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Study findings suggest that switching from coal to natural gas would do little for global climate

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The study will appear next month in the peer-reviewed journal Climatic Change Letters. The study will appear next month in the peer-reviewed journal Climatic Change Letters. Relying more on natural gas would reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, but it would do little to help solve the climate problem. —Tom Wigley.

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EEA report: EVs are better for climate and air quality

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Battery electric cars emit less greenhouse gases and air pollutants over their entire life cycle than petrol and diesel cars, according to a European Environment Agency (EEA) report. The EEA has also published a new briefing on the environmental and climate impacts of transport.

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3.8% drop in EU’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2019; transport emissions rise

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in 2019, according to latest official data published by the European Environment Agency (EEA). The large decline in emissions, achieved before the COVID-19 crisis, was mainly due to reduced coal use for power generation. Total greenhouse gas emissions in the European Union (EU) decreased by 3.8% from 2018 to 2019.

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Climate Change #Liar-Deniers Are The New Racists

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As evil and damaging as racism is to individuals and our society overall, the Climate LiarDeniers’s evil far exceeds the scope of race haters because the damage is done to everyone at a global level of catastrophe that no racial supremacist ever dreamed of. . Who can understand the rationale of the depraved?

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Stanford study finds current carbon capture technology inefficient & increases air pollution

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Even if you have 100 percent capture from the capture equipment, it is still worse, from a social cost perspective, than replacing a coal or gas plant with a wind farm because carbon capture never reduces air pollution and always has a capture equipment cost. —Mark Jacobson. In both plants, natural gas turbines power the equipment.

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thyssenkrupp greenlights construction of €2B hydrogen-powered direct reduction plant for low-CO2 steel

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The release of this enormous investment comes in the midst of the company’s transformation, in what is also for all concerned an extremely challenging environment. As part of its tkH2Steel transformation project, coal-based blast furnaces will be replaced by hydrogen-powered direct reduction plants. Capacity will be 2.5

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Meet A Leader In Today’s Death Wish Congress

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228) that would bar the federal government from implementing any law or regulation related to climate change, whether it has to do with cutting industrial greenhouse gas emissions or not. Dude was a physician before becoming the Senator from one of America’s dirtiest coal producing states.

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