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US Republicans at Dubai Climate Summit Have Accepted $11 Million in Fossil Fuel Donations

DeSmogBlog

Lisa Murkowski, Alaska’s senior senator, leads the group with over $2 million in campaign contributions from the oil and gas industry between 2003-2023. But she has also championed development of Alaska’s substantial oil, coal, and methane gas deposits. As accredited COP28 badge-holders, the U.S.

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

DeSmogBlog

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. to buyers around the world, despite concerns over the gas industry’s role in heating the climate. .

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25 badass women shaping climate action in 2021

GreenBiz

Ardern is being watched closely : Her administration has been criticized for being lenient on reducing biogenic methane from agricultural production — notably dairy cattle and sheep — which accounts for almost half of New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions and roughly 6.6 percent of its GDP. Maria Mendiluce, CEO, We Mean Business.