Relating to policy recommendations.
The president is expected to sign into law the Inflation Reduction Act that includes massive support for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but the planet is warming so fast that we must find ways not just to add less pollution but to remove vast amounts of the most powerful greenhouse gases, like methane, to be able […]
Last year, the world-renowned former science advisor to the U.K., Sir David King of Cambridge University, declared we have five years left to solve the climate crisis and announced a new Climate Crisis Advisory Group to help reduce emissions, remove greenhouse gases already emitted and restore the climate to truly healthy temperatures and functioning. Read […]
In this testimony, on behalf of Methane Action, a not for profit organization, I summarize our detailed recommendations for removing methane and other major greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and beginning the governance of these methods. These recommendations are from scientists, lawyers, economists and engineers with expertise in the rapidly evolving science and policy of […]
In this testimony, Methane Action and Remineralize the Earth, not for profit organizations, summarize our detailed recommendations for removing methane and other major greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and beginning the governance of these methods. These recommendations are from scientists, lawyers, economists and engineers with expertise in the rapidly evolving science and policy of methane […]
Comments of Methane Action On The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Proposed Rules for Reducing emissions of methane and other air pollutants From the oil and natural gas sector. By John M. Fitzgerald, J.D. On behalf of Methane Action January 31, 2021 In Re: 40 CFR Parts 60 [EPA-HQ-OAR-2021-0317; FRL-8510-02-OAR] RIN 2060-AV16 Standards of Performance for […]
Recalling Decision 12/CP.25 Report of the Green Climate Fund to the Conference of the Parties and guidance to the Green Climate Fund, paragraph 20, in which the Conference of the Parties “Also encourages the Green Climate Fund to continue to collaborate with the Climate Technology Centre and Network and the Technology Executive Committee with a […]
Comments of Methane Action and Remineralize the Earth in response to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s solicitation of public input on the Agency’s efforts to reduce emissions of methane and other air pollutants from the oil and natural gas sector. […]
This document is a draft of the type of international agreement that scientists led by Sir David King and Michael Mann called for in their letter urging governments to expedite the development and deployment of atmospheric methane removal methods. […]
In order to reduce greenhouse gases and other climate forcing agents to historically healthy levels as soon as possible the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in consultation with the Secretaries of Energy, Agriculture, the Interior, State and Treasury, the Administrator of USAID, the Chief Executive Officers of the Millennium Challenge Corporation and the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation and the Export Import Bank, shall, as directed below. […]
We are writing to ask you to consider an executive order that builds on your Order of January 27, 2021. Informed by the advice of our legal and scientific colleagues, including some who have served in the federal government, this proposed new order would draw on presidential powers to expedite a research agenda for developing and deploying ways to remove excess greenhouse gases (GHGs) from the atmosphere, including legacy carbon dioxide (CO2) and short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs), particularly methane.1 […]
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