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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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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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

MAY 15, 2024

The campaign’s sponsored content strategy included placing “four custom pieces” in The Washington Post and other news outlets covering Capitol Hill, as well as “conservatively [sic] leaning media given change in Administration [sic]. In an update dated October 13, 2017 to Mary Streett, BP’s senior vice president of U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Blackmon hosts a podcast called “The Energy Question”, which is sponsored by the US Oil and Gas Association (USOGA), a lobby group that describes its mission as promoting “national public policy that supports exploration and production for the domestic oil and natural gas industry”.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 8, 2024

‘Obsession’ Under the proposed legislation, licences for new North Sea oil and gas production can only be approved if they pass set climate tests. The NSTA’s own figures , included in the press release, show that UK gas production releases more than double the CO2 emissions than “pipeline [gas] imports from Norway”.

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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 primary issue at the moment is that the vast majority of H2 is made using methods involving fossil fuels, such as natural gas or even coal. Another major barrier is the lack of regulatory clarity and political support.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

climate talks in Egypt demanded European governments halt a “dash” for the continent’s natural gas. At least nine gas deals have been struck so far on the sidelines of the negotiations – known as COP27 – five involving Africa. percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. We cannot be Europe’s gas station.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

A number of the agency’s clients are expected to use their stands in the zone to promote the controversial and widely discredited use of hydrogen for home heating, which is favoured by the industry as it can combine with natural gas, and its existing infrastructure.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 10, 2022

However, Toogood is a chief executive at Johnson Matthey , a FTSE 250 multinational which markets technology that can produce blue hydrogen “from natural gas at scale”. Blue hydrogen has been marketed as a climate-friendly fuel since the production process aims to capture most of the associated carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.

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The Angry Clean Energy Guy

APRIL 16, 2015

Enough With The Doom And Gloom: Fighting Climate Change Promotes Prosperity The coverage of climate change and the rhetoric around it are wearing me down. On Saturday 18 April, President Obama declared during his weekly address that there is “ no greater threat ” than climate change. “ But we don’t.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

But concrete proposals on how the country could get there are few and far between, with Brexit and (yet) another ele ction dominating the political ag en da. Biogas — with CCUS — can be applied in the power sector, or at smaller industrial scales in place of natural gas. Earlier this year, the U.K. Enter Drax.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

AUGUST 21, 2024

Sir Keir Starmer made a manifesto pledge to invest hundreds of millions of pounds in green hydrogen, and vowed to make tackling climate change a key priority. A new Labour government opens up a raft of opportunities for our industry. This will help to ensure that the country has a reliable hydrogen supply during peak demand.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

In a joint letter , the scientists say that they are “consistently faced with a major and needless challenge” of having to correct false information and rebut the fossil fuel industry’s efforts to downplay the severity of climate change. Front Groups, False Solutions, and Promotional PR.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2023

This “vicious cycle” of pesticide use fueling climate change, and vice versa, is examined in a report published Tuesday by the advocacy group Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA). According to PANNA , the assessment is the first in-depth scientific review of the relationship between pesticides and climate change.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

He expects blue hydrogen made from natural gas via steam reforming to meet around 80 percent of the 5 GW target, with HyNet alone planning for 3.5 ’s citizen Climate Assembly , described the announcements as welcome “but not yet a plan.” ” Lord Deben, Chairman of the Climate Change Committee, the U.K.’s

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2024

Browning says fossil fuel lobbyists across the country have also been known to represent environmental groups and entities that advocate for victims of climate change — but that Colorado “takes it to the next level,” with some firms even lobbying both for and against specific pieces of legislation.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In his first speech after staging a stunning political comeback at Brazil’s presidential elections, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva vowed to halt the Amazon deforestation that surged under outgoing rival Jair Bolsonaro. Climate Denial. In order to succeed, Lula won’t just need to face down farmers, loggers, and miners.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2022

NW Natural, a gas utility based in Oregon, is seeking to raise gas bills on its customers in order to pay for millions in executive bonuses, higher returns to shareholders, and a larger advertising budget. NW Natural ads promote low-cost natural gas, but do not disclose that the utility is seeking rate increases.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

s investigative journalism arm, and the British Channel 4 News this summer exposing how the oil giant and lobby groups such as the American Petroleum Institute seed doubt about climate change and undermine legislation to stop global warming. And you’re right. It’s basic science.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 22, 2024

In recent months, the BBC has created content for a number of oil and gas companies, including the French fossil fuel company Engie, which owns a number of coal-fired power plants and relies heavily on gas for its energy production. Last year was the warmest year since global records began in 1850.

