Many Americans love to cook on gas - including myself, when I got my first experience of doing so after many years cooking on electric. But alas, gas cooking is polluting, dangerous, and fuels climate change.
The huge Vostok Oil project was key issue of discussion when Indian Minister of Petroleum and Natural gas Shri Hardeep S Puri sat down for talks with Rosneft's Igor Sechin.
Becoming carbon neutral means cutting greenhouse gas emissions as much as you can, then offsetting what you can't avoid with measures like tree planting. Seems admirable. Well, not exactly.
A recent building code change for new construction could reduce emissions by requiring use of solar panels and batteries, raising prices in an already expensive state.
Shifting away from using fossil fuels for energy is essential for our climate future, but if we aren't careful we may unintentionally encourage a shift that is also unsafe and unsustainable.
The facility would take shale gas from Pennsylvania, compress it to LNG, then truck or train it across communities in Pennsylvania to be loaded onto ships at a proposed facility in Gibbstown, New Jersey, before being shipped for overseas markets.
It's a partial victory for residents who have been opposing the C4GT power plants and other new natural gas infrastructure in the rural county for years.
A new California building code is a leap forward for reducing the use of natural gas, with rules that set a strong preference for electric heating in new construction.
On August 16, the Department of Environmental Protection announced it has assessed an $85,666 penalty from Sunoco Pipeline LP (Sunoco) for violations related to the construction of the Mariner East 2 pipeline in four Pennsylvania counties: Blair, Cumberland, Juniata, and Lebanon.
What Los Angeles and Long Beach officials didn't know was that some of the locals who urged support for natural gas trucks were being paid by a firm hired by the natural gas industry.
The manufacturing plant responsible for PFAS-coated fast food packaging pumps out loads of a banned ozone-depleting compound along with "forever chemicals."
"We already know enough about the harm being caused by these very persistent substances to take action to stop all non-essential uses and to limit exposure from legacy contamination."
The chemicals, linked to health problems including cancer and thyroid disease, have contaminated drinking water in Pittsburgh communities like Coraopolis and McKeesport.
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