29 March 2024
US wildfire states sue Trump’s EPA for ‘gutting’ methane leak rules
Publication date: 14 September 2020
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A coalition of 24 US states and municipalities, including authorities currently battling wildfires raging across the American West, have sued the Trump administration for rolling back Obama-era standards to limit methane emissions from the oil and gas industry. The petitioners cited the planet-heating properties of CH4 leaks that climate science shows are exacerbating extreme weather-related events such as ...