Washington, D.C. — Today, Environmental Protection Agency Administer Lee Zeldin announced plans to dramatically weaken federal standards for methane leaks from oil and gas operations. In response, Trevor Higgins, senior vice president for Energy and Environment at the Center for American Progress, issued the following statement:
During a time of record oil and gas profits, the Trump administration is giving those companies yet another pass on their duties to protect the public. Monitoring for pollutant leaks and eliminating the routine waste of gas through flaring should be the bare minimum owed to the American people. But the Trump administration is going out of its way to let fossil fuel corporations avoid even that basic responsibility.
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