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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">1. GE is closing its Inland Empire methane plant in Riverside CA. The plant, commissioned in 2009, is no longer profitable. It will be dismantled, and the site will be sold to a battery manufacturer.
</span><a href="https://cleantechnica.com/2019/06/21/ge-will-shutter-california-natural-gas-plant-20-years-early/?utm_source=CleanTechnica+News&utm_campaign=6b59d1698b-Daily+Email+CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b9b83ee7eb-6b59d1698b-331994013" id="LPlnk832269" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">https://cleantechnica.com/2019/06/21/ge-will-shutter-california-natural-gas-plant-20-years-early/?utm_source=CleanTechnica+News&utm_campaign=6b59d1698b-Daily+Email+CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b9b83ee7eb-6b59d1698b-331994013</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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General Electric is shuttering a natural gas powered generating station in southern California 20 years before the end of its normal useful life. Competition from solar and wind power plants have ...</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">2. The shale methane industry is shaky.
</span><a href="https://climatecrocks.com/2019/06/25/will-shale-gas-bring-on-the-next-collapse/" id="LPlnk322488" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">https://climatecrocks.com/2019/06/25/will-shale-gas-bring-on-the-next-collapse/</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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The dodgy finances of the oil and gas fracking industry are a big story, much too big to summarize here, but there's a lot being written on this, which I'll be delving into in coming months. DesmogBlog: Steve Schlotterbeck, who led drilling company EQT as it
expanded to become the nation’s largest producer of natural gas in 2017, arrived at…</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">3. Some utilities are moving to renewable power but others, such as Duke Energy, are building methane plants. At stake is—pretty much the future of the planet.
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America’s coal-burning power plants are shutting down at a rapid pace, forcing electric utilities to face the next big climate question: Embrace natural gas, or shift aggressively to renewable ...</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">The claim that new technologies are needed to carry out the transition to fossil fuels is easily countered by pointing to regions which have already run carbon-free. Whether methane power
is cheaper than renewables is entirely beside the point, which is to begin countering the climate crisis.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">4. Snowmelt in the Himalayas provides water and hydropower for about 800 million Asians. The melt rate has doubled this century due primarily to rising temperatures, threatening eventual water
and power shortages. </span><a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/06/190619142538.htm" id="LPlnk880331" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/06/190619142538.htm</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">5. Timothy Egan, enthusiastic about the Impossible Whopper, believes that fake meat may save us.
</span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/21/opinion/fake-meat-climate-change.html" id="LPlnk784720" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/21/opinion/fake-meat-climate-change.html</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">6. The US fossil fuel industry is funding not only our own apocalypse-friendly right wing but Brexiteers, neo-Nazis, and other climate deniers in Europe.
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