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$1T of Potential Losses in the Pipeline for Oil and Gas Financiers

GreenTechMedia

Instead, most oil and gas policies in the IEEFA database are exceedingly narrowly focused on removing extreme project finance (tar sands and arctic drilling) which still leaves room for everything else under the sun. It also means industries like utilities and auto manufacturers that make up the bulk of demand for oil and gas.

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The world’s first ‘carbon-neutral’ cargo ship is already low on gas

Grist

The industry accounts for nearly 3 percent of annual global greenhouse gas emissions, a number that’s expected to rise if ships keep using the same dirty fuels, according to the International Maritime Organization, or IMO, the United Nations body that regulates the industry. Yet it’s not exactly a climate win.

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Over 450 Climate Scientists Say Advertising Industry Must End ‘Complicity’ in Climate Crisis

DeSmogBlog

Another effort at misleading the public into thinking it was a grassroots effort, the API-funded Energy Nation campaigned against taxes on the natural gas industry, which was flourishing under the fracking boom. However, studies, including from the gas industry, show it is expensive and impractical at a large scale.

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Pennsylvania Lets Polluter Resume Drilling in Protected Zone, Outraging Residents in Fracking’s ‘Ground Zero’

DeSmogBlog

On November 29, Coterra Energy and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) signed a consent order allowing the operator, one of the largest natural gas producers in the state, to drill laterally beneath an area that has been mostly fracking-free since 19 households found methane in their water in 2008 and 2009.

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Methane’s life, death, and secret second life

Grist

As you cruise through this tiny world, you pass more than 400,000 nitrogen molecules, 100,000 oxygen molecules, 219 carbon dioxide molecules, before you find what you’re looking for: a single molecule of methane. Methane is one of the most powerful yet misunderstood greenhouse gasses on Earth. methane emissions.

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House Committee Poised for Potential Subpoena of PR Firm for Climate Disinformation

DeSmogBlog

As the New York Times reported in 2020, FTI helped set up regional astroturf websites for its oil industry clients, such as Texans for Natural Gas, New Mexicans for Economic Prosperity, Citizens to Protect PA Jobs, Western Wire, and the Arctic Energy Center. A screenshot from FTI Consulting’s 2015 presentation.

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Rush to clean energy prompts demand for ammonia analysers

Envirotec Magazine

Historically, this process has been employed to manufacture agricultural fertilizers using natural gas (fossil fuel) as the source of hydrogen. However, this process is energy intensive and produces high levels of carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas. New ammonia analyser.