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Polis Calls Incoming Regulatory Hammer From Ozone Announcement “Good News”

Energy Central

Jared Polis (D) is touting his decision to let the Environmental Protection Agency downgrade the state’s ozone attainment level, calling it “good news” that a wave of new regulations will have economic consequences, including in the state’s oil and natural gas sector.

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UK substantially underestimates its methane emissions from oil and gas production – and many other countries probably do too

Envirotec Magazine

“We hope our work will facilitate improved emission estimates and reductions not only from the UK but also from other countries producing methane from oil and gas extraction,” Mauzerall said. This study focuses on methane leakage associated with discovery, extraction, and production of oil and natural gas.

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Prevention: A profitable mindset when it comes to gas leaks

Envirotec Magazine

CFCs have a high chlorine content and have been linked strongly to ozone depletion and global warming. HCFCs were considered an improvement when they were first introduced, as they have lower chlorine and make a lesser contribution to ozone depletion and global warming. Green hydrogen. It is flammable and easily ignited.

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Pop goes the diesel?

Envirotec Magazine

Leaks from generation and distribution facilities have provided one of the embarrassing backstories to the story of natural gas, something that – it has become clear – is far more widespread than was always claimed. In the UK, the blending of hydrogen into the gas grid is starting to appear on the horizon. Generating a stir.

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Is It Possible To Prevent Global Warming?

The Environmental Blog

The increasing population density in the world , migration and urbanization movements, rising living standards, increasingly increasing and excessive consumption of fossil fuels such as oil, coal, and natural gas for the last 150 years, and changes in land cover as a result of the increase in intensive industrial production.

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UN: Slashing methane emissions 'one of the best ways' to curb global temperature rise

Business Green

The gas, which is released by a range of anthropogenic and natural sources, is ten times more powerful than carbon dioxide at warming the atmosphere and is responsible for more than half a million deaths annually, in addition to the death of ecosystems and crops, because it creates toxic ground-level ozone.

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Secrets of a long partnership in gas detection (Sponsored content)

Envirotec Magazine

Gas powered equipment may be a source of carbon monoxide; carbon dioxide enrichment systems may be utilised; air conditioning systems can potentially leak refrigerants, and propane or natural gas furnaces may be employed for heating purposes.