{"id":474646,"date":"2010-03-23T22:23:26","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T02:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/?p=7601"},"modified":"2010-03-23T22:23:26","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T02:23:26","slug":"u-s-epa-proposes-new-greenhouse-gas-reporting-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/474646","title":{"rendered":"U.S. EPA Proposes New Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-7602\" href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/03\/23\/u-s-epa-proposes-new-greenhouse-gas-reporting-rules\/us-epa-adds-to-greenhouse-gas-reporting\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7602\" title=\"US EPA adds to greenhouse gas reporting\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/cleantechnica\/files\/2010\/03\/US-EPA-adds-to-greenhouse-gas-reporting.jpg\" alt=\"US EPA proposes new categories to include in greenhouse gas reporting rule\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a>Now we get into the nitty gritty: the <a title=\"us epa press release, greenhouse gas proposal\" href=\"http:\/\/yosemite.epa.gov\/opa\/admpress.nsf\/0\/8D717A8525394687852576EF00595FFC\" >Environmental Protection Agency<\/a> has proposed including additional sectors in the <a title=\"us epa fall 2010 greenhouse gas reporting rule\" href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/climatechange\/emissions\/ghgrulemaking.html\" >greenhouse gas reporting rule<\/a> that it issued last fall.\u00a0\u00a0 That rule covered approximately 10,000 individual facilities in 31 source categories.\u00a0 Together these account for about 85% of all greenhouse gases generated in the U.S. but left out some important sources.\u00a0 The new proposal targets <a title=\"climatescience.gov\" href=\"http:\/\/www.climatescience.gov\/infosheets\/highlight1\/default.htm\" >methane and fluorinated gases, two potent greenhouse gases<\/a>.\u00a0 It covers several industry categories including petroleum and natural gas systems, processes involving fluorinated gases, and facilities that inject or store carbon dioxide underground.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of all this the record-keeping is to get a more precise accounting of where greenhouse gas emissions are coming from, which in turn will help lead to more effective programs for reducing them.\u00a0 Think that&#8217;ll work?\u00a0 The <a title=\"cleantechnica.com article\" href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2009\/11\/06\/us-water-use-declines-despite-30-population-increase\/\" >downward spiral of water consumption<\/a> per capita in the U.S. provides some interesting clues.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/03\/23\/u-s-epa-proposes-new-greenhouse-gas-reporting-rules\/#more-7601\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now we get into the nitty gritty: the Environmental Protection Agency has proposed including additional sectors in the greenhouse gas reporting rule that it issued last fall.\u00a0\u00a0 That rule covered approximately 10,000 individual facilities in 31 source categories.\u00a0 Together these account for about 85% of all greenhouse gases generated in the U.S. but left out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6399,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}