Greenhouse Gas Regulation in the United States

California Environmental Protection Agency Air Resources Board Staff Report: Initial Statement of Reasons for Proposed Rulemaking, Public Hearing to Consider Adoption of Regulations to Control Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Motor Vehicles

Designing better methane mitigation policies: the challenge of distributed small sources in the natural gas sector

Methane—a short-lived and potent greenhouse gas—presents a unique challenge: it is emitted from a large number of highly distributed and diffuse sources. In this regard, the United States’ Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recommended periodic leak detection and repair surveys at oil and gas facilities using optical gas imaging technology. This regulation requires an operator to fix all...

Mitigation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Animal Agriculture

Livestock and Poultry Environmental Learning Center Animal agriculture contributes about three percent of all anthropogenic (humancaused) greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. (EPA, 2011). Although this is small relative to other economic sectors such as transportation and energy, animal agriculture is also being called upon to defend its environmental impact and continually demonstrate its comm...

GHG Mitigation in Iran’s Energy Sector According to the National General Policies

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change calls on member states to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions as much as possible in order to combat global warming. Iran has announced 4 and 12 percent emission reduction targets in 2030 in its Intended Nationally Determined Contributions compared to the Business-As-Usual (BAU) scenario, in which the energy sector has the largest shar...

GHG Mitigation in Iran’s Energy Sector According to the National General Policies

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change calls on member states to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions as much as possible in order to combat global warming. Iran has announced 4 and 12 percent emission reduction targets in 2030 in its Intended Nationally Determined Contributions compared to the Business-As-Usual (BAU) scenario, in which the energy sector has the largest shar...