New Report Highlights Need for BLM to Slash Methane Waste, Pollution

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management should do more to protect taxpayers from unnecessary waste of their natural gas resources.  That’s the main takeaway from a new report from the nonpartisan U.S. Government Accountability Office.  Its findings again underline the urgent need for BLM to finalize strong new standards to reduce methane waste.

Methane is both the primary component of natural gas and a very potent climate pollutant.  In fact, pound for pound, methane is more than 80 times worse for our climate than carbon dioxide in the short term.  This means that unnecessary methane waste and pollution like the GAO found in this new report is a double whammy – depriving taxpayers of revenue due to us for the development of our natural gas resources and dangerously accelerating climate change.

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