With the litany of policies and cost - effective technologies available to governments and industry, we can
reduce fugitive methane emissions and take a step toward preventing the worsening impacts of climate change.
We outline a number of state and federal policies and industry best practices to cost - effectively
reduce fugitive methane emissions.
These include increased use of renewable natural gas,
reduced fugitive methane emissions, less need for synthetic fertilizers, and increased land restoration.
Not exact matches
«[Howarth et al.'s] analysis is seriously flawed in that they significantly overestimate the
fugitive emissions associated with unconventional gas extraction, undervalue the contribution of «green technologies» to
reducing those
emissions to a level approaching that of conventional gas, base their comparison between gas and coal on heat rather than electricity generation (almost the sole use of coal), and assume a time interval over which to compute the relative climate impact of gas compared to coal that does not capture the contrast between the long residence time of CO2 and the short residence time of
methane in the atmosphere.»
Second, he should push for federal regulations of the fracking industry to
reduce water pollution and
fugitive methane emissions.
While it's clear that some companies are taking advantage of best practices to
reduce these
emissions, there are also now many more companies operating in this space — it's impossible to determine how many of them are actively reigning in
fugitive methane.