Sentences with phrase «curbing emissions of methane»

Today's «Joint Statement on Climate, Energy, and Arctic Leadership» by President Obama and Canada's new prime minister, Justin Trudeau, contained lots of welcome environmental commitments, particularly on curbing emissions of methane leaking from existing oil and gas infrastructure.

The agency also took an overdue step to clarify how to curb emissions of methane from the hundreds of thousands of wells, compressors and other leaky parts of the nation's sprawling oil and gas industry, issuing an «Information Collection Request» requiring companies, among other things, to describe the types of technologies that could be used to reduce emissions.

Capturing methane otherwise released into the atmosphere, purifying it, and injecting it into existing pipelines can displace fossil fuels and curb emissions of methane, a pollutant 34 times as powerful as carbon dioxide.

Not exact matches

In the nearer term, the key is to curb some of the most concentrated sources of greenhouse gas emissions like methane and black carbon, Gov. Brown said.

In the past, Sessions has acknowledged that human activity may be warming the planet but has fiercely fought government efforts to curb emissions of warming gases including carbon dioxide and methane.

Some of the low - hanging targets for reductions of greenhouse gas emissions have been highlighted in recent months in a «By Degrees» series in The Times, which explores topics like the electrical demand of our new electronic gadgets, efforts to curb methane leaks and the move to install light - colored roofs in warmer climates.

«Standards on new sources of methane emissions, coupled with the recent US - Canada announcement on existing sources, demonstrates the Obama administration's commitment to curbing greenhouse gas emissions.

He concluded that soot is currently the No. 2 driver of climate change â $» behind CO2 but ahead of methane â $» and that curbing emissions of black carbon would produce the fastest, most effective and most affordable international response to climate change and the shrinking of the Arctic sea ice.