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methane emissions
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Washington Energy Report
Obama Administration Announces Actions to Cut Methane Emissions
On January 14, 2015, the Office of the Press Secretary released a fact sheet announcing the Obama Administration’s “new goal to cut methane emissions from the oil and gas industry…
Kentucky Insurance and Environmental Matters
Lawyer Sanders says that methane emissions are potent greenhouse gases.
Methane is a chemical compound with the chemical formula CH 4. It is the simplest alkane and the main component of natural gas. Natural gas occurs in reservoirs beneath the…
Energy & Environmental Law Adviser
Obama Administration Announces Plan to Cut Methane Emissions
By Jane E. Montgomery, Joshua R. More, Amy Antoniolli, Raghav Murali
The Obama Administration (Administration) on January 14, 2015 unveiled new plans to regulate methane emissions from the nation’s oil and natural gas sector. Specifically, it announced a new goal to…
Mineral Law
EPA Announces Plan for Rulemaking to Reduce Methane Emissions from the Oil and Gas Industry
By Mike Mills
Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) announced a new goal to cut methane emissions from the oil and gas industry. (See White House Fact Sheet.) The EPA’s goal is to…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Top 10 in Law Blogs: Retailing and Technology, Beer Trademarks, 2015’s First FCPA Case
Coming at you a little later than normal, we still have today's Top 10. Before that though, two LXBN notes: Zosha takes a look at Marshawn Lynch potentially having an…
Energy & Environmental Law Blog
White House Introduces Regulations of Oil and Gas Methane Emissions
By Ilya Batikov
The Washington Post reports that the White House has proposed regulations that aim to reduce oil and gas methane emissions by 45% by the year 2025: The Obama administration will seek to…
Energy Business Law
An Update on EPA’s Approach to Methane Emissions from the Oil & Gas Sector – Including a Summary of the Agency’s Proposed New Reporting Rule
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to announce between now and December 31, 2014 its plan for pursuing methane reductions from the oil and gas sector – including…
Energy & Environmental Law Blog
Methane Emissions from Hydraulic Fracturing Down 73%
By Ilya Batikov
From the U.S. EPA: Reported methane emissions from petroleum and natural gas systems sector have decreased by 12 percent since 2011, with the largest reductions coming from hydraulically fractured natural…
Workplace Safety and Environmental Law Alert Blog
EPA Proposes Updated Methane Limits for New Municipal Landfills and Requests Comment on Whether and How to Update Emissions Guidelines for Existing Landfills
By Patrick D. Joyce The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today released a proposed rule that would update air standards for new municipal solid waste landfills (landfills). 79 Fed. Reg.…
Capital Thinking
Vote on LNG Export & BLM to Publish ANPRM for Methane Emissions from Underground Mines on Federal Land
Legislative Activity House E&C Committee to Vote on LNG Export Legislation On Wednesday, April 30, the House Energy and Commerce Committee will consider H.R. 6, the “Domestic Prosperity and Global…