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Natural Gas Isn’t Burning Nearly As Cleanly As We Thought

March 22, 2024 admin Alberta, Canada, carbon emissions, clean power, climate change, Energy, Fossil Fuels, green economy, investment, methane, natural gas, Oil

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2024 15:35:18 +0000

Remember those golden days when natural gas was a clean-burning bridge fuel, a nice way to reduce emissions as we ditched coal and switched to renewables? It was such a pleasant fantasy, while it lasted. Remember how the USA has a shared dream that it has world-beating emissions reductions because … [continued]

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Politics & The Transition Away From Fossil Fuels

March 21, 2024 admin Fossil Fuels, heather cox richardson, heritage society, policy & politics, project 2025, timothy snyder

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 22:47:53 +0000

Fossil fuels will be prioritized by a second Trump administration as any pretense at reducing carbon and methane emissions is abandoned.

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The Ocean Plastic Pollution Battle Has Just Begun

March 21, 2024 admin Activists, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, disney, environmental activism, Fossil Fuels, INTERVIEWS, National Geographic, nature, nature photography, ocean plastic, ocean pollution, oceans, offshore oil drilling, Plastic, plastic pollution, plastic waste, recycling, waste reduction, Water

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 16:25:18 +0000

After decades of foot-dragging by petrochemical stakeholders, solutions to the ocean plastic pollution crisis are beginning to emerge.

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Joint Statement by the U.S. & EU following 11th U.S.–EU Energy Council

March 21, 2024 admin clean power, clean transport, Electric vehicles, energy security, EU, Europe, Fossil Fuels, natural gas, policy & politics, Russia, Solar energy, Ukraine, wind energy

Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 12:38:02 +0000

The text of the following statement was released by the Government of the United States of America and European Union. The eleventh United States–European Union (EU) Energy Council (“Council”) met [on Friday] in Washington, chaired by U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy David M. … [continued]

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Fossil Fuels Broke The Environment. Who Should Pay To Fix It?

March 20, 2024 admin climate change, Flooding, Fossil Fuels, global heating, insurance industry, policy & politics, wild fires

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2024 18:59:05 +0000

Fossil fuels continue to dominate our lives even though they are causing harm to our communities. Isn’t it time to stop using them?

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Climate Criminals — Prosecuting Big Oil For Environmental Crimes

March 19, 2024 admin climate change, criminal law, Fossil Fuels, policy & politics, Public Citizen

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2024 16:05:04 +0000

A shocking new theory suggests that Big Oil could be criminally prosecuted for a number of climate crimes in state courts.

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India’s Report Card Against Short List Of Climate Actions Is Better Than Most Realize

March 19, 2024 admin air quality, biofuels, carbon emissions, carbon pricing, clean power, clean transport, climate change, Coal, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, Energy, Energy Storage, ev sales, Fossil Fuels, green economy, grid, hydroelectric, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, India, india solar power, investment, Manufacturing, mass transit / public transit, motorcycles + scooters, natural gas, nuclear energy, Oil, policy & politics, pumped hydro storage, renewable energy, Smart Grid, Solar energy, subsidies, trains / rail, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 22:59:51 +0000

For several years I’ve been iterating The Short List of Climate Actions That Will Work. The work of organizations like Mark Z. Jacobson’s Stanford team around energy and Carbon Drawdown’s around everything are excellent in different ways, but also indigestible to most people. The short list really is that. It’s … [continued]

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CCS Redux: Carbon Engineering’s Diesel? Just Put Electricity Into Tesla Semi Instead

March 18, 2024 admin biofuels, Canada, Carbon Capture, carbon capture (ccs), carbon emissions, carbon engineering, clean power, clean transport, climate change, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, Energy, Fossil Fuels, green economy, investment, Oil, renewable energy, Shipping, Solar energy, tesla, tesla semi, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 17:44:35 +0000

For the same energy inputs you could travel 3 times as far for a 5th the CO2 emissions and well under half the cost in an electric truck.

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Winter Storms Have Disrupted U.S. Natural Gas Production

March 16, 2024 admin Extreme weather, Fossil Fuels, global weirding, natural gas, us natural gas

Credit to Author: US Energy Information Administration| Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 03:35:52 +0000

Over the last four winters, winter storms Uri (February 2021), Elliott (December 2022), and most recently, Heather (January 2024) interrupted weekly U.S. natural gas production by more than 15 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d), according to daily estimates from S&P Global Commodity Insights. These declines were the largest interruptions … [continued]

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5 Signs To Spot Anti-Cleantech Propaganda From Seemingly Innocuous Sources

March 14, 2024 admin Fossil Fuels, fud, Media, wind energy

Credit to Author: Scott Cooney| Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 19:47:46 +0000

It’s an election year, so, well, everything must be viewed skeptically. So it was that recently an ad popped up purporting to stand up for free speech, which, according to the ad, knows no political colors. Hm. Cool. Seems innocuous. What could possibly go wrong, right? I checked out their … [continued]

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