Climate change, Methane and Natural gas

Manure to Hydrogen? These Companies Are Turning Waste Into Energy Gold

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. First, it lowers methane emissions by capturing the gas during processing. Methane pyrolysis is an energy-intensive process but has notable benefits.

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UK substantially underestimates its methane emissions from oil and gas production – and many other countries probably do too

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

A newer, more accurate method for calculating methane emissions from offshore oil and gas production suggests that the United Kingdom severely underestimates its greenhouse gas emissions. Researchers conclude that as much as five times more methane is being leaked from oil and gas production than reported.

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Europe’s Blue Hydrogen Plans Risk Generating Annual Emissions on par With Denmark

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. “We should be very cautious with blue hydrogen. .

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Stanford Scientists Find Climate and Health Impacts of Natural Gas Stoves

Green Living Guy

JANUARY 27, 2022

Natural gas stoves release methane – a potent greenhouse gas – and other pollutants through leaks and incomplete combustion. Stanford researchers estimate that methane leaking from stoves inside U.S. Stanford researchers estimate that methane leaking from stoves inside U.S.

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Could green hydrogen be key to a carbon-free economy?

GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Europe, which has an economy saddled with high energy prices and is heavily dependent on Russian natural gas, is embracing green hydrogen by providing funding for construction of electrolysis plants and other hydrogen infrastructure. hydrogen is a lot more expensive than other fuels such as natural gas. In the U.S.,

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Now more than ever: The business case for strong methane regulations

EDF + Business

JANUARY 14, 2025

In the evolving global energy economy, methane emissions have become a critical variable in the oil and gas industrys long-term performance. Large natural gas importers want lower emissions. Yet despite this momentum, oil and gas methane emissions remain unacceptably high. Investors want lower emissions.

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Can natural gas fields be converted into hydrogen fuel production facilities?

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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Biden Administration Advances Hydrogen Tax Credits in Clean Energy Push

Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 3, 2025

The new guidelines, central to the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), represent a major step in combating climate change by incentivizing technologies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions. However, most hydrogen produced today relies on fossil fuels, particularly natural gas, which compromises its environmental benefits.

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How gas leak detection will help the world keep its methane reduction promise

Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2022

The signing of the Global Methane Pledge at last year’s COP26 marks a vital step in reducing the impact of industrial activities on the environment. Originally proposed by the US and EU in September 2021, the Global Methane Pledge will see countries acting to cut methane emissions by 30 percent by 2030.

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Carbon Mapper Launches Satellite Program to Pinpoint Methane and CO2 Super Emitters

Planet Pulse

APRIL 15, 2021

In addition, the Carbon Mapper consortium announced its plan to deploy a ground-breaking hyperspectral satellite constellation with the ability to pinpoint, quantify and track point-source methane and CO 2 emissions.

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Northern Michiganders are getting off propane — and on to natural gas

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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Just 36 Companies Drove Half the World’s Climate-Altering Emissions in 2023: New Report

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 5, 2025

The Carbon Majors database builds on the innovative work published by researcher Richard Heede of the Climate Accountability Institute (CAI) begun in 2013. State-owned fossil fuel companies dominated global climate emissions in 2023, compared to public companies, the Carbon Majors report noted.

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Norwegian Oil Giant’s Plan to Capture UK’s Carbon Is Fraught With Risks

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Carbon capture has never been deployed on gas-fired power stations at such a scale before — and a senior Equinor executive has made frank admissions around the technical challenges such projects face. Climate advocates are also concerned about Equinor’s plans to develop a UK market for “ blue hydrogen ”.

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The Fracking Industry's Methane Problem Is a Climate Problem

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Read time: 9 mins While carbon dioxide — deservedly — gets a bad rap when it comes to climate change, about 40 percent of global warming actually can be attributed to the powerful greenhouse gas methane, according to the 2013 IPCC report.

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Google joins a mission to map global methane emissions from space

The Verge: Energy

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A rendering of MethaneSat | Image courtesy of Google Google announced a partnership with the nonprofit Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) today to map methane pollution and oil and gas infrastructure from space. Meanwhile, Google is using AI to map oil and gas infrastructure to create a global map of pollution sources.

