DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 30, 2020

After spending a couple days with Wilson as she monitored for methane leaks at oil and gas industry sites in the Permian oilfields of West Texas, it is easy to understand why she believes that talk of meaningful regulation of the industry lacks meaning itself. .

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2020

Tags: new york stranded assets Con Ed natural gas methane 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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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Read time: 10 mins Over the past five years, environmental advocates with the nonprofit Earthworks have made trips to 298 oil and gas wells, compressor stations, and processing plants across the Permian Basin in Texas, an oil patch which last year hit record-high methane pollution levels for the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Tags: methane natural gas fracking finances UN Climate Summit ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) Oil and gas companies have been feeling mounting pressure, as signs emerge that oil is losing favor, both with the public amid climate concerns and with some investors.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The truck’s container system began leaking compressed methane gas, a potent greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere. Tags: virtual pipelines New York state Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration Compressed Natural Gas Governor Andrew Cuomo Read time: 6 mins On Monday around 1:00 a.m.,

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Tags: American Petroleum Institute natural gas methane advertising spin 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.”

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Economic factors have driven the use of this low quality fuel, with there being a noticeable price tag attached to the use of the new emerging breed of low sulphur diesel and other marine fuels. According to Protea’s Chris Daw, China has also introduced control areas on major estuaries where there are significant ship movements.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Read time: 6 mins Last Friday, October 11, a “Virtual Pipeline” truck carrying compressed natural gas crashed on a highway in Orange, Massachusetts, killing the driver, leaking the potent greenhouse gas methane into the atmosphere, and leading local authorities to evacuate nearby residents. . “

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 12, 2022

In recent months, Cheniere Energy, the largest LNG exporter in the United States, has begun providing emissions data , which it calls “carbon emissions tags,” or CE tags, for its gas. The tags quantify the greenhouse gas emissions of a given LNG cargo, with the aim of easing buyers’ concerns.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

However, they noted that this only considered the carbon emitted during the steam methane reforming process, and that “no attempt has been made to capture the carbon dioxide generated from the combustion of natural gas used to provide the heat and high pressure.” billion (CAD) price tag by 2030 to fund the project.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The report also outlines the more than 170 types of carbon credits available on markets today and their level of popularity among buyers - such as projects involving rural solar farms, geothermal installations, recycling initiatives or efforts to reduce livestock methane. Frontier Climate's tool identifying gaps to scaling carbon removal.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Burger King committed the sin of lesser two evils in July 2020, with their advertised “reduced methane beef”. The commercial explained that by changing a cow’s diet, Burger King was able to reduce their methane emissions by 33%. Is this really tomorrow’s solution?

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Burger King committed the sin of lesser two evils in July 2020, with their advertised “reduced methane beef”. The commercial explained that by changing a cow’s diet, Burger King was able to reduce their methane emissions by 33%. Is this really tomorrow’s solution?

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2020

Read time: 13 mins On February 15, 2018, a fracked natural gas well owned by ExxonMobil's XTO Energy and located in southeast Ohio experienced a well blowout, causing it to gush the potent greenhouse gas methane for nearly three weeks. The obscure accident ultimately resulted in one of the biggest methane leaks in U.S.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The current cost of grey H2 is based primarily on prices for natural gas and steam methane reforming. According to Plug Power , steam methane reforming and an electrolyzer come with about the same price tag. According to Plug Power , steam methane reforming and an electrolyzer come with about the same price tag.

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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. Tags: New Mexico Navajo Nation U.S. In February 2020, BLM and the U.S. Department of Interior Biden administration

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

This leads to a wide range of replacement times; a meter tagged as faulty in January 2020 could be replaced as late as December 2021, nearly two years later, while one identified in December 2020 could be replaced within a year.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2020

And while the oil giant has been responsible for massive methane releases, Exxon has now proposed a new regulatory framework for cutting emissions of this powerful greenhouse gas that it hopes regulators and industry will adopt. As Exxon put it, the goal is to achieve “ cost-effective and reasonable methane-emission regulations.”.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Read time: 13 mins For years, the oil and gas industry has been able to downplay, or outright ignore, the problem of methane. Methane is an invisible gas, and lax state and federal regulations in the U.S. Tags: natural gas methane regulations Trump Administration Schlumberger American Petroleum Institute

