The natural gas storage report from the EIA for the week ending April 30th indicated that the amount of natural gas held in underground storage in the US rose by 60 billion cubic feet to 1,958 billion cubic feet by the end of the week, which left our gas supplies 345 billion cubic feet, or 15.0% below the 2,303 billion cubic feet that were in storage on April 30th of last year, and 61 billion cubic feet, or 3.0% below the five-year average of 2,019 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have been in storage as of the 30th of April in recent years..the 60 billion cubic feet that were added to US natural gas storage this week was more than the average forecast of a 51 billion cubic foot addition from an S&P Global Platts survey of analysts, but was well below the average addition of 81 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have typically been injected into natural gas storage during the same week over the past 5 years, as well as well below the 103 billion cubic feet added to natural
Air pollution from farms leads to 17,900 US deaths per year, study finds Published May 10
Dust drifts over a cornfield in Alden, Iowa, on Aug. 28, 2017. Corn dominates the landscape and is primarily used for producing ethanol and feeding hogs. Iowa is the leading U.S. producer of corn and pork. (Bonnie Jo Mount / Washington Post)
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Print article The smell of hog feces was overwhelming, Elsie Herring said. The breezes that wafted from the hog farm next to her mother’s Duplin County, N.C., home carried hazardous gases: methane, ammonia, hydrogen sulfide. “The odor is so offensive that we start gagging, we start coughing,” she told a congressional committee in November 2019. Herring said she and other residents developed headaches, breathing problems and heart conditions from the fumes.
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Duke Energy is optimistic a major piece of energy legislation will be introduced in North Carolina this year, based on months of closed-door stakeholder negotiations with state Republican leadership, industry groups and others. We remain optimistic for comprehensive energy legislation this year, aligned with our shared goals of generation transition and regulatory reforms, said Duke CEO Lynn Good during the company s Q1 earnings call Monday. She added the utility s optimism is based on the broad support for this legislation within the state.
A wide array of North Carolina stakeholders came up with a broad set of recommendations for the legislature last fall, including around performance-based rate incentives, power market reform and more. But some of those same groups in particular environmental and rate advocates have been excluded from subsequent conversations within the legislature, potentially threatening wider consensus, advocates say.