Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 15, 2025

Why Manure-to-Hydrogen Conversion Matters Cow manure emits large amounts of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that has a significant impact on climate change. Utilizing this manure to produce hydrogen fuel serves a dual purpose. First, it lowers methane emissions by capturing the gas during processing.

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TechXplore

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Burning of natural gas at oil and gas wells, called flaring, is a major waste of fossil fuels and a contributor to climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 12, 2024

Billed by the fossil fuel industry as a climate solution, dozens of planned blue hydrogen projects in Europe could consume more natural gas each year than France, and produce emissions on a par with Denmark, a DeSmog analysis has found. Credit: Sabrina Bedford.

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Clean Energy Canada

JULY 24, 2024

In a 6-5 vote, the council made the decision to essentially punt costs down the road for Vancouverites, who will have to retrofit their homes off fossil fuels at a later date. But we won’t address climate change by continuing to build new fossil fuel infrastructure.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 6, 2019

So the EIB's confirmation last month that it would effectively end support for fossil fuels garnered widespread attention — as much for the signal it sends as for the additional impact the bank can make with the freed-up funds. “There is a global market failure in internalizing the costs of climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 16, 2024

It will be increasingly important for us that this industry is a whole part of the energy mix as we phase out natural gas. This is the only way to deliver energy, economic and climate security. Anaerobic digestion and biomethane allows us to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JUNE 13, 2024

Scientists have suggested that heading directly to the fields is an efficient way to create H2 Researchers from the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology university in Moscow, Russia claim to have discovered a method of hydrogen fuel production using natural gas.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Hydrogen-Powered Homes in Levenmouth Located on Scotlands east coast in Levenmouth, the project will see up to 300 homes switch from natural gas to hydrogen for cooking and heating which comprises homes equipped with hydrogen-fueled appliances such as boilers and hobs.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Norwegian state-owned oil and gas company Equinor, the North Sea’s largest fossil fuel producer, is positioning itself to play a key role in plans to turn Britain into a world leader in capturing carbon. Climate advocates are also concerned about Equinor’s plans to develop a UK market for “ blue hydrogen ”.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The juxtaposition of these two projects, in which one powerful fossil fuel supply rises as the other falls, reflects the broader pattern of changing energy sources in America. A growing chorus agrees the expansion of the natural gas industry, which feeds plastics and petrochemical plants like Shell’s, is moving the U.S.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Climate change is driving more extreme weather events, including heat waves, everywhere, all while the grid faces increasing demand from electrification of cars, buses, businesses and homes. How should businesses and other large customers be thinking about the increasing strains from climate change with an evolving energy resource mix?

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The UK government’s move to award £22 billion in subsidies to carbon capture projects followed a sharp increase in lobbying by the fossil fuel industry, DeSmog can reveal. Meanwhile, lobby group the Carbon Capture and Storage Association (CCSA) — which represents dozens of fossil fuel companies — attended 20 meetings, and Equinor 16.

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Green Living Guy

JANUARY 27, 2022

Natural gas stoves release methane – a potent greenhouse gas – and other pollutants through leaks and incomplete combustion. homes has the same climate impact as about 500,000 gasoline-powered cars and the stoves can expose people to respiratory disease-triggering pollutants. BY ROB JORDAN Stanford Woods […].

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

A new report from InfluenceMap reveals the fossil fuel industry has been waging an international lobbying war to prevent cities and towns from requiring newly built homes and businesses to install climate-friendly heating and other appliances. So far, 26 U.S. So far, 26 U.S. Lobbying in the U.S. Of the 26 U.S. In the U.S.,

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

dissertation in microelectronics to an entirely different field: climate change. "I In order to manufacture products, companies in the industry sector must burn fuel, typically natural gas, to create heat. The only cost to the customer is a newly lowered fuel cost amount, he said.

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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. A coalition of environmental groups opposed to the expansion of the liquified natural gas export capacity along the Gulf Coast.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this week fired a shot over the bow at Wall Street companies that promise to help investors avoid putting their money into fossil fuels and tobacco — but steer funds towards those companies anyway. On the other hand, there’s been political pushback from the fossil fuel industry’s backers.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 21, 2024

ExxonMobil saw a “limited” role for carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects in fighting climate change, but still promoted the technology in its advertising campaigns, internal company documents show. While working at Exxon, Gulden led a team that maintained technology used to generate a portion of the Energy Outlook.

