The rollback of the Obama-era rule designed to reduce climate-warming methane emissions that former President Trump ordered in 2020 is a candidate for revocation under an Executive Order issued January 20 by President Biden. The President’s “Executive Order on Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis” directs the head of the Environmental Protection Agency to “consider suspending,
The number of global methane hot spots has soared this year despite the economic slowdown
Gas companies abandon wells, leaving them to leak methane
- – E&E Climatewire – 9/18/20
EPA completes rollback of Obama methane rule
- – E&E News – 8-13-20
‘Devil is in the details.’ The fight for grid carbon pricing
- – E&E News- 5/19/20
Satellites find highest U.S. methane emissions ever recorded
- – E&E Energywire – 4/23/20
Dominion Energy completes acquisition of Pivotal LNG
- – Kallanish Energy – 3/31/20
Oil and gas firms ‘have had far worse climate impact than thought’
Threats to safety, health, environment from pipeline still not addressed
- – The Recorder – 1/23/20
Methane: A Growing Problem
Leaking methane from natural gas pipelines and other related infrastructure is a much more serious problem than had been previously recognized, according to new studies released in the past week. ABRA and its members have long argued that the Atlantic Coast Pipeline presented an environmental and safety hazard to the communities through which it would pass due,