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Analysis: The Natural Gas Industry Is Trying To Deny How Affordable Renewable Energy Is

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FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Read time: 10 mins Fossil fuel industry supporters and climate deniers are pushing a new climate falsehood when it comes to renewable energy: that natural gas offers a more affordable future. Tags: New Jersey Master Energy Plan economic denialism And they’re focusing their misinformation campaign on New Jersey.

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The North American Natural Gas Industry Is Struggling—Here's Why

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 11, 2020

Read time: 7 mins Last year, the financial prospects for the North American natural gas market were looking grim , as nervous investors started pulling back and producers announced big spending cuts and layoffs. Today, the challenges facing the gas industry here have only worsened, even for LNG exports, its much-vaunted savior.

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Report: Push for Renewable Natural Gas Is More Gas Industry 'Greenwashing'

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JULY 14, 2020

Read time: 9 mins “Renewable natural gas,” or RNG , is an alternative gas fuel that comes from landfills, manure, or synthetic processes. That's opposed to the fossil gas that drillers traditionally pump out of underground reserves in oil and gas fields.

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Is Natural Gas the New Coal?

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Read time: 7 mins At a recent natural gas industry conference in Houston, Woodside Petroleum CEO Peter Coleman warned his colleagues to avoid the fate of another fossil fuel, according to trade publication Natural Gas Intelligence. “ The industry really is at a critical juncture,” Coleman said. “We

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Fossil Freeze: Deadly Texas Catastrophe Shows How Natural Gas Systems Can Fail when Demand Spikes

DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Tags: texas Rick Perry natural gas pipelines extreme weather Read time: 16 mins As temperatures across Texas plunged in mid-February, memes showing frozen wind turbines — some including misleading photos from Europe in 2015 — spread rapidly on social media.

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Defying Climate Goals, New York Approves Rate Hike to Pay for New Natural Gas Infrastructure

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2020

billion over the next three years to help Consolidated Edison, or Con Ed, pay for new natural gas pipelines and infrastructure. To meet those goals, any new gas infrastructure constructed now and in the future would have to be retired well before the end of its useful life, becoming stranded assets.

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Palo Alto Paying Over $20,000 Annually to Natural Gas Trade Group Fighting Climate Action

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2020

City leaders touted the new law , which is intended to tightly restrict future use of natural gas-powered heating and cooling in new construction, as an important part of the city’s plan to slash greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2030.

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Duke Energy Lays Out Its Long-Term Clean Energy Pathways — and Price Tags

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

That’s how much additional capacity Duke expects to need in the next 15 years to make up for the retirement of its coal-fired power plant fleet and aging natural-gas plants. ” Looking at the price tags. But in the high-wind and no-new-natural-gas scenarios, those costs increase to between $7.5

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Decoding the Hype Behind the Natural Gas Industry’s Hydrogen Push

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 14, 2021

Tags: Green hydrogen blue hydrogen hydrogen council hydrogen fuel cells Read time: 15 mins It seems like nearly every day another hopeful article touts the potential of using hydrogen as a fuel to tackle climate change. What’s known as “green hydrogen” — which relies on renewable power for production — is getting the bulk of that attention.

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Massachusetts Locals Accuse Town Mayor Of ‘Colluding’ With Enbridge Over Controversial Natural Gas Project

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Protesters during a demonstration outside the town hall on November 6 accused the mayor of “colluding” with Enbridge by signing a $10 million settlement agreement dropping the town's official opposition and legal fights against a newly constructed natural gas compressor station in town.

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With Coal’s Decline, Pennsylvania Communities Watch the Rise of Natural Gas-fueled Plastics

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

A growing chorus agrees the expansion of the natural gas industry, which feeds plastics and petrochemical plants like Shell’s, is moving the U.S. Tags: Royal Dutch Shell Plc ethane Beaver County Pennsylvania petrochemical development Fracking Plastics america coal pennsylvania

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Fact-checking the American Petroleum Institute's New Ads Selling Natural Gas as a Climate Solution

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 16, 2019

In September, API began running TV , billboard, and social media ads promoting natural gas as a climate solution. Thanks to natural gas, the U.S. is leading the way in reducing emissions ,” the ads claim, and “ leading the world in cutting greenhouse gas emissions.” But is all of that true?

