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Minnesota’s First Renewable Natural Gas Facility Now Operational

Environment + Energy Leader

Today marks the commencement of commercial operations at the first landfill renewable natural gas (RNG) production facility in Minnesota. The post Minnesota’s First Renewable Natural Gas Facility Now Operational appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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More Fossil Natural Gas Won’t Lower High Energy Bills

Union of Concerned Scientists

Reliance on fossil natural gas and the slow adoption of renewable energy contributed to electricity bills in New England in the first nine months of 2022 that are $5 billion higher than the prior year. If all that was supplied by fossil natural gas—which has no price stability—consumers would pay $100,000 more than the norm each day.

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Qatar Fuel Additives Company is Reducing Natural Gas Flaring and Emissions 

Environment + Energy Leader

In 2021, the company completed the construction and commissioning of the Regenerate Gas Scrubber Unit. So far, it is more efficient, reducing flare emissions and minimizing natural gas consumption.

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Qatar Fuel Additives Company is Reducing Natural Gas Flaring and Emissions 

Environment + Energy Leader

In 2021, the company completed the construction and commissioning of the Regenerate Gas Scrubber Unit. So far, it is more efficient, reducing flare emissions and minimizing natural gas consumption.

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Tennessee to be Home to New Renewable Natural Gas Project

Environment + Energy Leader

The post Tennessee to be Home to New Renewable Natural Gas Project appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. Republic Services and Archaea Energy have announced plans for an RNG facility at Middle Point Landfill in Tennessee to be developed through the companies' Lightning Renewables joint venture.

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Tennessee to be Home to New Renewable Natural Gas Project

Environment + Energy Leader

The post Tennessee to be Home to New Renewable Natural Gas Project appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. Republic Services and Archaea Energy have announced plans for an RNG facility at Middle Point Landfill in Tennessee to be developed through the companies' Lightning Renewables joint venture.

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Why High Natural Gas Prices Are So Spooky This Halloween

Union of Concerned Scientists

In response to higher natural gas prices, US utilities are going back to coal instead of ramping up investments in renewables.

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Methane Madness: 5 Reasons Why Natural Gas Doesn’t Belong in a Clean Electricity Payment Program

Union of Concerned Scientists

The Senate just released a federal budget resolution that includes a measure that could subsidize the production of natural gas. Here are 5 reasons why we shouldn't do that.

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Virginia Natural Gas Employee Celebrates Golden Anniversary

3BL Media

It was also the year when Hayden Barry began his career at Virginia Natural Gas. And if you are doing the math in your head, that's 50 years with Virginia Natural Gas (VNG), making him the longest-tenured employee ever with the company. About Virginia Natural Gas. Southern Company Gas serves approximately 4.3

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CNH Industrial Debuts World's First Liquefied Natural Gas Tractor Prototype

3BL Media

New Holland Agriculture , one of our global agricultural brands, presented the T7 Methane Power LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) pre-production prototype tractor. New Holland is the alternative fuels leader in agriculture - having developed the first commercialized Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) tractor - the T6 Methane Power.

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Natural Gas: Abundant, Versatile and Affordable

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: Natural gas is clean-burning and plentiful. Ultimately, natural gas fuels quality of life in thousands of ways. And natural gas will play a key role in a lower-emissions world. and we operate North America’s third-largest natural gas utility by consumer count. SOURCE: Enbridge.

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Cummins Executive Says Renewable Natural Gas Has Potential and Challenges

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: Renewable natural gas from sources like wastewater treatment plants has significant room to grow as a carbon-neutral or even carbon-negative fuel source that is not a fossil fuel. s website, Puneet Singh Jhawar, General Manager of the company’s Global Natural Gas business, says some key challenges remain.

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A Responsible Approach To Benefit Natural Gas Consumers

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: There’s a new acronym to take stock of in the vernacular of Enbridge Gas. We’ve all come to know RNG, or renewable natural gas, very well in the past year or two as we embarked on a number of key initiatives to help manufacture and distribute the clean biogas generated from decomposing organic waste.

