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Why States Need to Ban New Gas Hookups in Buildings (in 5 Charts)

GreenTechMedia

Fossil fuels, primarily gas, are a fixture in millions of American homes and businesses, but the building sector’s climate impact hasn’t received the same scrutiny as coal and gas in the power sector or oil in the transportation sector. New spending on gas infrastructure tripled from 2009 to 2017, rising to $14.9

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In D.C. Defamation Trial, Climatologist Michael Mann Confronts the Climate Deniers Who Maligned His Work

DeSmogBlog

Weatherford, a lawyer from the corporate law firm Baker Hostetler, stated in opening arguments that Mann was so disliked that “even his own family won’t come to court to defend him.” Separate investigations by Penn State and the National Science Foundation cleared Mann of any wrongdoing.

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California clean fuel standard sparks renewable gas boom in Midwest

Renewable Energy World

Part of a combined heat and power system, the digester mixed cow manure with heat and bacteria to produce biogas that fueled a generator. The digester, and another the dairy installed a few years later, reduced the size of open lagoons of manure that release methane into the atmosphere. It was a novel experiment at the time.

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Phantom Gas and Missing Documents Reveal Gaps in Utility Oversight

DeSmogBlog

Revelations about high-level and systemic failures of oversight — both private and public — come at a time when historic federal investments in renewable energy are threatening a constellation of fossil fuel interests and political coalitions vying to preserve profits as the U.S. economy is increasingly rocked by climate chaos.

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The Meat Industry Is Advertising Like Big Oil

DeSmogBlog

This technique of using statements that are technically true but omit crucial information and therefore are misleading, is called paltering — and it’s an old favorite of the fossil fuel industry. R-CALF USA doesn’t only blame the private trade associations for overturning the law that allowed “Made in the USA” labels. “It’s

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Industry Insiders Question Louisiana Regulators Over Cleanup on ExxonMobil Land, Amid Corruption Claims and Pollution Fears

DeSmogBlog

Properly plugging and abandoning oil and gas wells is vital to protect the environment and stop methane leaks – but for decades, oil operators have often slipped away without paying to clean up, leaving millions of deteriorating abandoned wells across the U.S. and regulators in different drilling regions face different issues.

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Waves of Abandonment

DeSmogBlog

In October, she invited a university researcher onto the property and discovered that several wells were leaking methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide. This increases the risk of methane seeping into the air and oil migrating into the surrounding groundwater. The Railroad Commission would not confirm this.

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