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Study finds steelmaking by electric arc furnace in US produces up to 75% less carbon emissions

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Blast furnace steel, which represents about 70% of global steel manufacturing, is produced at large steel plants that use coal to melt raw materials into iron and then process it into steel.

Carbon 186
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There’s Only One Kind Of “Just” Transition I Want To See

Creative Greenius

Oil, gas and coal workers have all known for more than a dozen years that their work was helping to destroy people’s health and well being. So the justice I want to see is first, second and third for the victims in the sacrifice zones created by the oil, gas and coal companies. Make the victims a priority for a damn change.

Coal 355
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IEA: global carbon dioxide emissions have rebounded strongly

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If governments don’t move quickly with the right energy policies, this could put at risk the world’s historic opportunity to make 2019 the definitive peak in global emissions. This was the result of accelerating economic activity as well as the combination of higher natural gas prices and colder weather favoring an increase in coal use.

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Study Finds that US Subsidies for Fossil Fuels Are Almost 2.5x Those for Renewables

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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

Renewable 338
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PNNL modeling study finds climate benefit for cutting soot, methane smaller than previous estimates

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Cutting the amount of short-lived, climate-warming emissions such as soot and methane won’t limit global warming as much as previous studies have suggested, according to a new study from the Joint Global Change Research Institute in College Park, Md., —Smith and Mizrahi. —Smith and Mizrahi.

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‘EVs will kill us all’ – Why are haters so obsessed with electric vehicles?

EV Central

I’m not easily shocked, but I do find the widely published work of Bjorn Lomborg, a Danish “author” and climate opinion giver, who is neither a climate scientist nor an economist, utterly dumbfounding. These heavy electric cars are also more dangerous for others in accidents. I’ll just pause here while you read that sentence again.

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The Greenius Misplaces His Mojo… Momentarily

Creative Greenius

It has definitely been been awhile, hasn’t it? Nice Guy,&# but hell I’m such an inherently nice guy at heart that no one would believe that… well, except maybe the gasholes who I’ll be metaphorically skewering like a razor sharp steel spike through a marinated lamb shish-kabob over burning hot coals.

Re-Charge 230