President Joe Biden’s signature climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act, authorized the EPA to levy a fee on wasteful methane emissions from large oil and gas facilities. The fee starts at $900 per metric ton of emissions in 2024, increasing to $1,200 in 2025 and $1,500 in 2026.
If the fee remains in effect through 2035 — an unlikely scenario after Trump’s election — it would prevent 1.2 million metric tons of methane from entering the atmosphere, according to the EPA. That is the equivalent of taking nearly 8 million gasoline-powered cars off the nation’s roads for a year, the agency said.
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Well, on that I blame the overall shift of the US for getting redder, https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/18340229
Remember that turnout in 2024 was higher than 2020 for Dems in the swing states - but even more folks came out to vote red.
Agreed on California and Colorado - it’s not the same as the whole country but it’s a start.