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Fossil Fuel Companies Are Promoting ‘Lower Carbon,’ ‘Responsibly Sourced’ Oil and Gas

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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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Where Does All The Radioactive Fracking Waste Go?

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And since 1997 about one million barrels worth of oilfield waste has been brought to Lotus’s disposal site, situated off a dusty desert road located 19 miles west of Andrews, Texas (and just several miles from a massive solar array financed by Facebook and which provides energy to Shell’s fracking operations).

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Feds Move Forward with New Mexico Drilling Plan Despite Community Outcry

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Bureau of Land Management has wrangled through an update to oil and gas permitting procedures for the San Juan Basin in northwestern New Mexico. Whichever update the BLM and BIA choose will have to take account of an array of competing goals. Historically in the northern bands, operators drilled primarily for natural gas.

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Climate-Science Deniers, Right-Wing Think Tanks, and Fossil Fuel Shills Are Plotting Against the Clean Energy Transition

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“If you were a fossil fuel project, you would have been shut down long ago.” For fossil fuel ideologues, sowing misinformation about wind and solar power is proving to be an effective stall tactic. “Hear this message: We’re here to save the whales!”

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The GOP Climate Push That Mostly Leaves Out Climate

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Accompanying the new GOP climate push — dubbed “America’s Energy Innovation Agenda” — is a splashy new website , which lists all the proposals, falling under three overarching categories: “Innovation,” “Clean Energy Infrastructure,” and “Natural Solutions and Conservation.”. Methane arguably wipes out the perceived benefit of gas over coal.