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Citing Latest Climate Science, Nearly 30 Arrested Protesting New Natural Gas Plant in New York’s Hudson Valley

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Read time: 6 mins On Saturday, November 16, 29 people were arrested in a rally at a massive natural gas-fired power plant, the Cricket Valley Energy Center, that is being constructed in a picturesque rural valley of farms and forests near the New York-Connecticut border, about 80 miles north of New York City.

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EU Plans to Measure True Climate Impacts of LNG Imports From US Fracked Gas

DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Read time: 5 mins With growing evidence that the climate impacts of natural gas are comparable to coal, the European Commission is planning to study ways to reduce methane emissions across the life cycle of natural gas production and consumption, with potential implications for fracked gas producers in the U.S.

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Failed Finances and 'the Demonization of Gas' Are Threatening the Future of US LNG

DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2020

liquefied natural gas ( LNG ) market, once the promising golden child of the fossil fuel industry, has a major long-term problem. While it's facing financial disaster due to the current crash in oil and natural gas prices, that's only the short-term threat. Read time: 7 mins The U.S.

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Regulators Discuss LNG-by-Rail Safety Concerns — After Approving New Rule To Allow Transporting LNG by Rail

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2021

Read time: 12 mins New regulations were announced by the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration ( PHMSA ) in July 2020 allowing the transportation of liquefied natural gas ( LNG ) by rail. Tags: LNG By Rail Liquefied Natural Gas PHMSA

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Report Attacks Industry Campaign to Fix Natural Gas’s Climate PR Problem

DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Read time: 10 mins A new report from advocacy group Food and Water Watch argues that fracking and continued reliance on natural gas is detrimental to addressing climate change. Tags: American Petroleum Institute American Gas Association Natural Gas Bridge Fuel green new deal Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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Cheap Renewables Could Make 90% of Proposed Gas Power Plants — and Many Pipelines — Obsolete by 2035

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Read time: 12 mins There’s one big reason that analysts say America’s electrical power should soon run on clean energy sources like wind and solar rather than fossil fuels like coal and natural gas: your power bill.

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With Prospects Souring for Oregon Gas Terminal, an Obscure Group Raises Pressure for State Approval

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 18, 2020

Kate Brown, asked her to support Jordan Cove LNG , a controversial coastal liquefied natural gas ( LNG ) export terminal. Despite its sole focus on exporting natural gas through the West Coast, the group is virtually unknown in Oregon. The “open letter,” addressed to Gov.

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New Satellite Data Reveals Dangerous Methane Emissions in Permian Region

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 25, 2020

In December DeSmog reported on the work of Robert Howarth, a biogeochemist at Cornell University , who has been studying the methane emissions of the oil and gas industry. percent of all natural gas produced from shale in the U.S. Tags: Bridge Fuel methane natural gas emissions Permian

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To Many's Dismay, Permian Produces More Gas and Condensate Instead of Oil and Profits

DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Many of those problems can be traced to two issues for the Permian Basin: The quality of its oil and the sheer volume of natural gas coming from its oil wells. Tags: Permian Shale frack finances condensate fracking finances Schlumberger Halliburton

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San Antonio's City-Owned Energy Utility Is Paying a Quarter Million Dollars a Year to Gas Industry Groups

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2020

But the key player in implementing the Alamo City’s energy transition — the local energy utility CPS Energy — remains committed to carbon-based fuels like coal and natural gas, even while it begins to invest more in renewable alternatives.

