Environment
This guest editorial examines how the most commonly used and cited methane emissions metric can create a misleading picture of upstream gas-handling performance for both the public and industry professionals.
Spain has granted permits covering a swath of the mountain range to Mantle8 for natural hydrogen and helium exploration a month after France granted the company similar permits.
The US federal government is working to stymie offshore wind power, but proponents aren’t going quietly. Armed with data, they are taking on a sea of misinformation and hostility to defend the burgeoning resource in the US, while the rest of the world moves ahead briskly.
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The House Science Committee calls for tougher surveillance amid evidence of super-emitters and undetected leaks in the vast Permian Basin. -
About 90 tonnes of methane an hour were released from the Raspadskaya coal mine in January, data from the GHGSat global satellite shows.
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Chevron, Talos, and Carbonvert have finished the documentation and closed the joint venture for the carbon capture and storage project on the Gulf of Mexico coast.
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The suite of tools includes a digital platform for sharing emissions data, an agreed set of definitions that nails down what different terms mean, a single set of metadata definitions, and an API through which users can access data. When used together, these tools provide an integrated perspective on what emissions are coming from where.
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A trio of new satellites that use infrared sensor technology are now flying around the Earth at a speed faster than 4 miles per second.
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Trafigura, a group of physical commodity trading companies, and Palantir Technologies announced their intent to develop a platform to calculate carbon intensity, combining the efforts of trading and digital technology to account for Scope 3 emissions. The aim is to increase transparency of life-cycle emissions and to provide benchmarking against other market participa…
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This study provides a comprehensive overview of the current status of renewable-energy resources, energy-transition efforts, and the future of conventional and unconventional oil and gas resources in California.
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The rule would require publicly traded companies to report not only their greenhouse-gas emissions but also their approach to managing climate change, likely setting up a long legal fight.
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In a new TEDx Talk, Scott Tinker, director of the Bureau of Economic Geology, explains the energy-environment challenge facing a world in transition.
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As climate change threatens reefs with bleaching, Danish energy company Ørsted is looking at growing noninvasive coral on offshore wind turbine foundations.
