All Posts Tagged With: "emissions reduction"

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Lawmakers Introduce Bills to Address Pollution From Fracking Operations

Sponsors say the BREATHE Act would close a loophole in the Clean Air Act that currently allows the oil and gas industry to release large amounts of dangerous pollution into the air, and lists hydrogen sulfide as a hazardous air pollutant.

15Mar2013 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Emission Questions Loom Large Over Oil and Gas Industry

Regulators and natural gas producers desperately want to understand the recipe that triggers a wintertime ozone event. Future gas development here, or at least the pace of future gas development, may depend on it.

6Mar2013 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Report Calls for More Flexibility From EPA

The Electric Power Research Institute study says that providing electric utilities with flexibility in installing new pollution control technology to comply with current and pending EPA regulations could save approximately $100 billion in future expenditures.

4Jun2012 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Unsafe Ozone Level in Southwestern Wyoming as Gas Booms

The EPA included the Upper Green River Basin in its list of areas nationwide exceeding an ozone standard set in 2008 during the administration of President George W. Bush. Wyoming until today was the only state where all counties had met the federal ozone limit.

2May2012 | | 0 comments | Continued
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EPA Tightens Emission Regs for New Wells – But Gives Industry More Time to Comply

The new rules require drillers to capture emissions of certain air pollutants from new wells, but operators have been given more time to comply. The EPA says they can burn pollutants at the well head until the start of 2015.

19Apr2012 | | 0 comments | Continued
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GE Power Plant Design Works Bettter with Renewables

The FlexEfficiency 50 Combined Cycle design is reportedly 61 percent efficient and provides unprecedented operational flexibility, including with intermittent wind and solar resources.

3Jun2011 | | 0 comments | Continued