Posted on 07/27/2023 4:09:07 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
WASHINGTON — The White House on Wednesday began a new effort to crack down on methane emissions, a major contributor to climate change.
The first-ever White House Methane Summit came at a time of severe heat across much of the U.S., including in Pittsburgh, where temperatures are expected to approach or exceed 90 degrees until the weekend.
President Joe Biden established a new methane task force to work with state and local officials to detect leaks and reduce emissions. The White House said billions of dollars of natural gas are lost to leaks every year.
In Pennsylvania, methane accounts for 12% of all greenhouse gas emissions. It is 84 times more potent than carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere over a 20 year period, which scientists say is a critical time to prevent irreparable shifts in the global climate.
Methane emissions have risen in Pennsylvania since companies began drilling for natural gas in the Marcellus Shale and Utica Shale, albeit at a much slower rate than production itself, according to the latest state greenhouse gas inventory, which includes data from 2005 through 2019.
The amount of methane estimated to come from oil and gas production, transmission and distribution rose from 8.75 million tons of carbon dioxide-equivalent to 12.32 million tons during that period. The industry is the biggest contributor to methane emissions in the state, with coal mining a close second at 11.91 million tons of carbon dioxide-equivalent equivalent in 2019.
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Sounds like the goal is for the petrochemical industry to produce less petrochemicals.
It is a carbon-obsessive religion with these people.
Boo jit, nonsense clause designed to put fragmented language into the subconscious of the reader.
NOTHING out of this sham administration ever DOES anything and everything that HAS been done will be overturned within 5 minutes after President Trump enters the White House again.
They're shutting down nature.
If we a reduction in the bull s—t and hot air coming out of DC it would probably solve their “Methane” problem..
There is an area when headed up north (lower peninsula) in Michigan where natural gas just leaks up from the ground for miles. You see giant flames (controlled) in the area that never go out.
Next thing you know, frijoles will be on the chopping block!
There was a recent article posted on FR the gist of which was, “with the Left the ‘issue’ is never the issue.” It’s not about methane or even global warming. It’s about making America weaker militarily, culturally, and economically. It’s about reducing the world’s population*.
* As with everything, the Left disagrees on the ultimate goal. In this case the number of people who should be allowed to live. I’ve heard numbers ranging from one billion to zero. Somehow the Left will keep their iPhones, Teslas and steaks while the rest of the world deals with their policies. If you don’t have billions of people you don’t have technology. Everything we have today reflects the production capability and demands of a huge population.
H, C, N, O comprise 95% of living organisms.
The simpletons of this planet have no clue the number of products derived from hydrocarbon cracking. Environmentalists are anti life.
I never understood why they dont capture the methane and sell it? You can run almost anything that burns gasoline, on methane.
I never understood why they dont capture the methane and sell it? You can run almost anything that burns gasoline, on methane.
Go Dutch. Kill all the cows.
we need to reduce these bastards
Always there for us and protecting us from harm!!!-xtreme sarc
Methane? Oh swamp gas that comes out of the ground in swamps. I see.
Well the DC dictators are never satisfied.
It is not about climate change, it is all about total control.
I wonder, do any of the so called inspectors have any idea what Hydrogen Sulfide gas is? And how dangerous it is?
Of course not. But oilies all know.
Slo Joe pee_do can put this where the sun don’t shine.
capture methane?
They do. It is called natural gas. And yes, it can be compressed and used. It does not have the same energy level as propane (processed NG) but will do a lot of things.
Ohh, for the old days. When pumper’s got away with burning casing head i.e. drip gas. I’m old enough to tell you lots of stories back in the day when government was much smaller and there were sill sane people making decisions.
Well Surf, Welcome to the Great Globalist Plantation.
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