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Senate Hearing Finds No Definition Or Standard For ‘Responsibly Sourced’ Natural Gas; PA Producers Already Below One RS Threshold

PA Environment Daily

On October 17, the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee held an informational briefing on Project Canary , a company that measures, analyzes and reports on methane emissions from natural gas production and distribution infrastructure.

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African production of natural gas poses a vexing climate challenge

Environmental News Bits

The World Bank estimates that Africa was home to 40 percent of natural gas discoveries between 2010 and 2020, including one off Senegal’s coast near Saint Louis and another smaller deposit closer to the capital, Dakar.

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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Sept. 23 to 29; More Abandoned Wells; Oil & Gas Doesn’t Typically Issue NOVs For 'Routine' Venting Of Natural Gas, Will Air Quality Under New Regs?

PA Environment Daily

On September 5, 2023, DEP issued a notice of violation to the operator for abandoning the well without plugging it and the operator tried to plug it, but a camera inserted into the well found natural gas was still bubbling up through the well indicating it had failed. DEP issued the original notice of violation on May 3, 2023. [

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Reducing Your Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Greenbuilding Law

As governments enact mandatory greenhouse gas emission laws and as businesses voluntarily make “net zero” pledges, we are increasingly working with organizations, first to understand and calculate their GHG emissions, then to implement strategies for efficacious yet frictionless reductions. Those options often include: Green building.

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A Quick Science Refresher on Greenhouse Gas

Greenbuilding Law

With the federal government and state of Maryland each having announced within days of each other, the mandated disclosure of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, we have received, maybe not surprising, many calls in the last two weeks inquiring “what are GHGs?” In 2020, carbon dioxide accounted for about 79% of all U.S.

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Emissions by the Big Utilities: Where They Are, What They’re Aiming For

Legal Planet

Energy Mix (2020): [link]. Natural Gas: 44.8%. Landfill Gas: 0.005%. Generated Energy Mix (2020): [link]. Natural Gas/Fuel Oil: 39%. Energy Mix (2020): [link]. Natural Gas: 51%. They’ve reached this interim goal in 2020, with a 52% reduction of GHG emissions from 2007 levels. (4)

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CONSOL Energy Sets Goals Of Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 50% By 2026, Achieve Net Zero Emissions By 2040; Coal Mining Produces More GHG Emissions Than Natural Gas Production In PA

PA Environment Daily

In addition, the Company announced its long-term efforts to achieve net zero direct operating greenhouse gas emissions by 2040 or sooner if feasible. million metric tons of carbon dioxide emission equivalents in 2018, According to the same inventory, natural gas production, transmission and distribution result in 9.74