"Laser Fusion Experiment Unleashes an Energetic Burst of Optimism"
"Scientists have come tantalizingly close to reproducing the power of the sun — albeit only in a speck of hydrogen for a fraction of a second."
Source: NYTimes, 08/18/2021
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Exxon Guyana Coast Oil Drilling Gamble ‘Poses Major Environmental Risk’
"ExxonMobil’s huge new Guyana project faces charges of a disregard for safety from experts who claim the company has failed to adequately prepare for possible disaster, the Guardian and Floodlight have found."
Source: Guardian, 08/18/2021
Oil Companies Quietly Scoring Big Money for Carbon Capture and Storage
"Over the last year, energy companies, electrical utilities and other industrial sectors have been quietly pushing through a suite of policies to support a technology that stands to yield tens of billions of dollars for corporate polluters, but may do little to reduce greenhouse gas emissions."
Source: Inside Climate News, 08/18/2021
"‘Defiant’ Interior Unlikely to Lease Oil Soon, Despite Injunction"
"Attorneys say they aren’t expecting the Interior Department to announce an immediate oil and gas lease sale, after the agency said Monday that it’ll proceed with leasing following a federal court injunction."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 08/18/2021
DOI To Review Federal Coal Leasing, Appeal Injunction For Oil Leasing Pause
"The Biden administration will review coal leasing on federal lands this week, officials said Monday while also announcing a plan to appeal an order that halted a moratorium on oil and gas leasing."
Source: The Hill, 08/17/2021
Industry Paid Residents To Support Gas Trucks At Public Meetings
"Residents around the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach were paid to show support for natural gas trucks at community hearings".
Source: Floodlight/LATimes, 08/17/2021
"Biden Faces Pivotal Energy Test In Chaco Canyon"
"How much natural gas drilling to allow near the 1,000-year-old architectural ruins of Chaco Canyon, important to many Pueblo people, may not be Deb Haaland’s best-known oil and gas dilemma as Interior secretary. But it is likely her most personal one."
Source: E&E News, 08/16/2021
"The Hard Part: Committee Priorities For Reconciliation"
"When the Senate backed a massive budget package this week, it set off a monthlong sprint by committees to divide up $3.5 trillion among a host of domestic programs with a major focus on climate change."
Source: E&E News, 08/13/2021
For Many, Hydrogen Is the Fuel of the Future. New Research Raises Doubts
"Industry has been promoting hydrogen as a reliable, next-generation fuel to power cars, heat homes and generate electricity. It may, in fact, be worse for the climate than previously thought."
Source: NYTimes, 08/13/2021
"How to Sell ‘Carbon Neutral’ Fossil Fuel That Doesn’t Exist"
"Energy companies are starting to pitch the idea that planet-warming natural gas can be erased by paying villagers to protect forests. Experts can’t make the math work."
Source: Bloomberg, 08/12/2021
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