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The Fracking Industry's Methane Problem Is a Climate Problem

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 9 mins While carbon dioxide — deservedly — gets a bad rap when it comes to climate change, about 40 percent of global warming actually can be attributed to the powerful greenhouse gas methane, according to the 2013 IPCC report. Tags: methane fracking venting emissions Dr. Robert Howarth American Petroleum Institute

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

DeSmogBlog

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!

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This carbon challenge is bigger than cars, aviation and shipping combined

GreenBiz

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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Fume faculties

Envirotec Magazine

Figure 1: With the Protea 2000 duct- or stack-mounted analyser, the exhaust gas passes through a set of sintered metal panels, a proprietary technology said to remove the need for filtering. Envirotec asked continuous emissions monitoring expert Protea for insight into the topic.

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The Reality Behind Green Hydrogen’s Soaring Hype

GreenTechMedia

where natural gas prices are expected to remain low for the foreseeable future. gigawatts of green hydrogen electrolyzer capacity might be deployed between now and 2025, a 1,272 percent increase on the 253 megawatts installed from 2000 to the end of 2019. In research published last month, Wood Mackenzie said more than 3.2

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The carbon challenge that is bigger than cars, aviation, and shipping combined

Business Green

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. Today, RNG is held back in part by a Catch-22 financial trap.

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Proposed Pipeline Expansion Could Upend Three States’ Climate Plans

DeSmogBlog

But TC Energy, the Canadian owner of a major regional gas pipeline, has asked federal regulators to approve a plan that would dramatically expand the line’s capacity, flooding the region for decades with new supplies of methane gas – even as demand dwindles. Cascade Natural Gas did not respond to questions from DeSmog.