DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

A coalition of environmental and social justice organizations have filed a petition with state regulators to halt a hydrogen project by Oregon’s largest gas utility, alleging that the project poses health, safety, environmental dangers to residents already living with polluting industries. Hydrogen comes from various sources.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) punched a hole in the fossil fuel industry’s hydrogen hype bubble when they denied a Title V Air Permit to NRG Energy’s Astoria Gas Turbine Power Plant last Wednesday. DEC’s decision comes on the heels of several blows to hydrogen’s hype.

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EDF + Business

JUNE 15, 2023

Natural gas pipelines are ubiquitous throughout the United States and pipeline leaks are a safety risk, a waste of a valuable energy resource, and a source of methane pollution that accelerates climate change. Methane emissions pose urgent and material risks to oil and gas companies, the financial sector, and capital markets.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2023

A hydrogen industry lobby group has produced a comic book aimed at high schoolers that suggests solar and wind power are incapable of fueling decarbonization goals, and that only hydrogen fuel cells provide sufficient energy to eliminate fossil fuels. at which point Hydrogen Fuel Cell Bot enters the battle to save the day.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 25, 2021

The powerful climate pollutant methane is leaking out of dozens of oil and gas wells, pipelines, and storage tanks in Romania, adding to a growing body of evidence that methane leaks are widespread and pervasive in Europe. He visited 26 oil wells, 25 of which were leaking methane. James Turitto filming methane leaks.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Among the most promising frontiers is the advent of cryo-compressed hydrogen, a powerful energy carrier poised to revolutionize the aviation industry. This approach ingeniously combines two hydrogen storage methods: cryogenic storage and high-pressure storage.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 10, 2022

The UK government has been accused of appointing a “cheerleader for climate-wrecking blue hydrogen” as its hydrogen champion while claiming to support clean energy. However, Toogood is a chief executive at Johnson Matthey , a FTSE 250 multinational which markets technology that can produce blue hydrogen “from natural gas at scale”.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2021

As global efforts to ramp up the hydrogen industry gain support with big government subsidies, new research casts increasing doubt on the climate credentials of the main recipient of that support, so-called “blue” hydrogen, which is extracted from natural gas and paired with carbon capture technology. Environmental Protection Agency.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

But gas grid executives gathered in Berlin this week to lay out a survival strategy: Retool their infrastructure to turn clean-burning hydrogen into the engine of Germany’s energy transition. But much depends on the way the hydrogen is made. But we’ll need molecules, and that is the deciding factor. “In Credit: Phoebe Cooke.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 30, 2023

Combined, these instruments will provide Ashtead’s customers with a complete choice of technologies for the measurement of methane and other gases in applications such as landfill, biogas, contaminated land, petrochem, gas leaks, gas utilities and wastewater.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 20, 2020

A recent publication in the journal Angewandte Chemie brings attention to an improved way of generating clean hydrogen. For many years, hydrogen production has proven costly to the environment, as industrial hydrogen production uses partial methane oxidation and fossil gasification.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

LIVERPOOL, UK – Gas companies and hydrogen lobbyists are using the Labour Party’s annual conference to push “false solutions to the climate crisis”, according to green campaigners. However, the hydrogen industry has had an outsized presence at the event compared to cleaner alternatives. Hydrogen Zone.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 14, 2020

Hydrogen is the lightest and most abundant element in the universe. When hydrogen is combusted, it forms water. Therefore, hydrogen can be used as a low-carbon fuel source. Hydrogen can be combusted directly, or it can be used in a fuel cell to produce electricity. Hydrogen Production. President George W.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Hydrogen has shot up the European legislative agenda in recent years, with politicians of all stripes touting its potential to help countries meet their climate goals. The fuel comes in a variety of “colours”, depending on how it is produced, with almost all hydrogen currently created using fossil gas and termed “grey”.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Meat emits around a third of global emissions of methane, and action to cut this greenhouse gas has been identified by the UN and world leaders as the quickest route to slowing global heating. All these methods work to improve the soil, reduce air and water pollution, cut emissions, and boost biodiversity.

