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Obama Administration to Propose New Rules to Halt Methane Leaks

2016-01-22 14:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: The Obama administration is expected to propose new rules as soon as Friday to curb methane leaks from oil and natural gas production, its latest attempt to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from energy production under its control, sources familiar with the plan said. The Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) wants to limit venting and flaring natural gas at wells on public land, practices that let methane into the atmosphere. Methane is the second most prevalent greenhouse gas after...

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Regulators scrap plan to burn off leaking methane in Calif

2016-01-20 23:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Air quality regulators agreed on Wednesday to scrap a proposal to capture and burn off some of the methane spewing into the air from a subterranean pipeline rupture that has forced thousands of Los Angeles residents from their homes since October. But the five-member hearing board of the South Coast Air Quality Management District, meeting for a third time this month to review the problem, delayed action again on a larger plan for addressing the gas leak, ranked as the worst ever in California....

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Pennsylvania to Crack Down on Energy Industry's Methane Emissions

2016-01-20 14:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Pennsylvania will take new steps to cut methane emissions from natural gas wells and pipelines, and fill gaps in state policies that have allowed many sources in the sector to release the potent greenhouse gas without mandatory controls, Gov. Tom Wolf announced today. Mr. Wolf unveiled a four-part plan to reduce methane leaks and emissions at new and existing well sites and pipelines during a town hall-style discussion on Facebook. The plan includes developing a new permit for new shale gas well...

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Porter Ranch methane well was under stress when it failed

2016-01-20 00:18:32| Energy - Topix.net

The Southern California well that has gushed climate-changing methane into the sky for 89 days was operated in a way that is legal but risky, some well experts say. Southern California Gas Co., a unit of San Diego-based Sempra Energy, injected and withdrew gas through the entire diameter of the well, rather than only through the narrower tubing that runs down the middle of it, Jason Marshall, chief deputy director of the agency that oversees the state oil and gas agency, confirmed.

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Air regulators to consider methane burn-off from gas leak

2016-01-16 23:38:22| Energy - Topix.net

Residents hold signs during a hearing over a gas leak at the Southern California Gas Company's Aliso Canyon Storage Facility near Porter Ranch, in Los Angeles on Saturday, Jan. 16, 2016. Southern California air regulators face a simple decision Saturday over a 12-week-old gas leak that has plagued Los Angeles residents and driven thousands from their homes.

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