Trump Scraps Biden-Era Methane Emissions Rules
The Facts
- During a campaign rally in Lubbock, Texas, on Tuesday for Senate candidate Ken Paxton, U.S. President Donald Trump said he is ending former President Joe Biden's methane regulations to "save consumers and energy producers" $45 billion and produce 210 million barrels of oil.
- "Tonight, I'm officially terminating Biden's expensive and unnecessary methane regulations," Trump said, adding that he is lifting what he called "crippling regulations on methane that caused prices to skyrocket" for small oil and gas operators.
- Officials, including then-Vice President Kamala Harris, unveiled the Biden rule at a 2023 U.N. climate conference in the United Arab Emirates. Federal officials under Biden said it would prevent an estimated 58 million tons of methane emissions by 2038.
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The Spin
Left narrative
Scrapping methane safeguards gives drillers a free pass while households see little real relief at the pump. Gas that leaks, vents or burns off is pure waste, and neighbors living near aging wells end up paying for it in safety risks. Savings that never reach consumers aren't savings — just profit shifted to the companies polluting and contributing to a warming planet.
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Piling costly monitoring mandates on every wellhead squeezed the small operators keeping American energy flowing, all over a gas whose warming effect is swamped by water vapor and carbon dioxide. Cheaper production means more barrels, stronger paychecks in oil country and less reliance on foreign crude. Rules that cost billions and deliver no measurable climate benefit deserve to be set aside into the scrap heap.
