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NEW MEXICO: Bets Big With National Labs on Hydrogen Economy
SANTA FE, New Mexico, January 30, 2022 (ENS) – New Mexico wants to be one of the nation’s first hydrogen hubs. The government has entered into an agreement with the [...]
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WASHINGTON: Methane Bubbles Up From Seafloor Near Seattle
SEATTLE, Washington, January 30, 2022 (ENS) – At least 349 plumes of methane gas are bubbling up from the seafloor in Puget Sound, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, a [...]
Food
Food Swaps Can Radically Change a Diet’s Carbon Footprint
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, January 14, 2022 (ENS) – Americans who eat beef could slash their diet’s carbon footprint as much as 48 percent by swapping just one serving a day [...]
Air/Climate
COP26: US, China Ignore Tensions, Pledge Climate Cooperation
GLASGOW, Scotland, November 10, 2021 (ENS) – Recognizing the “seriousness and urgency of the climate crisis” the world’s two biggest carbon emitters, the United States and China, today issued a [...]
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TEXAS: Gas Companies Fined Millions for Fatal Air Pollution
MIDLAND, Texas, October 1, 2021 (ENS) – Five subsidiaries of West Texas Gas Inc. will spend up to $5 million on compliance measures in a settlement that resolves U.S. government [...]
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TEXAS: Port of Corpus Christi to Install Blue Hydrogen Production
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, August 22, 2021 (ENS) – The Port of Corpus Christi Authority and Howard Midstream Energy Partners, LLC have executed an agreement to convert Howard’s Javelina refinery services [...]
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New UN Climate Report ‘Code Red for Humanity’
GENEVA, Switzerland, August 9, 2021 (ENS) – Climate change is widespread and rapidly intensifying, and some of the changes already in motion, such as continued sea level rise, are irreversible [...]
Air/Climate
Biden, Dems Crack Down on Methane Emissions to Benefit Climate
WASHINGTON, DC, June 30, 2021 (ENS) – President Joe Biden signed into law today a Resolution of Disapproval that invalidates the Trump administration’s 2020 Methane Rescission Rule and reinstates two [...]
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Planet Earth At Risk of Methane Suffocation
PARIS, France, May 15, 2021 (ENS) – Methane emissions caused by human activities can be reduced by up to 45 percent this decade, finds the world’s first Global Methane Assessment [...]
Business
Oil and Gas Firms Take Initiative on Methane Emissions
NEW YORK, New York, December 6, 2020 (ENS) – Major players in the oil and gas industry such as Shell, BP and Total have agreed to report emissions of [...]