Many are calling for Department of Energy to speed up the natural gas export approval process. A new study by McKinsey Global Institute finds LNG exports “would decrease the U.S. trade deficit by between $11 billion and $27 billion each year.” [The Hill] Siting renewable energy projects on brownfields – land contaminated by industrial activity… Keep reading →
Good news for gas drillers! A few days before the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it will neither finalize nor seek peer review of its investigation of the impact of hydraulic fracturing on groundwater at an Encana-operated field near Pavillion, Wyoming, The United States Geological Survey announced that it had found naturally occurring methane in… Keep reading →
Methane leakage – specifically its contribution to greenhouse gas emissions – has made headlines in the news as a potential downside to the US natural gas boom. While much of the attention has been focused on the gas production process, leakage at the regulated natural gas transmission and distribution level also has the potential to raise… Keep reading →
The ongoing debate over how and whether hydraulic fracturing poses a threat to the environment covers a whole host of issues – land use, earthquakes, drinking water contamination, methane emissions, and even the sustainability of fossil fuel use. While some issues remain mired in a lack of hard data or fundamental philosophical differences, companies… Keep reading →
As consumers buy more stuff, they also throw more things away. And as the world faces an energy crisis, developers are increasingly looking to that garbage for power.
A group of scientists from the Earth Engineering Center (EEC) at Columbia University found that non-recycled plastics and municipal sold wastes could be significant American sources of power. In a study–funded by the American Chemistry Council (ACC)–published on Wednesday, the group found that waste energy was significant enough to wean America off foreign imported oil. Keep reading →
