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

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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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 18, 2024

  Solid carbon is one of the main ingredients comprising asphalt The company developed a device that breaks down natural gas molecules to produce hydrogen fuel and solid carbon. Those products each have applications for lowering greenhouse gas emissions. The other customer is in Miami but their name has not been released.

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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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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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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 20, 2023

On my lastest flight surveying fossil fuel industry sites in southwest Louisiana at the end of September, I photographed liquified natural gas (LNG) export facilities, signs of drought, fire-scarred stretches of marsh, and a salt dome site at risk of collapsing. Hyne asserts that replacing coal with natural gas is good for the climate.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

Diverse compounds are emitted by everything from motor vehicles to power plants, and include both greenhouse gases and short-lived climate pollutants – which are known to fuel global warming – as well as a host of volatile organic compounds that can lead to short- and long-term health problems in humans. World Health Organization.

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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.”. But meanwhile, the industry’s methane emissions have continued to rapidly rise.

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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

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, Federal Minister of Natural Resources Jonathan Wilkinson, and local government officials, including Edmonton Mayor Amarjeet Sohi, were all there to celebrate Alberta’s role in what was frequently referred to by panelists as the “energy of the future, and today.”. The problems don’t stop there.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

After the Army Corps of Engineers awarded key permits for the MBSD project on December 19, 2022 , two nonprofit organizations entrusted with funds meant to reverse environmental damage caused by the 2010 BP oil spill made funding available for the project. Both are reliant on a steady stream of cheap natural gas.

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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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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Join me on this quest in which we start by looking into how the Arctic is doing, before making an overview of predictions on ‘when everything is gone’ by various renowned organizations. When there is no sea ice and no continental glaciers whatsoever on the planet, it is commonly referred to as greenhouse Earth. Lot’s of Methane.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Refer to Appendix A for more details on these shares of expenditures. Such use of funds could actually increase emissions relative to projections as the resulting reduction in energy costs for lower income households would increase the quantity they consume. Displaced worker support.

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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. Who Writes the Bills That Become Law?

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2022

The complex contains a circuit board of pipes and steel tanks that cough out steam, flames and toxic substances as it creates the building blocks for plastic from natural gas liquids. Richardson referred questions about the events to a spokesperson for Exxon Mobil, the day-to-day operator of the facility.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2024

Canada is on the path to detonating the world’s sixth largest “carbon bomb” thanks to new and planned liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facilities on the northwest coast of British Columbia, an international climate researcher is warning. John containing potentially 449 trillion cubic feet of gas. government last year.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 15, 2023

They live in Plaquemines Parish a few hundred feet from a massive liquified natural gas (LNG) export terminal being built by Venture Global and the Gator Express pipeline, which will transport natural gas under high pressure to the facility.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

A natural gas demonstration plant in Texas tests carbon capture technology. Climate and environmental justice organizations , some climate and energy experts, and some lawmakers, are speaking out against the false promise of CCS. Credit: NET Power , CC BY-SA 4.0 There is mounting evidence, however, that CCS is ineffective.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2021

The update was sparked by decades old changes in drilling technology already used in an area that gained notoriety for having one of the largest methane hot spots on the planet — because of leaking oil and gas wells. Historically in the northern bands, operators drilled primarily for natural gas. is still in transition.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 7, 2023

Austin Wall was attending an environmental law conference at the University of Tennessee not long ago when, during a discussion of natural gas pipeline projects, a map appeared on the screen and gave him a surprise. The favoritism mirrors a regional trend as Tennessee doubles down on natural gas.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 8, 2023

Austin Wall was attending an environmental law conference at the University of Tennessee not long ago when, during a discussion of natural gas pipeline projects, a map appeared on the screen and gave him a surprise. The favoritism mirrors a regional trend as Tennessee doubles down on natural gas.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

Droz, who once worked at General Electric and describes himself as an “independent physicist,” has links to some of the key organs of the Right. The think tank he was referring to is the Caesar Rodney Institute, the Delaware affiliate of the State Policy Network, where Stevenson works. In 2019, Ohioans weathered a $9.5

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 15, 2020

Here is a comprehensive summary of references to climate change from the CNN/Des Moines Register Democratic debate at Drake University on January 14th 2020. Here are the candidates references to climate change in the order that they appeared during the debate. Elizabeth Warren, former Vice President Joe Biden, Vermont Sen.

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