DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2024

A liquified natural gas import terminal that could become one of Europe’s largest such facilities has received financing from a dozen European and Asian banks, many of which have existing climate pledges. Grüneberg clarified that the EU-wide methane regulation finalized in May will result in a methane transparency database where U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Melissa Lem was shocked when she saw an advertisement from a major Canadian fossil fuel lobby group showing young parents and their two children happily cooking a meal over a brand new gas stove. A ‘Fuelling Canada’ ad claims Canada ‘produces the cleanest natural gas in the world.’

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 22, 2024

and other fossil fuel companies are urging the European Union to relax targets to boost climate-friendly “green” hydrogen, hoping to win greater support for projects to manufacture the fuel using natural gas. But the oil and gas industry is pushing hard for increased use of “blue” hydrogen.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 16, 2023

fossil fuel firms are pushing to build more than 2,900 miles of natural gas pipelines to feed liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facilities in Louisiana, Texas, and Alaska, in a bid to send more of the fuel to Asia and Europe, a new analysis by Global Energy Monitor shows.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2023

He also suggested that the UK and UAE could collaborate more closely on the development of nuclear small modular reactors, and hydrogen – which critics say is being heavily pushed by the fossil fuel industry. The fossil fuel era is over. The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero has been approached for comment.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Their mission is to educate, engage and empower readers with information and analysis necessary for them to advocate for a more transparent and just governance that is accountable to the public. exporters of liquified natural gas. The company is poised to be one of the largest U.S.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 7, 2020

NATURAL GAS DRIVES CARBON EMISSIONS LOWER. The shale gas boom in the U.S. natural gas production between 2005 and 2020. natural gas prices, and helped drive coal-fired power plants to switch to natural gas to generate firm power. caused nearly a 90% increase in U.S. Indeed, there are.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

On Wednesday, a group of more than 450 scientists called on advertising agencies to cut off their fossil fuel clients and to end their ties with an ongoing misinformation campaign that has time and again killed progress on addressing the climate crisis. And as this letter makes clear, they have had enough. ” Arena said.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Discussions of 100 percent clean energy pathways are a subject of intense debate and controversy given the varying assumptions about technology and pricing that inform the plans. This enables minimization of use of fossil fuels and maximized reduction of emissions.” ” Storage is not enough.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 25, 2022

Some sections included safety information and tips on energy conservation, but many others promote natural gas, describe its benefits, or position gas as a clean alternative to dirtier fuels. NW Natural knows that teachers possess the power to enlighten students. Answer: a bus that runs on natural gas.).

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Transitioning from a fossil fuel economy to a renewable one undoubtedly presents challenges. Traditionally, this has meant coal, nuclear and natural gas. Grey hydrogen is currently the most common form of hydrogen, and this is generated from natural gas or methane through a process called steam reforming.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

New research predicts that green hydrogen — a clean fuel produced from water using renewables — will be comparable in cost and likely cheaper than blue hydrogen by 2030. He also said: “It is important that we see those costs in 2030 as still being more expensive than the low-carbon fossil options.” A Fossil Fuel Narrative.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 28, 2023

The lonely well pad houses four natural gas wells that records show were initially drilled in 2011 but sat inactive for years after that. With a population of around 30,000, this county sits squarely in the center of the path the Marcellus Shale formation takes as it curves through the commonwealth.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

This has the potential to significantly reduce fossil fuel usage as well as emissions. On the other hand, fuel cells are essentially electric vehicles batteries, except in this case, a hydrogen stream is charging the battery. There are two primary ways to make hydrogen at scale: electrolysis and steam methane reformation (SMR). 

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 25, 2023

Hoboken is making this claim against fossil fuel companies under the state-level equivalent of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, a federal law used successfully to prosecute organized crime groups such as the Mafia starting in the 1970s and later the tobacco industry. Joseph Davis, via DVIDSHUB , CC BY 2.0

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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 2, 2024

The growth of this fuel alternative in all major consuming regions witnessed robust growth with the sharp rise in natural gas prices. As a fuel, hydrogen supports applications like heavy industries , seasonal energy storage, and long-haul transport.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The promise of renewable natural gas is a sustainability win that has been financially and logistically out of reach for even the largest companies. The Massachusetts-based recycler uses anaerobic biodigesters to create renewable natural gas from food waste. The gas can then be used for energy purposes.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2022

consulting and PR firm, with a long history of waging influence campaigns for fossil fuel corporations, is under scrutiny by a congressional committee as part of a broader investigation into the decades-long efforts by the oil industry and its allies to block action on the climate crisis. A powerful Washington, D.C.,

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2022

“NW Natural business executives should not earn recompense from ratepayers through salary bonuses when 25% of Oregonians can barely afford to pay their energy bills.”. NW Natural ads promote low-cost natural gas, but do not disclose that the utility is seeking rate increases.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 14, 2020

Over 95% of the world’s hydrogen is produced using the steam methane reforming process (SMR). In this reaction, natural gas is reacted with steam at an elevated temperature to produce carbon monoxide and hydrogen. The reforming reaction with methane as: CH 4 + H 2 O ? The water-gas shift (WGS) reaction is: CO + H 2 O ?

