07-03-2017, 01:13 PM
Methane, by the way is a much more potent greenhouse gas compared to CO2..
Quote:The fight over former President Barack Obama’s methane agenda has moved to the courts. The Trump administration last week took two major steps toward wiping a pair of Obama-era methane pollution rules off the books. Environmental groups have sued to stop President Trump from nixing the rules, though the oil and gas industry has stepped up to defend the administration’s actions. Taken together, observers expect a raucous, lengthy legal fight over the standards, which were a key part of Obama’s climate change agenda. “I expect at every step, we’ll be sued by the environmental groups,” said Kathleen Sgamma, the president of the industry-funded Western Energy Alliance, which wants to end the methane regulations.Trump regulators trigger pollution fight | TheHill