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‘Green Hydrogen’ Would Squander Renewable Energy Resources in Massachusetts

Using heat pumps to heat buildings would be a better use of limited clean energy resources, a new report concludes.

By Phil McKenna

Aaron Sinclair, of Dave's World, installs a heat pump at the home of Roland and Dale Bois on Sept. 25, 2018. Credit: Brianna Soukup/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images
A general view of the Costa Sur power plant is seen in Penuelas, Puerto Rico on Jan. 9, 2020, after a powerful earthquake hit the island. Credit: Ricardo Ardungo/AFP via Getty Images

Puerto Rico Hands Control of its Power Plants to a Natural Gas Company

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Everett LNG Marine Terminal on Oct. 31, 2022 in Everett, Massachusetts. Credit: Matt Stone/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images

2022 Will Be Remembered as the Year the U.S. Became the World’s Largest Exporter of Liquified Natural Gas

By Nicholas Kusnetz

A building under construction in Silver Spring Maryland. Credit: Benjamin C. Tankersley/For The Washington Post via Getty Images

Maryland’s Largest County Just Banned Gas Appliances in Most New Buildings—But Not Without Some Concessions

By Aman Azhar

Flames from gas burners are seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on Oct. 11, 2021. Credit: Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Citing Health and Climate Concerns, Activists Urge HUD To Remove Gas Stoves From Federally Assisted Housing

By Victoria St. Martin

Maryland Governor-elect Wes Moore speaks during a press conference with Governor Larry Hogan after meeting in the Governors office, at the Maryland State House, on Nov. 10, 2022 in Annapolis, Maryland. Credit: Graeme Sloan for The Washington Post via Getty Images

Environmental Advocates Call on Gov.-Elect Wes Moore to Roll Back State Funding for Fossil Fuel Industry

By Aman Azhar

A power plant on Dec. 9, 2021 in Weymouth, Massachusetts. Credit: Stuart Cahill/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald

Massachusetts Utilities Hope Hydrogen and Biomethane Can Keep the State Cooking, and Heating, With Gas

By Jon Lamson

An LNG tanker makes its way into Cameron Pass near the site of Venture Global LNGs facility at Cameron Pass, near Cameron, Louisiana, on Wednesday, April 13, 2022. Credit: Getty Images

Protesters Rally at Gas Summit in Louisiana, Where Industry Eyes a Fossil Fuel Buildout

By Dylan Baddour

Members of Extinction Rebellion Washington block traffic outside the offices of WGL's Washington Gas as part of the environmental group's campaign to get fossil fuels out of the nation's capital on July 8, 2022 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

In Court, the Maryland Public Service Commission Quotes Climate Deniers and Claims There’s No Such Thing as ‘Clean’ Energy

By Aman Azhar

Left: J.D. Vance, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Ohio, speaks at a campaign rally on May 1, 2022 in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. Right: Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio), Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Ohio, attends a rally on May 2, 2022 in Lorain, Ohio. Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Ohio Senate Contest Features Two Candidates Who Profess Love for Natural Gas

By Dan Gearino

Prosperity, Pennsylvania. Credit: Jon Hurdle

Rural Pennsylvanians Set to Vote for GOP Candidates Who Support the Natural Gas Industry

By Jon Hurdle

Researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health collected canisters of natural gas directly from gas stoves throughout the Greater Boston region. The chemical makeup of the gas was analyzed in a lab. Credit: Brett Tyron

Natural Gas Samples Taken from Boston-Area Homes Contained Numerous Toxic Compounds, a New Harvard Study Finds

By Hannah Loss

Every Hour, This Gas Storage Station Sends Half a Ton of Methane Into the Atmosphere

By Phil McKenna, Inside Climate News and Alex Rozier, Mississippi Today

The new Cheniere LNG export terminal is across the water, in Louisiana, from the neighborhood of Sabine Pass in Port Arthur, Texas. Credit: James Bruggers

Should EPA Back-Off Pollution Controls to Help LNG Exports Replace Russian Gas in Germany?

By James Bruggers

John Allaire checks a trap for fish or crabs on his coastal property in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, south of Lake Charles. Credit: James Bruggers

With Biden in Europe Promising to Expedite U.S. LNG Exports, Environmentalists on the Gulf Coast Say, Not So Fast

By James Bruggers

A steel pipeline for natural gas liquids lies in an open-cut trench October 6, 2017 in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

FERC Says it Will Consider Greenhouse Gas Emissions and ‘Environmental Justice’ Impacts in Approving New Natural Gas Pipelines

By Zoha Tunio

Natural gas is flared at a gas compressor station in the Badlands of North Dakota outside the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation on Oct. 30, 2021. Pipeline capacity issues in the state are a primary reason for flaring, according to Loren Wickstrom, field manager of the Bureau of Land Management’s North Dakota field office. Credit: Isaac Stone Simonelli/Howard Center for Investigative Journalism

Oil and Gas Companies ‘Flare’ or ‘Vent’ Excess Natural Gas. It’s Like Burning Money—and it’s Bad for the Environment

By Nicole Sadek, Zoha Tunio and Sarah Hunt

Pipe systems and shut-off devices are seen at the gas receiving station of the Nord Stream 2 Baltic Sea pipeline. Credit: Stefan Sauer/picture alliance via Getty Images

How Climate and the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Undergirds the Ukraine-Russia Standoff

By Marianne Lavelle

A person cooks over a gas stove on Oct. 28, 2021, in Madrid, Spain. Credit: Cezaro De Luca/Europa Press via Getty Images

Gas Stoves in the US Emit Methane Equivalent to the Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Half a Million Cars

By Phil McKenna

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