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Renewable natural gas is crucial to diversify our clean energy sources

Renewable Energy World

MARCH 22, 2021

David Cox, Founder and CFO of the Coalition for Renewable Natural Gas. But until we’re willing to make bold moves on how we approach energy, these incidents likely won’t change. But until we’re willing to make bold moves on how we approach energy, these incidents likely won’t change. homes and businesses.

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Leading oil and gas companies and investors rally around EPA’s new methane rules and set the stakes for robust implementation

EDF + Business

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The EPA’s new rules to reduce methane emissions from the nation’s oil and gas industry could be a climate game changer. Reducing emissions from the oil and gas industry is the quickest, simplest and most affordable way to reduce warming in our lifetimes.

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Italy’s Eni Faces Lawsuit Alleging Early Knowledge Of Climate Change

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. Methane is the clean energy of the future,” ran a 1986 promotion in Eni’s company magazine Ecos. Eni did not respond to a request for comment on its early knowledge of climate change.

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Chicago Utility’s Plan for Aging Natural Gas Pipelines Runs Up Against Energy Transition

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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Natural gas leaks are a much bigger problem than we thought

Grist

JULY 24, 2019

Natural gas has been touted as a green energy source by some because, when burned for fuel, it emits less CO2 than coal. But before that happens, leaks from across the natural gas supply chain — from the drilling process to gas stoves — can unintentionally vent methane into the atmosphere.

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Hydrogen-Powered Data Centers Poised to Transform AI Infrastructure

Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The hydrogen is delivered in tanks and, currently, most of it originates from natural gas using processes like steam methane reforming. Clean hydrogen can be produced in numerous ways, from natural gas reforming with carbon capture to renewable-powered electrolysis and nuclear energy.

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A tech-backed mission to monitor methane pollution launches today

The Verge: Energy

MARCH 4, 2024

Image: MethaneSAT via EDF A mission to map and track global methane pollution, a powerful greenhouse gas, is scheduled to launch today after years of collaboration between some of the biggest names in tech. After all, so-called natural gas is mostly just methane. MethaneSAT is scheduled to launch on March 4th.

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Oregon Utility Using Greenwashing and ‘Renewable Natural Gas’ To Push Back on Potential Gas Bans

DeSmogBlog

MAY 6, 2021

If you live in Oregon, it’s likely you’ve been bombarded with misleading PR from the local utility company, Northwest Natural, about the potential for what the industry is calling renewable natural gas (RNG) — methane captured from places like landfills and repurposed into energy for homes.

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LNG Promoted as Climate Solution at Vancouver Expo Despite Evidence

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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Doosan Fuel Cell Revolutionizes Hydrogen with Carbon Capture Technology

Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 28, 2025

Developed in collaboration with Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) and other partners, this innovation captures over 90% of the carbon dioxide (CO2) generated during hydrogen production from natural gas. Typically, hydrogen extraction from natural gas releases CO2 as a byproduct.

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A Second Natural Hydrogen Jackpot Unearthed in Lorraine’s Geologic Goldmine

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. However, most hydrogen today is derived from fossil fuels, such as natural gas, in a process that releases significant greenhouse gases.

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Oil Lobby Claims More Production Won’t Raise Emissions, But Ignores Crucial Data

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

It is a well established fact that increasing oil production leads to increased emissions , and that major reductions in oil production and consumption are necessary to avoid catastrophic climate change. Total oil and gas related emissions for Canada in 2021 stood at 189 Mt. Questions sent to Pathways Alliance were not returned.

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MIT Study Shines a Light on Hydrogen and Natural Gas in the Leak Debate

Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 19, 2024

MIT Study Highlights Lesser Climate Impact of Hydrogen Leaks Compared to Natural Gas A recent study conducted by MIT researchers sheds new light on the climate implications of hydrogen as a replacement for natural gas. According to recent research, about 3% of natural gas produced in the U.S.

