Planet Pulse

APRIL 15, 2021

In addition, the Carbon Mapper consortium announced its plan to deploy a ground-breaking hyperspectral satellite constellation with the ability to pinpoint, quantify and track point-source methane and CO 2 emissions. In short, if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. . These home-grown satellites are a game-changer.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

New report from the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) highlights the need to control methane slips on ships that have switched to using LNG as fuel. The report calculatres that switching to LNG could deliver carbon emissions savings, but these could be partially offset by increased methane emissions.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 25, 2024

If the federal and provincial governments live up to their climate commitments (namely on methane reduction, industrial carbon pricing, an emissions cap and ensuring that new LNG projects reach net zero on scope 1 and 2 emissions), over eight Site C’s worth of additional electricity would be required to electrify the six LNG projects in B.C.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

The event aims to bring together policymakers and liquified natural gas (LNG), natural gas, and hydrogen players to explore new avenues for fossil fuel expansion. Sarcastically, he thanked the room of “polluters” for destroying Louisiana’s coastline. “On The greenwashing term for it is liquefied natural gas.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

Methane emissions reduction could significantly reduce rates of global warming at a relatively low cost, major research warns. As such, the report emphasises that methane mitigation is "one of the best ways of limiting warming in this and subsequent decades".

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2023

Source: CHFCA The comic doesn’t mention that the majority of hydrogen produced in North America comes from natural gas , which is not only non-renewable, but creates more emissions than simply burning fossil fuels directly. Greenwashing efforts deliberately aimed at children is nothing new for the fossil fuel sector.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 5, 2021

As the United States moves toward decarbonization, cities and states must use all means available to reduce climate pollution, and natural gas utilities should be at the forefront of this rapid energy transition. This first-of-its-kind tool has the power to transform natural gas utility investment decisions.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

Further research by DeSmog has shown that Eni’s company magazine Ecos made repeated references to climate change during the late 1980s and 1990s — while running advertising campaigns promoting natural gas, which is mostly comprised of planet-warming methane, as a “clean” fuel. ‘Friend Methane!

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Photos I shot in 2022 for DeSmog capture damage from extreme weather events and the continued expansion of the fossil fuel industry — the dominant industry causing global warming. Industries reliant on methane gas continue to expand their footprint, despite bipartisan discussions about the need to develop climate solutions.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Often valid concepts in and of themselves, the problem lies in how they are touted as enviro-friendly actions while companies fail to cut their contribution to global heating. All these methods work to improve the soil, reduce air and water pollution, cut emissions, and boost biodiversity.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Transport & Environment research finds trucks running on natural gas are no better for the climate than diesel trucks. The Graz University of Technology tested a conventional diesel truck manufactured by Italian transport firm Iveco, and compared its greenhouse gas and other emissions to that of an LNG Iveco truck.

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Energy Innovation

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The EPS allows users to model numerous policies that affect energy use and emissions including a renewable portfolio standard, fuel economy standards for vehicles, industry methane standards, incentives for clean energy technologies like we see in the Inflation Reduction Act, and accelerated R&D advancement of various technologies.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 24, 2021

As states achieve their climate goals, natural gas infrastructure once deemed useful may no longer be necessary, and that transition will accelerate over the next decade depending on how fast end uses of the gas system, such as heating and cooking, are electrified. Recent research shows that estimated U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

The science could not be more clear: We must eliminate carbon pollution as soon as possible — nearly 50% this decade, and fully by 2050. They study glaciers and global temperature changes, climate solutions and adaptation, the oceans and the human influence on global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 25, 2023

. “These racketeering cases should be viewed as a new legal front against the oil and gas industry,” Richard Wiles, president of the Center for Climate Integrity, which advocates for climate accountability from polluters, said by email. This was the second stage of the scheme, lasting through the 2000s.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 12, 2021

And as the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) noted , emissions pathways that limit global warming to 2°C or below generally assume that some form of carbon dioxide removal, such as CCS, is necessary, alongside reducing emissions.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This is the global temperature rise above pre-industrial levels targeted by the 2015 Paris Agreement. The hope is that limiting global warming to 1. The curbing of emissions to reduce the concentration of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane in the environment. Short-lived Climate Pollutants (SLCPs).

