The cloud of unknowing: Making sense of the carbon capture puzzle
The drive to scale-up carbon capture and storage (CCS) appears to be underway on both sides of the Atlantic, with the only problem being...
Sponsored content: Hire management just got easier
Reinforcing Casella’s engineering expertise and experience producing quality monitoring instruments, the Casella Guardian2 can help control site emissions and reduce environmental risks. Casella has introduced new features to make hire management easier.
Line walking limits
Most consumers across the world are supplied with gas via local distribution networks which vary in size depending on the country. In the UK there is 280,000 kilometres of pipework; in France 170,000 kilometres and in the US over 3 million kilometres.
Firm warns of increased microbial-influenced corrosion with IMO 2020-compliant fuels
Microbial monitoring specialist LuminUltra has highlighted concerns over the quality of some compliant fuels as the shipping industry gears up towards meeting the International...
Scotch whisky industry renews commitment to sustainability
A series of seemingly amibitious environmental targets was announced by the Scotch Whiskey Association (SWA), the principal trade body for the sector, on 21...
Firm becomes first construction materials supplier to achieve PAS 2080 verification
Aggregate Industries has become the first construction materials supplier to achieve PAS 2080 verification after demonstrating its ongoing commitment to supplying low carbon solutions...
Biogas boost expected from M&S endorsement
A major boost to the UK’s anaerobic digestion (AD) & biogas industry is expected to follow M&S’s decision in early September to purchase 35,000...
Netherlands court rules that Shell must reduce its emissions
Environmental activists hailed a decision by a court in The Hague on 26 May, which ruled that Shell must reduce its CO2 emissions by...
Reusing captured carbon: ripe for a reappraisal?
Carbon capture and utilization (CCU) has been touted as part of the solution to the climate crisis.
On track for net zero? Observers respond to the UK government’s ten-point green plan
Commentators in the environmental sphere seemed to broadly welcome the UK government’s “Ten-Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution”, unveiled on 18 November, although...
No smoke without methane, and increasingly so
A new detection method has been used to uncover increasing amounts of methane coming from wildfires, a source not currently accounted for in state-level...
UK firm is official biochar partner at COP28
Climate-tech company A Healthier Earth has been announced as the official biochar partner at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP28). The firm will be...
Hydrogen could replace natural gas to heat homes and slash carbon emissions, new report...
Leading UK engineers have assessed the possibility of using hydrogen in place of natural gas in the UK’s gas grid and concluded that there...
Planning to fail: net zero is impossible without urgent changes to planning policy, says...
Reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050 is impossible without urgent changes to national planning policy, analysis by CPRE, the countryside charity, appears to...
£80m boost to help UK businesses tackle carbon emissions
The UK government announced the disbursement of over £80 million funding on 28 June, intended to give a boost to a range of projects...
Battery aggregator secures funds to advance grid-balancing plans
Home battery firm Moixa has secured £2.5 million in new investment to help realise its goal of creating a virtual power plant aggregating the...
