WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced a Notice of Intent (NOI) to make funds available to help measure and reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas sectors as part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda. Methane is a climate “super pollutant” that is more potent than carbon dioxide and responsible for approximately one third of the warming from greenhouse gases occurring today.
Gary Covatch can recall his first day on the job at NETL-Morgantown with vivid clarity.
“My new boss was off sick the day I started,” he said. The individual filling in for the supervisor had not been informed that the recent Pennsylvania State University graduate was reporting for duty. “So it was kind of a shock to that person when I showed up,” Covatch said.
Washington — As part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) today announced a conditional commitment to 14 states to receive a total of $350 million in formula grant funding to help measure and reduce methane emissions, one of the biggest drivers of climate change, from the oil and gas sector.
NETL will leverage its technical expertise and successful track record of innovation to help lead a $1.3 billion interagency initiative to reduce methane emissions — a potent greenhouse gas (GHG) and major driver of climate change — across the U.S. oil and natural gas industry.
José Figueroa, senior management and technical advisor for the Technology Development Center at NETL, is helping facilitate new efforts in greenhouse gas reduction by coordinating a methane emissions reduction program that supports the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Inflation Reduction Act statutory requirements of the Methane Emissions Reduction Program (MERP), adding to his long history of service with the Lab.
