DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

A little over a decade ago, Gary Dye, then a gas measurement engineer at NW Natural, Oregon’s largest gas utility, lost faith in his employer to responsibly deal with what he believed to be systematic inaccuracies among the company’s hundreds of thousands of gas meters.

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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. A review of the past 30 years of state records by Grist and the Texas Observer found that the New Mexico Oil Conservation Division inspects each oil and gas well only once about every two years.

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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. A review of the past 30 years of state records by Grist and the Texas Observer found that the New Mexico Oil Conservation Division inspects each oil and gas well only once about every two years.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

For more on those problems, see CarbonCaptureFacts and the Center for International Environmental Law for starters. Here are the Princeton maps of what needs to be done, downplaying it as smaller than natural gas infrastructure: A Trans-Alaska Pipeline from New Jersey to Georgia? What would this look like on the ground?

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2022

The complex contains a circuit board of pipes and steel tanks that cough out steam, flames and toxic substances as it creates the building blocks for plastic from natural gas liquids. It arrived in the form of Gulf Coast Growth Ventures (GCGV), a plant that sprawls over 16 acres between the towns of Portland and Gregory.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

In fact, the agency rarely fines companies that violate Texas air pollution laws. According to a report by nonprofit advocacy groups Environment Texas and the Environmental Integrity Project, polluters in Texas were fined for less than 3% of the nearly 25,000 illegal releases between 2011 and 2016.

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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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Energy and Cleantech Council

AUGUST 9, 2022

Notably, the proposal includes mandates that will facilitate the completion of the Mountain Valley Pipeline – a major natural gas pipeline in Manchin’s own West Virginia that has been tied up in court battles for years. Between 2011 and 2020, the Connecticut Green Bank has brought over $1.94 billion in capital. What’s next?

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 1, 2021

In June, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) narrowly approved the construction of a new 42” diameter gas pipeline that will connect shale wells in Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Ohio to a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on the Gulf Coast, carrying over a billion cubic feet of fracked gas to be transported overseas every day.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Over the past year, many professional services organizations that previously had little to say publicly about their climate change strategy — from law firms to management consultants to ad agencies — found themselves under closer scrutiny not just for their own footprint but for supporting some of the biggest climate deniers around.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

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. Since 2011, the whales’ deaths—largely from ship strikes and entanglements in fishing gear—have outpaced births.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

The incident was the second in three years for North Texas-based Luminant, whose equipment malfunctions during a more severe storm in 2011 resulted in a $750,000 fine from state energy regulators for failing to deliver promised power to the grid. The agency declined to comment, saying it doesn’t discuss investigations.

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