Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Underinvestment in oil and gas development extended into a second year in 2021 even as global energy demand rebounded, raising the prospect of price shocks, scarcity and growing energy poverty, according to a new report by the International Energy Forum (IEF) and IHS Markit. —Joseph McMonigle, secretary general, IEF.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2021

In the course of their transformation paths towards climate-neutral steel making, thyssenkrupp Steel and HKM will require large and increasing quantities of hydrogen to produce steel without coal. Green hydrogen is a sustainable alternative to coal, oil and natural gas.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 13, 2021

Much of industry is responding well to the biggest issue of this century, one we've jointly created over the past 300 years. But there is still much work to be done.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

The commitment was made as part of wider efforts by the global energy industry to ensure that natural gas continues to play a critical role in helping meet future energy demand while addressing climate change. —Mark Radka, Head of UN Environment’s Energy and Climate Branch.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 17, 2023

Mobi1's botched 'breaking free' ad is yet another own goal by the fossil-fuel and fossil-adjacent industry as they try to find ways to stay relevant in a world that is leaving them behind.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The program aims to reduce emissions in the oil, gas, and coal industries and promote innovation and manufacturing of new technologies to achieve climate goals. The funding is part of ARPA-E’s “Reducing Emissions of Methane Every Day of the Year” (REMEDY) program that was unveiled earlier this year ( earlier post ).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Driven by rising natural gas and oil consumption, levels of CO 2 are expected to hit 37 billion metric tons this year, according to new estimates from the Global Carbon Project (GCP), an initiative led by Stanford University scientist Rob Jackson. In 2019, consumption of coal is expected to drop 11% in the U.S.—down

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

The legislation also proposes numerous actions against financing and support for fossil fuel industries. The Family Clean Energy Rebate Program would use 60% of the funds from the carbon fee and use the model developed by Alaska’s oil dividend to provide a monthly rebate to every legal US resident to offset potential energy price increases.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 11, 2013

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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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2015

A team at the University of Calgary (Canada) has compared the energy intensities and lifecycle GHG emissions of unconventional oils (oil sands and oil shale) alongside shale gas, coal, lignite, wood and conventional oil and gas. This is not the same as crude oil occurring naturally in shales, as in the Bakken.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Coal combustion alone was responsible for half of those deaths, with natural gas and oil combustion accounting for the other half. across the industrialized nations of the global north, windblown dust was a major source of PM 2.5 While fossil fuel combustion made up most of the PM 2.5 in African countries.

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EV Central

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

But first I wanted to talk about climate change deniers, and how remarkable it is that they still exist. There is, of course, some kind of cursed crossover in the Ven diagram that includes both the Rick rollers of coal and the people who hate science, but anyway, let’s digress. And I think that needs to be repeated.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2014

Advances in technologies for extracting oil and gas from shale formations have dramatically increased production in the United States. In this paper, we focus on the implications of growing shale gas production for the climate. With this abundance of natural gas comes a variety of questions. —Newell and Raimi. Resources.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 27, 2021

This blueprint for government spending is an enormous opportunity to eliminate handouts to the fossil fuel industry through the new American Jobs Plan and Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad. Here’s what the budget should eliminate: loopholes […].

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Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 18, 2013

And so it is that I resigned from my position as Director of Strategic Partnerships and Public Affairs for CBS EcoMedia effective the first of this month and I will now be devoting my full time to working on climate change response with the South Bay 350 Climate Action Group, the South Bay Bicycle Coalition and 350.org.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

I’m talking about the people who work for and represent E&B oil. The people whose business model is to wreck the ecology and the climate and profit from it. There are no bigger cowards then the people who work for the oil, coal and gas industries. No foreign terrorist could ever do us more harm.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The industry has also had trouble selling EVs down market, with the segment historically catering to more affluent buyers. government “climate advisers” spent June criticizing leadership for being “worryingly slow” on progressing climate goals. That has undoubtedly played a role in why sales growth seems to be slowing down.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

However, oil will continue to play a leading role in the world’s energy mix, the report finds. The share of the world’s electricity generated by coal is expected to fall to less than 30% in 2040 from approximately 40% in 2016. C above pre-industrial levels. per year; oil demand decreases about 0.4% per year.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2013

In regions where the share of coal-based electricity is relatively low, EVs can achieve substantial GHG reduction, the team reports in a paper in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. According to the 12 th Five-Year Plan of the China Coal Industry (2011?2015)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

Among the transportation-related elements of US President Barack Obama’s new climate action plan, which he is outlining today in a speech at Georgetown University, is the development of new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018. Preparing the US for the impacts of climate change. Earlier post.).

