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Re:Texas repeatedly raises pollution limits for Cheniere LNG... by credit_guy on Saturday June 25, 2022 @11:20AM (#31875959)
> The facility is now allowed to chuff out some 353 tons per year of VOCs

For context, the facility liquefies 15 million tons of methane per year [1].

Also for context, the annual US VOC emissions in 2021 were 12 million tons [2].

353 tons is 0.003% of that.

[1] https://www.cheniere.com/where-we-work/ccl

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/501310/volume-of-volatil...

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Re:Texas repeatedly raises pollution limits for Cheniere LNG... by toomuchtodo on Saturday June 25, 2022 @12:48PM (#31876734)
This seems fairly reasonable unless someone can provide evidence that it would be commercially reasonable to further reduce those 353 tons emitted. 0 is an unlikely number, but I would be interested in seeing what the emissions reductions costs are between 0 and 353.
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