Enlarge (credit: Tim Graham/Getty Images) The New York City Council voted today to ban natural gas in new buildings, putting the nation’s largest city at the vanguard of national efforts to eliminate the fossil fuel and potent greenhouse gas. The bill prohibits natural gas hookups and oil-burning equipment in new buildings under seven stories starting […]
Right now, a lot of the methane created or extracted during other activities goes to waste. (credit: Lawrence Berkeley Lab ) The EPA announced new rules today that would slash methane leaks from the oil and gas sector, a significant source of carbon emissions that represents 30 percent of methane pollution in the US. Nearly […]
Enlarge (credit: Hans Meleman | Getty Images) It’s an oppressively hot morning in the barnyard, even in the shade of the long open-air structure where the cows come to feed. On a typical farm, they would gather around a trough, but here at UC Davis they chow from special blue bins, which detect when and […]