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Industry Infighting as Oil and Gas Seek Government Help

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 1, 2020

The oil and gas industry has been no exception, but some of the proposed initiatives are dividing the industry. Tags: coronavirus natural gas prices oil bailout Harold Hamm low oil prices Strategic Petroleum Reserve

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Fracked Gas Well Blowout in Louisiana Likely to Burn for the Next Month

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Read time: 8 mins A fracked natural gas well in northwest Louisiana has been burning for two weeks after suffering a blowout. Tags: well blowout Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) Louisiana Department of Natural Resources fracked gas Fracking Air Pollution

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Unplugged: How the Gas Industry Is Fighting Efforts to Electrify Buildings

DeSmogBlog

JULY 28, 2020

Read time: 21 mins Just over a year ago, the city of Berkeley, California, passed into law a first-in-the-nation ordinance prohibiting natural gas hookups in new buildings, a move that alarmed the gas industry.

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Why are hydrogen fuel cells so expensive?

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FEBRUARY 10, 2024

That said, the most common production method currently used involves burning natural gas, a fossil fuel. That said, the production of green H2 using electrolyzers does require rare metals such as platinum and iridium that come with a high price tag.

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When Can Pipelines Take Private Land? Jordan Cove LNG Project a Test for Eminent Domain

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

After calling around, they soon found out that a company wanted to build a liquefied natural gas ( LNG ) import terminal in Coos Bay on the Oregon coast, and run a natural gas pipeline to California — and Evans’ land was in the way.

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Irish LNG Plan That Would Allow US Fracked Gas Imports ‘Dead in the Water’

DeSmogBlog

MAY 4, 2020

Read time: 4 mins It is increasingly unlikely that Ireland will develop new infrastructure to import liquefied natural gas ( LNG ) produced from fracked wells in the US , after the plans suffered a series of potentially fatal legal and political setbacks. Tags: Liquefied Natural Gas Ireland

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'Unplanned Gas Release' at Controversial Gas Facility in Weymouth, South of Boston

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Read time: 6 mins The standard, pre-operational testing of a new natural gas compressor station in the Massachusetts community of Weymouth, south of Boston, had barely begun last week when a gasket failure prompted an emergency shutdown of the facility and resulted in an unintentional gas leak.

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SoCalGas, Nation’s Largest Gas Utility, Sues California Over Climate Policy for not 'Maximizing the Benefits' of Gas

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 10, 2020

Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas) recently filed a lawsuit against the California Energy Commission, a state energy policy and planning agency , for allegedly aiming to “substantially eliminate” gas use in the state and violating a California natural gas law.

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Delayed Senate Energy Bill Promotes LNG Exports, 'Clean Coal' and Geoengineering

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 11, 2020

Read time: 7 mins The huge bipartisan energy bill currently stalled in the Senate would fast-track exports of fracked gas , offer over a billion dollars in subsidies to “clean coal” efforts and make available hundreds of millions in tax dollars for a geoengineering pilot project.

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Newly Revealed Emails Highlight Coziness and Favors Between Local Officials, Jordan Cove LNG Backers

DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Tags: Jordan Cove LNG Oregon liquefied natural gas (LNG) Coos County Commission Melissa Cribbins Pembina Oregon law generally requires communications with commissioners about a pending permit to be disclosed publicly, so that those from the other side can respond.

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Carbon Capture Will Require Large Public Subsidies to Support Coal and Gas Power

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 15, 2020

Read time: 9 mins In April, the Center for Global Energy Policy ( CGEP ) at Columbia University released a report concluding that, without major new subsidies from the American public, technologies for capturing heat-trapping carbon dioxide from coal and natural gas-fired power plants will remain uneconomical.

