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Indigenous Youth Rally Calls on Biden to Cancel Line 3 and Dakota Access Pipelines

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2021

But a day later, Indigenous youth and organizers opposing the Line 3 and Dakota Access pipelines rallied in front of the White House against the two fossil fuel pipelines. Tags: Enbridge Line 3 pipeline Dakota Access Pipeline Indigenous Environmental Network Biden administration

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Whistleblower Claims Dangerous Defects in Pipeline for Shell’s Pennsylvania Plastics Plant

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 18, 2021

Read time: 7 mins A whistleblower has alleged that the Falcon pipeline — a 98-mile-long fossil fuel pipeline that will soon feed Shell’s massive plastics manufacturing site under construction in western Pennsylvania — was built with defective protection against corrosion. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration

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State Backers of Anti-Protest Bills Received Campaign Funding from Oil and Gas Industry, Report Finds

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Read time: 9 mins Politicians responsible for drafting laws criminalizing pipeline protests in Louisiana, West Virginia, and Minnesota did so after receiving significant funding from the fossil fuel industry, according to a new report by the Institute for Policy Studies , a progressive think tank based in Washington, D.C.

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Fossil Freeze: Deadly Texas Catastrophe Shows How Natural Gas Systems Can Fail when Demand Spikes

DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Tags: texas Rick Perry natural gas pipelines extreme weather Read time: 16 mins As temperatures across Texas plunged in mid-February, memes showing frozen wind turbines — some including misleading photos from Europe in 2015 — spread rapidly on social media.

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Court Rules Bayou Bridge Pipeline 'Trampled' Rights of Louisiana Landowners

DeSmogBlog

JULY 17, 2020

Read time: 4 mins A Louisiana state appeals court has ruled that the Bayou Bridge Pipeline Company illegally “trampled” on the rights of landowners by starting pipeline construction without the landowners’ permission. The pipeline company must pay the landowners $10,000 each plus attorneys fees. Well, we did.

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As Enbridge Races to Build Line 3 Pipeline, Resistance Ramps Up in the Courts and On the Ground

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 9, 2021

They joined in song , protesting a controversial tar sands oil pipeline called Line 3 , which is currently being constructed through northern Minnesota and traditional Anishinaabe lands. Ojibwe tribes have helped spearhead the opposition to this pipeline, alongside Indigenous and environmental groups.

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Canada’s Trans Mountain Pipeline Inches Forward, But Opposition Intensifies

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 14, 2020

It was dark and the vehicles drove through deep snow, smashing through wooden signs and barriers that guarded the village of tiny houses, erected in the path of a long-distance oil pipeline that runs from Alberta to the Pacific Coast. .

The Bakken Boom Goes Bust With No Money to Clean up the Mess

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 8, 2020

Read time: 12 mins More than a decade ago, fracking took off in the Bakken shale of North Dakota and Montana, but the oil rush that followed has resulted in major environmental damage , risky oil transportation without regulation , pipeline permitting issues, and failure to produce profits.

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Energy Transfer Launches Appeals Following Court Order to Shut Down Dakota Access Pipeline

DeSmogBlog

JULY 9, 2020

Read time: 8 mins On Monday, July 6, a federal judge ordered the shutdown of the Dakota Access pipeline ( DAPL ) by August 5. The move follows a March judgment that ordered the pipeline to undergo a more thorough environmental review. Tags: Dakota Access Pipeline energy transfer oil pipelines Standing Rock

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Hurricane Delta Compounds Oil Pollution Left By Hurricane Laura in Louisiana’s Wetlands

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 16, 2020

area packed with oil and gas wells, pipelines, and rigs. Tags: Hurricane Delta Read time: 7 mins Hurricane Delta made landfall in Creole. Louisiana, on October 9, 13 miles east of where Hurricane Laura struck 43 days before. It touched down in an.

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Federal Judge Tosses Dakota Access Pipeline Permits, Orders Full Environmental Review

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 25, 2020

Read time: 6 mins Today, a federal judge tossed out federal permits for the Dakota Access pipeline ( DAPL ), built to carry over half a million barrels of Bakken crude oil a day from North Dakota, and ordered the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to conduct a full environmental review of the pipeline project. District Judge James E.

