Plasma is one of the four common states of matter – solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. Plasma is an electrically charged gas. Because plasma particles have an electrical charge, they are affected by electrical and magnetic fields. This is the main difference between a gas and a plasma.
Published by the United States Department of State and the United States Executive Office of the President, Washington DC. November 2021.
The U.S. Department of Energy launched Carbon Negative Shot—an all-hands-on-deck call for innovation in carbon dioxide removal pathways that will capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it at gigaton scales for less than $100/net metric ton of carbon dioxide-equivalent.
To tackle climate change and its negative impacts, world leaders at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris reached a breakthrough on 12 December 2015: the historic Paris Agreement. The Agreement sets long-term goals to guide all nations toward substantially reducing global greenhouse gas emissions.
The Global Methane Pledge is a joint agreement by over 100 countries to reduce global methane emissions by at least 30% from 2020 levels by 2030, which could eliminate over 0.2˚C warming by 2050.
EPA develops an annual report, called the Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks (Inventory), that tracks U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and sinks by source, economic sector, and greenhouse gas going back to 1990. This annual report provides a comprehensive accounting of total greenhouse gas emissions for all man-made sources in the United States.
The purpose of this report by the Office of Fossil Energy of the U.S. Department of Energy is to inform the states and other stakeholders on natural gas flaring and venting regulations, the level and types of restrictions and permissions, and potential options available to economically capture and utilize natural gas, if the economics warrant.
This document is one of the lessons learned resources developed by the Natural Gas STAR Program to promote the use of technologies and best practices that reduce methane emissions. This resource discusses options for reducing methane emissions from pneumatic devices in the natural gas industry.
This document is one of the lessons learned resources developed by the Natural Gas STAR Program to promote the use of technologies and best practices that reduce methane emissions. This resource discusses reducing methane emissions from compressor rod packing systems.
A view of energy production by source and energy consumption by fuel, from 1990 through (projected) 2050. Published by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
