Energy is derived from the environment, whether it is unearthed as fossil fuels, captured from the sun, harnessed from our waters, or driven by the wind. We can all agree that energy and the environment are inextricably linked, but do not all agree on how its use, and some forms of its extraction (fracking), impacts that environment.
President Trump has called into question the claim that burning fossil fuels is creating climate change, and announced his decision to pull the US out of the Paris Climate Agreement. His Administration is working toward reversing many of the regulations the US has in place that aim to clean up or protect our air and water, and toward defunding many the programs that promote the use of alternatives to fossil fuels.
As we have often discussed in this magazine, industrial gas companies have been at the forefront of developing technologies that address a whole array of environmental issues, often with the support of funding through the US Department of Energy (DOE) and other government agencies. Gas companies have been leaders in developing oxygen and carbon dioxide clean water applications, technologies that support the use of hydrogen as a clean burning fuel for transportation, and in carbon capture and carbon dioxide (CO2) reuse projects, to name a few.
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