Circle of Blue

AUGUST 3, 2021

But as the market grows, some urge caution before using wastewater to create renewable natural gas. Like all other industries, the clock is ticking for the sector to cut its carbon pollution, given President Joe Biden’s goal to halve the country’s greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050. How It Works.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2023

According to The Global Carbon Project , approximately 36.6 billion global carbon dioxide emissions in 2022 came from fossil fuel use. Don’t Gas Africa is pushing back on the narrative that investment in fossil fuels is good for the surrounding area. billion tons of the 40.5

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Inside Climate News

JULY 18, 2024

The Big Sky State hopes to get federal incentives to store captured carbon under public lands, but for many residents near the project, the threat is greater than the opportunity.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Their study examined the carbon dioxide and methane emissions from these companies’ products, as well as from the extraction and production processes of the largest gas, oil and coal producers and cement manufacturers. Data on the major carbon producers’ emissions have been published since 2014.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

“ Natural” gas is not clean or green, as its misleading name implies Every reputable environmental organization and energy agency around the world is saying we can’t build new gas projects if we want to avoid complete climate chaos. Like I said, fossil gas is bad! Three Ways We Can Turn Off Polluting “Natural” Gas 1.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

These higher costs are being driven by a major overreliance on natural gas, which has sharply spiked in price and is currently the dominant fuel source in the US for both home heating and electricity generation. Likewise, pipeline giant Williams Companies now refers to its gas projects as “clean energy” projects.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2023

On October 17, the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee held an informational briefing on Project Canary , a company that measures, analyzes and reports on methane emissions from natural gas production and distribution infrastructure.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 10, 2023

Furthermore, hydrogen as a true decarbonization pathway hinges on the fuel being generated in a way that is carbon-free. Today, most hydrogen is produced from fossil (“natural”) gas. However, a 2022 investigation by Global Witness found that the plant actually emits more carbon dioxide than it captures.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

There are different regulations and often different regulators for impacts from coal mining on public lands, private lands, carbon dioxide emissions from combustion, methane emissions from mines, particular emissions, sulfur dioxide emissions, etc. Fossil fuels are a case in point. Consider coal.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $45 million in funding for 12 projects to advance point-source carbon capture and storage technologies that can capture at least 95% of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions generated from natural gas power and industrial facilities that produce commodities like cement and steel.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 26, 2024

Second, fossil-based hydrogen production: today, the overwhelming majority of hydrogen is produced via steam methane reforming, which uses methane—natural gas—as the feedstock. Steam methane reforming is a heavily polluting process, generating high levels of carbon dioxide emissions as well as public health pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 12, 2022

Energy Information Administration released its latest Short-Term Energy Outlook which projects solar and wind renewable energy’s share of electricity generation will keep rising and lead to a decline in natural gas generation. ‘We Natural Gas Prices “In March, the Henry Hub natural gas spot price averaged $4.90

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

What’s most remarkable is that the decision calls for a 45% reduction of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions–of not only its own but also those of its customers–within less than a decade. C with limited or no overshoot project the use of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) on the order of 100–1000 GtCO2 over the 21st century.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Production of nitrogen fertilizers requires ammonia, which is produced through a highly energy-intensive process called Haber-Bosch and fueled by natural gas. Russia is a major supplier of the gas used in the production of nitrogen fertilizers, and also produces about 21 percent of the world’s potash. Where do we go from here?

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

made from natural gas from Noon to 1:00 p.m. Currently, most hydrogen is produced by steam reforming of methane in natural gas (‘gray hydrogen’), with high carbon dioxide emissions. The featured speaker will be Dr. Robert Howarth , the David R. It’s Up To The Feds [PaEN] -- Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 3, 2024

On September 27, ADM notified EPA they would be temporarily pausing carbon dioxide inspections after discovering a potential brine fluid leak in their second monitoring well. Local officials found out about the leaks on September 13 based on news media reports. Read more here. Read more here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 17, 2023

Yet, in 2022, almost 40% of electricity in the US was generated by power plants fueled by natural gas. Note: “Natural gas” is an industry misnomer; UCS considers methane, fossil gas, and gas to be much more appropriate terms. I’ll be using the term “gas” from here on out.) And now, as the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 25, 2023

Biogas is the direct product of anaerobic digestion, primarily comprised of a mixture of methane and carbon dioxide, plus much smaller amounts of other gases. When biogas is processed to remove carbon dioxide and those other gases, it becomes biomethane, also sometimes referred to as “renewable natural gas.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2022