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Ahead of the United Nations COP28 climate summit in Dubai later this year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has once again released its yearly report on energy generation and renewables. You can see the IEA’s chart on investment flows below, showing a decrease in oil demand and increases to low-emissions power sources.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

As part of the EU-funded H2FUTURE project, partners voestalpine, VERBUND, Siemens, Austrian Power Grid, K1-MET and TNO are researching into the industrial production of green hydrogen as a means of replacing fossil fuels in steel production over the long term. It creates the basis for future projects on an industrial scale.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2020

CO 2 emissions from coal fell by 14.6%, the largest annual percentage drop in any fuel’s CO 2 emissions in EIA’s annual CO 2 data series dating back to 1973. The United States now emits less CO 2 from coal than from motor gasoline. Source: US Energy Information Administration, Monthly Energy Review.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2013

In contrast to arguments that peak conventional oil production is imminent due to physical resource scarcity, a team from Stanford University and UC Santa Cruz has examined the alternative possibility of reduced oil use due to improved efficiency and oil substitution. 2010, to above 140 $/bbl in constant 2010 dollars).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2011

Gasoline section shows results for fuel derived from both conventional oil and oil sands. water quality, air quality, global climate change) of shale gas (SG) production and use are currently being debated as the impacts of these new technologies have just started to be examined.In Credit: ACS, Burnham et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2013

The Brent crude oil spot price averaged $112 per barrel in 2012, and EIA’s July 2013 Short-Term Energy Outlook projects averages of $105 per barrel in 2013 and $100 per barrel in 2014. In the Reference case, all the growth in liquids use is in the transportation and industrial sectors. Liquid fuels.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2021

The commercial importance of these minerals also grow rapidly: today’s revenue from coal production is ten times larger than from energy transition minerals. However, in climate-driven scenarios, these positions are reversed well before 2040. Solar PV follows closely, due to the sheer volume of capacity that is added. Source: IEA.

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Creative Greenius

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

And the people who are MY heroes and the ones I consider our greatest patriots today are on the front lines fighting climate change. . But hold them up I do because their work – like the work of the the scientists, activists, organizers, volunteers and other climate hawks I admire, enlightens and inspires me to do the work I do.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2009

billion from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for the capture carbon dioxide from industrial sources for storage or beneficial use. Noting that coal accounts for roughly 25% of the world energy supply and 40% of the carbon emissions. Roughly 6 billion metric tons of coal are used each year, producing 18 billion tons of CO 2.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

The climate change benefit is estimated for 2050 and human health and crop benefits are for 2030 and beyond. Black carbon and tropospheric ozone are harmful air pollutants that also contribute to climate change. Global benefits from full implementation of the identified measures in 2030 compared to the reference scenario.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2012

Estimated consumption subsidies, industrial and developing countries, fossil fuels and renewables. In 2010, developing countries spent roughly $193 billion, or 47% of all fossil fuel consumption subsidies, on oil while industrial countries spent roughly $28 billion. Oil demand would be reduced by 3.7 Source: Worldwatch.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2010

Natural gas will play a leading role in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions over the next several decades, largely by replacing older, inefficient coal plants with highly efficient combined-cycle gas generation, according to a major new interim report out from MIT. The first two reports dealt with nuclear power (2003) and coal (2007).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2021

Soot particles from oil and wood heating systems as well as road traffic can pollute the air in Europe on a much larger scale than previously assumed. Aerosol particles in the atmosphere affect global climate, human health and ecosystems. The main sources were combustion emissions, probably from wood and coal-fired heating systems.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

billion—are attributable to corn-based ethanol, the climate effects of which are disputed. billion went to traditional sources—such as coal and oil—and $2.3 billion went to carbon capture and storage, which is designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants. Of the fossil fuel subsidies, $70.2

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Global emissions of CO 2 have increased by 45% between 1990 and 2010, and reached an all-time high of 33 billion tonnes in 2010 despite emission reductions in industrialized countries during the same period. Throughout the Kyoto Protocol period, industrialized countries have made efforts to change their energy sources mix.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

In addition, EPA said it is working with state, tribal, and local governments, industry and labor leaders, non-profits, and others to establish CO 2 standards for existing power plants. The proposed rulemaking establishes separate standards for natural gas and coal plants.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2016

In collaboration with the aviation industry, the FAA approves new renewable jet fuel pathways through ASTM International. The FAA’s Continuous Lower Energy, Emissions and Noise (CLEEN) partnership with industry was crucial in completing the necessary steps to support ASTM International approval of this new fuel. Earlier post.)

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