Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

A newer, more accurate method for calculating methane emissions from offshore oil and gas production suggests that the United Kingdom severely underestimates its greenhouse gas emissions. Researchers conclude that as much as five times more methane is being leaked from oil and gas production than reported.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JULY 20, 2020

For many years, hydrogen production has proven costly to the environment, as industrial hydrogen production uses partial methane oxidation and fossil gasification. A recent publication in the journal Angewandte Chemie brings attention to an improved way of generating clean hydrogen.

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NRDC onEarth

MARCH 27, 2024

The Bureau of Land Management published a final methane waste rule that will compliment EPA’s efforts to target a major contributor to climate change.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Tanager-1 is made possible by the Carbon Mapper Coalition , a philanthropically-funded effort to develop and deploy satellites designed to detect and track methane and CO2 super-emitters at a level of granularity needed to support direct mitigation action. Carbon Mapper’s preliminary estimate of the emission rate is 1,200 kg CH4 /h.

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Canary Media

JULY 10, 2024

Landfills are the third-largest source of methane emissions both in the U.S. These emissions heat the atmosphere at about 80 times the rate of carbon dioxide over 20 years, but the methane that rises from the decomposing food and organic waste that ends up in landfills has thus far received much less… and globally.

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The Guardian: Energy

MAY 1, 2024

Use of enclosed combustors leaves regulators heavily reliant on oil and gas companies’ own flaring data Oil and gas equipment intended to cut methane emissions is preventing scientists from accurately detecting greenhouse gases and pollutants, a satellite image investigation has revealed. Continue reading.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

A new analysis of satellite data appears to find that the record surge in atmospheric methane emissions from 2020 to 2022 was driven by increased inundation and water storage in wetlands, combined with a slight decrease in atmospheric hydroxide (OH). Atmospheric methane emissions are given by their mass in teragrams. million U.S.

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Canary Media

OCTOBER 14, 2024

One of California’s biggest sources of methane pollution — its massive dairy industry — operates almost entirely without regulation. In fact, not only do the state’s largest dairies face no penalties for emitting methane, they can actually profit handsomely from those emissions. If the staff of the state’s air…

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

This is a major draw, as it helps businesses meet strict government carbon and pollutant reduction targets.”. It is produced during the anaerobic digestion (AD) process, which breaks down organic matter (such as food, sewage sludge or animal waste) to produce methane-rich biogas.

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Canary Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Landfills are the third-largest source of methane, a super-pollutant greenhouse gas that traps 80 times more heat than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period. While the EPA places caps on methane and other emissions from landfills, experts say that monitoring and enforcement is largely on an honor system. An analysis…

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The Verge: Energy

MARCH 4, 2024

Image: MethaneSAT via EDF A mission to map and track global methane pollution, a powerful greenhouse gas, is scheduled to launch today after years of collaboration between some of the biggest names in tech. After all, so-called natural gas is mostly just methane. MethaneSAT is scheduled to launch on March 4th.

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Grist

MARCH 28, 2024

Amid the commotion, an invisible gas often escapes unnoticed, warming the planet and harming our health: methane. At more than half of the hundreds of garbage dumps surveyed — in the largest assessment yet of such emissions — most of the pollution flowed from leaks, creating concentrated plumes. times, and sometimes as much as 2.7

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Canary Media

AUGUST 19, 2024

Coffin Butte, a rapidly growing landfill in Oregon that is leaking explosive levels of methane, has caught the attention of state and federal officials. On August 8, Oregon’s U.S. senators, Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, and one of its U.S. House members, Val Hoyle, wrote a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection…

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Renew Economy

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

China has joined the growing list of countries committing to methane action plans, leaving Australia well behind in the global race to tackle these super-polluting emissions. The post Australia at back of the pack on methane as China announces action plan appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Renew Economy

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Australia already produces five times as much methane as our population should warrant – but what if some of the biggest emitters are fudging their numbers? The post Australia’s methane pollution problem is outsized – and probably underestimated appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Renew Economy

AUGUST 8, 2023

Study using specialised camera footage finds methane leaking or being deliberately vented from gas infrastructure across the country. The post Methane pollution “pouring out” of Australian gas infrastructure, study finds appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 14, 2025

In the evolving global energy economy, methane emissions have become a critical variable in the oil and gas industrys long-term performance. Yet despite this momentum, oil and gas methane emissions remain unacceptably high. Its so powerful that we will not hit global climate goals without tackling methane.

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Renew Economy

MAY 13, 2024

Residents living near a NSW coalmine are challenging an environmental watchdog's decision to renew its licence without limiting methane and particle pollution. The post “There is so much fallout:” Locals challenge watchdog over coal mine pollution appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Grist

AUGUST 13, 2021

Most of the time carbon dioxide gets all the attention as the most villainous of greenhouse gasses, and the industries that pollute the atmosphere with methane would like to keep it that way. As you can see in the graph below, carbon dioxide is the primary problem, but methane has played a big role. It seeps from landfills.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 14, 2019

Read time: 8 mins Climate-changing pollution reached unprecedented levels in 2018. That pollution creates a greenhouse effect that is over 42 percent stronger than it was in 1990, the report added. Tags: Robert Howarth methane fracking venting flaring Permian Basin Bakken Shale and around the world. and around the world.