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Two Major Pacific Northwest Fossil Fuel Projects Dealt Massive Setbacks In One Day

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 20, 2021

On President Donald Trump’s last full day in office, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ( FERC ) met with a packed agenda , making key decisions on multiple pipeline projects and other matters affecting electricity markets. Tags: Jordan Cove LNG Kalama methanol federal energy regulatory commission (FERC)

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Louisiana Landowners Appeal Bayou Bridge Pipeline's Right to Seize Their Land After Trespassing

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 9, 2020

Read time: 3 mins A Louisiana appeals court heard oral arguments Wednesday, January 8 in a case brought by Louisiana landowners against the Bayou Bridge Pipeline Company that illegally trespassed and began pipeline construction without landowners’ consent.

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Shell's Falcon Pipeline Dogged by Issues with Drilling and Permit Uncertainty During Pandemic

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 15, 2020

Read time: 17 mins Over the past few months, amid the COVID -19 pandemic and stay-at-home orders, Shell Pipeline Company has pressed onward with the construction of a 97-mile pipeline running through Ohio and western Pennsylvania. FracTracker Alliance

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'Unplanned Gas Release' at Controversial Gas Facility in Weymouth, South of Boston

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Weymouth's compressor station, once open, would keep gas pumping through a regional pipeline system, but even before this gas leak, its road to get there has been bumpy, with outcries over its air pollution permit and health concerns from the surrounding community.

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When Can Pipelines Take Private Land? Jordan Cove LNG Project a Test for Eminent Domain

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

After calling around, they soon found out that a company wanted to build a liquefied natural gas ( LNG ) import terminal in Coos Bay on the Oregon coast, and run a natural gas pipeline to California — and Evans’ land was in the way. If the company’s plans worked out, the pipeline would travel right through their property.

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Regulators Discuss LNG-by-Rail Safety Concerns — After Approving New Rule To Allow Transporting LNG by Rail

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2021

Read time: 12 mins New regulations were announced by the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration ( PHMSA ) in July 2020 allowing the transportation of liquefied natural gas ( LNG ) by rail. Tags: LNG By Rail Liquefied Natural Gas PHMSA That same month, PHMSA released the interim report for its LNG -by-rail task force.

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Bayou Bridge Pipeline Construction Mess Poses Major Risk to Atchafalaya Basin

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Read time: 6 mins “ It is a crime against nature,” Jody Meche, president of the Louisiana Crawfish Producers Association-West, said while scanning the Bayou Bridge pipeline right-of-way on the west side of the Atchafalaya Basin, the country’s largest river swamp in a designated National Heritage Area. .

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Return of the Bomb Trains

DeSmogBlog

JULY 12, 2020

Read time: 7 mins On July 6th Reuters published an article on the potential for a resurgence of moving crude oil from the Bakken region of North Dakota across the country by rail, due to a judge’s decision to shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline over permit issues. Tags: Bakken Bomb Trains oil trains

Massachusetts Locals Accuse Town Mayor Of ‘Colluding’ With Enbridge Over Controversial Natural Gas Project

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Read time: 13 mins Residents of Weymouth, Massachusetts, are raising questions about a deal made between the city and multi-billion dollar Canadian energy pipeline company Enbridge, Inc., Tags: Weymouth compressor station Enbridge Atlantic Bridge PHMSA conflict of interest FRRACS

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Global Push for LNG Creates 'Gas Bubble' That Could Bust

DeSmogBlog

JULY 13, 2020

The rail blockades targeted an entirely separate fossil fuel project — TC Energy’s Coastal GasLink pipeline, which would cross unceded Wet’suwet’en territory. Tags: LNG Wet'suwet'en Coastal GasLink pipeline US LNG Exports American Petroleum Institute

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Cheap Renewables Could Make 90% of Proposed Gas Power Plants — and Many Pipelines — Obsolete by 2035

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Tags: Natural Gas Power Plants natural gas pipelines federal energy regulatory commission (FERC) Read time: 12 mins There’s one big reason that analysts say America’s electrical power should soon run on clean energy sources like wind and solar rather than fossil fuels like coal and natural gas: your power bill.

