Areas of Expertise:

Biofuels, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Environment, GHGs, Hydraulic Fracturing, Natural Gas, Renewables, Water

Additional Areas of Expertise:

Earth system science, biogeochemistry

Recent Posts by Dr. Robert Howarth

• EPA's Methane Rule Comes Up Short

Recent Comments by Dr. Robert Howarth

• "Methane is actually more than 100 times more potent as a greenhouse gas for the time it remains in the atmosphere, according to the IPCC (2013).  Aver"
  EPA’s Methane Rule
• "Ms. Hartnett-White's assertion that methane emissions from the natural gas industry fell by 40.4% between 2006 and 2012 is simply not supported by qua"
  EPA’s Methane Rule Comes Up Short
• "I want to register my agreement with some of Roger Arnold's points, but disagree with others.  I fully agree that cheap gas is a very temporary phenom"
  Prosperity at Home And Strengthened Allies Abroad – A Global Perspective on Natural Gas Exports
• "Because of methane emissions, natural gas is perhaps the most dangerous of all fossil fuels in terms of global warming.  And LNG is the worst way to u"
  Prosperity at Home And Strengthened Allies Abroad – A Global Perspective on Natural Gas Exports
• "I understand Albert Schilling's skepticism:  the idea that natural gas is "clean burning" compared to oil and coal has been promoted for decades.  And"
  Do Fugitive Emissions Undermine Natural Gas?
• "The EDF/Texas study measured only emissions at well sites, and was not a full-life cycle analysis.  Further, the team followed the lead of the old 199"
  Do Fugitive Emissions Undermine Natural Gas?
• "We do not need nuclear power as we move forward in the 21st Century. Renewables such as wind and solar will do just fine to replace fossil fuels, part"
  Should Nuclear Power Receive Environmental Subsidies?
• "With apologies to Mr. Kaplan, I cannot join in his call to use natural gas and liquid biofuels such as methanol and ethanol as the way forward for tra"
  Electric and Natural Gas Vehicles — Heads You Win, Tails You Win
• "Let's look in a little more detail of the role of methane emissions in the context of using natural gas as a transportation fuel.  A 2012 paper from t"
  Electric and Natural Gas Vehicles — Heads You Win, Tails You Win
• "Mr. Kaplan is wrong in his assertion that natural gas is a desirable fuel for transportation in terms of emissions.  Natural gas is composed mostly of"
  Electric and Natural Gas Vehicles — Heads You Win, Tails You Win