Fossil Fuels
A Climate Action Tracker report says the 2030 NDCs and binding long-term and net-zero targets out of COP26 will only keep temperature rise to 2.1 C.
Delegates registered their disappointment with the shortcomings of the final COP26 agreement in Glasgow but agreed to support it as a balanced compromise.
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HECO has pledged to speed up its carbon reduction efforts as state officials revive the idea of converting its last coal-fired plant to biomass.
Consultant William Strauss says Maine’s ports have a “huge shipping distance advantage” in the global industrial wood pellet fuel market.
When COP26 ends this week, countries will have "the capacity to get where we need to go that we’ve never had before," John Kerry said.
Eversource warned that customers will likely see a spike in their bills this winter compared to last year’s, as natural gas prices surge nationwide.
Legislators from the Merrimack Valley, where a series of gas explosions killed an 18-year-old, are calling for repairing pipelines instead of replacing them.
President Biden, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and EU President Ursula von der Leyen pledged they would lead a global methane reduction effort.
Natural gas supplies, carbon pricing and transmission were among the topics at the 73rd New England Conference of Public Utilities Commissioners Symposium.
Upgrading the gas pipeline network could prepare existing infrastructure to carry zero-carbon fuels, but it's an “enormous task,” researcher Erin Blanton said.
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