A catalyst that
allows waste gas to be easily converted into a useful chemical could cut the industry's carbon dioxide emissions.
A bump to the SWOC will also come with a change to a variety of other rules, including a potential increase of 200 megawatts to come from energy efficiency programs and a decision that could
allow waste gas and energy storage to play in ERCOT's markets.
Not exact matches
This system
allows us to report energy and water consumption, greenhouse
gas emissions and
waste generation at a global and site level, as an absolute figure or per unit of production.
Meanwhile, under Governor Cuomo's watch, the oil and
gas industry has been
allowed to import and treat of fracking
wastes from Pennsylvania in New York State.
The EPA has the authority to issue permits for such discharges, but current rules
allow shale
gas drillers to pass their
waste through public sewage plants even if those plants are not equipped to remove pollutants.
Rather than articulating the need to phase out technologies that use that atmosphere as a
waste dump, the PCAST report recommends the expansion of a natural
gas industry whose existence depends on us
allowing them to pollute our skies.
Puzzled at why a green conference was
allowing so much printing to happen, I flipped the catalogue over and saw that it is printed by New Leaf Paper, and the stats on how much energy, water, trees, solid
waste and greenhouse
gasses were avoided by using the recycled, chlorine - free paper made me realize that a highly professional conference can be done in a very green way.
The problem is that treating oil and
gas waste from fracked wells remains particularly tricky because the industry is still
allowed to keep secret information about which chemicals drillers use when injecting fluids to crack open shale formations to release oil and
gas.
The mind - set of those who dump rubbish on road - sides is, I believe, similar to the mind - set of the corporations that dump
waste gasses such as carbon dioxide into the atmosphere causing climate change and ocean acidification — and of the governments that
allow it to happen.
As a result of political horse trading at UN negotiations on climate change, countries like Russia and the Ukraine were
allowed to create carbon credits from activities like curbing coal
waste fires, or restricting
gas emissions from petroleum production.