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Landmark paper underestimated methane leaks from gas production, study says
2015-08-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: A dispute between two environmental scientists is creating a controversy over how much methane is leaking from natural gas production and is contributing to global warming. In a new report, Touché Howard, a methane gas expert and air quality consultant, says the flaws he found in a commonly used methane detector caused an acclaimed 2013 study to underestimate the amount of methane emitted by natural gas production. Howard's paper was published today in the peer-reviewed journal Energy Science &...
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Methane in Atmosphere May Greatly Exceed Estimates, Report Says
2015-08-04 09:06:09| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: A device commonly used to measure the methane that leaks from industrial sources may greatly underestimate those emissions, said an inventor of the technology that the device relies on. The claim, published Tuesday in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, suggests that the amount of escaped methane, a potent greenhouse gas, could be far greater than accepted estimates from scientists, industry and regulators. The new paper focuses on a much-heralded report sponsored by the Environmental Defense Fund...
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US EPA proposes voluntary measures for reducing methane emissions by oil and gas firms
2015-07-27 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed Natural Gas STAR Methane Challenge Program for the oil and gas companies, asking the companies take voluntary measures to cut methane gas emission.
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New Mexico Dems call for tough new methane rule
2015-07-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Four New Mexico Democrats are encouraging the Obama administration to release a strong rule regulating methane emissions at oil and gas drilling sites. We recognize that oil and gas producers have an economic incentive to minimize methane losses and the industry is improving its practices, the Democrats led by Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich wrote in a letter to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). However, federal action is necessary to ensure that steps to limit methane releases...
EPA is underestimating methane emissions from the Barnett Shale - study
2015-07-09 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: As the U.S. oil and gas industry emits carbon pollutants like CO2 and methane to the atmosphere, its emissions are tracked closely by federal regulators. But the federal tracking underestimates emissions of methane, which is the primary component of natural gas, in at least one major natural-gas-producing region in the United States: the Barnett Shale in the Dallas-Forth Worth area of Texas. The results were part of a series of 11 studies funded by the Environmental Defense Fund, an environmental...
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