By correcting a long-running error, the new rule will have a big effect.
of current, human-caused warming. And here in the United States, oil and gas installations are the largest industrial source of methane, due both to leaks and intentional venting during the production process.The Obama administration recognized the need to reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas sector back in 2016 and craftedto do so. But those restrictions applied only to equipment constructed in 2015 or later, leaving the vast majority of the sector’s sources and emissions uncontrolled.
This story was troublingly familiar. Regulating new sources of pollution strictly and existing sources laxly or not at all is known as “grandfathering.” The EPA has engaged in the practice before, with disastrous results. Indeed, we wrote an entire about the terrible consequences of exempting existing power plants from 1970s emission limits on soot- and smog-forming pollutants.Starting in 1971, EPA rules required any newly constructed power plant to reduce its sulfur dioxide emissions by either installing a multimillion-dollar pollution “scrubber” or burning pricey low-sulfur coal.
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