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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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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 11, 2024

After NDP member of Parliament Charlie Angus introduced a bill in February proposing to ban misleading fossil fuel advertising in Canada, the oil and gas advocate Stephen Buffalo wrote an incendiary National Post column attacking the legislation.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Global advertising and public relations company WPP has more contracts with fossil fuel clients than any of its rivals, despite the group’s pledge to reach net zero emissions by 2030, according to a report by campaign group Clean Creatives. climate talks due to open in Dubai in November.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

The European Commission is facing calls to assess the climate impact of scores of proposed hydrogen projects after data revealed that 90 percent of them could be used to prolong the use of planet-warming natural gas. Climate change is accelerating and droughts and floods are hitting our continent,” she said.

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Grist

JULY 15, 2021

We talk so much about the supreme challenge of reducing emissions — something that already requires transitioning our entire economy away from the burning of fossil fuels, adapting to existing climate threats, and doing all that in a way that at the very least doesn’t add to the burdens of already marginalized communities.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The findings underscore concerns over the role of the fossil fuel industry at the negotiations, known as COP27, which have become a focal point for deals to exploit African natural gas. These talks are supposed to be about moving us away from fossil fuels, phasing them out,” Sabido told DeSmog.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Hosted by Adnoc, the UAE’s state-owned oil and gas firm, ADIPEC is reportedly the world’s largest energy exhibition. Adnoc intends to increase its oil production by more than any other fossil fuel firm in the world, according to data from the Global Oil and Gas Exit List (Gogel). Al Jaber has denies these claims.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Photos I shot in 2022 for DeSmog capture damage from extreme weather events and the continued expansion of the fossil fuel industry — the dominant industry causing global warming. They claim carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) and the expansion of the so-called blue hydrogen industry are climate solutions.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

These investors have bought “green-labelled” bonds issued by Eni, Italy ‘s largest – and the world’s 13th largest – fossil fuel company. The problem is that these bonds may well be funding carbon-emitting activities, undermining the very energy transition and climate goals that Eni claims to support.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Read time: 10 mins A new report from advocacy group Food and Water Watch argues that fracking and continued reliance on natural gas is detrimental to addressing climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

JPMorgan Chase is the world’s biggest financier of fossil fuels, according to environmental organisations. In 2020 the bank pledged to end fossil fuel loans for Arctic oil drilling and phase out loans for coal mining. Fossil Finance. Climate Change.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

above the pre-industrial average in 2020, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned in its recent report that Earth could hit 1.5C could help avoid the most serious effects of climate change. Fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas are the source of just over 80% of the world’s energy.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

While Eni is among the world’s largest oil companies, the company’s role in climate change has so far undergone scant scrutiny. The cover of a 1970 study by Eni’s Isvet research centre that warns of “catastrophic” climate impacts from burning fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

billion into fossil fuel projects around the world since the Paris Climate Agreement was signed in 2015, undercutting global efforts to combat the worsening climate crisis. The fact sheet stated: “In fiscal year 2021, the World Bank (IBRD/IDA) did zero new fossil fuel financing.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

From the world’s biggest soccer championship to soccer training for kids , from major universities to music festivals and art galleries to — if you can name it, fossil fuel companies have probably sponsored it. Aramco has partnered with Spain’s Laguna de El Hito Nature Reserve to conserve bird species.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 24, 2025

Why Natural Hydrogen Could Revolutionize Energy Hydrogen has long been considered a critical component of the clean energy transition due to its versatility and lack of carbon emissions when used as a fuel. Such reserves promise to streamline hydrogens integration into energy grids, offering an easily accessible and scalable solution.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 5, 2022

Talk to fossil fuel execs, government ministers, and industry reps these days and they’ll all tell a similar story: Blue hydrogen is the clean fuel of the future that will help Canada and the world get to net-zero emissions. It’ll power everything from airplanes to long-haul trucks and will even heat our homes.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

COP27 has just ended and while the agreement to develop a loss and damage fund is a real victory for vulnerable nations already devastated by climate change impacts, UN climate talks once again failed to address the root cause of these impacts: fossil fuel production. Credit: WILPF Cameroon and Griote.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Chicago’s network of underground natural gas pipelines dates back nearly 200 years — an era before the electric lightbulb when gas-burning streetlamps were lit manually across the city. The usual incentives to keep costs down don’t tend to apply to natural gas utilities.

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