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New York’s First Emissions Regulations for Distributed Generation Will Slash...
Miles Farmer, Legal Fellow, Energy & Transportation Program, New York City This post was co-authored by Miles Farmer and Jackson Morris. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation...
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Insights in Resilience: Climate Change and Human Health
The healthcare sector is often the first to witness the impacts of poor air quality, extreme weather patterns and other climate related hazards on the health of their community. From heat waves to...
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Powered by LEED: Paharpur Business Centre in New Delhi [VIDEO]
Some 24 years ago, Kamal Meattle’s doctor told him that his health was being badly affected by Delhi’s polluted air. His lung capacity had been reduced by about 30 percent, and, as his doctor...
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Air Quality Sensors Track Pollution
David Hagan, a Tata Fellow and PhD candidate in civil and environmental engineering, is designing and building low-cost sensors that could be deployed in dense networks to monitor air pollution. Here,...
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EPA Updates Standards to Reduce Methane Pollution from Landfills
Landfill Gas Extraction, Photo by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Recently the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized long-overdue revisions to national emission standards and...
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New EPA Guidelines: An Opportunity to Reduce Smog, Protect Public Health
With families across the country starting back to school this week, the official summer season may be gone, but the ozone season is still in full swing. Ozone, more commonly known as “smog” is a...
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Cutting Carbon Pollution from Aviation: A Major Breakthrough Years in the Making
dsleeter_2000 Five years ago, I had one of the hardest tasks in government for someone who cares about climate action: running an interagency process in the White House on addressing carbon dioxide...
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New EPA Guidelines Will Help Oil And Gas Communities Breathe Easier
While air quality as a whole has been improving across the United States over the past few decades, many areas that are ground zero for the nation’s expanding oil and gas industry have shown an...
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Why You Should Care about Low Carbon Fuels and Vehicle Initiatives
When I talk about “low carbon fuels and vehicles” (LCFV) initiatives what am I really talking about and why should it matter to you? If you’re a first-gen biofuels, advanced biofuels or advanced...
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Defending BLM Standards that Reduce Waste, Protect Air Quality
EDF, along with a coalition of health and environmental groups, just filed a motion to intervene in defense of vital new standards that will prevent the wasteful loss of natural resources, save money...
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EDF Methane Mapping Partnerships Accelerate Technological Advances in Gas...
The New York Public Service Commission recently approved plans by National Grid, the largest distributor of natural gas in the Northeast, to use advanced leak detection and quantification technologies...
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How Politics and Pollution Could Push China Into the Climate Leader Role the...
Earlier this month China halted more than 100 coal-fired power projects. Scrapping these projects, with combined installed capacity of more than 100 gigawatts, may have more to do with China’s current...
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Rollbacks to National Standards Jeopardize California’s Efforts to Reduce...
This week, California’s Air Resource Board (ARB) released a strong and likely final draft of new regulations that will reduce methane pollution from new and existing oil and gas facilities across...
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Measuring Air Pollution in America’s Cities
At the end of last year, the EPA approved a little- noticed rule that will allow for the removal of near-road nitrogen dioxide monitors from the roads in mid-sized cities. While in recent weeks the...
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Reducing Renewables Curtailment in China: An Air Quality Measure
When Premier Li recently delivered the 2017 government work report, he stressed the importance of efficient integration of renewable energy as a measure to make Chinese skies blue again. Although China...
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Tory Government in the Dock for “Shameful” Air Quality Plans
Air pollution in the UK is at unacceptably high levels and the Government has been criticised for not taking the issue seriously, following the release of a “woeful” and “disappointingly unambitious”...
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Healthier, Safer Summers, Brought to You by the EPA
This weekend is Memorial Day – the unofficial start to summer. That means kids across the country – and adults too – are counting down the days until summer vacation. Whether your plans include going...
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Stop Blaming Drivers for Mexico City’s Smog
This Spring, Mexico City has been choking under some of its worst smog conditions in years. The problem is ozone. Pollution alerts for ozone have been issued repeatedly, triggering “double” driving...
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London Says “I’m Alright Jack,” But Are Clean Electric Vehicles Actually an...
Lowering emissions in London by switching to electric vehicles can mean raising CO2 emissions elsewhere. London has a serious problem with air quality. There are public health concerns with...
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New Study Confirms (Again): New Mexico’s Methane Hot Spot Largely Tied to Oil...
In 2014, NASA scientists published their discovery of a methane “hot spot” hovering over New Mexico’s San Juan Basin. The 2,500-square-mile methane cloud is the largest area of elevated methane...
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President Trump’s Budget Would Put Communities Living Near Oil and Gas at Risk
The Trump Administration and EPA Administer Pruitt recently released a proposed budget targeting the health and well-being of all Americans. Alarmingly, by stripping funding for critical safeguards,...
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How Much Do Ultra-Supercritical Coal Plants Really Reduce Air Pollution?
Zouxian coal power plant in China. The coal industry and some power utilities have been talking up the supposed benefits of ultra-supercritical power plants – leading some decision-makers and...
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Texas Should Listen to Its Own Scientific Task Force About Methane
Map of Texas oil and gas wells that would have been covered under recently-delayed EPA methane rules. A new report from the Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas (TAMEST) Shale Task...
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The Secret for Preventing Another Aliso Canyon-Sized Gas Leak in California
More than a year and a half after the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility caused more than 100,000 tons of methane to leak into the atmosphere – amounting to be our nation’s largest-ever gas...
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Industrial Energy Efficiency Can Improve Air Quality
Despite the Chinese government’s extensive efforts to improve air quality per the State Council’s “Ten Measures” Action Plan and implementation of regional air quality control measures, air pollution...
