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A tech-backed mission to monitor methane pollution launches today

The Verge: Energy

Image: MethaneSAT via EDF A mission to map and track global methane pollution, a powerful greenhouse gas, is scheduled to launch today after years of collaboration between some of the biggest names in tech. After all, so-called natural gas is mostly just methane. The group has documented massive amounts of leaking methane already.

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Alex Ross: Equitable Rulemaking at the EPA

Defend Our Future

On June 15th, I joined environmental justice advocates from across the country at a listening session hosted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to share how methane pollution has impacted our community in Phoenix. We must work together to cut methane pollution from the oil and gas sector before it’s too late.

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Fume faculties

Envirotec Magazine

The problem originally arose because of the heavy-duty fuel oil used in international shipping, which in 2012 contained more than 2700 times the sulphur content of road fuel. Sulphur dioxide has been a focus of regulatory efforts in the shipping industry for a number of years, notably with the IMO 2020 regulations, introduced last year.

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

DeSmogBlog

In 2012, Rand Simberg and Mark Steyn publicly accused Mann, then a professor at Penn State University, of scientific misconduct and fraud. The science behind the hockey stick graph has been continuously upheld as accurate, and is among key findings that prove burning oil, coal, and methane gas is the primary driver of the climate crisis.

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Gasification platform demonstrates renewable gas production from SRF

Envirotec Magazine

The platform is the fruit of an early European gasification and methanation demonstrator project, and is supported by the French electrical utility ENGIE and the French agency for ecological transition ADEME.

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The Problem With Calling Fracked Gas ‘Responsibly Sourced’

DeSmogBlog

RSG is a new term used in the natural gas industry to describe voluntary reporting initiatives, centered largely around emissions of the powerful climate pollutant methane, but which may also include other criteria such as air quality, water stewardship, land impacts, and “ community interests.” What Is RSG? Credit: WCN 24/7 , CC BY-NC 2.0.

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Gold Hydrogen – Set to Satisfy Global Energy Thirst for Centuries

Hydrogen Fuel News

’ The latter are produced through chemical restructuring of methane-based gas and become ‘blue’ when emissions are under control. Bourakébougou in Mali represents a pioneering chapter in natural hydrogen extraction, delivering electricity to villagers from a steady flow of nearly pure hydrogen since 2012.