I love maps that my students can explore. Will definitely be using this US #fossilgas leak map from HEET: https://heet.org/gas-leaks/gas-leak-maps/

In August 2015, when the Israeli government killed the 8-yr national emission reduction plan, I wrote it should be taken to court.
On Sunday, climate groups Green Course and #FridaysforFuture #Israel will be filing one of Israel's first #climate lawsuits with the Supreme Court.
In late June, Greenpeace Israel petitioned the Supreme Court against the energy ministry's expansion of offshore #FossilGas explorations.
Exciting times for #ClimateJustice!

Beware people talking clean hydrogen, they are the ones who brought you clean coal
https://reneweconomy.com.au/beware-people-talking-clean-hydrogen-they-are-the-one-who-brought-you-clean-coal/

"Clean Coal" is a furphy, and it's looking like "Clean Hydrogen" is unattainable. In reality, practically all hydrogen made today is extracted from fossil fuels, or is made from water by electrolysis that's powered by a non-renewable source of electricity.

Some people talk about "Blue hydrogen" and claim they're cracked the secret of making it in commercial volumes at a price that's competitive with renewables, but they're not being honest with you about the cost or the quality of their product. Proponents claim that coal — such as Victoria's incredibly dirty, low-quality, high-pollutant brown coal — can be transformed into "Brown Hydrogen" or "Black Hydrogen" by capturing the carbon liberated during the hydrogen extraction process using Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). Same goes for "Blue Hydrogen" that's extracted from fossil gas.
They're sorta correct, in the sense that you can get out hydrogen. But if you blink you'll miss seeing where the Carbon goes. By then, they'll attempt to scratch off the label to rebrand their dirty hydrogen as "Green Hydrogen".

Herein lies the scam: they're saying is can be done cleanly. The problem is that they're using CSS as part of the process. It would be nice if CCS worked at an industrial scale at any price, but it doesn't. Countless millions of dollars have been poured by governments around the world into CCS pilot-plants at fossil fuel companies. The fossil fuel companies have all pocketed the money and failed to produce results.

Scratch the surface of any hydrogen-bro, and you'll find a hydrocarbon-bro who's deliberately propping-up the unsustainable coal/gas/petrol industry or is an unwitting fool who's science-illiterate.

#AusPol #ElectrifyEverything #Renewables #FossilGas #Hydrogen #CleanHydrogen #GreenHydrogen #BlueHydrogen #BlackHydrogen #BrownHydrogen #CarbonCaptureAndStorage #CCS

I expect to spend more time working on gas stoves, indoor air quality, and health outcomes. Here's a new blog post from Fresh Energy where we cover some of the basics on gas stoves and health:

https://fresh-energy.org/a-conversation-with-dr-nordgaard-about-the-health-risks-of-gas-stoves

#GasStoves #NaturalGas #FossilGas #Asthma

Gas Networks to Blow $19M on Five-year Greenwashing Campaign in Bid to Fight Electrification and Advertise Fossil Fuel

https://reneweconomy.com.au/gas-networks-promise-green-home-supply-but-put-their-money-on-electrification/

Victoria’s gas distribution networks continue to hype "green gas". They're claiming that they will blend hydrogen into the fossil gas supply, but cannot say how this will make fossil gas clean, or give a timeline, or reveal how much it will cost consumers to renovate their homes to install pipes and cooking/heating appliances that are capable of handling hydrogen.

Hint: it takes only a Chemistry-101 level of understanding to see this is technically extremely difficult to practically impossible, in addition to being economically unfeasible, and too slow to meet decarbonisation targets to tackle climate change.

In other words, this is more lies from the increasingly desperate fossil fuel industry in a bid to prolong their planet-destroying business model. The government should step in to tell the fossil fuel companies to STFU, take their decades of profits and die quietly.

