GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

A useful way to think about the effort and timescales required is to consider the " Carbon Law ," which was coined by my friend Johan Rockström. Despite the name, this isn’t a physical "law" of the universe but rather a set of recommendations. So, what does the Carbon Law say? The Carbon Law outlines a possible path forward.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 22, 2024

Global meat and dairy giants are investing just a fraction of their revenues into cutting emissions despite being among the world’s largest polluters, according to new estimates. However, of the companies analysed, only dairy giant Danone had set a methane target – another key recommendation by the UN.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The tricky part with hydrogen is cleaning up pollution from the process of making it. While visiting Philadelphia today, he’s expected to name seven locations selected for funding through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The alternative to electrolysis is a process called steam-methane reforming.

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Terra Infirma

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Jackson gives a brief history of human’s approach to pollution as follows: Foul and flee: the prehistoric, nomadic approach of “do what you want, if you deplete resources or make a mess, you move on.” I loved it.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

India Gate, New Delhi: Residents of the city face pollution levels with a health impact estimated to be equivalent to smoking more than two packs of cigarettes a day (image credit: Amit kg / Shutterstock.com). Centuries on, sources of airborne pollution are only becoming more numerous and wide ranging.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Canadian pipeline company TC Energy is aiming to expand the volume of methane gas that it ships through a long distance pipeline in the Pacific Northwest, potentially locking in higher gas use despite laws in western states that chart a path away from fossil fuels in the years ahead.

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EDF + Business

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

According to Climate Power’s Clean Energy Boom report, the law has driven $278 billion in clean energy investments, creating over 170,000 new jobs in 44 states. Take Action: File comments by October 2 nd expressing strong support for EPA’s proposed updates to methane reporting requirements.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

Further research by DeSmog has shown that Eni’s company magazine Ecos made repeated references to climate change during the late 1980s and 1990s — while running advertising campaigns promoting natural gas, which is mostly comprised of planet-warming methane, as a “clean” fuel. ‘Friend Methane! ‘Friend Methane!

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2023

The Plan for Water , released by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) this morning, outlines the government's intention to change the law to increase penalties on water companies that break environmental law, and make it easier for regulators to impose fines on firms without lengthy court processes.

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Front And Centered

AUGUST 29, 2022

This includes a 15% corporate minimum tax, a stock buyback tax, and a methane leakage tax. The law takes a flawed approach of subsidizing energy corporations as its main thrust instead of investing in energy justice for consumers. The Act also empowers the federal government to negotiate drug prices. Gaping Gaps.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Campaigns run by the AAA and Danish Crown are just two examples of the way in which the meat industry is increasingly turning to a playbook long used by other polluting sectors such as Big Oil and pesticide manufacturers , with the campaigns ultimately causing “confusion and delay,” NYU’s Jacquet argues. Meat Industry Playbook.

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Charged

JUNE 28, 2022

As regular Charged readers know, California, which suffers from some of the worst air pollution in the US, has an alphabet soup of incentive and grant programs intended to promote adoption of zero-emission or low-emission commercial vehicles. marine, construction and agricultural vehicles) doesn’t have a widely available electric alternative.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 16, 2024

But a growing chorus of California legislators say that nonenforcement stance violates a groundbreaking law they fought to pass just months ago — and they, along with dozens of environmental groups, are demanding that regulators change course. They’re pointing to AB 1167, signed into law by California Gov.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 29, 2024

That’s because a state law passed in 2021 regulating carbon capture includes a provision allowing companies to claim a wide range of project information — including location — as trade secrets. Fossil Economy Campaign Manager for the Center for International Environmental Law. “It So that was the cost.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Brausch for The Verge Homeowners who want to reduce their carbon footprint by getting rid of polluting appliances have the US government’s full support. The pollution from using a gas heater was also a major concern. Illustration by Nico H. Not so with apartment dwellers. It was a great work-from-home spot,” Spears said.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

They soon discovered that static electricity had caused entrapped methane from the flatulence and manure of 90 dairy cows to explode. According to the United Nations , reducing methane emissions from cows could be one of the quickest ways to slow climate change. Headline writers had a field day. million dairy cows.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Under the current plan, ships travelling within the EU will be required to pay for 100 per cent of their carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrogen dioxide emissions for journeys within the bloc, and 50 per cent of emissions of journeys to or from a non-EU destination.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Trucks powered by liquified natural gas (LNG) may be no better for the climate than diesel lorries and could be guilty of polluting the air far more than claimed by manufacturers, according to a new study from Transport & Environment (T&E). per cent less methane than the former. It found the latter emitted only 7.5

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Greenpeace Italy and Re:Common have alleged in their climate lawsuit — Italy’s first — that despite knowing at least as early as 1970 that burning fossil fuels posed a serious climate risk, Eni went on to promote “natural” –- or methane – gas as a safe energy source for decades. the spokesperson stated. While the U.S. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.)

