California has adopted a regulation prohibiting school buses from idling while stopped at schools, or from starting more than 30 seconds before departure.
California Vehicle Code ch. 9 §22515 prohibits unattended vehicle idling.
Requires gas capture at any municipal solid waste landfill that accepted waste after 1976, holds 450,000 tons or more of waste, has heat input capacity of 3 million Btu per hour or more, and a surface methane concentration of 200 ppm volume or more.
Provides funding to municipally owned or operated landfills installing gas management systems designed to capture gas created within, and emitted from, the landfill.
Requires the state’s investor-owned utilities to procure at least 90 MW of electricity generated at agricultural biogas facilities developed on or after June 2013.
Provides financial assistance for the installation of dairy digesters in California.
Kentucky has enacted general legislation prohibiting the waste of coal seam methane, including its “unnecessary or excessive loss” through venting or flaring. It includes an exception for active coal mines.
Requires producers to inspect and repair leaks every month.
Bans the venting of natural gas and requires that vented gas be burned through a flare with the estimated volume flared reported to the director of the oil and gas division at the North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources.
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.