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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.

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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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The Problem With Calling Fracked Gas ‘Responsibly Sourced’

DeSmogBlog

The fracked natural gas industry has never been the most responsible or efficient consumer of resources. Drillers are using ever-increasing amounts of water and sand in order to produce the same volume of gas, with a corresponding rise in the levels of solid and liquid waste created. But what does RSG really mean? What Is RSG?

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Spike in German Finance For Gas Export Projects Harms U.S. Gulf Coast Communities, Report Finds

DeSmogBlog

gas export projects since the beginning of 2022, a sharp increase on the 1.86 The banks also underwrote 610 million euros of bonds for the projects from 2012-2021, the data showed. “I German banks like Deutsche Bank are funding this export of gas from the United States,” Rolfes told DeSmog. German banks lent 2.17 on March 29.

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Phantom Gas and Missing Documents Reveal Gaps in Utility Oversight

DeSmogBlog

When Gary Dye, a former engineer with Oregon’s largest gas utility, began blowing the whistle on alleged unethical behavior by his employer, he never dreamed his nearly two-dozen complaints would amount to nothing. In late 2012, several months after Dye took his complaints to OPUC, NW Natural fired him.

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How steel might finally kick its coal habit

Grist

As a result, the industry accounts for roughly 8 percent of annual carbon dioxide emissions, as well as a toxic soup of air pollutants. In 2012, he co-founded Boston Electrometallurgical (a.k.a. The furnaces that melt iron ore to make steel consume vast amounts of coal. Doing so is essential to limiting global warming to 1.5

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Hoboken Lodges First State-Level Racketeering Charge in Big Oil Climate Lawsuit

DeSmogBlog

. “These racketeering cases should be viewed as a new legal front against the oil and gas industry,” Richard Wiles, president of the Center for Climate Integrity, which advocates for climate accountability from polluters, said by email. Credit: U.S. Joseph Davis, via DVIDSHUB , CC BY 2.0