DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2022

On November 29, Coterra Energy and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) signed a consent order allowing the operator, one of the largest natural gas producers in the state, to drill laterally beneath an area that has been mostly fracking-free since 19 households found methane in their water in 2008 and 2009.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2022

The head of FTI’s Strategic Communications for the Americas is a man named Brian Kennedy, who was the communications strategist for drilling contractor Transocean, which owned the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig that exploded in 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico. The campaigns waged by FTI for its fossil fuel clients are extensive and wide-ranging.

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Business Green

MAY 4, 2020

To keep temperature increases under that critical threshold, carbon emissions must be halved by the end of the decade compared to 2010 levels, according to the analysts, and all greenhouse gas emissions cut by roughly 40 per cent in the same time frame. The five broad, interconnected "shifts" that could steer the globe on to a 1.5-degree

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Shell, which was identified as the second worst offender in the study, currently channels 90 percent of its long-term investments into fossil fuels, according to recent analysis, and between 2010 and 2018, it was reported to have dedicated just 1 percent of its investments to sources of low-carbon energy such as wind and solar.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Five years later, Friedman would dismiss similar concerns expressed by Cliff Crawford, then NW Natural’s manager of system operations. In an email chain forwarded to Friedman by Crawford in 2010, Dye and a co-worker unsuccessfully attempted to divert West Linn Paper Co.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

million square kilometers below the 1981 to 2010 average. Lot’s of Methane. Some of you might already be aware of the ticking time bomb called methane. This ‘active ingredient’ in natural gas, is up to 28 to 84 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas. Further Viewing.

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Energy Innovation

MAY 9, 2022

compared existing rooftop solar policies and solar adopter income from 2010 to 2018 in more than 70 percent of the U.S. The connected ground-source heat pumps eliminate methane emissions from gas combustion and offer a low-carbon heating and cooling option. Last year, Shaughnessy et al. residential solar market. Gamarro, J.E.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

At this ag-ed powerhouse, popular courses include Food Systems and Intro to Sustainable Agriculture, and researchers are working to enhance carbon sequestration through crushed-rock soil amendments and devising seaweed-based cattle feed amendments to slash dairy cows’ methane emissions. within the next five to 10 years. How cool is that?

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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

AUGUST 28, 2021

He explained if a climate emergency was declared, the federal government could act on the nationwide issue of methane emissions, including leaks from abandoned oil and gas wells and from deliberate flaring at industrial sites. Bcf/d,” NatGasWeather said,” trade publication Natural Gas Intelligence reported on Friday.

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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

JULY 18, 2021

First, adding carbon capture equipment to existing coal or natural gas power plants, for example, fundamentally adds costs — and today, those fuels are already under significant cost pressure as the price of renewable energy continues to fall. “The For example, utility Southern Company sank $7.5

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 9, 2022

Oregon’s new Climate Protection Program (CPP) mandates an emissions cap for covered natural gas and transportation fuels rather than specific policy actions. NDC of 50 to 52 percent below 2010 emissions by 2030. [3] 3] “Oregon Greenhouse Gas Sector-Based Inventory Data,” Oregon DEQ, n.d., NDC Scenario.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

"As coal is phased out from our generation profile, it will be replaced with zero-carbon resources and prudent investments in cleaner natural gas," Good said, according to a transcript summary of the call. GW of capacity since 2010, Good said. Duke has retired 56 coal units for a total of 7.5

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

For more on the climate implications of CCS, see DeSmog’s accompanying news analysis: How Carbon Capture And Storage Projects Are Driving New Oil and Gas Extraction Globally. Terrell Natural Gas Processing Plant (“Val Verde”) Operator: Occidental Petroleum, 1972-present Location: Southeast of Ft. What CCS Projects Promise.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Natural gas’s notorious price volatility has been making a comeback — in a big way. The UK is experiencing a natural gas price surge so severe that the government stepped in to prevent a cascade down the supply chain that threatened to create food shortages. In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Ardern is being watched closely : Her administration has been criticized for being lenient on reducing biogenic methane from agricultural production — notably dairy cattle and sheep — which accounts for almost half of New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions and roughly 6.6 percent of its GDP.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 1, 2021

In June, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) narrowly approved the construction of a new 42” diameter gas pipeline that will connect shale wells in Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Ohio to a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on the Gulf Coast, carrying over a billion cubic feet of fracked gas to be transported overseas every day.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

When InvestigateWest launched the Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia series in January 2021, the latest official data showed that emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases had risen steadily from 2012 to 2018, and the region wasn’t on track to make big cuts this decade. “We

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

One said that just as chemical dispersants had intensified the environmental damage from the 2010 Gulf oil spill, so, too, could offshore wind prove to be a cure worse than the disease of climate change. In the storm’s aftermath, the city came out in staunch opposition to a proposed liquefied natural gas terminal off its coastline.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2021

As larger players like BP and Shell offload these aging assets, a new set of oil and gas producers – nearly a third of which are private companies – are taking hold of the UK’s energy ‘crown jewel’.

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