Full Title: Reducing Methane Pollution from Fossil-Fuel Production on America’s Public Lands, A Needed Step to Combat Climate Change
Author(s): Claire Moser, Nidhi Thakar, and Matt Lee-Ashley
Publisher(s): Center for American Progress
Publication Date: October 1, 2014
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Description (excerpt):
Past proposals to address climate change have focused primarily on reducing carbon dioxide pollution, most recently with President Barack Obama’s proposed standards for power plants. However, policymakers are beginning to address the threat of methane pollution—a much more potent greenhouse gas, or GHG. This issue brief provides new estimates of methane emissions from energy production on federal lands and waters.