EDF said that result was an emissions-rate about four times what the Environmental Protection Agency estimates. EPA derives its estimates mainly from industry reports to a database.
MethaneAIR also showed that the observed emissions rate was eight times higher the target adopted by 50 companies at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai to limit their methane emissions intensity to no more than 0.2% by 2030.
Ha. “Estimates”.
Anyone under the delusion that the EPA hasn’t been hamstrung by lobbying and special interests? Trump wants to get rid of it, because it’s such a thorn in one’s side when you can’t just destroy entire environments at the behest shareholders.
Won’t somebody please think of the shareholders?!!
The real “Ha” is that the west has everyone under the delusion that only China, Russia and India and others lie on their environmental statistics and they themselves are the stewards of fight against climate change. While keeping a low profile of doing the exact opposite.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/24/new-oil-gas-emission-data-us-uk
Your strawman proves their peopaganda works.
“Meh! It sucks but you just wait until the other guy does something worse”
What an attitude to have. But whatever makes you sleep at night.
Strawman? Where TF do you see a strawman? Is it somewhere behind your whataboutism?
“There is corruption in other countries too you know”… yeah, thanks. We talk about them separately because it’s necessary to analyse each one individually.
But, as a matter of indulgence we can say that US regulations are much more lax than in the EU proper, which is tbf also culpable in petroleum, gas and yee olde capitalist exploitation, but it is still a far cry away from China, India and Russia, because those are highly authoritarian countries that are ruled by oligarchies that do not GIVE A FUUUCK about their citizens, even much more so than even the US.
In any case, wtf does all that have to do with the history of the EPA being made a limp dick by way of lobbying and intentionally ineffective policies? The point remains the same, the EPA has been weakened and it’s apparent all across the US - word to Flint, Michigan.
Time for a damn reform I say.