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UK substantially underestimates its methane emissions from oil and gas production – and many other countries probably do too

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

A newer, more accurate method for calculating methane emissions from offshore oil and gas production suggests that the United Kingdom severely underestimates its greenhouse gas emissions. Researchers conclude that as much as five times more methane is being leaked from oil and gas production than reported.

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How cleaning up shipping cut pollution — and warmed the planet

Grist

JULY 18, 2024

Michael Diamond thought he’d have to wait until this year, at least, to have enough data to understand how a shipping regulation aimed at curbing pollution affected the clouds that deck the ocean. When industries around the world emit fewer of these pollutants, clouds darken. “They’re so variable.

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To Meet Sustainability Goals, Food Companies Need To Slash Methane

EDF + Business

JUNE 24, 2021

For companies that produce, process or sell beef, pork and/or dairy, there’s an often overlooked, invisible source of climate pollution lurking in the supply chain: methane. An extremely potent greenhouse gas, methane has more than 80 times the warming power of carbon dioxide in the short term.

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Report: Pollution is connected to 9 million deaths worldwide each year

Grist

MAY 18, 2022

World leaders aren’t doing enough to address pollution at its source, leaving nearly 9 million people each year to die from its effects. That’s the message delivered on Tuesday by public health experts from the Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health, a high-profile panel of scientific experts. named for their diameter of just 2.5

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Building community knowledge in Colorado

Defend Our Future

JANUARY 30, 2024

Despite Colorado having some of the nation’s strongest clean air protections, Denver ranks as being the seventh-most polluted city for ozone pollution in the country according to the American Lung Association’s last State of the Air Report.

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The quest for cleaner air

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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UN: Slashing methane emissions 'one of the best ways' to curb global temperature rise

Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

Methane emissions reduction could significantly reduce rates of global warming at a relatively low cost, major research warns. As such, the report emphasises that methane mitigation is "one of the best ways of limiting warming in this and subsequent decades".

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What Happens When Extreme Heat and Air Pollution Collide

The City Fix

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

On July 22, the world experienced its hottest day in recorded history. The global average temperature reached 17.2 degrees C (62.9 degrees F), prompting UN Secretary-General António Guterres to issue a global call to action on extreme heat. The problem of extreme.

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Here’s how the billionaire space race hurts the environment

AGreenLiving

JULY 20, 2021

Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Galactic, successfully flew to space and landed back on Earth this month, a move that has reignited the conversation about rocket pollution. Over the years, pollution caused by rocket launches has often been brushed away due to the few launches taking place.

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Here’s how the billionaire space race hurts the environment

AGreenLiving

JULY 20, 2021

Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Galactic, successfully flew to space and landed back on Earth this month, a move that has reignited the conversation about rocket pollution. Over the years, pollution caused by rocket launches has often been brushed away due to the few launches taking place.

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Nitrous oxide levels are on the rise

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Nitrous oxide is a greenhouse gas and one of the main stratospheric ozone depleting substances on the planet. Widely known as “laughing gas”, used for its anesthetic effects, nitrous oxide (N2O) is also regarded as the third most important long-lived greenhouse gas, after carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane.

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Understanding the Anthropocene, Resilience Thinking, and the Future of Industry

Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

During this era, humans began releasing concentrated amounts of carbon and other emissions, causing extreme air pollution and marking the start of the constant rise of atmospheric CO2, leading us to where we are today. . The Anthropocene.

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Global Methane Pledge: 150 nations now part of drive to slash emissions by 2030

Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Just 50 nations worldwide now outside initiative that aims to cut methane emissions 30 per cent by 2030. First launched with just over 100 national backers at the UN Climate Summit in Glasgow a year ago, the Global Methane Pledge commits signatories to collectively reducing emissions of the gas by 30 per cent between 2020 and 2030.

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Heated VOC analyser goes portable

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Secondly, the new analyser can be fitted with twin FIDs, which means that users will be able to monitor total VOCs, methane, and non-methane VOCs (NMVOCs) simultaneously.”. The new SOLAR XPLORE is also supplied with an ethernet connection and software to enable remote operation.

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ExxonMobil Urges EU to Remove ‘Policy Hurdles’ Slowing Oil Industry’s Hydrogen Plans

DeSmogBlog

MAY 22, 2024

Currently, more than 99 percent of hydrogen used in the EU is “grey hydrogen” made from natural gas in a process known as “steam methane reformation” that has high carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. It could also contribute to increases in ground-level ozone pollution — which is harmful to human health.

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Fenceline Community Groups in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Celebrate Mounting Victories

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

John the Baptist Parish have a lifetime risk of cancer from air pollution that is 800 times higher than the national average. Every stage of natural gas production and distribution releases methane pollution, a powerful greenhouse gas. James Parish would violate the EPA’s standards for soot and ozone-forming nitrogen dioxide.

