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Piñon Dark Horse Fire Reveals How Oil Industry Environmental ‘Solution’ Spurs Climate Crisis

DeSmogBlog

This summer, just seven months after the fire ripped through Dark Horse, the EPA approved a key “monitoring, reporting, and verification” plan for the project — a key step in enabling the company to claim carbon capture tax credits that could be worth over a quarter of a billion dollars. So far, that’s not what’s happening.

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Ditch Hydrogen as ‘Poor Decarbonization Tool’, Citizens’ Committee Urges Edmonton

DeSmogBlog

This article by The Energy Mix is published here as part of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now. A citizens’ committee appointed by the City of Edmonton is calling on Mayor Amarjeet Sohi and municipal councillors to reject hydrogen as a clean energy option for all but the most difficult sectors to decarbonize.

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Phantom Gas and Missing Documents Reveal Gaps in Utility Oversight

DeSmogBlog

The circumstances surrounding his termination are documented among thousands of pages of public records and internal company documents that provide a penetrating look into the multi-billion dollar stakes of negotiations between governments and state-sanctioned monopolies that are shaping the future of energy systems in Oregon and beyond.

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There Is Something Wrong Under New Freeport

DeSmogBlog

Days earlier she had received an email: “ Dangerously high methane in water,” the subject line read. An environmental microbiologist at Duquesne University, John Stolz, had found enough methane to pose a “risk of ignition.” Tim spent nearly $10,000 to install a reverse osmosis system, but his water is still carbonated with methane.

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UK Green Business Awards 2024 – And the winner is…

Business Green

Highly Commended: Carbon Limiting Technologies Highly Commended: Greengage Hospitality Firm of the Year Compass Group UK & Ireland In an all-new category for this year, Compass Group emerged victorious with the judges praising the scale and ambition of its industry-leading transition plan.

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Why Colorado’s Celebrated Oil Well Cleanup Reforms Face a $3 Billion Shortfall

DeSmogBlog

That’s according to a new report published Thursday by the Carbon Tracker Initiative, an energy-focused think tank. Unless properly decommissioned, unplugged oil and gas wells can continue to leak cancer-causing chemicals and the powerful climate pollutant methane. The bonding isn’t enough. That number is even lower today.

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The Seven Sins of Greenwashing

Green Business Bureau

Today, Carson’s work is widely considered the most important environmental book of the 20th century. The report focuses on bisphenol A (BPA), which is an industrial chemical found in baby bottles and polycarbonate plastics. The problem with this fraudulent certification is well-known in the maritime industry. Energy Star.