Emissions

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded a total of $13 million to 12 multi-year research projects intended to develop efficient and effective ways to mitigate methane emissions from natural gas pipeline and storage infrastructure, and to better quantify the sources, volumes and rates of methane emissions.

Continued reliance on natural gas for thermal bitumen extraction will severely stunt the currently expected growth of Alberta oilsands production, the industry has been warned.

Air emissions from Pennsylvania’s natural gas industry operations in 2014 continued to increase, mainly as more midstream facilities came online to support shale producers, according to the state Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) latest inventory report.

As natural gas continues to surge higher in its share of the power stack in 2016, the fuel is also expected to generate more carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions than rival coal for the first time since 1972, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA).

Government moves to crack down on methane emissions are fueling an environmental energy business niche developing in the western heartland of Canadian natural gas and oil production.

The battle lines over proposed rules governing new sources of methane emissions from the oil and natural gas industry continued to form, with nine states, the city of Chicago and a half-dozen environmental groups lining up to support the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Government moves to crack down on methane emissions are fueling an environmental energy business niche developing in the western heartland of Canadian natural gas and oil production.

The GPA Midstream Association said it opposes efforts by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to collect a broad range of information from the oil and gas industry under the Clean Air Act (CAA), but that if the plan goes through the agency should streamline certain regulatory programs.

Six years after launching an effort to modify how federal agencies conduct National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) reviews with regard to climate change, the Obama administration unveiled final guidance it said is designed to quantify the impacts of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.