methane
Given the press, you’d be forgiven for thinking that reducing cattle numbers and moving to a plant-based diet is a climate solution up there with electric vehicles and offshore wind. Billions of dollars and euros and celebrity endorsements have been invested in plant-based and alternative protein startups. “Cows create global warming” is a truism of our time, shared by almost all right-thinking people. The emerging truth appears different. Not only is the climate impact of cattle confused and overblown — properly managed, grazing cows and sheep can be a climate and biodiversity solution. Meanw...
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MEPs have adopted a package of gas and electricity market reforms intended to bolster energy security, protect vulnerable consumers from wild price fluctuations as seen during the 2022 energy crisis, and create a new market for hydrogen, as well as allowing individual countries to restrict imports of Russian gas – with a more complete ban on the cards due to incoming restrictions imports with excessive upstream methane leakage. With broad cross-party support for a political deal struck with EU governments in December, the European Parliament has approved measures such as promoting the producti...
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Madrid has suffered at least 17 major methane leaks in the last three years, according to new satellite data. During one super-emitter event last year, 25 tonnes an hour of the planet-warming gas was released by landfill sites on the outskirts of the Spanish city. That’s equivalent to the pollution pumped out by 3.9 million petrol cars running simultaneously. Globally, more than 1,200 of these events occurred between January 2019 and June 2023, new satellite image analysis released in a Guardian investigation shows. People in Pakistan, India and Bangladesh bear the brunt of methane pollution f...
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Sharm el Sheikh (Egypt) (AFP) - On the hunt for the methane "super-emitters", US President Joe Biden on Friday unveiled a plan to plug oil and gas leaks and tighten regulation as several global emitters vowed to step up efforts to slash pollution of the powerful greenhouse gas. Methane, released from the oil and gas, waste and agriculture sectors as well as through natural processes, is responsible for roughly 30 percent of the global rise in temperatures to date. Dozens of countries have signed up to cutting their emissions of the short-lived but potent gas by a third this decade and Biden ...
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Washington (AFP) - Flaring -- burning off unwanted natural gas from oil and gas wells -- releases five times more of the potent greenhouse gas methane into the atmosphere over the United States than previously assumed, according to a study published Thursday. The result is a far greater impact on climate change, with the warming potential between the stated and actual effectiveness of flaring across the United States equivalent to putting 2.9 million more cars onto the road each year, the paper in Science said. A team led by Genevieve Plant at the University of Michigan carried out airborne sa...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden's administration announced new regulations during the global climate summit on Tuesday aimed at "sharply" reducing methane emissions by the oil and natural gas industry. The announcement came as Biden attended the COP26 in Glasgow, where dozens of countries joined an American and European Union pledge to cut emissions of methane -- the most potent greenhouse gas -- by 30 percent this decade. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said it was proposing "comprehensive new protections to sharply reduce pollution from the oil and natural gas industry...
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Washington (AFP) - Malfunctioning equipment accounts for about half of the biggest sources of potent greenhouse gas methane emissions at the United States' largest oilfield, a study led by NASA showed Wednesday. Researchers found that repairing just 123 sources found to leak most persistently in the area they surveyed using sensor-equipped planes would reduce methane emissions by 55 tons (50 metric tons) an hour. That amount is equivalent to 5.5 percent of the official estimate of all methane emissions from oil and gas production in the entire United States. The Permian Basin is a shale basin ...
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