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The oil industry is once again winning the messaging war to mislead the public about the true nature of its business. Methane is getting significant media attention these days due to the launch of a new methane-detecting satellite and new U.S. methane...
by Justin Mikulka
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on Fri Apr 05, 2024 at 07:38 AM PDT
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April is Earth Month, at least, unofficially. And, what with Earth Month and Earth Day 2024 both coming up, it might not be a bad idea to start getting prepared today on ways to cut down on the different types of waste we create. Having said that, I...
by Alan Kandel
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on Sat Mar 30, 2024 at 01:15 PM PDT
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Republicans hated the Inflation Reduction Act and its climate-friendly provisions from the get-go. Not a single GOP senator or representative voted for it in 2022. Over the past few years, a number of congressional Republicans have given up outright...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Mar 24, 2024 at 08:00 AM PDT
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Yesterday I toured oil production sides in the Permian region of Texas with Sharon Wilson and Miguel Escoto from Oilfield Witness. For years, Sharon has been using her FLIR camera to make the invisible methane emissions from oil production visible and...
by Justin Mikulka
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on Thu Mar 14, 2024 at 06:31 AM PDT
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Ice-breaking tankers are essential, especially for the Arctic LNG 2 project, which will send LNG to Asian countries. With the US sanctions, Novatek is finding it very difficult to recover the tankers built by the Koreans. So, Russia is in a bind. Herve...
by Pakalolo
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on Tue Mar 05, 2024 at 08:14 AM PST
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Rod Lamberts wrote a decade ago: If there’s one thing decades of advertising, public relations, psychology research and science communication have taught us, it’s that throwing facts at opposing opinions with the hope of changing people’s minds is like...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Mar 03, 2024 at 08:00 AM PST
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Have you seen the latest messaging from the oil and gas industry public relations machine on LNG exports? At Heatmap we are told that if we want to know if LNG is bad or good that, “The answer depends on where it’s going and what it’s replacing.” Which...
by Justin Mikulka
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on Wed Feb 07, 2024 at 07:26 AM PST
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Last week President Biden announced a halt on permitting new LNG (liquified natural gas) export terminals, pending evaluation of their effect on the climate crisis. He made that decision for strategic reasons having to do with planetary heating, fossil...
by dratler
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on Sun Jan 28, 2024 at 11:20 AM PST
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The spotlight is a weekly, categorized compilation of links and excerpts from environmentally related posts at Daily Kos. Any posts included in the collection do not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of them. Because of the...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Jan 28, 2024 at 08:30 AM PST
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Over a decade ago, massive craters emerged in the Siberian permafrost. Reindeer herders in 2013 discovered the largest of the cylindrical and mysterious features first found in 2012. The Deryabinsky crater explosion was heard by indigenous villagers...
by Pakalolo
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on Tue Jan 16, 2024 at 04:10 AM PST
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Climate change is proving very costly. One of those new costs is the need for additional electrical generation capacity during peak load emergencies such as the one in which we now find ourselves. We have gone for well over a century thinking that we...
by Art Smart
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on Mon Jan 15, 2024 at 03:38 AM PST
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The Biden administration Friday announced the nation’s first move in curbing greenhouse gas emissions with plans to fine oil and gas companies for excess methane pollution. The potent gas contributes 80 times more pollution than carbon dioxide, which...
by boatsie
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on Fri Jan 12, 2024 at 02:43 PM PST
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From Inside Climate News 12.23.23 Reducing Methane From Livestock Is Critical for Stabilizing the Climate, but Congress Continues to Block Farms From Reporting Emissions Agriculture, largely livestock production, accounts for about 37 percent of global...
by TheShortSwede
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on Sat Dec 23, 2023 at 11:30 AM PST
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COP28 started with high hopes, but is now bogged down over a word. Will it be a “phase down” of Fossil Foolishness, per the weakening OPEC and Russia, or a “phase out” per the rest of the ...
by Mokurai
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on Tue Dec 12, 2023 at 09:00 AM PST
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US Climate Envoy John Kerry says he is aware of a sense of urgency in Dubai as delegates from nearly 200 nations convene for COP28.
“People will measure who steps up and who doesn’t,” he said .
by boatsie
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on Wed Dec 06, 2023 at 01:35 PM PST
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The methane or “natural” gas industry has known for a century that its product isn't safe. Thankfully, though, journalist Rebecca Leber has done a great job of exposing the industry's extensive propaganda, from making "cooking with gas" a thing to...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
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on Tue Nov 07, 2023 at 06:29 AM PST
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A new study by a team of NASA scientists researching large-scale climate change in Alaska and Canada, a project of NASA's Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE), found significant methane hotspots over the burn scars from wildfires in Alaska’s...
by Pakalolo
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on Thu Nov 09, 2023 at 07:07 AM PST
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These kinds of events below are happening all over the world every day and most of them, now, are webcast and archived, sometimes even with accurate transcripts. Would be good to have a place that helped people access them. This is a more global...
by gmoke
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on Sat Oct 28, 2023 at 02:01 PM PDT
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The latest report from the International Energy Agency is far from the first to point out the need to cut methane emissions. As a result of ever-more grim climate reports, two years ago at the COP26 climate, more than 100 nations signed a pledge to cut...
by Meteor Blades
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on Wed Oct 11, 2023 at 01:00 PM PDT
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Workers are dying in U.S. oilfields and the industry is not taking steps to prevent these deaths. Manual gauging and sampling aka "thieving" is when workers open tank hatches to determine liquid levels in the tanks and to sample fluids. When the...
by TXsharon
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on Sat Aug 19, 2023 at 02:21 PM PDT
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