The Trump administration has already delayed implementation of the critical standards for year+ Washington, DC — Last night during a rally in Texas, Donald Trump announced that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency would roll back safeguards finalized in 2024 to limit methane pollution from the oil and gas sector. This … [continued]
Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas and the second-largest contributor to global warming after carbon dioxide (CO2). Methane traps heat in the atmosphere more efficiently than CO2, but has a significantly shorter lifespan, fading after just a few decades. Therefore, reducing emissions of methane — a gas primarily produced by agriculture, fossil … [continued]
Phoenix, AZ — Today, organizations including Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter, Chispa Arizona, and Solar United Neighbors, expressed disappointment in Governor Katie Hobbs’s announcement of her support for the Desert Southwest Pipeline, a methane gas pipeline that will stretch over 500 miles through three states — Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona — … [continued]
Landfills are not designed for food waste, which is organic and can decompose naturally. While it’s easy to throw out dinner scraps with the garbage, it’s not the most environmentally-sound method to discard unwanted food. In fact, the US Environmental Protection Agency admits that, while total emissions from municipal solid waste … [continued]
Unlawful Delay Ignores Health Risks, Energy Waste, Widespread Opposition Contact Sierra Club — Shannon Van Hoesen, shannon.vanhoesen@sierraclub.org Environmental Defense Fund — Sharyn Stein, sstein@edf.org Clean Air Task Force — Samantha Sadowski, ssadowski@catf.us Center for Biological Diversity — Jason Rylander, jrylander@biologicaldiversity.org Earthjustice — Alexandria Trimble, atrimble@earthjustice.org Environmental Law & Policy Center … [continued]
Methane super-emitters are the target of a new $100 million investment by Bloomberg Philanthropies, aimed at growing the global network of methane detection satellites and coordinating corrective action among governments (cropped, courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech).
Methane super-emitters are the target of a new $100 million investment by Bloomberg Philanthropies, aimed at growing the global network of methane detection satellites and coordinating corrective action among governments.
"GOC Tring 133: Cattle" by Peter O'Connor, aka anemoneprojectors, via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0 license).
Dr. Serber will advance the biotechnology enabling ArkeaBio’s first-of-its-kind solution to deliver a practical, cost-effective way for farmers and producers to reduce emissions and enhance livestock productivity. Dr. Serber’s appointment comes as ArkeaBio accelerates toward product validation and commercial deployment. BOSTON, MA, USA — ArkeaBio, a global agricultural bioscience company … [continued]
ChatGPT generated panoramic aerial image of a traditional RoPax ferry disturbing shallow coastal sediments, illustrating wake turbulence and potential methane release pathways
I was recently asked if reducing ship speeds is the only available solution to the methane emissions documented in a recent study from the journal Communications Earth & Environment. The research, focused on ship traffic in Neva Bay, Russia, revealed that vessels traveling faster than 12 knots with hull drafts … [continued]
Today is the 4th of July in the US. Around the country people will be firing up their grills and eating juicy hamburgers. Few party-goers, though, will think about the methane emissions that result from vast herds of US factory farmed-cattle. Scientists have been trying for years to find just … [continued]
Trump or no Trump, innovators in the US are working to curb methane emissions from 1.5 billion cattle around the world.
Trump or no Trump, innovators in the US are working to curb methane emissions from 1.5 billion cattle around the world.
