Grist

MAY 22, 2024

DTE Gas Company , a subsidiary of Michigan’s largest utility, is expanding its natural gas network to the area, giving over 1,000 homes and businesses the choice to switch to natural gas. Natural gas is more climate-friendly than the propane and wood used in much of the region, according to DTE.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

These facilities promise faster deployment times and a significantly lower carbon footprint compared to conventional setups connected to strained energy grids. The hydrogen is delivered in tanks and, currently, most of it originates from natural gas using processes like steam methane reforming. What Does This Mean for Us?

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

A regional cooperation for a greener beer brewing process and a greener regional gas network. This sustainable alternative for fossil natural gas will supply gas which is equivalent to the gas needs of approximately 700 households. A sustainable gas with the same properties as natural gas.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

As such, it has an ethical imperative to adopt practices that lead to carbon neutrality. Cutting their carbon emissions to zero – as many have pledged – might appear to be an impossible task. million tonnes/year of carbon dioxide equivalent. One day, they will expect these products to be completely carbon neutral.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

These burners can switch seamlessly between natural gas and hydrogen, reducing reliance on fossil fuels. Over time, the facility plans to eliminate natural gas use entirely, underscoring its commitment to lowering emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 6, 2024

billion carbon capture and storage (CCS) project at their Genesee Generating Station, claiming it is “technically viable but not economically feasible.” Julia Levin, associate director of National Climate with Environmental Defence, characterized the cancellation as yet another failure for carbon capture.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union on February 2 proposed including nuclear energy and natural gas in its plans for building a climate-friendly future, dividing member countries and drawing outcry from environmentalists as “greenwashing.” Under the plan, gas projects must meet emission thresholds and achieve reduction targets.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

That is because when inflexible combined-cycle plants run at minimum load, they use much more gas to produce a megawatt-hour of electricity than when on full output, thereby producing more CO 2 emissions while adding fuel and maintenance costs for every stop-start cycle.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 20, 2025

By enabling its B- and E-Class gas turbines to function with 100% hydrogen, GE Vernova is proving its commitment to advancing cleaner energy solutions. It burns roughly eight times faster than natural gas, which increases the risk of flashbackan issue where the flame flows back into the burner.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 9, 2025

Germanys Greenhouse Gas Reduction and the Strategic Role of Hydrogen Energy Germany , recognized as Europes largest economy, continues its transition toward a low-carbon future. While greenhouse gas emissions decreased in 2024, the pace of progress has slowed.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 26, 2019

California has just 25 years to achieve its economywide carbon-neutrality target. Buildings account for about a quarter of California’s greenhouse gas emissions, so concerted efforts will be needed to squeeze carbon out of the sector, especially existing buildings. Wave of natural-gas bans.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 14, 2023

The UK’s 650 anaerobic digestors use microbes to consume waste, predominantly from agriculture and the food supply chain, capturing the greenhouse gases which are emitted as part of that process and purifying them to create a carbon-neutral substitute for natural gas.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 10, 2021

The UK government has defended its decision to celebrate representatives of companies involved in Canada’s controversial tar sands industry as “Climate Champions”, ahead of the COP26 UN climate summit it is set to host later this year. TAG), the largest natural gas transporter in Brazil.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 1, 2020

SMUD is the first utility in the country to count avoided carbon emissions from the existing building stock as part of its progress on energy efficiency. The switch to "avoided carbon" is part of SMUD’s ambitious effort to accelerate decarbonization of its existing building stock. A holistic vision.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Catalysts Transform Hydrogen Production With Lower Temperatures and Carbon Neutrality Recently, groundbreaking advancements in hydrogen production through ethanol and methanol reforming have revealed promising alternatives to traditional methods. Additionally, when ethanol is burned, it releases carbon dioxide as a byproduct.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The Japan-Australia hydrogen supply chain project, a collaborative effort backed by both governments, aims to establish efficient methods of transporting hydrogen to facilitate its adoption as a clean fuel. This also demonstrates its potential as an alternative to traditional natural gas pipelines.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2024

And since Ebys government is prioritizing the urgent deployment of clean energy, particularly with First Nation partners, they are waiving the need for lengthy environmental assessments. Meanwhile in Alberta, things were decidedly more weird, less certain, and a lot more carbon intensive. grid enough to power 500,000 homes.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 18, 2023

An industry group that’s called Canada’s federal climate targets “unachievable” and referred to opponents of oil and gas expansion as “climate alarmists” has received nearly $1.23 million in taxpayer money from the British Columbia government. It counts among its affiliate members LNG Canada, a $40 billion gas export project on B.C.’s

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 26, 2024

Maintaining and improving global energy security; empowering Indigenous communities; seizing the global LNG opportunity — these were some of the talking points speakers were keen to discuss throughout the Canada Gas Exhibition & Conference, which took place in Vancouver in May.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2020

Many cleantech innovations are now market ready for major-scale application, with improved government funding providing the boost needed to support their commercialisation. Accounting for eight per cent of the world’s carbon emissions, the current process for making cement is far from eco-friendly. Electrified cement.