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Defying Climate Goals, New York Approves Rate Hike to Pay for New Natural Gas Infrastructure

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2020

billion over the next three years to help Consolidated Edison, or Con Ed, pay for new natural gas pipelines and infrastructure. Tags: new york stranded assets Con Ed natural gas methane

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Campaigners Demand Court Shuts Down Ecuador’s Oil Pipelines After Spill

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 12, 2020

The Kichwa and Shuar tribes launched a lawsuit against the government and state-owned oil company Petroecuador in April after two pipelines ruptured. Tags: Petroecuador Amazon Frontlines

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Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, Some Pipeline Projects Push Forward While Others Falter Nationwide

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2020

Read time: 12 mins Last Friday, the Iowa Utilities Board issued an order that would allow the Dakota Access pipeline ( DAPL ) to double the amount of oil that flows through the state from 550,000 barrels a day to 1.1 million barrels a day. District Judge James E.

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Another Virtual Pipeline Truck Carrying Fracked Gas Crashes in New York. Local Climate Advocates Demand Urgent Action

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

a “Virtual Pipeline” truck carrying compressed natural gas mined from the Marcellus Shale crashed on Interstate 88 near Binghamton, New York, after the vehicle swerved to avoid deer, flipped over, and fatally ejected 52-year-old driver Jeffrey Lind. Read time: 6 mins On Monday around 1:00 a.m.,

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Explosions in Three States Highlight Dangers of Aging Fossil Fuel Infrastructure

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 6, 2019

Read time: 7 mins On August 1, for the third time in as many years, Enbridge's Texas Eastern Transmission gas pipeline exploded. Coulter, whose house was within 600 feet of the pipeline, suffered third-degree burns on her arms. “It Flames towered 300 feet high when the 30-inch diameter pipe ruptured at 1 a.m.

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Did North Dakota Regulators Hide an Oil and Gas Industry Spill Larger Than Exxon Valdez?

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 19, 2019

Read time: 15 mins In July 2015 workers at the Garden Creek I Gas Processing Plant, in Watford City, North Dakota, noticed a leak in a pipeline and reported a spill to the North Dakota Department of Health that remains officially listed as 10 gallons, the size of two bottled water delivery jugs.

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Pipeline Permit Scandal Highlights Confusion Amid Push to Build Plastics Plants

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 30, 2019

But with the arrival of Shell and its $6 billion plastics manufacturing plant, currently under construction in Beaver County, the conservation district assumed more serious responsibilities than throwing a maple syrup festival — including permitting the fossil fuel pipelines feeding the massive plastics complex.

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Blame Sunspots: Climate Science Denial Continues at Shale Gas Pipeline Industry Conference

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Despite this widespread scientific agreement, shale pipeline executives attending this year’s Marcellus Utica Midstream conference last week in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, siteheard a very different message on the climate. Tags: Mark Mathis clear energy alliance Marcellus shale climate science denial

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With Prospects Souring for Oregon Gas Terminal, an Obscure Group Raises Pressure for State Approval

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 18, 2020

Tags: Jordan Cove LNG Pacific Connector Pipeline Western States and Tribal Nations Natural Gas Initiative Consumer Energy Alliance Pembina hbw resources federal energy regulatory commission (FERC) “We’re going to need as many jobs as we can get, and very soon.”. “

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After Second Deadly Crash, Regulators Say Trucks Leaking Fracked Gas Cargo Are Fine

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Read time: 6 mins Last Friday, October 11, a “Virtual Pipeline” truck carrying compressed natural gas crashed on a highway in Orange, Massachusetts, killing the driver, leaking the potent greenhouse gas methane into the atmosphere, and leading local authorities to evacuate nearby residents. . “

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Massachusetts Lawmakers Step Up Pressure on Enbridge to Scrap Controversial Gas Compressor Station

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Compressor stations, which propel natural gas through pipelines, emit a variety of pollutants and are usually built in rural areas. Tags: Weymouth compressor station Enbridge

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Whistle-blower Reveals Flawed Construction at North Dakota Gas Plants Where Massive Spill Was Downplayed

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Both plants process natural gas brought via pipeline from Bakken wells and are run by the Oklahoma-based oil and gas service company, ONEOK Partners. “ Tags: North Dakota Bakken Shale natural gas condensate Safety whistleblower ONEOK North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality history had occurred.

