The agency will reportedly propose abandoning federal rules that require the oil and gas industry to install technology that monitors and curbs methane leaks in wells, pipelines.
Back in 1989, Californians received a sobering warning: The accumulation of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere would likely bring more droughts, floods, fires, and heat waves to the state.
Methane leaks have long been a major concern of environmental groups, several of which pushed back on the EPA’s proposal Thursday. “The Trump EPA is eager to give the oil and gas industry a free pass to keep leaking enormous amounts of climate pollution into the air. We simply cannot protect our children and grandchildren from climate catastrophe if EPA lets this industry off scot-free. If EPA moves forward with this reckless and sinister proposal, we will see them in court,” said David Doniger, a director at the Natural Resources Defense Council, in a statement Thursday.
“The EPA is now so determined to actually increase greenhouse pollution that it’s even shrugging off concerns from oil and gas companies about gutting these protections,” Siegel said. Sen. Thomas R. Tom Carper , a ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said in a statement Thursday that the proposal was another step down the Trump administration’s “troubling and misguided path” that would “increase profit margins for the oil and gas industry, even if it means cutting common-sense public health and environmental protections.”that the EPA rule would require a period of public comment and review, and would likely be finalized early next year.
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