We can’t let oil and gas companies continue to pollute unchecked.
Last year, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized pollution standards for methane, one of the most potent heat-trapping emissions and a contributor to climate change. But now EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt wants to reopen the methane pollution standards for changes—and will likely weaken them. And while this happens, he is proposing that polluters have a free two-year pass when they don’t have to comply to any standards on methane.
When it comes to climate change, methane is 84 times as potent as carbon dioxide as a heat-trapping gas over a 20-year period. We are already seeing the very real impacts of climate change throughout the country. We don’t have two years to waste as polluters continue to spew this potent heat-trapping gas into our environment while Scott Pruitt and his oil and gas company allies try to undermine these science-based standards.
These regulations require oil and gas companies to have infrastructure in place to capture methane that would be wasted through leaks. And we know that this is completely doable! There are already low-cost and effective ways that these companies could capture methane before it leaks into the environment. Rolling back these protections would be a blatant giveaway to oil and gas interests today at the expense of generations to come.
We need you to fight back and tell the EPA that an attack on these methane pollution standards is an attack on the environment the agency was created to protect.
We should be moving forward and implementing these rules, which were based on clear science, not going backward and removing their protections.
It’s time we rally and tell EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt that we do not approve of this move to let his polluter allies continue to pollute unchecked while he moves to delay and weaken these protections.
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