DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

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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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

No one foresaw that this very bounty — soil rich with organic material — would, over time, become a curse of sorts. River and marsh bottoms typically have low oxygen levels, which slows the decomposition of organic material that collects there. That organic material contains copious amounts of carbon. Jonno Rattman / Bay Nature.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

million from 2002-2004. NW Natural acknowledged these “improvements in gas measurement and estimating” in its 2004 annual report. Based on gas cost data in company SEC filings from 2002-2004, if NW Natural reported 1 percent unaccounted-for gas to the OPUC during this period, it would be overestimating its gas costs by $4.3

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Cows produce methane, a greenhouse gas that absorbs more atmospheric heat than carbon and is currently responsible for 25 percent of all global warming today. But who is in this group and what do the various organizations backing it really want? Livestock methane emissions are also rising in some of these countries.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2021

Around 70 million barrels of hydrocarbons are lost yearly due to evaporation of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) during loading, storage and transportation of crude oil on ships. VOCs are a large group of organic compounds. Several light hydrocarbons, such as methane, ethane and propane, are VOCs. billion USD annually.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2021

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. For much of the past 20 years, the basin has been a methane hot spot as the potent greenhouse gas leaks from wells.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 18, 2022

From 1975 to 1987, average fuel economy rose quickly — but then it declined between 1988 and 2004, as the Energy Department reported last year. A number of organizations with ties to the Koch network also joined in lobbying to weaken clean car standards, as DeSmog previously reported. Credit: Sicnag ( CC BY 2.0 ).

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