South Korea Expands VOC Controls and Tightens Limits
South Korea’s Ministry of Environmental (MoE) recently revised the country's enforcement rules on volatile organic compounds (VOCs), under the Clean Air Conservation Act.The revisions include:- Expand existing requirements that mandate companies to monitor VOC emissions and record them;- Adding 11 substances to the list of VOCs that must be monitored and collected under the Act;- Imposing a maximum limit of 67% VOC content in paints; and- Impose stricter requirements on crude oil refining facilities, which emit arsenic acids.The ministry believes this implementation will reduce VOC emissions from the oil refining and paint industries by 15%.
US Senate Passes USE IT Act for Carbon Capture Tech
The United States Senate recently passed the USEIT Act, which will help develop and deploy the next generation of carbon capture and utilization technologies in the country.The USE IT Act would support carbon utilization and direct air capture research.
California Study Targets Methane ‘Super Emitters’
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory under the U.S.Department of Energy has been awarded $6 million USD to find methane 'super emitters' to help quantify and potentially mitigate methane emissions.
Carbon handprint guidelines to showcase low emissions
VTT and LUT University in association with Finnish companies have developed a method for evaluating and communicating on the carbon handprint of products.