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Hidden Menace: Massive methane leaks speed up climate change
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Hidden Menace: Massive methane leaks speed up climate change

The methane released by companies operating oil and gas operations across the Permian, a 250-mile-wide bone-dry expanse along the Texas-New Mexico border, will be disrupting the climate for decades, contributing to more heat waves, hurricanes, wildfires and floods.

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oil industry’s carbon shell game

Conoco kicks off oil industry’s carbon shell game

The transaction kicks off what could be a torch-passing ceremony for the fossil fuel industry over the coming months and years from the most environmentally pressured to the least and from the least efficient to the most.
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dakota access pipeline spill regulations
www.eenews.net

Trail of spills haunts Dakota Access developer

Federal pipeline inspectors didn't like what they found when they looked at construction of the Permian Express pipeline. Unqualified welders were fusing the pipe together in central Texas, using unapproved methods.

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Report: Methane venting, flaring in Permian doubled since 2017

Report: Methane venting, flaring in Permian doubled since 2017

If venting and flaring continue unmitigated, the resulting emissions would be roughly equivalent to continuing to operate the coal-fired San Juan Generating Station near Farmington, the report says.
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Robots in the Permian? Climate concerns drive innovation
www.eenews.net

Robots in the Permian? Climate concerns drive innovation

Chevron Corp.'s recent $33 billion takeover of Anadarko Petroleum Corp. is another sign of Big Oil shifting production to the Permian Basin as a hedge against climate change. Will that move, combined with new technology, be enough?
Big Oil back to raking in billions
www.houstonchronicle.com

Big Oil back to raking in billions

The world's largest oil companies this week posted some of their best earnings in more than three years as they control costs and ride rising oil prices that are now closing in on $70 a barrel
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Sand, water, and horsepower: Welcome to the year of the fracker
www.houstonchronicle.com

Sand, water, and horsepower: Welcome to the year of the fracker

Oil companies are on track to produce a record 10 million barrels of American crude a day, a milestone that could be reached as soon as February largely due to another record that is expected to fall in coming months.

ORIGINAL REPORTING
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Midwest’s hydrogen plans spark debate over clean energy standards

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Activists urge insurers to cut ties with fossil fuels in London protests

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Steel industry lags in renewable energy transition, study finds

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Hydrogen hubs test new federal environmental justice rules

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Donald Trump wins US presidency. What that could mean for the environment.

Trump-backed plan seeks to overturn Biden's climate policies

Trump-backed plan seeks to overturn Biden's climate policies

CLIMATE
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UN court hears historic case as island nations confront climate threats