Just as important, cleaning up the power grid also lowers carbon dioxide emissions. Reducing fossil fuel use under the 100-percent RES policy cuts alliance state power plant carbon dioxide emissions by 58 percent below 2020 levels by 2040. Our 100-percent RES scenario triggers a significant decline in fossil fuel use.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 30, 2023

Some of those changes, like cheaper natural gas due to greater use of fracking, helped emissions decline under Obama. The social cost of carbon is an estimate of the harm done by one additional ton of carbon dioxide. That would have been equivalent to eliminating all emissions for six months of Bush’s term.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 9, 2023

People should be celebrating, not demonizing, modern increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). We cannot overstate the importance of the gas. Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler) when he chaired the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee. [At At one hearing, Wrightstone said, “Global warming will save lives.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

In response, Europe has scrambled to replace flows and decouple this dependence , in part by shifting away from gas to clean energy alternatives, in part by increasing local gas production, and in part by turning to imports of liquified natural gas, or LNG—including from the US.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

That requires bringing global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions to net zero by 2050. To meet that goal, the International Energy Agency’s Net Zero Roadmap released in 2021 says no new oil and gas supply projects can come online. degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 26, 2023

LA City Council recently approved LADWP’s request for $800 million in funding to save the Scattergood natural gas plant from decommissioning by retrofitting the plant to combust a blend of natural gas and hydrogen. kg of carbon dioxide emissions. kg of carbon dioxide emissions.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 6, 2023

Therefore, the next few entries in this series discuss the various potential uses for hydrogen and their utility in advancing climate goals, starting with the combustion of hydrogen in natural gas plants. Lewis, Emissions of NOx from blending of hydrogen and natural gas in space heating boilers. Wright, Alastair C.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Unfortunately, the very source of the TVA’s grid failure during Winter Storm Elliott in the winter of 2022 is the same source of energy that the TVA is now doubling down on : gas. Note: “Natural gas” is an industry misnomer; UCS considers methane, fossil gas, and gas to be much more appropriate terms for this energy source.)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Just how bad is fossil “natural” gas? Responsible for 12 percent of all US global warming emissions from human activities, methane traps significantly more heat per molecule than carbon dioxide, making it 86 times more harmful for the first 20 years after it is released into the atmosphere.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2024

for air quality, waste, and oil and gas violations related to the uncontrolled gas release from Equitrans’ Rager Mountain natural gas storage field and George L Reade 1 storage well in November 2022. billion cubic feet of gas was released at the facility in uncontrolled venting. Read more here. Read more here.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 27, 2025

Similar to other challenges against local natural gas bans, the plaintiffs in this 2023 lawsuit argued that the federal Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) preempted Local Law 154. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, held that EPCA preempted a Berkeley ordinance that prohibited natural gas piping in new buildings.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 24, 2022

For more details, see my recent collaboration with the International Council on Clean Transportation on Setting a lipids fuel cap under the California low carbon fuel standard. Biomethane – Just as vegetable oils are used by oil companies to greenwash oil refineries, biomethane serves a similar role greenwashing natural gas.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

NextEra operates a natural gas plant and several solar facilities in Maine, while Calpine and Vistra run natural gas plants in the state. On the other hand, advocates for the transmission line say it is a vital springboard to a low-carbon future.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 30, 2022

CT , the Supreme Court said this: We hold that the Clean Air Act and the EPA actions it authorizes displace any federal common law right to seek abatement of carbon-dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel fired power plants. at 528–529. Post, at 20. We answered no, given the existence of Section 111(d). American Elec. Power , 564 U.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Carbon capture : a license to pollute Oil and gas companies like to paint a picture of a future where we can still have oil and gas production, but where power plants and oil refineries can capture carbon dioxide from smokestacks and bury them deep in the ground. On top of that, not all hydrogen is created equal.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Each credit one metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalent pollution below the standard. I’ve written recently about why a Cap on Vegetable Oil-Based Fuels Will Stabilize and Strengthen California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard , which addresses the bio-based diesel credits. Source California Air Resources Board.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2022

However, on the narrow but important issue of carbon dioxide emissions, an acre of solar panels appears to offset more emissions each year than an acre planted with trees can sequester. metric tons of carbon dioxide per year. What about the carbon that is released when an acre of forest is removed?

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 5, 2022

compressed natural gas, solar, hydroelectric, wind). volume mixing ratio), together with a number of trace gases, such as argon (0.93% volume mixing ratio), helium, radiatively active greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (0.035% volume mixing ratio), and ozone. volume mixing ratio) and oxygen (20.9%

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2021

Hydropower generation across California and the American West has declined in this extremely dry year, meaning that electricity providers will lean more heavily on natural gas, solar, and wind power. In recent years, systems began capturing energy from that biogas and using it to produce electricity or natural gas.

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