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White House tackles methane emissions in sweeping strategy
2014-03-28 06:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: The Obama administration is ordering federal agencies to take on emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane in an effort to fight climate change. The sweeping interagency plan highlights new steps the administration will take to cut emissions across a number of industries, including energy and agriculture. The long-awaited methane strategy provides no hard timeline for a proposed rule by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The agency will begin working on series of white papers this...
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White House Looks to Cut Methane Emissions
2014-03-28 02:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: The Obama administration has directed the EPA to study the key sources of the potent greenhouse gas and develop strategies for reducing emissions. It's part of the administration's effort to sidestep Congress to fight global warming The Obama administration on Friday announced a new initiative to cut methane emissions, as part of its efforts to go around Congress to combat climate change. Central to the administration`s methane emissions reduction strategy are new regulations on the oil and...
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A more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, methane emissions leap as Earth warms
2014-03-28 01:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: While carbon dioxide is typically painted as the bad boy of greenhouse gases, methane is roughly 30 times more potent as a heat-trapping gas. New research in the journal Nature indicates that for each degree that Earth's temperature rises, the amount of methane entering the atmosphere from microorganisms dwelling in lake sediment and freshwater wetlands -- the primary sources of the gas -- will increase several times. As temperatures rise, the relative increase of methane emissions will outpace...
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Methane Emissions Increase with Global Warming
2014-03-27 22:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: The amount of methane released from microorganisms dwelling in lakes and freshwater beds will increase severalfold for each degree Celsius the Earth's temperature rises, according to a new study. While much attention is given to climate change-linked rises in carbon dioxide, methane is roughtly 30 times more potent as a heat-trapping gas, and as temperatures rise, methane output from freshwater sources - the primary methane emissions source - will will outpace carbon dioxide output. In freshwater...
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Rich nations to start fund to help cut methane emissions abroad
2014-03-21 21:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Nations including the United States and Sweden are advancing plans to launch a new fund this year to pay for methane emission reduction projects in the developing world. The countries are aiming to set up a so-called Methane Abatement Facility with pledges of $100 million under the auspices of the World Bank to buy and cancel carbon credits, initially from projects that cut emissions at landfill waste sites. The aim is to deliver fast-acting cuts to greenhouse gas output blamed for climate...
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