AGreenLiving

AUGUST 18, 2020

It’s aiming to be the first shipbuilder to deliver a cargo ship for ocean operation that runs entirely on fuel cells powered by natural gas. In 2018, the International Maritime Organization set the goal to halve emissions for commercial ships from 2008 levels by 2050. And the goalposts are high.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Spending the past year as Ecolab’s president and COO, he joined as an executive vice president in 2008 after capping off 15 years as Nestlé’s head of corporate sales in Europe. Beck, trained in mechanical engineering and aerodynamics, worked at one time for the European Space Agency. “I view that as job No.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The RFS was first passed into law with the Energy Policy Act of 2005, and it was subsequently expanded in 2007 (both under President Bush). By 2008, President Bush’s last year in office, ethanol production had more than doubled to over 9 billion gallons. But the crude oil surge started in 2008 under Barack Obama.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Methane is an even more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, yet it has received far less attention. One reason is that the oil and gas industry has positioned methane — which marketing experts cleverly labeled “natural gas” — as the future of the energy economy. A Spider’s Web of Pipelines.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

In fact, the agency rarely fines companies that violate Texas air pollution laws. But in 2008, an energy boom took hold in Texas and upended Doty’s team. A process known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, made extracting deeply buried deposits of oil and natural gas financially feasible.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The facility, called Clearwater, was built by the Denver, Colorado-based oil and gas extraction company, Antero Resources, and an affiliate of Veolia, the multinational French waste, water and energy management company. Analyses of the water produced with the gas commonly show elevated levels of salinity and radium,” a 2011 U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

For more on the climate implications of CCS, see DeSmog’s accompanying news analysis: How Carbon Capture And Storage Projects Are Driving New Oil and Gas Extraction Globally. Terrell Natural Gas Processing Plant (“Val Verde”) Operator: Occidental Petroleum, 1972-present Location: Southeast of Ft. What CCS Projects Promise.

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

It contains natural gas, helium, and carbon dioxide. Once separated from carbon dioxide, natural gas is used for heating and cooking in homes and sold to power plants to generate electricity. The shale boom also sent prices for natural gas into free fall. Trump signed it into law.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2021

Historically in the northern bands, operators drilled primarily for natural gas. Under federal law, agencies are required to conduct tribal consultation on projects and plans like this one. Different plan alternatives create a drilling buffer of two to 10 miles from the edges of the park’s boundary.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 7, 2023

Austin Wall was attending an environmental law conference at the University of Tennessee not long ago when, during a discussion of natural gas pipeline projects, a map appeared on the screen and gave him a surprise. I’m like, hold up, that Google Maps looks really familiar to me,” the 25-year-old law student said. “I

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 8, 2023

Austin Wall was attending an environmental law conference at the University of Tennessee not long ago when, during a discussion of natural gas pipeline projects, a map appeared on the screen and gave him a surprise. I’m like, hold up, that Google Maps looks really familiar to me,” the 25-year-old law student said. “I

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

DonorsTrust gave the group nearly $8 million between 2008 and 2017, according to federal tax data. A report from Columbia University’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law identified nearly 230 local measures across 35 states that have been enacted to restrict renewable energy development. In 2019, Ohioans weathered a $9.5

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The largest systemic risk of them all, climate change, is driven by reckless investments in fossil fuels, exactly the kind of speculative activities Dodd-Frank was meant to end in order to prevent a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis. which if built could make Biden’s carbon-free goal impossible.

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Mosaic

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The great majority of them are heated with natural gas or oil, and parked in their garages and driveways or on nearby streets are some two hundred and ninety million vehicles, an estimated ninety-nine per cent of which, as of August, run on gasoline. They aim, for example, gut a $4.5-billion

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