Biden’s EPA methane gas rule imposes needless environmental costs
Biden’s
08/03/2024
Stephen Anderson
The Biden U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued new methane gas detection, repair and reporting rules in December 2023, impacting existing, new and reconstructed onshore crude oil (crude) and natural gas (ngas) production facilities. The state of Texas Railroad Commission which regulates many parts of the state’s crude and ngas industry asked the Texas Attorney General’s office to sue the Biden administration over this new rule. This new federal rule is another battle in the states war to eliminate the use of ngas in daily life.
The EPA belief is methane gas emissions that make up over ninety-five percent of ngas is a human action contributing to global warming or greenhouse gas in the earth’s atmosphere. One sentence from the new rule EPA fact sheet states, “Methane is a climate ‘super pollutant,’ and rapid, sharp cuts in methane emissions are a crucial addition to cutting carbon dioxide in slowing the rate of warming of Earth’s atmosphere.” The federal official deception on this topic being stated as truth shows the everyday people have little trust in these subject matter experts.
EPA also claims that, “Methane . . . is more potent than carbon dioxide and is responsible for approximately one third of current warming resulting from human activities.” How EPA claims that methane gas does this is mind blowing when other published studies do not support their view. They move forward with more rule burdens and costs for onshore lower 48 state ngas production under the guise this human action will solve the problem of another human action. These increased regulatory costs will appear on the monthly ngas meter bill for your home, business, nonprofit entity and government building.
https://mises.org/power-market/bidens-epa-methane-gas-rule-imposes-needless-environmental-costs
