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Underestimated Methane Leaks Make Natural Gas Dirtier Than Previously Thought, Says Study
2014-02-14 00:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Forbes: Methane emissions are worse than the conventional wisdom would have you believe, according to a new study by researchers at Stanford University. Methane, which is the primary component of natural gas, is an especially powerful greenhouse gas, packing more than two dozen times as much global warming potential than carbon dioxide. Traditionally, environmental regulators and energy industry groups have estimated methane emissions by multiplying the amount of methane emitted by a specific source...
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US Exports to China Increasing Barrels of Petcoke, a Fuel Dirtier Than Coal
2013-12-05 09:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Even as China is investing more money than any other country in developing renewable electricity, its consumption of traditional fossil fuels is also rising steeply. Each year, roughly half the coal burned in the world is burned in China. In an effort to meet its fast-growing energy demands, China has become, in effect, simultaneously the greenest and the sootiest nation on earth. But coal isnt even the dirtiest fuel burned in China. According to ICIS, a petrochemical market research firm, Chinas...
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Poland to get dirtier as it leans towards lignite coal
2013-08-01 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Poland, one of the heaviest polluters in Europe, will become even dirtier now that its shale gas ambitions have faded and it turns to cheap domestic lignite coal to secure its energy supply. Poland already relies on coal to produce more than 90 percent of its electricity and is home to the European installation that emits the most carbon dioxide - utility PGE's lignite power plant in Belchatow. Its choice of fuel now could determine its energy and environmental situation for decades to come, given...
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Detroit's mountains of petroleum coke are 'dirtier than the dirtiest fuel'
2013-06-07 23:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: It was the dirty secret of Alberta's tar sands until the black mountain of petroleum coke on the banks of the Detroit River grew to occupy an entire city block three storeys high. Now it could become a familiar feature at storage yards and water fronts across the country as the oil industry in the US and Canada struggles to deal with a glut of waste from Alberta's tar sands production. "This is dirtier than the dirtiest fuel," Gary Peters, a Michigan Democrat who represents the area where...
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