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Fermentation turns greenhouse gases into useful chemicals

Physics World

Unfortunately, they are manufactured from fossil resources using highly energy-intensive techniques that release hazardous waste and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. As the climate crisis intensifies, researchers are seeking alternative means to lessen the climate impact of producing these commodities.

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Greenhouse gas emission impact from peatland fires underestimated by 200%-300%, shows new study

Frontiers

Deforestation fires in Brazil and Indonesia accounted for 3% and 7%, respectively, of the planet’s total greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in 2019 and 2020, finds a new study in Frontiers in Climate. In Brazil, a total of 11,088 km 2 of forest were destroyed from August 2019 to July 2020. Image: PARALAXIS/Shutterstock.

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Emissions by the Big Utilities: Where They Are, What They’re Aiming For

Legal Planet

Energy Mix (2019): [link]. Carbon Reduction Goals: Net-zero carbon monoxide and methane emissions by 2050. Carbon Reduction Goal: Net zero carbon by 2030. Energy Mix (2019): Con Ed’s investor report gives slightly different figures on pp. 4) Dominion Energy. Nuclear 17%. Natural Gas: 42%.

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DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Air Quality General Permit For Coal-Mine Methane Enclosed Flares, Eliminates Public Comment Period On Individual Permits

PA Environment Daily

formal notice ) The general permit sets Best Available Technology requirements to meet emission limits for oxides of nitrogen (NOx) and carbon monoxide (CO). DEP’s latest Pennsylvania Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventory shows coal mining-related greenhouse gas emissions in 2019 totaled an estimated 11.91

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DEP Publishes Final Air Quality General Permit For Installation Of Coal-Mine Methane Enclosed Flares

PA Environment Daily

formal notice ) The general permit sets Best Available Technology requirements to meet emission limits for oxides of nitrogen (NOx), carbon monoxide (CO) and other pollutants. DEP’s latest Pennsylvania Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventory shows coal mining-related greenhouse gas emissions in 2019 totaled an estimated 11.91

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How Green Tech Helps Create Sustainable Mobility in Cities

Earthava

However, one of its most pressing current challenges is reducing the carbon emissions from transportation, a sector that is one of the highest contributors to greenhouse gases. In the US alone, the transportation sector contributed 29% of greenhouse gas emissions in 2019. Photo by Aleksejs Bergmanis.

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The Fuss about Methane

Legal Planet

Methane is essential to control, since stabilizing climate requires reducing all anthropogenic greenhouse-gas emissions to net-zero. It replaced an earlier, more dangerous, product called “town gas” or “coal gas,” which consisted mainly of hydrogen and carbon monoxide and was produced by heating coal in. the absence of air.