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Climate Justice and Indigenous Rights Advocates Rally in Solidarity With Wet'suwet'en People as RCMP Continue Raids

DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Tags: British Columbia Coastal GasLink indigenous communities Wet'suwet'en RCMP

Open water data platform launched in Britain

Smart Energy International

JANUARY 11, 2024

Data is available via a search function on the Stream platform – there isn’t a category listing so far – with the first use case tags including ‘Domestic tap water quality’, ‘Utility mapping’ and ‘Water quality parameters’.

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GM teases electric Chevy Equinox and Blazer

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OCTOBER 22, 2021

A $30k price tag, just about 5 grand above the current MSRP of the legacy Equinox, would be an eye-opener. “We More EVs built on the Ultium platform are definitely in the pipeline. This Chevy will be a high-volume player when it arrives priced at approximately $30,000.”.

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7 European Companies Looking to Go Big in American Clean Power in 2020

GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 18, 2019

gigawatt pipeline. pipeline, suggest Enel's U.S. Its North America pipeline of projects in development or construction now stands at 3 gigawatts. RWE has a pipeline in excess of 10 gigawatts, and with the E.On The Danish offshore wind giant laid bare the scale of its U.S. It’s setting aside €4.7 In the U.S.,

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

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 17, 2022

Canadian police and security forces have intensified their surveillance and harassment of Indigenous people in recent months in an effort to clear the way for the construction of two long-distance oil and gas pipelines in British Columbia, earning the condemnation of international human rights observers. Credit: Gidimt’en Checkpoint.

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Snapshots of our World: Energy: Fossil Fuels + Iron Rivers + Current Mystery

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JANUARY 11, 2024

All of yesterday’s growth and fun came with a steep price tag. And the explosion of the Nord Stream pipelines in September 2022 cut off Europe’s major supply of natural gas sourced from the Russian fossil fuel behemoth. Fossil fuels built life as we know it, but we also know it can’t last forever.

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Vineyard Wind Prevails as Connecticut Chooses 804MW Offshore Wind Project

GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Vineyard's win adds another huge project to the pipeline underway in waters in the northeastern U.S., ” Vineyard Wind, which competed against rival development groups backed by Ørsted and Shell in the solicitation, will now have the opportunity to negotiate a final contract with Connecticut’s two electric utilities.

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Government Defends Praising Tar Sands Industry Figures as COP26 ‘Climate Champions’

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MAY 10, 2021

TAG), the largest natural gas transporter in Brazil. Hatch, employer of another of the “Climate Champions” listed, provides services to mining and oil and gas companies, including expertise on pipelines , and expanded its oil and gas portfolio in 2019 by buying Upside Engineering.

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Duke Energy Lays Out Its Long-Term Clean Energy Pathways — and Price Tags

GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Despite Duke's decision to abandon the Atlantic Coast Pipeline project, which raises questions about how it will get the natural-gas supplies it is counting on, the company is still planning to build new gas plants over the next 15 years under most of its scenarios. ” Looking at the price tags.

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Oil Lobby’s Carbon Capture Solution Hasn’t Consulted Local Nation, Chief Says

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The project aims to transport carbon dioxide over a 400 kilometer long network of pipelines from about 20 oil sands production facilities in Northern Alberta, to a new storage facility in the region of Cold Lake, Alberta. billion (CAD) price tag by 2030 to fund the project. The project has yet to apply for regulatory approval.

