Circle of Blue

AUGUST 3, 2021

energy policy has done little to incentivize the growth of these technologies, relying on a patchwork of energy credit programs, tax breaks, and development spending to promote renewable energy production. But as the market grows, some urge caution before using wastewater to create renewable natural gas.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

They are useful tools for incentivizing things that we want more of – like renewable energy. That’s what the proposed clean energy tax credit does. Hydrogen, like electricity, is an energy carrier – it can be used to store and deliver usable energy, for example to a cement or steel factory or to produce fertilizer.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 9, 2024

A word about CCS : this technology has existed for decades but is only used at a handful of fossil energy facilities. Who needs units anyway? Another visualization they use is a roadmap is paired with an abatement curve, showing the costs of emissions reduction strategies compared to the amount of mitigation benefit they provide.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Three years later, energy production emerges as a force to be reckoned with by fishermen, clean energy advocates, those focused on the endangered Right Whale, and everyone who depends upon the Gulf of Maine (hereafter referred to as “GOM”) and its future. They should be held accountable for their actions.”

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 21, 2025

Community solar would allow thousands of Pennsylvanians, like me in the Lehigh Valley, and across the Commonwealth who do not have the property to handle solar panels to receive the benefits of clean energy, said Rep. Solar panels do not emit carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen oxides, or other harmful air pollutants when theyre working.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Each credit one metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalent pollution below the standard. I’ve written recently about why a Cap on Vegetable Oil-Based Fuels Will Stabilize and Strengthen California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard , which addresses the bio-based diesel credits. Source California Air Resources Board.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

Equipping fossil power plants with carbon capture makes fossil fuel generated power even more expensive, while the cost of renewable energy has plummeted. When it comes to power generation, Canada has great alternatives to fossil fuels. Carbon capture is unnecessary, ineffective and expensive.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

That requires bringing global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions to net zero by 2050. To meet that goal, the International Energy Agency’s Net Zero Roadmap released in 2021 says no new oil and gas supply projects can come online. That $2 billion per year in low-carbon spending is looking smaller all the time.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

” Prioritizing fossil fuels over renewable energy in 2023 for insubstantial reasons does not pass strict scrutiny. Notable for future litigation was this court’s focus on the feasibility of quickly moving to renewable energy systems, especially wind, water, and solar. They’ll have to be pushed.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 26, 2022

While there is enormous potential for UN climate negotiations to transform climate action, meaningful progress has been delayed in part by the fossil fuel industry’s deceptive tactics. Last year’s COP was notable as the first to explicitly mention “fossil fuels” in the final decision document.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

CCS is a multi-billion dollar boondoggle that doesn’t come close to the hype, has significant safety risks, and is a substantial distraction from real climate solutions, such as building more renewable energy, increasing electricity transmission infrastructure, and developing and using storage technology. Want proof?

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 5, 2022

Human activity adds more than 50 gigatons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere each year. New Solid Carbon technology might be able to lock climate-warming carbon dioxide below ocean bedrock. Large-scale solutions are urgently needed. Photo credit: Francisco Anzola, Flickr CC BY 2.0. By Dr Kate Moran.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The power sector must be rapidly decarbonized for this increase in electrification to provide maximum benefits of emissions reduction, so we must also transition rapidly to a renewable power grid.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 26, 2023

Before diving into our first discussion, I’ll note that I approach the conversation of hydrogen energy with some skepticism. The fossil fuel industry has been a major player in generating interest in hydrogen, particularly for technology that produces hydrogen from fossil fuels. kg of carbon dioxide emissions.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 15, 2022

With more than a trillion tons of carbon dioxide now circulating in the atmosphere, and global temperatures projected to rise anywhere from 2 degrees to 9.7 degrees Fahrenheit in the next 80 years, switching from fossil fuels to renewable energy is a subject of critical attention.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2021

During this period of greenhouse gas reductions, the energy needs of the wastewater sector are projected to climb, due to population growth and tightening water-quality standards. Luckily, wastewater treatment plants have a source of renewable energy running right through their pipes. million metric tons. About half of U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

One strategy is to counterbalance carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions that contribute to climate change by drawing an equal amount of carbon out of the atmosphere, such as through planting trees. By Department of Conservation & Natural Resources Efforts to slow or stop global warming involve many strategies working together.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 31, 2024

I am grateful to have met and learned from people who experience on a daily basis the devastation wrought by fossil fuel production and fossil fuel-driven climate change—and who are now campaigning for a fossil-free Niger Delta.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Methane is a much more potent GHG than carbon dioxide (CO2), and methane leaks have long been massively under-reported. LNG might not displace coal, and even it if does, it’s still a fossil fuel. Fossil gas is still a fossil fuel! Some new LNG facilities are being built near new coal facilities.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 12, 2023

