DeSmogBlog

MAY 28, 2024

If the price you paid [to buy into National gas] was driven by hydrogen for space heating, then this will end up as one for the history books — and not in a good way,” snarked back Bloomberg New Energy Finance founder Michael Liebreich, in an early February LinkedIn post aimed at Price.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2024

As oil and gas wells age, the H 2 S levels of fields where they are located may increase,” the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) warns. Some in the industry are already citing estimates that “40% of natural gas reserves are sour, with 20% being so sour they can’t be economically or technically accessed.”

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Crossing the so-called Northern Sea Route in the Arctic waters, in just under three weeks it moored at the Chinese port of Yangkou, unloading its shipment of liquefied natural gas. That relatively routine journey has now entered the record books: the earliest date a cargo ship took what’s usually an ice-blocked route.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

This takes some stress off your shoulders and you’re like, all you really need in life is a pair of blue jeans and a good book.”. Sewell, a 48-year-old businessman based in Midland, Texas, founded 7S Oil and Gas LLC in 2014. This increases the risk of methane seeping into the air and oil migrating into the surrounding groundwater.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

This takes some stress off your shoulders and you’re like, all you really need in life is a pair of blue jeans and a good book.”. Sewell, a 48-year-old businessman based in Midland, Texas, founded 7S Oil and Gas LLC in 2014. This increases the risk of methane seeping into the air and oil migrating into the surrounding groundwater.

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R-Squared Energy

APRIL 10, 2021

” Quoting from my book Power Plays : “The group’s work culminated in the release of the National Energy Policy (NEP) in May of 2001. oil and natural gas production, a dramatic drop in U.S. The report warned that in the years ahead, America would face the most serious energy shortages since the 1973 oil embargo.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 12, 2020

When JP Morgan, the world’s largest oil and gas financier, commits to achieve a Paris-aligned lending book , you know it’s no ordinary year. With company after company in sector after sector committing to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 or sooner, the business imperative to lead on climate is clear.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

There, he met with OPUC staff in person and exchanged emails with Lori Koho, then OPUC’s senior official overseeing natural gas utilities. He hoped that his list of complaints would show “how the unethical culture [at NW Natural] goes all the way to the top,” as one of his emails to Koho explains.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

” But Sridhar placed even higher expectations on a longer-range plan to adapt Bloom’s solid-oxide fuel cell technology, originally designed to run on natural gas and emit carbon dioxide, to generate electricity from hydrogen, make "green" hydrogen via electrolysis or capture the carbon from "blue" hydrogen made from natural gas.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

And yet the Paris Agreement manages to omit the words coal, oil, natural gas, and fossil fuels. degrees of warming today, 2023 marks the hottest year on the books and greenhouse gas emissions are still rising. degrees of warming today, 2023 marks the hottest year on the books and greenhouse gas emissions are still rising.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

This makes it ripe for disaster capitalism, a phrase Naomi Klein coined in her book “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.” Both are reliant on a steady stream of cheap natural gas. While natural gas burns cleaner than coal, the advantage of using it is negated by the methane emitted in its production.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

It also walked back restrictive rules on its books related to marches. 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. Now citizens and groups like RISE St.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2024

is exporting natural gas, and importing price volatility.” In 2022, American consumers spent $269 billion on natural gas supplies, up sharply from $150 billion in 2019, according to the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). is exporting natural gas, and importing price volatility.”

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 24, 2024

When researching my book, Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta: A Call for Reclamation (University of California Press, 2024), I found myself wrestling with the river’s complex nature. In January, the Biden administration paused certain liquid natural gas (LNG) projects to address greenhouse emissions from methane.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2023

As I explain in my book, “ Confronting Climate Gridlock: How Diplomacy, Technology, and Policy Can Unlock a Clean Energy Future ,” gas stoves matter to climate and to the gas industry because they serve as gateway appliances to the dominant residential uses of natural gas: heating and hot water. 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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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

It contains natural gas, helium, and carbon dioxide. Once separated from carbon dioxide, natural gas is used for heating and cooking in homes and sold to power plants to generate electricity. The shale boom also sent prices for natural gas into free fall. coming out of LaBarge than Exxon could sell.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In 19 articles that became a widely read book, History of the Standard Oil Company , published in 1904, she exposed its unsavory practices. At the time, the public (and even many scientists) didn’t appreciate the deadly nature of DDT. That didn’t come until the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring.

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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

IN THEIR BOOK Merchants of Doubt , historians Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. In the storm’s aftermath, the city came out in staunch opposition to a proposed liquefied natural gas terminal off its coastline. In 2019, the board approved a controversial methane gas pipeline over the protest of communities in its path.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2025

check all that apply) All International UK Sign Up Themes of austerity, hypernationalism and resource development come up again and again in talks given at their conferences and online materials and can be found in Poilievres policy book too. So why don’t we?” from former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2021

In May 2021, Brown tweeted out an article by Bjørn Lomborg – author of The Skeptical Environmentalist and Cool It , books that downplay the risks of global warming – about how “exaggerations about climate change” are “destroying our ability to make sensible decisions for the future”.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Natural gas. We got to invest more in it,” Vance said, with no acknowledgment of the role methane plays alongside carbon in driving the greenhouse effect. Audio from Epstein’s private book launch was obtained by Documented, and an edited video of the event was also later posted to YouTube. His policy prescription?

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2024

We must export more clean Pennsylvania natural gas to the world.” They named their sites after comic book heroes: the Iron Man Pad, the Wolverine Pad, the X-Man Pad. Ten years after its founding, Rice Energy was a top 10 producer of natural gas and, in 2017, the family sold their company to EQT for $6.7

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