What If Proven Benefits Alone Are Not Enough to Drive Industrial Energy Efficiency
While cutting energy waste seems like a no-brainer for the industrial sector, a new research project suggests that even favorable cost savings, at a brisk rate...
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Catalyzing the Oil and Gas Industry to Clean Up its Act
The oil and gas industry leaks a significant amvount of natural gas into the atmosphere. Most of this leaked gas is methane, a powerful greenhouse gas...
White House Attacks Heat-Trapping Methane, Second Biggest Climate Pollutant
[This post written with David Doniger and Meleah Geertsma.] The White House today released its long-awaited Strategy to Reduce Methane Emissions . Promised in...
My mini-Silkwood moment: The other perils of gas leakage
At about 7 am this morning, not long after I got out bed, I heard loud knocking on my door. Quizzical, I opened it to be surprised by the presence of a fully-...
UPDATE: Colorado finalizes its big step forward to control methane pollution
Last weekend, Colorado’s Air Quality Control Commission adopted important final standards that will rein in methane pollution from the state’s booming oil and...
Demand Response to the Rescue as Power Plants Creak and Croak in the Cold
As most of us in the eastern half of North America can testify, it is frightfully cold out. But the chill is not limited to us living beings alone. Even our...