Environmental groups filed a lawsuit last week challenging the federal approval of Alaska’s goal to export natural gas from the North Slope via a trans-Alaska pipeline.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has partnered with another national lab and a seismic instrumentation monitoring company to develop a physics-based seismic-forecasting software platform to help operators and regulators better
The planning project will study the rail crossings at Birch Point Drive, State Park Road and East Second Street, and the Baker Avenue viaduct, according to a statement from the Federal Railroad Administration.
McGill University researchers are leading an international team whose goal is to create a framework to help governments in the U.S. and around the world assess and prioritize remediation strategies for orphaned oil and gas wells. These inactive wells represent environmental risks since they have the potential to contaminate water supplies, degrade ecosystems, and emit methane and other air pollutants that are harmful to human health. But plugging the wells also offers various potential environmental opportunities such as underground storage of carbon dioxide and hydrogen, or the development of geothermal energy systems.
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