DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

As of 2016, the use of mineral fertilizers, which includes nitrogen-based fertilizers produced from natural gas, accounted for 39 percent of the agriculture sector’s emissions in Europe. The main ingredient in fertilizers is ammonia, which is produced from natural gas. Credit: greensefa.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 13, 2021

hearing on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline in Grand Island, Nebraska, on April 18, 2013. Laws such as the National Environmental Policy Act and state equivalents provide for public involvement in decisions about many major projects. Opponents may sue to block new projects that they argue will violate the relevant laws.

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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. The rest of the money goes toward projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions or improve water quality.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

employees away from the question of whether their bill would be adjusted to reflect the fact that they had been receiving lower quality gas over multiple periods in which the efficiency of their industrial boilers dropped by 2 to 4 percent. Paper mills are energy-intensive operations, using large quantities of natural gas to dry paper.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Zimride merged into Lyft in 2013, its vehicles announced by a fuzzy pink "grill-stache." Consumers Energy CEO since 2016, she was praised for preventing a bigger emergency two subzero Januarys ago, after a fire at a natural gas compressor threatened energy transmission. and Canadian cities.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

If the state's climate measures fail now, they threaten our human rights in the future," said 23-year-old law student Ida Edling, in comments reported by newspaper DN. "It The case did not directly rule on whether the project, which first secured environmental approval in 2013, should be approved. That's why we're suing them.".

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Although heavy fuel oil is conventionally used in the shipping industry, Sleipnir operates on Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) with Marine Gas Oil (MGO) as pilot fuel and as a back-up. It is an argument based on existing convention or belief, but not grounded in- or prohibited by the laws of physics.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

“Even the advocates of direct air capture technology acknowledge that they don’t anticipate that it would be at a scale to make any meaningful reduction in atmospheric CO2 levels until 2060, 2070 and beyond,” said Carroll Muffett, president of the environmental law nonprofit Center for International Environmental Law.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

According to one calculation in a 2013 analysis co-authored by nuclear physicist and radioactive waste specialist, Marvin Resnikoff, if oil and gas waste were appropriately characterized, disposal costs could increase by more than half a million dollars for every well drilled.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Zimride merged into Lyft in 2013, its vehicles announced by a fuzzy pink “grill-stache.” ” Consumers Energy CEO since 2016, she was praised for preventing a bigger emergency two subzero Januarys ago, after a fire at a natural gas compressor threatened energy transmission. and Canadian cities.

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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. Luxembourg-based Apateq is a wastewater treatment company founded in 2013. Julie Weatherington-Rice, Ph.D.,

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 15, 2023

They live in Plaquemines Parish a few hundred feet from a massive liquified natural gas (LNG) export terminal being built by Venture Global and the Gator Express pipeline, which will transport natural gas under high pressure to the facility. September 3, 2013, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

In fact, the agency rarely fines companies that violate Texas air pollution laws. A process known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, made extracting deeply buried deposits of oil and natural gas financially feasible. The process also released benzene and other naturally occurring compounds into the air and water.

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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. Since it was established in 2013, New York’s Green Bank has mobilized $4.5 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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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 1, 2023

In December 1963 the Clean Air Act was signed into law, barely a month after President Kennedy’s assassination. However, partly as a result of industry pressure, authority rested largely with the states and the new law failed to solve what multiple witnesses in Congress had described as the “ grave ” and “ serious ”problem of air pollution.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

In 2013, while studying environmental science at Stanford University, Kujimura interned at the Environmental Defense Fund in its corporate partnerships program. When Ozturkeri was a kid — in the late 1990s and early 2000s — oil and gas prices were volatile and the threat of power outages often hung over the country’s infrastructure.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 12, 2020

Danly, who will fill the seat left vacant by the death of Chairman Kevin McIntyre, graduated from law school in 2013 and worked as a corporate energy lawyer before he was named general counsel at FERC in 2017.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

The report by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation concluded, among other things, that power companies and natural gas producers hadn’t properly readied their facilities for cold weather, including failing to install extra insulation, wind breaks and heaters.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

But it has nominated James Danly , a 2013 law school graduate with scant energy industry expertise who has served as FERC general counsel since 2017, to become FERC’s third Republican commissioner.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Danly graduated from law school in 2013 and worked as a corporate energy lawyer before he was named general counsel at FERC in 2017. Danly’s tenure as FERC chairman could end quickly if Joe Biden wins the presidency, as the president may name any sitting FERC commissioner as chairman without Senate approval.

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