je.st

Home › methane

Tag: methane

Methane and Regulation: EPA's Recent Proposals

2015-09-14 22:08:00| Waste Age

Nature World News The Environmental Protection Agency recently made two new proposals in hopes of further reducing methane emissions. Global emissions of this particular gas are considered the leading cause of climate change, following carbon dioxide pollution. read more

Tags: recent regulation proposals methane

Visual details released of recently discovered methane seep

2015-09-13 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have released details of a deep-sea site roughly 48 kilometers (30 miles) west of Del Mar (just north of San Diego, Calif.) where methane is seeping out of the seafloor, the first such finding in the region. Scripps graduate students on a 2012 UC Ship Funds Program expedition aboard Scripps's research vessel Melville off San Diego County discovered the "Del Mar Seep" during the San Diego Coastal Expedition. Such methane seeps are...

Tags: details recently released visual

U.S. EPA proposes methane reduction plans for landfills

2015-09-02 21:18:38| Solid Waste & Recycling magazine Headlines

Combined, the proposed EPA rules are expected to reduce methane emissions by an estimated 487,000 tons a year beginning in 2025 The post U.S. EPA proposes methane reduction plans for landfills appeared first on Solid Waste & Recycling Magazine.

Tags: plans reduction proposes epa

While New Methane Rules Get Most of the Attention, EPA Also Proposes...

2015-08-26 04:28:01| Oil & Gas - Topix.net

While the methane emission regulations have received the bulk of the media attention, another proposed rule may actually have the most direct impact on oil and gas operations. It allows the aggregation of multiple surface sites into a single source for air quality permitting purposes.

Tags: the rules attention proposes