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The US is widely believed to play a pivotal role in the development of international agreements to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but do other countries free ride on US pledges? This paper, published in SSRN, provides what we believe is the first empirical evidence by proposing the US Climate Reciprocity Ratio (CRR); this summary statistic […]
The climate chasm between the world’s carbon-guzzling rich and the heat-vulnerable poor forms a symbolic shape when plotted on a graph. Climate-heating greenhouse gas emissions are so heavily concentrated among a rich minority that the image resembles one of those old-fashioned broad-bowled, saucer-shaped glasses beloved of the gilded age: a champagne coupe. At the top […]
LITTLETON, Colorado, Nov 16 (Reuters) – As Europe’s top supplier of liquefied natural gas (LNG), the United States has been the main beneficiary of the pivot by utilities to replace sharply lower Russian pipeline gas supplies with imports from other origins and in the form of LNG. But following the
“Scientists have discovered the oldest black hole yet,” reports the CBC, calling it “a cosmic beast formed a mere 470 million years after the Big Bang.” “The findings, published Monday, confirm what until now were theories that supermassive black holes existed at the dawn of the universe…” Given the universe is 13.7 billion years old, […]
Nov 8 (Reuters) – Carbon dioxide emissions from U.S. liquefied natural gas facilities have jumped to 18 million tons per year, up 81% since 2019, adding a volume of greenhouse gas to the atmosphere equivalent to that produced by several big coal plants, according to United States government data. They could more than double to […]
Comment on this storyComment Environmentalists are gearing up for their next giant climate fight: They want to force a showdown with the Biden administration over the massive expansion of U.S. natural gas exports. Less than a decade ago U.S. exports of liquefied natural gas — LNG for short — didn’t exist. Now . . .
Receive free Romania updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Romania news every morning. A gas project in the Black Sea is caught up in a diplomatic spat over Austria’s opposition to allowing Romania into Europe’s border-free Schengen area. Austrian energy company OMV is a part owner of the […]
New Mexico’s top law enforcement official announced this week that a police officer has been charged with voluntary manslaughter in the killing of a Black man at a gas station last summer. Las Cruces Officer Brad Lunsford was booked Tuesday, but officials did not detain him, New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez told reporters at […]
Horizontal drilling rigs operate in the Permian Basin oil production area near Wink, Texas U.S. August 22, 2018. Picture taken August 22, 2018. REUTERS/Nick Oxford Acquire Licensing Rights Sept 22 – U . . .
A general view of Chevron’s Wheatstone LNG facility in Pilbara coast, Western Australia, as seen in this undated handout image obtained by Reuters on September 8, 2023. Chevron/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights