The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) recently announced a proposednew rule that could dramatically lower emissions of methane, the most climate destructive greenhouse gas, as well as other air pollutants that threaten public safety, from several million miles of pipelines throughout the country.
We will not meet our climate targets while undetected pipeline leaks, which the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates are the source of 1/3 of the U.S. fossil fuel industry’s methane releases, continue to poison our atmosphere.
Finalizing the strongest possible controls over methane pollution is critical to protecting our front line communities, as well as our essential water resources from the impacts of climate change.
Now is our chance to significantly step up the federal effort to substantially cut methane emissions in the short time we have left to meet our climate targets.
