Beyond Methane RVA

Richmond Gas Works has serious infrastructure problems resulting in significant losses of methane gas that pose health, safety and economic concerns. On our very first test run with our UR students, we found a 100% Low Explosive Limit (LEL) leak in the First District.

For the first time ever, heat pumps outsold gas boilers in Germany in 2025. 48% of all new heating systems installed last year were heat pumps. Gas fell to just 39%. A decade ago, heat pumps had a 7% market share. The transformation has been remarkable.

While we’re reclassifying carbon emissions as healthy and defunding green energy that is working everywhere else in the world, China can now charge an e car in 5 minutes.

The fossil fuel era is an abusive, dirty and expensive system of renting energy through endless, risky imports Clean energy is about owning it For Asia, this is the ultimate opportunity to convert fossil fragility into electric independence Source: ember-energy.org/latest-insight…

The "LNG is a bridge fuel" fairy tale is dead Why build expensive, long-term import infrastructure for a dirty commodity - gas- prone to geopolitical ransom when you can buy dispatchable solar for less than $80/MW? 5/7

China now has enough wind and solar to power every home in the country: buff.ly/OG9Wprq We have the solutions. Dump fossil fuels and implement them. #ActOnClimate #climateemergency #climate #energy #renewables

@pwcdanica explains how a transmission line in her area was being built almost exclusively to benefit a new Amazon data center, but everyday Virginians are the ones paying for it. Call and email your House Delegate TODAY to support Senate Bill 619, which would require data centers to prove they won't harm our bills, reliability, or clean energy goals before connecting to the grid.

"It is another way of valuing human life at $0. It is another way of communicating to the American people that what you are seeing with your own eyes isn’t happening." In @newsweek, @LorenBlackford, Executive Director of the @SierraClub; @ManishBapna, President and CEO of the Natural Resources Defense Council (@NRDC); @AmandaLeland, Executive Director of the @edf; and @AbigailDillen, President of @Earthjustice call out the administration’s pollution policy. Read more: bit.ly/4cBLASu

Officials say the explosion appears to have stemmed from natural #gas leaking into the ground from a transmission line running through the neighborhood

JUST IN: Centreville homes still off limits after natural gas explosion ffxnow.com/2026/02/16/jus…

The Long US Goodbye to New Gas Connections and the Legal Tools States Are Using to Get There cleantechnica.com/2026/01/12/the… via @cleantechnica

Imagine! How could wind and solar ever compete with fossil fuel electricity across an entire year, across an entire block of 450 million people!?😉

We don’t need any more #Gas fired power plants

Just 1 ship packed with solar panels delivers the means to produce as much electricity as 57 LNG tankers or 120 coal ships A world with little fossil fuels has an enormously lighter footprint - starting with zero need for 40% of global shipping reneweconomy.com.au/one-ship-loade…

China has now started installing 20MW offshore wind turbines. You just need 50 of those to match the capacity of an average 1GW nuclear plant. This might sound trivial but think for a minute how much easier it is to install a wind turbine than it is to build a nuclear plant. The latest nuclear reactor in the U.S., Vogtle Units 3 & 4, took 11 years to build. Whereas you can install a wind turbine in just two to three weeks (yes, really: researchgate.net/publication/32…) That's an insane differential: a couple of weeks vs. 11 years. With of course immense implications on costs: it's much cheaper to build, with a much safer risk profile. For one thing you start generating revenue in weeks instead of getting your capital tied up during more than a decade. As a reminder, Vogtle's cost overruns actually bankrupted Westinghouse - America's flagship nuclear company - in 2017 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westingho…). No major energy company can possibly get bankrupt over a wind turbine project. This is why, again, it's positively insane to believe that green energy is "a scam": the numbers are right there. The only scam is convincing people otherwise, which ironically favors China: they power their factories with cheap, rapidly deployed energy while we get the culture war.

You can’t see carbon monoxide — but your detector can. 💨 Proper installation and correct placement matter. Protect your home. Protect your family. ❤️ #NaturalGasSafety #CarbonMonoxideSafety #SafeLiving

The EPA has removed references about humans causing climate change from its website. No US government website can be trusted for science information.

More wind - #NoNewGas