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Top A&WMA News Articles of 2020
As 2020 comes to a close, A&WMA would like to wish its members, partners and other industry professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the industry, we continue our look back at the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Wednesday, Jan. 6.
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Satellite track emissions drop over China, Italy during coronavirus outbreak
Live Science
From March 25: As the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread around the globe, more and more regulations surrounding work and travel have been put in place to reduce the risk of transmission. As satellites orbiting Earth have observed, this has resulted in lowered air pollution over Italy and lowered nitrogen-dioxide emissions over China.
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States go their own ways on environmental enforcement during crisis
Phys.org
From April 22: Some state environmental regulators have decided not to follow the Trump administration's lead in easing enforcement of environmental rules for companies adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Like the Environmental Protection Agency, most states appear to be providing some level of enforcement discretion, but the degree of such forbearance varies.
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As Canada curbs methane emissions, new measurements show problem bigger than thought
Reuters
From Aug. 19: Reported greenhouse gas emissions from Canada’s oilpatch have more than doubled in the year’s first half as changes to how they are measured revealed a more extensive picture of environmental damage, previously unreported industry data show. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government, which has set a goal of making Canada carbon-neutral by 2050, launched a national program on Jan. 1 to better measure and reduce methane emissions.
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Citing an economic emergency, Trump directs agencies across government to waive federal regulations
The Washington Post
From June 10: The Trump administration is doing by fiat what it has struggled to accomplish through lengthy rulemaking — dismantling federal regulations designed to protect workers, consumers, investors and the environment. Invoking an economic "emergency" stemming from the coronavirus pandemic, the administration has made it harder for people to challenge inaccuracies on credit reports, eased required breaks for commercial truckers and told factories and power plants that, although they should obey pollution limits, they do not have to monitor or report their emissions routinely — among other things.
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Decades of US air quality improvements may be slowing, and these areas have it the worst
Popular Science
From Feb. 12: For decades, America has made progress on air quality. With emission regulations and advances in clean air technologies, the days of smog so thick it burned your eyes and lungs are virtually over. But even with our gains, air pollution still contributes to one in every 25 early deaths. And our progress seems to be leveling off. A new report by U.S. PIRG Education Fund and Environment America Research & Policy Center found that in 2018, one-third of Americans lived in places with more than 100 days of degraded air quality.
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'Super-pollutant' emitted by 11 Chinese chemical plants could equal a climate catastrophe
Inside Climate News
From Aug. 12: In December 2007, Charles Perilloux, an American chemical engineer, traveled to China to help install inexpensive and game-changing technology at a Chinese chemical plant that was spewing a climate "super-pollutant" into the atmosphere. The emissions quickly fell to near zero. The state-owned Henan Shenma Nylon Chemical Company manufactures adipic acid, a key ingredient in nylon and polyurethane, which is used in everything from car parts to running shoes. While producing adipic acid, the factory emitted thousands of tons of nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas nearly 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide in warming the planet.
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Cost-benefit proposal ignores environmental justice, EPA told
Bloomberg Law
From July 8: The EPA failed to consider environmental justice impacts of its proposal to overhaul how it calculates the costs and benefits of Clean Air Act rules, violating an executive order that dates back a quarter century, groups opposed to the measure testified July 1.
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Administration eyes changes to environmental enforcement
E&E News
From Feb. 5: The White House issued a notice Jan. 30 seeking input on efforts to "reform enforcement" — a potential boon for the energy industry. The Office of Management and Budget notice follows the "transparency and fairness" executive order last fall that Trump administration officials described as a way to protect Americans from "secretive" bureaucratic interpretation or unjust penalties, particularly in environmental cases.
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US refiners reach for renewables lifeline as pandemic lays bare excess capacity
S&P Global
From Oct. 7: U.S. refiners boosted refinery utilization in the third quarter of 2020, but runs remain well below optimum levels as coronavirus pandemic shutdowns still weigh on demand for transportation fuels. Refinery run rates averaged 77.8% of capacity nationally for Q3 2020, according to Energy Information Administration data, up from 71.5% in Q2 — the lowest quarterly run rate recorded by the EIA since it began keeping records starting with the first quarter of 1985.
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Can this North Dakota co-op prove the potential of carbon capture and storage?
Energy News Network
From April 1: In a tiny North Dakota town, a small electric cooperative utility has proposed the largest carbon capture project ever built to store emissions from a 1970s-era lignite coal plant. The proposal comes after a legacy of failed carbon sequestration attempts at other power plants around the country and despite a $1.3 billion price tag.
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US EPA issues final rule relaxing air permitting for existing power plants
S&P Global
From Oct. 28: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Oct. 22 released a final rule that allows industrial facilities, such as power plants and refineries, to make upgrades in certain cases without obtaining major construction permits that often require pollution controls. The EPA first outlined a new interpretation of a two-step process required under the Clean Air Act's New Source Review, or NSR, program in the form of agency guidance in March 2018 under former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt.
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White House update of key environmental law would exclude climate change
The Washington Post
From Jan. 8: The Trump administration will instruct federal agencies to no longer take climate change into account when measuring the impact of major infrastructure projects, according to two senior administration officials — a sweeping overhaul of one of the nation’s most consequential environmental laws. The proposed changes to the 50-year-old National Environmental Policy Act are aimed at speeding approvals for pipelines, oil and gas leases, highway construction and other kinds of development.
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EPA may again update enforcement and cleanup policies in light of new COVID-19 executive order JD Supra
JD Supra
From May 27: President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order on Regulatory Relief to Support Economic Recovery on May 19. Generally, the Order directs federal agencies to respond to the COVID-19 crisis by "rescinding, modifying, waiving or providing exemptions from regulations and other requirements that may inhibit economic recovery." It remains to be seen how the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will respond to the Order in ongoing and future rulemaking and enforcement decisions.
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Carbon capture: How can we remove CO2 from the atmosphere?
Deutsche Welle
From Oct. 7: If we want to stop the Earth from warming, it's clear that coal, oil and gas must remain in the ground. But experts also say CO2 needs to be removed from the atmosphere. What are the options and how do they work?
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