DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Stockman noted that the vast majority of carbon capture projects in operation today capture emissions from oil and gas production and send the CO2 into oil wells to increase oil production using a process called Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) – canceling out any advantage CCS may have in preventing rising CO2 emissions. Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

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. Gas Infrastructure Spending Is Rising Rapidly. One in four U.S.

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

Macquarie, Asian Development Bank, and Church of Scotland all strengthen their restrictions on fossil fuel investments. The draft document, which has been widely welcomed by environmental campaigners, forms part of a review of ADB's lending policies, with the multilateral bank's energy policy having last been updated in 2009.

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 21, 2021

Meanwhile, many of the people celebrating continued to fuel up at ExxonMobil gas stations. We prefer to blame ExxonMobil for our fossil fuel consumption rather than our own choices. Many people celebrated last year when ExxonMobil’s stock price crashed along with the rest of the oil industry.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 9, 2020

Previous articles covered overall energy consumption , petroleum supply and demand, natural gas , and coal. For perspective, in 2009 the world consumed 8.2 Increased fossil fuel consumption made up most of this growth, with every category of fossil fuels showing increased consumption over the decade.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Offshore wind energy powerhouse Orsted demonstrates that a pivot away from fossil fuels is possible. The first, biggest step to slowing climate change is switching electricity generation from coal and gas to wind and sun. This needs to happen fast, with coal phased out no later than 2030 and gas not far behind.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 13, 2021

But last year, Holsum Dairies changed course, upgraded the two digesters and began producing renewable natural gas for California’s burgeoning renewable fuels market. The California Air Resources Board adopted the Low Carbon Fuel Standard in 2009. That’s spurred a biogas boom in the Midwest.

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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Barack Obama took office in January 2009. natural gas production also skyrocketed. The price of natural gas, oil, and in turn gasoline, all plunged as production surged. Why did President Obama’s tenure see such an explosion in fossil fuel production? The year before Bush was inaugurated U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The findings raise concerns over a potential pervasive conflict of interest on the boards at a time when the international insurance sector is under pressure to halt its support for the fossil fuel industry. “When insurers underwrite fossil fuels, they actually are underwriting climate change.”

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2022

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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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

There, he met with OPUC staff in person and exchanged emails with Lori Koho, then OPUC’s senior official overseeing natural gas utilities. He hoped that his list of complaints would show “how the unethical culture [at NW Natural] goes all the way to the top,” as one of his emails to Koho explains. Systemic Failures of Oversight.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

While California already has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 13 percent since their peak in 2004, many residents still suffer from high levels of air pollution — much of it produced by fossil fuels. And they have suffered collateral damage from the harmful pollutants produced by using fossil fuels. As the U.S.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

While the fuel is barely on the radar in the United States, around the world a green hydrogen rush is underway, and many companies, investors, governments and environmentalists believe it is an energy source that could help end the reign of fossil fuels and slow the world’s warming trajectory. “Green hydrogen can do that.”

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

In 1992 carbon emission hit a 20-year low due to three factors: A mild winter, reduced demand for gasoline and, most significantly, a drop in coal-fired electricity generation because of historically low natural gas prices. The negative values in 1996 are due to a slowing economy associated with the Asian financial crisis.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

Their 2009 report concluded that but for the social and political impediments, the economic and technological wheels were in place to transition the world’s all-purpose energy demand to 100% WWS. Jacobson’s Greenhouse-Gas-Free (GHGFREE) Teslas run on solar power, as does his home, built by BoneStructure.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 11, 2019

GIS containing SF6 gases are typically found in most if not all substations and at many power generating facilities, including natural gas plants, wind farms, solar parks, and geothermal plants. In 2009 and 2010, CARB conducted a rulemaking to develop the regulation for monitoring and limiting SF6 emissions.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 11, 2019

GIS containing SF6 gases are typically found in most if not all substations and at many power generating facilities, including natural gas plants, wind farms, solar parks, and geothermal plants. In 2009 and 2010, CARB conducted a rulemaking to develop the regulation for monitoring and limiting SF6 emissions.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

At COP15 in Copenhagen in 2009, richer countries pledged that they would collectively provide US$100 billion (CA$123 billion) per year by 2020. However, there are challenges around the use of offsets in carbon reduction, and there is contention around whether Canada could gain emissions credit from exporting liquefied natural gas.

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Front And Centered

MAY 17, 2019

Advocates push through slushy slow to testify in support of the HEAL Act during the bill’s first hearing on Feb. Photo by Samantha Bushman. Legislators also preserved existing tools allowing customers to gain bill credits for generating their own solar power, essentially being able to measure and sell this power to utilities (SB 5223).

