DeSmogBlog
AUGUST 17, 2023
LNG boom threatens to release vast amounts of methane, a powerful climate pollutant that is the main component of natural gas. While that blast was contained, a vapor cloud explosion at an LNG terminal in Algeria in 2004 killed 27 people. Credit: Edward Donnelly Environmental groups on both sides of the Atlantic warn that the U.S.
Grist
OCTOBER 9, 2019
When Jones Tract, a delta island, flooded in 2004, the damage cost $90 million to fix. DWR measures the CO2 and methane emissions from the wetlands it created on Sherman Island. Saltwater and brackish marshes don’t release nearly as much methane as freshwater wetlands, she explains. The longer-term goal is to reverse them.
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DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Cows produce methane, a greenhouse gas that absorbs more atmospheric heat than carbon and is currently responsible for 25 percent of all global warming today. Livestock methane emissions are also rising in some of these countries. Livestock methane emissions are also rising in some of these countries.
Envirotec Magazine
APRIL 26, 2021
Several light hydrocarbons, such as methane, ethane and propane, are VOCs. Further, VOC emissions can harm the environment and human health. Especially methane is a potent greenhouse gas, contributing to climate change. Why VOC emissions should be reduced. VOCs are a large group of organic compounds. An overlooked problem.
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 22, 2021
Those levels are more than 400 times the protective health limits designated by the U.S. Furthermore, he added, the facility is subject to annual audits by the Railroad Commission, the Texas Department of State Health Services, clients, and other groups, and also “more frequent surprise audits.”
Business Green
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
And so, over time, he and his team developed APRIL's 'Fire Free Village, Fire Free Landscape' programme, which provides sustainable agriculture training, fire-management support, air quality monitoring, and education on the adverse health impacts of fires and smoke. Alongside restoration, research is also a major pillar of the RER project.
DeSmogBlog
MARCH 30, 2021
The update was sparked by decades old changes in drilling technology already used in an area that gained notoriety for having one of the largest methane hot spots on the planet — because of leaking oil and gas wells. Jackson talks of preserving the national park and also the health impacts of living near oil and gas development.
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