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Washington State Considers Climate Impact of Major Petrochemical Plant With 'Pattern of Influence Peddling'

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2021

The facility would process fracked natural gas into methanol, a liquid chemical that can be used as fuel or for manufacturing plastics, and ship the flammable product down the Columbia River for export to Asia. Tags: Kalama washington state Jay Inslee petrochemical development

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Pennsylvania Communities Grow Wary of Worsening Air Pollution as Petrochemical Industry Arrives

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Read time: 9 mins While the Ohio River Valley, long home to the coal and steel industries, is no stranger to air pollution, the region’s natural gas boom and burgeoning petrochemical industry threaten to erase the gains of recent decades. There is a certain degree of sick irony about that.”.

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Another Virtual Pipeline Truck Carrying Fracked Gas Crashes in New York. Local Climate Advocates Demand Urgent Action

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

a “Virtual Pipeline” truck carrying compressed natural gas mined from the Marcellus Shale crashed on Interstate 88 near Binghamton, New York, after the vehicle swerved to avoid deer, flipped over, and fatally ejected 52-year-old driver Jeffrey Lind. Read time: 6 mins On Monday around 1:00 a.m.,

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Global Push for LNG Creates 'Gas Bubble' That Could Bust

DeSmogBlog

JULY 13, 2020

Read time: 8 mins Earlier this year, Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway pulled out of a proposed liquefied natural gas ( LNG ) export terminal in Saguenay, Quebec. Tags: LNG Wet'suwet'en Coastal GasLink pipeline US LNG Exports American Petroleum Institute

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A Look at the Oil Industry’s Favorite Climate Solutions

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2020

Tags: carbon capture natural gas carbon tax biofuels ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) Imperial Oil Covering Climate Now Another popular strategy for the industry is to push certain climate “solutions” — often with slick advertising campaigns — that sound good in theory but are not viable in practice.

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After a Decade of Fracking, Billions of Dollars Lost and a Climate in Crisis

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2020

where the climate benefits of coal power plant retirements were undermined by the rise of natural gas. Tags: fracking extreme weather fracking finances climate impacts natural gas drilling Today's climate impacts have been shaped heavily by actions taken during the last 10 years, particularly in the U.S.,

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Whistle-blower Reveals Flawed Construction at North Dakota Gas Plants Where Massive Spill Was Downplayed

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2019

He described worrisome conditions at the Lonesome Creek plant, in Alexander, and the Garden Creek plant, in Watford City, where DeSmog recently revealed one of the largest oil and gas industry spills in U.S. history had occurred. North Dakota is basically a Petrostate,” said Lehto, who worked at the two plants between 2015 and 2016.

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The Fracking Industry's Methane Problem Is a Climate Problem

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Robert Howarth, a biogeochemist at Cornell University , recently presented his latest research linking the increase in methane to fossil fuel production, with fracking for natural gas, which is mostly methane, likely a major source. . Tags: methane fracking venting emissions Dr. Robert Howarth American Petroleum Institute

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Massachusetts Lawmakers Step Up Pressure on Enbridge to Scrap Controversial Gas Compressor Station

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Compressor stations, which propel natural gas through pipelines, emit a variety of pollutants and are usually built in rural areas. Tags: Weymouth compressor station Enbridge

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How an Application for Propane Fracking Attempts to Circumvent New York’s Fracking Ban

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 22, 2019

Read time: 6 mins Four years after New York announced the state was banning hydraulic fracturing (fracking) , Tioga Energy Partners, LLC has filed an application with the state to frack for natural gas, but there's a catch. The company is proposing to swap propane into the industry standard mix that usually calls for water.

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New Estimates Predict a Lot More Renewable Power Growth in the U.S. Very Soon

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Tags: natural gas Power Generation cost of renewable energy federal energy regulatory commission (FERC) murray energy “Renewable energy sources are rapidly displacing uneconomic and environmentally dangerous fossil fuels and nuclear power — even faster than FERC had anticipated just a half-year ago.”.

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Analysis: The Natural Gas Industry Is Trying To Deny How Affordable Renewable Energy Is

The North American Natural Gas Industry Is Struggling—Here's Why

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Report: Push for Renewable Natural Gas Is More Gas Industry 'Greenwashing'

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Is Natural Gas the New Coal?

