Losing Control on Methane Leakages

You know you’re on thin moral ice when you want to remove a piece of environmental regulation that the industry itself believes is a good idea.

That’s the case here, where the fossil fuel industry is objecting to the EPA’s relaxation of rules forcing those extracting methane to minimize leakages at drilling sites.

Methane, depending on how it’s measured, is a greenhouse gas somewhere between 20 and 80 times more potent than CO2.