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7 Things to Know About Burning Hydrogen in Gas Plants: An H2 FAQ 

Union of Concerned Scientists

In turn, this means a given percentage of hydrogen (by volume) blended in doesnt lead to the same percentage reduction in the amount of gasor to the same reduction of carbon emissions. A blend with 50% hydrogen by volume, for example, gets you only 23% less smokestack carbon pollution.

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Five Ways Offshore Wind Benefits Us All 

Union of Concerned Scientists

Reducing carbon emissions is another significant benefit of avoiding the burning of fossil fuels with offshore wind. In fact, in some parts of the country, offshore wind may become the largest zero-carbon generation source for cutting power plant carbon emissions and achieving net-zero carbon emissions across the economy.

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EPA Moves to Ignore Power Plant Carbon Emissions, Deny Climate Science 

Union of Concerned Scientists

On June 11, less than five months into the Trump administration, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin used a rulemaking about regulating power plant carbon pollution to officially establish climate denial as EPA policy. Plus, a rundown on how to fight back. What is EPA proposing to do? And that’s not all.

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The Supreme Court’s Latest Decision Is a Blow to Stopping Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

The majority 6–3 decision sharply curtails the EPA’s authority to set standards based on a broad range of flexible options to cut carbon emissions from the power sector—options such as replacing polluting fossil fuels with cheap and widely available wind and solar power coupled with battery storage. carbon emissions today.

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Climate-friendly but costly agriculture

Successful Green

Emissions of methane and nitrogen oxides from agriculture are Europe’s second most important... The post Climate-friendly but costly agriculture appeared first on successful GREEN. Making agriculture climate-?neutral

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Five Reasons “Natural” Gas is Bad for You and the Environment

Enviromental Defense

Being close to fracking operations, rural and Indigenous communities are disproportionately impacted by the release of toxic chemicals.The increase in fracking operations are contributing to the spike in methane emissions which are quickly warming the planet. Gas plants are often the top emitters of nitrogen oxides in communities.In

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Ask a Scientist: The US Has to Do More to Meet Its Carbon Emissions Reduction Goals

Union of Concerned Scientists

However, several analyses—including a recent one by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)—have concluded that the IRA, even when coupled with the bipartisan infrastructure act and other federal and state climate policies, will not be enough to meet US carbon emission reduction goals. EN: We have already seen a great deal of progress.