For example, parties that use fossil natural gas for electric generation might seek to qualify for these credits by using negative emissions of some Waste Methane Fuels to offset the positive emissions of the fossil natural gas, whether by physically blending, or by contracting for natural-gas-fired generation facilities to claim the environmental attributes of the Waste Methane Fuels. [...] 5 emissions related to the full fuel lifecycle include “all stages of fuel and feedstock production and distribution, from feedstock generation or extraction through the distribution and delivery and use of the finished fuel to the ultimate consumer.”41 To satisfy the statutory mandate to account for these indirect GHG emissions, the Proposed Rule contemplates requirements that credit applicants m. [...] The production of coolants was so driven by the lure of carbon credits for waste gas that in the first few years more than half of the plants operated only until they had produced the maximum amount of gas eligible for the carbon credit subsidy, then shut down until the next year, United Nations reports said. [...] For example, to ensure that natural gas usage is displaced within California, the state’s renewable portfolio standard requires, for new contracts, that “the applicant must demonstrate that each segment of the pipeline on the delivery path from the point of injection to the point of receipt physically flows toward the generation facility at least 50 percent of the time on an annual basis.”117 Cali. [...] § 45Y(b)(2)(B) (“In the case of a facility which produces electricity through combustion or gasification, the greenhouse gas emissions rate for such facility shall be equal to the net rate of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere by such facility (taking into account lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions, as described in section 211(o)(1)(H) of the Clean Air Act in the production of electricit.
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