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Emissions by the Big Utilities: Where They Are, What They’re Aiming For

Legal Planet

It turns out that most of them are 50-60% reliant on fossil fuels, with a lot of the remainder coming from nuclear and hydro. However, there are important differences in the mix of gas and coal in generation, which matters a lot since coal-fired generators emit much more carbon per kilowatt. Fossil Fuel Use.

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Clean Hydrogen: How It’s Produced and What We Can Do with It

Law and Environment

SMR requires steam, heat, and pressure to convert methane (in natural gas) to hydrogen and carbon monoxide. SMR is a high-carbon process that uses fossil fuels for process heat. They typically refer to fossil SMR hydrogen as “ grey ” hydrogen. How is hydrogen produced today?

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DEP Awards $1.5 Million To Help Municipalities, Schools, Businesses Switch To Clean Transportation

PA Environment Daily

The grant recipients, ranging from a small borough to rental car, garbage truck, and school bus companies, will replace 88 old gasoline or diesel vehicles with 78 electric and 10 renewable natural gas vehicles and install 36 chargers for electric vehicles.

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Guest Essay: Shell Petrochemical Plant Off To A Bad- And Dangerous- Start In Beaver County

PA Environment Daily

Shell also emitted the dangerous pollutants nitrogen oxides and carbon monoxide from sources at the plant in the final months of 2022 at rates that exceed permit limits. The Shell petrochemicals complex is ground zero for an identity crisis playing out in the fossil fuel space. tons in any consecutive 12-month period).

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The Fuss about Methane

Legal Planet

We most often encounter methane as the largest component of natural gas: methane makes up 75 – 95% of the gas coming to your stove and furnace. Natural gas” was a marketing term for this then-new, safer gas pumped through urban distribution pipes starting in the 1940s. the absence of air.

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Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults

PA Environment Daily

21 to 27 [PaEN] -- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - Jan. 28 PA Bulletin [PaEN] -- DCED’s Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Advisory Council Meets Feb. 21 to 27 [PaEN] -- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - Jan.

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Former Employees Of Eureka Resources Oil & Gas Wastewater Treatment Company Ask For Criminal Investigation Of Eureka And An Audit Of DEP Over Alleged Workplace, Environmental Violations

PA Environment Daily

“Again, this is a very controversial, for some, issue in this building as a bipartisan love affair has existed for the oil and gas petrochemical industry in Pennsylvania for many, many years. “I We have been subjected to continual gas inhalation, methanol byproducts, carbon monoxide, H2S [hydrogen sulfide] gas, etc.,