New EPA methane rules spell disaster for American economy

by Jeff Stier The Hill

More than a dozen states have now filed lawsuits against the Environmental Protection Agency over its new regulations on methane emissions.   Court rulings against the Obama administration will likely start rolling in soon. The regulations are based on dubious data and driven more by politics than science. They would devastate the economy and the environment.

We simply can't let a federal power play bring the American energy revolution to a halt.

Last year, the EPA reported that, since 2005, net methane emissions from natural gas infrastructure had fallen 38 percent, while total methane emissions from natural gas had dropped 11 percent.
This year, however, the EPA claims methane emissions from the oil and gas industry are one-third higher than previously thought. And that overall methane emissions from natural gas have dropped only 0.68 percent since 2005. That's quite a turnaround. What happened?.......Finally, it's worth asking where exactly the EPA's legal authority to exert such tremendous control over the economy comes from. Congress has passed no law requiring the EPA to clamp down on methane emissions........To Read More....