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EPA Releases Updated, Elevated Estimates for the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

By Joshua Bledsoe , Kevin Homrighausen , and John Detrich On December 2, 2023, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a final report that substantially increases estimates of the social cost of greenhouse gases (GHG), including carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide (collectively, SC-GHG). 2016), [link]. [6] 11] Ibid. [12]

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Could green hydrogen be key to a carbon-free economy?

GreenBiz

Hydrogen derived from methane — usually from natural gas, but also coal and biomass — was pioneered in World War II by Germany, which has no petroleum deposits. But CO2 is emitted in manufacturing hydrogen from methane and so it’s not climate friendly; hydrogen manufactured this way is known as gray hydrogen.

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In D.C. Defamation Trial, Climatologist Michael Mann Confronts the Climate Deniers Who Maligned His Work

DeSmogBlog

The scientist also responded to questions from his lawyer about “ Climategate ,” a 2009 global media frenzy touched off by the release of hacked emails from climate scientists at the University of East Anglia, not long before that year’s United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen.

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California clean fuel standard sparks renewable gas boom in Midwest

Renewable Energy World

The digester, and another the dairy installed a few years later, reduced the size of open lagoons of manure that release methane into the atmosphere. The California Air Resources Board adopted the Low Carbon Fuel Standard in 2009. A carbon tax could spread demand more widely, although he does not advocate it.

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Industry Insiders Question Louisiana Regulators Over Cleanup on ExxonMobil Land, Amid Corruption Claims and Pollution Fears

DeSmogBlog

Properly plugging and abandoning oil and gas wells is vital to protect the environment and stop methane leaks – but for decades, oil operators have often slipped away without paying to clean up, leaving millions of deteriorating abandoned wells across the U.S. and regulators in different drilling regions face different issues.

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COP26 Climate Summit: From fossil fuels to forests - 10 things we learned in Glasgow

Business Green

Of course, this does not mean all countries will so so - and some have already hinted strongly that they will not - but it is a crucial addition to the text that offers a platform for more ambitious countries to demand ever more action from laggards. Methane faces a reckoning. The pursuit of net zero finance could reshape markets.

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Waves of Abandonment

DeSmogBlog

In October, she invited a university researcher onto the property and discovered that several wells were leaking methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide. This increases the risk of methane seeping into the air and oil migrating into the surrounding groundwater. A decade ago, the U.S.

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