Cambridge, Massachusetts, got a surprise warning as it considered a natural gas ban to reduce its climate impact, but that might not stop the city or its neighbors.
The Trump administration has approved the shipment of liquified natural gas from the fracking fields of Pennsylvania to a port on the Delaware River in South Jersey.
Typically, economic performance of nations, states, and metropolitan areas is measured using Gross Domestic Product. We propose an adjustment to this official performance metric: the subtraction of pollution damage from GDP.
Greenhouse gas emissions from natural gas use now exceed coal emissions in the United States and Europe. And while coal and oil still emit more globally, gas is now the primary driver of emissions growth worldwide.
But beneath the rosy narrative that describes natural gas as a transition fuel lies a more complex story. Gas is associated with health and environmental hazards and reduced social welfare at every stage of its life cycle.
Two factions are wrestling over the future of the natural-gas and petrochemical industries in the region, and whether to support their growth or to transition away.
The price of natural gas in West Texas has traded in negative territory several times this year, prompting oil producers to flare it or pay pipeline operators with spare capacity to take it away.
Even at levels below international air quality guidelines, short-term exposure to pollution can send you to the hospital for more reasons than scientists originally thought, a new study finds.
Some state lawmakers are telling Gov. Tom Wolf he went too far with an executive order for the commonwealth to join a regional effort to cut power plant emissions.
Both Tom Steyer and Michael Bloomberg—prodigious funders of climate action causes and campaigns—are diverting millions into quixotic presidential runs.
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