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U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Fell 3.4 Percent In 2012, Says EPA
2014-04-16 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: America`s total greenhouse gas emissions actually fell 3.4 percent over the course of 2012, according to the LA Times. "The decline over the previous year was driven mostly by power plant operators switching from coal to natural gas," the LA Times reported, as well as by "improvements in fuel efficiency for transportation and a warmer winter that cut demand for heating." The report pulls from an annual greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory released by the Environmental Protection Agency - and the...
Fracking methane leaks at least 100 times larger than EPA estimated, say researchers
2014-04-16 10:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Gas methane emissions from some shale gas wells in the eastern US could be orders of magnitude larger than the EPA has estimated, according to a report released this week. In a paper entitled Toward a better understanding and quantification of methane emissions from shale gas development, scientists suggest that gas pads in southwestern Pennsylvania were releasing methane at a rate between 100 and 1,000 times greater than the EPA had suggested. "Large emissions averaging 34 g CH4/s per well...
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U.S. greenhouse gas emissions fall 10 pct since 2005: EPA
2014-04-15 23:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: U.S. greenhouse gas emissions fell nearly 10 percent from 2005 to 2012, more than halfway toward the United States' 2020 target pledged at United Nations climate talks, according to the latest national emissions inventory. The report showed that emissions dropped 3.4 percent from 2012 to 2011, mostly due to a decrease in energy consumption and fuel switching from coal to natural gas. The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday published the United States' 19th annual emissions tally to the U.N....
Court upholds EPA emission standards for power plants
2014-04-15 22:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Dallas Morning News: A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the Environmental Protection Agencys first emission standards for mercury and other hazardous air pollutants from coal- and oil-fired power plants. The court rejected challenges from Texas and other states as well as from industries to rules designed to clean up chromium, arsenic, acid gases, nickel, cadmium, mercury and other dangerous toxins. The EPAs determination in 2000 that regulating emission standards is appropriate and necessary, and the...
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EPA Focuses on Fracking, Leaks and More to Further Obamas Methane Plan
2014-04-15 21:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Tuesday released five technical papers as the first step to enacting President Barack Obama`s recent plan to reduce methane emissions. The five white papers address different emissions sources and mitigation techniques regarding methane and volatile organic compounds. The sources of focus are fracking, leaks, compressors, liquid removal and pneumatic devices. "[The] EPA will use the papers, along with the input we receive from the peer reviewers...
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