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Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

As a result, the industry accounts for roughly 8 percent of annual carbon dioxide emissions, as well as a toxic soup of air pollutants. Doing so is essential to limiting global warming to 1.5 Steelmakers worldwide are facing mounting pressure from government regulators and consumers to decarbonize operations.

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Unsustainable

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

CO 2 comes from burning gas, oil, coal, and solid waste. Then, there are also methane, nitrous oxide, and other industrial gasses, about which we seldom hear. Methane and nitrous oxide do not persist in the atmosphere as long as CO 2. Methane is a component of natural gas.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The simple fact is that they are not reducing their polluting activities by the significant amount required to limit the worst impacts of global warming.”. In a blow to the industry, the world’s leading energy analysts recently warned the use of natural gas must be drastically curtailed to meet climate goals.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

India Gate, New Delhi: Residents of the city face pollution levels with a health impact estimated to be equivalent to smoking more than two packs of cigarettes a day (image credit: Amit kg / Shutterstock.com). Centuries on, sources of airborne pollution are only becoming more numerous and wide ranging.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The analysis shows that the production, transport, and storage of food are driving greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to those of the EU and Russia combined. Ultra processed foods like snacks, drinks and ready meals, along with chemical fertilisers made from natural gas, are singled out as major sources of pollution.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Can governments broker a deal to phase out the oil, coal, and gas causing climate change? They want the biggest, heaviest-polluting nations to do something about it. A major United Nations report from 2018 charted out what it would take to reach that goal: reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Now, that 1.5-degree

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2022

Belgium's Flanders has become the latest region to move to accelerate the shift away from fossil gas boilers, with the state government this week announcing it plans to pull forward a ban on the installation of gas boilers in new homes by one year by one year to 2025. California unveils new Methane Accountability Program.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2022

Travis Dardar, an indigenous fisherman in Cameron, Louisiana, has a front-row view of the expansion of the liquified natural gas (LNG) industry’s export capacity on the Gulf Coast — and it isn’t pretty. “It The reports show that the facility has released numerous chemicals, including benzene, a known human carcinogen, and methane.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 29, 2021

The number of orphaned wells in oil and gas producing states nationwide continues to increase, as does the amount of planet warming methane emissions leaking from them. In fact, methane is up to 86 times more potent than carbon dioxide in the first 20 years after entering the atmosphere.

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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. So Biven is determined to make sure her “Methane Memo,” which lays out a plan to safeguard the funds, makes its way to him. Methane Without Measure.

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

Photo Credit: REUTERS While some politicians and citizens continue to deny the existence of man-made global warming, the evidence supporting it continues to grow. coal first and then later oil and natural gas?to Which countries and sectors are the largest polluters?

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

It contains natural gas, helium, and carbon dioxide. It is the biggest LaBarge, as the gas operation is known, would have become one of the world’s foremost examples of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), a technology most climate-modeling experts view as essential to slowing down global warming and, eventually, reversing it.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Imagine you woke up in 2030 to find that Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia had done little to slow the global warming that cooked the Cascadia region this year. We have not kept pace with the scope of the crisis,” Oregon Global Warming Commission Chair Catherine Macdonald wrote to legislators that month.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In an internal memo published by the committee, the CEO of the American Petroleum Institute , Mike Sommers , writes that publicizing the industry’s paltry efforts to reduce emissions from natural gas production presents “an opportunity to further secure the industry’s license to operate. ”

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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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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

BIDEN: It [climate change] is the existential threat humanity faces, global warming. KLOBUCHAR: I have made it very clear that we have to review all of the [fracking] permits that are out there right now for natural gas and then make decisions on each one of them and then not grant new ones until we make sure that it's safe.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2021

Steve Brown, Orcadian’s founder, regularly shared posts on social media from his recently-deleted Twitter account that cast doubt on climate policy and modelling, including content from the Global Warming Policy Foundation , the UK’s principal climate science denying group. Find out more about Oil and Gas UK in its profile.

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CleanTechnica

MARCH 8, 2022

It is widely known that gas production and transportation both result in methane leakage, but a new study found that appliances, such as stoves, leak dangerous methane — even when they are not being used.

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