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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Renew Economy

MARCH 25, 2023

There is no technically feasible way to draw down methane from the atmosphere, and no “like for like” offsetting is possible. The post Methane from fossil fuels is a climate wrecker. Don’t let it wreck the safeguard mechanism, too appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2025

AD offers an environmental-friendly alternative to landfill and energy-from-waste incineration, so cutting CO and methane emissions. The Government has identified concerns about the emissions from existing waste incinerators and announced on 30 December that it is tightening restrictions on planning applications for them.

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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. Earlier this month, the new Labour government pledged £21.7 Credit: Sabrina Bedford.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

These include the controversial energy company Drax , the fossil fuel lobby group Offshore Energies UK , and the gas company Cadent. OEUK is the “leading representative body” for the country’s oil and gas industry, while its members include some of the world’s largest fossil fuel companies, such as Shell, ExxonMobil, and Equinor.

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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. Pipelines would then carry the captured gas underground to be stored in depleted oil and gas reservoirs under the North and Irish Seas. .

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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. Landfills and livestock are also big sources of methane pollution. The timing really matters.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

While the fuel is barely on the radar in the United States, around the world a green hydrogen rush is underway, and many companies, investors, governments and environmentalists believe it is an energy source that could help end the reign of fossil fuels and slow the world’s warming trajectory. "It In the U.S.,

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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. It’s methane gas, which is 80 times more warming in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. They know they’re exacerbating the climate crisis.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

A new database cataloging the world’s oil and gas reserves reveals extensive data on the global fossil fuel industry for the first time. The Global Registry of Fossil Fuels, launched by Carbon Tracker and Global Energy Monitor, is the first public and free-to-use database of fossil fuel production, reserves, and emissions.

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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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Renew Economy

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

SuperPower Institute says Australia has little idea of the extent of its fossil fuel emissions and wants to create a state-of-the-art data network. The post Australia in the dark on its own fossil fuel emissions, says Superpower Institute appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The government strongly stimulates the production of biomethane and there is a great need for alternatives to fossil fuels” “Part of the Dutch government’s plans include mandatory blending targets for gas suppliers to add renewable gas to their supply, but we also see a strong increase in demand internationally on all continents.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2021

Methane update reveals that reduced demand for oil and gas during the pandemic's shutdown of industry and travel saw methane emissions drop 10 per cent in 2020. Companies have also touted sizeable new investment programmes to detect and fix methane leaks.

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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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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

“Blue” hydrogen is also derived from natural gas but combined with the use of carbon capture and storage (CCS), and is being heavily promoted by the gas industry as a “bridge” fuel to a low-emission future. Juliet Philips, senior policy advisor at the thinktank E3G, described it as “a bit of a red herring as a low-carbon solution”.

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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. 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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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Flying 10,000 feet above the Gulf of Mexico, in a plane outfitted with infrared imaging equipment, researchers could see methane gas bubbling under water, likely from an undetected pipeline leak. Still, researchers emphasize that the high rate of methane leakage underscores the major climate impact that reducing those leaks could have.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 8, 2021

Over €8 billion is being invested in hydrogen and “renewable gas” projects in southern Europe using EU Covid-19 recovery funds, thanks to extensive lobbying by the fossil fuel industry, a new report has found. . The over-emphasis on hydrogen as a result of lobbying could lock Europe into decades more of fossil fuels.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The boss of the Environment Agency has declared that coal and oil are "no longer safe bets" for investors, warning that banks that failed to divest from fossil fuels would be left behind by the market. He said investors that continued to invest in fossil fuels were exposing themselves to major financial risks.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 30, 2024

This renewable energy potential, coupled with zero carbon emissions when used, has put natural hydrogen at the forefront of global efforts to transition away from fossil fuels. Unlike fossil fuels, it does not emit greenhouse gases when burned, making it valuable in the race to mitigate climate change.

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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. The group has documented massive amounts of leaking methane already.