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Canary Media

OCTOBER 24, 2024

When Melinda Sims first started LoCI Controls , a company that provides landfills with real-time data on methane collection, she wasn’t trying to address climate change. It was 2012, and methane — a super-pollutant that traps 80 times as much heat as carbon dioxide over a 20-year time period — wasn’t yet a part of…

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 14, 2021

Researchers have developed a new sensor that they suggest could allow practical and low cost detection of low concentrations of methane gas. Measuring methane emissions is important because the gas contributes to global warming and air pollution. The new sensor uses an interband cascade light emitting device (ICLED).

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The Verge: Energy

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A rendering of MethaneSat | Image courtesy of Google Google announced a partnership with the nonprofit Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) today to map methane pollution and oil and gas infrastructure from space. Meanwhile, Google is using AI to map oil and gas infrastructure to create a global map of pollution sources.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Flying 10,000 feet above the Gulf of Mexico, in a plane outfitted with infrared imaging equipment, researchers could see methane gas bubbling under water, likely from an undetected pipeline leak. Still, researchers emphasize that the high rate of methane leakage underscores the major climate impact that reducing those leaks could have.

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Renew Economy

MARCH 28, 2023

Australia has been left in the dark about the scale of the methane pollution from its energy sector, and Safeguard reforms do little to pull back the curtains. The post Safeguard mechanism still leaves Australia with a big methane problem appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 15, 2021

In addition, the Carbon Mapper consortium announced its plan to deploy a ground-breaking hyperspectral satellite constellation with the ability to pinpoint, quantify and track point-source methane and CO 2 emissions. In short, if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. . These home-grown satellites are a game-changer.

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Renew Economy

JULY 4, 2023

Methane emissions from Australia's fossil fuel industry are nearly twice as bad as reported, and polluters will have to double their planned emission cuts to make up for it. The post Australia’s fossil fuel methane emissions are nearly twice as bad as industry reports appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 4, 2021

Only a handful of super emitters are responsible for an enormous amount of the methane pollution in the Permian basin, according to a new study. Methane is a highly potent greenhouse gas — more than 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide over a 20-year time-frame. That’s equivalent to about 5% of the U.S.

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Renew Economy

APRIL 15, 2024

The post Australian coal mines leak massive amounts of methane in “super emitting” event appeared first on RenewEconomy. A toxic gas is turbocharging heatwaves, bushfires and coral bleaching, and going largely unreported under "faulty" emission safeguards, satellite data suggests.

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EDF + Business

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The EPA’s new rules to reduce methane emissions from the nation’s oil and gas industry could be a climate game changer. That’s because methane – the main component of natural gas – has more than 80 times the heat-trapping power of carbon dioxide in the short term and is responsible for more than 25% of the warming we’re experiencing today.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 14, 2021

Adopting best management practices for environmental improvements, Butler Farms chose to cover its pig waste lagoon in 2008 so that as well as significantly reducing odours, methane could be safely flared off. Three years later it began to use that methane to run a biogas engine. It’s a never-ending learning process”, says Tom.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2021

The University will develop a feasibility study and test approaches for the satellite detection of methane emissions at landfill sites, and for the satellite detection of vegetation health changes in the proximity of landfills due to accidents or mismanagement.

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Green Living Guy

JANUARY 27, 2022

Natural gas stoves release methane – a potent greenhouse gas – and other pollutants through leaks and incomplete combustion. Stanford researchers estimate that methane leaking from stoves inside U.S. BY ROB JORDAN Stanford Woods […].

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 12, 2021

New funding builds on unique partnership to tackle potent methane emissions between Bloomberg Philanthropies, Carbon Mapper, Planet, the State of California, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the University of Arizona, Arizona State University (ASU), High Tide Foundation, and RMI . The pledge needs to be matched with bold solutions.

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TechXplore

MAY 8, 2024

Billions of people are using different kinds of energy each day and 2023 was a record-breaking year for renewable energy sources—ones that don't emit planet-warming pollutants like carbon dioxide and methane—according to a report published Wednesday by Ember, a think tank based in London.

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Grist

MARCH 9, 2023

Wastewater treatment plants are typically overlooked when it comes to reducing greenhouse gasses, but new research from Princeton University reveals the plants emit twice as much methane as previously thought. filled with rich organic matter that may be causing methane emissions, but we have very little understanding of their scope,” said Z.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 22, 2024

This transferred the polluting plants to different owners, meaning that the plants will still contribute to global emissions. The BBC StoryWorks articles didn’t provide information about the company’s existing polluting activities, or the global need to rapidly scale-down oil, gas, and coal production.

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