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The Battle to Stop Air Products’ Carbon Capture Project at Lake Maurepas Grows

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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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A Push to Expedite Permits Fueled by Disaster Capitalism Threatens to Fastrack the Climate Crisis

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This is because the polluted fresh water entering the salt water environment will kill off most of the brown shrimp and oysters, as well as most of the Bottlenose dolphin that live there. Where the river’s polluted water enters the Gulf there is rapid land loss and a growing dead zone. Lennox Yearwood Jr.

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Biden’s Call to Increase LNG Export Capacity on Gulf Coast is Tantamount To Sarah Palin’s Call to ‘Drill Baby Drill’ According to Environmental Advocates

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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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? Credibility for carbon credit claims #157

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⚡ Turn2x , a Munich, Germany-based RNG from methanation producer, raised $5M in Seed funding from LEA Partners, Verve Ventures, and First Momentum Ventures. 🐄 Dalan Animal Health , an Athens, GA-based bee vaccine developer, raised $5M in Seed funding from Prime Movers Lab and At One Ventures.

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The Uncertain Future of Gas Exports on Louisiana’s Vanishing Coastline

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is exporting natural gas, and importing price volatility.” In 2022, American consumers spent $269 billion on natural gas supplies, up sharply from $150 billion in 2019, according to the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). is exporting natural gas, and importing price volatility.”

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Louisiana Communities Already Vulnerable to the Climate Crisis Worry That the Expansion of the LNG Export Industry Could Be Catastrophic

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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. Travis Dardar on his shrimp boat temporarily docked at the Isle de Jean Charles.

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Online Event - VERGE Energy Conference

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Conference New Green Revolution: How to Cut Pollution without Sacrificing Yields (Panel Discussion): Increasing yields often means using more fertilizer, pesticides and herbicides. But more chemicals generally means more greenhouse gas emissions and other pollution. Because you never forget your first.