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Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 19, 2021
Energy Clean Energy Jobs natural gas overreliance on natural gas public healthEnvironmental health has always been of concern to me, as it is to many of us.
Union of Concerned Scientists
OCTOBER 28, 2021
In response to higher natural gas prices, US utilities are going back to coal instead of ramping up investments in renewables. Energy emissions energy bills natural gas winter
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Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 12, 2021
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.
Inside Climate News
JUNE 28, 2022
Additional studies are underway to see if homeowners are exposed to this and other toxins when cooking with gas. Science Boston Climate Change gas stoves Massachusetts Methane natural gasAlmost all of them contained low levels of benzene, a carcinogen.
Law Columbia
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
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. Energy Natural GasBy Hillary Aidun and Claire Hodges, .
Environmental Leader
JANUARY 17, 2022
A project in California involving several energy companies is turning methane from 15 dairy farms and producing renewable natural gas. The post California Renewable Natural Gas Project Creates Economic Opportunities, Reduces Dairy Emissions appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
Law Columbia
JULY 7, 2021
The federal law claims asserted that EPCA preempted the Berkeley Ordinance because the Ordinance effectively prohibits the use of natural gas appliances and therefore “concern[s] the… energy use” of covered building appliances. By Amy Turner. Yesterday, the U.S.
Environment + Energy Leader
MAY 18, 2022
Atmos Energy recently completed the installation of a natural gas-powered fuel cell at its corporate data center to generate high efficiency, grid-independent electricity with low emissions.
Environmental News Bits
NOVEMBER 9, 2021
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.
Yale E360
APRIL 19, 2022
electricity generation using natural gas likely hit its peak in 2020, according to a new report from the Institute for Energy Economics and Finance (IEEFA), which finds that cheaper wind and solar are edging gas off the power grid. In the U.S.,
Environmental Leader
AUGUST 25, 2021
bp and CleanBay Renewables announced a 15-year agreement where bp will purchase renewable natural gas (RNG) processed from poultry litter—a mixture of manure, feathers and bedding—and sell it as fuel for the US transportation sector.
Environment + Energy Leader
MAY 12, 2022
Gas South, one of the natural gas marketers in the Southeast, announced an agreement with Element Markets to offer a new sustainable energy product, FlexRNG, a blend of renewable natural gas.
Environment + Energy Leader
MAY 12, 2022
Gas South, one of the natural gas marketers in the Southeast, announced an agreement with Element Markets to offer a new sustainable energy product, FlexRNG, a blend of renewable natural gas.
Law Columbia
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) preempts a local ordinance in Berkeley, California that prohibits most natural gas hook-ups to newly-constructed buildings. . Cities Climate Law Initiative Fossil Fuels Litigation Local Law Municipal Activity Natural Gas
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 29, 2021
The Process According to Nacero, Nacero Blue Gasoline™ is made from natural gas using renewable power and carbon capture. Nacero Green Gasoline™ is made from renewable natural gas and captured flare gas. On October 29, Nacero Inc.
PA Environment Daily
AUGUST 6, 2022
By Kim Anderson, Evangelical Environmental Network This guest essay first appeared on TribLive.com on August 5, 2022 -- A few years ago, I smelled gas from my kitchen stove. In Pennsylvania, the oil and gas industry has been a major source of leaking gas and pollution.
PA Environment Daily
JUNE 16, 2022
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. Since the 2020 Grand Jury report, both the Senate and House have held hearings on the health impacts of oil and natural gas facilities.
Environment + Energy Leader
APRIL 21, 2022
Bloom Energy will use natural gas at its 700 fuel cell installations in the US. The post Bloom Energy and EQT Close a CTA for Responsibly Sourced Natural Gas appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
Environment + Energy Leader
APRIL 21, 2022
Bloom Energy will use natural gas at its 700 fuel cell installations in the US. The post Bloom Energy and EQT Close a CTA for Responsibly Sourced Natural Gas appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
Environmental Leader
AUGUST 25, 2021
bp and CleanBay Renewables announced a 15-year agreement where bp will purchase renewable natural gas (RNG) processed from poultry litter—a mixture of manure, feathers and bedding—and sell it as fuel for the US transportation sector.
PA Environment Daily
JULY 14, 2022
On July 14, the Bradford Era reported one of two 24-inch natural gas pipeline operated by Tennessee Gas Pipelines ruptured and exploded near Clermont, McKean County on Tuesday, July 12 at about 5:00 p.m.
PA Environment Daily
APRIL 10, 2022
In spite of breathlessly urgent statements by Pennsylvania’s natural gas industry and their politicians about the need to ramp-up drilling in the Commonwealth, DEP’s latest Weekly Oil And Gas Workload Report shows 25.6 Natural Gas Drillers Add 3 Rigs Last Week -- Bloomberg: U.S.
Environmental Leader
JULY 14, 2021
Today, Pittsburgh International Airport became the first airport in the world to be completely powered by natural gas and solar energy as part of its newly live microgrid.
