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Mitigating Climate Change Due to Methane From Natural Gas

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Methane is a primary component in natural gas and a contributor to climate change. Why is reducing methane emissions so important to climate change mitigation? This powerful warming effect causes experts to believe that cutting methane emissions is critical to mitigating climate change. infrastructure.

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MetLife Earns 2022 Energy Star® Partner of the Year 'Sustained Excellence' Award

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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. It is awarded to ENERGY STAR partners that have made a long-term commitment to fighting climate change and protecting public health through energy efficiency and have demonstrated leadership year over year. “Our Department of Energy.

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Water-Efficiency is No Longer a Pipe Dream: How companies are addressing the global water shortage

Strategic Sustainability Consulting

The sixth report from the International Panel on Climate Change concludes that “human-induced climate change has contributed to increases in agricultural and ecological droughts in some regions due to increased land evapotranspiration.” According to the EPA, U.S. But that rainfall we all depend on is in flux.

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Green Banks and the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund: A Preview of Sustainability Roundtable Inc.’s Full Member Advisory

Sustainable Round Table

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), a landmark piece of legislation passed on August 16, 2022, includes a number of provisions intended to mitigate climate change. Through the Clean Energy and Sustainability Accelerator, the EPA will be able to establish a national green bank. Image Source: SR Inc. What is a Green Bank?

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How 5 communities across the US are seeking environmental justice

GreenBiz

And soon after that incident, the EPA arrived and began monitoring for a chemical, chloroprene, that is used in the nearby plant and is considered by the agency to be a "likely carcinogen.". "I Climate Change. It never occurred to him that other parts of the parish didn't have it as bad. The Rockaways, Queens, N.Y.: Judy Fahys.