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Obamas Proposed Methane Emissions Cuts Ignore Existing Sources
2015-01-15 06:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: The Obama Administration today announced a new goal to cut methane emissions from the oil and gas sector by 40 to 45 percent from 2012 levels by 2025, and a set of actions to put the United States on a path to achieve this goal. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will initiate a rulemaking effort to set standards for emissions of methane and volatile organic compounds from new and modified oil and gas production sources, and natural gas processing and transmission sources, but not for existing...
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Barack Obama plans to cut US methane emissions by nearly half
2015-01-14 21:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economic Times: The Obama administration has unveiled plans to regulate methane emissions from the country's oil and natural-gas industry by as much as 45 per cent over the next decade. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to propose federal regulations to cut methane emissions from the oil and gas sector by 40 per cent to 45 percent by 2025 from 2012 levels, White House and agency officials said yesterday. The move to cut methane emissions from the oil and gas sector, is likley to Climate change...
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Obama Orders Oil and Gas Industry to Slash Methane Emissions, but There's a Catch
2015-01-14 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Takepart: President Obama is tackling climate change again. The White House announced its latest move on Wednesday, directing the nations oil and gas industry to cut methane emissions as much as 45 percent by 2025. The executive action is an important step in the fight to suppress global warming becausemethane emissions, while lower than carbon dioxide emissions, are over 25 times more powerful at trapping heat in the atmosphere. Environmentalists welcomed the announcement, but some suggested that the...
Air Products To Host Webinar On Technology For Controlling VOC Emissions
2015-01-12 01:27:28| pollutiononline News Articles
Air Products (NYSE:APD) will present a free webinar that discusses a technology for controlling the emission of volatile organic compounds (VOCs)
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Australia: Emissions for power sector jump as carbon tax ends
2015-01-07 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: The carbon intensity of Australia's main electricity grid has surged since the end of the carbon tax, undermining the Abbott government's efforts to cut national emissions. On an annualised basis, emissions from the National Electricity Market serving eastern Australia have risen by 3.9 million tonnes since June, while the sector's emissions intensity has risen 11 per cent, according to the latest Cedex report, compiled by energy consultants Pitt & Sherry. The share of black and brown coal...
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