Fossil Freeze: Deadly Texas Catastrophe Shows How Natural Gas Systems Can Fail when Demand Spikes

Defying Climate Goals, New York Approves Rate Hike to Pay for New Natural Gas Infrastructure

Palo Alto Paying Over $20,000 Annually to Natural Gas Trade Group Fighting Climate Action

Duke Energy Lays Out Its Long-Term Clean Energy Pathways — and Price Tags

Decoding the Hype Behind the Natural Gas Industry’s Hydrogen Push

Massachusetts Locals Accuse Town Mayor Of ‘Colluding’ With Enbridge Over Controversial Natural Gas Project

With Coal’s Decline, Pennsylvania Communities Watch the Rise of Natural Gas-fueled Plastics

Fact-checking the American Petroleum Institute's New Ads Selling Natural Gas as a Climate Solution

Citing Latest Climate Science, Nearly 30 Arrested Protesting New Natural Gas Plant in New York’s Hudson Valley

EU Plans to Measure True Climate Impacts of LNG Imports From US Fracked Gas

Failed Finances and 'the Demonization of Gas' Are Threatening the Future of US LNG

Regulators Discuss LNG-by-Rail Safety Concerns — After Approving New Rule To Allow Transporting LNG by Rail

Report Attacks Industry Campaign to Fix Natural Gas’s Climate PR Problem

Cheap Renewables Could Make 90% of Proposed Gas Power Plants — and Many Pipelines — Obsolete by 2035

With Prospects Souring for Oregon Gas Terminal, an Obscure Group Raises Pressure for State Approval

New Satellite Data Reveals Dangerous Methane Emissions in Permian Region

To Many's Dismay, Permian Produces More Gas and Condensate Instead of Oil and Profits

San Antonio's City-Owned Energy Utility Is Paying a Quarter Million Dollars a Year to Gas Industry Groups

Industry Infighting as Oil and Gas Seek Government Help

Fracked Gas Well Blowout in Louisiana Likely to Burn for the Next Month

Unplugged: How the Gas Industry Is Fighting Efforts to Electrify Buildings

Why are hydrogen fuel cells so expensive?

When Can Pipelines Take Private Land? Jordan Cove LNG Project a Test for Eminent Domain

Irish LNG Plan That Would Allow US Fracked Gas Imports ‘Dead in the Water’

'Unplanned Gas Release' at Controversial Gas Facility in Weymouth, South of Boston

SoCalGas, Nation’s Largest Gas Utility, Sues California Over Climate Policy for not 'Maximizing the Benefits' of Gas

Delayed Senate Energy Bill Promotes LNG Exports, 'Clean Coal' and Geoengineering

Newly Revealed Emails Highlight Coziness and Favors Between Local Officials, Jordan Cove LNG Backers

Carbon Capture Will Require Large Public Subsidies to Support Coal and Gas Power

Washington State Considers Climate Impact of Major Petrochemical Plant With 'Pattern of Influence Peddling'

Pennsylvania Communities Grow Wary of Worsening Air Pollution as Petrochemical Industry Arrives

Another Virtual Pipeline Truck Carrying Fracked Gas Crashes in New York. Local Climate Advocates Demand Urgent Action

Global Push for LNG Creates 'Gas Bubble' That Could Bust

A Look at the Oil Industry’s Favorite Climate Solutions

After a Decade of Fracking, Billions of Dollars Lost and a Climate in Crisis

Whistle-blower Reveals Flawed Construction at North Dakota Gas Plants Where Massive Spill Was Downplayed

The Fracking Industry's Methane Problem Is a Climate Problem

Massachusetts Lawmakers Step Up Pressure on Enbridge to Scrap Controversial Gas Compressor Station

How an Application for Propane Fracking Attempts to Circumvent New York’s Fracking Ban

New Estimates Predict a Lot More Renewable Power Growth in the U.S. Very Soon

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