#AusPol #ElectrifyEverything #Renewables #FossilGas #Electrification #Hydrogen

#FossilGas companies are gouging consumers in #Europe - via @ketan #climatecrisis #UkraineWar https://watson.brown.edu/files/watson/imce/news/ResearchBriefs/2023/WI_Europe_s%20Energy%20Crisis_MP-3574_Final%20%281%29.pdf

Nice to see #FossilGas being held accountable for its lies. #Auspol #GreenWashing
https://reneweconomy.com.au/gas-lobby-forced-to-pull-ad-for-misleading-viewers-over-50-pct-cleaner-claims/

#GreenWashing #Auspol #FossilGas

Now this is a clever tactic.

I mean, it’s nowhere close to stopping expansion of fossil fuel mining and production and effectively regulating the externalities of fossil fuel use, but changing metaphors helps change minds.

#ClimateEmergency #FossilGas #Metaphor

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jul/07/australian-energy-ministers-to-consider-renaming-natural-gas-to-fossil-gas-in-law

NEW video: EU can halve its #fossilgas use by 2030 & completely phase it out by 2050 while maintaining industrial production, ensuring security of supply & without disruptive behavioural changes. Learn more about our new pathway to #climateneutrality: https://bit.ly/44Nz3of 7 1/2

#EUGeneralCourt dismisses as inadmissible MEP @repasi ‘s challenge to @EU_Commission Regulation 2022/1214 which classifies investments in #FossilGas and #NuclearEnergy as environmentally sustainable #Taxonomy #environment 👉https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo2_7052/

📺 In our final Deep Dive series on “Breaking free from #fossilgas”, we team up with @TEPenergy
& examine #buildings & #districtheating and show how they need to change to succeed in the transformation away from fossil gas. When? June 22, 10:00-11:30 am 👉 https://bit.ly/3Nv5gdT

Infuriating.... Biden caves in to extortion from #Manchin to fast-track Appalachian #fossilgas pipeline that has relied on eminent domain to seize private property, repeatedly violated clean-water laws and gone billions of dollars over budget

#debtceiling #wapo
https://wapo.st/3WGTqQP

#TIL in 2022, Russia was Europe's third largest #LNG supplier with France and Spain the top importers. (via @ieefa_institute: https://ieefa.org/european-lng-tracker ). Time for Europe to end, not deepen, its #fossilgas dependence.

Following our study publication "Breaking free from #fossilgas: A new path to a climate-neutral Europe", we invite you to the first of our 3 sectoral deep dives. This time ➡ results on the #powersector & #energysupply in EU-27 with our consultant Artelys. Register here: https://bit.ly/3M4jbWB

Uscire dal #gas si può?? SI: qui un po' è spiegato come 🧵
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📣 New EU Gas Exit Pathway: EU can halve its #fossilgas use by 2030 & completely phase it out by 2050, with less renewable #hydrogen than planned in #REPowerEU while fully ensuring security of supply, without disruptive behavioral changes. Findings ⬇️ https://bit.ly/3VACYBo 1/9
https://twitter.com/AgoraEW/status/1654090252670369797

An accelerated #fossilgas phase-out is possible through structural demand reductions in #energy, #buildings & #industry➡️ key measures: a quick ramp-up of #renewableenergy, electrification and energy efficiency. 2/9

📣 New EU Gas Exit Pathway: EU can halve its #fossilgas use by 2030 & completely phase it out by 2050, with less renewable #hydrogen than planned in #REPowerEU while fully ensuring security of supply, without disruptive behavioral changes. Findings ⬇️ https://bit.ly/3VACYBo 1/9

Yes, burning LNG reduces SOx & NOx, but it’s no climate solution for maritime (shipping, cruising, etc.). MSC & every cruise line should stop investing in false solutions. Our planet says NO to LNG! #SayNoToLNG @transenv #GHGs #Climate #Methane #FossilGas https://www.cruisehive.com/msc-cruises-new-meraviglia-plus-ship-aces-sea-trials/99642 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1653044219148115968

Yes, burning LNG reduces PM2.5, but it is no climate solution for maritime (shipping, cruising, etc.). MSC and every cruise line should stop investing in false solutions. Our planet says NO to LNG! #SayNoToLNG @transenv #GHGs #Climate #Methane #FossilGas https://www.cruisehive.com/msc-cruises-new-meraviglia-plus-ship-aces-sea-trials/99642