parts of the country where it's been difficult to eliminate fossilfuel-burning building systems. Already, more than 40 percent of new U.S.
We think the power of integration from our trading organization is awfully good. We can take the offtake, package it with naturalgas and solar, sell clean energy with guaranteed flow and at a fixed price if they want. BP has been upfront about the ongoing role of fossilfuels in its long-term plans.
Cities and utilities across the United States are starting to reject naturalgas — and not just for environmental reasons. San Jose, the tenth largest city in the country, recently joined a string of cities banning gas utility connections for new homes and buildings.
It is a primary source of data for numerous companies, government agencies, and non-government organizations. Naturalgas contributed the second largest increment with 36% of the increase. The remainder of global energy consumption came from coal (27%), naturalgas (24%), hydropower (6%), renewables (5%), and nuclear power (4%).
COP27 has just ended and while the agreement to develop a loss and damage fund is a real victory for vulnerable nations already devastated by climate change impacts, UN climate talks once again failed to address the root cause of these impacts: fossilfuel production. For women, fossilfuel impacts are even more devastating.
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The campaigns have been deployed across a number of social media platforms and are part of a global effort to give “millennials a reason to connect emotionally” with oil and gas firms, and to tackle their perception as “the bad guys”. When influencers that people know and respect talk about something, they’re likely to believe them.” ‘We
Fossilfuel representatives develop undergraduate courses. The authors came to that conclusion by conducting a first-ever review of dozens of existing academic and civil society investigations into fossilfuel infiltration of higher education, looking primarily at institutions in the U.S., UK, Canada, and Australia.
Inadequate bonding requirements means there is a serious gap in available funding to properly clean up after the fossilfuel industry. million MCF of naturalgas in 2020. This record production is fueling New Mexico’s economic recovery and providing $2.8 According to the report, it could cost as much as $8.38
I live in South Louisiana on the front lines of the climate crisis and cover the fossilfuel industry and impacts related to the warming planet, so facing gaslighting is a regular occurrence for me. So it resonated with me that Merriam-Webster dictionary chose “gaslighting” as the word of the year.
and the failed Keystone XL oil sands pipeline to Texas, sees a major new growth opportunity for fossilfuels: artificial intelligence. Big Tech should be held just as responsible as the fossilfuel industry,” he told DeSmog. That $11 billion pipeline connects vast gas reserves in northeastern B.C.
In the late 2000s, the fossilfuel conglomerate Woodside Energy petitioned to build a liquid naturalgas processing plant 30 miles north of Broome, on a peninsula known in English as James Price Point, and to the Goolarabooloo as Walmadany. All those years, they’d been building a constituency.
Melissa Lem was shocked when she saw an advertisement from a major Canadian fossilfuel lobby group showing young parents and their two children happily cooking a meal over a brand new gas stove. A ‘Fuelling Canada’ ad claims Canada ‘produces the cleanest naturalgas in the world.’
The project aimed to capture and sequester up to 3 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions from the Genesee Power Plant, located southwest of Edmonton, Alberta, a plant that’s in the process of being converted from coal to naturalgas. Rather, naturalgas is a destructive fossilfuel.
By splitting naturalgas into its fundamental components, Modern Hydrogen generates clean hydrogen and solid carbon. This method is particularly advantageous as it circumvents the carbon dioxide emissions associated with burning naturalgas, a process traditionally used to produce hydrogen.
2 This led to investment in new biomethane production infrastructure, which the world critically needs to cut methane emissions from organic wastes and generate green gas, biofertilisers and bioCO2, but this will no longer be possible under the proposed new guidance. using fossilfuels); scope 2 are from the purchase of energy (e.g.
Oil and gas companies have for years marketed fracked gas from B.C. as a global climate solution, with some industry boosters even going so far as to call Canada’s supply of the fossilfuel the “cleanest in the world.” I don’t believe gas is a climate solution,” she told DeSmog. Ayumi Fukakusa agrees.
For the first time, a gas utility could be on the hook for its role in deceiving the public about the climate crisis. Like many fossilfuel and petrochemical companies , NW Natural sponsors sporting events, concerts, and small nonprofits in the region reliant on external funding.
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