Carbon dioxide removal: The right thing at the wrong time?
We can’t keep digging up and reburying carbon in the ground in a perpetual cycle. Carbon dioxide removal may someday be needed, but it shouldn't be a priority now.
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“Certified natural gas” is not a source of clean energy
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Op-Ed: ‘Permitting reform’ can’t mean more fossil fuels
High gas prices are a symptom of our dependence on oil. It’s time to cure the disease.
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Energy Efficiency for Everyone
New U.S. fossil fuel projects are ticking carbon bombs
Building fossil fuel infrastructure locks us into a higher-carbon future
Fossil fuels outnumber clean energy projects in NEPA environmental review
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An estimated three million abandoned oil and gas wells in the U.S. threaten water quality and are worsening global warming.
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Superfund Sites, Refineries, Fossil Fuel Infrastructure in Potential Path of Tropical Storm Barry
As Tropical Storm Barry bears down on the Louisiana coast, Environment America, U.S. PIRG and Frontier Group -- all part of the Public Interest Network -- are sharing information that will help your readers and viewers contextualize what's going on with regard to major environmental and health concerns.
The Road Ahead: Public Lands
Public lands are critical environmental resources. They help to preserve ecosystems that may not find protection otherwise, and serve as field laboratories for scientists, vacation sites for families hoping to hook their children on nature, and sanctuaries for wildlife. But, public lands have also historically been the site of resource extraction and other activities that leave lasting marks on the landscape.
Why a Prominent Report May Underestimate Methane Emissions
A study published yesterday in Energy Science & Engineering contends that a measurement tool at the heart of in an important recent analysis of methane leaks from fracking sites was improperly used and thus the results of that study greatly underestimate methane emissions. There are other reasons to think that the study in question, by Prof. David Allen at the University of Texas, Austin, and supported by the Environmental Defense Fund, lowballs the amount of global warming pollution from fracking sites.
A Midterm Lay of the Land: Fracking
Fracking has been hailed as a potential solution to America’s dependence on energy imports by freeing up vast domestic reserves of oil and gas. But as with any non-renewable energy, obtaining and using fossil fuels from fracking imposes major costs, the full extent of which aren’t yet clear.
Fracking—Not Leaky Wells—Pollutes Drinking Water
A study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences drew widespread media attention and headlines announcing that faulty well structures—not fracking—are to blame for polluted drinking water. That's taking a narrow view of the problem. The only reason these wells exist is to allow fracking. And there's no evidence that the oil and gas industry is able to consistently build wells that don't leak.