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Don’t Look Down

Grist

Combined with a $40,000 laser he dragged behind him on a plastic sled he’d nicknamed “The Coffin,” Hasson is able to link surface methane emissions to the ice disappearing underground. For instance, recent studies have found that emissions of carbon and methane released by thawing permafrost have been drastically underestimated.

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Can eating cicadas solve the sustainable protein problem?

AGreenLiving

As The Balance SMB reports, cricket harvesting produces 80 times less methane than cattle rearing. Another reason to consider eating insects is that they thrive on organic matter and require much less food than livestock. They last appeared in 2003 in parts of the eastern U.S.

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

DeSmogBlog

million profit margin increase for company shareholders in 2003. One NW Natural spokesperson requested their name be withheld, and employees from both organizations discouraged DeSmog’s reporter from contacting individuals named in Dye’s complaints. NW Natural did not respond when asked to provide an explanation for this discrepancy.

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Energy Transfer’s Gulf Run Pipeline to Export Fracked Gas from Louisiana set to Begin Construction

DeSmogBlog

Last week, the commission established a new Office of Public Participation, which aims to allow smaller organizations and individuals access to FERC’s proceedings, which commissioners have acknowledged are complex. The Golden Pass project itself was initially launched in 2003 as a terminal that would import LNG into the U.S. —

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25 badass women shaping climate action in 2021

GreenBiz

When it comes to those shaping the corporate climate movement — either from within companies or as part of NGOs and policy organizations that recognize the critical role businesses must play in addressing the climate emergency — I’m grateful to say it’s becoming easier to find women with a seat at the decision-making table.

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Biden Selects Granholm as Energy Secretary, McCarthy for Climate Czar

GreenTechMedia

auto industry, having served as Michigan attorney general from 1999 to 2003 and as governor from 2003 to 2011. She is a senior figure who brings the gravitas to organize cabinet members to move on implementing policy and holding them accountable.” Granholm has deep roots in a state at the heart of the U.S.

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