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 17, 2022

As Russian forces advanced towards Kyiv, Canada’s oil and gas industry and its supporters responded with a self-serving narrative: the Ukraine crisis means Canada must accelerate its production of fossil fuels. Methane stays in the atmosphere less time than carbon dioxide, but its warming power is 25 times higher.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

“I am here to sound the alarm alongside my German colleagues: This is destruction masked as economic development, and we will do everything we can to protect our homes and to stop it,” said Anne Rolfes, director of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade , a New Orleans nonprofit working with communities affected by the fossil fuel industry.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

There, he met with OPUC staff in person and exchanged emails with Lori Koho, then OPUC’s senior official overseeing natural gas utilities. He hoped that his list of complaints would show “how the unethical culture [at NW Natural] goes all the way to the top,” as one of his emails to Koho explains. “At

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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.”. Platinum Gas.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 5, 2022

Talk to fossil fuel execs, government ministers, and industry reps these days and they’ll all tell a similar story: Blue hydrogen is the clean fuel of the future that will help Canada and the world get to net-zero emissions. It’ll power everything from airplanes to long-haul trucks and will even heat our homes.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2022

Flaring — or the burning of stranded natural gas directly at an oil well — is one of the drilling industry’s most notorious problems, often condemned as a pointlessly polluting waste of billions of dollars and trillions of cubic feet of natural gas. How does ExxonMobil plan to reach that goal?

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MAY 21, 2023

Quebec May 23-26, 2023 Airplane reading Our time in Québec promises to be informative and inspiring, with tours and briefings that will elevate our understanding of what’s possible in our transition to a clean economy. The largest share of the state’s natural gas comes from Canada, either directly or through the state of Idaho.”

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Grist

JANUARY 10, 2023

As you cruise through this tiny world, you pass more than 400,000 nitrogen molecules, 100,000 oxygen molecules, 219 carbon dioxide molecules, before you find what you’re looking for: a single molecule of methane. Methane is one of the most powerful yet misunderstood greenhouse gasses on Earth. methane emissions.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The report notes that, under existing government policies global fossil fuel fuse is set to peak this decade, as coal use falls back in the coming years, natural gas demand reaches a plateau by the end of this decade, and oil demand levels off in the mid-2030 as the transition to EVs gather space. goal this decade.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 8, 2024

Photos I shot last year in South Louisiana illustrate the Gulf Coast’s rapidly expanding fossil fuel industry, and the groundswell of frontline community members, environmental advocates, and activists fighting to stop it. While “green” hydrogen fuel can be produced with renewable energy, that process is cost prohibitive for now.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

But opponents fighting to stop the company’s project, led by a group of not-in-my-backyard (NIMBY) locals, have had no trouble finding a wealth of information to the contrary. Air Products, a global hydrogen manufacturing company, is proposing to build a $4.5 A fishing camp in Manchac between Lake Maurepas and Lake Pontchartrain.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Understanding the role of hydrogen Hydrogen is attracting much attention for its decarbonisation potential because it is a clean alternative to natural gas and petroleum. methane - CH4). Hydrogen gas can be extracted via several methods, the most common of which is steam methane reformation.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2022

On November 29, Coterra Energy and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) signed a consent order allowing the operator, one of the largest natural gas producers in the state, to drill laterally beneath an area that has been mostly fracking-free since 19 households found methane in their water in 2008 and 2009.

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2023

But despite growing calls from campaigners and some investors for BlackRock to divest from fossil fuel firms, Fink stressed that BlackRock would be working with fossil fuel companies such as those in natural gas sector, provided that they take steps to mitigate their methane emissions.

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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. He pointed out that the U.S.’s

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

The inflation reduction act clean energy transition: Supporting businesses navigate rising fossil fuel energy costs The inflation reduction act clean energy transition comes at a time where rising fossil fuel energy costs are hitting businesses hard. Inflation rates in the U.S. on clean energy.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

“The math doesn’t yet add up,” the report finds, citing “significant gaps” between the decarbonization targets of major utilities and their current plans for retiring fossil-fuel plants. electric grid relies on fossil fuels for 63 percent of its generation, and according to the U.S.

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