Climate Change

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• Taking Carbon Capture to the Next Level

  Imagine a world where there is broad bi-partisan support in Congress for legislation that would drive the development and deployment of a technology that’s crucial for combating global warming and, at the same time, creating a near-zero-carbon path forward for fossil fuels.

  Industry, Policy July 11, 2017

• Science 101 for Administrator Pruitt

  Tomorrow the Earth Day March for Science will happen on the National Mall in DC, and over 500 satellite marches will take place in other locations around the world.  Like most of those marching, we never thought we would need to make the case for integrity in environmental science. It…

  Climate, Policy April 21, 2017

• Don’t Let the Senate Waste the BLM Methane Rule!

  On February 3, the House of Representatives passed a resolution under the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to kill the Methane Waste Rule — a recent Bureau of Land Management (BLM) effort to restrict the waste of natural gas from oil and gas development on federal and tribal lands.  A companion…

  Policy February 6, 2017

• Kemper in Perspective

  Next month, Mississippi Power’s 582 MW Kemper coal plant with carbon capture is expected to begin commercial operation.  When it reaches full capacity, Kemper will capture about 3 million metric tons of CO2 annually, which represents about 65% of the CO2 it produces.  Over the last several years, I’ve gotten…

  Industry, Technology January 31, 2017

• Moving Forward: Final Methane Rule is Progress, But We Still Have Much to Do

  Finally.  After years of information gathering and analysis, EPA recently signed new source performance standards that will address methane and VOC pollution from new and modified sources within the oil and gas sector (“Final Rule”), EPA’s first-ever methane standards.  EPA estimates that this rule is expected to prevent 300,000 short…

  Policy May 26, 2016

• Voluntary Methane Reduction Efforts Will Still Fall Short of Methane Reduction Goal

  On March 30th, at a session of the Global Methane Forum in Washington, DC, the EPA launched its Methane Challenge Program to encourage companies to voluntarily reduce methane emissions in the oil and gas sector. This program seeks to build on the work of the EPA Natural Gas STAR Program…

  Policy March 31, 2016

• The Stage is Set for the Obama Administration’s Last Act on Climate

  For over seven years, the Obama Administration has pushed forward a series of policies to cut greenhouse gases from the biggest industrial sources in the U.S.  President Obama first issued a Climate Action Plan, and established a series of targets for the US to meet: 17% below 2005 levels by…

  Policy February 1, 2016

• First Aliso Canyon, Then the Rest of the Oil and Gas System

  On October 23, 2015 a massive natural gas leak was detected and subsequently demonstrated by infrared camera at the Aliso Canyon underground gas storage facility near the Porter Ranch section of Los Angeles, California.  Over 2,000 residents have been relocated away from the leak and schools in the area have…

  Policy, Technology January 16, 2016