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Natural Gas and LNG Are Essential for the Energy Transition, Says Baker Hughes

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: Rod Christie, the President & CEO of Turbomachinery & Process Solutions at Baker Hughes, spoke to Energy Connects during Gastech 2022 about how natural gas will remain vital in providing reliable and efficient energy going forward. We maintain that natural gas is both a transition and a destination fuel.

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Georgia Natural Gas (GNG) Foundation Teams Up With HouseProud Atlanta for the Holidays

3BL Media

Georgia Natural Gas (GNG) Foundation Teams Up With HouseProud Atlanta for the Holidays. This year, the Georgia Natural Gas Foundation is awarding $120,000 to HouseProud Atlanta to support its mission to provide no-cost home repairs to low-income senior, veteran, and disabled homeowners. "We SOURCE Georgia Natural Gas.

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Unveiling the Public Health Burden of Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

Environmental health has always been of concern to me, as it is to many of us.

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Natural Gas and Renewables Will Work Together To Achieve Energy Independence

3BL Media

In reality, the path forward is more complex, as renewable development will rely on natural gas both as a back-up and for growth and development of new technologies. The integrated solution will deploy a range of decarbonized and low-carbon technologies, many supported in their own ways by natural gas.

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Enbridge Gas Helps Renewable Natural Gas Program 'Mooooooove' Foward

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: Enbridge Gas Inc. saw an opportunity to contribute to a great new renewable natural gas program in Ontario. The truck is fuelled entirely by renewable natural gas (RNG)—sourced largely from cow manure. Or put into trucks that burn natural gas as fuel. So we went to work and got it dung.

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Washington & Jefferson College Hosts March 8 Webinar On Renewable Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

The Washington & Jefferson College Center for Energy Policy and Management in Washington County will host a free March 8 webinar on renewable natural gas as part of its Energy Lecture Series. Renewable Natural Gas: Sustainable Energy from Trash” will be the subject of a free, hour-long webinar at 11:00 a.m.

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National Grid Seeks Renewable Natural Gas and Hydrogen Supply

3BL Media

and NEW YORK, May 16, 2022 /3BL Media/ - Following the release of its vision for fossil-free heat in the Northeast, National Grid has issued a request for information (RFI) to better understand renewable natural gas (RNG) and hydrogen availability for its customers in Massachusetts and New York. DESCRIPTION: WALTHAM, Mass.

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Marcellus Drilling News: New Fortress Energy Reapplying For Wyalusing LNG Natural Gas Plant Permits In Bradford County

PA Environment Daily

On March 14, Marcellus Drilling News reported New Fortress Energy intends to apply for updated permits for its proposed Wyalusing LNG natural gas plant in Bradford County, according to statements in a March 10 SEC company filing. LNG Transportation/Export Facility According to a federal court filing , the U.S.

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Scranton Times Editorial: Lower Boom On Natural Gas Leaks, Audit Abandoned Gas Well Capping

PA Environment Daily

3 train derailment at the Ohio-Pennsylvania border that released carloads of toxic chemicals, state officials have expressed far less concern about the largest natural gas leak in state history. gas storage facility in Jackson Twp., Photo: Equitrans natural gas leak from space, Environmental Defense Fund.)

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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approves 6 Natural Gas Drilling Water Withdrawal Renewals For 7.1 Million Gallons/Day

PA Environment Daily

On March 16, the Susquehanna River Basin Commission approved proposed water withdrawals, including six natural gas drilling water use renewals totaling 7.1 The natural gas drilling water withdrawal renewals were-- -- Repsol Oil & Gas USA, LLC ( Fall Brook), Ward Township, Tioga County , PA.

