Wyoming updated its standards in 2019 to require oil and gas companies to check new facilities regularly for emissions of smog and methane.
Colorado tightened its rules in 2019 and 2020 to ban venting and flaring, and to require semiannual leak detection, tank controls, and performance standards for transmission.
Lays out a platform to proceed with regulations that complement the EPA’s New Source Performance Standards for oil and natural gas emissions, new EPA standards for landfill emissions, and proposed New York State regulations for landfill management.
Provides funding for reforestation and forest improvement work.
The National Association of State Foresters published a 2013 policy statement promoting the auditing and third-party sustainability certification of state forests.
Calls for development of a comprehensive strategy to reduce short-lived climate pollutants, including methane. CARB’s strategy calls for significant decreases in emissions from dairy manure management.
The state objected to Jordan Cove Energy Project’s certification of the LNG project as consistent with Oregon’s Coastal Management Program.
In compliance with RCRA, Kansas has submitted a Solid Waste Management Plan to EPA that addresses coal combustion residual waste.
New York established closed-cycle cooling towers as the benchmark technology for compliance with Clean Water Act Section 316(b), on power plant cooling water systems.
In May 2019 the Department of Environmental Conservation adopted new CO2 limits that will effectively ban coal plants in 2020.