Recommends that the EPA work with the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, develop a strategy to address the financial and policy barriers, establish performance goals, track distribution sector emissions, and more.
In 2014, EPA released five technical reports outlining strategies to reduce methane emissions from the oil and natural gas sector.
The Obama Administration’s 2014 plan proposed to cut methane emissions from landfills, coal mining, and agriculture, and oil and gas systems through voluntary actions and standards.
Qualified conservation contributions in the form of a donation of land or a conservation easement to a 501(c)(3) organization such as a land conservancy or a state or local government may be deducted from income taxes.
Voluntary federal program in partnership with states that encourages and supports conservation easements and the acquisition of partial interests in privately owned forestlands.
Surveys the complex body of state and federal law that shapes the creation, funding, tax treatment, enforcement, modification, and termination of conservation easements.
The NCED contains records for more than 130,000 conservation easements encumbering more than 24 million acres of land.
Connects private landowners with information and tools to more actively managing their forests and related resources.
Connects private landowners with information and tools to more actively managing their forests and related resources.
Including the National Forest Management Act, Federal Land Policy and Management Act, Healthy Forests Restoration Act, Forest Service’s National Roadmap for Responding to Climate Change and Land Management Planning Handbook.