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1 month ago | 
desmog.com | Edward Donnelly
“In all my days here, this is the biggest black eye that Pittsylvania County has experienced,” says Amanda Sink Wydner, leader of the local opposition to plans for a massive new power plant and data center complex in Chatham, a small town in southern Virginia. On April 15, the county government will vote on whether to rezone hundreds acres of farmland to heavy industrial use, which would allow Balico LLC, a natural gas power developer, to proceed with the project.
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1 month ago | 
ecotopical.com | Edward Donnelly
Welcome to EcoTopical Your daily eco-friendly green news aggregator. Leaf through planet Earths environmental headlines in one convenient place. Read, share and discover the latest on ecology, science and green living from the web's most popular sites.
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2 months ago | 
desmog.com | Katharina Wecker |Edward Donnelly
As tens of millions of Germans head to the polls this Sunday (February 23), one topic has been conspicuously absent from the headlines. In the wake of the hottest year on record – both in Germany and the world – the word “climate” has barely featured on election posters plastering the streets, and has been largely avoided in talk shows and interviews.
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2 months ago | 
desmog.com | Geoff Dembicki |Edward Donnelly |Joe Fassler |Adam Barnett
In December, a Chicago-based organization called the Heartland Institute, which for decades has attempted to undermine the scientific consensus on climate change, devoted an episode of its daily podcast to Elon Musk.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
popularresistance.org | Edward Donnelly
Above photo: Equinor’s Sleipner offshore gas field. Philip Stephen/ Nature Picture Library / Alamy. Oil company was storing a fraction of advertised amount of CO2 at offshore project. Equinor has retracted a claim that it stores about a million tonnes of carbon dioxide annually at its flagship carbon capture project after DeSmog obtained data showing the real figure was as little as a tenth of that amount.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
desmog.com | Edward Donnelly
This story is the tenth part of a DeSmog series on carbon capture and was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe. Equinor has retracted a claim that it stores about a million tonnes of carbon dioxide annually at its flagship carbon capture project after DeSmog obtained data showing the real figure was as little as a tenth of that amount.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
ecotopical.com | Edward Donnelly
Welcome to EcoTopical Your daily eco-friendly green news aggregator. Leaf through planet Earths environmental headlines in one convenient place. Read, share and discover the latest on ecology, science and green living from the web's most popular sites.
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Dec 13, 2024 | 
desmog.com | Edward Donnelly
BERLIN – At a five-star hotel next to the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, the world’s largest liquified natural gas (LNG) companies met this week for the 24th edition of the World LNG Summit and Awards. As the participants heralded their position at the forefront of a global LNG boom, one gas giant’s presence at the conference went largely undetected – Novatek, Russia’s second largest gas company.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
desmog.com | Edward Donnelly
This story is the sixth part of a DeSmog series on carbon capture and was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe. Norwegian state-owned oil and gas company Equinor, the North Sea’s largest fossil fuel producer, is positioning itself to play a key role in plans to turn Britain into a world leader in capturing carbon.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
desmog.com | Edward Donnelly
This story is the fifth part of a DeSmog series on carbon capture and was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe. Norwegian oil and gas company Equinor has admitted over-reporting the performance of a flagship carbon capture and storage project by about 30 percent due to defective monitoring equipment, underscoring risks associated with plans to scale the technology as a climate solution, DeSmog can reveal.
