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This City in Oregon is Making Moves to Ban Natural Gas in New Homes and Buildings

DeSmogBlog

The City of Eugene, Oregon, initiated a process on November 17 that could lead to a ban on new natural gas hookups in residential and commercial buildings, following in the footsteps of dozens of other cities around the country. Negotiations have dragged on since 2019 with little to show for it.

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2020: Fossil fuels are dead, long live the sun

GreenBiz

Exxon’s 2018 revenues were half of what it made a decade earlier; in 2019, it was only $14.3 The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis reported that "the world’s largest publicly traded oil and gas companies shelled out a total of $71.2 Natural Gas. Last year, no fossil company made the top 10 list.

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The methane impact of organic waste vs fossil fuel emissions

AGreenLiving

While the focus is usually on fossil fuel emissions as the main climate change culprit, a new analysis by the nonprofit Energy Vision concludes that reducing emissions from organic waste would more steeply reduce methane. This could be accomplished at a fraction of the $50-$100 billion cost of capping abandoned oil and gas wells.

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The top 25 most sustainable fleets

GreenBiz

Thanks to converging forces — including supportive policies, dropping battery costs and aggressive climate goals — transportation leaders at large and small organizations are increasingly turning to new zero-emission and low-carbon options that decarbonize fleets and in some cases save money. Fleet leaders are also facing increasing pressure.

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Canadian LNG Will Stall Asia’s Shift to Renewables, Energy Experts in Asia Say

DeSmogBlog

Oil and gas companies have for years marketed fracked gas from B.C. But an impending flood of liquefied natural gas exports from western Canada to Asia could make it harder for countries there to achieve their national climate targets and contribute to tens of thousands of additional deaths due to air pollution.

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Highlights from the 2022 BP Statistical Review

R-Squared Energy

It is a primary data source for numerous companies, government agencies, and non-government organizations. Fossil fuels accounted for 82% of primary energy use last year, essentially the same as in 2020, but down from 83% in 2019 and 85% five years ago. However, this is still about 1% below the record levels of 2019 and 2019.

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First Nations Are ‘The Magic Sauce’ for Getting Gas Projects Built, Says LNG Insider

DeSmogBlog

Efforts by oil and gas companies to build massive liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities on B.C.’s But in practice much of the discussion was about how to accelerate gas exports to Asia. But as a Vancouver Sun story points out, the organization’s primary function is “to promote natural gas.” .