By Len Rosen The U.S. Climate Alliance represents states committed to action on climate change. The latest to join is Wisconsin whose governor, Tony Evers, a Democrat, plans to announce today. He joins Michigan, New Mexico, and Illinois, who all have newly elected Democratic governors, and have in the past few weeks pledged their states…
By Michael Leifman Concordia University’s climate clockRecently I posted something lauding Japan for pursuing R&D on commercial uses for carbon. This strategy is needed badly in order to beat the climate clock, but we can’t lose sight of the enormity of the challenge. In.. Click headline for full article Read Full Article Here For more…
By Areg Bagdasarian With drilling rig utilization starting to fall for some of Canada’s larger energy firms, could this trend of moving rigs into the permian basin and other parts of the United States continue? Click headline for full article Read Full Article Here For more great articles: The Energy Collective – The world’s best…
By The Energy Mix Two different analyst reports this week show the oil industry moving into its twilight, but the projected rate of decline is still far too slow to hit a 1.5°C threshold for average global warming and hold off the worst effects of climate change. The annual modelling report by McKinsey Energy Insights…
By Daniel Baruch Where will US Gulf Coast refiners find heavy sour barrels to make up for Venezuelan supply that have been a staple of their diet? That question shows the primary concern hasn’t been over the quantity lost as much as the quality lost. Attention has turned to Latin America because Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador…
By Clare Taylor With rising GDP, the European Union is once again at risk of missing the 2020 targets for energy efficiency, and yet more ambitious targets for 2030 lie ahead. Regulation, especially for energy efficiency in buildings, is already driving demand, according to the European Investment Bank, with commercial banks acting as aggregators. Peter…
By [email protected] California regulators are starting to fill a hole in the state’s climate policy. For decades, California has led the world in efforts to reduce the energy consumption of appliances and buildings. But in recent years, California policymakers have started to favor a new guiding metric: carbon. In January 2018, then-Governor Jerry Brown signed…
By Carolyn Fortuna The Sunrise Movement outlined a method to gain support for the Green New Deal prior to a Senate vote expected around February Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Clean Technica
By Kelsey Misbrener A new report documents the devastating climate impacts if 12 new frack gas projects in New Jersey move forward with one completed in 2018, in stark contrast to Governor Murphy’s stated commitment and legal requirements to combat global warming and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The report, “FIGHTING Climate Change in NJ: The…
By Britta von Oesen & Goksenin Ozturkeri OPINION | The state’s ambitious climate targets have yet to spur widespread local deployment, but that could change Read Full Article Here For more great articles: www.rechargenews.com
By Jim Baird The Nature paper, Large teams develop and small teams disrupt science and technology by Wu et al. demonstrates that between over the period 1954–2014, after analyzing 65 million papers, patents and software products smaller teams have tended to disrupt science and technology with new ideas and opportunities, whereas larger teams tend to…..
By Enno Peters US – update through October 2018 This article contains interactive dashboards also available in the original blog post. — This interactive presentation contains the latest oil & gas production data from 98,450 horizontal wells in 10 US states, through October 2018. Cumulative oil and gas production from these wells reached 9.9 Gbo…
By Sebastian Gray Anyone recommend equipment or a tool (in the UK) that can identify air leaks in an air compressor system? Click headline for full article Read Full Article Here For more great articles: The Energy Collective – The world’s best thinkers on energy & climate
By Matt Chester Azerbaijan is an important supplier of crude oil and natural gas in the Caspian Sea region, particularly to European markets. Azerbaijan’s exports of natural gas are poised to become a more significant part of the country’s economy. Azerbaijan produced about 600 billion cubic feet (Bcf) of dry natural gas in 2017 and…
By Joshua S Hill At the same time that oil and gas majors around the world are announcing plans to tie company climate action to employee remuneration, these same companies are still rewarding executives for pursuing traditional growth that will inevitably lead to stranded assets and financial loss for investors. Read Full Article Here For…