Sep 19, 2024 · An oil platform in the North Sea. Credit: Erik Christensen (CC BY-SA 3.0) OSPAR records also show that in 2022, roughly 560,000 tonnes of chemicals were used by the offshore oil and gas industry, and 181,000 tonnes were intentionally discharged into the Northeast Atlantic, with most going into the North Sea.

Dec 23, 2024 · In one fracking wastewater pipeline failure that occurred in 2022, 18,000 gallons of waste spilled from a pipeline operated by an oil and gas company called Seneca Resources and into a wooded landscape in Cameron County, in north-central Pennsylvania, contaminating the water well of John Rosenberger, a retired state trooper, and his wife, Paige.

Oct 25, 2024 · But the findings from DeSmog’s recent investigation into Project 2025’s funding sources tell a very different story. Our wide-ranging analysis of public financial disclosure forms found that the groups on Project 2025’s advisory board — whose experts largely helped to draft the plan — are heavily funded by just six family fortunes.

Dec 16, 2024 · A climate denial think tank with ties to the Conservative Party has seen a series of high profile departures, including influential Tory peer Lord Frost, DeSmog can report.. The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s main climate denial group, has lost three board members in the second half of 2024, according to GWPF filings at Companies House.

Dec 18, 2024 · By some estimates, there might be 2.4 billion barrels of oil deep below the waters of the Atlantic ocean off the coast of Suriname, South America’s smallest country.. The problem for multinational oil companies seeking to extract that oil is what’s mixed in with it: trillions of cubic feet of methane, often referred to as natural gas.

Oct 23, 2024 · ‘If an oil company ran that ad, we’d be filing a formal Competition Bureau challenge,’ said Greenpeace’s Keith Stewart. Credit: Danielle Smith / YouTube Andrew Leach, an energy and environmental economist and a professor at the University of Alberta, argues the “scrap the cap” campaign is confusing, in that it inadvertently undermines Alberta’s apparent faith in the oil and gas ...

Dec 19, 2024 · Earlier today, New Orleans City Council unanimously approved the sale of the city’s natural gas distribution system to a private equity firm.

May 20, 2024 · A hydrogen-powered car. Credit: Dennis Schroeder/NREL (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) In addition to these obstacles to the likelihood of genuinely “net-zero hydrogen” becoming a reality, Air Products and other hydrogen producers have a potentially more significant problem of possible limited consumer demand.

Dec 16, 2024 · Two weeks after receiving Warren’s contribution, Turnout for America paid $250,000 to Northern CB Corp. — an Illinois publishing and printing company — for “media services.”. One of the listed directors for Northern CB Corp. is Brian Timpone, a conservative businessman who owns Chicago-based company Metric Media, a Koch-linked network that runs more than 1,100 partisan websites ...

Jan 2, 2025 · This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and WBEZ, a public radio station serving the Chicago metropolitan region, and is published here as part of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now.. The U.S. Department of Energy is rolling out the first installment of its $1 billion commitment to ramp up clean hydrogen production in the Midwest, part of a bid ...