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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

OCTOBER 25, 2024

In a little-noticed settlement , the SEC fined investment adviser WisdomTree $4 million for claiming that three of its investment funds were fossil- and tobacco-free — when in reality, they were loaded up with investments in oil, natural gas, and tobacco companies. Fossil fuel stocks are particularly unpopular.

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2022

When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — the consortium of scientists responsible for summarizing the world’s climate knowledge and releasing it in roughly decadal, 3,000-plus-page installments — published its latest report on Monday, the findings were just as grim as usual. Luckily for humanity, 1.5

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

And all of this must happen without excessively raising customer rates, if it’s to avoid political and customer backlash. That’s the view of Michael Wara, head of Stanford University’s Climate and Energy Policy Program and a member of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Wildfires Blue Ribbon Commission.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

This includes electric vehicle charging stations and hydrogen, propane, and natural gas fueling infrastructure. Generally, the money will be distributed through a grant program run by the Department of Transportation (“DOT”). Within this structure, there is a carve-out for “community grants.” a group of entities described [above].”.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 17, 2022

“The world is enriching Vladimir Putin when they buy his oil and gas,” it explained in one to its nearly 400,000 followers. Shouldn’t the world be buying Canadian oil and gas instead?”. Actual climate experts disagree. Ontario and Quebec, according to a recent investigation in Canada’s National Observer.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 30, 2019

Is California finished building gas-fired power plants? natural gas production. Batteries can provide many of the same services as gas peaker plants, and they come with many other benefits. But today’s storage technology cannot take over the bulk-power function served by larger gas plants.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

He is extremely active in the areas of cleantech and climate change, and widely-respected in the energy sector. He summarized his critique on Twitter : “We do not have the luxury of consigning technologies to the dustbin because they (or the companies that own them) fail a socio-political purity test.”.

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Grist

JULY 15, 2021

The International Panel on Climate Change estimates that 430 ppm marks the threshold beyond which the climate will heat up by more than 1.5 But the link between this argument is much less with carbon removal than, say, carbon capture or carbon offsets, which are directly used to excuse “bad” climate behaviors.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Such reductions require massive infrastructural changes, especially in our homes, where water and food are often warmed with what is known as “natural gas” but is better understood as methane gas, a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 21, 2024

Neither experts nor Exxon’s own scientists believe that CCS can effectively address climate change — and the process has in several cases proved remarkably unsafe. It turns out that that is a political question, and that the United States is in a moment where huge changes in First Amendment jurisprudence are possible,” she said.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2021

As a positive side-effect, emissions of other volatile cargos such as chemical products, LPG (Liquified Petroleum Gas) and LNG (Liquified Natural Gas) were reduced similarly by the same technology, while emissions of H2S and other environmentally harmful compounds were also brought down.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Political public relations arguably holds its origins in the oil, gas and coal industries, but amid growing criticism it is now facing increasing pressure to forge a future path beyond fossil fuel marketing. Political public relations (PR) has its origins in the coal, oil and gas industry.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

There is a widespread political, economic, business, and economic consensus that renewables, energy efficiency, and net zero are a key part of the solution to the UK's challenges this winter and beyond - it should be difficult for the new PM to ignore.

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Clean Energy Trust

JULY 31, 2019

These new record low bids are from 8 Minute Energy, which is known for extremely aggressive bids but is still an eye-popping figure ($38 per megawatt-hour for solar plus storage is cheaper than the new build costs for combined-cycle natural gas). The Chicago based business turns cow manure into renewable natural gas.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

I’ve long viewed Jacobson’s life — and his collaboration with researchers, cultural icons, business leaders and political leaders — as a well-written movie script. The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement adopted by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in December 1997. Secretary of State John Kerry.

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