Envirotec Magazine

JULY 14, 2021

Researchers have developed a new sensor that they suggest could allow practical and low cost detection of low concentrations of methane gas. Measuring methane emissions is important because the gas contributes to global warming and air pollution. Relevant sectors include agriculture and the waste industry.

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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. Meanwhile, Google is using AI to map oil and gas infrastructure to create a global map of pollution sources.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 5, 2025

percent of the worlds carbon dioxide pollution alone in 2023, the report found. For the first time, instead of attributing the build-up of industrial carbon dioxide and methane emissions to each of the worlds nations, Heede managed to trace those emissions to 90 specific carbon major companies.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The problem for multinational oil companies seeking to extract that oil is whats mixed in with it: trillions of cubic feet of methane, often referred to as natural gas. Handling natural gas off the coast of Suriname and Guyana poses major challenges and involves significant environmental risk, however.

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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. In short, if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. . These home-grown satellites are a game-changer.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 2, 2020

Earlier this year, Pacific Gas & Electric faced pushback from environmental and solar and energy storage industry groups to a plan to deploy natural gas generators to back up communities facing multi-day fire-prevention blackouts. Natural gas vs. diesel vs. solar-storage.

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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. This clean-burning fuel is made from natural gas, with carbon capture technology used to trap emissions released during the process.

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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. Methane is a highly potent greenhouse gas — more than 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide over a 20-year time-frame. That’s equivalent to about 5% of the U.S.

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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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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. This is the first large investigation of methane leakage from oil and gas sites in Europe. CATF is based in Boston but recently launched a European office.

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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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EDF + Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

By Ben Ratner At the behest of the American Petroleum Institute, the Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to eliminate nationwide limits on methane pollution, sending America’s natural gas industry backwards to the days of uncontrolled emissions. America’s natural gas industry is no different.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 25, 2021

The powerful climate pollutant methane is leaking out of dozens of oil and gas wells, pipelines, and storage tanks in Romania, adding to a growing body of evidence that methane leaks are widespread and pervasive in Europe. He visited 26 oil wells, 25 of which were leaking methane. The climate can no longer wait.”.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2022

The newly enacted Inflation Reduction Act contains the world’s first-ever fee on methane, a powerful greenhouse gas believed to be responsible for roughly 30 percent of global temperature rise since the Industrial Revolution. billion in financial incentives to clean up their methane.”

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 30, 2023

Combined, these instruments will provide Ashtead’s customers with a complete choice of technologies for the measurement of methane and other gases in applications such as landfill, biogas, contaminated land, petrochem, gas leaks, gas utilities and wastewater.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Instead, most oil and gas policies in the IEEFA database are exceedingly narrowly focused on removing extreme project finance (tar sands and arctic drilling) which still leaves room for everything else under the sun. It also means industries like utilities and auto manufacturers that make up the bulk of demand for oil and gas.

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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

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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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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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. can open the door.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MAY 29, 2024

  In doing so, this eliminated worries that heavily polluting fuels like coal could be used to power H2 producing processes. However, the rules haven’t been strict enough to stop natural gas (methane) and other fossil fuels from being considered, despite the pollution that they still emit.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JULY 13, 2024

Automakers and industries aren’t the only polluters looking to decarbonize while giving hydrogen combustion some consideration. This includes the production of the H2 itself, which can be done cleanly, but that currently most commonly involves the use of natural gas and other fossil fuels. What have they found so far?

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

All of these stories echo what environmental justice advocates ( and CEG ) have been shouting for months: hydrogen is not a viable fuel for power generation, and it certainly shouldn’t be used as a reason to extend the life of polluting power plants. This methane does not diffuse out of the metal and cracks the steel.

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Defend Our Future

JUNE 24, 2021

On June 15th, I joined environmental justice advocates from across the country at a listening session hosted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to share how methane pollution has impacted our community in Phoenix. We must work together to cut methane pollution from the oil and gas sector before it’s too late.

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EDF + Business

DECEMBER 1, 2021

EPA proposed new regulations to reduce methane and other harmful air pollution from new and existing sources in the oil and natural gas industry. New EPA rules would significantly reduce methane emissions from oil and gas facilities. In November 2021, the U.S. Read the Guide. per barrel annually. Sign Up.

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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. Sarcastically, he thanked the room of “polluters” for destroying Louisiana’s coastline. “On The greenwashing term for it is liquefied natural gas.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 1, 2023

Power plants are the second-largest source of greenhouse gases in the United States, and the pollution standards, which are open for public comment until August 8, will mark a new milestone in climate action. National policy must avoid imprudent attempts to make ‘great leaps forward,’” declared Philip Sporn in 1967.

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EDF + Business

MARCH 3, 2023

By Sean Hackett Sean Hackett EDF+Business Senior Manager Energy Transition EPA’s recent comment period for proposed regulations to address methane emissions from the U.S. oil and gas industry resulted in historic industry support to reduce this extremely potent greenhouse gas. What did operators and investors tell EPA?

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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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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The tricky part with hydrogen is cleaning up pollution from the process of making it. Most hydrogen today is made using fossil fuels, and a few of the new hubs will continue using gas to produce hydrogen. The alternative to electrolysis is a process called steam-methane reforming.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2023

As Louisiana attempts to spew less climate-warming pollution, which disproportionately comes from industry, fossil-fuel companies have convinced lawmakers to jump onto the bandwagon of carbon capture and storage (CCS), a controversial and unproven method of addressing the issue. exporters of liquified natural gas.

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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. What’s the pollution?’”

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EDF + Business

MARCH 6, 2023

ESG By EDF: Actionable Insights for a Decarbonizing World MethaneSAT: A New Era of Transparency for Methane Measurement Environmental Defense Fund’s MethaneSAT will fill critical gaps in the capabilities of existing methane satellites and be a powerful tool to accelerate climate action.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Lem is now one of the applicants in a recent false advertising complaint against the Canadian Gas Association, which has been running ads in the Globe & Mail and on Facebook describing natural gas as “clean-burning” and a “smart choice” for people’s homes. Read more about the campaign in this DeSmog story ). Source: CAPE.

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Grist

MARCH 8, 2021

When shipping giant Maersk announced last month it would operate a “carbon-neutral” vessel by 2023, the Danish company committed to using a fuel that’s made from renewable sources, is free of soot-forming pollutants — and is currently in scarce supply. But those vessels use conventional methanol, which is made from coal or natural gas.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Meat emits around a third of global emissions of methane, and action to cut this greenhouse gas has been identified by the UN and world leaders as the quickest route to slowing global heating. All these methods work to improve the soil, reduce air and water pollution, cut emissions, and boost biodiversity.

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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! ‘Friend Methane!

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