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

EDF+Business program staff participated in meetings and panel presentations, including: Victoria Mills, director of corporate climate policy leadership; Elizabeth Sturcken, director of net zero acceleration; Katie Anderson, manager of supply chain and agricultural methane. An urgent new warning from the U.N. manufacturing. $28

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

But his wife began experiencing nausea and skin blotches, and testing showed that the Ely’s water was contaminated with methane, according to the grand jury investigation. A 2016 federal report confirmed that the water was unsafe to drink, showing worrying levels of chemicals such as arsenic and lithium, as well methane, metals, and salts.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 25, 2023

Hoboken is making this claim against fossil fuel companies under the state-level equivalent of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, a federal law used successfully to prosecute organized crime groups such as the Mafia starting in the 1970s and later the tobacco industry. Credit: U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Its chair, Marie Donnelly, last night expressed concern at the “problematic” sectoral targets, which she described as “not consistent” with the objectives of Ireland’s climate laws. per cent in the decade to 2021, with a corresponding rise in water pollution and declines in air quality caused by an increase in nitrogen fertiliser use.

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Energy Innovation

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Only existing state laws and regulations as of January 2023 are included in the model. The five policies are: clean electricity standards, zero-emission vehicle standards, clean building equipment standards, industrial efficiency and emissions standards, and standards for methane detection, capture, and destruction.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 28, 2023

Though it has applied for them, the company behind this operation has yet to receive the permits it is required by law to construct or operate the engines to power a cryptocurrency mine. The company is required by law to obtain a plan approval from DEP prior to installation and operation of the air contamination sources,” Decker said.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

As co-founder of the community group Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living, Mayfield has spent years fighting to protect her majority Black and low-income city from the pollution spewed by the nearby Covanta waste-to-energy facility — the country’s largest waste incinerator. natural gas.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2021

There are doubts over the industry's ability to manage health risks like water pollution , anger over disruptive industrial activity near to homes , and fears about the earthquakes caused by fracking. It's simply not tenable for the UK to promote shale gas, particularly given the rising international concern over methane leakage.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

Properly plugging and abandoning oil and gas wells is vital to protect the environment and stop methane leaks – but for decades, oil operators have often slipped away without paying to clean up, leaving millions of deteriorating abandoned wells across the U.S. and regulators in different drilling regions face different issues.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 22, 2021

It said the 12 industry and expert figures on the Commission, which is to be chaired by University of Cambridge international law professor Lorand Bartels, would have a formal role to inform MPs and the public about how new free trade deals are consistent with UK green laws.

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Grist

JUNE 5, 2024

Xiaotong Zheng, a meteorologist at the Ocean University of China, and international colleagues argue that this extraordinary heating is the result of a dramatic cleanup of Chinese air pollution. The idea that cleaning up air pollution can worsen atmospheric warming sounds counterintuitive. million tons in 2013 to 2.4

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

These seven members of the public serve on the Virginia State Water Control Board, an independent regulatory body tasked with administering the state’s water laws. Indeed, at 42 inches in diameter and 303 miles long, the MVP is the largest methane gas pipeline currently under construction in the U.S. billion MVP is now $2.5

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2024

The incident offers a rare window into some of the inner workings of private oil companies while also revealing how taxpayers can wind up paying enormous subsidies to carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) operations that generate far more climate-altering pollution than they prevent. So far, that’s not what’s happening.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The curbing of emissions to reduce the concentration of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane in the environment. Short-lived Climate Pollutants (SLCPs). SLCPs include black carbon, methane, and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). The hope is that limiting global warming to 1. Anthropogenic. Resulting from human beings.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

He said that it was important for the government to have “interlocking policies” on “the quality of our rivers”, “marine protected areas”, “air pollution”, and “nature restoration”. Subscribe to our newsletter Stay up to date with DeSmog news and alerts Email Address What content do you want to subscribe to?

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Business Green

JANUARY 15, 2021

90 per cent of people breathe polluted air.". Why should seven million people die every year because of pollution? France draft climate law attracts criticism from campaign groups. Why should we sacrifice nature for the sake of development?" Bin Salman continued. China sets out carbon capture push in climate policy guidelines.

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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

DWR measures the CO2 and methane emissions from the wetlands it created on Sherman Island. Established in 2006 by the law AB32, the cap-and-trade system seeks to reduce the state’s greenhouse gas emissions by harnessing market forces. The longer-term goal is to reverse them. Jonno Rattman / Bay Nature.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

In October, she invited a university researcher onto the property and discovered that several wells were leaking methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide. This increases the risk of methane seeping into the air and oil migrating into the surrounding groundwater. The Railroad Commission would not confirm this.

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