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RSS FeedsCARB approves rule for monitoring and repairing methane leaks from oil and gas facilities
(WorldNews Environment)

 
 

24 march 2017 05:47:42

 
CARB approves rule for monitoring and repairing methane leaks from oil and gas facilities
(WorldNews Environment)
 


RIVERSIDE - As the federal government retreats from its own efforts to reduce methane leaks, the California Air Resources Board today approved a new regulation aimed at curbing emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas that regularly escapes from oil and gas operations. The new rule is the most comprehensive of its kind in the country. Methane, one of the powerful greenhouse gases called short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) and the main component of natural gas, has 72 times the impact on global warming as carbon dioxide. The new regulation is expected to reduce methane leaks from oil and gas operations in California by the equivalent of 1.4 million metric tons of carbon dioxide annually,...


 
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