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Indigenous Youth Rally Calls on Biden to Cancel Line 3 and Dakota Access Pipelines

Whistleblower Claims Dangerous Defects in Pipeline for Shell’s Pennsylvania Plastics Plant

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State Backers of Anti-Protest Bills Received Campaign Funding from Oil and Gas Industry, Report Finds

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Fossil Freeze: Deadly Texas Catastrophe Shows How Natural Gas Systems Can Fail when Demand Spikes

Court Rules Bayou Bridge Pipeline 'Trampled' Rights of Louisiana Landowners

As Enbridge Races to Build Line 3 Pipeline, Resistance Ramps Up in the Courts and On the Ground

Canada’s Trans Mountain Pipeline Inches Forward, But Opposition Intensifies

The Bakken Boom Goes Bust With No Money to Clean up the Mess

Energy Transfer Launches Appeals Following Court Order to Shut Down Dakota Access Pipeline

Hurricane Delta Compounds Oil Pollution Left By Hurricane Laura in Louisiana’s Wetlands

Federal Judge Tosses Dakota Access Pipeline Permits, Orders Full Environmental Review

Two Major Pacific Northwest Fossil Fuel Projects Dealt Massive Setbacks In One Day

Louisiana Landowners Appeal Bayou Bridge Pipeline's Right to Seize Their Land After Trespassing

Shell's Falcon Pipeline Dogged by Issues with Drilling and Permit Uncertainty During Pandemic

'Unplanned Gas Release' at Controversial Gas Facility in Weymouth, South of Boston

When Can Pipelines Take Private Land? Jordan Cove LNG Project a Test for Eminent Domain

Regulators Discuss LNG-by-Rail Safety Concerns — After Approving New Rule To Allow Transporting LNG by Rail

Bayou Bridge Pipeline Construction Mess Poses Major Risk to Atchafalaya Basin

Return of the Bomb Trains

Massachusetts Locals Accuse Town Mayor Of ‘Colluding’ With Enbridge Over Controversial Natural Gas Project

Global Push for LNG Creates 'Gas Bubble' That Could Bust

Cheap Renewables Could Make 90% of Proposed Gas Power Plants — and Many Pipelines — Obsolete by 2035

Defying Climate Goals, New York Approves Rate Hike to Pay for New Natural Gas Infrastructure

Campaigners Demand Court Shuts Down Ecuador’s Oil Pipelines After Spill

Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, Some Pipeline Projects Push Forward While Others Falter Nationwide

Another Virtual Pipeline Truck Carrying Fracked Gas Crashes in New York. Local Climate Advocates Demand Urgent Action

Explosions in Three States Highlight Dangers of Aging Fossil Fuel Infrastructure

Did North Dakota Regulators Hide an Oil and Gas Industry Spill Larger Than Exxon Valdez?

Pipeline Permit Scandal Highlights Confusion Amid Push to Build Plastics Plants

Blame Sunspots: Climate Science Denial Continues at Shale Gas Pipeline Industry Conference

With Prospects Souring for Oregon Gas Terminal, an Obscure Group Raises Pressure for State Approval

After Second Deadly Crash, Regulators Say Trucks Leaking Fracked Gas Cargo Are Fine

Massachusetts Lawmakers Step Up Pressure on Enbridge to Scrap Controversial Gas Compressor Station

Whistle-blower Reveals Flawed Construction at North Dakota Gas Plants Where Massive Spill Was Downplayed

Climate Justice and Indigenous Rights Advocates Rally in Solidarity With Wet'suwet'en People as RCMP Continue Raids

Open water data platform launched in Britain

GM teases electric Chevy Equinox and Blazer

7 European Companies Looking to Go Big in American Clean Power in 2020

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

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Vineyard Wind Prevails as Connecticut Chooses 804MW Offshore Wind Project

Government Defends Praising Tar Sands Industry Figures as COP26 ‘Climate Champions’

Duke Energy Lays Out Its Long-Term Clean Energy Pathways — and Price Tags

Oil Lobby’s Carbon Capture Solution Hasn’t Consulted Local Nation, Chief Says

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