continuous emissions reporting Articles
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The scientific basis for the prediction of climate change
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently published a Supplementary Report updating and supporting the First Assessment of 1990 and their findings are summarised here. If greenhouse emissions continue at the present level, the Report estimates a global temperature increase of 0.3% per decade – a rate probably greater than any since the last ice age. Sulphur pollution ...
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ExxonMobil dismisses that climate change can be prevented
New report from ExxonMobil launches gloomy projections of 25% rise in carbon emissions in the next 20 years. The world's largest oil company, ExxonMobil has predicted that carbon emissions will rise to nearly 25% in the next 20 years, dismissing hopes that climate change can be arrested and massive loss of life prevented. This is the conclusion of the company’s annual Outlook for Energy ...
By Vital Energi
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A veterans’ day call to action
When the Banks say “No,” 300 Central Pennsylvanians say “Yes” On the 60th anniversary of D-Day, during our trip to honor my Uncle Arthur, who was killed in the Normandy invasion, my son and I wept at the grave of Private J. Shon, a 22 year old Scotsman buried in the Bayeux War Cemetery. Laying among 4,647 other fallen soldiers from WWII, his tombstone was engraved with ...
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Get ready for Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR)
Who is affected by new energy and carbon reporting regulations and how should they prepare? There's a big shake-up in energy regulations coming into force next April when the proposed Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR) scheme is scheduled to start. This will affect approximately 12,000 large companies, including limited liability partnerships, who will be required to record carbon ...
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California Climate Registry defining greenhouse gas (GHG) tracking and reporting requirements
The California Climate Action Registry, also known as the California Climate Registry, is a program under the supervision of the Climate Action Reserve. The Registry works to solve the problems caused by climate change through the enhancement of reporting requirements. They were 20 members of the California Climate Registry when it was originally formed. This figure ballooned to more than ...
By Accruent
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Advantages of a real-time emissions data management system for nox reduction record keeping and reporting
Lyondell-Citgo Refining, LP (LCR), a 270,000 bbl/day refinery located in the Houston/Galveston Area, has successfully implemented a real-time process historian based system for meeting the monitoring, record keeping, and reporting requirements under the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality’s (TCEQ’s) NOx Reduction rules. This paper presents the challenges that LCR faced in meeting the NOx ...
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New boiler MACT and affiliated rules proposed
EPA proposed three related rules (with final rules expected by December 16, 2010), intended to reduce the emission of hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) from industrial, commercial, and institutional boilers and process heaters as well as commercial and industrial solid waste incinerators. Simultaneously, it also proposed a definition of solid waste that could potentially affect some units currently ...
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Facilitating compliance with consent decree requirements using an EMIS
In late 2008, T3, a division of Trinity Consultants, developed an environmental management information system (EMIS) to manage “near real-time” emissions data at a petroleum refinery. The system is designed to support Consent Decree requirements for compliance demonstrations with air quality regulations at the facility. Functionality delivered includes advanced data gathering, ...
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Questions and Answers on the UN climate change conference in Lima
1. Why another climate change conference? Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC[1]) and the Kyoto Protocol[2] meet once a year at high level to discuss how to advance international action to combat climate change. Peru is hosting this year's conference from 1 to 12 December in Lima. It will be the UNFCCC's 20th 'Conference of the Parties' (COP 20) and the Kyoto ...
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