On this edition of Your Call One Planet Series, we discuss the EPA’s plans to loosen environmental protections for old and leaky oil and gas wells that release vast amounts of methane, a highly potent greenhouse gas.
We’ll also look at the EPA’s plans to repeal a rule limiting carbon emissions from coal and natural gas fired power plants.
Guests:
Alex Cuadros, climate reporter for Propublica and author of When We Sold God’s Eye
Jake Bittle, staff writer at Grist and author of The Great Displacement Climate Change and the Next American Migration
Resources:
ProPublica: EPA to Loosen Methane Rules, Boosting Pollution From Oil and Gas Wells
ProPublica: Trump Plans to Protect Methane-Leaking Stripper Wells. This Billionaire Donor Will Benefit.
Grist: Trump topples the last pillar of Biden’s climate agenda
Grist: With the midterms looming, Trump has no real way out of his gas price problem
The Guardian: US ends limits on coal and gas plant emissions, removing key tool to fight climate crisis
The Guardian: The truth behind Donald Trump’s ‘biggest oil deal in world history’
