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Six reasons the Trump EPA’s next move on oil and gas pollution standards is unnecessary and unwise
5 years 11 months ago
This blog was co-authored by Rosalie Winn EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt did not waste any time after being confirmed to start attacking EPA’s oil and gas methane pollution rules. However, in the 14 months since lodging his first assault, a lot has changed, and the case for keeping the standards robust and intact is stronger […]
Felice Stadler
These charts show why communities are demanding common sense standards to protect them from oil and gas pollution
6 years 8 months ago
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has been trying every trick in the book to suspend rules that require oil and gas companies to limit pollution from their operations as they look to expand drilling across the country. His attempted delay tactics follows a cozy relationship he’s had with the worst elements of the oil and gas […]
Felice Stadler
President Trump’s budget would put communities living near oil and gas at risk
6 years 10 months ago
The Trump Administration and EPA Administer Pruitt recently released a proposed budget targeting the health and well-being of all Americans. Alarmingly, by stripping funding for critical safeguards, this budget would be especially detrimental to the over 15 million Americans living near oil and gas industry operations across the country. Communities depend on EPA for air […]
Felice Stadler
New EPA Guidelines Will Help Oil And Gas Communities Breathe Easier
7 years 6 months ago
While air quality as a whole has been improving across the United States over the past few decades, many areas that are ground zero for the nation’s expanding oil and gas industry have shown an increase in dangerous pollutants. In fact, states with substantial drilling activities saw worsening air quality recently, according to the American […]
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Four Reasons We Can’t Wait to Plug the Leaks
8 years ago
Today, over 12 million Americans live within one-half mile of oil and gas operations. These facilities are located where people work and recreate, and where children go to school. While the administration has taken critical initial steps to limit pollution from some of these operations, their efforts to date don’t get the job done: Approximately […]
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2016 Starts With Growing Momentum To Cut Oil And Gas Methane Pollution
8 years 3 months ago
We’re less than a month into 2016, and there are already signs that this could be the year the United States finally gets serious about addressing methane pollution from the oil and gas industry. Some strong first steps in 2015 got the ball rolling, and now attention-grabbing events like the massive methane leak in Southern […]
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Oil and Gas Pollution Delivers a One-Two Punch to Our Public Health
8 years 5 months ago
One of the country’s largest leaks ever of natural gas, which is primarily made up of the potent greenhouse gas methane, has been going on in California’s Aliso Canyon for over a month. The volume that’s been leaking has been staggering—and the impacts to local residents severe enough to warrant relocating hundreds of families. Major […]
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Who Supports Oil and Gas Methane Regulations? Pretty Much Everyone
8 years 7 months ago
Over the last two weeks, EPA has held a series of hearings across the country to collect public testimony in response to its new proposal to curb oil and gas companies’ emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane. The hearings provided a chance for stakeholders in areas where the oil and gas industry has a […]
Felice Stadler
Broad Set of Voices Agree: EPA’s Proposed Methane Pollution Standard is Common Sense
8 years 7 months ago
Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed the first-ever nationwide standards to reduce methane pollution from the oil and gas industry. It’s a common sense move: With its potent global warming power and low-cost solutions, cutting methane is the biggest bargain for greenhouse gas reductions in the energy business. The array of supporters speaking […]
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Want to Cut Emissions? Go Where the Emissions Are
8 years 11 months ago
If you want to catch fish, go where you know the fish are. That’s our best advice for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as they draw up details to set methane pollution limits for the oil and gas industry, expected later this summer. The agency knows where the “fish” are – they drew a pretty […]
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