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Natural Gas Samples Taken from Boston-Area Homes Contained Numerous Toxic Compounds, a New Harvard Study Finds

Inside Climate News

Additional studies are underway to see if homeowners are exposed to this and other toxins when cooking with gas. By Hannah Loss Samples of natural gas taken before it was burned for cooking in homes in the Boston area contained 296 chemical compounds, including 21 that are toxic to humans, researchers led by the Harvard T.H.

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Compressed Natural Gas Energy Storage

Environmental News Bits

Compressed natural gas energy storage (CNGES) is a faster and more cost-effective way to store and recover energy. It uses existing natural gas infrastructure to convert electrical energy from renewable sources to potential energy during off-peak periods, then back to electricity during peak demand. Download the document.

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States Prohibiting Natural Gas Bans Feign Concern for “Energy Choice”

Law Columbia

Flickr: Natural Gas Plant. As Senior Fellow Amy Turner documented last year , a number of local governments around the country have moved to prohibit natural gas hookups in buildings. However, some state governments have blocked those local measures, preventing municipalities from enacting natural gas bans.

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EDF: Conventional Natural Gas Wells In Allegheny National Forest Leaked Over 6 Billion Cubic Feet Of Natural Gas In 2019; Conventional Operators Seek To Block Methane Limits

PA Environment Daily

On January 26, the Environmental Defense Fund and Taxpayers for Common Sense released a new economic analysis which found oil and gas companies operating on U.S. public and tribal lands wasted over $500 million worth of natural gas in 2019— 157 billion cubic feet— the most recent year of data available that is reflective of the industry.

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Five Reasons “Natural” Gas is Bad for You and the Environment

Enviromental Defense

Naturalgas is not clean or green, as its misleading name implies Every reputable environmental organization and energy agency around the world is saying we can’t build new gas projects if we want to avoid complete climate chaos. Like I said, fossil gas is bad! Three Ways We Can Turn Off Polluting “NaturalGas 1.

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Federal Court Rules Challenge To DEP Air Quality Permit For Adelphia Natural Gas Pipeline' Quakertown Compressor Station May Go Forward

PA Environment Daily

On March 14, the federal Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Adelphia Gateway natural gas pipeline company was not entitled to a different outcome in Federal Court after receiving an adverse judgment in the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania in Cole et al v. Department of Environmental Protection in 2021. Opinion, p.

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Sen. Yaw Proposes Independent Energy Office To Promote Development Of PA’s Diverse Energy Portfolio - Natural Gas, Nuclear Power, Coal

PA Environment Daily

Energy Information Administration (EIA)-- -- Natural Gas: Pennsylvania’s marketed natural gas production, primarily from the Marcellus Shale, reached a record 7.6 Why aren't natural gas or nuclear or coal, why aren't they applying for new generation capacity? Read more here. ]

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California Restaurant Association v. Berkeley and Local Natural Gas Restrictions

Law Columbia

The decision essentially – and subject to possible appeals – answered in the negative the question of whether Berkeley’s first-in-the-nation prohibition on natural gas hookups to newly-constructed buildings (often termed a “natural gas ban”; herein referred to as the “Berkeley Ordinance”) was preempted by the U.S.

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Carbon Sequestration a Priority as Black & Veatch Begins Pre-FEED Effort for KeyState Natural Gas Synthesis Project

3BL Media

., August 31, 2022 /3BL Media/ - Black & Veatch, a global leader in decarbonization solutions, announces it has begun pre-FEED (front end engineering and design) activities associated with the KeyState Natural Gas Synthesis plant in north-central Pennsylvania. Our revenues in 2021 exceeded US$3.3 www.KeyState.net ).

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Environmental Groups Appeal DEP Permits For Transco Regional Energy Access Expansion Natural Gas Pipeline In Luzerne, Monroe Counties

PA Environment Daily

On March 14, PennFuture and the Delaware Riverkeeper Network appealed the Department of Environmental Protection water quality permits for the Transcontinental Gas and Pipeline Company’s Regional Energy Access Expansion natural gas pipeline expansion that will run through Luzerne and Monroe Counties.