PA Environment Daily
AUGUST 6, 2022
The following factsheet on asthma and air pollution from natural gas facilities was compiled by the Environmental Health Project -- Asthma is a chronic disease that affects breathing. Shale gas infrastructure is often constructed and operated close to where people live.
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 27, 2022
On March 25, the United States and the European Commission came to an agreement on how to address Europe’s need for natural gas through the next two winters by diversifying liquefied natural gas supplies “in alignment with climate objectives” to end Europe’s dependence on Russian fossil fuels.
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 24, 2022
This legislation is one of several Republican Senate and House initiatives to deregulate the oil and gas industry, power plants and make other sweeping changes under the guise of responding to the oil and gas price spikes caused on world energy markets by the Russian invasion of the Ukraine.
Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 12, 2021
Energy California explosion grid reliability natural gas Power PlantTwo years ago, I went on a tour of the Russell City Energy Center. Two months ago, the power plant exploded.
Environmental News Bits
JULY 8, 2021
The Energy Futures Initiative (EFI) is conducting a major study titled The Role of Natural Gas in a Decarbonized World to identify options, develop pathways, and inform policy that directly address these tensions. Download the document. This report summarizes the discussions of more than 200 experts from research organizations, think tanks, investment firms, and other disciplines to… Read more → Climate change Energy Publications
PA Environment Daily
AUGUST 6, 2022
The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the August 6 PA Bulletin inviting comments on a major natural gas gathering pipeline project by Williams Field Services in Dimock and Jessup Townships, Susquehanna County. (
Environmental News Bits
MARCH 2, 2022
An energy storage project based on compressed natural gas energy storage (CNGES) technology is being studied at the Abbott Power Plant in Illinois. Read the full story in Power Magazine. This article presents an overview of CNGES technology, assessment of the potential of implementing it at an existing pipeline, and preliminary results obtained from the… Read more → Energy storage Illinois Prairie Research Institute
PA Environment Daily
AUGUST 5, 2022
mile pipeline that starts in Butler County, and is routed through Beaver and Allegheny counties, and connects to a natural gas processing plant in Washington County. Natural gas escaped from the pipeline, causing a devastating explosion.
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 25, 2022
The Washington & Jefferson College Center for Energy Policy and Management will host a free March 30 webinar on the push to reduce methane emissions in the natural gas industry as part of its Energy Lecture Series. “
PA Environment Daily
AUGUST 3, 2022
You can help DEP’s evaluation too by sending the problems you’ve had with conventional oil and gas drilling operations to DEP’s Oil & Gas Program email: ra-epoilandgas@pa.gov. It did not begin with the unconventional shale gas industry. On July 30, Gov.
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 28, 2022
On March 28, Republicans on the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee voted to report out bills containing a laundry list of things the natural gas industry has wanted for years and to kill the final regulations reducing carbon pollution from Pennsylvania’s power plants.
PA Environment Daily
JANUARY 31, 2022
Nacero’s plan to use what it calls “renewable natural gas” to produce gasoline is the latest of these greenwashing ploys.
Acoel
JANUARY 7, 2022
commitments to the Paris Agreement calls for an 80% reduction of electric power greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. DOE’s 2021 Annual Energy Review indicates that the phase-out of fossil-based generation would eliminate 6,020 natural gas generating units and 668 coal-based generating units across the nation, with a combined nameplate generating capacity of 790 Gigawatts. The post The Demise of Natural Gas Combined-Cycle Plant Development appeared first on ACOEL
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
On November 29, the PA Supreme Court issued a ruling saying UGI Storage Company could be held liable for taking oil and gas drilling rights in a proposed 2,980-acre protective buffer zone around the 1,216 acre Meeker natural gas storage field in Tioga County.
Scientific American
MARCH 25, 2022
Biden administration officials are also promising to accelerate the build-out of hydrogen and carbon capture. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com. Environment Climate Change Fossil Fuels
PA Environment Daily
JULY 23, 2022
The Pittsburgh Business Times reported Olympus Energy has 32 operating shale gas wells in Allegheny and Westmoreland counties. Every day, the Olympus team works to produce natural gas in the most efficient and environmentally responsible manner possible.
PA Environment Daily
JULY 6, 2022
On July 6, at the request of the natural gas industry, the Senate and House passed and sent to the Governor Senate Bill 275 (Yaw-R- Lycoming) which prohibits counties, local governments and authorities from promoting clean, cheaper energy sources to reduce climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions.
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 28, 2022
Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler) said opponents of natural gas infrastructure projects “just need to be ignored and politically ran over.” On March 28, the Republican Chair of the House Environmental Committee Rep.
Vermont Law
DECEMBER 20, 2017
In 2017, environmental advocates and some states like New York who have long been concerned with the climate change impacts associated with new liquefied natural gas (LNG) pipelines had reason for optimism. Permitting Natural Gas Pipelines.
Environmental News Bits
MARCH 24, 2022
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has issued new policy statements saying its approval process for natural gas pipelines and liquified natural gas facilities will take greenhouse gas emissions and “environmental justice” impacts into consideration in determining whether the infrastructure projects are in the public interest. Environmental justice Oil and gas industry RegulationRead the full story at Inside Climate News.
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