3 days ago · Office of Management and Budget General Counsel Mark Paoletta reportedly drafted the memo that took aim at the “green new deal” but caused widespread upheaval. Office of Management and Budget General Counsel Mark Paoletta reportedly drafted the memo that took aim at the “green new deal” but ...

May 17, 2024 · Federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has voted against the environment and climate nearly 400 times during his 20-year career as a Member of Parliament, according to House of Commons voting records analyzed by DeSmog.. That includes voting “nay” to bills crafted to hold mining companies accountable for environmental damage, move Canada closer towards achieving its climate targets ...

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.

Sep 25, 2024 · Despite a slight reduction in overall emissions last year, Ireland is still “well off track” in meeting its EU and national climate targets for 2030, according to its Environmental Protection Agency – in large part due to the methane from Ireland’s unchecked dairy production. The agriculture sector was responsible for over a third …

Oct 28, 2024 · The drop in CO2 capture and storage could be linked to waning natural gas production at Sleipner, said Grant Hauber, a researcher for the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis think tank, who wrote a 2023 report on Norway’s carbon capture projects. “As production from the Sleipner field declines, the quantity of CO2 being handled declines,” Hauber told DeSmog in October.

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.

Dec 16, 2024 · Nisga’a member Richard Mercer holds a petition to halt the Ksi Lisims project. Credit: Richard Mercer We ‘will take this to court’ Richard Mercer, a Nisga’a member who lives in the community of New Aiyansh (Gitlax̱t’aamiks), home to the Nisga’a Lisims Government, is adamant that many Nisga’a feel left out of the consultation and decision-making process.

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 ...

Oct 12, 2024 · This story is the fourth part of a DeSmog series on carbon capture and was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe and published in partnership with Le Monde.. To read an article written by Hydrogen Europe in response to this article, click here.. Billed by the fossil fuel industry as a climate solution, dozens of planned blue hydrogen projects in Europe could consume more natural ...

Jan 23, 2025 · This piece is about what we talk about when we talk about ‘climate change.’ Mostly, whether in the campaigning world or the policy world, the tech world or the business world, the everyday world or the world of international summitry, we mainly talk about cutting carbon emissions. And if we talk about impacts, we talk […]