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Media Leaves Out Key Details From Harvard Study Claiming EPA Underestimates Oil and Natural Gas Methane Emissions

Energy Central

A recent study provides a classic example of headlines not matching reality when it comes to reporting on oil and natural gas activities.

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One researcher’s quest to quantify the environmental cost of abandoned oil wells

Grist

Amy Townsend-Small has been chasing methane her entire professional life. Sniffing out the potent greenhouse gas, which traps 86 times as much heat as carbon dioxide after it’s emitted into the atmosphere, has required her to breathalyze cows and take chemical measurements at large manure lagoons. Christopher Collins.

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Gasification platform demonstrates renewable gas production from SRF

Envirotec Magazine

A year after successfully producing biomethane from forest biomass, the GAYA platform has seemingly achieved a world first with the production of its first cubic metres of renewable gas from Solid Recovered Fuel (SRF).

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Orsted Among Winners as UK Backs Hydrogen Demos

GreenTechMedia

Most hydrogen produced today is made by splitting it from methane gas, generating carbon dioxide as a byproduct. Only 252 megawatts of electrolyzers were in operation worldwide between 2010-2019, according to WoodMac. The project received £7.5 million in funding. gigawatts last year.

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Crypto Mining at Gas Wells Sparks Regulatory Headaches, Outcry in Northwestern Pennsylvania

DeSmogBlog

The lonely well pad houses four natural gas wells that records show were initially drilled in 2011 but sat inactive for years after that. EQT was initially permitted for the well pad in 2010, DEP records show. The emissions intensity of Bitcoin mining is larger than that of some countries.

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

DeSmogBlog

The head of FTI’s Strategic Communications for the Americas is a man named Brian Kennedy, who was the communications strategist for drilling contractor Transocean, which owned the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig that exploded in 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico. The campaigns waged by FTI for its fossil fuel clients are extensive and wide-ranging.