The new rule by the Environmental Protection Agency follows up on a methane rule Biden announced last year at. The 2021 rule targets emissions from existing oil and gas wells nationwide, rather than focusing only on new wells as previous EPA regulations have done.
The Biden administration will embark on “a relentless focus to root out emissions wherever we can find them,” White House national climate adviser Ali Zaidi said Friday at climate negotiations in Egypt, hours before the president was set to speak at the international climate summit. “Our regulatory approach is very aggressive from a timing standpoint and a stringency standpoint," Regan said at a briefing in Egypt. The old and new rules should be able to prevent more than 80% of the energy waste, about 36 million tons of carbon emissions, he said.
The law allows exemptions for companies that comply with the EPA’s standards or fall below a certain emissions threshold. It also includes $1.5 billon in grants and other spending to help operators and local communities improve monitoring and data collection for methane emissions, with the goal of finding and repairing natural gas leaks.
The draft rule is"a welcome sign that reducing methane emissions is a top priority for EPA,'' said Darin Schroeder of Clean Air Task Force.
The Furor has spoken
Will he be able to stop farting out of both ends?
When I hear this man speak I get big chunks of vomit in the back of my throat no thank you