DeSmogBlog
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
Flying 10,000 feet above the Gulf of Mexico, in a plane outfitted with infrared imaging equipment, researchers could see methane gas bubbling under water, likely from an undetected pipeline leak. Still, researchers emphasize that the high rate of methane leakage underscores the major climate impact that reducing those leaks could have.
DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
The oil industry has launched an all-out pressure campaign to kill an attempt by Congressional Democrats to tax methane – an extremely powerful greenhouse gas – for the first time. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, which is considering the methane fee as part of the $3.5 Congress Eyes Methane Fee.
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DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 10, 2019
Originally posted on Yale Climate Connections. President Trump’s EPA is moving to roll back 2016 Obama administration methane leak regulations for key parts of the oil and gas industry, another example of what seems an across-the-board repudiation of Obama-era environmental and climate change initiatives.
Grist
OCTOBER 17, 2022
It helps the mitigation of climate change.”. In a 2016 paper he published in Environmental Science & Technology, he documented a 2.25-fold This story was originally published by Grist with the headline All that plastic in the ocean is a climate change problem, too on Oct 17, 2022.
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 8, 2021
Global coal power use, however, must drop by 14 percent per year to achieve the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C As Ember reported, coal power is losing out to renewable energy around the world but the transition isn’t happening nearly fast enough to address climate change.
AGreenLiving
JULY 23, 2020
For the first time, scientists have confirmed that methane leaking is from Antarctica’s sea bed. They say the methane is likely escaping into the atmosphere. According to the EPA, in 2018, methane accounted for about 10% of U.S. Usually, microbes consume undersea methane before it reaches the atmosphere.
Unsustainable
MAY 1, 2019
words by Henry Lewis Introduction As the clock continues ticking toward the collective future of the human species on planet Earth, there are still some among us who are either skeptics or out-right deniers of climate change. The year 2016 ranks as the warmest on record. coal first and then later oil and natural gas?
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