Chicago Utility’s Plan for Aging Natural Gas Pipelines Runs Up Against Energy Transition

DeSmogBlog
By Sharon KellyOct 30, 2024, 5:10 pm516 ptsHot
If you ask Chicago’s gas pipeline utility, Peoples Gas Light and Coke Company, or PGL, the best way to fix the problem of leaks from underground gas pipelines, their answer is the most ambitious option — running new, upgraded plastic pipelines throughout the city, leaving their old network of leak-prone…

Read Article Share
Share Article
- email
- x.com
- facebook
- pocket
- reddit
- tumblr
- linkedin
- pinterest

Trending Today on EcoTopical

The West Has Long Characterized Iran’s Oil As A Prize To Be Claimed 123

Using 'imaginative' AI to survey past and future earthquake damage 123

‘We’re harvesting the sun’: A huge solar project grows in California 121

How New Jersey's limits on 'forever chemicals' in tap water brought levels down 121

Five more community-led African groups join global landscape restoration network 119

Behind the scenes of the Amazon’s gold rush: Director Richard Ladkani on the making of ‘Yanuni’ 116

Importance of sublimation for the Rocky Mountain snowpack highlighted in study 115

Compost, racoons and sea turtle predation in Costa Rica 114

About EcoTopical

Welcome to EcoTopical Your daily eco-friendly green news aggregator.

Leaf through planet Earths environmental headlines in one convenient place. Read, share and discover the latest on ecology, science and green living from the web's most popular sites.

Chicago Utility’s Plan for Aging Natural Gas Pipelines Runs Up Against Energy Transition

DeSmogBlog

Share Article

Trending Today on EcoTopical

About EcoTopical

Featured

915 Electric Buses Ordered For Use In India

Urban AI should not be understood as a single, inevitable next stage of the…

Turning the Plan Into Action: Next Steps for Oʻahu’s Clean Energy System

EIA: New solar, wind + storage capacity will swamp fossil fuels in 2026

One Colorado air pollution plan is working: Here's how

What happens to obsolete oil rigs in a green future?

Plastic washing at recycling plants can spike phthalates in wastewater, study…

Toyota cuts EV prices in China, some now under $15,000

If the Laschamps geomagnetic excursion happened today, aviation radiation…