Correction, Please!
Feds Regulate the Emissions of Others
Problem: Natural gas is burned — flared — when oil wells are drilled away from natural gas pipes or, as is commonly the case, when the pipes are at full capacity. Both the oil industry and states with oil are trying to end the waste, but the federal government is going to regulate it anyway. (Photo credit: AP Images)
Item: The New York Times for January 14, 2015, reported: “In President Obama’s latest move using executive authority to tackle climate change, White House officials on Wednesday announced plans to impose new regulations on the oil and gas industry’s emissions of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas. The administration’s goal is to cut methane emissions from oil and gas production by up to 45 percent by 2025 from the levels recorded in 2012.
As the Times noted, the “Environmental Protection Agency will issue the proposed regulations this summer, and final regulations by 2016.”
Item: Other regulatory developments involve regulations dealing with carbon dioxide. The Obama administration, reported the Associated Press on January 7, 2015, said that “it would delay for months a final rule to control carbon dioxide emissions at new coal-fired power plants, thwarting for now one way the Republican-controlled Congress could have blocked the administration’s plans on global warming.”
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