DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

The assertions also lack detail, face technical problems, ignore leaking methane emissions, and depend on government subsidies for funding. To complicate matters further, new research suggests that fugitive methane emissions from fracking operations are far higher than official data indicates. Credit: Rich Duncan. s climate goals. “We

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

DonorsTrust gave the group nearly $8 million between 2008 and 2017, according to federal tax data. A report from Columbia University’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law identified nearly 230 local measures across 35 states that have been enacted to restrict renewable energy development.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

IFEEDER also hired branding consultants to help name the CLEAR Center — which stands for Clarity and Leadership for Environment Awareness and Research — and paid CLEAR Center director Frank Mitloehner almost $19,000 in consulting fees in 2017, two years before they worked together to establish the research institute.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

An organization run by former Obama-era Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, with the backing of the AFL-CIO, a federation of 56 labor unions, has created a policy “blueprint” to build a nationwide pipeline network capable of carrying a gigaton of captured carbon dioxide (CO2). Here is how they might act in those areas.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

In October, she invited a university researcher onto the property and discovered that several wells were leaking methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide. This increases the risk of methane seeping into the air and oil migrating into the surrounding groundwater. The Railroad Commission would not confirm this.

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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

No one foresaw that this very bounty — soil rich with organic material — would, over time, become a curse of sorts. River and marsh bottoms typically have low oxygen levels, which slows the decomposition of organic material that collects there. That organic material contains copious amounts of carbon. Jonno Rattman / Bay Nature.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

In October, she invited a university researcher onto the property and discovered that several wells were leaking methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide. This increases the risk of methane seeping into the air and oil migrating into the surrounding groundwater. The Railroad Commission would not confirm this.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2022

The flares started last December, an event Errol Summerlin, a former legal-aid lawyer, and his neighbors had been bracing for since 2017. pounds of volatile organic compounds may be released by the facility hourly. On clear nights, he says, he can see the flares burning, releasing a gas cocktail of carbon monoxide and methane.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 31, 2021

“Some of the area’s refineries started shutting down operations leading up to Harvey, including ExxonMobil, Petrobras, Shell, and Chevron Phillips Chemical,” DeSmog reported in 2017. Environmental Protection Agency reached a settlement with Shell over allegations that flaring at the site violated the Clean Air Act and state law.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 1, 2021

That dissent in Gulf Run takes on new relevance as the term of FERC Commissioner Neil Chatterjee, appointed by Donald Trump in 2017, ended on Wednesday. LNG production and transportation releases significant amounts of methane into the atmosphere which has a more powerful warming effect in the near-term than carbon dioxide.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Climate and environmental justice organizations , some climate and energy experts, and some lawmakers, are speaking out against the false promise of CCS. In a November 2017 document marked “confidential,” Shell discusses the CCS opportunity in the U.S. Numerous projects have failed or underperformed.

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Charged

MAY 18, 2021

The traditional pollutants [are] nitrogen oxides, volatile organics, and particulates. EPA then worked with the state of California and NHTSA, which sets fuel economy standards—in the mid-1970s, President Ford established the law that NHTSA is using to improve fuel economy, and the basis was not climate change, but energy security.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2021

The update was sparked by decades old changes in drilling technology already used in an area that gained notoriety for having one of the largest methane hot spots on the planet — because of leaking oil and gas wells. Under federal law, agencies are required to conduct tribal consultation on projects and plans like this one.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which represents many of the world’s biggest economies, and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) predict that global meat production will continue to rise in the coming decade as incomes increase in developing countries.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

According to residential ratepayer advocates , years of foot-dragging by NW Natural and the OPUC cost customers millions by delaying the pursuit of an independent analysis in 2017 that recommended shifting a larger portion of the company’s “very substantial” — and confidential — storage-related profits back toward NW Natural’s utility customers.

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