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

A carbon dioxide equivalent is a standard unit for counting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions regardless of whether they’re from carbon dioxide or another gas, such as methane. Consider the types of data your business needs to capture, and how that data can be tagged and aggregated.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

President Trump’s EPA is moving to roll back 2016 Obama administration methane leak regulations for key parts of the oil and gas industry, another example of what seems an across-the-board repudiation of Obama-era environmental and climate change initiatives. Tags: methane fugitive methane U.S.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

Given a lifetime of 10 years for an electrolyzer, a price tag of €632 per kW and a production of 0.5 Given our lack of knowledge on this specific topic, we cannot state with confidence the energy required to create a metric ton of synthetic fuel, whether it would be methane or diesel. How much would the fuel cost? No surprise there.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

Given a lifetime of 10 years for an electrolyzer, a price tag of €632 per kW and a production of 0.5 Given our lack of knowledge on this specific topic, we cannot state with confidence the energy required to create a metric ton of synthetic fuel, whether it would be methane or diesel. How much would the fuel cost? No surprise there.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

The project was funded by Sergei Brin, one of the founders of Google, and came with a price tag of 250.000 euros for a single burger. Lab-grown meat dramatically cuts back on carbon emissions , methane emissions, water consumption and land use. What if we could genetically enhance cows to not emit methane anymore? Absolutely.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Tags: Trump Administration cafe standards clean car standards fugitive methane greenwashing With a transition to a low-carbon economy looming, they are accelerating investments in fossil fuel extraction while pressuring governments to delay climate action.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

The following year, Cornell professors Robert Howarth, Renee Santoro, and Anthony Ingraffea published their landmark paper showing that natural gas-fired electricity may be twice as climate-altering as coal-fired electricity — or worse, depending on just how much climate-warming methane escapes from the nation’s gas infrastructure.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 17, 2022

Look for Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs), also known as Green Tags. Energy waste: Waste to energy projects involve capturing methane and then converting it into electricity. Switching to a renewable energy supplier will lower your carbon footprint by reducing the total scope 2 emissions associated with your business. .

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 17, 2022

Look for Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs), also known as Green Tags. Energy waste: Waste to energy projects involve capturing methane and then converting it into electricity. Switching to a renewable energy supplier will lower your carbon footprint by reducing the total scope 2 emissions associated with your business. .

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

deals to sell natural gas this winter carry a price tag that’s roughly double or triple the costs in recent years , with a few traders placing bets that U.S. Shale gas could change all that, McClendon argued, by making methane supplies abundant. In the U.S., On the supply side of the gas market today, there might be trouble brewing.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 1, 2021

Gulf Run’s relatively modest price tag — estimated at $540 million by its builders or over $1.1 Gulf Run is just one piece of an overall strategy to try to revive the flailing shale gas drilling industry — particularly Louisiana’s Haynesville shale, near the Gulf Coast — by connecting the methane gas from fracked wells in the U.S.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Boasting a $2.33bn price tag, it is the largest single investment in APRIL's 30-year history. APRIL has funded several greenhouse gas monitoring towers to the tune of $1m each, where scientists have been mapping seasonal changes in methane and carbon emissions from the forest. The company is continuing to expand and diversify, too.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 1, 2021

trillion price tag. The budget reconciliation mechanism requires only Democrat support in the House and Senate, but moderate Democrat Senators Krysten Sinema of Arizona and Joe Manchin of West Virginia remain uncomfortable with the $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package -- less than half of the original proposal.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Dominion’s own emissions-reduction plan pledges to eliminate emissions of carbon dioxide and methane on a net basis by 2050. That’s greater than its previous commitment to reduce net carbon emissions from its power sector by 80 percent by 2050 and methane emissions from its natural-gas operations by 65% by 2030 and 80% by 2040.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

CCS Isn’t Viable Without “Additional Incentives” from the Government The House Oversight documents further reveal that the fossil fuel industry is looking increasingly to the government for help with carbon capture’s hefty price tag. A methane flare at an oil and gas site in the Permian Basin of West Texas.

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