Bobby Magill quotes me in a Climate Central story on EPA's decision to withdraw a request for methane emissions data from existing oil and gas facilities, which had been an early part of an Obama-era EPA process for developing regulations that would apply to these sources:
The decision will hobble the EPA’s ability to accurately calculate methane emissions in its annual tally of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, which is provided to the United Nations to track America’s progress in addressing climate change, said Danny Cullenward, an energy economist at the Carnegie Institution for Science.
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“The notion that EPA won't be collecting and monitoring data is cause for concern,” Cullenward said. “How is the public supposed to be confident that EPA policy is striking an appropriate balance without any data?”