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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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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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.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 25, 2022

While carbon dioxide (CO2) tends to be the most commonly discussed and recognized GHG, there are numerous other greenhouse gasses including methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, and hydrofluorocarbons. The three major greenhouse gases are carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O). Methane (CH4).

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Business Green

AUGUST 4, 2020

Estimated to cost up to £28bn, the project is coordinated by ENA's Gas Goes Green initiative, which is bringing together all Britain's gas network companies in a bid to deliver the world's first zero-carbon gas grid. The current iron pipes carry methane-based natural gas.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 27, 2024

But, unfortunately, green hydrogen is not yet widely used, because the production of grey hydrogen from natural gas is much cheaper. Moreover, it’s not trivial how we could store hydrogen and as an indirect greenhouse gas, hydrogen is not as clean as it looks. Unfortunately, this is easier said than done.

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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. The researchers found that hydrogens climate impact is approximately one-third of methanes.

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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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Renewable Energy World

MAY 5, 2021

As the United States moves toward decarbonization, cities and states must use all means available to reduce climate pollution, and natural gas utilities should be at the forefront of this rapid energy transition. This first-of-its-kind tool has the power to transform natural gas utility investment decisions.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2021

Boom and Bust: Tracking the Global Coal Plant Pipeline , a new report from Global Energy Monitor, found that “China commissioned 76 percent of the world’s new coal plants in 2020, up from 64 percent in 2019, driving a 12.5 GW (gigawatt) increase in the global coal fleet in 2020.”. Can Coal Replace Natural Gas?

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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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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

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. Grüneberg clarified that the EU-wide methane regulation finalized in May will result in a methane transparency database where U.S.

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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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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

Methane emissions reduction could significantly reduce rates of global warming at a relatively low cost, major research warns. As such, the report emphasises that methane mitigation is "one of the best ways of limiting warming in this and subsequent decades".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

New IEA analysis reveals methane emissions from the energy sector are 70 per cent higher than official reports, but could high gas prices finally prompt operators to tackle the problem. It is one of the biggest and most worrying mysteries in the field of climate science: where are all the methane emissions coming from?

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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

JUNE 11, 2024

. “The science shows that over half of fossil fuels in existing fields and mines must stay underground to limit global warming to 1.5°C, C, and our Big Oil Reality Check analysis finds that none of the major oil and gas companies we analyze plan to do anything even close to what is needed to hold global warming to 1.5°C,”

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2022

As the global warming potential of methane is 84 times that of CO2 over a twenty-year period – and the UK has a goal of reducing methane emissions by 30% by 2030 from 2020 levels – this is an issue that needs to be addressed. Ensuring safety as the gas blend changes.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2023

Source: CHFCA The comic doesn’t mention that the majority of hydrogen produced in North America comes from natural gas , which is not only non-renewable, but creates more emissions than simply burning fossil fuels directly. Greenwashing efforts deliberately aimed at children is nothing new for the fossil fuel sector.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

That said, not all forms of the gas are equally clean, depending on how it is produced. Brown, black and grey H2, for instance, are all produced using processes with fossil fuels, such as coal or natural gas.   They made the discovery while attempting to find a source of methane in the north-eastern part of the country.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The analysis shows that the production, transport, and storage of food are driving greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to those of the EU and Russia combined. Ultra processed foods like snacks, drinks and ready meals, along with chemical fertilisers made from natural gas, are singled out as major sources of pollution.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Decarbonizing Oil and Gas Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, responsible for more than one quarter of the warming we are experiencing today, and global oil and gas production is a major source of methane emissions. 19 of the top 20 publicly traded companies have set methane targets.

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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. Industries reliant on methane gas continue to expand their footprint, despite bipartisan discussions about the need to develop climate solutions.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

Further research by DeSmog has shown that Eni’s company magazine Ecos made repeated references to climate change during the late 1980s and 1990s — while running advertising campaigns promoting natural gas, which is mostly comprised of planet-warming methane, as a “clean” fuel. ‘Friend Methane!

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 25, 2024

If the federal and provincial governments live up to their climate commitments (namely on methane reduction, industrial carbon pricing, an emissions cap and ensuring that new LNG projects reach net zero on scope 1 and 2 emissions), over eight Site C’s worth of additional electricity would be required to electrify the six LNG projects in B.C.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 17, 2021

New research on blue hydrogen (produced from natural gas with carbon capture and storage), published by scientists at Cornell and Stanford, finds that its carbon intensity may be higher than previously thought. The latest research also demonstrates that clean electricity can substantially reduce the carbon intensity of blue hydrogen.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

Diverse compounds are emitted by everything from motor vehicles to power plants, and include both greenhouse gases and short-lived climate pollutants – which are known to fuel global warming – as well as a host of volatile organic compounds that can lead to short- and long-term health problems in humans.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Often valid concepts in and of themselves, the problem lies in how they are touted as enviro-friendly actions while companies fail to cut their contribution to global heating. With the term climate neutrality comes a contentious new way of calculating the emissions of methane, called the “global warming potential star”, or GWP*.

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CleanTX

MARCH 20, 2019

Joint effort focuses on developing technologies and management practices to accelerate reductions of methane emissions across the global oil and gas industry. The agreement enables joint collaboration on projects that test technologies and emerging strategies to continue to improve methane management.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

carbon hydrogen produced globally in 2030 will come from coal and natural gas with carbon sequestration. Hydrogen will be increasingly blended into natural gas for distribution to homes and industry. The IEA projects that about half of low?carbon According to the U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 24, 2021

As states achieve their climate goals, natural gas infrastructure once deemed useful may no longer be necessary, and that transition will accelerate over the next decade depending on how fast end uses of the gas system, such as heating and cooking, are electrified. Recent research shows that estimated U.S.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Transport & Environment research finds trucks running on natural gas are no better for the climate than diesel trucks. The Graz University of Technology tested a conventional diesel truck manufactured by Italian transport firm Iveco, and compared its greenhouse gas and other emissions to that of an LNG Iveco truck.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

IEA warns that methane emissions from the global energy sector fell only fractionally last year, despite projects to cut methane leaks providing hugely attractive returns on investment By rights methane emissions from the fossil fuel industry should be one of the easiest climate problems to fix. There is just no excuse.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

They study glaciers and global temperature changes, climate solutions and adaptation, the oceans and the human influence on global warming. Another ad features miniature power plants to promote “cleaner electricity” from natural gas, whose methane emissions are a major driver of rising global temperatures.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Doing so is essential to limiting global warming to 1.5 Hydrogen doesn’t emit greenhouse gases when burned and can be made by using renewable electricity to bust up water molecules (although most hydrogen today is made with natural gas, through a process called steam methane reforming).

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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. threshold, worsening global heating. Meat and dairy companies are climate killers.

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