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

As DeSmog wrote in 2018 about fracking giant Chesapeake Energy, its business model involved flipping land leases for oil and gas production, more than actually producing oil and gas. Fracking's debt-fueled ponzi scheme exposed: the looming $300 billion write down [link] — Tyson Slocum (@TysonSlocum) June 22, 2020.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Amid a historic economic contraction, renewable resources grew to account for a fifth of electricity produced in 2020, according to newly released data from Bloomberg New Energy Finance and the Business Council for Sustainable Energy, a coalition of clean energy, utility and natural gas companies.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The initiative, also known as the “Protect Washington Act”, imposes a steadily increasing carbon pollution fee on most fossil fuel uses and directs revenue toward projects to reduce carbon emissions, as well as investments in forests, water, community preparedness, and support to displaced workers and people with lower incomes.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

The compronmise agreement sees the Greens back Labour's proposals for a 'Safeguard Mechanism', which promises to regulate emissions from Australia's 215 biggest polluting coal and gas facilities without outright banning new fossil fuel projects.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

While California already has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 13 percent since their peak in 2004, many residents still suffer from high levels of air pollution — much of it produced by fossil fuels. And they have suffered collateral damage from the harmful pollutants produced by using fossil fuels. As the U.S.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The electronic engineer and MBA spent 19 years as a supply chain vice president at Unilever before joining Natura in 2009. The company has since whipsawed between its wholesale-energy legacy of fossil fuels and greener horizons. To mollify shareholders, NRG shed its renewables business and EVGo vehicle-charging infrastructure.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2021

The fossil fuel industry and its investors have financially benefited from tax policies and subsidies designed to reduce the emissions from oil, gas, and coal — sometimes without taking the action required to tackle climate change. This makes them incredibly popular with the fossil fuel industry. Past Failures.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Natural gas’s notorious price volatility has been making a comeback — in a big way. The UK is experiencing a natural gas price surge so severe that the government stepped in to prevent a cascade down the supply chain that threatened to create food shortages. In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 23, 2020

Massachusetts may become just the third state, after California and New York, to begin planning for a managed decline of its conventional natural gas industry. In other words, if Massachusetts is to meet its legally binding carbon targets, there is no future for fossil gas. Annual U.S. So what are the options?

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Green Market Oracle

MAY 12, 2020

The importance of replacing fossil fuels with renewables is significant. A report commissioned by the Guardian found that replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy could curb the rise in global temperatures by reducing CO2 emissions by 70 percent by 2050. oil demand is expected to experience a 9 percent decline.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

In Texas, property rights are split into two categories: the land on the surface and everything underground, including oil and natural gas. Bordovsky claimed that by reporting the wells as producing, Jenex could avoid having to post additional bonds for cleanup, another requirement under the 2009 law.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

In Texas, property rights are split into two categories: the land on the surface and everything underground, including oil and natural gas. Bordovsky claimed that by reporting the wells as producing, Jenex could avoid having to post additional bonds for cleanup, another requirement under the 2009 law.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) was high on the agenda at New York Climate Week last week, where critics of the technology raised concerns it would be used to extend the life of the fossil fuel industry. Terrell Natural Gas Processing Plant (“Val Verde”) Operator: Occidental Petroleum, 1972-present Location: Southeast of Ft.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Wealthy countries promised in 2009 to contribute $100 billion a year by 2020 to help developing nations, a goal that has not been reached. However, governments are also facing another challenge this fall that could affect how they respond: Energy supply shortages have left Europe and China with price spikes for natural gas, coal and oil.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

The electronic engineer and MBA spent 19 years as a supply chain vice president at Unilever before joining Natura in 2009. The company has since whipsawed between its wholesale-energy legacy of fossil fuels and greener horizons. To mollify shareholders, NRG shed its renewables business and EVGo vehicle-charging infrastructure.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 23, 2022

Editor’s Note: This is part of a new column, Gaslit , which will navigate society’s dysfunctional relationship with fossil fuel disinformation. liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports for Europe. It was 2014 and “American gas” would save Europe from being dependent on Russian gas imports. Have a tip or idea?

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The rapidly declining costs of clean energy mean the gas plants mandated in the bill will almost certainly cost large ratepayers more than would cleaner alternatives, a reversal from a decade ago. For decades, the provision favored fossil fuel plants over more expensive wind and solar farms. New competition for natural gas.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

And as a trove of industry documents reveals, Exxon is far from the only fossil fuel company selling carbon capture as its golden ticket to continue pumping its products, despite internal concerns about the technology’s feasibility. A natural gas demonstration plant in Texas tests carbon capture technology.

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