DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 20, 2023

On my lastest flight surveying fossil fuel industry sites in southwest Louisiana at the end of September, I photographed liquified natural gas (LNG) export facilities, signs of drought, fire-scarred stretches of marsh, and a salt dome site at risk of collapsing. billion CP2 site and other LNG export facilities in the area.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

The industrial revolution – despite its many benefits – sounded a death knell for air quality, increasing coal-generated smog levels 50-fold in many large cities. 11 Additionally, at least 31 percent of countries that do have the power to introduce such ambient air quality standards have yet to adopt them.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2021

This month, EQT, the nation’s largest natural gas producer, plans to launch a pilot project that will certify it to start selling not just natural gas, but something it calls “responsibly sourced natural gas.”. We need to address the brand problem.”.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

Under growing pressure to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, developers of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are turning to questionable claims about “carbon neutrality,” “net-zero,” or “green LNG,” in order to pass muster with governments, investors, and society, who are becoming increasingly anxious about the climate crisis.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Coast Guard for floating LNG projects off Grande Isle, Louisiana , were moderated by third-party contractors who offer permit expediting services for industry. This new land will create a natural barrier that will help protect the New Orleans metro area from storm surge, project proponents say. Federal and state trustees approved $2.26

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

While 70% of total expenditures are directed toward “Clean Energy & Clean Air” investments, additional claims on those funds may diminish the amount made available for direct emission reduction activities. 3 Less coverage generally lowers price signal impacts, unless the changes for those sectors require a much higher price signal.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

An ice-free Arctic might be a boon for the shipping industry in the short term, but comes at potential catastrophic cost to our economy in the form of environmental disaster and political upheaval. When there is no sea ice and no continental glaciers whatsoever on the planet, it is commonly referred to as greenhouse Earth.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

billion package to cap orphaned oil and gas wells as a move to tackle “super-polluting methane emissions,” saying it will combat the climate crisis and create jobs. State regulators controlled by the oil and gas industry helped create this crisis,” said Biven when I met her in January 2022. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Backlash continues to grow against the Trump administration’s efforts to deregulate methane emissions from the oil and gas industry. The coalition opposing the Environmental Protection Agency’s rollbacks now includes major oil and gas companies ¹, a midstream gas transmission operator , investors representing over $5.5

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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. The plant is the first joint venture in the Americas between Saudi Basic Industries Corp., Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

The oil and gas industry produces an extraordinary amount of waste. Despite this challenge, it is importing oil and gas waste from other countries too, and is expanding its reach internationally. Adjacent is the Prospero 2 project, whose power has been purchased by a medical services company. Credit: Justin Hamel ©2021.

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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. Many were without power for over a week.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2024

Rita was really, really bad,” he said, referring to the 2005 hurricane that decimated Cameron Parish. “I The power lines had been replaced four times in the past two decades. “It John Allaire, a former environmental engineer in the oil industry, photographed with fossil fuel infrastructure behind. I had a house right over here.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 24, 2021

As recently as 2019, the global market for liquefied natural gas (LNG) looked bright. The industry gave the greenlight to 71 billion tonnes per annum (mtpa) of new LNG capacity in 2019, an all-time record. Former President Trump visits Sempra Energy’s Cameron LNG facility in Louisiana. Credit: BC Gov Photos.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Only 3 percent of the Wyoming project’s CO2 has been geologically stored in the same formation from which the original gas was extracted, according to estimates from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). C and with the net-zero energy transition. Credit: SaskPower , CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 22, 2023

But we’re not quite at the point of churning projects out as fast as the bank can finance them or the developer can build them.  Meanwhile, CTVC continued to grow, passing 60,000 industry leading readers. Energy under the hood. Nuclear fission and fusion energy top the watch list.  Our experts were split.

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