The announcement this morning by President Obama of a revised target for US methane emissions is not just another gimmick to shackle the American oil and gas industry. Nor is it new. Back in 1971, the world’s scientists thought that methane directly affected neither the climate nor the biosphere and … [continued]
Originally published in the ECOreport Only months ago, US GHG emissions seemed to be shrinking. Apologists for natural gas productions seized upon this as proof LNG is a transition fuel to a greener economy in the future. The latest U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) report shows this trend has reversed itself. … [continued]
Almost everyone in the media has taken a stab at summarizing, if not snap-judging, the results of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s one-day UN climate summit last week. The meeting had a real name, but Robert N. Stavins in his New York Times runup to the conference was the only writer I … [continued]
The only active landfill in Vermont, located in Coventry, Vt., is going solar—in stride with the rising trend of landfill solar development across the United States.
Just in time for the Energy Department’s ARPA-E Agency to sink $30 million into transformative technologies for measuring methane emissions, along comes a gigantic new market for natural gas: diapers. So weird! It turns out that methane-to-propylene is a thing, and propylene is a precursor to the polymers used in … [continued]
Originally published on ThinkProgress. By Joe Romm. The evidence is mounting that natural gas has no net climate benefit in any timescale that matters to humanity. In the real world, natural gas is not a “bridge” fuel to a carbon-free economy for two key reasons. First, natural gas is mostly methane, … [continued]
The US natural gas system leaks far more methane than had been estimated previously, according to a new report that synthesizes the results of more than 200 different studies across a number of different fields of research. This work comprises the first thorough comparison of evidence on natural gas system … [continued]
Editor’s note: By the excellent Joe Romm of Climate Progress, here’s more on why natural gas is not included as cleantech in CleanTechnica’s book, and is even much worse than hyped by the natural gas industry, politicians on both sides of the aisle, and even the EPA: A major new study … [continued]
Originally published on Climate Progress by Joe Romm The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports that methane (CH4) is far more potent a greenhouse gas than we had previously realized. This matters to the fracking debate because methane leaks throughout the lifecycle of unconventional gas. Natural gas is, after … [continued]
This article was originally published on the indispensable climate and energy blog Climate Progress. By Joe Romm If you liked the Oscar-nominated fracking exposé “Gasland” by Josh Fox, you’ll love the sequel Gasland, Part II, which is being broadcast on HBO Monday night. I think it’s a better movie, more entertaining … [continued]