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Grist

JANUARY 28, 2025

And what’s turning the tap more open, making the warming pick up speed, is an increase in greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane which are both still rising, largely from the fossil fuel industry, he said. There are other factors turning up the heat. The El Nio pattern that began in 2023 added around 0.1

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2022

Fossil fuel companies confirm plan to review collective methane targets for 2025 and onwards in light of new goal. They have also pointed out that methane's relatively short atmospheric lifetime means action taken now would have a far more rapid impact than action on carbon.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Reducing methane is in the hands of a small number of large multinational corporations, which have the resources to act, writes Changing Markets Foundation's Nusa Urbancic. Methane has typically been ignored in climate policy. It also ignores the huge potential of methane emission reductions in the agricultural sector.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 18, 2024

Its potential as a fuel, energy carrier, and chemical feedstock has led to many governments formulating national hydrogen strategies. Hydrogen economy: Status vs ambition Currently, over 98% of global hydrogen originates from fossil fuel-based grey and black hydrogen, produced using steam methane reforming and coal gasification.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2021

As global efforts to ramp up the hydrogen industry gain support with big government subsidies, new research casts increasing doubt on the climate credentials of the main recipient of that support, so-called “blue” hydrogen, which is extracted from natural gas and paired with carbon capture technology.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Nearly two thirds of social media posts put out by six major European fossil fuel and energy companies since the end of 2019 present a “green” image of the company, despite the majority of their business activity remaining in fossil fuels, reveals new analysis by Desmog.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 24, 2021

Leaking methane from oil and gas infrastructure is widespread across the European continent, reveals an investigation of more than 150 sites in seven countries. More than 60 percent of the sites analyzed by researchers using state-of-the-art technology were releasing large volumes of methane – a powerful greenhouse gas – into the atmosphere.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Indigenous delegates said they had been amazed at the “wilful ignorance” they encountered when demanding global banks cease financing new fossil fuel projects on their ancestral lands in what is today North America. Lazcano is fighting TransCanada’s project to build the Tuxpan-Tula pipeline to import gas to central Mexico from Texas.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 19, 2024

Nearly half of diet-related greenhouse gas emissions in the UK come from meat and dairy due to emissions of methane, an extremely potent greenhouse gas, in livestock farming. Veronica Wignall from campaign group Ad Free Cities said the promotion of meat and dairy to Gen Z resembled “a playbook strategy from the fossil fuel industry”.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

New Methane Action and Response System hailed as major boost for efforts to tackle methane emissions. The UN has today announced the launch of a new satellite-based methane detection system designed to help governments and businesses identify major sources of the second most abundant greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.

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Business Green

MAY 25, 2022

Methane is a blow torch that’s cooking the planet,' scientists warn, as new study argues near term action could play a critical role in curbing global warming. Our study shows that phasing out fossil fuels is essential but must be paired with targeted action now on methane, black carbon soot, HFCs, and smog.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

These fuel cells work by combining hydrogen and oxygen to produce power, emitting only water vapor as a byproduct. The hydrogen is delivered in tanks and, currently, most of it originates from natural gas using processes like steam methane reforming. While these operations are not yet completely carbon-free, the benefits are clear.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 25, 2023

For the last several months, one of the nation’s largest pipeline operators has gone from one local government meeting on the Navajo Nation to another, outlining plans for what could end up being the country’s longest hydrogen pipeline. Chapter houses are a form of local Navajo government similar to city councils.) “I

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

According to a new study published in Environmental Science Technology, hundreds of active hydropower plants are making a worse impact on the climate than fossil fuels. Scientists have known for a while now that hydropower facilities release greenhouse gases — mostly methane, but also CO2 and nitrous oxide.

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The Guardian: Energy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

It evokes a climate breakdown supercharged by the mass escape of methane locked in Siberian permafrost, or the great currents of the oceans smothered by freshwater melting from the Greenland ice sheet, or the Amazon turning from great rainforest to parched savannah after the felling of one too many trees.

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