r/climate • u/peterst28 • 1d ago

Methane pollution at US’s biggest oilfield plunges after Biden crackdown

https://www.ft.com/content/b097d8da-846e-4e23-a3a6-89d1a6ccc2fd
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u/5ervalkat 1d ago

“People have gotten after [methane] because of the societal impetus and because of the regulatory pressures — and they now have the tools and the data.”

Regulations work when done well. Go Biden. And, too bad the incoming circus hates this.

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u/Franklin_le_Tanklin 20h ago

Ya. First Trump will get rid of the testing tools. Because if you don’t test for it it’s not a problem.

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u/G07V3 17h ago

All you have to say is methane causes autism and the right wing extremists will freak out

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u/Amsterdamsterdam 17h ago

You see kids, the windmills pushhh the methane in your butthole … something more along these lines probably lol

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u/teratogenic17 16h ago

There's still time to arrest Trump, and no reason to let him take office in violation of the 14th.

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u/UnionGuyCanada 9h ago

They could always fix it, it just cut profits. They are psychopaths. You have to force them to do the right thing.

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u/SleepWouldBeNice 23h ago

*Republicans hated that for some reason*

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u/FoogYllis 20h ago

Not poisoning yourself is woke or something I guess.

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u/jedify 18h ago

I worked on some emissions projects in the Permian after Obama's Quad O regulations forced them to capture some leaking gas - enough that these projects were profitable. But they hated it. Idk man, I think they're a lost cause.

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u/wjfox2009 10h ago

*Republicans hated that for some reason*

The reason is, they are evil psychopaths who hate you and want you dead.

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u/arizonaskies2022 21h ago

Let's get after the next biggest emitter then. Looking at you, west Texas, with 5 point sources. Methane Sat provides free live data for the world.

https://data.methanesat.org/en/emissions-map?view-latitude=25.00000&view-longitude=0.50000&view-zoom=1.80&date=2024-09-30&platform=MethaneSAT

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u/Justpassingthru-123 23h ago

They’ll unblock these and let the methane back out.

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u/tenderooskies 21h ago

odds republicans roll this back for absolutely no reason outside unfettered greed? high, very high

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u/FIicker7 22h ago

Good work!

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u/Sudi_Nim 18h ago

Knowing Trump’s fondness for flatulence, this won’t last.

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u/Derric_the_Derp 7h ago

Turns out they can do a better job with the right motivation. 

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u/State6 5h ago

Believing Biden did something on his own accord is laughable.