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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced it will no longer ask oil and gas well operators to submit information about their equipment or methane emissions — reversing a climate initiative launched by the Obama administration just two days after Donald Trump’s election.
Methane is short-lived, but powerful greenhouse gas. Over the short term, it can trap heat at least 30 times more efficiently than carbon dioxide, and is thought to be responsible for about a quarter of modern global warming…
Read Full Article, Yale E360 (03-03-2017)
On Fracking Front, A Push To Reduce Leaks of Methane; Yale E 360 (04-13-2014)
Hydropower: Huge Source of Methane Emissions; Climate Central (11-03-2014)
Methane Emissions from the Arctic Ocean; NASA (05-10-2012)
EPA fears ‘unprecedented disaster’ for environment over Scott Pruitt pick; Guardian UK (12-08-2016)
EPA staff have expressed nervousness over Pruitt’s nomination, given his zealous pursuit of the agency. Pruitt has fought against EPA regulations that prevent air pollution haze in national parks, methane leaks from drilling and mercury and arsenic seeping from power plants…
Trump Flunks on Protecting Health and Environment by Naming Pruitt to EPA; NRDC (12-07-2016)