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UGI Asks Natural Gas Customers To Conserve Energy Use Due To Regional Natural Gas Supply Constraints

PA Environment Daily

On December 24, UGI Utilities announced it is requesting customers to voluntarily reduce natural gas utilization through noon on Sunday due to regional natural gas supply constraints caused by extreme weather conditions. Map: Blue areas UGI natural gas service.) Tioga County - 5,754 customers out, 23.1%

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Chicago may end natural gas hookups for new homes, businesses

Environmental News Bits

As Chicagoans maneuver around torn-up streets and sidewalks while utility crews install new underground gas pipelines, City Hall announced a climate-fighting plan Thursday that envisions the end of fossil fuel hookups to homes and buildings.

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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Meets March 16 On 6 Natural Gas Drilling Water Uses; 4.5 MGD Out-Of-Basin Transfer

PA Environment Daily

The Susquehanna River Basin Commission is scheduled to hold a business meeting March 16 on proposed water withdrawals, including an out-of-basin diversion for the Ironwood natural gas power plant in Lebanon County and six other natural gas drilling water uses. Read more here.

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Oil & Natural Gas Facility Health Impacts Assessment Bill Introduced In The House

PA Environment Daily

On June 14, House Bill 1467 was introduced to establish an Oil and Natural Gas Facility Health Impacts Assessment Program in the Department of Health. The Department of Health is required to establish an Oil and Natural Gas Production Health Registry to track public exposures and health impacts from oil and natural gas facilities.

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Should New Gas Stoves Be Banned?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Besides posing a threat to public health, gas stoves threaten the climate. All of the stoves in the Stanford study leaked methane, the primary component of natural gas, and are merely the end point of a natural gas network that leaks like a sieve. in just one day. Cutting the pipeline.

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WHYY: Environmentalists Decry DRBC Permit Extension Approval For LNG Natural Gas Terminal In South Jersey To Export PA Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

By Zoe Read, WHYY, with Jon Hurdle of NJ Spotlight contributing This article first appeared on WHYY.org September 9, 2022 -- The Delaware River Basin Commission on Thursday approved a three-year permit extension for a controversial project to build New Jersey’s first terminal for exporting liquefied natural gas (LNG) along the Delaware River.

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Senate Appropriations Set To Consider $106.6 Million In Annual ‘Forever’ Taxpayer Subsidies For Use Of Natural Gas, Hydrogen

PA Environment Daily

million in annual taxpayer subsidies to manufacturing and other businesses that use natural gas and hydrogen in their operations forever into the future. It seems clear the tax credits are an attempt to try to make natural gas competitive again through taxpayers subsidies after U.S.

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A Few Certain Things – Taxes, Hydrogen, Natural Gas, and Climate Change?

Acoel

Perhaps the most controversial provisions of the bill, or at least those that drew the most attention in much of the press, were the provisions that also authorized a tax credit for the use of natural gas in the manufacturing of petrochemicals or fertilizers. appeared first on ACOEL.

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American Petroleum Institute Unveils Plan To Prioritize U.S. Natural Gas And Oil; Target Northeast U.S. For Pipeline Development

PA Environment Daily

natural gas and oil as a long-term strategic asset during API’s annual State of American Energy event. As consumers face growing energy costs, API urges policymakers to take a more realistic approach and ensure that American natural gas and oil are prioritized as long-term strategic assets. Jefferson County; Feb.

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Independent Fiscal Office Reports 4th Quarter 2022 Natural Gas Production Decreased 1.6%; Average Price Increased By 82.5% Compared To Last Year

PA Environment Daily

On March 2, the Independent Fiscal Office issued a report on fourth quarter 2022 natural gas production in Pennsylvania showing a 1.6% drop in natural gas production growth and each of the other top producing counties-- Susquehanna, Washington, Bradford and Greene also saw a decrease in growth.