GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Using data shared by the industry, the Markets Institute at the World Wildlife Fund looked at the potential impact of emission-reductions options available to dairy farmers today, including feed additives that reduce methane-filled bovine burps and the use of digester technology to produce natural gas from manure. Food Systems.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The analysis note issued by the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) was widely circulated in a Canadian Press wire story published on August 31 under the title “Oil and gas sector says new data shows it can both hike output and lower emissions.”

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 2, 2020

Europe's biggest natural-gas infrastructure firm recently launched a new hydrogen business. Decarbonizing residential and commercial heating systems is a major challenge in countries that currently rely on natural gas to do the job. A hydrogen economy in the U.S. And there are limits to how far you can go.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

The options include biodiesel, renewable electricity, renewable natural gas, solar thermal, geothermal, thermal storage and hydrogen. Making natural gas renewable . But for now, renewable natural gas (RNG) may offer a fix soonest. But for now, renewable natural gas (RNG) may offer a fix soonest.

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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2020

It is energy-efficient, abundant and an environmentally friendly alternative to natural gas. Clean hydrogen could cut greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel by up to 34 percent, reported Bloomberg New Energy Finance. . And it could be cheaper than producing hydrogen from natural gas. Sponsored Article.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

Further research by DeSmog has shown that Eni’s company magazine Ecos made repeated references to climate change during the late 1980s and 1990s — while running advertising campaigns promoting natural gas, which is mostly comprised of planet-warming methane, as a “clean” fuel. ‘Friend Methane! ‘Friend Methane!

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

With this in mind, in this Green Business Bureau article, we detail how the IRA can support your organization’s transition to clean energy, helping you save money on your energy bills, to reframe today’s challenges as opportunities. Fossil fuel operations generate over one-third of all methane emissions from human activity.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 16, 2023

fossil fuel firms are pushing to build more than 2,900 miles of natural gas pipelines to feed liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facilities in Louisiana, Texas, and Alaska, in a bid to send more of the fuel to Asia and Europe, a new analysis by Global Energy Monitor shows. natural gas pipeline construction through 2026.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2023

This article was originally published by The Lens and is republished with permission. Officials from one corporation, Venture Global, repeatedly told government regulators that CCS was incompatible with the company’s plans to build three massive new liquified natural gas export terminals in south Louisiana.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 13, 2021

The digester, and another the dairy installed a few years later, reduced the size of open lagoons of manure that release methane into the atmosphere. But last year, Holsum Dairies changed course, upgraded the two digesters and began producing renewable natural gas for California’s burgeoning renewable fuels market.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 28, 2024

This article by The Energy Mix is published here as part of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now. A citizens’ committee appointed by the City of Edmonton is calling on Mayor Amarjeet Sohi and municipal councillors to reject hydrogen as a clean energy option for all but the most difficult sectors to decarbonize.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

In the previous article , I discussed the growing importance of Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) for companies. carbon hydrogen produced globally in 2030 will come from coal and natural gas with carbon sequestration. Perhaps no industry has a higher visibility on ESG metrics than the energy sector.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

My previous article — How Blue Hydrogen Can Help Decarbonize The Econom y — generated a lot of feedback and discussion on social media. However, given the amount of feedback generated from the previous article, I will use today’s article to address some of the comments. This 2019 article highlighted 18 such projects.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

billion package to cap orphaned oil and gas wells as a move to tackle “super-polluting methane emissions,” saying it will combat the climate crisis and create jobs. So Biven is determined to make sure her “Methane Memo,” which lays out a plan to safeguard the funds, makes its way to him. Who Writes the Bills That Become Law?

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Meat emits around a third of global emissions of methane, and action to cut this greenhouse gas has been identified by the UN and world leaders as the quickest route to slowing global heating. This year, the term will likely be part of discussions related to negotiations around Article 6.4

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

This is the final article in a series that examines Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) programs in the oil industry, with an emphasis on how some companies are using hydrogen to improve their metrics. Previous articles were: The Cost Of Ignoring ESG. natural gas production is utilized by these compressors.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 14, 2020

Over 95% of the world’s hydrogen is produced using the steam methane reforming process (SMR). In this reaction, natural gas is reacted with steam at an elevated temperature to produce carbon monoxide and hydrogen. The reforming reaction with methane as: CH 4 + H 2 O ? The water-gas shift (WGS) reaction is: CO + H 2 O ?

