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Why Energy Bills Will Be Even Higher This Winter

Union of Concerned Scientists

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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Gregory L. Ebel: The Pipeline Pusher

Enviromental Defense

He’s perfected the art of spinning “naturalgas, a fossil fuel, and liquified natural gas (LNG) as transition fuels, despite a thorough debunking. Naturalgas is a fossil fuel that’s bad for the climate and harmful to human health, but you wouldn’t know it from the gas industry’s branding.

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A Quick Science Refresher on Greenhouse Gas

Greenbuilding Law

EPA tells us succinctly, Carbon dioxide is the primary greenhouse gas emitted through human activities. In 2020, carbon dioxide accounted for about 79% of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions from human activities. greenhouse gas emissions from human activities. emission trends. But reduce what to what?

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New Study Finds Low Awareness Among Ontarians About Eco-friendly Technologies that can Cut Energy Bills

Enviromental Defense

And, kicking gas out of your home is good for your health and the climate. Gas is made mostly of methane – a climate-damaging fossil fuel that is over 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Between 2005–2019, heat pump use increased by just one per cent, from four to five per cent of Canadian homes.

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DEP Blog: Ten Tools To Take On Climate Change In Pennsylvania

PA Environment Daily

We emitted about 269 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2018 (the latest year for which data are available), with industry, electricity production, and transportation the largest sources. Pennsylvania is acting to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.

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How Much Land Would it Require to Get Most of Our Electricity from Wind and Solar?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Acknowledging that the United States is a leading contributor to carbon emissions, the Biden administration has committed to cutting US emissions 50 to 52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030.

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Carbon Storage in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill

Law Columbia

To the extent those sectors continue emitting carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, those gases will need to be captured prior to release into the atmosphere. This necessarily raises the question: what should be done with all of the carbon dioxide? to 2 o C target set in the Paris Agreement. Outer Continental Shelf.