More methane please
And the last one: EPA halts Obama-era rule on methane pollution.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has halted an Obama administration rule to cut down on pollution of methane, a greenhouse gas produced at oil and natural gas drilling wells.
The EPA on Wednesday said it had issued a 90-day stay of agency rules designed to limit methane leaks at drilling sites, as well as rules setting standards for equipment and employee certification.
President Trump ordered the EPA to reconsider the methane standards in March when he signed an executive order to repeal several Obama administration climate regulations.
Let’s just go ahead and trash the climate. What difference does climate make anyway? If you don’t like the one you live in, just move to somewhere else!
The decision to roll back its methane standards comes as Canada begins the process of tightening its standards. Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced their methane reduction strategies together in 2016.
Environmental groups have said they will sue over the decision to reconsider the methane rules. In a Wednesday statement, the Natural Resources Defense Council said the Trump administration is “giving its friends in the oil and gas industry a free pass to continue polluting our air.”
Oh stop whining. We can always wear gas masks.
From the Groan:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/31/china-eu-climate-lead-paris-agreement
This is a major quackthrough for the Ostrich School of Climatology, with Donald Trump making a clear bid for global leadership of it.
Probably the greatest quackthrough since the Emperor Nero provided musical accompaniment to the burning of Rome. It’s that big.
It’s that big a tradition of quackery that Trump is now making a big leadership bid for.
Yes, It’s big. Oh yeah. Huge.
Really big.
Well. Given that civilized countries are having to reduce economic growth more than they would otherwise in order to compensate for American failure to be adults, it would be entirely fair for them to put tariffs on U.S products to help make up for that.
As an American, I don’t care for that, but I can’t contest the fairness and maybe THAT would make the Toddler in Chief wake up.
Now we have incentive for Trump to fill all the vacancies on the various federal courts. And for the Senate to suspend rules that allow Democratic Senators to vote on confirmation, so they can make sure no one puts a stop to any of it…