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Gina McCarthy: Protecting the planet for all people

GreenBiz

The former EPA administrator and current president and CEO of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has been a leading advocate for smart, successful strategies to protect public health and the environment for more than 30 years. Finally, the climate crisis is worse than it’s ever been. Sara Murphy. Wed, 11/04/2020 - 01:30.

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Collecting Air Emissions Data for Compliance and Carbon Reduction

3BL Media

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provides an Emission Factor Database (AP-42) that offers emission factors for a variety of industries and pollutants. Additionally, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) provides a methodology used for GHG inventories , including industrial processes, transportation, and energy use.

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Stewards of Life Out Here: Creating a Sustainable Planet

3BL Media

Our journey began with a focus on understanding our impact on one of the most pressing issues of our lifetime—climate change. In recognizing climate change as an imperative, we announced aggressive greenhouse gas emission reduction goals that will challenge us well into the future as we pledge to become carbon neutral by 2040.

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Is the IMO Turning the Tide on Transition?

Chris Hall

With global trade highly dependent on shipping, achieving net zero may put wind in the sails of other industries’ climate ambitions. International shipping accounted for 2% of global energy-related CO2 emissions last year, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). What progress has the IMO made?

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Knight Bites: Five ways the natural gas supply chain is leaking globe-heating methane

Corporate Knights

The pause will let the Department of Energy update its criteria for such permits to make them take climate change into consideration. EPA estimates losses of close to 1% from transportation and distribution systems. Power plants and factories Roughly half of natural gas is sold to large power plants and factories in the U.S.

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Creating an Energy-to-Food Future

B the Change

VAXA Takes an Oceanic-Based Approach to the Next Frontier of Food Production As climate change seeps into every aspect of our food chain, including our oceans, there is an imperative to pivot to alternative sources for nutrition to keep up with the future needs of our population. Why vertical farming? Why supplements?

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Great Lakes Shipping Grants Will Finalize Before Trump Takes Office

CleanTechnica

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to finalize more than $200 million in grant funding in the coming weeks to accelerate the clean energy transition at three Great Lakes shipping ports. continued] The post Great Lakes Shipping Grants Will Finalize Before Trump Takes Office appeared first on CleanTechnica.