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

2, electric flight , and this one covers the promise of hydrogen flight. There are plans to use hydrogen as a power source for aircraft instead of kerosene. WHAT THE AVIATION INDUSTRY TELLS YOU WHAT THEY DON’T TELL YOU Happening soon New aircraft propelled by hydrogen could enter into service by 2035. C heating limit.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 28, 2022

Following a 10-year analysis of the scale of methane leakage at almost 1,000 AD plants across the UK and Europe, Tim Elsome, General Manager of biogas specialists FM BioEnergy, outlines why now is the ideal time to tackle unidentified biogas leaks – and how to protect your plant, profits and the planet. The risks of doing nothing.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 23, 2021

In the first of a series of Policy Briefing Events, the trade body presented Biomethane: Fuelling a Transport Revolution , which analyses the issues facing the UK transport sector and explores the options presented by electric vehicles, hydrogen and biomethane. “, explains Charlotte Morton, ADBA’s Chief Executive.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

With so many future energy possibilities, where should you focus your attention - and why should hydrogen be part of your decarbonisation plan? 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).

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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In the latest addition to its 'green recovery' package, the European Commission yesterday unveiled a flurry of crucial green strategies, targets, and policies, ranging from new green building and renewable energy programmes, to tighter rules governing chemical use and methane emissions.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

However, the dangers associated with it – from diminished profits to environmental pollution and health & safety risks – should not be underestimated. of their capacity, it could result in 6,000 tonnes of methane escaping into the atmosphere annually. Translating this to the UK as a whole could mean that 550 plants are at risk.

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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! ‘Friend Methane!

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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. On the first day of the convention, attendance at strategic session speeches and those of the related hydrogen conference were so low that event organizers removed unused seating.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2021

UN backs green hydrogen as it publishes seven principles designed to guide policymakers and business leaders approach to scaling the low carbon fuel. Fossil-based hydrogen must turn to credible, independent lifecycle emissions monitoring and regulation to meet a "high burden of proof" for inclusion in 1.5C energy sector pathway".

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Grist

APRIL 5, 2021

Amy Townsend-Small has been chasing methane her entire professional life. When fracking took off around 2010, Townsend-Small shifted her focus to a new and growing problem: methane leaks from oil and gas activity. Natural gas, which is primarily composed of methane, was pitched as a fuel that could transition the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 25, 2023

For the last several months, one of the nation’s largest pipeline operators has gone from one local government meeting on the Navajo Nation to another, outlining plans for what could end up being the country’s longest hydrogen pipeline. The Western Interstate Hydrogen Hub (WISHH) proposal is designed to land $1.25

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 14, 2020

Moreover, poor methods of managing waste lead to an increase in soil and water contamination and air pollution. Lessens Environmental Pollution. Pollution is one of the current environmental problems tormenting the world. Most of them release wastewater causing water pollution. billion tons per year.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The reforms, set out by the EU's executive body yesterday, have been designed to accelerate uptake of low carbon gases, such as hydrogen, that could replace fossil fuels and help deliver on the EU's goal of reducing emissions by at least 55 per cent by 2030 on 1990 levels.

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Grist

MARCH 8, 2021

When shipping giant Maersk announced last month it would operate a “carbon-neutral” vessel by 2023, the Danish company committed to using a fuel that’s made from renewable sources, is free of soot-forming pollutants — and is currently in scarce supply. E-methanol is made by combining hydrogen with carbon dioxide.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

150 million Americans regularly breathe unhealthy, polluted air. But recently announced targets to achieve 100 percent clean power by the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis and Joe Biden’s presidential campaign would eliminate all air pollution from power plants. Using hydrogen produced by green electricity in in fuel cells.

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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. By Erin Murphy and Christie Hicks , EDF.

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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. Companies are piloting systems across Europe that use hydrogen in furnaces in lieu of coal. The furnaces that melt iron ore to make steel consume vast amounts of coal.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2020

In recent years, the effects of vehicular air pollution on human health have become better understood, and received greater political and media attention. In more modern facilities, hydrogen may accumulate as a result of electric car charging stations. A car park installation. Developing market example: car parking facilities.

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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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Clean Energy Canada

OCTOBER 25, 2021

s biggest source of pollution and remains a key focus area. The roadmap contains commitments in line with federal government policies, including a plan to meet or exceed the federal carbon pricing benchmark starting in 2023 and methane reduction targets aligned with federal commitments. Transportation has long been B.C.’s

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 18, 2023

A comparison of federal support for EGS and hydrogen – two technologies that could each be important enablers of the clean energy transition – shows how support to EGS could be improved. And the manufacturing of “clean” green hydrogen releases greenhouse gases unless it is made with a fully renewable grid. Recent U.S.

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