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Why Flexible Gas Generation Must Be Part of Deep Decarbonization

GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Ultimately, the challenge faced by California and Germany with high-level penetrations of renewables is one that many federal and local governments must grapple with as they pursue policies in an attempt to mitigate the most dangerous impacts of climate change. and even more so for the myriad targets that have been adopted globally.

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AD and Biogas Industry Awards 2023 winners announced

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 30, 2023

In a world in crisis, anaerobic digestion and biogas are offering mature solutions to climate change and energy and food security, with recent investments by global players signalling the growing recognition of its commercial viability as well. The ‘Women in Biogas’ award introduced last year has once again been the most successful.

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Rimere clean hydrogen tech gets millions in funding from Clean Energy

Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

(NASDAQ: CLNE), the largest provider of renewable natural gas for the US transportation market. These two independent devices have been designed to reduce climate change emissions and allow the use of natural gas to fast-track the transition to a clean hydrogen future.

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Cleaning Up Methane Pollution From Permian Super Emitters is ‘Low Hanging Fruit’ for the Climate, Study Finds

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 4, 2021

Only a handful of super emitters are responsible for an enormous amount of the methane pollution in the Permian basin, according to a new study. And ratcheting down these emissions can lead to quick and significant wins for the climate. Slashing methane emissions represents prime targets for climate action.

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EU methane policy recommendations

EDF + Business

JUNE 9, 2020

Methane: Europe’s missing link for effective energy decarbonization. About half of all internationally traded gas is consumed by Europe. The EU sources its gas from countries like Russia, the U.S. and Algeria, countries with sizeable methane emissions. ” Download the policy recommendations.

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What the natural gas industry is missing about the energy transition

EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The annual conference, hosted by Energy Dialogues, brings together natural gas interests to discuss where the industry is headed, with perspectives from policymakers and civil society. Speakers talked about natural gas as the solution to a trinity of critical energy challenges: emissions mitigation, energy poverty, and energy security.

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Ships switching to LNG still leading to 'dangerous' methane emissions, report warns

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

New report from the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) highlights the need to control methane slips on ships that have switched to using LNG as fuel. The report calculatres that switching to LNG could deliver carbon emissions savings, but these could be partially offset by increased methane emissions.

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A new level of magnification?

Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

Examples can be found in the early detection of cancer through the detection of the smallest concentrations of marker molecules in the breath of patients, or in the precise detection of methane leaks in large-scale natural gas production systems in order to limit the contribution of such greenhouse gases to climate change.

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‘They’re Destroying Our Coastline’: Activists at the Americas Energy Summit Protest Fossil Fuel Expansion

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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Climate Pledges Haven’t Stopped These European Banks From Financing LNG

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2024

A liquified natural gas import terminal that could become one of Europe’s largest such facilities has received financing from a dozen European and Asian banks, many of which have existing climate pledges. exporters will report their methane emissions so that importers can make informed decisions about their LNG.

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'Inexcusable': IEA calls for global action to plug methane leakage in fossil fuel sector

Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Tackling methane from oil and gas operations among 'best near-term opportunities’ for combatting climate change, IEA argues. Methane, which is largely released from abandoned coal mines, oil and gas operations, and farming, has a far greater global warming potential than CO2.

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Why Synthetic Graphite from FortisBC’s Hydrogen Process Could Transform Batteries and Steelmaking

Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Pioneering Turquoise Hydrogen Production in British Columbia FortisBC is taking meaningful steps toward a low-carbon future with its methane pyrolysis pilot project in Kitchner, B.C. For FortisBC, turquoise hydrogen holds particular promise as a blending fuel to lower the carbon intensity of natural gas systems.

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‘Hydrogen Highway’ Network of Refueling Stations to Span Alberta Cities

DeSmogBlog

MAY 20, 2024

Air Products claims the Edmonton facility will capture over 90 percent of carbon dioxide emissions because, unlike other facilities that produce hydrogen from natural gas, the Edmonton facility will use auto-thermal reforming (ATR) technology instead of steam methane reforming (SMR). A hydrogen-powered car. (CC CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

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Could finding enough white hydrogen make a difference to decarbonization?

Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Early this summer, scientists in northern France discovered what has the potential to be a huge white hydrogen deposit , that is, naturally occurring H2. As climate change plans roll into place worldwide, H2 has been making major headlines as a low- or zero-carbon option to replace fossil fuels.

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Bill Gates has a good feeling about AI

The Verge: Energy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Netflix The Verge spoke with Bill Gates about AI, misinformation, and climate change. Bill Gates has spent billions funding technologies he thinks will shape the future — from fighting climate change to eradicating disease. I think AI, on balance, is super beneficial to work on climate.

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Geological Hydrogen vs Fracking

Hydrogen Fuel News

MAY 2, 2024

Another pressing issue is methane leakage. During the drilling and fracking processes, methane, a potent greenhouse gas, can escape into the atmosphere. This contributes to climate change and negates some of the benefits of using natural gas, which has lower carbon emissions than coal or oil.

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Manure to Hydrogen? These Companies Are Turning Waste Into Energy Gold

UK substantially underestimates its methane emissions from oil and gas production – and many other countries probably do too

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Europe’s Blue Hydrogen Plans Risk Generating Annual Emissions on par With Denmark

Stanford Scientists Find Climate and Health Impacts of Natural Gas Stoves

Could green hydrogen be key to a carbon-free economy?

Now more than ever: The business case for strong methane regulations

Can natural gas fields be converted into hydrogen fuel production facilities?

Biden Administration Advances Hydrogen Tax Credits in Clean Energy Push

How gas leak detection will help the world keep its methane reduction promise

Carbon Mapper Launches Satellite Program to Pinpoint Methane and CO2 Super Emitters

Northern Michiganders are getting off propane — and on to natural gas

Just 36 Companies Drove Half the World’s Climate-Altering Emissions in 2023: New Report

Norwegian Oil Giant’s Plan to Capture UK’s Carbon Is Fraught With Risks

The Fracking Industry's Methane Problem Is a Climate Problem

Google joins a mission to map global methane emissions from space

Renewable natural gas is crucial to diversify our clean energy sources

Leading oil and gas companies and investors rally around EPA’s new methane rules and set the stakes for robust implementation

Italy’s Eni Faces Lawsuit Alleging Early Knowledge Of Climate Change

Chicago Utility’s Plan for Aging Natural Gas Pipelines Runs Up Against Energy Transition

Natural gas leaks are a much bigger problem than we thought

Hydrogen-Powered Data Centers Poised to Transform AI Infrastructure

A tech-backed mission to monitor methane pollution launches today

Oregon Utility Using Greenwashing and ‘Renewable Natural Gas’ To Push Back on Potential Gas Bans

LNG Promoted as Climate Solution at Vancouver Expo Despite Evidence

Doosan Fuel Cell Revolutionizes Hydrogen with Carbon Capture Technology

A Second Natural Hydrogen Jackpot Unearthed in Lorraine’s Geologic Goldmine

Oil Lobby Claims More Production Won’t Raise Emissions, But Ignores Crucial Data

MIT Study Shines a Light on Hydrogen and Natural Gas in the Leak Debate

Why Flexible Gas Generation Must Be Part of Deep Decarbonization

AD and Biogas Industry Awards 2023 winners announced

Rimere clean hydrogen tech gets millions in funding from Clean Energy

Cleaning Up Methane Pollution From Permian Super Emitters is ‘Low Hanging Fruit’ for the Climate, Study Finds

EU methane policy recommendations

What the natural gas industry is missing about the energy transition

Ships switching to LNG still leading to 'dangerous' methane emissions, report warns

A new level of magnification?

‘They’re Destroying Our Coastline’: Activists at the Americas Energy Summit Protest Fossil Fuel Expansion

Climate Pledges Haven’t Stopped These European Banks From Financing LNG

'Inexcusable': IEA calls for global action to plug methane leakage in fossil fuel sector

Why Synthetic Graphite from FortisBC’s Hydrogen Process Could Transform Batteries and Steelmaking

‘Hydrogen Highway’ Network of Refueling Stations to Span Alberta Cities

Could finding enough white hydrogen make a difference to decarbonization?

Bill Gates has a good feeling about AI

Geological Hydrogen vs Fracking

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