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Italy’s Eni Faces Lawsuit Alleging Early Knowledge Of Climate Change

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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.

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Proposed Pipeline Expansion Could Upend Three States’ Climate Plans

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California, Oregon, and Washington have all passed laws and enacted policies that require utilities to dramatically cut carbon pollution over the next decade. Out of 425 gas project proposals FERC considered between 2000 and 2021, the agency has rejected only two. percent a year on average through 2050. Credit: Rogue Climate.

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Defective Meters and Whistleblower Complaints Raise Questions About Gas Utility’s Profits

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Lost or unaccounted for gas can also be explained by differences of accuracy between sophisticated and highly sensitive meters on major gas pipelines and the less accurate versions attached to homes and businesses. Dye oversaw the accuracy of NW Natural’s more than 700,000 meters from 2000 until 2012.

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Where Does All The Radioactive Fracking Waste Go?

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A growing group of environmentalists, politicians, communities, and even the industry’s own workers have become increasingly critical of the fossil fuel industry, and see room for action under the Biden administration, though most attention has been placed on hot-button topics like climate change and methane emissions.

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Fossil Fuel Companies Made Bold Promises to Capture Carbon. Here’s What Actually Happened.

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For more on the climate implications of CCS, see DeSmog’s accompanying news analysis: How Carbon Capture And Storage Projects Are Driving New Oil and Gas Extraction Globally. Terrell Natural Gas Processing Plant (“Val Verde”) Operator: Occidental Petroleum, 1972-present Location: Southeast of Ft. What CCS Projects Promise.

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Big Oil’s Been Secretly Validating Critics’ Concerns about Carbon Capture

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A natural gas demonstration plant in Texas tests carbon capture technology. For BP, an important part of this strategy appears to be leveraging its academic partnerships, including Princeton’s Carbon Mitigation Initiative, which the company has directly funded and sponsored since its inception in 2000.

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Polluters Rely on Old Rhetoric to Block Clean Energy Future

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Close inspection of the historic arguments used by the fossil fuel industry and its partners to justify their ongoing pollution of the earth’s atmosphere — whether it be by sulfur oxides, CO2, or methane — reveals the same delay-based messaging each time they have faced the prospect of regulation.