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. In October, she invited a university researcher onto the property and discovered that several wells were leaking methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 8, 2024

While climate impacts intensify along the Gulf Coast, the Louisiana, Texas, and federal governments are poised to permit a growing number of proposed hydrogen manufacturing facilities equipped with carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technology, and liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals. In 2023, U.S. If the U.S.

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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. In October, she invited a university researcher onto the property and discovered that several wells were leaking methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Natural gas’s notorious price volatility has been making a comeback — in a big way. The UK is experiencing a natural gas price surge so severe that the government stepped in to prevent a cascade down the supply chain that threatened to create food shortages. In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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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. As climate concerns lead to a slow but steady decline in the demand for oil, the companies’ collaboration represents a shift by the fossil fuel industry.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2024

That study, now six years out of date, is “ancient history,” Tyson Slocum, director of the energy programme at Public Citizen, a Washington DC-based consumer advocacy organisation, told Gas Outlook. Since 2016, when the first American LNG cargo was exported, the U.S. is exporting natural gas, and importing price volatility.”

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

For more on the climate implications of CCS, see DeSmog’s accompanying news analysis: How Carbon Capture And Storage Projects Are Driving New Oil and Gas Extraction Globally. Terrell Natural Gas Processing Plant (“Val Verde”) Operator: Occidental Petroleum, 1972-present Location: Southeast of Ft. What CCS Projects Promise.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

And as DeSmog reported in 2016 , Exxon corporate reports from the late 1970s stated “There is no doubt” that CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels was a growing “problem.”. 8: Natural Gas No ‘Climate Solution’. 7: Republican Deflection. Some of the day’s most rhetorically devastating questioning came from Rep.

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Clean Energy Trust

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Back in 2016, my former colleague Dr. Ben Gaddy published research on what went wrong during the cleantech 1.0 Link Wither Methane? The Trump administration announced they were eliminating a regulation that required oil and gas companies to monitor and limit methane leaks. Link Will This Time Be Different?

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

coal first and then later oil and natural gas?to The year 2016 ranks as the warmest on record. While CO 2 may be the greatest contributor to climate change, other gases such as methane and nitrous oxide are also responsible for creating the greenhouse effect, therefore, solutions must also focus on the reduction of these gases.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 18, 2020

While this anomaly was a confluence of many specific factors - plummeting oil demand, geopolitical rivalry between oil-producing states, full oil storage facilities - and the price of oil steadily recovered for the next several months, the world realized the oil market is unpredictably volatile.

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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

JULY 29, 2021

The North Sea oil and gas industry became a net drain on taxpayer funds in 2016, with one report estimating that the UK government – and ultimately, taxpayers – has lost more £250 billion in 13 years by giving tax breaks to the industry. Find out more about Perenco in its company profile.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

There is a widely held belief in the Democrat camp that Hillary Clinton, despite winning the popular vote in 2016, failed to motivate important demographics to turn out in crucial swing states, including - very broadly speaking - youth and minority groups. That is, at least, the picture Joe Biden's campaign has sought to paint.

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