The Environmental Protection Agency's latest report on greenhouse gas emissions demonstrates shrewd political strategy -- and a wanton disregard for objective science.
Using a new methodology that seems to have been designed to produce exactly the conclusion it did, the EPA has now found that the nation's methane emissions have been dramatically higher in recent years than previously thought. And for the EPA, this is a story with a villain: In a major departure from earlier studies, this year's report claims the oil and gas industry is the nation's chief methane culprit.
Green activists were quick to trumpet the new findings as proof that the oil and gas industry is behind all of our environmental ills.
Never mind the undisputed evidence that oil and gas companies -- including those right here in Alabama -- have actually been helping drive the nation's recent historic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Rather than supporting an American energy model that continues to drive down emissions, regulators prefer the political convenience of pointing the finger at Big Oil.......Read more
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