Today, the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) approved the permit application for Enbridge, a multibillion-dollar Canadian oil giant, to run the Line 5 oil tunnel in the Straits of Mackinac. This decision ignores the years-long opposition to the proposed tunnel project from Michiganders and people across the Great … [continued]
Louisiana Approved the Marais Pipeline Coastal Use Permit without Legally Required Impacts Analysis Today, Louisiana Bucket Brigade, Fisherman Involved in Sustaining our Heritage (FISH), and Sierra Club filed a lawsuit in the 38th Judicial District in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, challenging the coastal use permit issued by the Louisiana Department of Conservation and Energy … [continued]
The public debate around the Canadian Smith Carney memorandum of understanding (MOU) has focused on what appears to be a federal retreat on climate policy in exchange for support for a new crude oil pipeline. That surface reading is easy to reach in the first hours and days of commentary. … [continued]
Instead of getting more natural gas from elsewhere in the US, New Jersey is growing its own offshore wind industry and a new clean hydrogen hub, too.
May 5, 2023 - The research trio of (left) Michael Talmadge, Eric Tan, and Abhijit Dutta specialize in process modeling for the thermocatalytic conversion of biomass, as a sub-team of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s (NREL’s) Economic, Sustainability and Market Analysis (ESMA) group. (Photo by Bryan Bechtold / NREL)
The Hague eyes green hydrogen to boost the considerable offshore wind profile of The Netherlands while deploying existing infrastructure to overcome transmission bottlenecks.
Opponents of the Mountain Valley pipeline have lost a round in the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, but are determined to fight on.
Who would have thought that a report bought and paid for by pipeline builders and operators, staffed with people with a strong bias toward molecules for energy would have found exactly what the buyers wanted?
We’ve mined enormous amounts of iron and coal in order to build infrastructure to extract, process, refine, and distribute fossil fuels, and we’re going to have lots of scrap steel to work with.
I don’t think I have to explain the problem with oil leaks from pipelines, but fewer people know about the problem of methane (aka “natural gas”) leaks. Not only is loose methane in the atmosphere bad for people and animals who breathe it in, but it’s also a much more … [continued]
Developers of the already behind schedule and over-budget Mountain Valley Pipeline are hoping to head off mounting opposition to the controversial 300-mile project by promising to “offset” the greenhouse gas pollution caused by the gas pipeline’s future operations. The offsets will not cover any methane releases from the extraction of the gas … [continued]