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Business Green

JULY 3, 2020

However, government declines to provide further details on precise nature of climate and net zero targets attached to firm's rescue support. But he insisted Spanish-owned Celsa had met the conditions for bespoke government support due to its role as a key supplier to the construction industry.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

The event aims to bring together policymakers and liquified natural gas (LNG), natural gas, and hydrogen players to explore new avenues for fossil fuel expansion. So they’re just going to try and squeeze out every last bit of profit they can and give it fancy new names like carbon capture and sequestration.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

states have passed laws designed to prevent towns, cities, and other local governments from crafting new natural gas bans or enforcing those laws, according to the report. states with new laws preventing natural gas bans, many didnt have any local natural gas restrictions to begin with, InfluenceMap notes.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 9, 2020

At the same time, Brussels signaled that it will also encourage the development of "blue" hydrogen produced from fossil fuels paired with carbon capture, at least for the time being. The Global CCS Institute, a carbon capture think tank based in London, called the EU's strategy ambitious, but warned against picking winners.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 10, 2021

Michigan-based Consumers Energy is accelerating the electric vehicle (EV) transformation with a new program to help businesses statewide transition to carbon-free EVs. Those vehicles will be powered by an electric grid that is moving toward being carbon neutral.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Most H2 is produced using fossil fuels like natural gas, but can the right methods make that green? The term “clean hydrogen” doesn’t have a specific official definition, but on the whole, it tends to refer to H2 that is produced in a way that doesn’t generate carbon emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 10, 2022

In April, the Globe & Mail published an article on its website extolling the virtues of natural gas appliances in people’s houses. The story, headlined “Why natural gas is the smart choice for your new home,” has the look and feel of actual journalism. Natural gas is always available.”.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The government of Alberta announced a $7 million contribution to Canadian oil giant Cenovus to study the possibility of using small modular nuclear reactors (SMR) as part of the province’s effort to decarbonize oil sands production. Almost all of the emissions created in this type of oil sands facility are from boiling water, she continued.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Two smart energy communities in the US, which will consist of a total 30 single-family net zero homes, are being planned and will equip residents with a combination of renewable, electric and natural gas technologies. Nicor Gas will support that initiative through its energy efficiency program. Smart tech.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

AUGUST 5, 2024

The funding for this program will be sourced from ultra-long-term special government bonds, underscoring the Chinese government’s commitment to environmental sustainability and innovation in clean energy technologies. This plan aligns with China’s goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2060.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This story is part of the series Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia , which explores the path to low-carbon energy for British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. The economics of carbon-free living have fallen into place. All three governments have failed to meet previous promises. Worried about the climate crisis?

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Oil and gas companies have for years marketed fracked gas from B.C. But an impending flood of liquefied natural gas exports from western Canada to Asia could make it harder for countries there to achieve their national climate targets and contribute to tens of thousands of additional deaths due to air pollution.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

A coalition of industry, power and oil and gas firms in the U.K. are collaborating on a net zero industrial cluster that they believe will establish a template for any country seeking a carbon-neutral economy. Its biomass generators will be connected to carbon capture, utili z ation and storage (CCUS) te chnology.

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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

JUNE 16, 2023

This story is part of a DeSmog series on the influence wielded by the gas lobby in Europe BERLIN, Germany — Germany’s push to achieve climate neutrality by 2045 could, by some projections , soon turn the vast network of natural gas pipelines powering the country’s homes and industry into one of Europe’s biggest stranded assets.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 8, 2022

Senior Canadian officials are working with an Alberta company to open up new markets for natural gas in Germany, according to documents seen by DeSmog, contradicting a federal minister who says the Ukraine crisis can’t be solved by exporting more fossil fuels.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2019

for the whole of the third quarter, the first time that has happened, according to research by the Carbon Brief. Fossil fuels’ share of the electricity mix was 10 times larger than renewables’ a decade ago, Carbon Brief's data shows. insisting that it could manage a carbon neutral grid as early as 2025.

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