Barack Obama moves to cut US methane emissions by almost half

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[h=1]Barack Obama moves to cut US methane emissions by almost half[/h]Source: The Guardian

Barack Obama moves to cut US methane emissions by almost half




The new methane rules – which will be formally unveiled on Wednesday - are the last big chance for Obama to fight climate change.

The Environmental Protection Agency is aiming to cut methane emissions by up to 45% from 2012 levels by 2025, White House officials told campaigners during a briefing call.

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“It is the largest opportunity to deal with climate pollution that this administration has not already seized,” said David Doniger, director of the climate and clean air programme at the Natural Resources Defence Council.

Methane is the second biggest driver of climate change, after carbon dioxide. On a 20-year timescale, it is 87 times more powerful as a greenhouse gas.




Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/environm...f-the-union-methane-regulation-climate-change
 

Climate change is at the very top of my list of concerns. Fixing the problem wouldn't cost as much as the war in Iraq, other nations for example Germany are taking huge strides to eliminate their dependence on carbon based energy, but here in the United States we have been stymied by special interests and a political party beholden to these special interests. I have been disappointed that Obama has not done more to at least raise concern about the problem. His recent agreement with China and support of the EPA is appreciated, but An Inconvenient Truth remains and will haunt us for centuries to come.
 

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Pappy said:
And what the poor farmers? Cows emit tons of methane and the farmer has enough regulations on them already. :confused:
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So does congress....

Pappy.... I don't think anyone is going to forbid cows from farting... How would that be regulated? Put a meter up their butts and charge the farmer is they go over the limit?

Actually livestock farming accounts for 15% of methane emissions
 
Lol, QS. I don't think they will do that but I can see a tax, charge, for each cow the farmer owns. Over my lifetime I have seen so many small farms disappear because of regulations and of course rising feed prices.

Hmm, fart meter. Might work. :rolleyes:
 
Pappy said:
Lol, QS. I don't think they will do that but I can see a tax, charge, for each cow the farmer owns. Over my lifetime I have seen so many small farms disappear because of regulations and of course rising feed prices.

Hmm, fart meter. Might work. :rolleyes:
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Actually humans fart methane too, but not as much as cows... so no opportunities there..
 
Pappy said:
And what the poor farmers? Cows emit tons of methane and the farmer has enough regulations on them already. :confused:
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Cows? Not just cows, but the lagoons of pig manure and chicken manure as well. It sits in the sun, just heating and rotting and off-gassing. Then there's all the fuel that's burned in the production of the food for those millions of animals, transportation, slaughterhouses, refrigeration.....Animal agriculture is one of the biggest environmental problems the world faces and no one wants to talk about that. Now that's an Inconvenient Truth.

In fact the FAOO did a study back around 2006 and they equated the pollution effect at 18% from animal ag and a study done later by WorldWatch Institute stated that it was more like 51% of GHG. I think they factored in things like the respiratory contribution of the animals, the release of carbon from the soil when the millions of acres are tilled, etc.,


http://www.worldwatch.org/files/pdf/Livestock and Climate Change.pdf
 
Debby said:
Cows? Not just cows, but the lagoons of pig manure and chicken manure as well. It sits in the sun, just heating and rotting and off-gassing. Then there's all the fuel that's burned in the production of the food for those millions of animals, transportation, slaughterhouses, refrigeration.....Animal agriculture is one of the biggest environmental problems the world faces and no one wants to talk about that. Now that's an Inconvenient Truth.

In fact the FAOO did a study back around 2006 and they equated the pollution effect at 18% from animal ag and a study done later by WorldWatch Institute stated that it was more like 51% of GHG. I think they factored in things like the respiratory contribution of the animals, the release of carbon from the soil when the millions of acres are tilled, etc.,


http://www.worldwatch.org/files/pdf/Livestock and Climate Change.pdf
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That's what the word "ruminants" means
 
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