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Global Briefing: EU confirms 2035 ban for new petrol and diesel cars

Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Australia vows to cut methane emissions, the US ratifies the Kigali Agreement, and all the other green business news from around the world this week. My Administration is phasing down super-polluting chemicals so the US can lead the clean technology markets of the future and unlock thousands of new jobs.".

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Secrets of a long partnership in gas detection (Sponsored content)

Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2020

In recent years, the effects of vehicular air pollution on human health have become better understood, and received greater political and media attention. The company’s products are employed in commercial, institutional, municipal and light industrial markets, and in a wide variety of applications. A car park installation.

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As Alarm Over Plastic Grows, Saudis Ramp Up Production in the US

DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2022

Eight emission events in six months, according to Neal Carman, a former Texas air pollution investigator who now works for the Sierra Club, doesn’t bode well for those who live near the plant. Dr. Philip Landrigan, professor of biology and director of the Global Public Health Program and Global Pollution Observatory at Boston College.

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New Shell Files Could Aid Climate Cases, Attorneys Say

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

. “It is feared that a further rise in carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere could lead to a higher average surface temperature on Earth, which could have far-reaching environmental, social and economic consequences,” wrote the authors of a 1987 internal Shell publication entitled “Air Pollution: an Oil Industry Perspective.”

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Climate Change: Where Are We Now?

Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

While CO 2 may be the greatest contributor to climate change, other gases such as methane and nitrous oxide are also responsible for creating the greenhouse effect, therefore, solutions must also focus on the reduction of these gases. Which countries and sectors are the largest polluters? In June of 1988 James E.

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Global Briefing: UN summit sees $400bn pledged towards clean energy

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

All the top green business news from around the world this week, including fresh WHO air pollution guidelines and global coal, methane and HFC commitments. World Health Organisation unveils tighter air pollution guidelines. More countries join global methane and coal power pledges.

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Smog Isn’t Gone. Why Solving Climate Change Is About More Than Carbon Dioxide

GreenTechMedia

MAY 21, 2020

Levels of smog and other short-lived climate pollutants (remember HFCs?)   The good news: There’s a long track record of international cooperation to get these harmful pollutants in check. In addition to heating up the atmosphere, they dirty our air, make people sick and affect the ozone layer. 

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Methane Emissions Spiked in 2020. Scientists Fear Feedback Loops

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2021

Preliminary data shows that methane emissions jumped in 2020 by the largest amount since systematic record-keeping began decades ago. And despite a dip in polluting activities due to the pandemic, concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere rose to its highest level in 3.6 million years. ppb rise in 2019. ppb rise in 2019.

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Methane Emissions Spiked in 2020. Scientists Fear Feedback Loops

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2021

Preliminary data shows that methane emissions jumped in 2020 by the largest amount since systematic record-keeping began decades ago. And despite a dip in polluting activities due to the pandemic, concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere rose to its highest level in 3.6 million years. ppb rise in 2019. ppb rise in 2019.

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Where the Presidential Nominees Stand on Environmental Issues

Sustainability Consulting

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Water Pollution In April, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Chief Andrew Wheeler said safe drinking water, plastic pollution and other litter in the oceans, drought in western states and water infrastructure are "the largest and most immediate environmental and public health issues affecting the world right now."

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UK substantially underestimates its methane emissions from oil and gas production – and many other countries probably do too

How cleaning up shipping cut pollution — and warmed the planet

Trending Sources

To Meet Sustainability Goals, Food Companies Need To Slash Methane

Report: Pollution is connected to 9 million deaths worldwide each year

Building community knowledge in Colorado

The quest for cleaner air

UN: Slashing methane emissions 'one of the best ways' to curb global temperature rise

What Happens When Extreme Heat and Air Pollution Collide

Here’s how the billionaire space race hurts the environment

Here’s how the billionaire space race hurts the environment

Nitrous oxide levels are on the rise

Understanding the Anthropocene, Resilience Thinking, and the Future of Industry

Global Methane Pledge: 150 nations now part of drive to slash emissions by 2030

Heated VOC analyser goes portable

ExxonMobil Urges EU to Remove ‘Policy Hurdles’ Slowing Oil Industry’s Hydrogen Plans

Fenceline Community Groups in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Celebrate Mounting Victories

Global Briefing: EU confirms 2035 ban for new petrol and diesel cars

Secrets of a long partnership in gas detection (Sponsored content)

As Alarm Over Plastic Grows, Saudis Ramp Up Production in the US

New Shell Files Could Aid Climate Cases, Attorneys Say

Climate Change: Where Are We Now?

Global Briefing: UN summit sees $400bn pledged towards clean energy

Smog Isn’t Gone. Why Solving Climate Change Is About More Than Carbon Dioxide

Methane Emissions Spiked in 2020. Scientists Fear Feedback Loops

Methane Emissions Spiked in 2020. Scientists Fear Feedback Loops

Where the Presidential Nominees Stand on Environmental Issues

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