“This is extraordinarily harmful.” Rachel Kyte, the United Nations special representative on sustainable energy, said today.
The NY Times reported that the Trump administration will announce that it will “sharply curtail the regulation of methane emissions….” The EPA will will eliminate federal requirements that oil and gas companies install technology to inspect for and fix methane leaks from wells, pipelines and storage facilities.
Exxon and BP America are opposed to the rule change. Susan Dio, the Chair of BP America wrote an op-ed article in March 2019 saying that “regulating methane is the right thing to do for the planet.”