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

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

MAY 12, 2023

In an effort to gain federal approval for a natural gas storage project in south Louisiana, Sempra LNG lobbyists crafted letters for Louisiana elected officials to send to federal regulators in support of the project. billion cubic feet of natural gas. billion cubic feet of natural gas.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in her Pennsylvania hometown, she will be facing off against some of the most powerful fossil fuel interests in the United States. LNG boom threatens to release vast amounts of methane, a powerful climate pollutant that is the main component of natural gas.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

A report from Rainforest Action Network found that Barclays was the European Union’s largest funder of oil and gas projects between 2016 and 2022. But activist groups focused on greening the financial sector portray Barclays as a holdout that has slow-walked its climate commitments, especially when compared to other European banks.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 22, 2024

In recent months, the BBC has created content for a number of oil and gas companies, including the French fossil fuel company Engie, which owns a number of coal-fired power plants and relies heavily on gas for its energy production. However, Engie chose to sell these assets rather than close them down.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2020

Van Beurden highlighted how the company was continuing to work towards delivering on its Net Carbon Footprint ambition to cut the intensity of the greenhouse gas emissions from the energy products it sells by around 50 per cent by 2050, and 20 per cent by 2035 compared to 2016 levels.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

In Texas, property rights are split into two categories: the land on the surface and everything underground, including oil and natural gas. In October, she invited a university researcher onto the property and discovered that several wells were leaking methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

In Texas, property rights are split into two categories: the land on the surface and everything underground, including oil and natural gas. In October, she invited a university researcher onto the property and discovered that several wells were leaking methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide.

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Business Green

MAY 4, 2020

The first assumes rapid decarbonisation of all sectors and would see all major sectors, covering agriculture, industry, transport, buildings, avoided deforestation, and power, abate at least 30 per cent of their 2016-level carbon dioxide emissions by the end of the decade. As such, the report highlights how any 1.5C

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2022

As the New York Times reported in 2020, FTI helped set up regional astroturf websites for its oil industry clients, such as Texans for Natural Gas, New Mexicans for Economic Prosperity, Citizens to Protect PA Jobs, Western Wire, and the Arctic Energy Center. A screenshot from FTI Consulting’s 2015 presentation.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

None of them were ever to be seen or heard from again until the wreck was found at the bottom of an Arctic bay in 2016, aptly named Terror Bay. Lot’s of Methane. Some of you might already be aware of the ticking time bomb called methane. This vessel would survive this journey, but not the one after that in 1845.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The use of these chemicals also damages the environment in other ways; much of the fertilizer used in the world today is the product of methane gas, a fossil fuel, while the wide-scale use of pesticides has been linked to the damage of ecosystems and vital populations of pollinators.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Unlike the revenue neutral carbon tax which appeared on ballots in 2016, Initiative 1631 is a carbon pollution fee which generates revenue for investments guided by an appointed board. Lawmakers and other stakeholders have relied on the Explorer’s data-driven approach to evaluate possible policy outcomes of price signals (e.g.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

A growing group of environmentalists, politicians, communities, and even the industry’s own workers have become increasingly critical of the fossil fuel industry, and see room for action under the Biden administration, though most attention has been placed on hot-button topics like climate change and methane emissions.

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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. Methane Without Measure.

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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Today, most of it is made using fossil fuels, primarily through a reaction between steam and methane. Methane leaks are another problem since methane — also called natural gas — is an even more potent greenhouse gas than CO2. The process releases planet-heating carbon dioxide.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Taylor, a retired general contractor, was driven to form the community group in 2016 after learning that the U.S. The current push to expand the petrochemical industry and increase LNG exports would lock in an increased demand for natural gas at a time of worsening climate change. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 8, 2024

While climate impacts intensify along the Gulf Coast, the Louisiana, Texas, and federal governments are poised to permit a growing number of proposed hydrogen manufacturing facilities equipped with carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technology, and liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Both French and his business partner, Dawn Maisel Cole, registered with the state of Louisiana as Tellurian lobbyists in 2016 and 2017 , respectively. Or how the methane emissions being released are warming our climate and implicitly contributing to these climate-induced disasters we’re facing.

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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. Altogether, between 2016 and 2020 the company’s facilities in the U.S. IARC defines it as a possible human carcinogen.

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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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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2024

That study, now six years out of date, is “ancient history,” Tyson Slocum, director of the energy programme at Public Citizen, a Washington DC-based consumer advocacy organisation, told Gas Outlook. Since 2016, when the first American LNG cargo was exported, the U.S. is exporting natural gas, and importing price volatility.”

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

And as DeSmog reported in 2016 , Exxon corporate reports from the late 1970s stated “There is no doubt” that CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels was a growing “problem.”. 8: Natural Gas No ‘Climate Solution’. 7: Republican Deflection. Some of the day’s most rhetorically devastating questioning came from Rep.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 18, 2020

That time localities said 'no more' to natural gas in buildings. This year may be remembered as the tipping point for electrification of buildings, with dozens of states and cities embracing policies to transition away from natural gas. Logically, phasing out natural gas from buildings is a no-brainer.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

When natural gas pipelines froze , causing a state-wide blackout, the state saw nearly twice as many power failures from natural gas , goal, and nuclear compared to frozen wind turbines or solar panels. THREAD — Alex Epstein (@AlexEpstein) February 16, 2021. A Threat to Hamburgers.

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Clean Energy Trust

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Back in 2016, my former colleague Dr. Ben Gaddy published research on what went wrong during the cleantech 1.0 Link Wither Methane? The Trump administration announced they were eliminating a regulation that required oil and gas companies to monitor and limit methane leaks. Link Will This Time Be Different?

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

coal first and then later oil and natural gas?to The year 2016 ranks as the warmest on record. While CO 2 may be the greatest contributor to climate change, other gases such as methane and nitrous oxide are also responsible for creating the greenhouse effect, therefore, solutions must also focus on the reduction of these gases.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

A natural gas demonstration plant in Texas tests carbon capture technology. The following examines a limited slice of what BP, Shell, Exxon, and API have been privately saying about carbon capture since 2016. 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

Bureau of Land Management has wrangled through an update to oil and gas permitting procedures for the San Juan Basin in northwestern New Mexico. Historically in the northern bands, operators drilled primarily for natural gas. In February 2020, BLM and the U.S. But larger oil deposits lie in the band running beneath Chaco.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

In fact, the spate of whale strandings began in January 2016, before most survey activity for ocean turbines had even begun. ” The speaker was David Stevenson, a former DuPont executive and adviser to Donald Trump’s 2016 transition team. Residents packed public meetings and staged beachfront rallies.

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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

DECEMBER 27, 2024

As the year began, the climate movement had its sights set on reining in the sprawling liquefied natural gas (LNG) export industry thats been transforming the Gulf Coast since 2016. Author and activist Bill McKibben proclaimed a massive win early on. But that victory proved to be short-lived.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2021

The North Sea oil and gas industry became a net drain on taxpayer funds in 2016, with one report estimating that the UK government – and ultimately, taxpayers – has lost more £250 billion in 13 years by giving tax breaks to the industry. Find out more about Perenco in its company profile.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

There is a widely held belief in the Democrat camp that Hillary Clinton, despite winning the popular vote in 2016, failed to motivate important demographics to turn out in crucial swing states, including - very broadly speaking - youth and minority groups. That is, at least, the picture Joe Biden's campaign has sought to paint.

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