methane emissions News
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Second phase of Oil and Gas Methane Partnership launched
Over 62 oil and gas companies have signed up to the Oil and Gas Methane Partnership 2.0 (OGMP 2.0), which aims to reduce the industry’s methane emissions by 45% by 2025, and between 60 and 75% by 2030. OGMP 2.0, which builds on the original framework launched at the UN Climate Summit in 2014, provides a reporting framework for methane emissions in the sector, that will make it easier to ...
By IPIECA
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Drain rice fields to cut methane, say scientists
Global methane emissions from rice paddies could be cut by 30 per cent if fields are drained at least once during the growing season and rice crop waste is applied off-season, according to a study. Methane is a significant contributor to global warming and is produced by certain types of bacteria in oxygen-deprived environments — such as those feeding on the organic waste in water-covered ...
By SciDev.Net
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Where Does it Go? New Method Evaluates Fate of Methane Released into Streams
A new method for determining stream methane emissions at the watershed scale has been developed by scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey, University of Utah, North Carolina State University and Ohio State University. Methane has a global greenhouse gas warming potential of up to 28 – 36 times that of carbon dioxide, and can be discharged into streams either naturally or as a ...
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EPA, India-Based Corporation Join Forces to Reduce Greenhouse Gas
(Washington, D.C. - Aug. 14, 2007) EPA and India's largest oil producer last week signed an agreement to work together to reduce emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. The Oil and Natural Gas Corp. Ltd. (ONGC), headquartered in Dehradun, has joined seven other large oil and natural gas companies as a partner in EPA's Natural Gas STAR International Program. This program, implemented in ...
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Landfill Methane Emission Monitoring
Methane (CH4) plays a critical role in the radiation balance and chemistry of the atmosphere. The major anthropogenic sources are anaerobic production from landfills, ruminant animals and their waste, release from the mining and use of fossil fuel, burning of biomass, etc.. On average, over the global scale, landfill methane emissions contribute between 10-19% of the anthropogenic methane burden ...
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Major Investor Coalition Pushes EPA To Adopt ‘Robust` Methane Regulations
A coalition of investors with more than $300 billion in assets asked the Environmental Protection Agency in an Oct. 9 letter to develop “robust” methane emissions regulations for the oil and gas industry. National standards will build investor confidence that natural gas is appropriately regulated and will prevent methane emissions that contribute to climate change, the letter to EPA ...
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NPL’s remote sensing of methane capability enhanced.
Following the successful construction and launch of their latest enhanced Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL) system this summer, NPL has moved on to calibrate its new DIAL truck and to apply its capability to a key European project. The DIAL (Differential Absorption Lidar) facility is a highly mobile truck-mounted, sophisticated laser-based system that provides rapid, accurate measurements ...
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US aims to cut methane emissions by nearly half
The Obama administration is putting the energy industry on notice that it intends to curb methane emissions by nearly half through regulations affecting oil and gas production. A broad, preliminary plan - expected to be unveiled this week - aims to cut emissions 40-45 percent by 2025 compared with 2012 levels. Reductions are to come from a mix of voluntary steps by industry and regulations from ...
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Bioprocess Control Joins European Research Institutes in a Major Greenhouse Gas Research Project
Bioprocess Control will co-partner with Aarhus University (Denmark), Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy (Germany), Wageningen Livestock Research (the Netherlands), RISE (Sweden) and Lund University (Sweden) on a project to develop a new method to estimate methane emissions from manure. This method will then be used to investigate farm-level greenhouse gas mitigation, ...
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EPA Proposes to Cut Methane Emissions from Municipal Solid Waste Landfills
As part of the President’s Climate Action Plan – Strategy to Reduce Methane Emissions, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued two proposals to further reduce emissions of methane-rich gas from municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills. Under today’s proposals, new, modified and existing landfills would begin collecting and controlling landfill gas at emission levels ...
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Reservoirs: a neglected source of methane emissions
Substantial amounts of the greenhouse gas methane are released not only from large tropical reservoirs but also from run-of-the-river reservoirs in Switzerland, especially in the summer, when water temperatures are higher. This was demonstrated by Eawag scientists at Lake Wohlen, near Bern – a finding which slightly tarnishes the reputation of hydropower as a climate-neutral way of ...
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EPA Announces New Rules to Cut Methane Emissions
EPA’s new rules aimed at the gas and oil industry face obstacles. CPI has been working in the gas and oil industry for many years now and we have seen a trend for the use of more efficient air pollution control systems, less open flaring, and a keen awareness of GHG reduction tactics. Our industry insiders support positive impacts to the environment regardless of added ...
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UK landfill methane emissions among the highest in Europe
Methane emissions from UK landfill sites were among the highest of any EU15 country in 2008, a European Environment Agency (EEA) report warns. The European Union greenhouse gas inventory 1990–2008 and inventory report 2010, which sought to assess whether EU countries are on target to meet Kyoto Protocol emissions targets, found that in 2008, UK landfill contributed 20,150 gigagrams (gg) of ...
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Oil’s methane emissions higher than feared
Global methane emissions from oil production between 1980 and 2012 were far higher than previously thought – in some cases, as much as double the amount previously estimated, according to a new scientific study The reason for the discrepancy is simple. The author of the study − which also includes emissions of another gas, ethane − says it is the first to take into account ...
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Minimizing Methane Release
“Methane emissions from cows are decreasing, but not at the pace which the agricultural sector and the government agreed. The project, Reduced methane emission of dairy cows (ME001), will provide insights that enable targeted interventions for a 30% reduction of greenhouse gasses in the Netherlands by 2020”, explains prof. Johan van Arendonk in an interview for the Annual Report 2013 ...
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EPA Proposes Updates to Reduce Methane, Other Harmful Pollution from New Landfills
As part of the President’s Climate Action Plan – Strategy to Reduce Methane Emissions, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing updates to its air standards for new municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills. These updates would require certain landfills to capture additional landfill gas, which would reduce emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, and help further ...
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Thirty-six governments to meet in Mexico on greenhouse gas reductions, clean energy / administrator Jackson, Ministers to advance cooperation on methane reductions (HQ)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa P. Jackson will join ministers from the Methane to Markets Partnership countries in Mexico City on Oct. 1. At the meeting, the United States will work with partner nations to encourage global action to reduce methane emission sources and identify possible additional resources to achieve this goal. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas ...
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BPC Joins European Research Institutes in a Major Greenhouse Gas Project
Dr. Jing Liu, Bioprocess Control CEO said: “Bioprocess Control acts as the sole industrial partner and will have a major role and responsibility in developing a new in-vitro laboratory test protocol, together with Lund University, using an automated batch fermentation analysis platform from Bioprocess Control to quantify methane and carbon dioxide produced in bulk slurry and at the ...
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Fact Sheet: Administration takes steps forward on climate action plan by announcing actions to cut methane emissions
The Obama Administration is committed to taking responsible steps to address climate change and help ensure a cleaner, more stable environment for future generations. As part of that effort, today, the Administration is announcing a new goal to cut methane emissions from the oil and gas sector by 40 – 45 percent from 2012 levels by 2025, and a set of actions to put the U.S. on a path to ...
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Tropical wetlands emit more methane than previously thought
Since 2007, the world's atmospheric methane concentration has risen at an accelerated rate, but scientists aren't exactly sure why. This is a problem, because methane is a particularly potent greenhouse gas. It has more than 80 times the warming power of carbon dioxide during its first 20 years in the atmosphere, and it accounts for about 30% of global warming since preindustrial times. ...
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