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As EU Weans Itself From Russian Energy, U.S. Shale Gas Industry Pushes New LNG Export Plant in Pennsylvania

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LNG boom threatens to release vast amounts of methane, a powerful climate pollutant that is the main component of natural gas. While that blast was contained, a vapor cloud explosion at an LNG terminal in Algeria in 2004 killed 27 people. Credit: Edward Donnelly Environmental groups on both sides of the Atlantic warn that the U.S.

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Want to prevent California’s looming flood disaster? Grow a marsh.

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When Jones Tract, a delta island, flooded in 2004, the damage cost $90 million to fix. DWR measures the CO2 and methane emissions from the wetlands it created on Sherman Island. Established in 2006 by the law AB32, the cap-and-trade system seeks to reduce the state’s greenhouse gas emissions by harnessing market forces.

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Where Does All The Radioactive Fracking Waste Go?

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Those levels are more than 400 times the protective health limits designated by the U.S. If the industry was not exempt from hazardous waste law,” said Troutman, “the characterization of their waste would be far better, the tracking would be far better, and it would be harder for companies to manipulate the system like this.”.

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Feds Move Forward with New Mexico Drilling Plan Despite Community Outcry

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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. Jackson talks of preserving the national park and also the health impacts of living near oil and gas development.

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Decades of Lobbying Weakened Americans’ Gas Mileage and Turbocharged Pain at the Pump

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We absolutely should be moving to establishing independence from fossil fuels, both for geopolitical and for public health and climate reasons,” said Luke Tonachel, director of the Natural Resources Defense Council’s (NRDC) clean vehicles and fuels group. “I That was a step in the wrong direction, efficiency advocates say. “We