One is a subsidy to Enbridge—a fossil fuel giant—to build a fossil fuel power plant. Instead, it will lock in polluting fossil fuel infrastructure for decades. Enbridge promises to blend some hydrogen with natural gas, but that’s just a dangerous distraction.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 19, 2024

Since then, the Conservative government has made a series of U-turns on its own net zero policies, attacked Labour’s green spending plans, and doubled down on its support for new fossil fuel projects, approving more than 100 new North Sea oil and gas licences. This comes as DeSmog and Democracy for Sale reveal that £6.8 percent (£1.8

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A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2022

They added that due to the increase in climate-friendly policies and laws we have seen enhanced energy efficiency, reduced deforestation rates and accelerated the deployment of renewable energy. The report Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of climate change looked at a variety of pathways for increased climate actions.

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A Greener Life

JULY 23, 2021

Hydrogen may have lost the race to fuel electric cars but it looks a likely contender to replace fossil fuels in trucks, ships, planes and heavy industry. The Tokyo Olympics will be powered by a fuel with ambition – hydrogen. Japan, once a passionate advocate of nuclear energy , now has serious hydrogen ambitions.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 1, 2023

We know that fossil fuels are causing the climate crisis. And we know that to avoid more climate destruction, the world must stop digging up and burning fossil fuels. Wind and solar power, paired with energy storage and energy savings, can almost entirely replace fossil fuels – and leave our communities better off.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The number of supporters on this letter demonstrates the strength and breadth of public support for eschewing the Commonwealth's dependence on fossil fuels and for prioritizing an equitable transition to an economy fueled by clean energy and energy efficiency innovation.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 5, 2022

Steele, Executive Director Blue hydrogen is produced through an energy-intensive process that mixes methane gas with water to create carbon dioxide and hydrogen. The hydrogen becomes an available fuel while the carbon dioxide emissions are captured and stored underground.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2023

Proponents of these centers tout them as clean energy hydrogen hubs, but this is misleading. If renewable energy were used, it would produce green hydrogen, which would be a clean energy source. All hydrogen hubs rely heavily or entirely on blue hydrogen which is produced from fracked gas.

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Greenbuilding Law

JULY 9, 2023

Methane’s Warming Potential : Methane, a colorless, odorless, and highly flammable gas that occurs abundantly in nature and from a variety of anthropogenic activities, has a considerably higher global warming potential than carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide emissions, on the other hand, arise almost exclusively from burning fossil fuels.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 2, 2022

We can decrease production of virgin plastic that comes from fossil fuels and pollutes our ocean as well. We can find opportunities for alternative energy like offshore wind and other marine renewables. We need bold plans and execution at all levels of government to combat climate change. In the U.S.,

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Both Republicans and Democrats are touting natural gas with CCS as the next clean energy solution, and significant funding has been earmarked for its research and development — at the expense of renewable energy projects that have proven to be cheaper and to produce fewer carbon emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Today’s announcement demonstrates a shared commitment between the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and our local communities and businesses to improve air quality, address climate change, and increase the use of renewable energy across the Commonwealth.” Click Here for a list of projects funded. “We

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

It also churns out around 1 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide—equal to Germany’s emissions—and other toxic pollutants into the atmosphere every year. If nothing is done to clean up shipping, its carbon emissions are projected to jump by almost 130% by 2050.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2022

Fossil fuels aren't just the feedstock for those reactions; they also provide the heat and pressure that drive them. First, renewable electricity would split abundant molecules such as CO2, water, oxygen (O2), and nitrogen into reactive fragments. But Science also reported-- “??Now,

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Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

Based on the lifetime of currently operating fossil fuel power plants and planned plants, it is highly likely global warming will exceed 1.5°C As the graph shows, policies on land-use, agriculture, and renewable energy hold a lot of potential for net GHG emissions reduction. Image originally featured on eia.gov.

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Cresforum

JANUARY 16, 2024

Renewable energy technologies (such as solar photovoltaic and wind power) are also increasing in capacity to provide clean energy, but they are either variable or intermittent sources of power. Section 202 would require a study to assess the global nuclear energy picture, focused on the state of the U.S. Title II of H.R.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 10, 2023

This year has brought new evidence of what major fossil fuel companies knew and when about the role their products play in climate change, as well as what they did in spite of what they knew. The House Oversight Committee investigation came to the same conclusion as the 2022 study: Accusations of greenwashing appear well-founded.

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Cresforum

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Clean hydrogen production relies either on electricity, which may be generated through renewable or fossil fuel resources; or directly on fossil fuels, via steam methane reformation (SMR) or coal gasification accompanied by carbon capture, or via methane pyrolysis. According to one estimate , the U.S.

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