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New Study Links Greenhouse Gas Emissions Directly to Fossil Fuel Companies
Less than two years ago, documents surfaced showing that in the 1970s ExxonMobil knew about the damage that fossil fuel emissions were causing to the environment and how they were contributing to...
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An Air Pollution Paradox?
Should pollution abatement investment be relatively low in places where pollution levels are high? The evidence is mounting that what you can’t see can kill you. What you can’t see are the tiny...
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How Community Air Monitoring Projects Provide a Data-Driven Model for the Future
Downtown Los Angeles with misty morning smog. This month marks the one year anniversary since the residents in Imperial County California did something pretty amazing. After experiencing some of the...
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Health Organizations, Help Indonesia Kick the Coal Habit
A plan to pollute: Indonesians’ lungs have been exposed to significant pollution in the past few years, from forest fire haze to increasing amounts of motor vehicle exhaust. A study looking at the...
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Leading Methane Commitment from Exxon’s U.S. Driller: Why It Matters
The degree to which the oil and gas industry can be trusted to play a constructive role in a low carbon future depends in no small measure on whether and how it reduces climate pollution today. That’s...
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A Timeline of Zinke’s Crusade Against Methane Rules
Here’s a newly-minted cabinet secretary charged with managing 20 percent of the American landscape on behalf of taxpayers and 567 Native American tribes – presented with an opportunity to save his...
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Innovative Measurement Tool Will Help Illinois Calculate the Benefits of...
Even as the Trump administration moved last week to repeal the Clean Power Plan, some of the biggest American utilities indicated they’ll continue investing in clean energy and strategizing around...
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Yes, Administrator Pruitt, EPA Does Have the Obligation to Protect America...
The head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is once again misleading the American people in an effort to avoid doing his job. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt was interviewed on Fox News this...
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Innovative Satellite Launched for Monitoring Global Methane and Air Quality
Artist’s rendition of TROPOMI onboard Sentinel-5P satellite. Source: European Space Agency. Last Friday, the European Space Agency Sentinel-5p satellite went into orbit above the earth. Onboard is an...
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EPA Refuses to Act on Smog Pollution. Here’s What’s at Stake
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is refusing to move forward with the implementation of health-based standards that protect Americans from dangerous ground-level ozone pollution — more...
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How Has the U.S. Fracking Boom Affected Air Pollution in Shale Areas?
Urban air pollution in the U.S. has been decreasing near continuously since the 1970s. Federal regulations, notably the Clean Air Act passed by President Nixon, to reduce toxic air pollutants such as...
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Whether You Love or Hate Natural Gas, Stopping Methane Emissions Now is Crucial
The International Energy Agency’s new 2017 World Energy Outlook contains the agency’s strongest language yet about the urgent need to reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas sector, and the huge...
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EPA’s Pruitt Tries to Open a Loophole to Allow Super-Polluting Trucks on Our...
Have you ever seen a truck belching black soot as you drive on the highway and wondered, “isn’t that level of pollution illegal?” We see less and less of that these days, thanks to common sense...
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If We Want to Breathe Clean Air, Shutting Nuclear Plants Early is Insanity
People are dying. Lots of people, each and every day. As stated in a study published by Lancet on October 19, “Pollution is the largest environmental cause of disease and premature death in the world...
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Methane Waste: New Mexico’s Multi-Million Dollar Opportunity to Increase...
A new analyses is taking a closer looking at the scope of New Mexico’s methane problem and the financial impact is having on the state’s taxpayers. We have known for some time that New Mexico had a...
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Focusing On Big Wins In Emissions Reduction
The EU could make huge progress in cutting emissions by focussing on a few large power plants. Emissions from a vast range of sources need to be reduced if targets for limiting climate change are to be...
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Growing Opportunity for China/US Collaboration on Reducing Oil and Gas...
Every November, the International Energy Agency publishes its annual World Energy Outlook – a comprehensive assessment of the economic, technological and geopolitical trends shaping world energy...
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Pollution Monitors Should Be Standard in L.A.’s Oilfields
There are several reasons to be optimistic about environmental progress in Los Angeles. The city is making massive investments in electric vehicles, making clean energy more accessible to everyday...
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Small District Heating Systems Key to Improving Poland’s Air Quality
Small, coal-fired district heating systems are a major source of air pollution in Poland. Applying EU regulations would go some way towards solving this problem, write Edith Bayer and Richard Cowart...
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New Research Shows Canada’s Methane Emissions Problem Is Even Worse, But It’s...
New direct emissions data from oil and gas fields in Alberta should be a warning to regulators in Ottawa and Edmonton as they each prepare their methane regulations. A new study concluded that oil and...
View ArticleTech for Change Video Series: Game Changer
Los Angeles has long been a city defined by creativity and innovation. Now, that same spirit of innovation promises to help the region tackle the threat of pollution from the 3,500+ active oil and gas...
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EPA Administrator Pruitt Opened the Door to Making Houston’s Air Toxics...
Residents of Houston, Texas – our nation’s fourth largest city – have long been burdened with a serious air pollution problem. Between 2013 and 2015, the Houston area reported unhealthy levels of...
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What ALA’s Most Recent State of the Air Report Reveals About Oil and Gas Air...
The American Lung Association released its annual State of the Air Report today, revealing what many communities have known for quite some time: air pollution from oil and gas operations is a growing...
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Energy Efficiency Can Help 32 States Meet Clean Air Rules by Cutting Pollution
Energy efficiency is a proven, low-cost way to reduce pollutants, and it can significantly help 32 states comply with US air quality regulations, according to our new report, “Mission Attainment:...
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Scott Pruitt’s Approach to Pollution Control Will Make the Air Dirtier and...
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt’s ethical lapses and extravagant spending habits have distracted the public from what he is doing to roll back important environmental...
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