Methane is a key component in the world’s cleanest fossil fuel, natural gas. Yet, being clean does not make methane unproblematic. When released into the atmosphere, methane’s heat-trapping tendencies contribute directly to global warming. Methane is 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when released into the environment and therefore has an extremely negative effect…
Book about fracking and the energy industry in Powerful Prose
By Submitted Oklahoma City University’s Powerful Prose series will continue with a presentation about fracking and the energy industry at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. The presentation is free to the public and will be held at Full Circle Bookstore, the series co-sponsor, in the 50 Penn Place shopping center at 1900 Northwest Expressway. OCU President Robert Henry…
U.S. Department of State official to speak at International Energy Conference in OKC
Matthew McManus, an official from the U.S. Department of State, will be one of the featured speakers at Oklahoma City University’s International Energy Conference. The conference will take place from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Oct. 15 at the Cox Convention Center in downtown Oklahoma City. It is presented by OCU’s Meinders School of…
