Renewable Energy World

MAY 13, 2021

The digester, and another the dairy installed a few years later, reduced the size of open lagoons of manure that release methane into the atmosphere. But last year, Holsum Dairies changed course, upgraded the two digesters and began producing renewable natural gas for California’s burgeoning renewable fuels market.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in her Pennsylvania hometown, she will be facing off against some of the most powerful fossil fuel interests in the United States. LNG boom threatens to release vast amounts of methane, a powerful climate pollutant that is the main component of natural gas.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

This story is part of a DeSmog series on the influence wielded by the gas lobby in Europe BERLIN, Germany — Germany’s push to achieve climate neutrality by 2045 could, by some projections , soon turn the vast network of natural gas pipelines powering the country’s homes and industry into one of Europe’s biggest stranded assets.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

A year after successfully producing biomethane from forest biomass, the GAYA platform has seemingly achieved a world first with the production of its first cubic metres of renewable gas from Solid Recovered Fuel (SRF).

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Canadian pipeline company TC Energy is aiming to expand the volume of methane gas that it ships through a long distance pipeline in the Pacific Northwest, potentially locking in higher gas use despite laws in western states that chart a path away from fossil fuels in the years ahead.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 25, 2022

The groups are represented by lawyers from Earthjustice and the Green Energy Institute at Lewis & Clark Law School. 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.

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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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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. Though it has applied for them, the company behind this operation has yet to receive the permits it is required by law to construct or operate the engines to power a cryptocurrency mine.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 28, 2022

Eight years after allowing a shale gas company to drill beneath Deer Lakes County Park for methane gas, the Pennsylvania county home to Pittsburgh has banned all industrial activity in the area’s eight other parks — despite a veto from the county executive. A “Watershed in Pennsylvania’s Narrative Around Fracking”.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

James, with the help of Tulane’s law clinic, fought to protect their constitutional right to protest in Gramercy. The law is on our side,” Lavigne told me. The current push to expand the petrochemical industry and increase LNG exports would lock in an increased demand for natural gas at a time of worsening climate change.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Such reductions require massive infrastructural changes, especially in our homes, where water and food are often warmed with what is known as “natural gas” but is better understood as methane gas, a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 26, 2021

million MCF of natural gas in 2020. nmpol #nmleg — New Mexico Oil & Gas (@NMOilAndGas) May 12, 2021. Oil and natural gas production provide more than one-third of education funding in New Mexico. New Mexico produced 366 million barrels of oil and 1.94 billion in state revenues. Well pad near Roswell, NM.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Under the law , the U.S. JBS, the world’s largest meat company — whose methane emissions exceed the combined livestock methane emissions of France, Germany, Canada and New Zealand — has also claimed to be on a net zero pathway based on offsets. The airline has pulled certain ads from the market.

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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. Credit: U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

The Majority of Direct Building Emissions Are Coming From Burning Natural Gas. While oil is still used for heat in many Northeastern states, and propane is used in rural areas around the country, gas produces the majority of direct building emissions in the U.S. Gas Infrastructure Spending Is Rising Rapidly.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 4, 2021

A few examples: The rapidly developing renewable natural gas market is putting in place a meaningful number of cash?generating The development and implementation of methane capture and carbon sequestration technologies meet a large, current need for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. About the Author.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 24, 2021

Leaking methane from oil and gas infrastructure is widespread across the European continent, reveals an investigation of more than 150 sites in seven countries. This is the first large investigation of methane leakage from oil and gas sites in Europe. CATF is based in Boston but recently launched a European office.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The curbing of emissions to reduce the concentration of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane in the environment. A greenhouse gas which is impacting climate change. Composed of carbon and hydrogen, it enters the environment through livestock, leaks from natural gas systems, landfills and waste from homes and businesses.

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R-Squared Energy

APRIL 10, 2021

But perhaps the most significant development to occur during the Bush Administration was the marriage of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”), which ushered in the shale oil and gas boom. The Bush Administration passed a number of laws aimed at accelerating the development of fracking.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 4, 2021

Only a handful of super emitters are responsible for an enormous amount of the methane pollution in the Permian basin, according to a new study. Methane is a highly potent greenhouse gas — more than 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide over a 20-year time-frame. That’s equivalent to about 5% of the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 29, 2022

However, many companies invested in the continued existence of the natural gas industry are not giving up on the effort, presumably because blue hydrogen promises to extend the life of natural gas producers. players in the blue hydrogen sphere — and natural gas is a common denominator.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The second most important target for green power is replacing fossil fuel use in buildings, especially growing use of natural gas for heating; in Vancouver, British Columbia, that causes nearly 60% of the city’s carbon pollution. The current 50,000 or so stations are to be expanded to 10 times that by 2030. And that’s crucial.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MAY 16, 2022

Under the Proposed Scenario, buildings in the state will almost completely decarbonize by 2045, with the use of fossil natural gas decreasing to a fraction of what is used today.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

For its electric business, the new net zero goal will include greenhouse gas emissions from the power it purchases for resale, from the procurement of fossil fuels used for generation, and from the electricity purchased for its own use.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

California, Oregon, and Washington have all passed laws and enacted policies that require utilities to dramatically cut carbon pollution over the next decade. Gas Growth Forecast ‘Not a Reflection of Reality’ TC Energy is relying on agreements with two Pacific Northwest utilities to demonstrate the need for GTN Xpress.

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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.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Reacting to DeSmog’s findings, Karen Sokol, a professor at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, said “the industry’s ‘climate and society friendly’ messaging is nothing new. 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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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The infrastructure bill signed into law by President Biden in November includes $9.5 fracked gas industry under the guise of “clean” blue hydrogen. Most of the world’s current hydrogen is “gray,” produced from methane without carbon capture, which is an inexpensive but dirty process. economy via what’s known as blue hydrogen.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Credit: Julie Dermansky Air Products plans to build a manufacturing complex near Burnside, a small town in Ascension Parish, that will transform the methane in natural gas into ammonia and blue hydrogen while using technology to capture up to 95 percent of the CO2 emissions created in the process. Howarth and Mark Z.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

is President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), passed into law in August 2022. Fossil fuel operations generate over one-third of all methane emissions from human activity. The IRA reports that methane emissions from oil and gas must exponentially decrease if we are to meet Net Zero Emission 2050 targets.

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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

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 wouldn’t be able to give them enough volume off of Platinum only,” he said.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Mainly, it is attributed to the resolute dedication to growing its hydrogen economy, most notably through a visionary commitment of up to $7 billion in funding from the US Department of Energy (DoE) through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The use of these chemicals also damages the environment in other ways; much of the fertilizer used in the world today is the product of methane gas, a fossil fuel, while the wide-scale use of pesticides has been linked to the damage of ecosystems and vital populations of pollinators.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 14, 2020

To recap, the carbon footprint of hydrogen production from natural gas in a steam methane reformer (SMR) is higher than from directly burning the natural gas. However, the laws of thermodynamics require that it always takes more energy to split water into hydrogen and oxygen than you can obtain from the hydrogen.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

employees away from the question of whether their bill would be adjusted to reflect the fact that they had been receiving lower quality gas over multiple periods in which the efficiency of their industrial boilers dropped by 2 to 4 percent. Paper mills are energy-intensive operations, using large quantities of natural gas to dry paper.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

In Texas, property rights are split into two categories: the land on the surface and everything underground, including oil and natural gas. In October, she invited a university researcher onto the property and discovered that several wells were leaking methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide.

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