CleanTX

MARCH 20, 2019

Joint effort focuses on developing technologies and management practices to accelerate reductions of methane emissions across the global oil and gas industry. The agreement enables joint collaboration on projects that test technologies and emerging strategies to continue to improve methane management.

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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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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2020

It is energy-efficient, abundant and an environmentally friendly alternative to natural gas. Clean hydrogen could cut greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel by up to 34 percent, reported Bloomberg New Energy Finance. . And it could be cheaper than producing hydrogen from natural gas.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2024

Canada’s advertising regulator has determined that ads claiming liquified natural gas (LNG) will lower emissions are inaccurate, misleading, and distort scientific data. Founded in 1994, CAPE is a physician-directed non-profit organization that describes itself as having worked “to secure human health by protecting the planet.”

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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

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Officials from one corporation, Venture Global, repeatedly told government regulators that CCS was incompatible with the company’s plans to build three massive new liquified natural gas export terminals in south Louisiana. exporters of liquified natural gas. The company is poised to be one of the largest U.S.

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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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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

This exploration into the realm of biomass energy untangles the complexities and delves into its multifaceted nature, uncovering the potential of plant-based and waste-derived materials as alternative sources of power. Biomass energy harnesses organic matter, including wood, agricultural crops, and waste by-products, as fuel.

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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. No-till and organic farming fall under the banner of regenerative agriculture, as well as the use of cover crops.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

Coordinated with Clean Creatives, a climate campaign meant to pressure the advertising industry, and the nonprofit Union of Concerned Scientists, the letter was organized and signed by a group of leading scientists including Jason Box, Astrid Caldas, Peter Gleick, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Michael Mann, Kate Marvel, and Katharine Wilkinson.

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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. ” Industry in West Eugene.

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Grist

MARCH 8, 2021

The industry accounts for nearly 3 percent of annual global greenhouse gas emissions, a number that’s expected to rise if ships keep using the same dirty fuels, according to the International Maritime Organization, or IMO, the United Nations body that regulates the industry. Yet it’s not exactly a climate win.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Still, the ambitious-sounding new standards only cover a fraction of Barclay’s overall oil and gas lending. Starting in January 2026, it also will only finance energy companies that can demonstrate alignment with net-zero targets, including reductions to methane emissions and “non-essential” venting and flaring of natural gas.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Meat and dairy firms in particular are coming under increasing scrutiny due to pollution from livestock, which emits around a third of the global output of methane, a short-lived greenhouse gas identified as the quickest route to slowing global heating. It also contributes roughly two percent of all global greenhouse gas emissions.

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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

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. The Internal Revenue Service defines a marginal, or low-producing, natural gas well to be one that generates less than 90,000 cubic feet per day.

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Business Green

AUGUST 14, 2020

The options include biodiesel, renewable electricity, renewable natural gas, solar thermal, geothermal, thermal storage and hydrogen. Making natural gas renewable. But for now, renewable natural gas (RNG) may offer a fix soonest. Today, RNG is held back in part by a Catch-22 financial trap. The first step?

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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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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Under this concept, the EU by 2030 would have in place 40 gigawatts of domestic renewable hydrogen electrolyzer capacity and import a further 40 GW from electrolyzers in neighboring areas, among them the deserts of North Africa, via revamped versions of the natural-gas pipelines that already connect to Europe.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In February 2021, German agribusiness giant BASF hosted a virtual wine tasting, a seemingly cozy affair swirling glasses of Portugal’s finest in front of a webcam debating the future of EU agricultural policies. Invited to the event was a small group of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs).

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GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

Increasingly, the stars are aligning for industrial emissions to take center stage, for three key reasons: demand for clean solutions is growing; technologies are maturing; and the conditions for policy solutions are ripe. Capturing methane emissions from dairies, landfills and wastewater treatment facilities holds great promise.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

She didn’t foresee, however, the high energy bills that would result from cranking up the gas heater when her apartment would turn into an icebox in the winter. The pollution from using a gas heater was also a major concern. So she got to it. She hired a contractor to test the apartment’s energy efficiency.

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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.

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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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EDF + Business

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Dear Colleagues, The EDF team recently returned from COP28 , which brought important progress including a pledge by 50 oil and gas companies to cut methane emissions up to 80-90% (see EDF’s statement ) and the launch of the Dairy Methane Action Alliance. Read on for key policy developments and advocacy opportunities in the U.S.,

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

“This is just one more way the health of residents, especially those who are vulnerable, can be compromised by oil and gas production,” Alison L. We find it doesn’t matter — where people are extracting oil and gas resources, we’re still seeing an impact on infant health,” Willis said last year.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

It is energy-efficient, abundant and an environmentally friendly alternative to natural gas. Clean hydrogen could cut greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel by up to 34 per cent, reported Bloomberg New Energy Finance. And it could be cheaper than producing hydrogen from natural gas.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 19, 2023

Danielle Smith often provided contradictory messaging or phrases, such as “sustainable export of fossil fuel resources,” “clean natural gas,” and expressed her belief that Alberta could increase fossil fuel production while simultaneously cutting emissions.

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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. I’d like my life back.”

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

With this in mind, in this Green Business Bureau article, we detail how the IRA can support your organization’s transition to clean energy, helping you save money on your energy bills, to reframe today’s challenges as opportunities. Fossil fuel operations generate over one-third of all methane emissions from human activity.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 17, 2024

The organization is developing rigorous testing protocols to ensure that these powertrains not only meet but exceed current safety regulations. Its success is predicated on the synchronized alignment of policy-makers, industry stakeholders, and consumers.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 15, 2020

It is energy-efficient, abundant and an environmentally friendly alternative to natural gas. Clean hydrogen could cut greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel by up to 34 percent, reported Bloomberg New Energy Finance. And it could be cheaper than producing hydrogen from natural gas.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2021

Around 70 million barrels of hydrocarbons are lost yearly due to evaporation of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) during loading, storage and transportation of crude oil on ships. VOCs are a large group of organic compounds. Several light hydrocarbons, such as methane, ethane and propane, are VOCs. billion USD annually.

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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

JULY 5, 2022

During it, Kenney announced $50 million in government funding towards a new Hydrogen Centre of Excellence in Alberta — an organization which will, “inform the public about the scopes, benefits and deployment of a hydrogen economy in Alberta.” Nevertheless, examples of the energy industry’s overly optimistic hype on hydrogen abound.

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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

MAY 20, 2022

Proposed by New Fortress Energy (NFE), the planned facility will be a floating offshore export terminal that would treat, liquefy, and store methane gas before loading it onto ships headed abroad. While natural gas burns cleaner than coal, the advantage of using it can be negated by the methane emitted in its production and transport.

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