New Rules Could Slash 36 Million Tons of Methane by 2030

Photo caption: President Biden speaks at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on November 11. Photo credit: Sean Gallup / Getty Images. Article by Will Sullivan. Smithsonian Magazine – November 18, 2022

The United States is taking aim at methane emissions with a set of proposed rules that President Joe Biden announced last week at COP27, the United Nations Climate Change Conference. The new initiatives, suggested by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), expand on regulations the agency proposed a year ago and could take effect as soon as 2023, according to Grist’s Emily Pontecorvo. […]

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