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The Invisible Spill Spewing the Gases of a Half-Million Cars

2015-12-07 14:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Bloomberg: Call it the invisible spill. You cant see it, but its there -- a steady stream of natural gas seeping out of the pipe casing in a well in Southern California that may spew as much greenhouse gas into the air as a half-million cars do in a year. Pipeline operator Sempra Energy says it may take three to four months to plug. Using the same tactic that eventually ended the massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the company is boring a well thatll intercept the damaged one to stop the...

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New Camera Measures Greenhouse Gases

2015-12-07 08:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Environment News Service: Global warming will happen faster than previously believed, finds new research from Swedish scientists that measures natural methane emissions in a warming world using a unique camera that can photograph and film them. While increased human emissions of greenhouse gases are expected and included in climate predictions, the future development of natural emissions has been less clear; now the Swedish study takes both human and natural methane emissions into account. As a result, knowledge of...

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Draft climate change deal lowers greenhouse gases by 2050

2015-12-05 20:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Engadget: Earth just took a tentative step toward a new, comprehensive plan for improving the environment. Representatives from 195 countries have approved a draft UN climate change agreement that will ask all participants to lower their carbon dioxide emissions. There are still many, many details left to resolve ahead of a final deal (ideally signed next week), but the ultimate goal is to have countries reduce their greenhouse gas levels by 2050, and to eliminate emissions completely between 2060 and 2080....

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Landfill Gases Turned to Compressed Natural Gas

2015-11-24 22:31:00| Waste Age

Bakken.com What started for Madison-based BioCNG as a small pilot project at the Dane County Landfill is spreading to other parts of the country. read more

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