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

New data, produced exclusively for The Guardian and DeSmog, found that a single gas field in the United Arab Emirates run by state oil firm Adnoc flared more gas than all oil and gas fields in Norway last year. Flaring also allows the escape of some unburned methane gas, which is a powerful greenhouse gas.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The promise of renewable natural gas is a sustainability win that has been financially and logistically out of reach for even the largest companies. The Massachusetts-based recycler uses anaerobic biodigesters to create renewable natural gas from food waste. The gas can then be used for energy purposes.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2023

As I explain in my book, “ Confronting Climate Gridlock: How Diplomacy, Technology, and Policy Can Unlock a Clean Energy Future ,” gas stoves matter to climate and to the gas industry because they serve as gateway appliances to the dominant residential uses of natural gas: heating and hot water. In the U.S.,

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

This article was originally published by Gas Outlook. Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” is the process used by oil and gas drillers that involves injecting water, sand, and chemicals underground at extreme pressure to extract oil and gas trapped in shale rock. That pollution finds its way to people who live nearby.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

This is much sooner than what the blue hydrogen industry is estimating when advocating for the natural gas-based fuel to be widely adopted — essentially eliminating the only viable argument to invest in blue hydrogen. . “ Blue hydrogen was a way for the gas industry to continue for decades. CCS is carbon capture and storage.).

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Charged

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Many articles in the mainstream media, however, ignore the controversy—for example, a recent article in the New York Times depicts hydrogen fuel cells as a proven technology that only needs to be scaled up to be a viable alternative to internal combustion.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 27, 2023

should also set a natural gas production record this year, and exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) will reach a new high. .” should also set a natural gas production record this year, and exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) will reach a new high.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2021

This article is adapted from one recently appearing on the firm’s blog. Several light hydrocarbons, such as methane, ethane and propane, are VOCs. VOC can also cause oil spill on a ship’s deck, as severe VOC generation can cause oil entrainment into the mixture of inert gas and VOC. Why VOC emissions should be reduced.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 29, 2021

The number of orphaned wells in oil and gas producing states nationwide continues to increase, as does the amount of planet warming methane emissions leaking from them. In fact, methane is up to 86 times more potent than carbon dioxide in the first 20 years after entering the atmosphere. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 2, 2024

The growth of this fuel alternative in all major consuming regions witnessed robust growth with the sharp rise in natural gas prices.   In this article, we will explain the best practices to optimize the efficiency of hydrogen as a fuel.  Steam-methane reforming and electrolysis are the two most common methods used.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2022

Travis Dardar, an indigenous fisherman in Cameron, Louisiana, has a front-row view of the expansion of the liquified natural gas (LNG) industry’s export capacity on the Gulf Coast — and it isn’t pretty. “It The reports show that the facility has released numerous chemicals, including benzene, a known human carcinogen, and methane.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2022

“NW Natural business executives should not earn recompense from ratepayers through salary bonuses when 25% of Oregonians can barely afford to pay their energy bills.”. NW Natural ads promote low-cost natural gas, but do not disclose that the utility is seeking rate increases. They want to keep people as customers.

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R-Squared Energy

MAY 4, 2021

Hydrogen gas is reactive, and thus there do not exist deposits of hydrogen that can be exploited. The vast majority of the world’s commercial hydrogen — over 95% by most estimates — is produced using the steam methane reforming process (SMR). In the non-catalytic process, methane pyrolysis occurs only at temperatures above 1100–1200?°C.

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Business Green

AUGUST 27, 2021

The court documents allege that the company's claims in its 2020 annual report that natural gas is a "clean fuel" is misleading, given natural gas involves the release of "significant quantities of carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere".

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 14, 2020

In a previous article , I analyzed the carbon footprint of producing hydrogen from fossil fuels. To recap, the carbon footprint of hydrogen production from natural gas in a steam methane reformer (SMR) is higher than from directly burning the natural gas.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 17, 2022

Its source for that statement was an article created by the Canadian Energy Centre, a pro-oil and gas website funded by the Alberta government, which claimed that Coastal GasLink will result in climate gains equivalent to shutting down several dozen coal plants. Actual climate experts disagree. is up to 2.2

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The curbing of emissions to reduce the concentration of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane in the environment. Article 6 of the Paris Agreement sets out how countries can "pursue voluntary cooperation" to reach their climate targets. A greenhouse gas which is impacting climate change. Anthropogenic. Adaptation.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

This article is published as part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of news outlets strengthening coverage of the climate story. Despite countless investigations , lawsuits , social shaming , and regulations dating back decades, the oil and gas industry remains formidable. Except that methane gas isn’t clean.

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Business Green

AUGUST 14, 2020

The options include biodiesel, renewable electricity, renewable natural gas, solar thermal, geothermal, thermal storage and hydrogen. Making natural gas renewable. But for now, renewable natural gas (RNG) may offer a fix soonest. This article first appeared at GreenBiz.com.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

A document HDR had on its site was removed after Vice’s article shed light on the firm’s “social listening” program, which “provides 24/7 monitoring of social media platforms to determine trends and key influencers and identify or mitigate risk,” according to Vice. Both are reliant on a steady stream of cheap natural gas.

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