Sentences with phrase «methane emissions rules»

As if that wasn't enough to warm my heart, the EPA announced new actions to reduce the negative impacts of Obama administration's methane emission rules.

Not exact matches

While they acknowledged that methane emissions by the energy industry have decreased over the last few years, they still expressed a belief that it needed to be regulated, so they put together new rules that would force energy companies to decrease their methane emissions by 40 % to 55 % over the next 10 years.

McCain expressed reservations about the rules and supported revising them, but said, «Improving the control of methane emissions is an important public health and air quality issue.»

Another coalition of environmental groups has sued the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to reverse a two - year delay of another methane rule, this one governing emissions from drilling on federal and Indian lands.

What proved possible included an extension of the Kyoto Protocol for a period of either five or seven years (excluding Canada, Japan and Russia but adding nitrogen trifluoride, used in semiconductor manufacture, to the list of gases covered — CO2, methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, perfluorocarbons), a Green Climate Fund to help low - income countries cope (albeit without any actual funds yet), an Adaptation Committee to coordinate such efforts globally, rules for a global program to reduce deforestation and how to monitor such deforestation, and a Climate Technology Center that will help launch projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

After the U.S. Supreme Court last month ruled to delay implementation of Obama's Clean Power Plan on fighting emissions from power plants, new methane regulations could help Washington meet its pledges made in Paris.

But as oil and gas operations have become more controversial in the energy - rich state, Hickenlooper also threw his support behind the stricter air quality rules, calling for «zero tolerance» on methane emissions.

A separate EPA rule finalized last year aims to slash methane emissions from new facilities and is now under review in federal court.

McCarthy said the administration will build upon vehicle fuel emissions rules, regulations to reduce hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) from refrigeration and air conditioning units, and future proposals to cut methane emissions from oil and gas production, as well as EPA's proposal to cut carbon emissions from the power sector.

Others say that Obama's speech marked an important firewall against legislative efforts to roll back everything from EPA's upcoming climate rules to future regulations to reduce methane emissions in the natural gas sector.

In August, the EPA issued rules to limit air pollution by volatile organic compounds from «fracking» which should, as a by - product, also reduce emissions of methane.

Reinstated rule limiting methane emissions on public lands 2.

Various Updates In a move that environmental campaigners had sought for years (as had I), the Environmental Protection Agency has issued final rules that could substantially cut emissions of heat - trapping methane, smog - forming volatile organic compounds and toxic air pollutants such as benzene from new, rebuilt or modified oil and gas wells and other infrastructure and operations.

New rules for reporting methane (and carbon dioxide) emissions that have kicked in for some facilities this year will slowly raise pressure on industry to stanch such leaks.

While the Obama administration has delayed issuing rules requiring oil and gas companies to tally the amount of methane escaping around the country, other forces are likely to start pressing industry to move more aggressively to cut such emissions.

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) rules on venting and flaring could require costly methane controls for some of the very same emission sources already regulated by the EPA, or under consideration by EPA for regulation.

After putting an Obama - era rule that restricted oil and gas industry methane emissions on hold, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has now begun to rewrite the rule — and its...

This includes announcing a withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, repealing the Clean Power Plan, rolling back vehicle fuel economy standards, attempting to rescind rules on methane emissions from oil and gas production on federal lands, ending the moratorium on coal leasing on federal lands, and opening additional offshore areas to oil and gas leasing.

Through case studies, key recommendations for new rules, and descriptions of best practices, this working paper can help state officials to determine how best to structure future state - level policies — including measures for complying with forthcoming national emissions standards under the Clean Air Act — to reduce methane emissions from natural gas development.

The plan aims to set new rules on carbon emissions for new and existing power plants and address methane emissions from the gas industry.

It will be important to watch how these new leaders and their policy decisions affect environmental protections, such as ozone and methane emissions standards, renewable energy fuel and energy efficiency standards and the clean water rule.

Land use policies to enhance the forest carbon sink and tighter rules to reduce methane emissions from oil and gas could also help.

In August this year, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed the first - ever rule of directly limiting methane emissions from the oil and gas industry, its leading sources.

America's oil and natural gas industry supports commonsense regulation, but a duplicative Bureau of Land Management (BLM) rule regulating methane emissions is a solution in search of a problem.

That plan aims to set new rules on carbon emissions for new and existing power plants and address methane emissions from the gas industry.

In 2016, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will issue long - awaited rules to control methane emissions from the oil and gas industry.

In 2012, EPA finalized rules that addressed pollutants that are emitted alongside methane, and that would indirectly reduce methane emissions from oil and natural gas production.

By getting ahead of potential future federal rules addressing methane emissions, states can help companies accelerate the learning curve and reduce future compliance costs.

States can help industry save money while reducing waste, improving air quality, and lowering emissions by crafting their own methane rules.

To be sure, there's still plenty of federally unregulated greenhouse gas pollution within American borders — perhaps most notably, growing methane emissions from the shale gas boom — but the rule helps plug a big regulatory gap.

Mr. Pruitt, meeting with White House officials, made the case that the rule, which would rein in planet - warming methane emissions, would be harmful to his state's economy.

The EPA set new source performance standards for oil and gas wells in 2012, but that rule didn't directly regulate methane emissions.

But even with ambitious new rules addressing emissions from all of those sources, there's still significant work to do to reduce methane emissions from the natural gas sector.

These rules will improve air quality and have the co-benefit of reducing methane emissions.

«If we can reduce emissions of methane, we can really help to slow global warming,» said Ryan McCarthy, a science adviser for the California Air Resources Board, which is drawing up rules to implement the new law.

Federal rules building on existing Clean Air Act (CAA) authorities could provide an appropriate framework for reducing upstream methane emissions.

Today, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed new rules to cut methane emissions.

Earlier this year, President Obama ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to look into possible new regulations for methane emissions and ordered the Interior Department to ready new rules for flaring methane from oil and gas production on federal lands.

The proposed rules seem to overlook the fact that since 2005 methane emissions from hydraulically fractured natural gas wells have fallen 79 percent, according to EPA, at the same time natural gas production has increased.

As some groups push for additional EPA and Bureau of Land Management methane rules, claiming that voluntary efforts to reduce emissions haven't worked, it's clear that a combination of industry actions in concert with existing regulation have worked — and that additional regulation isn't needed.

«Another duplicative rule at a time when methane emissions are falling and on top of an onslaught of other new BLM and EPA regulations could drive more energy production off federal lands.

Again, these methane emissions reduction trends can be traced to voluntary efforts — not the stringent and costly «one - size - fits - all» federal rules that environmental groups insist are needed, despite the fact that they will provide little climate benefit.