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“Oil and gas”
Work Area: MethaneResource Type: Reports & Papers
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Fumes Across the Fence-Line: The Health Impacts of Air Pollution from Oil & Gas Facilities on African American Communities
The oil and gas industry dumps 9 million tons of methane and toxic pollutants like benzene into our air each year. Methane is a greenhouse gas 87 times more potent than carbon dioxide at driving climate change and the oil and gas industry is now the largest source of methane…
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Reducing Methane from Oil and Gas: A Path to a 65% Reduction in Sector Emissions
UPDATED DEC. 2020 Given the urgency of the climate crisis, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should very rapidly put in place methane emissions standards at new and existing oil and natural gas sites, nationwide. In this memo, we describe how ambitious regulations can readily reduce methane emissions in 2025 from…
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Tribal Communities at Risk: The Disproportionate Impacts of Oil and Gas Air Pollution on Tribal Air Quality
Native American communities often face disproportionate health impacts from air pollution from the oil and gas industry.
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Country Living, Dirty Air: Oil and Gas Pollution in Rural America
Thanks to the shale boom, oil and gas development has expanded rapidly in many regions of the United States.
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Analysis of Lifecycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Natural Gas and Coal Powered Electricity
Beyond the comparison of coal and natural gas, a critical question is whether and under what conditions natural gas has a role in a decarbonized world.
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Putting Out the Fire: Reducing Flaring in Tight Oil Fields
Tight oil development in North Dakota and part of Texas is now so extensive that the associated light pollution can be seen from space via satellite images.
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Benchmarking Methane and other GHG Emissions of Oil and Natural Gas Production in the United States
Analysis from Ceres and Clean Air Task Force benchmarking the relative emissions intensity and total reported methane, carbon dioxide, and nitrous oxide emissions of more than 300 U.S. oil and gas producers finds dramatic variations between companies and basins. In the second year of this analysis, the highest emitting oil…
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It Happens Here Too: Methane Pollution in Europe’s Oil and Gas Network
After many years of slipping under the radar, the crisis of methane pollution has become a climate priority at the highest levels.
