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Is Natural Gas the New Coal?

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 7 mins At a recent natural gas industry conference in Houston, Woodside Petroleum CEO Peter Coleman warned his colleagues to avoid the fate of another fossil fuel, according to trade publication Natural Gas Intelligence. “ Tags: methane natural gas fracking finances UN Climate Summit ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM)

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As Risky Finances Alienate Investors, Fracking Companies Look to Retirement Funds for Cash

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 9 mins A year ago, Chesapeake Energy, at one time the nation’s largest natural gas producer, announced it was selling off its Ohio Utica shale drilling rights in a $2 billion deal with a little-known private company based in Houston, Texas, Encino Acquisition Partners.

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Canada Steps Up Surveillance of Indigenous Peoples To Push Fossil Fuel Pipelines Forward

DeSmogBlog

The Gidimt’en clan of the Wet’suwet’en has also occupied their traditional territory, building permanent homes and spiritual buildings in a heavily forested area south of the small town of Houston. Earlier this year, Trans Mountain said the price tag could reach C$21.4 Since then, costs have exploded to new heights.

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The landmark trial that could determine who pays to rid America’s drinking water of PFAS

Grist

Preliminary estimates suggest that the price tag on filtering forever chemicals out of America’s drinking water is more than $3.8 Mitchell, from the Baylor School of Medicine in Houston. billion per year. If the levels are high and widespread,” he said, “we could have a serious problem.”

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The climate crisis is a crime story

Renewable Energy World

It has disproportionately affected already marginalized communities around the world, from farmers in coastal Bangladesh, where the fast-rising seas are salting the soil and slashing rice yields, to low-income residents of Houston, Chicago and other cities, whose neighborhoods suffer higher temperatures than prosperous areas across town.

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Greenpeace Shuts Down Houston Ship Channel to Protest Oil Exports as Democratic Candidates Arrive in Texas for Debate

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 4 mins Today, as Democratic presidential contenders arrive for a major debate this evening in Houston, 22 activists from Greenpeace sought to shut down what they called the country’s “largest fossil fuel thoroughfare,” the Houston Ship Channel, by rappelling from the Fred Hartman Bridge in Baytown, Texas.

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? Spooky season for clean energy stocks #171

Climate Tech VC

  Vertien , a Houston-TX-based energy research firm, raised $85M for their first energy investment fund that invests in sustainable solutions with minimal environmental impact.    New Funds Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners , a Copenhagen, Denmark-based investment firm, raised $2.1B across two new energy funds.