Tue, 21 March 2017
Northwest New Mexico is marked by the biggest methane plume in North America. The Obama Administration’s EPA enacted rules to make oil and gas producers reduce their emissions of methane into the atmosphere, but now Laura Paskus of the New Mexico Political Report tells us the Trump EPA is eradicating the evidence and rolling back the rules. The effects on climate change could be dramatic, because methane is among the worst chemical contributors to global warming. |