Steven P Hamburg

Biographic Data

ID6284953
NAMESteven P Hamburg
GIVEN NAMESSteven P
FAMILY NAMEHamburg
SIGNATUREHAMBURG S P
AFFILIATIONSEnvironmental Defense Fund
ORCID0000-0002-4266-2139
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS10
WORKS AS AUTHOR12
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2001
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX2

  • Empirical quantification of methane emission intensity from oil and gas producers in the Permian basin

    Open AccessBenjamin Hmiel, David Lyon et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2023

    Methane (CH 4 ) emissions from the oil and natural gas (O&G) supply chain have been demonstrated to be one of the largest anthropogenic greenhouse gas emission sources ripe for mitigation to limit near-term climate warming. In recent years, exploration and production (E&P) operators have made public commitments to reducing their greenhouse gas emission intensity, yet little empirical information has been made available in the public domain to all…

  • The value of early methane mitigation in preserving Arctic summer sea ice

    Open AccessTianyi Sun, Ilissa Ocko et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    A growing body of literature has identified methane mitigation as a key component of limiting the rate and extent of global warming. However, little is known about how methane mitigation can benefit other critical aspects of the climate system. This study explores the value of early methane mitigation in addition to carbon dioxide mitigation in helping avert an approaching and concerning climate event: the near-complete loss of Arctic summer sea …

  • Acting rapidly to deploy readily available methane mitigation measures by sector can immediately slow global warming

    Open AccessIlissa Ocko, Tianyi Sun et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    Methane mitigation is essential for addressing climate change, but the value of rapidly implementing available mitigation measures is not well understood. In this paper, we analyze the climate benefits of fast action to reduce methane emissions as compared to slower and delayed mitigation timelines. We find that the scale up and deployment of greatly underutilized but available mitigation measures will have significant near-term temperature benef…

  • A tale of two regions

    Open AccessDaniel Zavala‐Araiza, Mark Omara et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    We use atmospheric observations to quantify methane (CH 4 ) emissions from Mexico’s most important onshore and offshore oil and gas production regions which account for 95% of oil production and 78% of gas production. We use aircraft-based top-down measurements at the regional and facility-levels to determine emissions. Satellite data (TROPOMI CH 4 data and VIIRS night-time flare data) provide independent estimates of emissions over 2 years. Our …

  • Environmental integrity of emissions reductions depends on scale and systemic changes, not sector of origin

    Open AccessStephan Schwartzman, Ruben N Lubowski et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

  • Estimation of methane emissions from the U.S. ammonia fertilizer industry using a mobile sensing approach

    Open AccessXiaochi Zhou, Fletcher H Passow et al.ARTICLEElementa Science of the…2019

    To date, estimation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the natural gas (NG) value chain have focused on upstream (production) and midstream (gathering, transmission, and storage) operations. In this study, we estimate methane emissions from an important downstream consumer of NG, the ammonia fertilizer industry, which commonly uses NG as a feedstock and a fuel for the production of ammonia and other upgraded products. Using a Google Street Vi…

  • Assessment of methane emissions from the U.S. oil and gas supply chain

    Open AccessRamón A Alvarez, Daniel Zavala‐Araiza et al.ARTICLEScience2018

    A leaky endeavor Considerable amounts of the greenhouse gas methane leak from the U.S. oil and natural gas supply chain. Alvarez et al. reassessed the magnitude of this leakage and found that in 2015, supply chain emissions were ∼60% higher than the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency inventory estimate. They suggest that this discrepancy exists because current inventory methods miss emissions that occur during abnormal operating conditions. The…

  • High-Resolution Air Pollution Mapping with Google Street View Cars

    Open AccessJoshua S Apte, Kyle P Messier et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Technology2017

    High Resolution Image Download MS PowerPoint Slide Air pollution affects billions of people worldwide, yet ambient pollution measurements are limited for much of the world. Urban air pollution concentrations vary sharply over short distances (≪1 km) owing to unevenly distributed emission sources, dilution, and physicochemical transformations. Accordingly, even where present, conventional fixed-site pollution monitoring methods lack the spatial re…

  • Possible malfunction in widely used methane sampler deserves attention but poses limited implications for supply chain emission estimates

    Open AccessRamón A Alvarez, David R Lyon et al.ARTICLEElementa Science of the…2016

    Estimates of methane emissions from natural gas production sites in the United States based on recent studies have been questioned due to possible malfunction of the Bacharach Hi Flow® Sampler (BHFS), the primary measurement instrument used for two out of five source types examined in those studies (equipment leaks and chemical injection pumps). Without assessing whether the BHFS malfunction occurred in those studies, we constrain the possible un…

  • Population and pavement

    Open AccessDaniel E Orenstein, Steven P HamburgARTICLEPopulation and Environment2010Cited by: 4References: 65

  • To populate or preserve? Evolving political-demographic and environmental paradigms in Israeli land-use policy

    Open AccessDaniel E Orenstein, Steven P HamburgARTICLELand Use Policy2009Cited by: 5References: 53

  • A generalised approach of accounting for biospheric carbon stock changes under the Kyoto Protocol

    Open AccessMiko U F Kirschbaum, Bernhard Schlamadinger et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2001Cited by: 1References: 2