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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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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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. natural gas production comes from federal leases in the Gulf of Mexico, according to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.

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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

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

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

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. BBC StoryWorks has also worked extensively with other polluting transport companies.

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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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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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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

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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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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Grist

APRIL 5, 2021

Amy Townsend-Small has been chasing methane her entire professional life. Sniffing out the potent greenhouse gas, which traps 86 times as much heat as carbon dioxide after it’s emitted into the atmosphere, has required her to breathalyze cows and take chemical measurements at large manure lagoons. Christopher Collins.

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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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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

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 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

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The decision has outraged residents who’ve lived with the pollution tied to Coterra Energy’s previous fracking activity and endured over a decade in which they’ve lacked access to clean water for their homes. in 2021 — to household water pollution, banning the company from drilling new natural gas wells in the area entirely.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The fracked natural gas industry has never been the most responsible or efficient consumer of resources. Drillers are using ever-increasing amounts of water and sand in order to produce the same volume of gas, with a corresponding rise in the levels of solid and liquid waste created. But what does RSG really mean? What Is RSG?

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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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Energy Central

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

methane loss rate from the total natural gas produced; by contrast, the loss rate for the. The D-J Basin exhibited a 1.7%

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The Verge: Energy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Screenshot: Rhodium Group You’ve funded technologies that some activists call “ false solutions ” to climate change because capturing carbon doesn’t get rid of fossil fuels or the other pollution they cause. Fossil fuels create not just carbon dioxide emissions, but other pollution. How do you address those concerns with climate tech?

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EDF + Business

JUNE 15, 2023

As clean energy grows, risks to the oil and gas industry are evolving at a rapid pace. Natural gas pipelines are ubiquitous throughout the United States and pipeline leaks are a safety risk, a waste of a valuable energy resource, and a source of methane pollution that accelerates climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Products now include: high precision greenhouse gas analysers for trace level and soil flux monitoring of CO2, CH4 and N2O; stable isotope analysers for liquid water, water vapour and CO2/N2O; and micro-pulse LIDAR systems that can identify and measure dust and aerosols in a vertical column through the troposphere up to 25 km, in addition to dynamically (..)

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 16, 2023

fossil fuel firms are pushing to build more than 2,900 miles of natural gas pipelines to feed liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facilities in Louisiana, Texas, and Alaska, in a bid to send more of the fuel to Asia and Europe, a new analysis by Global Energy Monitor shows. natural gas pipeline construction through 2026.

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The Verge: Energy

JANUARY 26, 2024

In this marshy coastal region between Texas and Louisiana, the proliferation of liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal projects, massive facilities that receive and liquefy gas from pipelines, then transfer the LNG to ships for export, unsettles residents, who consider the plants to be a threat to their coast.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 20, 2024

billion Rio Grande LNG export terminal project is currently under construction, with building underway on its first three natural gas liquefaction units. If and when it comes online, it will be the largest polluter in the Rio Grande Valley.” (check all that apply) All International UK Sign Up The $18.4

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

I covered developments related to the rapidly expanding petrochemical and LNG export industries, like new facilities that came online this year and rely on fracking new wells to supply the growing demand for natural gas, which is mostly methane. For instance, Air Products claims that its proposed $4.5 Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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